Christ is the Mystery no. 122
The Christian Life no. 3
His Character not ours
October 5, 2013
Brian Kocourek
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom
also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation works patience; 4 And patience, experience;
and experience, hope: 5 And hope makes not
ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us.
Let us pray...
Notice now that the Apostle
Paul speaks to us that what trials we go through teaches us patience and in
patience we develop what he calls experience, and this
experience gives us hope which is an earnest expectation. Therefore if we
earnestly expect, then we are not ashamed, because it is the Love of God that
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.
Now, this evening I would
like to focus our thought on this experience which leads us to patience and
earnestly expecting. Because this word although translated as the English word
experience actually has another better translation.
The Greek word "Dokime"
that was translated into the English word "experience"
is only translated once as "evidence"
but three times it is translated as the word "proof" as we see in the following
Scriptures.
2 Corinthians 13:3
Since ye seek a proof
of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in
you.
2 Corinthians
2:9 For to this end also
did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
Philippians 2:22
But ye know the proof of him,
that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Now, when we use the
word "experience" in our
daily dialogue, we use it in terms of experiences we have been through. But
when we refer to someone who has been there and done that, so to speak we say
they are experienced. Now the word takes on a further character of its own
because we are no longer talking about the instances of something happening in
the life that one has gone through, but now we are talking about the cumulative knowledge
on how to deal with those instances. This changes the
word the meaning of the word experience to knowledge based on experience.
In Romans 5:1-5 we
found three words of significance, The first word is Patience translated from the Greek word hupomone meaning steadfastness under trials, patienlty
enduring, so it speaks of a certain endurance we receive from
learning to wait.
The next word we see
is Experience which was translated
from the Greek word dokime'
which means a tried character, a specimen of
tried worth, or proof.
And the third word he uses is Hope which
was translated from the Greek word elpice' and it simply means an earnest expectation.
Now from the Church Age Book, The Smyrnaean Church Age Chptr.
4 Brother Branham said, "3 If there was tribulation in the first age, there is
now predicted an intensified tribulation throughout the second age.
There is no doubt but what the following words of Paul applied to the mass of
Christians wherever they were in the world and in every age. Hebrews 10:32-38
"But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were
illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Partly,
whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches
and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so
used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling
of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an
enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done
the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while,
and He That shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw
back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."
So what is this
promise that we receive by patient waiting? It is the proof that
we have received the promise. And what is that proof? It is His
character, because that is what we receive when we patiently wait. Because we wait because we believe, and we patiently wait because
we truly believe. And our Belief then produces in us the very same
character it produced in all believers, from the original Believer in the
promise of God which was Abraham, to Jesus Christ The royal Seed of Abraham
down through the ages to all royal seed of Abraham.
NIV Romans 5:1 Therefore, since
we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through
whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And
we[b] boast in the
hope of the glory of God. 3 Not
only so, but we[c] also glory
in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
4 perseverance, character; and
character, hope. 5 And hope does
not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
And Paul tells us that
it is this Character that every son of Abraham will have in common.
From his sermon, Identifications 63-0123, 40 Brother Branham said, "Now, Jesus gave us the Example of what we ought to be
looking at, when He reflected His Life to us through the Word, what we
should see. When we look into God's mirror, we should see ourself identified with Him. That is a perfect Example.
41 Now, but we find out that, as we go along through life,
that our character molds the image that we are. Each one
knows that. You, as you live, so is your character, molds you to what you
are. Now, you have seen people that you just love to be around, yet
they might not exactly be in your bracket of society. And, again, they might be
of a different race, the colored, or the brown, or the yellow. But there just something about that character, that you just love
to be in their presence. Because each person is a
little dynamo of their own, and you put out an atmosphere. 42 And then you see people that were noble people, but
yet you were always glad to get away from them. It's just they create such an
atmosphere around where you are. Nothing against them, they're nice people, but
you just don't like that atmosphere, they, they're… they're in. And their
character creates whatever they are, makes them what they are.
58 You cannot, no way, ever produce a Character
like that; only, accepting that Character in you. A church cannot do that.
A creed cannot do that. A denomination cannot do that. An education cannot do
that. It must be a Birth. It's got to be a dying out, and
let God in, by the grace of Christ, mold this type of character in you,
that you become Him, and your life and His is the same, then you are sons and
daughters of God.
In the very next paragraph brother
Branham tells us of an identifiable characteristic of that Character in you. In
other words as the Greek word is translated as the word "proof", he
is going to tell us of a "proof" that His character is reflected in
your life. He says in
pp. "70 Now, with our
Message, can we stand by the looking glass of God's Word and see Christ reflect
in our own lives then?"
Notice he is asking us
a question, can we look into the mirror of God's Word,
and see the same character of Christ reflected in our life?
"Can
we bear such, and the reproach of the Message that we're standing for here?
Notice he is asking
the question, what character is reflecting from us when we are under trial, or
testing? Then he gives us the absolute example. he
says...
"Someone
can say something about It, (say something about what? He's talking about you
bearing up under slander and libel, saying things against the Message and
against you. And he says, can they say something about what you believe) and yet you just don't open your mouth and say nothing
about it. He was example, because God was reflecting His character in
Him. And then if we're sons and daughters of God, God reflects His
character in us, then we become like Him. That's my heart's desire. I think
that's every believer's desire, is to become more like Him.
So we are given an
insight into the very character of Jesus Christ when he was put to the test.
You know he stood on trial, and they ripped the beard right off his face, and they took the whip and tore out his flesh, and yet
he answered them not a Word. He didn't give them anger for anger, or wrath for
wrath. He answered them not a word.
John 23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led
him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We
found this fellow perverting the nation,
and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is
Christ a King. 3 And Pilate asked
him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it. 4 Then said
Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I
find no fault in this man.
5 And
they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth
up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to
this place.
You know, I've have experienced that myself when I was
in Uganda in 2006. I over heard some ministers using my name so I walked over
to them, and I asked them I heard my name and was wondering why they were
talking about me. And one said, "why
did you come and stir up the people in our nation?" And I
said, "the entire nation is stirred up?"
And he said, "yes, what you are teaching over here has stirred up
the people all over the nation", and I said, "well then
that's good". and he said, "are
you happy about it?" And I said, "well no, Not happy, but
the Bible says, that every where that Paul went there was no
small stir, and the Bible also says Jesus was accused of stirring up the nation
of Israel, so I guess I'm in good company." I said, "if I came to tel you
what you already know, then that would be a waste of my time and yours. But I
came to tell you what you didn't know, and i am glad
the people are stirred because then they will have to dig into the Word to find
out whether what I am saying is right or not."
So Jesus said in John 15:20 Remember the
word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they
have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my
saying, they will keep yours also.
Well I can say that there is at least one Scripture that is manifested
in my life. And I am thankful for it. Aren't you?
And if Jesus Christ is the
same yesterday today and forever. Then that explains why Brother
Branham is still attacked even 48 years after he's gone off the scene, and that
explains why brother Vayle is still attacked more than a year and after he's
gone off the scene, and I haven't been to Eastern Uganda since 2006 and last
week I received a meeting report from Br. Marcus Janckheere
from Belgium, a close friend of mine, and he told me he attended a minister
meetings in Norway, and he said in his email to me the following:
"On Friday afternoon, we had a walk along the
fjord, and Br." (X, I've purposely left out the name because it is not
necessary to tell the story, but if you wish to know, you can read the email
for yourself) "he asked me to
walk besides him. The first question he asked me: did you
go with Br. Brian to Africa. I said, yes I
did. He said "You know, he is
bringing a lot of confusion in Uganda".
And I ask the question, Confusion? Who is
confused? Those who teach what brother Branham taught or those who refuse to
teach what Brother Branham taught because it doesn't agree with their own
Oneness dogma.
That reminds me of what brother Branham said in his
sermon, Perseverant 62-0719E P:86 Here not long ago down in Mexico, we was having a meeting
there, and it's a great Catholic country, and all of you, pretty near, you
ministers know General Valdena. He was the one taking
me in. The bishop of the Catholic church went up, told
the president, said, "Well, you're bringing a non-Catholic in here." He said, "Well," said, "General Valdena says it's a reputable person." Said,
"Well," said, "there isn't nothing like
that in here." Said, "We can't do that."
He said, "Why," he said, "they tell me that thousands of people
come out to his meetings," the president said. He said, "Well,
nothing goes out there but just the ignorant and unlearned." He said, "You've had them
five hundred years. Why are they ignorant and unlearned?" Guess that
would crop off the feathers. See?
Now, I was in Uganda seven years ago, back in 2006 and
we invited 60 ministers to attend our meeting, but three ministers from the United
States went in a week ahead of our meetings to try and convince the ministers
not to attend my meetings because they said, I was preaching Lee Vayle's "Two
God's" doctrine. Well, first of all those brothers lied because brother
Vayle never preached a "Two God's" doctrine and secondly he had
corrected the "Two Lords" teaching back in 2000 setting the record
straight by calling Two Lords a fallacy and that was six years before my
meetings in Kampala Uganda. So there was no excuse to do what they did but they
still continue to use defamation, libel and slander even when they know what I
teach because it is on the internet, and no where have I ever taught Two Gods,
and I have taught against Two Lords every where I go telling the brothers that
Brother Vayle said do not teach it that way because it is false to do so.
But you see, people want to lump people together, and
all those who still teach it wrong, we are lumped in with them, because we both
are tied to together via our association with Br. Vayle.
Now, listen it was the people who said they fallowed
Luther that burned down churches, and killed priests and beat them and did all
kinds of fanatical things, and they said it wasn't a miracle that Martin Luther
could protest the Catholic church and get away with it, the real miracle was
that he could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed his
ministry.
So in getting back to "John 23:6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether
the man were a Galilaean. 7 And as soon as
he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who
himself also was at Jerusalem at that time. 8 And when
Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a
long season, because he had heard many things of
him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. 9 Then he
questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing. 10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently
accused him. 11 And Herod with
his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him
again to Pilate. 12 And the same
day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity
between themselves. 13 And
Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man
unto me, as one that perverteth the people:
and, behold, I, having examined him before
you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No,
nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done
unto him. 16 I
will therefore chastise him, and release him. 17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them
at the feast.) 18 And they cried out all at once,
saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: 19 (Who for a certain sedition
made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) 20 Pilate
therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. 21 But
they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. 22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath
he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise
him, and let him go. 23 And they
were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And
the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. 24 And
Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Now, listen to brother
Branham describe this character that could be beaten, this character that could
be and mocked, this character that could even be sentenced to death for no other reason than for His relationship
with God His Father.
"106
Oh, no other nature could do this. No. Cause, He was the molded perfect
character of God. 107 For, it was a fallen character that all nature had.
All men had a fallen character. Even everything that was
under man fell. Everything has got a dying character. 108 And He had
a living character, so He expressed it in Christ, and He paid the
price. And then because of His obedience, He raised Him up on the third day.
See? 109 And then He gives to us. That gives
to us the proof. It gives to us the assurance, that, as long as
we're in Him, we're already risen with Him.
Look at the use of
that word "proof" and "assurance". And look how it is tied to
the character of Christ. and that character is our
proof that we are already raised with Him. It's not being able to recite a
creed or dogma or doctrine as good as it is to know the doctrine right. But
what does your nature do when you go through the same trials he went through?
Does your nature, project the same results His nature did?
Brother Branham
continues, "We won't raise
with Christ; we're already raised with Christ. That's right. We are in Christ now. And if Christ
be risen from the dead, aren't we raised from the dead
with Him? Amen. "Now we're setting together
in Heavenly places in Him." Oh, my! That
ought to make you Presbyterians shout. Uh-huh. Yeah. Certainly.
Expressed images of God, molded after the fashion of Christ, that the
world can see Him in you. That's the looking glass to look at. 110 No
other nature could do it; it was fallen. And God identified. Look. God
identified Himself as a Man, and took upon Him the form of sin. Now, well, not
sin, but the form of sin, that in order that He might take the sin of the
sinner, see, and pay the penalty for it, and give the sinner back the Life that
he had before the fall. Oh, my! What love God has expressed to us! See? Think
of it.
That's what Paul said
in Colossians 3:1 If ye then be
risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians
2:12 Buried with him in
baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Romans 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Now, as we continue
with what brother Branham was telling us, in pp:
111 brother Branham said, "And now remember, after Jesus doing this, when nobody else
could do it, we are invited. Now, church, think of this just a minute. We
are invited to shape our own character to His, by His grace. We are invited, think of it, to become characters like His. If
we are ready to lay our character down, and the molding that we had,
"Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure
more than lovers of God, false accusers, and incontinent, despisers of those
that are trying to do right, having a form of godliness and denying the power
of the Word." How can God come into a
place like that, when they deny the Word? When, He watches over His Word,
to vindicate It, to make It come to pass. And the Word
is pushed out, how can He identify Himself with something like that?
112
We've got to take the entire, full Gospel. We must. And now, being that we have
identified ourselves as full Gospel people, let's mold our character.
Why is he saying, "full Gospel people?" Because he is saying, "now that we have the doctrine of Christ correct, let's mold
our character to His character".
Now, just to make sure
we have our balance on these things, I think beginning tomorrow, I am going to
begin alternating our study of the Christian Life sermons with sermons showing the
importance of Doctrine, because without having the correct doctrine, how can
you really have the right spirit. Brother Branham never said "I would rather you be wrong in your doctrine and right in
your spirit". He said "I would
rather your doctrine be wrong and right in your heart". Why? because how can you be wrong in your Spirit if you have the
Holy Spirit. But the fact is you can have right doctrine and not have the Holy
Spirit just like the Pharisees did. And Jesus made an example of the Pharisees
who walked who had there doctrines all right and still missed God's presence
among them in the form of His Son. And Jesus told the parable of the man that
had been beaten and laid to die along the road, and in it he exonerated the
good Samaritan and said that is what we should be like, but he excoriated the
Pharisee whose doctrine was right while the Samaritan was all messed up in his
doctrine but his heart was right and so he stopped to help the poor broken man,
and even paid all the expenses to help the man get well.
As a Word prophet
you've got to know that is where brother Branham is taking his statement from.
Pergamean church age 60-1207 P:31 The life of Saint Martin is one of the
greatest miracle filled lives of anybody in the church ages. From all the way
from Saint Paul out, he was one of the most spiritual men. He was. One of his
first miracles was, He was a soldier to begin with, I believe. And then one day
he was coming by and there was someone, a man laying cold and shivering, and
all the people that not willing, but was able to help the man, they just passed
him by like the priest and the Levites did in the Good Samaritan. But when
Saint Martin come by, realizing his duty as a Christian believer, he had one
coat, a cloak over his shoulders; he cut it in two with his sword and gave half
of it to the beggar; he took the other half. And that night begin his career,
for Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision, wrapped in that same robe that he
cut half in two; which fulfilled the Scripture, "Insomuch as you have done
unto these, you have did it unto Me."
Now, brother Branham
continues by saying here, "We're invited to be
molded in His Image, that we might reflect His Presence. "And the works that
I do, shall you do also. The Life that I
live, so shall you." We're
invited, by God, to take Him as an Example, and let our character
be molded like His. What a thing! My!
113 Then, when we let His character be in us, then we have become
sons, by having the mind of Christ, mind, which is His character. Your
mind makes your character.
Now, notice then, how
can you have the real character of Christ by having wrong doctrine and thus a
wrong mind? You see, it's not the kind old priest sort of kindness, it's the
God directed kindness, that always looks to the Word
of God to direct us in how to be kind. I think that is why I will go back and
forth between Doctrine and Character in our study of the Christian Life,
because if I do not some may think we have left the doctrine and turned to a
life of works, when we have done no such thing. But to understand this: That
the doctrine of Christ is supposed to produce in you the very Life of Christ.
And if it isn't producing in you the very Life of Christ, then you do not have
the correct Doctrine of Christ.
Brother Branham said from his sermon, Rising
of the sun 65-0418M P:31 Now,
the very essence of the Message that was sent that, "He
is risen from the dead," we, His beneficiaries, we, who
share the resurrection with Him, draw benefits from this by proving to the world that He is alive.
We cannot do it by word only; we cannot do it by some tradition of man; we only reflect exactly what we're pointing
to. I'm afraid today that too many
of us are not getting people to Christ. We're getting them to a church,
to a theory, but we must get them to Christ. He is the only One, and the
only One that has Life. "He that has the Son, has Life." And if the life of a man that's
dead be projected in you, you will live the same life he lived.
If the blood of a man was a certain type, and you took the blood from one man
and changed the blood of the one man into another, he'd absolutely be that
typed blood. And if your spirit that's in you is reckoned dead, and you are
anointed with the Life that was in Christ is upon you... Romans 8:11
says, "If the Spirit that raised Christ from the
dead dwells in you, It'll also quickens your mortal bodies,"
that same Life, them same powers, them
same beneficiaries that He had here on earth from God. He redeemed you, a seed that was foreknown by God, whose names was put
on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. And that Gospel
Light of the resurrection, the confirmation of the Word... How did we know He was the Christ? Because He proved
what He talked about. How will I know the Message of the hour? God
proves what He promised and He talks about it.
Brother Branham continues
in his sermon, Identifications 63-0123, 40 "Let the mind," Paul
said, "of Christ, this mind that was in
Christ, be in you." Let that mind of
Christ be in you. It molds the character of a son of God. Now, how?… 114 Just listen a minute. How can we have the mind
of Christ that was in Him, and then deny the things that He commissioned us to
do? How can we place miracles in the past, when the very Christ Himself was God, and God in you. In the Presence of God, there's always miracles. He said, "You call Me 'Lord.' Why call ye Me 'Lord,' and do not the things that I have commanded you
to do, I laid out for you to do?" Don't
you see where we've gotten to, where the church is drifting? And I find it a
whole lot among our Pentecostals, too. We're drifting too far from that
Lifeline. We must come back to that, friend, come back, because we're getting
big now. 115 I see where the Business Men's
publication is the greatest one, as much maybe as what Oral Roberts has got.
And I find out that when we go to getting big, then we go to acting big, see,
just like Israel did. And we go to acting like we're just compare
with the rest of them. Remember, "You are a
different people. You are a holy nation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people." Why, we Pentecostals got so we ain't
any more peculiar than any the rest the world. We just dress, act, talk, go do
the things they do; run home, watch television, instead of staying for church;
and just the same things they do, about. We're trying to compete, trying to be
like the Joneses. See? We don't want to do that. 116 We want to make this Bible
our looking glass, and let ourselves be molded by His character; having His
character, His mind, letting the mind that was in Christ be in us. His mind was always… 117 What
was His mind to do, the mind that was in Christ? Always to stay with the
Father's Word. No matter what looked glossy, and what looked this way,
it didn't make any difference to Him. The Father's Word is what counted. Everywhere,
when He met the devil, He never even used His power to defeat him. He used the
Word, because that was Him. 118 Did you ever
think? He never wrote a book when He was on earth. As far as we know, He never
wrote but one time. That was in the sand. Then erased it out,
probably, afterwards. Why didn't He write a word? Because
He was the Word. See? He lived the Word. We don't need so many
books, when you become a written epistle of God. See? See? That's what God
wants you to be, images of Him.
Now, in closing I would like to read several quotes
from brother Branham showing how your works are really an expression of your
character.
57-0623 Believe From The Heart "A man's work declares his
character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's
character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls,
till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was
declared in Christ. And if you can just empty your own intellectual
thoughts out and give God the right of way, He can declare His character
through the work of your yielding. Empty out; get the world, get your
doubts out of the way. If you come to the altar to be prayed for, say, "I'll go up and see if I get healed," God can never declare His works. You've got to
get your own thoughts out of the way and let Him fill you."
Isn't that beautiful? If
we could just empty out and die out to our own thinking and Let God fill us
with his Thoughts, His Word, then our character would reflect His character.
From his sermon, Faith once delivered to the saints 57-0610 P:38 Brother Branham said, "But when that real, genuine faith that God spoke the
truth, it's settled in the person's heart. It's eternal. Feeling has nothing to
do with it no more. God said so. Then that faith is stabled. No
matter what takes place, how you feel, whether you get sick or whether you do
or not. That has nothing to do with it. It's that faith that was once
delivered to the saints that they believe. They seen the works of God.
They knowed it was God. It was a vindicated to them. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of God, then don't believe Me." But He did the works of God. And He said, "I do not do nothing in Myself, till I
see the Father do it first. Whatever I see the Father doing, then
the Son does likewise." He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works
that I do shall he do also." That
was the Church. Christ left this that His Church would have
His Spirit. And the Spirit of Christ will perform, and act, and live
like Christ. Amen. How can we segregate ourselves, when Christ
taught brotherly love, "By this all men
will know you're My Church," when you've got love one for another."
And from We would see Jesus 57-0226 P:21 brother Branham said, ""Then if His Spirit is with us, He will act just
exactly like He act when He was here on earth. It'll make you act the
same way, because it's not your spirit any more; it's His Spirit in you,
Christ's Spirit in you." The things that
I do... He
that believeth on Me (Saint John 14:12.), the
works that I do, shall ye do also." See? We'll
do the same works, think the same thoughts, live
the same type of life. If the Spirit of God is in you, it makes you
live like Christ, Christ-like. Then you become a written epistle, read of all men, Christ in you, reflecting His Light out of you, as God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and reflecting
God from His own body. No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten
of the Father has declared Him. God was in
Christ. And what Christ's attitude was,
was God's attitude, 'cause the two work together,
the Spirit and flesh united together. Got a sermon on that: "The Dove And The Lamb." Want to get on it one night, one of
these weeks.
And in closing from What shall I do with Jesus 63-1124M P:95
Brother Branham said, "As I said,
if the life of Beethoven was in you, you'd live like Beethoven. If the life of
Hitler was in you, you'd live like Hitler. And when the Life of Christ is in
you, you'll live like Christ. And the works of Christ you do. And
that'll be... If Christ lived today He'd do exactly what the Word said He'd do
today. And if the Word said that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and
forever," why can't this blind ecclesiastical world see the time that
they're living. See?"
Let us pray.