Christ is the Mystery no 138
Christian Life no 19
Understanding Shepherds no 3
Five fold Ministry-Preparation for Service
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This morning we are going to
look once more at what it means to be a Shepherd of God's flock. This will be
number 3 in our mini series on this, and
no 19 in our series on Christian Life,
and no 138 in our series from Christ is
the Mystery of God Revealed. So we have a lot of series and mini series going
on here as we study this wonderful message that William Branham, Vindicated
Prophet of God brought to us in this one sermon alone.
But before we get back into
reading from his sermon, Christ is the Mystery of
God Revealed, let's turn in our Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4 and
we will read for our text from verses 11-14.
Ephesians 4:11-14 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (now, notice all of
these five gifts are given in plurality. In others, there is not just one
apostle, there are apostles plural. There is not just one teacher. There are
teachers plural. The same with pastors, and evangelists, and
prophets, plural. Now this is not speaking of Messenger Word prophets
but the five fold gifts to the church.)
And
notice what these gifts are given to the church for. 12 For the perfecting of the saints, (that means for the maturing or equipping of the
saints or sanctified ones. This is not speaking of church members or church
membership. But those whoa re living holy before God.
And these gifts are given to the church he says,)... to prepare God’s people for works of service, And this word works of
service is the same word work that Jesus used in John
from his sermon, Take on the
whole armor of God 62-0701 P:82 Brother Branham said, "John
So we see according to vindicated prophet William
Branham, John
But what if you have a five fold ministry whose
ministry has manifested John 14:12? And
what if in that man's church has seen God's supernatural presence manifest itself after sincere
prayer to God? And what if that ministry has also had numerous signs of God's
presence with it, and doing things no man could do. Then why would other five fold
ministers not want what God is doing in that ministry?
But if they have those signs following, then wouldn't
they also want for others in their church to have them also? And what if this
Vindicated prophet we claim to follow said the church must come to this
expression or manifestation of God-Life in the church before the church can be raptured? or made ready for the
rapture?
What if I can show you that
God's vindicated prophet told us that the elect sons and daughters of God will
have to come to this expression or manifestation which we see Jesus speak of in
John 14:12
or they will not be raptured? And what if I could
show you the essentiality of what I have been teaching these past seven years
is an essential truth of God that the John 14:12
must manifest itself in the bride as a sign she is ready for adoption, or she
will not go in a rapture. And what if I can show you that this is a
pre-requisite for the rapture of the church? Then that makes what we are
looking at and what we have been focusing on a little more essential to our
walk with God, doesn't it.
You see, Paul said the purpose
of the Five fold ministry is to equip the people with this knowledge of the son
of God, that comes via our understanding the true Revelation of Jesus Christ
which is the Godhead relationship between father and son, and understanding
exactly how this relationship between God and His son worked so that you can
understand how it will work with you and for you as it did for him.
William Branham prophet of God
understood this real well, and he entered so much into that relationship with
the Father as Jesus had done before him, that He and God became one in
expression and manifestation in this hour.
And Paul said the five fold ministry are to equip the saints with this same Revelation
of Jesus Christ and through the knowledge of the son of God it will bring the
Children of God into full maturity and rapture ready. As He said, "that the
body of Christ may be built up until we all reach a unity of The Faith
and in the knowledge of the Son of God so that we become mature,
attaining to the whole measure of the fulfilling of Christ. Then we will no
longer be infants, he says, who are tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and
there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in
their deceitful scheming.
This unity he speaks of here is
unity of belief, and unity of doctrine. There is no way that sheep can be
unified by wolves in sheep's clothing because there is no unity of the Faith
between sheep and wolf. But the dove leads the lamb because they have the same
nature. And since only born again ones can truly be considered believers, true
genuine believers, then only true born again sons and
daughters of God are the only ones who can manifest Christ life from their
vessels.
True five fold shepherds will make an effort to try to
help the wandering sheep. Those who wonder about this and
wonder about that. But once the
wolf has it, unless he can get to that sheep while it still has breath, he can
possibly restore it. But sometimes the
wolf gets away with a sheep and kills it before it can struggle to get free.
That is why the shepherd has to be so ruthless with
any wolf he sees spying out his sheep. Ready to kill it when
possible. Because its nature is a predator, and he
seeks only to maim and kill.
Luke 15:4 "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and
loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go
after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts
it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors
together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you
that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who
repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
The Bible is clear that many
people have and will continue to wander away from the Faith. And usually it
boils down to one thing. Money.
Paul
tells us in 1 Timothy
1 Timothy 6:20-21 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your
care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely
called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have wandered
from the faith. Grace be with you.
James 5:19-20 My brothers, if one of you should
wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this: Whoever
turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover
over a multitude of sins.
We need to help those who have
wandered, fallen into the fire, while being careful not to get burned ourselves
or soil our own clothing in the mess they have made for themselves.
Jude 1:22-23 Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others
from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear, hating even
the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
We need to be mindful that we
have all wandered at times, we have gone astray, but the point is to return to
the Shepherd.
1 Peter
The shepherd would bring the flock home to the fold at
night. He would then lay down in the gate
physically to protect the sheep from wolves coming into the sheepfold. He
literally put his life on the line for the sheep.
John 10:1-13 "I tell you the truth, the man who
does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a
thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his
sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his
voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has
brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him
because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact,
they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s
voice." Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what
he was telling them. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth,
I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and
robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters
through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The
thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may
have life, and have it to the full. "I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the
shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the
sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man
runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
We learn some important things
about being a good under shepherd in this passage. First of all the
shepherd is a watchman. There are not only savage wolves out in the world, there are savage wolves who are entering the fold at
an alarming rate.
Acts
Matthew
The wolves who try to enter the
fold make themselves look like sheep. They talk like sheep, they pray
like sheep, they make themselves look ultra-holy, they say "Lord,
Lord", they claim to be doing all that Christians
should do having a form of Godliness but in reality they deny the power that
comes with a true born again experience.
But Jesus warned us how to spot
them. He said, "by their fruit you will know them" ... the
fruits of lying, of false works, of false doctrines, of false motives, or false
anointing, or simply of following false apostles, and trying to be justified by
their works. The Shepherd sees through their motives and objectives and
calls them what they are ... evildoers.
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out
demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew
you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
If five fold shepherds do not
protect the flock against these wolves, then they are just as responsible for
the destruction the wolf causes under their watch as the wolf is.
Ezekiel 33:6-7 But if the watchman sees the sword
coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes
and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his
sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’ "Son of
man, I have made you a watchman for the house of
God has made every five fold
shepherd a watchman. There are many ways or gates of gaining entrance to the
flock of any church. Those gates include the gate of the ministry through
music, the gate of serving on a board in the church, even the gate of the
pulpit, and it is through the many gates or portals into the church or people
in the body of Christ but have a different agenda than the Shepherd has.
Remember the Shepherd is to
equip the people for doing the works of Christ, in order to build up the body
of Christ that it might manifest Christ to the world. But the wolf has his own
agenda, and it is at the expense of the sheep. it is
for self satisfaction. It matters not to the wolf if the sheep are scattered,
in fact it is better for him, because then he can one by one take advantage of
them. So it is the responsibility of the shepherd to drive away the wolf among
the sheep in any way shape or form that he can do it. I have never seen a wolf
driven away from the flock with honey and sweet talking. have
you?
But the wolf has one purpose
and that is to separate the sheep because where their is
unity their is strength. And so he comes in to disrupt the unity that The Faith
produces, by trying to make the sheep think that "The Faith" has some
other objective. And so he adds here and takes away there until the shepherds
are weakened in their faith, and thus their unity.
And that is how the serpent
beguiled Eve, by showing her alternative words to confuse her mind. So he added
simply just one word, "Not". Though shall not surely die. And it
worked. Had Adam been a better steward of His responsibility he would have
drove off that serpent when he saw him approaching his wife.
The Shepherd will lay his body
down in the gate to protect the flock so they can rest, and so the shepherd risks
his reputation, and friendships, and his livelihood, and perhaps even sometimes
his own life, for the flock. But
there are too many "hirelings" in the churches today who do not do
the job they were given a stewardship over, because they do not want to offend anyone
or anything. And thus by their inability to take a firm stand they make
themselves useless to the Good Shepherd, and allow great evil to take a
foothold in the flock they have been given a stewardship over. so on their watch they refuse to take the stand needed to
ensure the safety of the flock.
John 10: 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the
shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf
coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth
them, and scattereth the sheep.
Those who are called to be five fold shepherds in the
body of Christ must take their responsibility seriously, but many do not.
There are far too many who claim to be five fold ministers of God but
demonstrate clearly that they are not qualified to be shepherds according to God's
criteria, because they will not take a stand on Holiness issues, and doctrinal
teaching. The five fold minister is given tot he church to prepare the church
for the rapture.
In His sermon, "Believest thou this", brother Branham said, Now, remember this.
If he preaches the Gospel, stay with him, help him, 'cause he's man sent from
God, ordained of God to feed your soul.
In this very sermon, brother Branham said in Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:43 Love one another above everything. Love one another.
Don't... No matter what the devil tries to say... Now, you're all one
great, big, sweet group now, but remember my warning. See? Satan won't let that
stay that way. No, sir. He'll shoot everything, if he
has to bring somebody in to make his target. He'll bring some critic or
unbeliever in, set him down, and cause him to fellowship with you under the
quietness and things. Then he will shoot that guy with some kind of poison
stuff, and he'll start through the church with it. Don't you take sides with
it. Don't you have nothing
to do with anything else. You stay right loving and sweet and kind to one
another. Pray for that man that he'll be saved too, or that woman, ever who it
is. Just pray for them and stick one with another and stay with your pastor.
See? He's the shepherd and you give him respects. He'll lead you through, cause,
he's ordained of God to do so.
So the Five fold shepherd is ordained of God, and in
fact God ordains him and sets him over the flock to feed the flock, by bringing
them to where the food is due season lays, and he waters them by the washing of
water by the word, grooming them for sonship roles, and clipping them, or what
we call dressing them down when it is needful, to ensure they do not wander away from
the fold. He helps to deliver new lambs, leading them and teaching
them how to follow the Word, and sometimes he has to go off after sheep that
wander off, and he protects the sheep of the fold from predatory spirits.
But let's get back to Ephesians
4 again where we see that God has placed in the church certain ones
to equip the saints to prepare God’s people for works
of service. And I made a
statement earlier in this message, that I will address
now.
And as I mentioned earlier,
what if I can show you that God's vindicated prophet told us that the elect
sons and daughters of God will have to come to this expression or manifestation
which we see Jesus himself speak of in John 14:12 or they will not be raptured?
And what if I could show you the essentiality of what I have been teaching
these past seven years is an essential truth of God that the John 14:12 must manifest itself in the bride as a
sign she is ready for adoption, or she will not go in a rapture. And what if I
can show you that this is a pre-requisite for the rapture of the church? Then
that makes what we are looking at and what we have been focusing on a little
more essential to our walk with God, doesn't it.
Now, this same Apostle prophesied in Ephesians 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen
us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
will,
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
will,
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were
under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which
have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of
our body.
Romans
Romans
29 For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren.
So what does it mean
to be conformed to the image of His first born son? he's
not talking about wearing sandles and having a beard.
he's talking about having the same character, the same
nature, thinking the same things, speaking the same Words, doing the same
actions, and doing the same works. In other words, if he said in verse 11 But if the same Spirit of him (God) that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He (God)
that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by his (God's) Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
So that means if you
have the Same Spirit of God dwelling in you that dwelled also in Jesus, And
remember, 'By one spirit we are all baptized into one body" then you will
not only think the same thought, but you will speak the same words, and so what
he did, and do the same works that he did. Because it is God
which is working in you to will and then to do. That is what Paul told
us in Philippians 2:13. and the only way he can do
that is by dwelling in you.
God will
make your body obey your confession. See? And He's the High Priest of our
confession. Before you can be healed, you have to confess it first. You have to
believe that you are healed. And then when you believe you're healed, God makes
your body obey your confession. when you come to the place where you can say,
Father you said in your word that I am to be conformed to the Image of Your
son, You said i am to become a manifested son, you
said in your word, I have received the spirit of adoption, the you say, "God, this is Your command. I believe it,
then step into it.".
Because Paul also said
in verse 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them
he also glorified.
In closing let me read to you a few quotations of
William Branham prophet of God concerning where we are to be right before God
takes us in the rapture.
Hear ye Him - 60-0313 32 In the Old Testament, when it was wrote out
and then tore apart, when they come together, it had dovetail. Each piece of
paper had to fit right in, and the whole program had to line up right. God
confirmed His covenant with the people through Isaac to Christ; and at
Hear ye Him - 60-0313. 37. Now, you see, Jesus had proven to God that
He'd been the right kind of Son. And God took Him up on the top of the
mountain, brought witnesses out there--heavenly witnesses and earthly
witnesses--and He clothed Him in immortality. When they looked up, they said,
"His garments shined
like the sun."
A supernatural something taken place. His garments glistened like the
sun in its middle of the day, as white as they could be. God placed on Him the
robe of immortality, showing that He had received Him. That's the thing
that God will do to His sons here on earth some day. He will call you
aside, Church, if you'll only obey Him and stay on the Word and believe it.
And He will place into the Church, before the coming of Jesus Christ...
He will place into the Church... All the powers that Christ had in Him will
be in the Church. All that God was, He poured into Jesus; all that
Jesus was, He pours into the Church. God wanting His work done, He sent it into
His Son; the Son wanting the work done, sent it into the Church.
"At that day you'll
know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me, and I in you, and you in Me."
At that day, because the same power of God, was in Jehovah God, rested in Jesus
Christ. The same power that rested in Jesus Christ, rests in the placed sons
in the body of Christ. 38. Placing of a son... Take him out in a
certain place, have a ceremony before Angels, and place him positionally
what he is in the body of Christ. Then that person has the authority. Let me
say this, if you count me a fanatic from this night on. That very same thing
that I'm speaking of will be done. There'll be a power put into the Church,
and now is coming in, that the Holy Spirit will so anoint people, till they'll
speak the Word and It'll create Itself right there. We haven't seen powers
like's coming into the Church now. I know it for a fact." Say unto
this mountain be moved. Don't doubt in your heart, but
believe that what you've said shall come to pass, you can have what you have
said.": the placing of the Church in position, where the fullness of
the power of the Holy Ghost comes into the Church. Then critics
mouths will be shut. It'll be a short time. Jesus come right off the
mountain, went straight to
Jehovah Jireh 58-0127 P:36 And the same Holy Spirit
that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be operating in His church to make them coincide
together at the rapture, or it won't go up at that time. The Spirit that was
in Jesus, will have to be in His church, or the
two pieces won't dovetail together, the life of the church and the life of
Christ cannot dovetail together. .
I perceive you
are a prophet - 53-0614E 27. And O God, grant today, that when we can all come together,
and see all those nine spiritual gifts moving through the Church, operating the
whole Church Body. then we'll have the
rapture. then it will be culled out, and we'll have
the rapture. If we can't have faith for Divine
healing, how we going to have faith for rapturing
faith? the Church has got a ways to go yet.
But I believe God will do it.
Questions and Answers
Show us the
Father - 53-0907A 85 Divine healing, the power of God, and all these other things is
in every individual in here that's received the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
for you're planted in Christ. Hallelujah. the Holy
Ghost baptism, yes, sir, and everything you have need of for this life's
journey, even the rapture is right in you then.
Abraham -
55-0608 41 And if you ever go in the rapture, you're going to have
to have the same Spirit in you that was on Jesus Christ. That's God's
covenant with His Church. Amen.
Faithful
Abraham - 59-0415E 67 That same Spirit that's in
Christ has to be in His church. the same Holy
Ghost that dwelt in Christ dwells in us. And when the rapture comes, them two
pieces has to come together and be the same church that Christ died for.
Balm in Gilead -
59-1124 57 God's looking for somebody who'll take the Sword of the Word. Some people's
afraid to say those things. Don't be afraid. God be for you, who can be against
you? It's time that the Church stood in Its place
again, cut sin. Jesus will come someday and there'll be a
rapture. Those who stand for Him now, He will stand for him--for them
then.
What Holy
Ghost was given for - 59-1217 30 God's waiting on me and you. the church is waiting on me and you: adoption
time, when God can pour into us His Fullness, His power, His Resurrection,
that when the church and Christ become so close together till Christ
becomes visible among us, and raises the dead, and we go into the rapture. Now,
we're going to say--show after while that just those who are filled with the
Holy Ghost goes in that rapture, "For the rest of the dead live not
for the space of a thousand years." That's right. Just
Holy Spirit filled people was all that went in the rapture.
What is the Holy Ghost - 59-1216 78 Remember, the same rain that the
unbeliever made fun of was the same rain that saved Noah and his family.
See? The same spirit (Holy Ghost) that people are making fun of and says is
crazy, and a bunch of nuts, "It's insanity," it's the same thing
that'll rapture the church and take it up at the last days, will bring judgment
upon the unbelievers. That's right. That's what the Holy Ghost is. Blessed
are they (May I say this in the sincerity of my heart.)--blessed are they that do hunger and thirst
for It, for they shall be filled.
Jehovah Jireh - 57-0810 35 He lifted up the body and set it on His
right-hand, and sent the other part, the Holy spirit,
down on the church. And when the rapture comes, it'll have to be the same
spirit that was on Christ, will have to dovetail with that promise, or it
will be rejected. No wonder He said, "It has to be the same Holy
Ghost that Except the
man be born again, he will in no wise enter the
Kingdom. fell
on the day of Pentecost, has to baptize every believer or it won't be the same
spirit, and contract, that was tore at
Jehovah Jireh - 57-0326
57. When that Holy spirit fell on the day of Pentecost, It produced a church.
And, brother, I don't care what denomination you got tacked to you, except
that spirit that was tore out of Christ is put into the man, he will be left in
the day of the rapture. He tore him apart and sent the Holy Ghost down,
which lives in us, the spirit of Christ, working in us, doing the same works
that Christ did, living the same life, doing the same things, and the outside
world stands and makes fun of It. Others say there's nothing to It. Some try to mock It. Others
receive it. Brother, that's the only way that God ever makes you a seed of
Abraham. When the spirit of Christ comes into you, then you become the seed of
Abraham. That's right. And the Gentile is included in the covenant.
Hebrews Chapter 7 part
2 - 57-0922 83 And He sent the spirit that tore out of that body, right
back down on the church. And that church will have to have the same spirit
that was in that body, or it won't dovetail with It in
the resurrection. Those two pieces must come perfectly together; and if
this church isn't perfectly, just exactly the same spirit that was in Christ,
you'll never go in the rapture.
Hear ye Him - 58-0328
30 Remember, the same
waters that drowned the world, saved Noah." Right.
And the same Holy spirit, and the same old fashion
Gospel that will take the church home someday in the rapture, will condemn and
bring judgment to the unbeliever.
Why cry speak - 59-1004E 29. Jesus said, "The works that I do, he that believeth on Me..."
Saint John 14:7, "He that believeth on Me
the works that I do shall he do also. He that believeth on Me..." No man can believe Jesus Christ
to be the Son of God until he's received the Holy Ghost. You're only taking
it by faith and accepting it. You can't say that it is. You can say, "I
believe it is." But no man can call Jesus the Christ until the Holy
Ghost is in him. The Bible said so. The Holy Spirit has to come in
first, then It gives a witness. You know yourself
that Jesus is the Christ because He lives in you. 30. Then that same
Holy spirit introduces Himself to the people, and "these signs shall follow them that believe." And the church laughs at It and makes funs of It. We're just living in that day, the
atmosphere getting charged up for an atomic bomb, for judgment. The Church
is getting ready for a rapture. We're waiting,
anticipation, waiting; the Church is waiting the coming of the Lord. The world
is a shaking, wondering which one is going to get the bomb first to the other
one. We don't care which one gets there; we're going here. So it doesn't matter
which one gets there. It doesn't have a thing to do with us. We're just
rejoicing, happy, and believing that one day we'll hear a sound from heaven,
and here He'll come. And His Church will be caught up in the air to meet Him
and be with Him. 31. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I
do shall he do also."
Abraham - 55-0608
41. And if
you ever go in the rapture, you're going to have to have the same spirit in you
that was on Jesus Christ. That's God's covenant
with His Church. Amen. Don't you take a cold formal handshake.
You take a heart-warming experience from God of being born again. Don't care
where you belong. Yes, sir. 'Cause God... Remember, when these two met
together, if these didn't dovetail, it was throwed
out. It had to be the same thing. And the same spirit was upon Christ
has to be on the Church. God taken the body of Christ and set it on His
right hand of power above, and He sent the Holy Ghost
back. And It's going around, looking out the Church.
And when they come together, it'll have to be the same body, same signs,
same wonders, same baptism, same signs and wonders, same Gospel. Amen.
That's right.
In
closing I will what brother Vayle taught us in his sermon, Adoptions No 2.
"Now, reading from the
8th chapter of the Book of Romans. Just one verse at this
time, the 15th verse at this time. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Now in the first message on
this subject which was last night we showed from the prophets teaching that
there would be a word identified Bride who would be able to manifest the very
life of Christ at the end time, quoting brother Branham "there'll be a power
come into the church and now is coming in that the holy spirit will so anoint
the people [plural] so that they'll [plural] speak the Word and
it the word will create itself like that or identical to what was spoken."
You see when God said let their be light, suddenly something didn't said I think I
will have a little fun, let it be - dark. No, - Light. See?
Therefore the Word which
will be in the bride will be a literal manifestation into creation of that same
Word by the Spirit that lies in the Word, there will be literal creation. Now,
that's what the prophet said, do you agree with that he said it. Alright, fine we believe it.
Now, notice the language of
the prophet. He said now, N.O.W. at this moment it is coming into the church.
That means only one thing, the potential is already in the bride of this
hour and it the potential will produce the manifestation in her of creation
by spoken word. God is going to refill the bride with the spirit,
Then see what happens,
Brother Branham said we've got a ministry coming that just excites exactly
like the life of Christ. Now that's what he told us and that's what we
believe."
I was preaching one time in
Chicago a couple a years ago or three
when Doctor Hoyer who in my estimation is the greatest authority in the Hebrew
and Greek living today because he can speak it with the exact emphasis, the
exact facial expressions and the exact demonstration by the hand. He is a very
brilliant scholar. At the end of the service he said, brother Vayle, I trust you will not
think me to be a fanatic, but I would like to say something, and he sounded so
apologetic I wondered what in the world
he was going to say.
He said, Please, please ,
please do not take this bad, he said, I
said what it is br. Hoyer, he said, "Br. Vayle from
a study of the Word of God I believe the Bride will have the creative Word
within her before she goes in that rapture". I said, "brother that's exactly what a vindicated prophet said by
"thus saith the Lord".
Here is a brilliant
theologian who knows exactly the hour of the day, if you heard him and you
could meet him and talk with him, you would know that this is a giant intellect
anointed by the Holy Ghost who has studied the Word of God until that's all he
knows and all he's lived. You mention a scripture and he will quote you the
Hebrew or the Greek and then he'll raise his eyebrows, his face will change,
and an expression will come upon him and there he will literally begin to
preach in that language and tell you every thing that it means.
And he said brother Vayle I
know that it is coming.
So we see according to the Word
of God given to us by
a vindicated prophet that the creative Word will be
in the very bride at the end time. Now this great capstone ministry of the
bride it's called the manifestation
of the sons of God or the adoption or placing of the sons, and to
me, and I emphasize to me, it is also the manifestation of what brother Branham
called the third pull in the bride.
let us pray...