Christ is the Mystery no 144
Christian Life no 24
Believe Every Word
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This morning we will continue
with our study from Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed. Last night we read
from paragraph 228, so this morning we will begin with paragraph 229 where brother Branham says,
"Not say, "My church done..." My church has nothing to
do with it. It's an individual, one person. All hell is against this
teaching. All hell's against this truth, but it is the truth. Jesus never said,
"Now, Peter, you, and John, and all the rest of the people, now that
you've got the revelation now; the whole church is saved." No, it
was to him personally.
Then why in the world do
people believe that they are saved because God sent a prophet and gave Him
revelation. Isn't that what he's essentially saying here? He's saying the whole group was not saved because
God gave the revelation to Peter, and neither are those who follow William
Branham just because they believe he was given the revelation from God. You've
got to have that same revelation or you are lost. That's what he's saying.
Then brother Branham
continues, "I say unto thee ('thee,' not to them,) to
thee, thou art Peter, upon this rock I'll build My Church." And the
word "Peter," means "a stone"; "stone" means
"the confessed one, or the separated one." Upon a certain stone, upon
a certain thing (See?), a called out, the Church called out, upon this stone, upon
this revelation. "Flesh and blood never revealed it to you, but
upon this revelation (called out group) I'll build My Church
in them, and all the gates of hell will never be able to withstand it. Not
one hair of your head shall perish. You are Mine; I'll
raise you up in the last day, give unto him Eternal Life and raise him up at
the last days." There it is, the revelation.
Not them, but him, an individual: not a group, an individual.
All hell's against it.
Now, listen incase you are one of them who think he's talking about
himself here. he just told you the whole group isn't
saved because one is saved. The whole group isn't revelated
because one is revelated.
Now, Paul does tell us in Romans 5:12 Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed
upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For
until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Now listen, it is very apparent by what Paul is
saying here that you don't even have to have entered into the unbelief of the
one man Adam to suffer the consequences of His unbelief. because
he says, 14 Nevertheless death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned (that had not disbelieved) after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
From the translation called the VOICE we read, 13 Before God gave
the law, sin existed, but there was no way to account for it. Outside the law,
how could anyone be charged and found guilty of sin? 14 Still, death
plagued all humanity from Adam to Moses, even those whose sin was of a
different sort than Adam’s.
And
isn't that saying the same thing as Hebrews10:26
26 For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
So
if the sin is before the knowledge of the truth, then there is no way to
account for it. But if you sin willfully after you have come to a knowledge of
the truth, you will not ever be forgiven unless you can undo what you did, but
what are the chances of that happening to someone who knowingly snubbed the
blood of Jesus Christ and trod it under foot with their disrespect?
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many.
Let
me read it again from the VOICE 15 But the free
gift of grace bears no resemblance to Adam’s crime that brings a death sentence
to all of humanity; in fact, it is quite the opposite. For if the one man’s sin
brings death to so many, how much more does the gift of God’s radical grace
extend to humanity since Jesus the Anointed offered His generous gift.
Now,
how did the gift of that one man abound to many?
Because when he died, his spirit was released from that body and came back upon
many. They many, were baptized with the same Spirit of the One man when he the
one man gave up His spirit on
Romans 8:11 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 your mortal bodies
(plural) by
his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now,
back to Romans
16 His free gift is
nothing like the scourge of the first man’s sin. The judgment that fell because
of one false step brought condemnation, but the free gift following countless
offenses results in a favorable verdict—not guilty.
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by
one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by
the righteousness of one the free gift (the baptism of the Spirit) came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover
the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned
unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life
by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore, righteousness being defined as right-wiseness,
comes by revelation. Therefore you must have the same revelation and
the same Life of the one (Christ Jesus) for you to receive eternal life.
So we continue with
paragraph 230
where
brother Branham says, ... "But His
mystery is only revealed to His beloved Bride. That's the only one could
see it. He said, "Well did Isaiah speak of you, you
hypocrites, you snake in the grass. You go out here
and say, 'Oh, the great holy prophets, we mark their
tombs; we polish them.'" He said, "You're
the one that put them in there." Did He say it?
And don't they do it today?
They go to
Then brother Branham says, "Same
thing they'd say to the Catholic churches in their days. When they were sent
the prophets of the Old Testament before they had Nicaea, Rome, up there and
let them old prophets come out of there eating grubs and things out of the
ground not even with clothes on, with sheepskin wrapped around them and tried
to stand for that truth of the Bible... But the Catholic church
wanted their intellectual conception. Then they brought out... There come
St. Irenaeus, Polycarp, Martin, all the rest of them. And what did they do?
They put them in the tomb: Joan of Arc, St. Patrick and the rest of them. They
put them in there, and now come back and whiten the walls like they did in Joan
of Arc. What did they do? They put them in there.
231
May I say this. His Spirit calls unto you,
"whited walls, you hypocrites, calling yourself something when you take
the intellectual conception of men and leave the Word go, instead of come
pregnated with the Seed of God, the Word in you. You've taken every other
hybrid..."No wonder she set as a whore, because she commits spiritual
fornications, (now listen to his definition of spiritual fornication) teaching
the people things of man and not things of the God.
Like for instance what
things? Like saying "if God cant forgive
that sin what sin can he forgive?"
Now, back to brother
Branham, "But He said, "Fear
not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom."
That's right. Certainly. There we have it.
232 The Bible
in Revelations said this great city reigned over all the kings of the earth,
said she was a whore. What is that? A woman that claims to
be a lady and commits fornication.
She had a cup in her hand of toast to the world filled with the filthiness of
the abominations of her fornications. And she had daughters: the Protestant
churches. They every one come out of her with her same false doctrines, same
baptisms, and by shaking hands instead of the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
and their false doctrine of Father, Son, Holy Ghost and all of that instead of
taking the Name of the Bridegroom and so forth... You say, "It don't make any difference." It does. If I put my name on a check and say, "the Reverend,"
"the Minister," or so forth, that won't cash nothing. That's
right. It's turned down at the bank.
233 Notice,
All right. But all this mystery is revealed only as He promised to His
Bride. Hell is against this truth of the revelation of this
mystery. But the Bride is standing on it. That's Her
stand. Why do you hunger, Church? Why do you thirst? It's the Father trying to
reveal this hidden secret to you, but you let so many things get it out of you.
You let your job, you let your wife, you let your husband,
you let your children, you let the cares of the world, you let some
pastor, you let somebody else get that out of you, when you know
that way down in your heart you're a-thirsting, hungry. It's God trying to
reveal it to you (See?), the revelation. The last day is here.
234 Notice,
now, Let's look back again; I can't pass all of this.
See? I just want you to look here just a minute now, and we'll close just in a
few minutes. If you just give me your undivided attention for a minute.
235 Notice, Colossians
the 18th verse here, in the Book of Colossians,
18th verse. Now... "he is the head of the church, the body,... who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have
the preeminence". He is the Head of the Church which is His
Body, and He wants the preeminences. Listen
now. Listen close while we're going.
236 Watch. He is to be the Head of the Body,
His Bride's body, which is taken from Him, flesh and bone like in Adam (See?),
Bride, born from the dead (See?) that's born from the dead, sin of unbelief. What
killed Eve? Unbelief.
Is that right? The unbelief in what? What? For the unbelief in God? No, she had faith in God. Sure. Did
she say, "There is no God"? No, sir, she wasn't an infidel.
"Well," she said, "you know, I don't believe His Word at
all." Oh, no, she believed all but one little thing. See?
Now, listen carefully to
this next paragraph, because brother Branham says somethng
that is very important for us to hear.
237 Now,
didn't the Bible say over in the Book of Revelation--Jesus said Hisself, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things unto you. Whosoever
shall take one word from It or add one word to It..."
And what does the book of
revelations tells us? Take one word away and your name is
taken from the Book of Life, and add one word and you get the plagues
and tribulation.
"And
if all this heartache and sorrow had to come because a woman doubted one Word
of God, will He let you back doubting one Word? He'd be unjust.
See? See, that wouldn't be right. Condemned... Here's one man standing:
he caused all of his heartache because of one Word doubted, then he goes
ahead and takes years of experience and everything in the Bible and so forth
and the others who's give their lives for it and then say, "Oh, you can
go ahead and eat it. That's all right. I'll let you back anyhow." Oh,
God is no respecter of persons. See, see? God is no respecter of persons.
That's
like the guy who plans to commit adultery against his wife, and sleeps with
another woman, and then because his conscience bothers him he divorces his wife
and marries the woman he's been sleeping with, and then says, God will forgive
me, because I am so wonderful.
No,
I don't think so. I think you will end up in the lake of fire because you are a
shmuck, and you have trodden underfoot the Word of
God and done despite to the blood of Jesus Christ.
Oneness 62-0211 P:26 Now, let's think seriously, because we
never be able to think anymore after this, after this mortal life is over. Your
thinking is now. You cannot choose after this; you must choose now, for
this is the day of choosing, making your choice. Now she... One Word, not a
whole Decalogue, just one Word, she questioned God, because it was presented
to her in that light that that Word was questionable.
And
isn't that what they are doing when they say, "if
God can't forgive that what can he forgive? Oh, the prophet is too confusing,
so I have an excuse to not listen to what he said. Oh the prophet has been gone
for 50 years so how do we know what is right and what is wrong?
Now,
listen, brothers and sisters, he didn't lay up those tapes for something to do.
He laid them up so we would have spiritual food in due season, and we would
have the answers to our questions.
Notice
what brother Branham says next. "God's Word
cannot be questioned; He meant just what He said. But she questioned it because it was presented to her,
"Oh, God surely didn't mean that." But He did mean that.
God means every Word He says. And It
doesn't need any private interpretation. It's just the way He
said It. Well, you say, "How do you know about the Bible?" I
believe that my God has guided this Bible; He watches over His Word. He knowed
that atheists and infidels would rise in the last days, so He's watched over It. This is exactly the way God meant It. It's
the way It's to us now. Now, we must believe It. One Word off of It, and we lose our fellowship,
go off into death, eternal separation from
God, just as Adam and Eve did. We must believe God's Truth.
No,
you suppose brother Branham was just kidding here? Listen, when you begin to
doubt one little thing God says in this bible or on those tapes, that is the
minute you die right there. That is the minute you go one Word off, and that is
the slippery slope the devil wants you to take. Get you away from the Tapes so
he can confuse you even more with the Bible which has been debated by man for
centuries, because man does not want to take God literally for what he said.
Unfailing realities of God 60-0626 P:79 But the Holy Spirit will bring you back to
Pentecost, every time; they did in the Scripture to everybody, and it will in
this day to everybody. It'll bring you back to that reality. It'll
bring you back to a baptism of power of the Spirit, that'll lead you and
will never take one Word off the Bible. It'll stay right in the
Bible. Where It says this, it'll follow right on
through it. The Holy Spirit will. It brings a reality. What did He do?
He had to get these ignorant fishermen, didn't even have clothes, just
something wrapped around them, fish-aprons, and so forth, no clothes; so
ignorant they couldn't sign their name: unlearned, no education. But He found
somebody. He had to get somebody. But He found men in that kind of a state, that
was willing to surrender, that was willing... They had nothing else to
hold. They didn't have any churches, any denominations and anything. They were
just ignorant fishermen, sheepherders; didn't know how to write, didn't know
how to read, nor nothing. But they had nothing to
lose, and He got to them, and they surrendered. They said, "Whatever You say, Lord, we'll do it. We'll follow You."
In Revelations 22:18
we read, "For
I testify unto every man that heareth the words of
the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add
unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book
of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.
So don't mess with this Word brother or
sister. Leave it as it is. Find out what Word promises are yours for this hour.
And don't try to make it say something it doesn't say. That's where people go
off. And remember, one word off and your finished. Your adding to it will put
you in the tribulation, and your taking away from it takes your names out of
the book of Life. God don't want you to mess with His Word. Keep it just as He
said it.
2 Thessalonians 1: 7-12 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of
his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in
his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony
among you was believed) in that day. 11 Wherefore also we
pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all
the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work
of faith with power: 12 That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our
God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us pray...