Christ is the mystery no 209
Review no 32
Twins no 7 Seed Life Identification
Brian Kocourek
This evening we will look again
at Twins again, this will be no 7 in our mini series, and we will examine the
nature of the Seed Life in the TWO VINES. Therefore we will look at several
things brother Branham brings out concerning the nature of the "Two Vines".
Remember, we have read where
brother Branham taught us that "every
revival produces Twins."
Hearing Receiving and Acting 60-0607 E-16 So we find out, that in every revival that's ever
been borned in the world, it produces twins. That's right. Every revival has twins.
They have a bunch in
there that's carnal believers and a bunch of spiritual believers. Every
revival produces that: an Esau and Jacob. And as they go along, first thing
you know, the carnal begins to think, "Well, these guys are getting off of the deep end. I
better separate myself from them." They go back to the intellectual
part. They want a pastor that'll speak to them of pleasant
things. They don't want that Spirit-filled pastor, that'll obey the Holy Spirit
from the platform, just preach the Word just like It
is. As John said, "Lay the axe to the root of the tree and let the chips
fall where it will." Most of the churches today will vote that out of
their pulpit. That's right. It'll come a separation, always does that. It did it in the Methodist age; it did it in
the Baptist age; it did it in the Pentecostal age; it'll do it in every age.
Now, notice then that if every
revival produces Twins, then this let's us know that these words "every revival"
let's you know that that brother Branham is letting us know that even in this
end time revival we can expect no different. Notice he said, it'll do it in every
age.
So let's look at the nature of
these TWINS to see what makes them different from one another. The first
attribute we must look at is this one he said, One is Spiritual and the
other is carnal.
Now, if one is spiritual, then
they are Spirit filled, so there has to be attributes that these spirit filled
will manifest. And
notice also, he said the other is carnal. So there will be
attributes that will also declare themselves or manifest from this nature as
well.
Now the first thing I would
like to bring out is what Paul tells us in 1
Corinthians 2.
1
Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for The Spirit (God's Spirit) searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
Paul asks this question, what
man can understand the things of a man unless he has the spirit of man. Then
The Apostle Paul get's down to His point
"even so the things of God knoweth no man,
but The Spirit of God knows.
Notice
Paul tells us here that no man can understand the things of God on His own. It
takes the Holy Spirit in the man to understand the things of God. notice after he says that no man can understand the things
of God, then he says, but The Spirit of God knows.
Then
he tells us in verse 12 " Now we have not received the spirit of
the world, but we have received the spirit which is of God; in order
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
So
here Paul tells us that unless we have received the Spirit of God there is no way we can understand the things that are freely given
us from God. Then he says, and these are the things we are speaking to you
about.
13 "Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with
spiritual.
Notice
he says the wisdom which we have is from above, it comes from the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit is the teacher. Therefore it matters not
what minister you sit under, and it matters now how well he can teach this
Message, if you do not have the Holy Ghost, you will never understand the
things of God period.
Then
notice the carnal man. because we are looking at the
attributes of the Two Vines, and we have just examined what Paul said about the
Spirit filled man, that he is able to understand the things of God because the Life,
the nature, the attributes of the Holy Spirit who is the teacher lives in the Spirit
filled man. But now he is going to show us the attributes of the nature of the
carnal believer. The natural believer.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Now,
these words are very striking what the Apostle Paul is telling us here. He says, the natural man, in no way, shape or form can understand the things of
God. And in fact they are just
foolishness to him. And he says, neither
can he know them. So if he can't know them then they just can't
know them. It's not for them to know. It is impossible for a carnal Christian,
a natural man, one who has not been born of the Spirit of God to know and
understand the things of God.
15 "But he that is spiritual (he that is Spirit filled) judgeth
(discerns) all things, yet he himself is
judged (discerned) of no man. 16 For who hath known the
mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Now, Jesus taught the same
thing to Nicodemus that Paul is teaching here. He said in John 3:3 "Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
And we
have a vindicated prophet in this hour that taught us that what Jesus is
telling Nicodemus here is that unless you are born again of the spirit of God
you can not in any way understand the things of God.
Calling of Abraham 55-1116 P:29 A
Christian does not calculate, or does not look at things he sees. You don't
see with your eyes anyhow. You don't. Certainly you don't see with your
eyes. You look with your eyes. You see with your heart. "See"
doesn't mean "look." "See" means "understand."Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except the man be born again he cannot see
the
And from his sermon, To
whom shall we go 60-0604 P:43 brother
Branham said, "Nicodemus asked the question,
"How can I be borned again? I'm an old
man--enter into my mother's womb the second time?" He said, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the
And we can even look at the
parables that jesus told and
hear him teach the same thing to his disciples.
Matthew
So only those who understand
are those who are converted. And the only ones who can understand are those
with His Spirit.
101-1 Ephesian
Church Age - Church Age Book
"Satan has
known this all along. He also wants to in-dwell man even as God so does.
But God has reserved to Himself that right. Satan cannot do that. God alone
appeared in human flesh. Satan could not and cannot do that. He does not
have creative powers. The only way for Satan to accomplish what he wanted to
do was to enter the serpent in Eden even as he entered by evil spirits into the
swine at Gadara. God
does not enter animals; but Satan can and will to accomplish his ends.
He could not have a child directly by Eve as did God by Mary, so he entered
into the serpent and then beguiled Eve. He seduced her and by her did Satan have a child vicariously.
Cain bore the full spiritual characteristics of Satan and the animalistic (sensual,
fleshly) characteristic of the serpent. No wonder the Holy Spirit said
that Cain was of that wicked one. He was.
Therefore this evening we will
begin to look at the nature of the Two Vinews, the
Two Seeds, the Two natures, and we will find that
there are many identifiable characteristics that belong to both and many
identifiable characteristics that only belong to one or the other. It is these
identifiable characteristics that only belong to one or the other that set them
apart from each other.
I have charted the identifiable
characteristics that are shared by both. This first chart shows the attributes
that are common to both the Elect Seed of God and Serpent seed.
|
God's Seed |
Attribute and Characteristic |
Serpent's Seed |
|
X |
Given birth in the
same revival, same church, etc. |
X |
|
X |
Religious |
X |
|
X |
Eat from the same
Table of the Lord |
X |
|
X |
Believe in God,
even One God, therefore are a Believer |
X |
|
X |
Quote from the Word
of God |
X |
|
X |
Sincerely offer
Sacrifice to God |
X |
|
X |
Worship God in
sincerity |
X |
|
X |
Offer praise to God |
X |
|
X |
Do works to please
God |
X |
|
X |
Receive a mark in
their forehead and in their right hand |
X |
|
X |
Both bear fruit,
and by their fruit you shall know them |
X |
THEY
Restoration of bride tree 62-0422 P:170 Now,
Esau (as Esau and Jacob, both
of them twins, both of them religious)--Esau was a carnal man;
he was a good man. He didn't... Say, well now, he didn't go out and steal, drink,
or anything there; he was a religious man. But he thought, "Well, as long as I'm religious,
what difference does it make?" But little old Jacob, he
didn't care how he had to get it; that birthright's what he wanted. No
matter how he got it, just so he got it.
Wisdom verses faith 62-0401 P:200 Esau
and Jacob was a perfect type: both of them religious, both of them twins. Esau was the
ecclesiastical type. He was a man that was smart. He had a good
moral stands and things like that, but he didn't have no
use for that birthright. Jacob didn't care what he had to do, just so he got the birthright.
And as long as they were together they could not produce. Is that right? One
was against the other. Have you caught it? Amen! "Come out from amongst it; be ye separate
saith God, and touch not their unclean things; I'll receive you." See? Jacob had to separate
himself from his denominational brother before God would ever bless him.
God told Abraham the same thing.
Ephesian church age 60-1205 P:48 Now,
we find out that they wanted to start and get into a form of godliness. Now, I
could stop right here and say something: believe I will, Did
you notice that every revival... Now, minister brethren, you check this. Every
revival produces twins, just as Jacob and Rebekah
produced twins: Esau and Jacob. I mean Isaac instead of--Isaac and Rebekah, instead of Jacob. Isaac and Rebekah
produced twins. Their father was holy; the mother was holy; but they had two
boys born: Esau and Jacob. Now, both of them was
religious. But Esau, when it come to works and
deeds, as a good legalist, he was probably a better boy all the way around than
Jacob was. Did you know that? Jacob was just a little boy that hung around
his mammy all the time. But Esau got out and worked, went out and got venison
and give to his old blind daddy who was a prophet; he tried to take care of
him. But Jacob only had one thing in mind; he wanted that birthright. He
didn't care how long he had to hang around or whatever he had to do; the main
thing in his life was the birthright. And Esau despised it.
Unfailing realities of God 60-0626 P:92 When Jacob and Esau was born, they were both born of a holy father
and a holy mother, but they were twins: one, a carnal man, religious, went
to church and was a good man, very good. Jacob was a little shyster, but he
had his mind on one thing. That birthright meant everything to him, no matter
how he had to get it. Because the Bible said that he was elected before
the foundation of the world to look to that. And today there's people, I
don't care how much popularity they have to use, how much they have to lose, or
what they have to do, makes no difference to them if they're called old
fashion, no matter what they are, they got their eyes on Christ because they
were elected to Eternal Life. And they plant right there on that. If it
takes everything, if it takes everything they got, they plant there. The
other is a nominal man. He goes to church and he feels just as good as the rest
of them, goes home. See, that's the Esau like. See? And the other one is a
Jacob like. Now, there you are, both sides.
THEY BOTH
BELIEVE IN GOD
Preparation 53-1111 P:31
I told you the other
night that Cain was a believer. And I'll give you a little stronger meat
than that tonight if you want to believe it. The devil is a believer.
The Bible says he is. He believes and trembles. The devil is a
believer. Now, if belief and faith in God is all you have to have to be
saved, then the devil's saved according to the Word of
God. That's right. But, brother, it's got to take the Holy Spirit, a new birth, a regeneration, a new creature in Christ Jesus.
When God comes down and puts His Spirit into you, then you're no more your own,
but you're God's.
E-23 Earnestly Contending for the Faith 53-0614A There was Jesus returning back,
taking with Him the borned again, repented Church, and the Devil going back,
taking that bunch: "If You be a Divine healer, do this. If
you be this... "If this be right... If, if, if."
Always, Satan putting a question mark across the
Word of God: "If Thou be..." "Why, if He is a Divine healer, let Him
heal this one, let Him this one. If He be, let Him be this." If, it's always... That's with a question mark in it. But a real true believer believes every
Word that God said is the truth, and take
it the same way. There you are.
Hearing Receiving and Acting 60-0221 72 Whenever there is a revival,
it always produces twins. That's a rude remark, but it's true. When there
was a birth out of, from Isaac and Rebekah, it
produced twins. When the world was created, it produced twins, two trees. And
when Cain and Abel were born, it produced two. When Ishmael and Isaac was born, it produced two. And when Esau and Jacob was born, it produced two. One of them,
natural (one of them of the earth); the other one Supernatural.
And one looked at the
natural, intellectual; the other one walked by the Spirit. It's always been that
way. When the Lutheran church came forth...73 Let's take Pentecost first. Look
at the Pentecostal birth. It brought forth a great, powerful revival that swept
the known world: Pentecost. It wasn't long after Pentecost till even Paul said
that there would be men rise up among them, with perverse things, and would
turn the people away from God. And that's just exactly what they done. It
produces two. When the Lutheran church was born, Martin Luther brought forth a
spiritual revival. It wasn't very long till here come
Esau, right behind him and organized it down. And it produced two. Then after
that come the Methodist, John Wesley, a spiritual
revival. And after that come the organization, organized it down. It'd produced
two. And after that come Pentecost, a revival. And now they've organized it,
and now they settle down to organization. And it produces two. 77
But that spiritual seed of the living God, though it has to be a
sojourner, though it has to be a rambler, it always causes separation. Esau
didn't last very long with Jacob. As soon as Jacob obtained the birthright
(Praise God), it called for separation. And when a man... I don't care what
church you belong to, if it's carnal, and your associates that you run with,
the people you play cards with, and your literature societies, and so forth, when
you obtain the birthright, that something that's down in your heart that's
hungered for God, when you receive that, it calls for separation. "Come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith God."
Separation... 78 The church settles down. See, it
cannot go on. . . . Esau was a very
good type of the carnal believer today, never able to overcome the
world. He don't overcome the things of the world.
They still like their carousing, their dancing, their manicure make-ups, and, the
women, on their faces, and cutting their hair and wearing little old short
clothes; and men likes to go out to the poolrooms, and smoke cigarettes, and
tell little dirty jokes; and still belong to the church. They're never able
to overcome those things: neither could Esau. But yet, to be religious,
he had to settle down to an intellectual conception. That's the same thing the church
does today. "We'll become an organization. We'll put ourself
together. We'll make a clan, or a clique, or something like that."
And that's the way the church moves today, the spiritual and the carnal,
still the same. It hasn't changed and never will change.
THEY BOTH
WORSHIP and SACRIFICE, and DO WORKS TO PLEASE GOD
Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the
ground an offering unto the LORD.
Now, Cain's sacrifice,
what he offered to God was not a bad thing, it was actually a first fruit
offering, a harvest offering, a resurrection offering, but it was out of seasdon, that is why it was rejected.
Deuteronomy
26:1 And it shall
be, when thou art come in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of
the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And
thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I
profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which
the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give
us. 4 And
the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the
altar of the LORD thy God.
Notice, Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel
offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and
by it he being dead yet speaketh.
"Cain's sacrifice was
an excellent sacrifice, but Abel's sacrifice was a more excellent sacrifice. More excellent
means although one is excellent the other exceeds in excellence, Cain offered a
very Biblical offering to God, a first-fruit offering which is a harvest
offering, representing a resurrection
offering, but it was out of season, because
"without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." And
Abel's sacrifice was the way back to God, for by the mingling of blood of the
serpent with Eve brought sin therefore by the blood of an innocent one made a
way back into God's presence.
Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of
his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to
his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And the
LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt
thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall
be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel
his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain
rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Now a sacrifice is only what you give it back to God
what He gave to you to begin with. We
see in Genesis chapter 4 Both Cain and
Able offered sacrifices unto God. Now a sacrifice is what you give back to God.
But before you can give it back to God, you must first have received it from
God. And so we find that the Scripture tells us that Cain's sacrifice was an
excellent sacrifice, and yet it was also a wicked sacrifice.
Notice that in Heb 11:4
Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than Cain. So Cain's sacrifice was excellent. And why was it
excellent? Because it was based upon the word of God. Exodus 22:9 and Deuteronomy
26:2 But we also find that Cain's sacrifice was also considered evil
in 1 John
Notice here that we are told that he slew his brother
because his works
were evil. The slaying of his brother, although this was a
wicked deed, was not the evil works. The evil works is what caused him to slay
his brother in the first place. And the evil works was his own sacrifice to God
which was rejected by God, while Abel's sacrifice was received by God. That's Genesis 4: 2-8 that we just read.
Now notice that after he talked with Abel, that's when
he slew Abel. And why did he talk with Abel? Because God had accepted Abel's
sacrifice and not his own. And God had told Him that "if he did well, he would be accepted, but he
didn't do well, and therefore he was not accepted. Now the Septuagint
translates this here as: "If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted? You did rightly offer, but you did not rightly
divide."
I will restore 53-1110 P:12
Cain and Abel both come
to find favor with God. Amen. Now, look. Cain was a long ways from being a
communist; neither was he an atheist. But Cain was a believer. Get on your shock proof
vests now. Cain was a believer and a worshipper of God. If God only
required a believer, Cain was just as just as Abel was. And God would
be unjust if He condemned Cain for his faith in Him and accepted Abel, if
faith was all He required. All right. But Cain came and offered a
sacrifice. Now, look. Cain built an altar, a church. Cain made a sacrifice, just same as Abel did. And Cain worshipped. He never come as an unbeliever. He come
as a believer. He raised up his hands and
worshipped God just the same as Abel did. Well, if a church membership, an
altar, a worship, a sacrifice is all God requires,
then Cain was just as just as Abel was.
Fellowship through reconciliation 55-0605 P:35 Then
not only that, but Cain come and offered a sacrifice. If sacrifice
was all that God requires, He'd be unjust to condemn Cain. Not only that,
but Cain was not a infidel. Cain was a believer.
He was trying to find reconciliation. And Cain knelt down humbly,
raised up his hands and worshipped the Lord.
He was not a communist; neither was he an infidel. He was a believer.
But he didn't have the spiritual revelation. And when Abel came... I can
imagine seeing Cain decorate the altar, fine lilies and making it pretty, all
"dolled up" as we call it. That's the way people think today. If they
can build a great big church, that'll outshine the rest of them, plush the
seats, put a ten thousand dollar pipe organ in it, and a crucifix all around it
and all over it, they think that God will be pleased with it. God ain't
pleased with the works of the hands of man. They're shifting sands.
Glorified Jesus 55-0225 P:24
Cain wasn't as infidel.
Cain was a believer. Cain didn't come, saying, "Now, I don't
believe there is such a thing as God." Cain come
as a believer. He is trying to find grace with God. And Cain
built an altar. An altar is a church, a place of worship. Then Cain
built an altar, and not only that, but Cain brought an offering and made a
sacrifice. And not only that, but Cain worshipped the Lord. You
see it? Now, you could belong to a church, go to the altar and pray, pay
your duties and tithes to the church, make spiritual sacrifice, kneel on you
knees, confess your faith in God and still be lost.
Let us pray