Christ is the Mystery no 200
Review no 23
Christian Life no 7
Brian Kocourek, pastor
This morning we will pick up our
reviews at Christ is the Mystery no 141
Christian Life No 21 Repentance And Conversion and for
our text we will begin reading from Brother Branham's sermon, Christ is the
Mystery of God Revealed paragraph 214.
214 Notice. Then one
like the first Adam and Eve before sin separated them in death, now Christ the
second Adam in Life redeems His Bride from death, and now on His way back to
the original Eden, restoring back His Bride in fellowship back with God, as
Husband and Wife to the garden of Eden: Christ and His Bride.
Notice brother Branham's words, here. He
tells us that at this time, Christ will redeem back His bride from death, and restore
her walk as it was meant to be in
What went ye out to see 59-1001 P:22 If you asked the person quickly, "Are
you a Christian?" Say, "Yes." Quickly they'll say, "What denomination do you belong to?" Now, that's all right, but it has nothing to do with
Christianity. One of them will say, "Well, I'm a Methodist, or a Baptist,
or a Presbyterian," or whatever church that they happen to be affiliated
with, which is perfectly all right. But that doesn't answer the question. You still need repentance.
And repentance shakes
the people. They think they don't need it. "I'm the deacon. I
do certain things at the church." That doesn't excuse anything. You still need repentance.
In his sermon, What went ye out to see 59-1001 P:21 Brother Branham is
speaking of John the Baptist and he said, "The
first thing he preached was repentance to all. And repentance always blinds the eyes of the
unbeliever, or the church member. The church member feels that he has nothing to repent of.
And when that person or persons get to that place where you think you've got
nothing to repent of, you're in a more serious condition. Though being a
member of the church, you're in a more serious condition than the sinner on the
street. For the Scripture said over in the Book of Revelations, talking about
the church, said, "She was naked, wretched, miserable, and blind, and didn't know it." Now, if a man was on the street and
was blind, that would be horrible. If he was poor, would be horrible, naked, horrible. But not knowing it, that's the miserable part. And
there's people today
that claim to be Christians, that belong to church, that doesn't know that they
need repentance. And
to tell someone that, it stirs them up.
So the scripture says, Repent ye therefore in order to be converted. So repentance is the first thing we
must do, and with that we open ourselves to full conversion.
Notice, Jesus told Peter in Luke
Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Therefore we see before there can be a
conversion from sinner to saint, from unregenerate to Born again son of God,
there first must come repentance.
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at;
but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, first and
then be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
So without repentance first there can be no remission of
sins. Therefore, repentance is step number one,
and with it when we are baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we are
promised to be filled with the Holy Spirit as we read in Acts 2:38.
Then after we've come through repentance
and then conversion, we have a promise in this hour of complete restoration
according to Brother Branham's terminology, which has the same definition as
what the Bible calls restitution. Restoration and restitution are
actually the same thing. They mean to restore back to the original condition.
When you make restitution it mean you give back what
was taken. To restore means to bring back to it's
original condition. And in order for a pure fellowship to take place with God,
to where we walk with him as Enoch did, or as Adam and Eve did in the Garden of
Eden, this restitution has to be a complete restitution.
Let's turn to the Book of Acts
Now, notice that without this prophet we
have no restitution of
all things. And
without this restitution
of all things, we
have no rest. Without this restitution of all things, Jesus will not return. Without repentance, there would no restitution of all things, for we will not know what to repent from,
and without that repentance we will not have conversion, and without conversion, we will not
have any blotting out of
our sin which is
our unbelief. And without all that we will not have a return of Christ in fellowship.
So you see how all these things are
dependent upon God sending a prophet, because without the prophet we have no
understanding to straighten out our wrong thinking. And that is what Malachi
Four is all about.
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse.
The Hebrew word for "heart"
is "leb", which refers to the heart; and is also used figuratively for the feelings,
the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything:-it also
means for the ability to care for, courage, kindly, the mind, regard,
understanding, willingness and wisdom.
So we have a promise from God. I will send you Elijah the prophet to turn
the hearts (the understanding) of the
children to the Fathers, because if I don't I will certainly come and destroy the
earth with a curse.
So God sends His prophet in the Spirit and power of Elijah to
change the hearts of the children. To change our minds and our understanding first, then to
change the way we act and do with that understanding. In other words, the
Hebrew word for heart means The
way we care for, the way we encourage with, the way we regard, and then our
willingness to do whatever that new wisdom asks of us to do.
To me this is exactly the attitude that
Jesus suggests to us in John
14:12. It is not so
much about any specific work that God wants done, but rather it is more about our
willingness to please God and our willingness to do whatever God would ask us
to do.
Because when Jesus said, "the works that I do you will do also" you have to remember, this is the
same Son of God who said, "The son can of himself do nothing, but whatsoever He sees the Father
doing that doeth the son likewise."
from his sermon, To whom shall we go - 60-0604 43 Brother
Branham said, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the
Now, that is Romans 8 "Gods Spirit will bear witness with
your spirit that you are His children". And when God does in you, you will recognize it is God working in you to will and to do.
So it is not about any particular work
as much as it is about the mindset that wants to please the Father in all
things. And this is what brother Branham is talking about in this paragraph,
because he says in the next paragraph.
215 At that day, the Kingdom be given over to
the Father, He might be All in All.
Notice, he is quoting from 1 Corinthians 15 here where Paul is speaking of the time
of the resurrection when God will have placed all things under the feet of His
son with the exception of Himself.
1 Corinthians
Now notice that he is
talking about an order tot he resurrection here. Every man in his same order Christ the
first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his parousia.
216 Listen
closely now again as we go on, going back to the original
Notice that brother Branham is speaking
of the converted ones here, those who have been filled with the Holy Ghost.
Because the law of reproduction according to Genesis
That means if
we are born of His Spirit, then we will have his nature as well.
And that's why I don't understand why some people have trouble understanding John 14:12. What is so hard about understanding that if you are born
again, and filled with the Holy Ghost, then it is only natural that you will
think like Christ, and walk like Christ and talk like Christ and do the things
Christ did? That's Christianity 101.
And so we read on with paragraph 217 And remember, we
are now as His Bride, pregnated with His Spirit. Oh, my. The Church
bearing children (See?), pregnated by His Spirit with His Name, bearing
His Name, bearing His Life, bringing forth the signs of His Life evident
with the preeminences, evidence of His
resurrection showing that He is not dead, but alive forevermore. This is
Eternal Life. And vindicates to the world that we
are alive in Him. Whew.
Now, listen, to what he is saying here.
When you are born again, filled with His Spirit, you are impregnated with His
Life, and any life from that point on, that comes forth from within you is God
Life. If that's true, then what sort of Life is expressing
itself from you. Then if it's not Christ Life expressing
itself from you, what life is it? It has to be an un-regenerated Life. And let me read
again a quote from brother Branham that tells it all.
Explaining healing and Jairus 54-0216 P:37 What
you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father, we have a
glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right.
We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we
have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, what we are here, is a
reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil,
you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a waiting.
Now, listen that is not just a warning,
but that is prophetic truth.
In His presence 62-0909E P:52 A man, when he thinks God's gone, he'll
cuss, he'll lust after women, he'll do... He'll steal, cheat, lie. He'll do anything when he thinks
that God don't see him. But bring him into the Presence of God,
he'll stop it right now. See? And David said, "I have put the Lord always before me." That's a good thing. No wonder God
said he was a man after His Own heart. Man will do everything when he thinks that God isn't near.
But when he realizes that God's near, did you ever notice a sinner? Let a godly person walk up,
he'll quit his cussing, if he's got any respects at all. See? He
won't tell the dirty jokes that he would've told. See? See, he'll leave off
that, because he knows that he's in the Presence of God, 'cause God dwells in
the tabernacle of His people.
Influence of another 62-1013 P:70 David said..., "I place the Lord always before me, that I
shall not be moved. Moreover," he said, "then when I do that, my flesh shall rest in hope." Yes, sir. "Because I know what... He will not leave my
soul in hell, neither suffer His Holy One to see
corruption. For the Lord is always before me." Wherever you go, place God. If a man get angry
and cusses you, place
God between you and him. If a guy calls you a holy-roller, place God between you
and him. If the wife gets angry with you, place God. If the husband gets angry, place God. If the
children aggravate you, place
God. See? Whatever you do, place God. If papa and mama gives
you a little spanking and corrects you, place God. Remember what God said about that?
"Bring up a child
in the way it should go." See? Always remember, place God. Put God before you, and you'll
have reverence for God and respects for Him. That's right.
Jesus said,
"By their fruits
you shall know them."
God perfecting His church 54-1204 P:34 You're either a believer or a unbeliever. And the reason that you smoke, and drink,
and cuss, and do the things you do, is because you are an unbeliever. It bears fruits of itself.
And then, if you just say, "Well, I'm going to quit smoking. And I'm going
to quit lying, stealing." You're doing that in yourself. That still
doesn't make you saved." I'm going to go to church and try to do
better." That still doesn't mean it's salvation. You've
got to be born-again and righteousness only comes to the attributes of a
believing life. "He that sins wilfully after he has received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." Here it is. If the
truth has been presented to people, and you see it and you wilfully
(because your church won't accept it or something) walk away from it and say,
"That's a bunch of holy-rollers, 'cause my church said so," you've
crossed the line." He that disbelieves wilfully after he has received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." You get it?
So you see, if you lie, steal, cheat, cuss,
tell dirty jokes, it's because the Holy Ghost is not your absolute. You are
still alive to yourself, your feelings, your emotions.
But how do you know
when you have died to yourself? When someone speaks evil of you
and you don't respond. When someone smack you on the cheek and you give them
the other cheek. Then you know that you have passed from death into eternal
life.
Paul said in Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
Christ in God. Is your life Hid with Christ?
Would Christ in you cuss? I doubt it.
Christ doesn't cuss. Would Christ in you lie? I doubt it. Christ doesn't lie.
Then Paul says, 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, (phaneroo) then shall ye also appear (phaneroo)
with him in glory. (in the same opinion, the
same values, and the same judgments. and if you do he says, then) 5 Mortify (kill
off) therefore your members which are upon the
earth; and
then Paul goes into a lot of detail as to the attributes of sin that you have
died to.
And that led is to Christ is the Mystery no 142 Christian Life No 22
A Pregnated Child Of God where we read paragraph 226 through 228 of brother Branham's sermon Christ is the
Mystery of God revealed.
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.
God comes for individuals, never a
group. God expresses Himself always through individuals, never a group
expression. We've seen that in every age, so he is not talking about one
individual here but individuals plural. That's why he follows this thought 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 He speaks of a pregnated Child of
God. I want you to
notice also he uses the term "personal vindication" concerning the life of God expressing itself
through that pregnated child of God. And this word personal vindication
simply means vindication
in the person.
Now, I know within the Message circle we
use the word vindication only for a prophet but that is not the correct usage
of the word vindication and thus the word vindicate means simply to prove. And as
we showed you Wednesday night brother Branham uses the word correctly but most
Message people do not.
We showed where brother Branham said,: "God vindicates His truth, God vindicates His gifts, God vindicates His ministries, God vindicates His Apostles, God vindicates His Prophets, God vindicates His teachers, God vindicates His Pastors, God vindicates His servants, God vindicates His children, God vindicates His Word, God vindicates His Message, God vindicates you if you are a Christian, and God vindicates Believers, and God vindicates His presence.
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 have 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.
Notice brother Branham uses the same
expression the Apostle Paul uses in describing this Life of God that's been
injected into the believer like an egg and sperm coming to life and being
formed within 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 show 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 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 (initiate) sin; for his (God's) seed remains in him: and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God.
So he's 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 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
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 that is the problem with
Christianity so called. Anyone who has the Holy Spirit knows that most people
who claim to have the Holy Ghost don't have it, 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 given by a prophet and
vindicated to be true by God shows they do not have it.
Paul said that in 1 Corinthians 2:11b 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.
Notice he's telling us 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.
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.
Missionary talk 58-0330A P:11 "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 8:16 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 dwells in you, it will make your mortal body come alive to
the Word and 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.
You see, it is not so much God
bearing witness with you, but with His own Life that is living in you. That's
what brother Branham said in Leading of the Spirit 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. Now, 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? God allows 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 and
He are one Just like Christ and God were one.
I have never understand
why people can claim to be Christian, and have so much difficulty believing God
is the Word. If the Word
is living and abiding in you then there's got to me more than just some silly
theology identifying what life is living and expressing itself in 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,
filled with God's Spirit knows 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 they're born again and no one can convince them otherwise. 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're
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. But,
if you believe that Jesus is the Christ because you've seen Him come in and change
your Life, and live your life for you, then you are born again,
because you've seen His
Spirit bearing witness within your spirit that you are a son of God. That is why John
Just like Jesus himself as we see
in John
Position in Christ
60-0522M P:83 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?
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