Christ is the Mystery no 216
Review no 39 Twins no 14
This evening we will continue in our study of Twins looking
at another difference between the elect and non elect and that difference is
the Life they receive, Eternal Life vs temporary life.
Those Who are ordained to Eternal
Life:
Jesus said in 1John
Now, Now, the word hath that Jesus used
here was translated from the Greek word echo, so what Jesus
is saying is He that believeth on the Son of God echos the witness in himself: And to echo the witness that is within you there
are two things.
1) First of
all you have to have the witness in you which is the
Same Spirit that was in Him, the Spirit of the Father which is the Same Holy
Spirit.
That's what Paul told us in Romans
Now, we do not have
time to go into this specifically, but there are 18 Scriptures that show us
that it was God Himself that raised up Jesus the first born son from the dead,
so we will give you just two of the 18 scriptures for a witness.
The first is Acts
The second is Acts 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel,
that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,
even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Now, back to Romans 8 and we'll pick up at verse 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the
flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the
flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the
body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye
have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the
Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The
Spirit itself (and there is only
one THE SPIRIT and that is God's
Spirit)
The Spirit itself beareth
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. 18 For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory (doxa, the values, opinions, and judgments of God) which shall be revealed in us.
So
we see those values, opinions, and
judgments are to reflect in us, to
be revealed in us as Paul says. That is what Paul means by God's Spirit bearing witness with our spirit. Because no man can do what God
can do, so when those things are reflected in us, it is not us but "For it is God
which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Philippians
2:13
Now, back to 1 John
So we see the fact
that His Life reflecting or echoing in your life shows that His Life is bearing
an outward witness that His Life is living your life for you.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; What John is telling us here is He that "echoes" the Son "echoes" life and he that hath (echoes) not the Son of God hath (echoes) not life.
Now, you can't get
much plainer than that. He that echoes the son echoes life and therefore if
your life is not an echo of His life it shows that His life is not living your klife for you, and thus His life is not in you.
Now, you might say,
"well, I got the Holy Ghost but I just can't
live it." Then if you can't live it, that shows you don't have
it. That's not legalism, that's Bible fact.
This same John also said, 1
John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Now, if His Spirit is
living in you, then greater is His Spirit living in
you than your own spirit which is of the world. But by saying "you
can't live it" you are in essence saying you do not have His Spirit working in you both to will and to do. Either
that or you are professing your own spirit is greater than God's spirit in you,
take your pick, either one your off the Word.
Then John says 13 These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye (echo)
eternal life, and that ye may believe
on the name of the Son of God.
Now, John tells us the
reason he wrote what he did is because he wants us to know that what we are
echoing is eternal Life. For what good would it do for you to echo eternal life
without knowing that what you are echoing is eternal life?
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth
us: You see, not
only is His LIfe living itself out in you, but
because it is His life living itself out in you, he understands what it is that
you are asking, and your motives and objectives for asking. Remember, hear
means to understand.
Now, again John is not
speaking of a confidence that we have, as though we possess this confidence on
our own self accord, but we have this confidence because we know we are echoing
the Life of the Son in our bodies. 14 And this is the confidence that we Echo in him,
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth
us:
So our echoing Him he
says here is the evidence of the confidence. It's like the young child learning
to walk, at first it just doesn't know how, and so it has to always depend on
the Father (or mother) to help it walk. But it learns to walk by watching the
Father (or mother). I like that, because he tells us when we come to the place
that we are echoing, it shows we have the confidence that He is living our life
for us. And then he says, and this is the confidence we have in echoing him,
when we ask, he's there living in us to answer our request. You see, when He is
living your life for you, and you know it, then it gives you confidence to know
that he also hears your prayers, and that He is not somewhere way off in the
galaxy somewhere else, but that He is right here (in your heart) and He is ready
to answer your request as soon as you ask it, in fact even before you verbally
ask it he tells us he will answer. So while you are yet thinking it, He is
cohabitating in your body like he did the son, and before you even open your
mouth to ask, He is already beginning to answer your request. That is when you
know that you and He are One, just Like Jesus and the
Father were one.
Brother Branham says in Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728 P:218 How do you know? 'Cause you're a church member?
Because Christ is living through you; so pregnated with His Spirit that
you're a prisoner to anything else. You're confined (oh, my.) to the Gospel,
confined to the Word. And all the children that you can bring forth is that, 'cause you're a prisoner. You can't commit
adultery; you're already pregnated. Glory. He can't
take a hold. The womb of life is closed to anything else. You're already His by
predestination. That Seed has come to Life. No world can get in. Oh. Oh, how
we'd like to stay on this for about a hour. I'm sure
you understand. See? Christ and His alone... already finished; the Seed was
there. The Seed was already... When was it put there? Before the foundation of
the world, has predestinated us unto Eternal Life. And as soon as the
Life-giving flow, that Seed laying there... Other
seed's that just would come in wouldn't take hold, just couldn't do it (like).
But when that Seed come in, quickly it stopped up the womb; all the rest of the
seed was drove out (see, like that), and you become a prisoner surrounded in
Christ, Christ in you, His Life bringing forth His evidence, His signs. Oh,
my, my, my. Look, bringing His signs of Life as an evident of His
resurrection, proving to the world that Eternal Life,
vindicates to the world that we're alive in Him. And think of it. Alive with God our Redeemer, Who created us for the very same
purpose (the Church) and His creative Life in us. That is... Moses could
said by the Word of God, "Let there come..."
and there come flies. A God can make flies can make squirrels. See? He can do
whatever He wants to...?... God.
So he speaks to us and tells us there is coming a day
when this will become a reality. He says in John
Again in 1 John
And how is it
you know He hears you? Because
you and he are one. Your life is echoing His Life.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P: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 a-vindicated--vindicates to the world that we are alive in
Him. Whew.
John 16:23 And in that day ye
shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he
will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked
nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25 These things have I spoken
unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak
unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly
of the Father. 26 At that day ye
shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for
you: 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved
me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again,
I leave the world, and go to the Father.
In other words there is coming a
day he said, "when you ask",
you won't be asking the son, you will be going directly to the Father in the
name of the son Jesus. You won't need ask the son of God but you will
go to the Father of the Son, in the name of the Son, and you will ask, and God,
your Father will answer.
Revelation
21:3 And I heard
a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God.
Hebrews 11:16
But now
they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
2
Corinthians
Hebrews
8:10... I will
put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to
them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Now, that brings us back to John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory (the
doxa, the values, and opinions and judgments) which
thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:247 "The
Now,
listen, what we are looking at here is an hour that we know that we and the Father
are one just like Jesus and the Father were one. In that Day, when our life echoes the same
life that echoed in Jesus then we will know and have confidence
that when we ask anything,
that He is already here, (in our heart) to answer what we have asked.
And that is why John
John
Notice Jesus says,
"your asking and my doing shows God-Life is
magnified in the very Life-expression which is in me and in you. That is what
that word glorified means. It's from "doxazo".
Meaning the doxa (the values, opinions, and judgments), expressed in the zo
or zoe which is the very life. God expressed Life,
hallelujah.
Then
Jesus says when you are living that kind of God expressed Life, 14 If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If ye love me, keep my
commandments. 16 And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever; 17 Even The Spirit of
truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth
him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you
comfortless: (orphanos, I will not leave you orphans, and
when is an orphan no longer an orphan? At the time of
adoption. And at the time of adoption) I will
come to you. (you
will know by my Parousia, my presence, that the time of adoption is at hand.) 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me
no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20 At that day ye shall know that
I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and
will manifest myself to him.
And what is this manifestation? It is the revealing of
Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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 Himself 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:65 Now, here He says, "Search the Scriptures; they testify of Me.
In them you think you have Eternal Life (and that's true), and they are the one
that bear record of Me, and I'm bearing record of
them. And if I do not the works that's promised that I would do, then don't
hear Me. But if I do the works and you can't believe Me, believe the works," because they testify that He is the Word. Oh, it
looks like it couldn't be any plainer. See? All
right. Now, search the Scriptures. He said Moses and all the laws and so
forth, and the prophets, and Psalms spoke of Him, and again He said the
Scriptures testify of Him.
1 John
Now, to save time let's just read a few more verses of
scripture showing the promise we have of eternal Life, God Life.
1John
1John 3:1-2 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore
the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but
we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we
shall see him as he is. 3 And every man
that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as
He (God) is
pure.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth (understands) my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath (echoes) everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but
is passed from death unto life.
Now, remember, the
word "heareth"
was defined by God's prophet to means he that
understands my word. and to only those who
understand and then believe will echo Eternal life, which is God-Life.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they that hear (understand) shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to (echo) life in
himself;
John
48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in
the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which
cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I
am the living bread
which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for
ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove
among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his
flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the
Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, hath (echoes) eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat
indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that
eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which
came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that
eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
John10:27 My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them
eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and
no man is able to
pluck them out of my
Father's hand.
John 17:3 And this is life
eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent.
Colossians 3:4 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who
is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Hebrews 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after
the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
1Peter
Acts13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were
glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Romans
Now, in closing let's look at the other seed, the
false vine, the other class as brother Branham spoke of, those who have turned
down the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. These have no Eternal Life but possess earthly sensual beast life
Isaiah 40:7-8 The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The
grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
James
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they
are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
1Peter
Isaiah1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of
the sinners shall be together, and they that
forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Isaiah 24:1-6 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof. 2 And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with
his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with
the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of
usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth
and fadeth away, the
haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Isaiah 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even
a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of
their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to
hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark,
and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth
us? 16 Surely
your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay:
for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or
shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
In closing let's read from Malachi
4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,
and all that do
wickedly, shall
be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, that it shall
leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But
unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And
ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the
LORD of hosts. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all
let us pray