Christ
is the Mystery no. 27
What
is Your Absolute?
September 19,
2012
Brian
Kocourek
Tonight I am going to do a lot of reading from
paragraph 60 through paragraph 75. We are going to cover a whole lot of ground
tonight, but this is to get us ready in our minds and hearts to go deeper into
these nest 15 paragraphs from Christ is the Mystery of God revealed.
But tonight we will just read and comment as we go
along. So let us open our booklets if you have them, to paragraph 60 of Christ
is the Mystery of God revealed. Now, brother Branham had just read from Luke 24
where Jesus was talking to Cleopas and the other disciple on their road to
Emmaus as we pick up on paragraph 60. And now, reason I never took to preach
this morning was because I thought in teaching we would understand it better
than just to take a text and skip over it; we'd just teach it.
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Now, He was saying that all the Psalms
and all the prophets spoke of Him. Well, therefore, that shows that all of the Old Testament, all of the New Testament, and all of the Psalms, the singing, the songs that were sung, were sung of Him. Take the
22nd Psalm and sing it and compare it with the morning of the crucifixion. See?
"My God, my God, why has Thou forsaken me? All My bones, they
stare at Me. They pierced My feet and My hands." Yet, all those things
there... Them singing that Psalm down there in the temple and crucifying the
very One... See? See, those great
religious leaders, those great men, those great teachers (and yet so blinded) that was reading the prophets and was singing the songs, and doing the crime that they said they
would do. The same thing is taking place this morning.
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Now, listen close, 'cause now I ain't going to even pay attention to what that
clock says. I want you to get this. See? I don't care. See? So you can see
here, basically in the beginning the
very thought that God had in His mind, He hid it from all of those scholars.
And that just a number, a selected
predestinated number, a predestinated people was the only ones that heard it.
And now, search back the Scripture down
through the age of the prophets and see if it wasn't the same thing. See?
Now, and Jesus here referring them to the prophets and the Psalms, He said they all spoke of Him. See? And here
these Jewish teachers, rabbis, doctors of the law, professors
had did exactly like they had done before.
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Now, notice. Again He said, "Search the Scriptures for they
are they that testify of Me." Search the Scriptures, the
Scriptures, the entire Scriptures.
What am I trying to do? To show you that
this Bible is the thing that's right.
The how is it we have men
who claim to believe this prophet and then deny what he says to be the truth. Men
who would argue with the prophet and say what he says is not in the Bible. Show
me one man in this hour who knew more than this Prophet of God did when it
comes to the Revealed word for this age? There isn’t any. No not one. O there
were some who knew the Message fairly well, but even brother Vayle would tell
you he didn’t know nothing back in those days and yet brother Branham said he
knew more than most. But he even thought things brother Branham said were far
out, such as when he heard brother Branham say, “The
Shout is the Message” and brother Vayle said “just hold it”. I said, “that is the strangest thing I ever heard Brother Branham say.
I said, “personally Brother Branham, what I heard you say, I don’t know…I don’t
think I can take it.” And something inside of me said, “But when was he ever
wrong?” Well, I said, “shout is the Message.”
Now, listen, this tells me that had it not been for
the Holy Ghost correcting br. Vayle he would have walked off from this Message,
because his own testimony said, “I can’t
hardly take it.”
Now, let me tell you something. Brother Vayle had his
own mind to contend with which was filled with so much denominational crud that
it was a real struggle for him to die to self. He told me one time, Brian, you and Alfonse were raised Catholic
and I find it very refreshing to talk to you both because your minds are not
filled with so much theology and Scripture that you have already learned from a
denominational slant. Because Catholics hardly have any Scripture, just
some stories and tradition. That’s about all. And so he told me that the people who come into this message from
the Catholic church or just rank heathens coming in have no trouble picking up
what Brother Branham taught, whereas those people who come to this Message from
Baptist or Pentecostal background. have so much scripture they’ve already
learnt with a wrong twist that they have a constant battle with things that
brother Branham brought to us.”
Now, that is what Br. Lee told me several times. And I
know by his own confession he had to die to Lee Vayle’s thinking and he
struggled with that because he came to this Message knowing a whole lot of
Scripture, and many things he had right but a few he didn’t have right, and had
to re-learn all over. Such as whether the bride goes through the tribulation or
not..
And let me tell you, if you think you know this Word
and your thoughts are contrary to what this vindicated prophet brought, then
you don’t know what you think you know.
Brother Branham
continues in paragraph 64 The other day, standing in a hospital room
talking... A sister had asked me to explain about denominations, why we was
against denominations, with some denominational people. You see, it's got to come back to the Word because
the Word is God. See? And Jesus declaring the same here that the Word is
Him. You can't make the Scripture contradict Itself. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh."
See?
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.
Now, in his sermon The Spoken word original
seed 62-0318E P:144 Brother Branham explains this further by saying
“Now, the body carries on
the works and does the works that the
Head commands it to do. Tell me where He ever said, "organize." Tell me where the Head
says it's all right for woman to cut their hair. Huh. Mention it; it's not there. Tell me where the Head
ever said, "These works I do, but you shall not do them."
Tell me that. But the Head said this (if you want to put the Scripture down,
I'll give it to you: John
14:12), "The works that I do, shall you
also." That's His
body. See?
Notice that Brother
Branham is telling us that John 14:12 is for the body. He says it is the body
that does it. And yet I can take and show you a brother right in this Message
that read this and said, “The Bible doesn’t say that!! The bible says “He”
as if he knew more than a vindicated prophet. All I can say is God have mercy
on anyone who would fuss with a vindicated prophet.
Again brother Branham
said, Tell me
where the Head ever said, "These works I
do, but you shall not do them." Tell me that. But the Head said this (if you want to
put the Scripture down, I'll give it to you: John 14:12),
"The works that I do, shall you also." That's His
body. See? See now, why I have been so zealous of the kind of seed that I
have planted for the body? The rain's going to fall pretty soon; I mean the real rain. And it's got to have Seed to fall on. I hope I live to see it. Do you
understand now? It will be the living
Word as it was at the beginning, the spoken Word of God, have His power; for it
is in Him in His own body, working His own way. Look to the promises that
God gave this body.
Now, let’s continue
with Christ is the Mystery of God
revealed…66 He is the
principal Theme of the entire Bible. If
you read the Bible and don't see Christ in every verse of It, go back and read
It again. See? If you can't see
Christ in every verse of the Bible, then you read It again, because you've
missed something. The Bible is
Christ. He is the Word. When you
read, "In
the beginning God created..." there's Christ. See? Every... From that to the "Amen"
in Revelations is every Word testifying of Jesus Christ. That's why these added
books that's called II Book of Daniel and the Book of the Maccabees, Agges
Purgatory, and stuff like that... See, it's not spoke of in the Scripture. See?
It doesn't theme up with the rest of It.
There's no place to place purgatory in there. There's no place to place
intercession of saints, and things; there's no place in there for that. There's
no place for denomination. There's no place for creeds outside of the Bible.
See? So when you see those things, they just don't come into the picture.
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And that's why people has added those
and got their jigsaw puzzle all mixed up. See? They can't make it right
"same yesterday, today, and forever."
But if the thing's put together right,
there's the entire picture of the fall and regeneration, the whole picture of
creation, and God's whole plan revealed right in Jesus Christ. Amen. That's
the whole picture set together, every little crook and corner. It's just
like... Now, I don't mean to be sacrilegious by this, but it's just like
putting a jigsaw puzzle together. That's why we've got pictures today that
looks horrible: say, "We are
believers," and a cow picking grass up in top of a tree. It don't
work. That's when they say, "Yeah, He's every way, but just of a certain... He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever all but a certain thing."
See? Then you ruin your picture. The Bible said He is the same.
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Now, you realize that any of these places here you could take a text, and it's
just hard for a preacher to hold his peace. He look like he want to keep going
with it, but you got to get back to what we're teaching on. He is the principle theme of the Bible.
He was in the prophets; He was in the Psalms; He was in the history
of the Bible. The Bible is a prophetic Book; It's a historical Book; It's a
Book of love. It's a Book of songs; It's a Book of Life, and in there you find
Christ. He was in the prophets; He was in the Psalms; He was in the history;
and He also in the Bible is the things that is to come. So He was before and
for after. What does that make Him then? The same yesterday, today, and
forever.
70 And, you inject something in there that doesn't
make Him the same yesterday, today, and forever, Brother Lee, where do you go to? You got an awful
picture there. For He was the history (See?), and He is the Prophet; He is
the Psalms; He is everything. And if you can't make Him everything and the
same, what's your picture look like? Do you see it? All right.
71He is the same. He was the prophets; He was in them; He was in the Psalms;
He was in the history; and He is the things to come, the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrew
13:8, if you're writing it down). He should be then... He should be the principal... If that's
what He is, and we believe it, don't we? Then if He is that, then He should be the principal Theme of our
talking, of our thinking, of our singing, of our walks; He should be the
principal Theme of our life. If He's
the principal Theme of the Bible, and the Bible is in us, then He should be the
principal Theme of everything that we do, say, or think, should be Christ.
Is that right? All right.
72 Since we think
this, since He's been made the Head of all things to us... The Colossians said
so here. He's the Head of all things to
us for He was made for us, which we are considered all things. You
say, "What about the sinner?" He was made to be the Judge of the
sinner, if he don't accept it. He was
made the Glory for the believer who does accept it. So there thing... All
things was made by Him and for Him. And it takes the night to express the glory
of the day. It takes the vessel of dishonor to express the love and care for
the vessel of the honored. It takes an evil woman that would wear immoral
clothes and sell her morals to express the virtue of a decent genuine lady.
See? It takes the crook and a thief in a man to express the genuineness of a
real believer, a real Christian. It takes the hypocrite to show up the
believer, what he is.
73 So
all things was made by Him. And since He was made--all things--made for all of
us; all things was made for--by Him, then since that is true, we should
make--our identification should be with Him. We should be identified, ourselves, with Him, because He has identified
Himself with us. We should be identified with Him. How? By living for Him, not just a
confession. So many people take a confession and say... I say... It's got to
this place now: "Are you a Christian?" "I'm Methodist."
Well, that's a long way from making yourself known as a Christian. Now, look
what the Methodist does. "I'm Baptist." Look what the Baptist does. "I'm
Catholic." Look what they do. See?
74 But the only way that you can actually be a
Christian is for Christ to identify Himself in you. How... We got some a
stinger there. I hope everybody on the tape gets that too. See, see? You say,
"I'm Pentecostal." That don't mean a thing. It's Christ identified in you; that's when He has recognized you.
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Say, "I spoke with tongues." Devils does, too. "I shouted."
The Mohammedans, Buddhas, and everything shouts. The Indians scream at the
snake dance. See? Sure. They all do. Cults, clans and everything else scream
and holler. They holler and shout at a baseball game. But when Christ is identified in you, identifying Himself, then you are
Christ-like; which the word Christian means to be Christ-like. There's your identification. All right.
Now... And since He is our identification, then we should be identified with
Him by living for Him.