Christ is the
Mystery no 160
A False
Unity
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This evening we will again
read a few Paragraphs
from brother Branham's sermon, Christ is the Mystery of God
Revealed, and we will look at what is currently taking place in the world of Religion,
concerning the false uniting of the Catholics with the protestant churches and
now especially the Pentecostals.
1 Timothy 4: 1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils; 2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a
hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and
commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and
nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and
prayer. 6 If
thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt
be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of
good doctrine, where unto thou hast attained
Christ is the
Mystery of God Revealed 249 Now, look, Notice now. United
together under one Headship in a like manner type of
250 One
God... How many gods did
251 And
in the Christian age there was one God which appeared in a form of a Pillar
of Fire to a prophet called Paul, who was sent to the Gentiles to take a
people out for His Name's sake. Is that right? And in the last days has come
down in like manner a-vindicating Himself (See?) in the same signs,
same wonder, same Pillar of Fire, same Gospel, same Word, same manifestation...
His Body will do the works that He promised, like in Mark 16 and so
forth.
252 His
body was not held in the grave, but was recognized with Him in the
resurrection. Do you get it? Then the Body of His believing children
will not be held in the grave when He comes, but will be recognized with Him,
because He died for the purpose to resurrect His Bride, the Body. Recognize,
because it is His Body, because it's the Word. It's so completely yielded
from denominations and things to Him, and He is the Word. See? And it's
recognized with Him because now we have the first-fruit of our resurrection by
know that we've passed from death unto Life, become prisoners of His, and God
proving to us by His personal Headship that He is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, by doing the same things through the Church that He did
then. He in me, and I in Him, and you, and you know, and so forth.
That's right. His body was not held in the grave, recognized with Him in the
resurrection, same as He is now.
253
Listen. Which means this: His Word (which He is)
has been, began to be risen. The Word that down through the age
of Luther, Wesley (See?) has begin to raise up
to its power. There it begin to move. Then it
moved a little more. Now, it's coming up to identification. See? Watch.
Now, to the Life in the Body is a vindication of the rapture is at hand.
When you see the Headship and the Body becoming one and the
Fullness of the measure of His manifestation, shows that the Body is about
ready to be received to the Headship.
254 "Nations
are breaking,
255 One more great remark I want to make, if I
have to move over a little of it. Now, notice. Listen to this. Now, is the
great thing. Now, is where we want to watch. Remember, in the last days will exactly go back
and vindicate the first day. See? Adam and Eve, husband
and wife, no sin, life, then the fall. Notice.
Notice closely (twist her up).Notice, what caused it? Lucifer.
Lucifer is doing now as he did at the first time. Just as the kingdom of the
Gentiles was brought in with King Nebuchadnezzar--vindicated the Gentile
race by a prophet who could interpret unknown tongues, visions, dreams. And
it's come down through the Gentiles without anything, just Medes-o-Persians and
iron and so forth, and in the feet it goes out the same way again: the Gentile
kingdom.
The Token 64-0208 59 Likewise, we must remember that God is
long-suffering, not willing that any should perish. He always sends His signs,
His wonders. And then when He gets ready to do anything, He separates the
believer from the unbeliever. And notice then how He provided for His
promised-land people. Look what He did for His promised-land people there, to
be sure that they would not be mixed up in some kind of an ism. What did He do?
He sent a prophet to them, Moses, with a message identifying God's Word.
And to identify Moses, He sent a Pillar of Fire that hung over him.
Amen. Then to give him the perfect assurance, He required a token. Amen.
There's a messenger, the message, and the vindication, and the token,
the perfect assurance that they had nothing to worry about. No matter
how many plagues strike, what everybody else says they are sealed away.
Then this separation begins a warfare, a Spiritual warfare. It always
dos. Even back in the Garden when Abel's sacrifice was
received because He had revelation of what the Trumpet was, and Cain did not.
Cain became jealous and what happened? A warfare
began. The first thing Cain did was to dispute with God and then with Abel.
Then after the dispute, he killed Abel. Warfare!
Testimony
of a true witness 61-1105 P:83 And one of the very first signs of Christianity, is he refused to kill a
man. That's right. And you can kill a man in more ways than just sticking
him with a knife; speak against his character, many ways you can do it.
But in every age God send a revelation for that age,
and jealousy arises among those who can not receive it, and war break out. It
is the same in every age, and I can prove it by the Word of God. Look at Jacob
and Esau. Revelation received by one and rejected by the other. A
dispute breaks out, then warfare, then one tries to
kill the other. Look at Joseph and His
Brothers, Revelation received, the same revelation rejected. A dispute breaks
out and then warfare. They try to do away with him. The same in Moses day, The
same in Daniel's day, The same in Elijah's day, and the same in David's day,
and in fact we find this example entirely throughout the scriptures from
Genesis through Revelations.
A Revelation is given, a dispute takes place over that
revelation, warfare breaks out, and then one who couldn't receive the
revelation tries to kill the one who received it. Right plum back, all the way
back to when Satan disputed with Michael.
Now, back to Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed,
where brother Branham says in paragraph 256 Notice, Lucifer in the last days is doing as he did at
first. What did Lucifer do? The first thing that Lucifer done to separate the
fellowship of God and man, he wanted to build him a united kingdom of greater
splendor and seemingly more cultured, a greater kingdom than Michael, Christ
had. You got it? Now, now, if you miss it, just hold up your hand and I'll say
it again. You see? See? Lucifer at the beginning, his purpose in heart was
to achieve a brighter and greater thing in heaven than Christ had (Is that
right?) by seemingly a more cultured, more beautiful, more splendor than the
257 Now, the
big fancy intellectual denominations are doing the very same thing, gathering
themselves together to do the same thing. See?
They are gathering and denominating themselves, each one trying to beat the
other. And now they got so much splendor they don't know what to do
but to unite it with the Catholic church. See?
Lucifer again building a bigger kingdom to push out people that don't believe
in denominations, and even take their church buildings and make storerooms,
and the pastors of such has no rights at all.
And a man that is a God-sent man would never stay in a denomination after
hearing this or seeing it, if he's got enough to go out and look at it. Certainly. See? I don't say that critically; I say that
truthfully (See?) to see that revealed.
Here is the translation of Pope Francis sermon on
Saturday at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The evening
prayer service took place at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in
"Has Christ been divided?" (1 Corinthians 1:13). The urgent appeal which Saint Paul makes at the beginning
of his First Letter to the Corinthians, and which has been proclaimed at this
evening’s scripture reading, was chosen by a group of our fellow Christians in
Canada as the theme for our meditation during this year’s Week of Prayer.
The Apostle was grieved to learn that the
Christians of
Paul could not even praise those who
claimed to belong to Christ, since they were using the name of the one Saviour
to set themselves apart from their other brothers and sisters within the
community. In other words, the particular experience of each individual, or an
attachment to certain significant persons in the community, had become a
yardstick for judging the faith of others.
Amid this divisiveness, Paul appeals to
the Christians of Corinth "by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" to be in agreement, so that
divisions will not reign among them, but rather a perfect union of mind and
purpose (cf. v. 10). The communion for which the Apostle
pleads, however, cannot be the fruit of human strategies. Perfect union
among brothers and sisters can only come from looking to the mind and heart of
Christ (cf. Phil 2:5). This evening, as we gather here in prayer, may we realize that Christ, who
cannot be divided, wants to draw us to himself, to the sentiments of his heart,
to his complete and confident surrender into the hands of the Father, to his
radical self-emptying for love of humanity. Christ alone can be the
principle, the cause and the driving force behind our unity.
As we find ourselves in his presence, we
realize all the more that we may not regard divisions in the Church as
something natural, inevitable in any form of human association. Our divisions
wound Christ’s body, they impair the witness which we
are called to give to him before the world. The Second
The work of these, my predecessors,
enabled ecumenical dialogue to become an essential dimension of the ministry of
the Bishop of
In this climate of prayer for the gift of
unity, I address a cordial and fraternal greeting to His Eminence Metropolitan Gennadios, the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarch,
and to His Grace David Moxon, the representative in
Rome of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the representatives of the
various Churches and Ecclesial Communities gathered here this evening. With
these two brothers representing everyone, we have prayed at the Tomb of Paul
and have said to one another: "Let us pray that he will help us on this
path, on this path of unity and of love, as we advance towards unity".
Unity will not come about as a miracle at the very end. Rather, unity comes
about in journeying; the Holy Spirit does this on the journey. If we do not
walk together, if we do not pray for one another, if we do not collaborate in
the many ways that we can in this world for the People of God, then unity will
not come about! But it will happen on this journey, in each step we take. And
it is not we who are doing this, but rather the Holy Spirit, who sees our
goodwill.
Dear brothers and sisters, let us ask the
Lord Jesus, who has made us living members of his body, to keep us deeply
united to him, to help us overcome our conflicts, our divisions and our
self-seeking; and let us remember that unity is always better than conflict!
And so may he help us to be united to one another by one force, by the power of love which the Holy Spirit
pours into our hearts
(cf. Rom 5:5).
Amen."
[Original text: Italian]
What is taking place
now is this: the Catholic church mistakes unity by the
Word of God with unity via organization. she is trying
to organize back the churches ho left her to strengthen her position in the
world of geo-politics.
Brother Branham said
in his sermon, I will restore 57-0309B P:25 Then during the
dark age, they come forth with an organization. They come forth with a manmade
policy. The locusts begin to fly then. The same devil that broke up brotherhood
is trying to break the unity of man. And they made their first organization,
and that was the Catholic church. God's church never
was organized until Catholicism. And then it was a forcing, that you had
to do it or they pulled them apart with ox, they burned them, they fed them to
lions, they done everything. And they forced in a false unity.
The locusts begin to sting. And it's too bad... After the caterpillar had got
into the Pentecostal church and broke up the brotherhood, then the locusts come
around after that, and begin to...?... to organize different little groups
to break up our unity. That's one of the destroyers.
232-1 THYATIREAN.CHURCH.
Now, although this preacher who calls himself Bishop
Tony Palmer, he says it is the doctrine that causes division, and that is
right, but then he says, quotes Jesus saying, I give them the glory that we may
be one, it is the glory not the doctrine that makes us one. But he does not
understand that the word Glory is the values, opinions, and judgments, that is the doctrine, the True doctrine in reality not in
theology. But he says the doctrine is not important, we will sort that out on
the other side, and he has a different understanding of the Glory, as though it
is some divine issuance of God, but God is the Word. anyway,
he is very smooth and the Pope is even smoother and since the world seeks not
truth but feelings, this is how the people will fall for the great deception. '
Now, let's watch Now, let's
watch the video and notice how slick he uses Malachi 4, and speaks of the
Spirit of Elijah and calls it the spirit of reconciliation of the children back
to the fathers. Not back to the Pentecostal church Age Fathers, there doctrine
and the power that was in that church, but the Pope he is pointing to, which is
total heresy but then the Pope talks and says he comes to talk from the heart
to the hearts of the children. What a setup, and as the Bible says, "The end time deception is geared to the gullibility of them
that perish."
The Wuest Translation says that this deception is
geared to the gullibility of those who are perishing and that this gullibility
is caused by the fact that they did not have a love for the Truth.
2 Thess 2: 10-12 "Of every kind of
wicked deception geared to the gullibility of those who are perishing. This
gullibility being caused by the fact that they did not accept the love for the
Truth to the end that they might be saved. And because
of this God sends them a deluding influence resulting in their believing the
lie, in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth but
took delight in wickedness."
So if they are geared that means they were made that
way. I like his illustration of them that are perishing are geared to the
gullibility which if you understand what a gear is, it is made in such a way
that it fits itself to the gullible delusion. And in the Book of Romans Paul
said, Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his
wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the
vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
1 Timothy 4: 1 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to
marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,
which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe
and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received
with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the
word of God and prayer. 6 If thou put the brethren in
remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good
minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good
doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Notice Satan's Messengers masquerading as angels of
Light which is exactly what the Apostle Paul told us would take place in 2 Cor 11: 13-15 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.14 And no
marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.15 Therefore
it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to
their works.
Paul calls them those super fine apostles more
righteous than God is righteous, but false to the bone, and look what they did
to the early church as we see in verse 1. Would
to God ye could bear with me a little in my
folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For
I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one
husband, that I may present you as a chaste
virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he
that cometh preacheth another Jesus, (allos: a totally different Jesus) whom we have not preached, or if
ye receive another spirit, (heteros,
one of a different nature) which ye have not
received, or another gospel, (heteros,
one of a different nature) which ye have not
accepted, ye might well bear with him. (you just seem to put up with it).
Gal 1:6-9 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from
him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
(that's
heteros or one of a different nature) 7 Which is not another; (Allos: which is not totally
a different one) but there be some that trouble you,
and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (Notice not a different Gospel but a perversion of the
real) 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have
received, let him be accursed.
Mark 7:7-9 Howbeit in vain do
they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the
tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many
other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full
well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
They reject the Word of God in favor of their own
teachings. And what does this do? It voids the power of the Word in their
lives. Thus they crucify the Word to themselves.
Hebrews 6: 4 For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If
they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him
to an open shame.
Notice they can't crucify God who is a spirit but they
can crucify the Word to themselves, and that is exactly what they do, making it
of no use to them by their own traditions and creeds.
2 Thess
We are to receive His Glory in the saints in this
hour. The very mind of God in us.
Ephesians 1:17 17 That the God
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his
calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
let us pray...
Now, if we have time let's watch the video at http://branham.org/20140223_United