Christ is the Mystery no 142
A Pregnated Child of God
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This morning we will continue
our study of Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, and to begin with I am just
going to read from paragraph 225 through 228. Now there is a whole lot brother
Branham says in these paragraphs but I want to read it through first so we get
the flavor and then go back and point out some outstanding comments he makes
and tie it into Scripture.
225 Thanks be
to the living God Who created the heavens and the earth and all that's in the
midst. No wonder He's Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, He that
Was, which Is, and shall Come, the Root and Offspring of David, the bright and
the Morning Star; He's All in all.
226 His
Presence in the individual with a personal a-vindication of Himself expressing
Himself--the living Word that's promised for the day, expressing Itself through you, a vindication of the great
revelation of God... Look, only in an individual, never in a
group: an individual, not in a group, His identification is
with an individual. You get that? Not with the Methodists, not with the
Baptists, not the Presbyterian, not the Lutheran, not the Pentecostal, but as
an individual.
Now,
I am sure that many might believe he is talking about himself speaking of the
individual as though he is identifying himself only. I used to believe that,
but God has shown me that is not what he is talking about. God comes for
individuals, never a group. God expresses Himself always through individuals,
and we have seen that in every age, so he is not talking about one individual
here but individuals plural. That is why he follows this up with the next
statement as we read on. And notice he
quotes Scripture.
"I'll take one and leave one. I'll separate
them." That's right. "There'll
be two in the field; I'll take one and leave one. There'll be two in bed, and
I'll take one and leave one." It's not a group. It is a
personal vindication of a pregnated child of God filled with the Holy Ghost, so
surrendered to God that he don't care about anything else, and the Holy Spirit
living Its Life, pulsating through him, showing the personal, personal
vindication of the Word Itself expressing Itself to the people and to the
world.
Notice
the words brother Branham uses here. He speaks of a pregnated
Child of God. We are going to get into that for most of our message this morning
but before we do, I want you to notice also he also uses the term "personal
vindication" concerning the life of God expressing itself out from that
pregnated child of God. And this word personal vindication simply means vindication
in the person.
Now,
I know and am fully aware that within the Message we use the word vindication
only for a prophet but that is not the correct usage of the word vindication. we
use it in terms of God vindicating his Prophet and that is a correct usage, but
if we are to deny the proper usage of the word, then we must deny that God also
vindicates His own Word, and God Vindicates His Presence, and God vindicates
His own Seed, Thus the word vindicate means simply to prove. And So then we must ask what is the application of the usage of
the Word. Brother Branham uses it when he speaks of God backing up that person
whether prophet or saint of God. According to Webster's Dictionary the word vindication
simply means: to show
that (someone or something that has been criticized or doubted)
is actually correct, true, or reasonable. So it speaks of proving to be correct what
others doubted. And this word can be applied not only for a prophet of God but
for any one person who stands for God's Word in the midst of all sorts of doubt
and unbelief. Then brother Branham adds,
227 How
can the world blindly walk by something like that? Just as the same as the
Catholics walked by St. Patrick and didn't recognize him till after he was
dead. Same thing they done to
Notice
that he used the term vindication and then speaks of many saints throughout the
ages, some were Messengers but others were not. Some were women such as in Joan
of Arc. It is God showing or proving those people to be standing with His Word
in the face of all doubters. Therefore he is using here the word vindication as
what God does in backing up His Word in the individuals who stand with it.
Then in speaking of the doubters, he says, 228 It goes right by them, and they don't recognize it till
it's gone. It only picks up the predestinated seed that God
predestinated before the foundation of the earth. The same thing come through in the days of Noah. Same thing come through
in the days of Moses, days of Elijah, days of the prophets, days of Jesus, on
down through and to this very hour. The pregnated person with the
seed of God, The Word in there manifesting Itself,
so surrendered to the will of God that the Word and the Word
alone manifests Itself and this person's a prisoner, to an individual.
Notice he tells us that person, whoever it might be,
that individual who is so surrendered to God's Word and His Word alone, that
person who becomes a prisoner to God's Word, is the one God will stand behind, and
that is the one God vindicates, or proves to be true.
Notice right after he says "I will take one and leave one" he describes
the individual that is born again and filled with the Spirit of God.
He says, "It is a personal vindication of a (1) pregnated child of God (2)
filled
with the Holy Ghost, (3) so surrendered to God that he don't
care about anything else, and (4) the Holy Spirit living Its Life, pulsating through him, showing the
personal, (5) personal vindication
of the Word Itself expressing Itself to the people and to the world.
Here we see brother Branham using the same word
expression that the Apostle Paul used in describing this Life of God that has
been injected into the believer like an egg and sperm coming to life and being
formed with the believer as a child forming within the womb.
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Notice the language of Life here, "until Christ be formed in you."
The apostle John speaks the same language concerning the
very life of God forming itself in you as we see in
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,
and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live:
And this life that was in Christ was intended to be
released from Him so that you and I might also receive that life and express or
manifest it in our bodies as well as we see in the following Scriptures.
1 John 1:2 (For the life was manifested,
and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which
was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;
Notice John says, that same Life, eternal Life that we
saw manifested in the son of God is now manifested in us as well that you also
might receive it and manifest it in your flesh.
Again in going back to the Apostle Paul we read in Galatians 2:20 I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.
And again the Apostle Paul teaches us in 2 Corinthians
And then back to John who says in 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is
born of God doth not commit (or initiate) sin; for his seed (God's Seed) remains
in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
So he is talking about a birth, God Life being birthed
in the individual, and when we receive this God Life in us, it changes our
nature and the way we conduct our lives.
And he says when we are born of God Life we no longer initiate unbelief
in our lives. Because sin
is just unbelief. A man sins because he doesn't believe.
Mark of the Beast -
61-0217 69. "He that sins..." What is
sin? Unbelief.
I want somebody to tell me one definition of sin besides unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." That's right. "He that..."
You don't even get the first... What if... Committing
adultery is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes and drinking is not a sin; that's
the attributes of unbelief. If you was a
believer you wouldn't do that. See? That's right.
Again we see in 1 John
And not only will the believer, the one who is born of
God, not disbelieve willfully, but when the flesh strains and pulls to enter
into sin or express or manifest unbelief, the Bible teaches us that if we are really
truly Believers, we will overcome that pull, which is nothing more than the pull
of the world.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith.
And in 1 John 5 we find out that only those who are
born of God buy His Spirit can believe that Jesus is the Christ. That's what
the Bible says in 1 John 5:1 Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
And we know that you can not believe that Jesus is the
Christ unless you are born of His Spirit.
You must be born again to be a genuine Believer, for
the Scripture said, "Know man can call Jesus
the Christ except by the Holy Ghost."
And
from his sermon, Who is this 59-1004M P:48 No man
can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Spirit. You say, "I believe It because the Word said so." That's true. But the Word
says that no man can say Jesus is
Christ, until you have received the Holy Ghost. No man
can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost.
And in the Gospel of John Jesus tells us that we can
not even understand the
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the
Notice Jesus says in verse 3 "unless you are born again you will never see the
Now, brother Branham tells us in Jehovah Jireh
part 3 62-0707 P:72 "You might
intellectually think you do. But a man can't see God until he's born again.
"See"
doesn't mean... You don't see with your eyes; you look with your eyes.
"See"
is to "understand." You looked right at It, and say, "I don't see
it," you mean you don't understand it. You'll never know what we're
talking about until you're born again. You've never had that
experience?
And from his sermon, Seeing
God 62-0609M P:17 brother Branham said,
"How blind a person must be that can't see
life. And think that many people doesn't see life.
Now, we might see it, but the word "see" doesn't mean to look at; the word "see" means "to understand it." Now,
Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the Kingdom." Now, in otherwise, you be looking at something and
you say, "I don't see it"; you mean you don't understand it. "To
see,' what we call see, that's "to look at." But "to see" in Bible
terminology is "to understand what
we're looking at, to be revealed."
And that is the problem we have seen so much of in
Christianity and even in this Message. Anyone who has the Holy Spirit knows
that most people who claim to have the Holy Ghost don't, because "by their fruits you shall know them". And the
Scripture plainly teaches us "how can you know
the things of God except the Spirit of God is in you". And the
very fact that people will willfully turn down the doctrine and the Life shown
us by this Message shows they are not born again.
Paul said that in 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is
written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart
of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit:
for The Spirit (and there is only One The Spirit and that is God's
very own Spirit. And Paul says,) for The Spirit (God's
Spirit) searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him? even so the
things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God knows. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God.
Now, notice he is
telling us that there is no way we will ever know the things of God unless we
have been born again with the Spirit of God, because only the Spirit of God
knows the things of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. In other words,
the Spirit of God is not so interested in the natural things as he is in the
spiritual things, and he compares spiritual with spiritual.
Book of Exodus 1 55-1005 P:8 Jesus
said, "Except a man
be borned again, he cannot understand the Kingdom of
heaven." There's
no way of understanding it until you are borned again,
and then God reveals Himself to you, and then you know that you've
passed from death unto Life, because no man can call Jesus the Christ, only by
the Holy Spirit. See? The only way that you'll ever know that Jesus is the
Christ, is when the Holy Spirit personally witnesses to you that He is
the resurrected Lord Jesus. No matter what He would do, what kind of signs,
what kind of miracles, you'll never know it until your personal experience
with God. You say, "Well, I believe it because the Bible said
so." Well, that's good. The Bible, it's true. It knows it. "Well, the
preacher said so." Perhaps, he knows it. "Mother said so." She
knows it. But what do you know about it? You'll never know it until it's
revealed to you individually by the Holy Spirit. And then, by accepting it, you
become a new creature in Christ Jesus, born a second time.
Expectation 55-1001 P:24
Now, God is not known
by intellectual faith. God is known by the experience of new birth, only
alone. Jesus said, "Except a man be born again of the Spirit of
God, he cannot even see the
Missionary talk 58-0330A P:11 Now
what is the Gospel? The word, "Gospel," means "good news."
The good news is the Bible, but the Bible is the letter. "The letter killeth, and the Spirit giveth
life." So Paul said, "The Gospel come not through Word only,
but through the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit."
Now notice, the only way that the Gospel could be preached then, would be to
manifest the power of the Holy Spirit. Then what's the next quotation?
"And (a conjunction)
these signs shall follow them that believe." Not these signs may follow them, they ought
to follow them, but they shall follow them that believe.
Then strictly speaking, a man cannot qualify himself as a believer until
this has happened. No church can have the right of calling
themselves a believing church until these signs has
followed them. That's what Jesus said. What is it doing? It's making the
Word manifest.
Now, listen brothers and
sisters, until your life is one with God and His Word is living in harmony
within you, and His Life is pulsating through your own heart, you can not say
you are truly a believer. Those are tough words but that is what brother
Branham is saying here. He is telling you that words, mere words are not
enough. There must be a confirmation of the Spirit of God bearing witness with
your spirit that you are a son or daughter of God. And that is what Paul tells
us in Romans 8.
Romans 8:8 So then they that are into self cannot please God. 9 But
ye are not in self, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he
is none of his. 10 And if Christ be
in you, the body is dead because of unbelief; but
the Spirit is life because of right-wise-ness.
11 But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal
bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you. 12 Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to self, to live after self. 13 For if ye
live for self, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 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. 16 The
Spirit (God's Spirit) itself bears
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And
if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together.
Notice the Apostle Paul is telling us that when you
have been truly born again, and the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, that it will make alive your mortal body and His Spirit,
The Spirit, God's Spirit will bear witness with your spirit.
So how does God's Spirit bear witness with your
spirit?
Who is this 59-1122 P:16
His Spirit dwells in
you; you take His nature; His Word is alive in you; everything He said is
"Amen." You'll not say, "The days of miracles is past, and no
such a thing as Divine healing," with the Spirit of the living God Who wrote the Bible in you. You can't do it. He will
vindicate Himself. Then when you see such things going on, you'll not
criticize that, you'll glorify God, because the very Spirit that wrote them and
is performing them will bear witness of them. That's the Spirit of the
church of the living God, the living God living in the living church. And
they are dead to sin and trespasses, and have been awakening in His likeness
and moved by His Spirit. Therefore, no matter what denomination you go to, if
you are born of His Spirit you have His nature in you.
Hebrews Chapter 2 part 1 57-0825M P:34 God always bears witness. Your life will bear witness. I
don't know what your testimony is, but your life speaks so loud, your voice
can't be heard. What your living, your every day life will testify what you
are. God bears witness. Yes, the Holy Spirit is a Seal, and a seal takes
both sides of the paper. They see you standing here and see you when you go
away, not only in church but at every day work. You're sealed on both sides:
inside and outside. By the joy that you have and by the Life that you live,
you're sealed in and outside. But you know you're saved, and the world knows
you're saved by the life that you live, for God bears witness.
Leading of the sprit 55-0807E P:14 Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God will always bear
witness of the Word being the truth.
Discerning body of Lord 59-0812 P:35 The best witness that we have that we got the Holy
Ghost is when our spirit bears record with the Word. If we call ourselves Christians and say
we're filled with the Spirit, and we see that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is
poured out on the believers for all ages, and our spirit tells us that's for
another age, you're wrong. That's right. When the Bible says
that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, if our spirit said,
"No, He's dead. He's gone on," there's something wrong. Jesus
said, "The works
that I do shall you do also. Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the world," and if
our spirit pulls back from that, we haven't got the Holy Ghost. For the
Holy Spirit will say "Amen" to every word He wrote.N ow, intellectual
knowledge will pull you away from it, but the Holy Spirit will say
"Amen" to His Own Word. He certainly will.
And He's seeking, and hunting, and trying to find someone that He can put
Himself into. He longs to find it.
So how does the Spirit of God bear witness with your
spirit? Because God will allow you to do what He does, showing you have His Nature, His Life. After all the word bear witness means to give proof
or evidence. So if God is in you giving a witness to your spirit, then God is
in you with an evidence, and a proof, backing up the fact that you are He are
one Just like Christ and God were one.
I do not understand why people who claim to be
Christian, and especially those who claim to believe this Message have so much
difficulty believing that God is the Word, and if that word is living and
abiding in you then there has got to me more than just silly theology to
identify what life is living and expressing itself out from you. That is why
brother Branham had no difficulty trusting God to do the things that he did in
his ministry.
That is why any true Believer,
those who are filled with God's Spirit know they are filled with God's Spirit.
They have seen the evidence in their life of the Supernatural God living and
expressing His Life in them. They know that they are born again. Not because
they sat under the right minister, the minister has nothing to do with it. If
you base your faith on what you have seen in another man's life, you are not
born again.
If you believe that Jesus is the Christ because your
church says so, you are not born again. if you believe
that Jesus is the Christ because your pastor said so, you are not born again.
If you say that Jesus is the Christ because you have seen Him change your Life,
and come in and live your life for you, then you are born again, and you have
seen His Spirit bearing witness with your spirit that you are a son of God.
That is why John
But the problem is that you fear peer pressure more
than you want to please God. As brother Branham said in Christ is the Mystery,
You let your wife or your husband or your boss, or your job, or your children
get it out of you, and interfere with what His Spirit wishes to do in you and
through you. And when you do that it shows the preeminence is not in there yet.
But when you can step forward and believe no matter what anyone else says, then God will begin to manifest His Life through your life.
Position in Christ 60-0522M P:83 For
ye haven't received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received the Spirit of a...
[Congregation says "adoption"--Ed.]Now, after you're adopted, all
right, after you're adopted, you're placed; then you understand, after the ceremony's said and you've been put into the Body correctly.
You're a son, sure, a daughter; when you're born again you're... That's your
birth. But now you're positionally placed. We've not received the spirit of fear...; but we have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father. (Which means, "my God." All
right.)The Spirit
itself bears witness with our spirit, that we're children of God: How does it do it? You say, "Glory to God. Hallelujah. It don't bother
me; I'm a child of God,"
and go out and do the things you do? The Spirit of God will do the works of God. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the works
that I do shall he do also." See, see?
Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:36 Now,
"He that abideth in
Me, he that, him
that was in My Root at the beginning..." That's the reason Jesus was
both the Root and Offspring of David. He was before David, in David, and after
David, both Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon,
and the Lily of the Valley, Alpha and Omega, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In
Him dwells the Fullness of the Godhead bodily, both Root and Offspring of
David. "He that is the elected Life, the predestinated Life
that's in Me (and He is the Word from the
beginning), when he comes forth he will bear My fruits."
God
identified by characteristics 64-0311 P:22 John
So what promise for
the age are we talking about? What promise for this age are
for you and I? What does the bible promise to the believer? Ephesians 1 and
Galatians 4 the Spirit of Adoption, for this is the hour for adoption. And Romans 8 the manifestation of God's sons on earth, and being
conformed to the image of the first born son, manifesting that obedient nature
of that real genuine first born son.
Christ
is the mystery 63-0728 P:273 Now, we
see the promise being fulfilled. Christ, the true Headship coming in His
Bride, doing the same works that He did at the beginning, and making ready,
and fulfilling His Word as He did at first in John
14:12: "He that
believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also."
Then the Head and the Body are becoming one in works and in sign and in
Life, vindicated by God Hisself through His promised
Word for the last days. He promised this in the last days. Now, if you're
spiritual, you'll catch it.
Christ
is the mystery 63-0728 P:137 You take
that hybrid corn. It's a pretty corn. But you plant it. What do you get? A
little stalk comes up like this and turns yellow and wilts down. That's the way
every denomination is when it's hybrid with man's words mixed with God's Word. It'll
come up to the signs and wonders and what Jesus said about believing the Word, and it
turns yellow and say, "We can't accept it," and go back.
Christ
is the mystery 63-0728 P: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.
Oh, brother if you are
not born again and filled with his Spirit, His nature, his Life, then those words ought to haunt you. for
what can you do with them except to disbelieve them because you don't see the
evidence in your life.
Now, this brings us to the Quote that helped us to turn the corner back
in our study on the Spoken Word is the original Seed.
Spoken
word original seed 62-0318M P:89 The works
that Jesus did--if a man has the Seed of God in him with
the Spirit of God watering that Seed, the same works that Jesus--was
manifested in Jesus, Him being the original Seed of God, His death brings
you back to the original Seed of God, and if the same Spirit that was within
Him is in you, then the same works will be manifested. You don't believe
that? All right, let's turn over to
Let us pray.