Christ is the
Mystery no 168
Independent
of all others
Brian Kocourek, pastor
This morning we will examine
paragraph 287-288 of Branham Branham's
sermon Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed,
and you will notice that brother Branham speaks of the bride as being
independent.
287 She, the Bride, is independent from all others. She's
a independent woman, a great speckled bird that's different from all
others. You remember the Bible on that: the great speckled bird, but she had
His Name. She had His Life, for the...How did they speckle the bird? They were
both white, and then they pulled the head off of one bird and drained the blood
out upon the other bird. And the other bird was speckled with the red blood,
and it flopped its wings like this, and the blood cried,
"Holy, holy, holy" as it bathed the ground. So Christ, the dead Mate,
put His Blood (His Blood from His Life) into us, sprink--carrying His Blood crying, "Holy, holy,
holy unto the Lord." It's an odd looking bird. Sure it is. But She, the Bride, is identified by Him, and She's
independent from all others, "Keep thee only unto her as
long as you both live." Keep thee only to Him, the Word:
no adultery, not one sign of denomination, not one sign of creed, no
adultery at all, the Word and Him alone. "On Christ the solid rock I
stand, all other grounds is sinking sands," said Eddie Perronett.
288
That's in Christ, the Word. He was the Word; He is the Word. And the
Church becomes Word by Him making Her a part of Him,
and that's the Word again. Personally identified by Him, His property
alone, His property alone: She is
redeemed by Him, through Him, for Him and for Him alone. That's right.
Notice
brother Branham said, no. 1 We
are redeemed by Him, and no. 2 we
are redeemed through Him, and no. 3 we are redeemed for Him, for Him alone
I think I would like to take an entire message on those three points,
but this morning I would like to focus our th9oughts on just one point and that
is that we must be independent in our walk if we are to follow the Pillar of
Fire.
Hear ye Him 58-0328 P:67 He never did work completely through an organization. He works through
men, individuals. And every man that ever raised
up was independent from organizations. Look through the Scriptures; search
the history, and find if that's right or not. Every time the organization
church was against the moving of the Spirit, every time. Search the Scriptures;
search the history; find out. Through Moody, Sankey,
Finney, Knox, Calvin, any of them you wish to, men of
God who is raised up, has been that way. You have to stand alone.
The prophets in the Bible when they was raised up
contrary to their belief, but God went right ahead with His message anyhow.
If you have ever studied the scriptures, you will see that every man of
God that was ever used by God had to stand alone. They were never accepted by
the majority, or by the religious establishments of their day. They stood
against those organizations, and they stood alone with God.
Abraham had to walk alone, and he is the father of our faith. Moses had
to walk alone, and even sometimes those who followed him took up stones to
throw at him. You think God saved those people? I don't. Only Those who were faithful to Moses did God allow to enter into
the promised land, and all the rest died in that wilderness.
Then look at Elijah, and Elisha how they had to stand all alone. And
what About Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Micaiah and
Ezekiel, they all had to stand alone with God. It was them against the world or
so it seemed. daniel stood alone, and so did Shadrack,
Meshak and Abednego who had to stand alone in the
fiery furnace. But they were not alone, for God was with each of them. For did
not he promise in Hebrews 13:5 "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
And we find things no different with the apostle Paul who said in, 2 Timothy
2 Timothy
And people yet even today for whatever motives they have, seem to do the
same thing when the going gets tough. But they should take heed for brother
Branham said in his sermon, Identification 63-0123
P:91 Paul, when
the popular world-loving Demas, forsaken him for his Christian so-called brethren
of the popular opinion? When Paul stood on the Word, Demas left him,
loving this present world, left him because that he was true to the Word.
It was too straight for him. Who would you go with? Demas?
Or would you go with Paul? Check the Word. What side would you take in your
present state at that time? Yet them was professed
Christians. Paul said, "All men has forsaken me."
Poor little guy...I always was alarmed at Dr. Ern
Baxter. He said, "You know, when I get up to heaven the first thing I'm
going to do?" And I said, "What is it, Brother Ern?"
He said, "I'm going to walk right up to Demas and slap him in the face as
hard as I can." I said, "Now, Ern." He
said, "I'm going to say, 'Why did you leave Paul down there like
that?'" I said, "You really think he'll be there, Ern?" I said, "Be careful of your desire
to slap him in the face." I said, "I wouldn't want to be where
he was at, maybe (See?) have to do that."
And
what about Noah. The Bible says, Hebrews
11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things
not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which
is by faith.
So Noah had to stand
al alone with just his family when the entire world came against him and his
message. But God was with him, because he alone is the Faithful one.
And
what of Abraham. Hebrews 11:8 tells us, By faith Abraham, when he was called to go
out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and
he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in
the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him
of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city
which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is
God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself
received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was
past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore
sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so
many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in
faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and
were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth.
14 For
they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And
truly, if they had been mindful of that country
from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But
now they desire a better country, that is, an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he
hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham,
when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was
able to raise him up, even from the dead; from
whence also he received him in a figure. 20 By faith Isaac
blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith
Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and
worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 22 By
faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the
children of
And look at our Lord Jesus who was forsaken by all, and even the leader
of his flock Peter denied him three times when he needed him most because he
was going thorugh his greatest floggings and
tortures.
Leadership follow me 65-1031A P:55 And
sometime Satan might come along and cause them to be discouraged, but,
remember, You went through the same thing, discouragement, forsaken by men
of this earth and people. And sometimes very dearest of friends, even to
relationships we're forsaken. But there is One
that we have chosen; He'll never leave us or forsake us. Lead us, Lord,
to Life Eternal. I pray that You'll grant that we can
come together many more times on earth, and speak of Thee and talk of Thee. And
then in that great day, when the world is finished and all the time has faded
into eternity, may we meet in that great Kingdom as unbroken families to live
together hereafter forever. Grant it, Lord. Until then, may we work, labor with
all of our might, while the sun is still shining. For we ask it in Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters,
or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,
for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit
everlasting life.
Matthew 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto
him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have
therefore?
And even God himself has been forsaken on many accounts throughout the
ages as we see in. Jeremiah 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked
after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Does God change His mind 65-0418E P:40
Rising of the sun 65-0418M P:79 Did you ever see how independent an old eagle walks? He don't hop like a vulture (See?) to every dead and all the
carrion laying on the ground. No, sir. He walks proud.
"Shut your mouth." "Oh, here's a good dinner over here." "Not
for me. My desires is changed; my appetite is
different, for man shall not live on the world of carrion alone, but by
every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." A genuine quickened
eagle lives by that. Amen.
Identified masterpiece of God 64-1205 P:66 Now, God, the Word, in the beginning He was independent from everything
else, all other people. Now, I don't mean to say this to be different. God is a
segregationalist. You know that? You talk about
integration; God's a segregationalist. He
certainly does. He separates His people from the world. He separated
Look away to Jesus 63-1229E P:98 Luther looked away from the Catholic denomination. What did he see? A Pillar of Fire. He saw an independent church.
Wesley looked away from the Anglican denomination. He saw the same thing.
The Pentecost looked away from all the denominations. What did it become? A great mighty people. What did each one of them do? When
the founders, Luther, and Wesley and them, and when they looked away and saw what
they did and started out, their children coming behind them, looked back to
where they come from--out of the denomination--and took that group of
people right back into the same mess that they come out of. What are you
looking at? The founders looked right, but the people following them looked
back to what the founders come out of, and done exactly what the
founders was against, the anointed ones of God.
Conferences 63-0608 P:91 Oh, brother. I wish I had just a little more time. The time's coming when
you're either going to put your organization into the World Council of
Churches, you'll... If you do that you take the image of the beast, 'cause you
got a power just like it was in
Uncertain sound 60-1218 P:110 Now, He can provide Himself a Church; He don't have to have me. He don't have to have you. No, He don't.
He doesn't have to have that. He can provide. Somebody else can take your
place. Be careful some don't take your crown. He don't have to have us, but
we have to have Him. If you ever lived, you've got to have Him. Because
He's the only One, as Peter said when He said, "Will you all go?" So
when He got to tell them the Truth. He was a great Man when He was healing all
their sick. Oh, when He had signs and wonders following Him, He was a great