Christ is the Mystery no 188
Attributes of a son of God no 2
Brian Kocourek, pastor
Wednesday evening we began the review of 23 sermons we
preached during our study of Brother Branham's sermon, Christ is the Mystery of
God Revealed, and we got through the first 10. This morning we will pick up at
number 11 in this mini series, and continue our review.
To begin we will go to Christ
is the Mystery no 79 Attributes of a
Son of God no 11 They are born of an
incorruptible Word.
Here we used as our text 1 Peter
Notice peter mentions here there are two
new kinds of being
born again. One he tells us is "born of a corruptible seed", which is man's words, like all denominational so called
new births, where the person turns over a new leaf, but they are not born by
the Word of God which is correct new birth as Peter goes on to say being born again of an incorruptible seed,
by the Word of God,
which is being born of and by the Word which is a Seed, the vindicated Word,
the Revealed Word Seed of God.
We then
examined these two births, and showed mainly how one is a corruptible seed,
resulting in a temporary birth, bringing forth a temporary life, one that
doesn't last at all. It goes from revival to revival, from altar call to altar
call. But the Birth by the Incorruptible seed, is
eternal. That life can not die. It can not fade away. It can not diminish. It
will last forever.
Brother Branham said in, Abraham 55-0608 P:61 If a seed goes in the ground, a grain of
wheat, it cannot produce anything else but a grain of wheat. So if you
go around, say, "Well, praise the Lord, I've been
saved. I've got the Holy Ghost." And living any kind of a life, you
better get back to the altar of God again, 'cause the incorruptible Seed of
God cannot be one thing. You cannot be a wheat and a
cocklebur at the same time. You've got to either be a wheat
or a cocklebur. You all got cockleburs down here? All right, greenbriar then, ever what you want to call it, some other
weed. You see? You can't be a weed and a wheat at
the same time. If you got the spirit in you of the life of wheat, you'll
produce wheat. If you've got the spirit in you of the life of a cocklebur, it'll
be a cocklebur. And if the Holy Ghost is in you, you'll believe God, love
God, and act like a Christian. That's right. If it isn't, you'll know them by the fruits they bear. Oh, what we need today is a good old time
Holy Ghost revival. What we need today is an old time shaking again of the
power of God, a moving of the mulberry bushes to go forward to battle again.
God's giving the moving, if people will just listen to it and believe it.
Now, I want you to notice brother
Branham here is speaking of the Law of Life which we see in Genesis 1:1 "every seed must bring forth after it's kind." And all this tells us is that whatever
the seed is, it has a certain life that has certain characteristics. And those
characteristics are a part of that life, so whatever Seed-Life you plant. What
comes up will have to have the same characteristics and nature of the Seed Life
that was planted.
From His sermon, The Spoken word original seed 62-0318M P:90 brother
Branham said,
"What is it? Same seed. How can you plant wheat
here and wheat here and say, "I'm going to get cucumbers here and wheat
here?" You can't do it. The only way you're going to get cucumbers is
plant cucumbers. If you hybreed it, then it won't be a cucumber. It'll
be a hypocrite. Is that right? It'll be a hypocrite, friends. This...
You've got to say it. It isn't neither one. Isn't
cucumber or what you bred it with. It's a crossbreed, and it is a bad product,
and it's dead in itself, and it can't breed itself back no more. It's dead
right there--back, won't go no farther. That finishes it; that's all. But if
you want a cucumber, start with a cucumber. If you want a church, start with
the Word of God. If you want a Life of God, start with the Word of
God. Accept the Word of God in Its fullness, every measure of It. And then that's... And if that is the fullness of God in
you, then the rain that's falling will produce exactly what's in your garden.
See?
So incorruptible Word
Seed will produce incorruptible Word Seed Life.
1 Peter 3:4
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
So the seed is planted in the heart.
That is why Brother Branham said I would rather your heart be right than your
doctrine, because if your heart is right, then when you plant the doctrine in
that heart that is right, the doctrine will produce the same life as the Seed
that was planted. But what if you got a wrong heart? Then the seed planted,
will not be intellectual Seed with no life in it. And it will produce
intellectual life.
From
his sermon, Law having a shadow
54-1203 P:69 brother Branham said, "For a grain of corn cannot produce a
cockleburs; neither can cockleburs produce corn. And if you're sowed with the
incorruptible Seed of God, born again of the Spirit of God you're whole motive,
everything in your whole life goes towards God. In the day when Noah turned
the crow loose, he was a bird set right on the ark, set in the ark right on the
same floor with the dove. He could fly just as far as the dove. He could make a
noise like the dove. But when they turned them loose... The crow was a
scavenger. He could fly from one dead body to the other one and satisfy
himself. But the dove could not satisfy herself. She flew back to the ark and
pecked on the window, until father Noah opened the window. She was a dove. A
dove is a bird that doesn't have any gall. It cannot digest rotten things.
Notice how bother Branham brings out the
differences in the very nature and characteristics of a Dove verses the Crow and
shows how they would act differently even though both sat in the same ark together.
I will restore 54-0809A P:35 Jesus said, "Every Word of God is a Seed." Is that
right? A sower went forth sowing seed. He said,
"I, the Son of man, has sowed the Seed, and the seed's the Word of God."
And every time you see this Bible say anything, it's a Seed, and it's
absolutely... And we're sowed with the incorruptible Seed of God. And if a man
will take any Divine promise of God in his heart and water it with faith, it'll
produce just exactly what it said it would do. Amen. Don't care what it is.
Just take God's promise in your heart and there...
Notice that the seed is sown in his
heart and it is in the heart that the Life will come forth into manifestation
first. Then when the what is in the heart overflows it
flows over into the body and becomes manifest outwardly what is in the heart.
Matthew
So we see the condition of the
heart makes a big difference on your hearing, recognizing and acting upon the
Word. Thos who did not understand what they heard, the Word Seed life ended up
dying in that individual one way or another. Either trials
on one hand or pleasures and distractions on the other. That Word died in them
whether they had pressure or no pressure at all, because they did not
understand the Word that they heard. They heard but they did not hear, they did
not understand.
And from his
sermon, Seal of God 54-0514 P:70
brother Branham said, "When a grain of wheat falls into the earth, no
matter... If that grain of wheat dies to itself, it can't produce a
cocklebur, to save its soul. A grain of wheat will bring forth a grain of
wheat, just as sure as anything. And if we are sowed with the incorruptible
Seed of God, how can It produce anything but a life of
Christ's Life? The Holy Spirit leading the Church,
leads It in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and you're sealed
until the day of the redemption. That's the Bible. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby
you're sealed until the day of your redemption." Ephesians 4:30."
So we see the characteristic of the
believer is that of the incorruptible seed, in other words being incorruptible,
it can not perish and we see this in John 3:15-16 That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Why cry speak 63-0714M P:66 ...there's only one real church, and you
don't join it; you're born in it. See? And if you're born in it, the living
God works Himself through you, and makes Himself
known. See? That's where God dwells: in His church. God goes to church
everyday: just lives in church; He lives in you. You're His church. You are His
church. You're the tabernacle that God dwells in. You are the church of the
living God yourself. And if the living God lives in His living being, then
your action is of God. If it isn't, then God isn't in there.
He wouldn't make you act like that when He says in the Word here, His
blueprint, "Don't do it," and you go do it. See, that's wrong. When
you deny it, that shows the Life isn't even in you.
See? That's right.
Why cry speak 63-0714M P:20 I think any man or woman, boy or girl...
And I think in the intellectual conception of what they think the Word is and
so forth, never can have a full foundation stand until they have met that
Light that brings that Word to a reality. I think no church in its
practice, no matter how intellectual and fundamental it might be, that church
cannot thrive until the supernatural is made known among that people,
and they see it, something that they can talk to that'll talk back to
them that a-vindicates this written Word.
Why cry speak 63-0714M P:49 The real Christian believer today, no matter what the church
says, what anybody else says, when that Light strikes it, they see the very
vindication of God, that Pillar of Fire hanging there, and the signs and
wonders that promised, the Scripture being laid in it, it comes to Life.
No matter how little it is and how many in the minority; God's group has
always been the minority. See? "Fear not little, little flock, it's
your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." See? They catch it. God is
obligated to send them in from every denomination, every order, everywhere, to
see it, if they are ordained to Life.
So you see, you can not get around the fact that if
you are lit up by God you will do the works of Christ and you will see the reality
of the Word as It vindicate Itself in you and through
the life you are living. And you will not care whether the rest of the church
sees what you're seeing or not. You see God's presence vindicated in your life,
and you do not need others to see it to make you believe it. Their unbelief
won't have any affect on your belief.
When their eyes were
opened 56-0420 P:7 What is sin? Unbelief.
Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, lying, stealing, that's not sin. That's
the attributes of sin. You do that because you're an unbeliever. If you was a believer you wouldn't do that. See? Just because you
quit drinking, and quit smoking, and quit drinking, and committing adultery,
that doesn't make you a Christian. You're a Christian because you are a
believer. See? You are a sinner be... You do the things that you ought not,
because the life that's in you makes you do it. A tree's known by its fruit.
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a
rock. 26 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and doeth
them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house
upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall
of it.
Notice then to hear and not do makes you just a
fool, but to hear and do
makes you a believer. And notice the same tests will come to both the fool and
the believer, but only the believer will stand the test. But the test will be
the undoing of the fool. Notice this shows the difference between the wise
virgin and the foolish virgin. They both heard the
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 80 Attributes of a
Son of God no 12 They will echo
God's Word and Christ's life.
We
took our thoughts from pp. 188 of brother
Branham's sermon, Christ is the Mystery of God
Revealed, where he said, By having the revelation of His secret made known to
them by His grace, how the grace of God... People, I know it. I hope you don't
think this sounds personal to a bunch of people, or this, that, but the secret
that God is sharing with the whole Church, if they would just receive it.
See? It doesn't mean just me or just you; it means the Church, that He's trying to get into it. And you say,
"Well, why don't they receive it?" They can't receive it. He
said these things. And how could they? Because Isaiah said they can't see
it, See?
Now, what brother Branham as referencing
here is Isaiah 6:9 So let's
read it for ourselves. "And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not. 10 Make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert,
and be healed.
Now, we find Jesus Himself quoting from
Isaiah in Matthew
Now, notice here, the disciples couldn't
understand why Jesus when speaking to others who were not his disciples, he
seemed to speak to them using stories. And so they said, Why
do you speak unto them in parables? Now, in Mark
In Matthew
Notice Jesus is talking about grace
here, unmerited favor with one group verses all others. And then in verse 12 he tells them something else that is
most important in understanding why one group can understand while the other
group can not understand. He says, "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away
even that he hath."
Now, notice that Jesus says the reason
why one group is given is because they "hath" and therefore they have more abundantly, while the
other group does not "hath"
and therefore those things they think they "hath" are taken from them as well.
Now, the King James version
really messed up the translation of this verse, because it sounds like when you
are reading this that certain ones are given because they have? And I have to
admit it sounds backwards to me. Should it not have read,
the ones who have, have because it was given to them? But still that is not what
this verse says at all. But if you think because you are good at the Kings
English you can read your Bible, forget it. There must be revelation or else
anyone could read it and thus get it. But we know that unless you're born again
you can not understand the things of God. That is what Jesus told Nicodemus in
John chapter 3, he said, "unless you are born again you can not see or
understand the
Now, we know according to 1
Corinthians 2 that we are given the Holy Ghost in order to know and
understand the things of God. But notice Jesus says you who hath, and that
Greek word for hath is echo. So Jesus is saying " For
whosoever is made of such a nature as to echo, to him shall be given more, and
he shall have more abundance:but whosoever is not
made in such a way as to be able to echo, from him shall be taken away even
that which he thinks he is echoing.
Now, I hope you are getting what I am
talking about here. This scripture speaks of the reason they have more
abundance, is because they are able to echo what is said, and when you echo
something you have it not one time, but you have it over and over and over
again just like an echo does. Now, I hope you understand why brother Vayle
could say, "they got
it but don't got it." Because even that which they think they were echoing they really were not
echoing. They thought
they had it but they didn't. They thought they were saying it right but they
weren't.
Therefore, unless you are born again,
you will never understand this Message, and therefore how in the world are you
going to be able to reflect it, echo it in your life, or even manifest this
Word if you don't even have a clue what it is that you are supposed to be
echoing.
Now, forgive me for this, I told myself over
and over again that I am going to try to be nice, but I can't help it.
Scripture is Scripture, and when people can't even understand what it is they
are reading how in the world are they going to be able to reflect or echo it?
Now, back to Matthew
So there has to be a reason why two
people can look at the very same Word and get two different ideas of what its all about. And he tells us in the next verse.
15 For
this people's heart is waxed gross, (now, the word translated waxed gross was translated from a Greek word which
means to stupefy, or to become callus. In other words, their hearts have become hardened, and with a hardened heart brothers and
sisters you will never make it. We had better become soft and supply in our
hearts or you are never going to finish this race.) And brother Branham said
what calluses our hearts is the things of the world.
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 87 Attributes of a
Son of God no 13 They will hold to
vindication above all other ministries. The problem I have seen in
this message is that people will hold to the word of their pastor or teacher,
and set aside what was given to us by a vindicated prophet, and that is totally
wrong.
In his sermon, Proving His Word 64-0816 P:31 brother Branham
said, "Now, it is possible that staunch
Christians, fine people, hold, sometimes hold to the wrong thing thinking it is
right. But then these things should be proven, whether they are right or
wrong. And it's the duty of all of us, as we are expecting to go to heaven
when Jesus comes... And it's the minister's duty, when any question is brought
up, that he solves this out, and then proves it before the people, that
they might understand, because no one wants to be found wrong, holding to the
wrong thing. So we have a Scripture and Jesus said, "all Scriptures must be fulfilled." that we should prove all things.
And then, "hold
fast," or,
"hold tight,
get a death grip on it, and don't turn it loose, hold fast to that which is good."
From Trying to do God a service
65-0718M P:100 Brother Branham said, The vindicated Word of the day of Isaiah,
Elijah, John, all, was Jesus. And the vindicated Word today is Jesus, the same
yesterday, today, and forever. Help us, Lord, to believe that, see that, and
walk in it. We ask in Jesus' Name.
Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high
priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold
fast our profession.
Hebrews Chapter 4
57-0901E P:79 Seeing then that we have a great high priest,... that has
passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
confessions."
Hold fast," that don't mean just keep testifying. If you don't live the
life, you don't hold it fast. You're living a hypocritical thing. You'd
better be on out and just say you're a sinner and
forget about it. Don't profess a Christian and live something else; you're
the biggest stumbling block the world's ever had. If you're a sinner, admit
it and go on, get right with God. If you're a Christian, hold fast your
confession; stay there.
2 Thessalonians
In QA on
Genesis COD 53-0729 P:68 Brother Branham said, "Now,
if you want to know what... How many would like to know what the Christian Rest
is, say "Amen." Now, you can mark it if you want to: Isaiah 28. He said, "Precept must be upon precept--precept," speaking. "Precept upon precept, line upon line, here a
little and there a little, and hold fast to that what's good," the prophet speaking of the time
coming about Rest, sabbath.
Read the whole chapter (You see?); he's saying, "Times there when the sabbath day will be done away,"
and they'll sell shoes on the Saturday the same as they did it on Monday, or
what ever more. You see? Said, "When will this sign be?" Said:... precept upon precept;... line upon line;
here a little, and there a little: hold fast to that what's good .For with
stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people...And this
is the... (sabbath)... the rest that I said that they should enter
into. And for all of this they hardened their hearts and wagged their heads and
rejected It.
So you see there can be no rest unless you have a
vindicated Word to stand on. And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 90 Attributes of a
Son of God no 14 They are obedient
only to the Word.
2 Corinthians 10:5-6 Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is
fulfilled.
God's only provided place
of worship 65-1128M P:37 Now, the word "Deuteronomy," the
word itself means "two laws," the word "Deuteronomy." And
God has two laws. The two laws: one of them is disobedient to the Word and
die; and the other one is obedience to the Word and live. That's the
two laws, and "Deuteronomy" means those "two laws." They have both been absolutely displayed to us in the
Scripture. One of them is death; the other one is Life: Life and death.
God deals only in Life, Satan only in death. And these was displayed to the
world publicly, openly before every eye, and there's no excuse for it..
Acts 5:32 And we are his
witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given
to them that obey him.
God of this evil age
65-0801M P:90 But
in obedience this little faith woman, that lives by faith, the Bride, the
person here, there, here, off somewhere else, some other church, some other
denomination, whatever it is, and some believes the Word of God, obedient,
waiting in love for the promise of the age to be confirmed. She's watching
for it. She is part of that Word, and she's watching for Her life to
manifest that Word. Brethren, can't you see that? I hope that didn't go
over you. The Body is waiting for, which is the Word, waiting for the Life,
which is the Spirit, to confirm or make It alive.
That's what she's waiting for. No other life will work in her. She
can't come to life any other way, yet she feels it out there, and she
knows it's going to happen; then here it happens, then she wakes up. God
said, "Let there be," and She came forth
like the first one come forth.
Hebrews 5:8-9 Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered;9 And being
made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey
him;
Token the 64-0208 P:51 Full obedience to the full Word of God entitles us to the Token.
No other way is there that you can ever be entitled to the Token until you
fully obey the Word. Not what somebody's put into it, and added to it, but
what God said about it.
Token the 64-0208 P:54 Full obedience to the Word brings God, the Word eternal in
you. And that is the Token. When the Word is in you, it's Christ in you. Now, notice. Then when we
pray, if we have the Token... And when we pray we have the Token, we present
our Token with our prayer.
Token the 64-0308 P:53 Full obedience to the whole Word of God entitles you to the
Token, and nothing else. "Blessed is he that does all of His Commandments, he might
have right to the Tree of Life." Then when we pray, we must have the Token to present with
our prayers. Now, don't fail to get that. When you pray, you must have the
Token to hold over your prayer; if you're not, you pray until the Token comes, ...
Our obedience to the Word will manifest
through us just as it did in the first born son.
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 92 Attributes of a
Son of God no 15 They Love God and
His Word, because our evidence that we love the father is our
obedience to him.
Jesus
Himself said in John
That is also what Jesus says in John
Therefore the proof of our love for our
Father is that we obey his commands of what he asks us to do. Then seeing this
attribute in the Son of God, let us look to the Word of God to see how this
same attribute is displayed in the other sons.
1 John 2:3-11 And hereby we do
know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know
him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keeps his Word, in him verily is the love of
God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he
abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
And that is exactly John 14:12 the things I do you
shall do also. So in keeping God's word alive in our walk, actually perfects
the Love of God in our lives as well.
From his sermon, Jehovah Jireh 57-0326 P:26 brother
Branham said, "God so loved the world, He gave His only
begotten Son. Now, look, not that God had to do it, but because that God did do
it. And when God's love was projected, sovereign grace had to produce
the object that His grace projected, or His love projected. And when you
will love God, and believe God, grace will project the object
that you ask God. Do you see it? See, you're Abraham's seed, then you love God. And when you love God, so love Him
that you believe His Word and accept His Word, then
sovereign grace will come down and project what you ask God, 'cause He can't
keep from it. That's the basis that it's on is love. And love will
project grace, and grace will project the object that you're asking for.
You can't get it by emotions; you can't get it by scholarship. You never get it
by education. You never get it by sensations. You get it by love. You
believe Him and take His Word for it. And when you take His Word,
that makes Him love you. And you get what you've ask for.
Jesus said in John
Look at how simple it all is. Jesus
told us in John 14:23-24 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and
we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which ye
hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
And in learning how important it is to Love God by
loving His word led us to look at another aspect of this Love in Christ is the
Mystery no 93 Attributes of a Son of
God no 16 They love God's Appearing,
His Presence.
1 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that
day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (His
Parousia).
Now this ought to tell you how important
the Parousia or Appearing of the Lord is to us. For God Himself let's us know
that there is a crown of Right-Wise-ness that awaits
all those who love His Appearing. And in this sermon we looked into the
importance of loving the Appearing.
In fact brother Branham defined the
appearing to us when he said in his sermon, From that Time pp. 227, "How many knows there's a difference
between the Appearing of Christ and the Coming of Christ? It's two different
words, Now's the Appearing; the coming will soon be. He's Appearing in the midst of us, doing the works that He once
did, in His church."
And then in the same breath just after
he said this He also said those most notable words, "My ministry is to declare Him, that He is here."
So we see there was a two-fold work
involved in brother Branham's Ministry, #
1 To declare Christ, and #
2 to declare His presence here among us.
We read in Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was
afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his
pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isn't that beautiful? In all of our
affliction he also was afflicted right along with us. Like he said to Paul, "Saul, Saul, why do
you persecute me. And
Saul said "who are you
Lord, that I am persecuting you". And he said, "I am Jesus of
So he is here through our tough times
and he promised to never
leave us nor fore-sake us.
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 95 Attributes of a
Son of God no 17 They can not be
deceived concerning the Word of God.
Now, on the one hand those who love the God and His
Word receive that same Love from God in them and it overflows and reflects out
from them, or as brother Branham called it the
projecting of Love. But what if the people do not love the
truth, the Word of God then what? Well in this sermon we examined this from
what Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2
because they loved not the truth.
Let me read it from the Wuest
Translation which says, 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." And brother Branham taught us that
"The Lie" is the same
one that was told to Eve.
First seal the 63-0318 P:44 For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work:... (deceivers, you see, deceiving the people off into something.
See?)... only
he... (God)... that... letteth will let, until
he... (the Church--Christ, the Bride)... be taken out of the way. And then
shall the Wicked one be revealed... (at the breaking
of the Seal, at his time. Paul said, "Not in my time, but in the time when
he'll be revealed. See?)... whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth... (We're
going to get to that after while.)... the spirit of his mouth... (Watch what that is.)... and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working
of Satan... (him, him, a man)... whose working is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders. (See?)And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness... (deceiving people
by unrighteousness)... in
them that perish;... (not this Bride, in them that's looking for such a thing)... because they received not the love of the
truth... (And Christ
is the Truth, and Christ is the Word, but they'd rather have a
creed.),... that they might be saved. And
for this cause God has sent them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie:... (It should be translated there, as I
looked in the Lexicon, "the lie,"
not "a lie"; "the lie," same one he told Eve.)That they... might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Notice, only those who Love God, Who love His Word
will not be deceived, and look at the great falling away, it shows that these
people have not loved God because they have not loved His word. Like brother
Branham said they love their creeds more than they love God and His Word.
I have seen some of the things these people are so
offended about, and some of it is what brother Branham said in Marriage and
Divorce about unregenerate women. And they say, Well, Jesus never talked like
that, but he did. Jesus called the Samaritan woman a dog, when only what she
wanted was for him to answer her request. She kept begging him to listen to her
request, and He said, "it is not meet to give the children's bread to the dogs".
but she never got offended, she said, "yes Lord, but the dogs do eat the bread from the masters
table". What faith is this. "blessed is he that is not offended in me." And He is
the Word vindicated for the hour.
From Trying to do God a service
65-0718M P:100 Brother Branham said, The vindicated Word of the day of Isaiah,
Elijah, John, all, was Jesus. And the vindicated Word today is Jesus,
the same yesterday, today, and forever. Help us, Lord, to believe that, see
that, and walk in it. We ask in Jesus' Name.
And if these people would believe that they wouldn't
be looking to find fault. And the reason they look to find fault is because
they do not Love His Appearing. So what's left according to the Word of God is
only deception for them, and the deception will be geared to their gullibility
to those who are in the act of perishing. The Scripture says, "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
world and men loved darkness rather than light."
Let us pray.