Christ is the Mystery no 211
Review no 34 Twins no 9
Seed Life Characteristics no 3
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
1 Jude,
the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father,
and preserved in Jesus
Christ, and called: 2 Mercy
unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 3 Beloved, when I gave all
diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me
to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Notice that Jude is
writing to the elect of God, and tells them of the love and peace and mercy
that are ours, given to us by God and His Son. But then he tells us that he
feels a need to exhort us to be on our guard, because we will have to earnestly
contend for the faith, the revelation that was already delivered to us who are
the sanctified people of God. In the next verse he tells us the reason why we
must earnestly contend for the faith.
Now,
this contending for the faith sound like the instructions of a coach who is
telling his boxer or wrestling student that he will have to contend for the
faith as though it is the world title. But what he is in fact
doing is like a coach he is saying if you wish to hold onto your prize, your
reward, you are going to have to work for it, because there are some who have
come in among you and are willing to take it from you.
4 For there are certain men crept
in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying
the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice this warning is
due to men who have crept in, so we must ask crept into where? Well we will
find out in verse ten, people he tells us they have crept into our love feast
on the Word of God. In other words, men who have crept into
this message.
Now, when an animal
creeps it is because it is stalking its prey. Babies crawl, but crawling and
creeping are two different things. One is out of weakness and the other is out
of stealth. so we see the purpose and motivation of
this creeping in, it is to make a prey out of the saints of God. Not only to take what is yours from you, but to destroy you in the
process. Notice they have crept in unawares. That means they did it with
stealth. Warlike stealth.
Now, listen brothers
and sisters, we are at the end-time and we should no longer be babies on milk,
but we should be teachers, fully mature and able to teach others. And it still
surprises me the kind of questions I get from all over the world,
of people who have sat in this Message for 20 and 30 years and who still have
no clue as to when someone has come along to dupe them.
If we should know one
thing, it is that we are supposed to try every spirit to know whether they even
be in the Faith, That is what John taught us in 2 John. But if you don't yet
know what this Message is all about after 20-30 years, when will you ever know
it? It's time that you stop all your worldly activities and start studying this
message to know the Truth, for the Truth will set you free.
We are at the end of
all the ages, and the cunningness of Satan is greater in this age than at any
other, and people still think in terms of eat drink and be marry.
Perhaps it is time
again for me to test you after having given you a 15 year break, to see if you
have a passing knowledge of this Message or not. How many remember the tests I
used to give you? Well, perhaps I should do that again.
Anyway, Jude tells us
these men who creep in unaware into this message will turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness, (that's sexual desire, "if God can't
forgive that sin what can he forgive. That's what they call grace, but God's
Word calls it lasciviousness). and denying the
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed
them that believed not.
Now, here is the
warning. He's talking about a people who left
Then he also reminds us
that not only did this happen at the first Exodus, but it also happened in the
heavens before the earth was even finished being fashioned.
6 And the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation, (in other words, they went out from among them because
they were not of them) he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Then Jude gives us
another example in the next verse.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha,
and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to
fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an
example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Notice again further
warnings, concerning the spirit of fornication, and we know that idolatry and
adultery (which is the same act as fornication) are just the same spirit, One
in the natural and the other in the spiritual.
In the Church Age book
brother Branham said,
8 Likewise also these (1) filthy
dreamers (2) defile the flesh, (3)
despise dominion, and (4) speak evil
of dignities.
So we see that right among
us there will be men who have come into the Message, showing no respect, no
fruits of the spirit towards the leadership the Holy Ghost has set in the
church.
Now, let's look at
these attributes for a moment.
Likewise
also these (1) filthy
dreamer filthy dreamers (2) defile the
flesh In other words, on the strength of their own dreams
these ungodly men will corrupt the entire body.
And
not only that but they will (3) despise dominion, and (4) speak evil
of dignities.
Now, the
word dominion speaks of those who have the rule over you as the apostle Paul
said in Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken
unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their
conversation.
and again in verse 17 Obey
them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they
may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Now, this word rule in verse 17 is the same Greek word Jude used and was translated
as dominion in Jude.
So Jude is telling us
they will despise those that God has placed over them to watch out for their
souls just like Dathan and Korah
desised the leadership God gave to Moses and Joshua.
Why? because they don't want anyone to tell them what
God expects from them in their conduct, and they certainly don't want a man who
preaches to their soul instead of to their head.
And finally Jude says
here they speak evil of dignities (Doxa). Now it is
interesting here when we see the English word dignities, we would normally
think that he is speaking of a person, but the Greek word is doxa, which means the opinions, values, and judgments held by those
persons God placed in charge to watch over their souls.
But these
men, when they speak evil, that word
is bleptophema
which means they blaspheme the very
doxa of God, and thus they
blaspheme God himself. For God and His Word are the same.
Therefore these
despisers are blasphemers of the Word of God, the
doxa of God, the very values and opinions of God. Therefore we
see when God says no unbeliever will be allowed
in heaven, they say, "if God can't forgive that sin what can he forgive?" And thus they speak evil of the values of God and
turn His grace into lasciviousness.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him
a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Now, this morning we will look at some more attributes
of these children of disobedience. We already have established several
attributes that both the Elect of God, the obedient
children, and the other seed, the children of disobedience have in common.
Not only are they both religious, but
they both worship God, they
both make sacrifice to God, and they both sincerely desire
to be saved, and they both claim to believe the Word of God,
and thus both sit at the same table of the Lord, The
same revival Word.
In continuing in the book of Jude we pick up at verse
Again we see they blaspheme things they know not.
Now, the word blaspheme simply means they speak
with intent to harm. And we've already seen they blashpeme the doxa of God, or speak against the
ones with the doxa of God worth intent to harm them, for as God said to Samuel
when the people wanted a King, God said, they are not rejecting you Samuel, but
they are rejecting me.
(2) but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
Notice they corrupt themselves, just like Hebrews 6 tells us they crucify to themselves the
son of God afresh.
And what do brute beasts know except their physical
sexual desire has to be fulfilled before anything else. That is contained in
what Freud called the "id" which is the very basic survival
instincts. And that is why every time men come against God's Word their actions
always end up in some sexual manifestation. It did so in the garden at the beginning,
and it will do so at the end. Just open your eyes.
11 Woe unto them! for they have (3)gone in the way of
Cain, and (4) ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and (5) perished
in the gainsaying of Core. - 12 These are (6) spots in your feasts of
charity, (7) when they feast with you, (8) feeding themselves without fear:(9) clouds they
are (10) without water, (11) carried about
of winds; (12) trees whose fruit withereth, (13) without fruit, (14) twice dead,(15) plucked up by the roots; 13 (16) Raging waves of the sea, (17) foaming out their own shame; (18) wandering
stars, (19)to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Now, before we go into the individual attributes of
each seed, the Elect and non elect, I would like to first examine these 19
attributes that Jude is telling us here
concerning the non-elect children of disobedience. So we will look at all these
attributes that Jude tells us here and examine each.
Attribute number (1). Jude tells us, "But these speak evil of those things which they
know not:"
Now, we know there are ten commandments
God gave to mankind, in which Jesus said all ten are summed up in one
commandment, and that is that we should love our neighbor as ourselves. One of
the ten says, Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor. But here Jude speaks of these Children of disobedience as
having an attribute that not only speaks evil
of others, but of things they have no clue what they are talking about.
So they willingly speak evil against things they know nothing about.
"But these speak evil of those things
which they know not:" Now,
the things they know nothing about are the things of God. And the reason they
know nothing about the things of God is because only those who have the Spirit
of God can know the things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained
before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of
this world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 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 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? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God knows.
Therefore unless you
have been born again and filled with the Spirit of God, the best you can do is
guess, but as the scripture says, "Ever
learning but never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
That's why Paul says, 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. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. 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. 15 But he that is
spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged 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.
How often I have seen this among the so called
Christian churches in this day. Many speaking against God's prophet saying his
doctrine was false when if they had been just able to read the Word of God without
their denominational pre-filters, they would have known that all he taught came
directly from Scripture.
Brother Vayle always would say, "an Ex Catholic or ex rank heathen stands a better chance of
understanding this Message than people coming to this Message from a Baptist or
Pentecostal background, because at least the ex-Catholic was never taught Scripture
wrong, because they weren't taught Scripture, they were only taught tradition,
and pointed to the church, and the heathen comes with no prior Bible training at
all so he and the ex-Catholic can actually read the Scriptures and Message
without having to bypass an old filter in their minds that was taught Scripture
wrong."
So we see that Jude warns us that these men will
"speak evil of those things which they know not". And
I have had to fight that same spirit in meetings all over the world when men
because they were indoctrinated into the Oneness theology, they can not seem to
grasp what the prophet and Bible teach concerning the relationship between the
father and son. And having fought that battle for a couple decades overseas, it
was nothing new when to me when I had to do the same with men who claimed to
believe the doctrine as we do, but who also cast aside the promise of John 14
and tried to make it a promise not for the Elect of God but for only one elect
person, thus taking away from the Word of God. But when you understand Twins,
you will be able to recognize that spirit by the Scriptural identifiable
characteristics, and by the time we finish this series on Twins you should be
able to identify many different attributes of the children of disobedience when
you see it manifested in this message and elsewhere.
2. but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those
things they corrupt themselves.
Notice we read that the natural man knows nothing of
the things of God and they are foolishness to them. That's what they thing of
the Father and Son and that's what they think of John
1 Corinthians
Now,
John
How's
he going to do it? I have no clue, but that's not our business to know how,
it's our business to Know Who. "For without
God" the Bible says, "you
can not do anything". But "greater
is he that is in you than he that is in the world". and He also promised, that "God
is working in you both to will and to do."
Expectation 61-0207 P:27 If God promised to heal, let's make ready
for it. If Jesus said, "The works that I do, shall you do also," let's make ready for it. Move out
everything; get ready. We're right in time. So just, now, it'll seem foolish.
Now, you say, "Well, how's it going to happen in a day like this and when
all this..." I don't care what anything contrary is to that, it's wrong.
We can't see it; I see no hope of it, look like. But if God said so, let's do it
anyhow, 'cause God said so; it'll happen anyhow. I'm expecting it. I
believe Jesus is coming. Science is proving they can take a little pollen from
something and some mucus, and put something in it and so forth like this, and
they can almost make human life, they claim. Oh, they're so smart they can--got
a sputnik up in the sky and a human heart beating in it. That
don't bother me a bit. They say, "Well, one of these days you'll
find out all the religion you're talking about is crazy." No, I won't.
Jesus will be here. We'll have a millennium. We'll go home to glory. I'm
expecting it, so I'm preparing for it; I'm waiting for it every day being ready.
"When will He come?" I don't know, but if He isn't here today,
I'll be looking tomorrow. I'm expecting it, just 'cause He said so,
and I live daily under those expectations. That's right. You must have
expectation, certainly. Noah did.
Attribute number 3. 11 Woe
unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain,
Now, Cain as we know offered to God a Word for another
season. His sacrifice was a harvest offering, and it spoke of resurrection, but
there was not atonement made yet for their sinful nature. And when Abel talked
to Cain concerning the necessity of the innocent lamb to be slain, Cain rose up
and killed him. And then Cain went out
from the presence of the Lord. And brother Branham said you can kill a man with
more than a bullet or knife.
Hebrews Chapter 7 part 2 57-0922 P:55 And you people with these saw-blade
tempers, that's always spouting off in the mouth at somebody, can't put up, and
things like that. Be careful. You're guilty if you speak a word against your brother
that's not right, not just. Go around and tear down... You don't have to stick a knife
in a man's back to kill him; you can break his character and kill him, kill his
influence. Speak against your pastor here, say something bad
about him, you just might as well have shot him; told something that wasn't
right about him, well, it'll kill his influence with the people and things like
that, and you're guilty of it. What Jesus said.
Attribute number 4. and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for
reward,
Now, what was the error of Balaam? He thought he could
get the people together. After all they were kin were they not? Was not the children of
Earnestly contending for the faith 53-0614A P:50
Now, Balaam, or Balak, rather, the king of
And
notice Balaam showed Balak the hinder parts of
There are basically two doctrines every camp in this
Message has joined themselves to today. Either the
doctrine of Balaam that says we are all one, or the doctrine of Christ that
says "I and my Father are one".
So as Joshua said, "you must choose you this day whom you shall serve, but as for me and
My house we shall serve the Lord. "
5. and
perished in the gainsaying of Core. -
Now, the gainsaying of Core or Korah
as spelled in the Old testament, was his working up
the people against the prophet Moses, saying we are all the same, and Moses is
nothing special. we are the five fold ministers and we
have every bit a right as Moses to lead the people. But God said, stand aside
Moses and he swallowed up Dathan and Koarh and that whole bunch, and I believe we will see the
same showdown yet in this Message. William Branham had that showdown in Chicago
with the 400 ministers, and I'm no William Branham but I've stood by His side
teaching what he taught, and I've had that showdown in Uganda with 230
ministers, and not a one of them dared to come up with their Bibles opened and
show where I was not teaching what the Scripture taught or William Branham
taught. And before we are through, you will have your
We have a sister here that has had several preachers
and men gang up on her but she has held her ground Like Moses did. As one
brother in
The in attribute number 6. he says, 12 These are spots
in your feasts of charity,
And we know that spots represent uncleanness. The
bride is to be dressed in the Word of God without spot or wrinkle, because she
is to be a perfect reflector of the Light.
Five identifications 60-0911E P:104 You
got to be in that church, brother, if you make it, for He's coming for a
church. Well, what kind of a church? A church that's
without spot or without wrinkle. How can we be that? By being dead in Christ,
baptized by the Holy
Ghost into His mystical Body, and the Blood atonement of the Son
of God laying there for us every hour of the day: found blameless,
that's the church, without spot, or without wrinkle. He chose us in Him,
and put our names on His Book. The Bible said that "Jesus Christ was the
Lamb slain... Nineteen hundred years ago? How far? The Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world.
Thirst 65-0919 P:54 The people that He was going to have in
this day, "the church without spot or wrinkle," don't mean a
denomination; it means the persons, the individuals without spot or wrinkle.
"Be two in the bed,
I'll take one and leave one; two in the field, I'll take one and leave one." But when God, that holy thirst to
be like Him, and then
you see that His Word is in you, vindicating Itself,
that you are God's servant... Whatever God says, you just toe right up to it, then you're coming through the right process then to satisfy that
holy thirst that's in you.
God keeps His Word 57-0407M P:54 He wants a Church without spot, without
wrinkle. He wants a Blood-washed bunch of people. He wants a people that'll
cling to, or stand on His Word, and say, "That's God, eternal Truth; It was meant for me and I believe it."
And notice attribute number 7. when they feast with you,
yes, we are promised that Twins will be right in our
midst sitting in the same pew listening to the same Word, feasting on the same
Message.
True vine and the false vine 55-0607 P:30 Here's
the false vine; here's the true vine. And they're both growing side by side. Did you realize, that Judas Iscariot was treasurer of the church,
out of the same tribe of the Lord Jesus? He was a big man, brothers with the
rest of them, set in the same pew, sang the same songs, worshipped
the same God, preached the same Gospel, and was Judas? Do you realize that
same spirit moves right up through the church? But where Judas showed his
colors was at Pentecost, just before Pentecost, before they really got borned
again.
Seal of God 61-0216 P:27 Even in the ark, there was the dove and
the crow in the ark. Both of them birds, both of them could
fly, both of them... You know the crow is a hypocrite. He is, he's just a dirty hypocrite. Now, a crow can set down
over there on a old dead horse, and just eat, and caw,
and flop his wings, and have a big time. That poor little dove can't get
near it. Why? It hasn't got any gall. See? It couldn't digest it. If it'd
eat that it would die. But the crow can set there and eat dead horse a half a
day, go out in the field and come home and eat dinner with wheat, the crow with
the dove. He's an old hypocrite, is all. Did you ever notice, a dove has no
gall of bitterness. Neither does anyone that's
baptized with the Holy Ghost. All the bitterness is gone away. They were
both in the same ark, like the hypocrite and the real believer in the same
church, same denomination setting together, seat--same pew, setting
together.
Jude said they are at the same love feast with you
eating at the same table, but like the crow, he can eat anything, but you
can't. All you care for is "thus saith the Lord", not thus saith some
preacher, you are not interested in that, and neither should you be.
And that leads us to attribute number 8. feeding
themselves without fear:
In His presence 62-0909E P:30 As the old proverbs is, "Fools will walk with hobnailed shoes where
Angels fear to trod."
That's right. "The
fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" When he sees God manifested so
perfectly by His Own Word (not by a creed; but by His Word), and then
walk right over It and make fun of It, he's a fool. 'Cause that God is the
Word, and God's made Himself plain to them, and he's a
fool, the Bible said.
Respects 61-1015E P:25 Over in Ecclesiastes the 12th chapter and the 13th verse, it's written like this. See? "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments, for this is
the full duty of man."
The conclusion of the whole matter is to fear God. And when, you
cannot have respects until you have fear. You've got to have fear of God.
Solomon said also in the Proverbs
that the fear of God is
the beginning of wisdom: the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Now, that don't mean that you're afraid
of Him, but that means that you're giving respects and reverence. And when
you respect God, you fear God. You fear that you might displease Him in
some way; you fear lest you would do something wrong. You wouldn't
want to...
Then we find the Apostle Jude list attribute number 9. he says, "clouds they are"
And the Apostle Paul tells us what clouds represent in
the bible.
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore
seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and
let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
So clouds represent witnesses, but then we find that
Jude describes the attribute of these men as clouds 10. without water,
Now, we know that water in a cloud is rain, and in Deuteronomy 32:2 My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my
speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and
as the showers upon the grass:
So if these men are clouds (witnesses) without water,
they are witnesses without God's doctrine. And being that they have not God's
doctrine to hold and keep them, they are tossed about by every wind of
doctrine that comes along. And that brings us to attribute number 11. carried about of winds;
Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
So
these are unstable souls.
Hebrews Chapter 7 part 1 57-0915E P:111(a)
I come back to this
little Tabernacle time after time, if God shall spare my life. I want to see
you rooted and grounded in that holy faith. I don't want to see you tossed
about by every little wind of doctrine come by, ... (b) I want you to be solid on the Word. If it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, stay with
It, live with It.
That's the Urim Thummim of
this day, and God wants you to live by That. If it's not in the Word, then
forget about it and live for God, live for Christ.
And Jude calls them in attribute number 12. trees whose fruit withereth,
And we find in Scripture that men represent trees, the
righteous according to Psalms 1: 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his
delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law
doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he
shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are
not so: but are like the chaff which the
wind driveth away.
Now, chaff is the dried up part of the plant that dies
out as it dries up. and Jude said they are like trees who fruit withereth,
dies up.
And in fact he adds attribute number 13. without fruit,
And
brother Branham described this condition of no fruit in his sermon, Getting in the spirit 61-0428 P:31 What we need today is get back to God, get back to the
experience, get back. Well, it's in the seventh hour that they recognized that
they were out there without
fruit: no love. Fussing one another. "You're Oneness. And you're Threeness. And you belong to Assemblies. And
you're
Planting the vine and where to plant it 59-0920 P:25
Everything in the
desert has a sticker on it. Any little plant you come to, don't get near it;
it'll stick you. It's always got its stickers right out ready to stick anything
that comes near it. What's the matter? What made it a sticker? Is because it had no water. That's what dried it up.
That sticker is a leaf rolled up. For the lack of water, it becomes a
sticker. Thus it is
with the church today. That when the church gets away from the fountain of
Life, when it gets away from the joys of salvation, when it gets away from the
Lord God, then that person becomes a sticker, always finding fault, sticking.
Don't you...?... me come up. "I'm a Presbyterian,
I'm a Methodist, I'm a So-and-so. Don't talk to me
about that stuff." A sticker, it has no fruits. You take that same
plant, cactus, and put it into a land for a few generations where there's
plenty of water, and that sticker will unfold, and will come a soft leaf
bearing fruit.
And
attribute number 14. twice dead, Brother Branham describes what makes up this
condition in his sermon, Testimony on the sea 62-0720 P:51 Now, that would go right over the top of an unbeliever.
They'd never know it. They were predestinated to disbelieve the Word.
You believe that? Jude said so. "Men
of old, foreordained to this condemnation,"
to rise up in the last days to disbelieve God's Word. How many knows
that's the Scripture? Sure, foreordained of God to be unbelievers. What a
pitiful shape. Unbelievers, can't help it,
no more than Esau could help being Esau, or Pharaoh being Pharaoh. What a
pitiful condition. And if you are a believer tonight in the Word of God, how
blessed your eyes are to live in this day to see the glory of God, how it's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit throughout the world, if you're not so churched together,
and wound together by creeds and denominations, that you can't even listen to
the Word of God. What a horrible condition to be into: twice dead, plucked up by the roots, not a hope of ever being
saved. That's what the Scripture says: so dead that they don't even understand nothing but their
creeds.
If God be with us 61-1231E P:71 These so-called churches around the
countries today, say, "Well, where is all the miracles? We'll give a
thousand dollars for anybody that will produce a miracle." You,
poor, deliberated, backslidden, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, how are
you ever going to see a miracle until you become one? Glory.
A miracle of God's grace to take an unbelieving doubter and fill him with
the Holy Ghost... Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he
can't even see the
And then Jude calls them attribute number 15. plucked up by the roots;
Now, remember we just read that the Righteous are like a tree whose roots wither not,
because they are drinking from the
God's provided way of healing 54-0719A P:41
Now, what happened to
that tree? Jesus... How many knows that a tree has a germ of life? Everybody
does. If it didn't, it wouldn't live. Now, there was... Now watch,
the tree died from where? The roots.
The Bible was said it
was withered from the roots. Now, in the root was the tree's life.
Jesus didn't speak to the leaves, neither did He speak to the branches. He
never spoke to the roots, but He spoke to the life. And the life left
the tree. The tree was left standing without life. It was withering.
Is that right?
Matthew 13:3 And he spake many
things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed,
some seeds fell by
the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon
stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because
they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they
had no root, they withered away.
And attribute number 16. Jude
called them 13 Raging waves of the sea,
And the word raging
gives us a picture of being angry all the time, the word actually means "very wild, and causing much pain and distress."
And notice how he ties this attribute together with
number 17. foaming out
their own shame; And that is what takes place when the winds stir
up the waters. They throw up all the garbage that's in the waters onto the
beach.
We would see Jesus 61-0409 P:81 You said, "No man can come to Me,
except My Father draws him first." Many will see, and hear, and walk
continually in darkness, ordained to this condemnation, as said the Book of Jude. Perverse minds, souls that's wandering like
lost stars, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame of unbelief. To know tonight that we stand in the
Presence of the great Holy Spirit, Who brought the Word, Who wrote the Word,
Who confirms the Word, and brings Himself Present to fulfill the Word that He
has promised...
In conclusion we hear Jude call them in attribute
number 18. wandering stars, 19. to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Running
from this church to that church, to another and another not knowing where their
going. Turning down a vindicated prophet who told us these unstable
souls always wondering about this and that.
Greatest battle ever fought 62-0311 P:40 As the Bible speaks, "Wandering stars
(over in the book of Jude), foaming out their own shame..." And we don't
want to be wandering stars: wonder if this is right, wonder if that's
right, wonder if it will happen, wonder how it could be.
Don't wonder, stay like those stars of the heaven as a real soldier at his post
of duty. Stand there believing. Life and death...
And
when the mind wonders it begins to wander, and so does the body follow suit.
Running here and running there trying to find the truth, and the bible promised
this would be the condition at the end time, when they turn down the vindicated
truth they end up running to and fro looking for the Word and they won't find
it.
Amos 8:11 Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a
famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and
from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD,
and shall not find it.
In
his sermon, Power of transformation 65-1031M P:22 brother
Branham defines the wandering star as " And that's
what we become when we become wandering stars, away from God, just without
hope, without God, without, just churning around out in darkness,
not knowing where we're going. And God took that great chaos of darkness
and transformed it into a garden of Eden (See?) by His
Word. That's how we're transformed: by God's Word.
Let
us pray.