Christ is the
Mystery no 128
Christian
Life no 9
The
Christ that sends us goes in us
Brian Kocourek
This evening we will pick up where we left
off on Sunday, and we will begin reading from PP. 208, of Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed. This will be 128 in our
series and no in our mini series on the Christian Life.
Notice Branham says, "Now, notice, God making Himself known. We're not suppose to make converts to Christianity
by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in you as God was in
Christ. (1) As God was in Christ, Christ in
you. (2) What God did in Christ, Christ
does in you. (3) What signs did God in Christ,
Christ does in you..
Now, I hope you see how brother Branham is
making the unmistakable statement that John 14:12 ties in with John 14:20.
Then he says, "Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh, my. I
like that. Jesus said at that day (that's this day), (notice, we're not talking of Luther's day, nor Wesley's day, but we're talking about this day. Br. Branham's identifying this
Scripture with this day.) at that day (when this revelation's made known)
you
will know (Not me alone he says,
but you will know) that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, I in you, and you in
(What's he saying here. When the revelation's made
manifest,
According to Webster's dictionary the word
revelation in Theology means: Revelation is a manifestation
of divine will or truth.
No, notice it is not just knowing
the Divine will or truth as though it comes via a mental awareness, but it
tells us that Revelation is a manifestation of Divine will or truth.
The Apostle Paul tells us how he received the
revelation of Jesus Christ and it was not by going to some seminary or from
hearing some preacher, but he says in Ephesians
3:3 How that by revelation he
made known unto me the mystery; as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby,
when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
Now the question then must be asked, how did Paul come
to know the mystery of Christ? Because he didn’t learn it
from Jesus Christ in the flesh. And he didn’t learn it from the Apostles
themselves. It came from a revelation, a revealing, a manifesting of Divine
truth and Divine will through the Pillar of Fire making known to Paul that the
Life that lived and expressed itself in Jesus is the same Life that raised up Jesus from the dead, is the same God-Life that was
talking to Him out of that Pillar of Fire.
So it is this manifestation that is so all important
to us. Not what teacher taught you, that is only mental knowledge.
But the expression of God-Life made known to you and through you. Now, let’s
read again this last paragraph we started here. Paragraph 250
in your books.
Christ is the Mystery of
God Revealed 128
(250) But the only way that you're saved is by
know Him by revelation. If I can take... I can take
the Presbyterian doctrine and tie you Pentecostals till you won't know... I can
take the Baptist doctrine and show you Pentecostals a million things that you know
nothing of. That's right. But that's not it; that's not His Church. That's not
His Church.
And I would like to add, “you can take what
brother Vayle taught and tie message ministers into knots” and that still
isn’t what brother Branham is telling us here. It’s not what you know by your
mental abilities, brothers and sisters, it’s by Revelation
which is a manifestation of the expression. Listen to brother Branham
as he dives deeper into this.
He says, “His Church is
Himself revealed (Amen. Do you see it?) and expressed
by the Word Itself that He is God.
Now, listen, he said “But the only way that you're saved is by knowing Him by
revelation.” And yet so many think it is by what you know.
“well, if I know the doctrine, that means I
am saved and spirit filled.” No it doesn’t mean that. You're only fooling
yourself if you believe that.
Someone said to brother Branham “I believe
everything you say brother Branham”, and you know what brother Branham said
in reply? He said, “That just means you can read”.
From his sermon What
Holy Ghost was given for 59-1217 P:38
brother Branham said, “You say, "I believe it
because the pastor said so.” He's right, but
that doesn't count for you. "I believe it because the Word says so.”
That's right, but that isn't for you; that doesn't count you. The only
way that you can say that Jesus is the Christ, is when the Holy Ghost comes
into you, and bears record, and witnesses Itself out;
He is the Son of God. That's the only way you know the resurrection, is when
the Holy Ghost bears record. "When He the Holy Ghost is come, He will
testify of Me, show you things to come, bring these
things that I've said to your memories." You'll never find it in the
school. See? He will bring these things to your memories. "
So what’s he saying here? He’s saying that Jesus
Christ will live your life for you. He will take your body and live His
life in your body and then you will know, because that life will be expressed
in you. And that is when you will know that you are indeed born again. That’s
what the new birth is all about. Not just knowing something happened. The devil
can impersonate all of that. Not just some experience you had, but when you
experience Christ living His Life in your body, out from deep within you comes
the very Life, and thoughts, and words of Christ.
In other words, when you know that your life has been
taken over, and there is another Life living in you which has possessed your body, and the evidence of that Life expressing itself out
from you has the same nature and characteristics that expressed itself in Jesus
Christ. Until that happens, you are only hoping you are born again.
Br. Branham in quoting James says, "Then faith without works is dead." If you say, "I believe
it," and don't make no act... Just like the
Message. If you say, "I believe it," don't make no act, what good
does it do? See? Noah went to work with his hammer and built an ark to
confirm what he was talking about. That's what we have to do too. We have to
go to work and prove our faith by our works. Our works proves our faith.
Moses had to do it, and Elijah had to do it. Every
prophet in his age had to stand up and face these responsibilities. But many of
them didn't do like Jonah. He run; they didn't.
From his sermon Putting on the whole armor of God 62-0607 P:78 brother Branham pretty well nails down
how you will know if you are a true believer. And it isn’t by being able to
recite the scriptures or an apostles creed or even our
prophet of this hour. He tells us point blank that "if you truly believe all the Word then it will manifest in
your life by doing the very same things Jesus did." That is why
I I'm focusing so much on John
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. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth. 3 For ye are
dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall
ye also appear with him in glory.
Look, he is telling us
when Christ who is Our Life, when he shall manifest in His True identity is
when he does it through you. And so when he manifests you manifest. In What? In the same Glory that He
manifested to man at the alpha. and you will do
so at the Omega.
John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world. 19 And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have
given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and
that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou
hast loved me.
That is why he tells us
in Colossians that if we have the Life in Christ expressing itself in us, in
the same Glory, the same opinions and values of God, then we will 5 Mortify therefore our members which are upon
the earth; and then he gives us a
whole list of things we won't do any longer.
Now, brother Branham said in his
sermon, Putting
on the whole armor of God 62-0607 P:78 Now. He said what He would do? He
would come and vindicate Himself in His church, and they would vindicate
His resurrection by His works. See? Yeah, John
And so in paragraph 208 brother Branham is telling us the same thing.
Notice he tells us, "in That
day. When? The day "when the revelation is made manifest?"
The day when the unveiling of this revelation takes place, at that day, Jesus said, and brother Branham just told us
that day is this day. When this what Jesus is saying in
John 14:12 takes place, he said in that day,
which is John 14:20 at that day when you see John 14:12 manifested then you will also come into
the same manifestation of the Word by receiving the same Revelation of that
Word which is the manifestation or expression of God, and His God-Life in you.
At that day when the revelation is made
manifest, that is the day when the revelation comes into effect by expressing
itself out from the body.
And what does it mean to be made manifest? When it is visibly identified, when it is visibly expressed, when
it is visibly shown. It takes the viewing of the manifestation of this
revelation to make this revelation manifest in the rest of the body. And we saw
God in Christ in the Alpha expressing His God-Life to the world.
We saw God in William Branham in an Omega expression,
showing us what that God Life is and how it is to conduct itself, and so that
is all it takes to make the promise effective in the rest of the body.) "at that day," (what day? The
day when you are no longer orphans. And
when is an orphan no longer an orphan? When he is adopted.
At That Day, the day when he comes to adopt His
Children, you the believers shall know that I and the Father are One. I'm in the Father, and the Father's in Me. Then when the revelation
comes forth, then it's I in you and you in Me." There you are. See the
manifold threefold... What for? To bring it back. We've got to be...
from his sermon, Hear ye Him 58-0209A P:37 And
if the new life that you think you've received doesn't pattern with God's Word,
you've got the wrong life in you. The
life of Christ will produce the works of Christ, will produce the faith of
Christ, will make you act as Christ, make you love Him. He will be first in
your life. Your objectives, your motives,
and everything will be all-together different. It'll be for the glory of God.
And again from his sermon, Queen of
Shalom 64-0119 P:34 Your
life proves whether Jesus is with you or not. Your life shows whether
He's occupied here,
or whether He's still in His heavens or not, whatever you are. "The
works that I do shall you do also." How could you have Christ in you, and then the very Spirit in you deny
His Word, take up a creed instead? It
can't do it. He would defeat Himself by denying His Own Word. Just because somebody
put a wrong interpretation to It? You got a Bible, you can read like anybody else. Be sincere. David
said, "Put Him always before your face." Know that when we're meeting
this new year, we're meeting it in the power of the
resurrection of Christ. "He's always before me. I shall not be
moved."
Let me just read a few more quotes from brother
Branham before we go back to Christ is the mystery of God Revealed.
From his sermon, Queen
of
Shalom 64-0119 P:90 Where do you see Jesus in
David? When the Word was made manifest through him.
How do you see Christ, God in Elijah, in that chariot going into heaven, see
Jesus in Elijah? 'Cause the Word was vindicated. How
do you see It in Moses? Jesus was in Moses. The Bible
said so. See? That's right. He was the burning bush that was with Moses in the
wilderness. How will people know Jesus
Christ? When they see Him in you, when they see Jesus in you. For He said, "The
works that I do shall you do also. Greater than this shall you do, because I go
to My Father." Is that right? That's how they, world knows.
Token the 63-1128E P:28 "And these signs shall
follow them that believe," not just professors, but identified
believers. (now, he's not talking about college professors, here, he's
talking about people who talk it but don't live it.) "They
may not follow? They probably will? and perhaps they
will"? Jesus said, "They shall follow them that believe."
Just absolutely impossible for it not to happen.
"The works that I do shall you do also."
The word shall is not a suggestion, nor is it a
maybe. The word shall is used to express a command or
exhortation. It
means, will have to : you must, and there's no
getting aroundit.
Then brother Branham says, "That's
the identification. Jesus' identification was to manifest the Word of God,
which He was. And the Church's identification
today is to manifest the promised Word of this day by the same Spirit
that manifested and quickened the Word then. The same Spirit quickens the Word to the believer today and manifests
the same thing, showing that the
Token is on this person, which is the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ living
in His believer. Oh, that ought to
set a church afire. And that's true, just as true as it could be.
Now,
in this next quote brother Branham tells us specifically what John 14:12 means.
From his sermon, Perseverance 63-1116E P:54 brother
Branham says, "And nothing can bother the Church of the living God as long
as we can feel that Holy Ghost, the Covenant of God's Word in our hearts, the
Pentecostal blessing. "For the works that I do, shall you do also. The Life that's in Me, will be
in you. As the Father hath sent Me, so send I
you." The Father that sent Him, come in Him. The Jesus that sends the man, goes in the man.
It isn't the man; it's Jesus. It wasn't Jesus; it was God. "As the Father sent Me, so send I you. Lo, I am with you always, even to the consummation. I'll
be with you to the end of the world. And the works that I do, shall you also. A little while and the world won't see Me
no more; yet ye shall see Me (the believer), for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world," Jesus Christ. As long as I can feel that Spirit of
God around, something's going to happen. I can see people that'll believe It, that will reflect the praises and glory of God.
Notice you can not get away
from what he is telling us here. He tells u specifically that John 14:12 is the
life that was in Christ will be in the one who really truly believes, and he
knows he believes because he sees that very same life and signs that lived
itself out in Jesus Christ are living in himself. That's how you know you've
been born again. It's not based on knowing mentally a doctrine. It's not based
on having some form of experience. It's based upon the daily experience of
Christ living in You and God lived in Him.
Now, in getting back to
Christ is the Mystery of God revealed, let's continue to read on with the next
paragraph, we hear brother Branham say in no.209
"As Jesus was the Word of God, He vindicated the same. If He wasn't the
Word, He wouldn't have made manifest the Word. He'd have been some great
theologian. That would've been the real Messiah the world was looking for. See?
Yes, sir. That would've been Him. That's what they're looking for today: some somebody
can exceed Billy Graham, or somebody can smother down with their organization,
come up and show them Baptists they know where they're standing.
Sure. They're looking for that. But the Church is looking for the humility
and the signs of the living God, Christ.
You hear that? Not looking for someone who can teach the doctrine
better than the next guy. But the said, the Church is looking for the
humility (what humility? The same humility that was in Christ in them) so they
are looking for the humility of Christ and
the signs of the living God, Christ.
Not looking for signs, but
looking for the sign of Christ alive in them.
PP. 210
Jesus wasn't a great theologian. He was a common peasant, a carpenter's Son
(so-called). See? He walked around, but God... He said, "Some
of you show Me what the Bible says that I will do that
I haven't manifest." So the Church can do the same
thing today. What Christ did, so does the Church do now. "That
day you'll know that I am in the Father and the Father's in Me,
I in you and you in Me." See? There you go. Marching on to
You know the Message camps say, your preaching
false because you are not preaching what our camp teaches. But they are missing
the phaneroo of Christ Life in the bride. It's not
what you teach, it's the life that you live. That is
what manifests Presence.
You teach fellows that He is
here, that the judge is here, you might preach that but you does your life
preach the same thing? Or does your life shows you don't believe the judge is
here.
pp. 211 And watch here. Here's the beautiful... I don't want
you to miss this. Now, everybody, and you people on tape, out in the
jungles and wherever you hear it, now listen. "And
as the Father has sent Me, so send I you,"
Jesus said. See? Now, watch, the Father that sent Him went in Him to
vindicate Himself right, for He was the Word. And the same Jesus that
sends you, goes with you and in you to
vindicate the same God. "As the Father has sent Me (and I live by the Father), so I'll send you, and you
live by Me." What is He? He's the Word. You
live by the Word. Oh, how I would like to take a text on that and preach
about a couple of hours on it (See?),on that.
pp. 212 Notice,
notice. And the "Father
that sent Me" went with Him. The
Father that sends--the Jesus that sends us goes in... "A
little while and the world won't see Me no more, yet
ye shall see Me, for I (personal pronoun, 'I 'the Person, Jesus)
will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do
shall you do also." Now, go back and see what He
done; then see what you do, and then compare yourself.
Now, I am going to jump
ahead just for tonight to pp. 216
in closing. "Listen
closely now again as we go on, going back to the original
PP. 217
And remember, we are now as His Bride, pregnated with His Spirit. Oh, my. The
Church bearing children (See?), pregnated
by His Spirit with His Name, bearing His Name, bearing His Life, bringing
forth the signs of His Life evident with the preeminence, evidence of
His resurrection showing that He is not dead, but alive forevermore. This
is Eternal Life. And a-vindicated, vindicates to the world that we are
alive in Him. Whew.
Notice he says if you are impregnated with his life
there will be signs of that Life developing in you. You can't get away from
that. How can you say anything otherwise than that.
PP. 218
How do you know? 'Cause you're a
church member? Because Christ is living through you! So pregnated with His Spirit that you're a prisoner to
anything else. You're confined (oh, my.) to the Gospel, confined to the Word.
And all the children that you can bring forth is
that, 'cause you're a prisoner. You can't commit adultery; you're
already pregnated. Glory. He
can't take a hold. The womb of life is closed to anything else. You're
already His by predestination. That Seed has come to Life. No world can
get in. Oh. Oh, how we'd like to stay on this for about a
hour. I'm sure you understand. See? Christ and His alone... already finished;
the Seed was there. The Seed was already... When was it put there? Before the
foundation of the world, has predestinated us unto Eternal Life. And as
soon as the Life-giving flow, that Seed laying
there... Other seed's that just would come in wouldn't take hold, just couldn't
do it (like). But when that Seed come in, quickly it stopped up the womb; all
the rest of the seed was drove out (see, like that), and you become a
prisoner surrounded in Christ, Christ in you, His Life bringing forth His
evidence, His signs. Oh, my, my, my. Look, bringing His signs of
Life as an evident (Evident: clear to the vision or
understanding) of His resurrection, proving to the world
that Eternal Life, vindicates to the world that we're alive in Him.
And think of it. Alive with God our Redeemer, Who created us
for the very same purpose (the Church) and His creative Life in us. That
is... Moses could said by the Word of God, "Let
there come..." and there come flies. A God can
make flies, can make squirrels. See? He can do whatever He wants to...?... God.
PP. 219
The very same God (that creative Life--you
see?) that's in you can... You're a prisoner; you can't speak it
till He says, "Speak it;" but when it gets spoke, it's
God's Word. He's a-vindicated to be so; everything else is right, and
he knows when that's spoke it's got to be so. See? Moses took his rod and said,
"Let there come frogs" 'cause God said,
"Let there come frogs." He just transmit it
on out. That's right. And frogs was in everything;
everywhere was frogs. Where'd they come from? Nobody knows; they wasn't there before. But the Creator-God, working through a
man created things, a living species. The very God that made the first frog can
make the second frog. He makes all frogs. Oh, my. You see what I mean? Made the
first squirrel, makes the second squirrel, make any squirrel,
can make squirrels where there is no squirrel. He can do anything He wants to.
He's God. He's God. His Life... Oh, my.
Now in closing as I quoted brother Branham
Sunday from his sermon, Mighty God Unveiled 64-0629
P:54. He said, "Moses veiled, he was the living Word to the people. And today,
the people that are veiled are the same thing; they are written epistles,
read of all men, not a new epistle, but the epistle that's been written made
manifested. It's those who believe the Word and the promise of this day
that God is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh; and that is written epistles. And when a person tries to
carnally impersonate that, it backfires. Your life shows what you are.
And from Sir we
would see Jesus 63-1112 P:18 Now, according to the Scriptures
we are supposed to be written epistles of Him. The Bible says that we are
written epistles. And if, tonight, we would
hunger and thirst to see the Lord Jesus Christ, we as Christian believers
should reflect His Life, so much, till it would be His entire representative.
We should be that. Every Christian should represent and
reflect the Life of Jesus Christ. Do you believe that? And I believe
that every Christian should be reflecting the Life of Christ. He said in
God
identifying Himself 64-0320 P:34 See, there's no mistake about it. His life... "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do
shall he do also." See, that identifies
the characteristics, same thing He said. "If My character doesn't identify Myself, God in Him," then don't believe Him. Now, He also said that He would be
identified in that. Then that, if it doesn't identify Him,
then He isn't what He says. And today if Christ doesn't identify Hisself, the characteristic of Christ identify us as being
of Christ, believing the Word... Jesus was the Word, so He had to believe
the Word. And how can we say that we are of Christ and deny any Word in that
Bible? The Holy Spirit of Christ is God in you. And it'll
punctuate every promise with a "Amen." The
Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." The Spirit
of God said, "Amen." See? One of them don't--said, "No, that was
for another age. That was for disciples only." "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature. He (anywhere, all the world) that believeth, these signs
shall follow him," same thing, same yesterday,
today, and forever, the characteristic being identified.
Jehovah
Jireh 58-0127 P:50 Have you ever met that Jehovah-jireh? Have you
ever met the conditions that He said, that He promised Eternal Life to as
many as would believe on Him? He would change that temper you got into a
sweet humble person. He'd make you stop lying and tell the truth. Oh, you say,
"Brother Branham, I'm a church member." That's all right. "I've
been baptized." That's all right. But if that Life of Christ isn't in
you, you're dead. That life that you have, that's give to you by the world,
God condemned it at the beginning. You know you can't polish it up. You can't
reform it. It's got to die, so that Christ can be born in you. Do
not be deceived, people, if Christ doesn't live in you by the new birth,
that changes your whole nature, attitude, and everything, you're lost.
Satan don't care how good you are. If goodness
would've saved a man, Jesus wouldn't have had to die.
Let us pray