Christ
is the Mystery no. 33
Christian
means Christ-like
October 21,
2012
Brian
Kocourek
This morning I would like to continue with brother
Branham sermon “Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed” and
focus on paragraphs 74 and 75 where brother Branham hones in on what it really means
to be a Christian. Let’s just read for ourselves what he says here.
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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.
Now, before I read on I want you to know what brother
Branham is telling us here is very Scriptural even though the Fundamentalist
and Pentecostal will deny this. But Paul tells us this very plainly in Romans 8:16 The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God: Notice he tells us that “The Spirit
Itself is who bears witness with our spirit. And of course we know there is
only One THE Spirit and that is God’s own spirit. And brother Branham tells us
very plainly and straight forward the only way that
you can actually be a Christian is for Christ to identify Himself in you…. It's Christ identified in you; that's when He has recognized you.
Notice He recognizes you, not you recognizing Him. The
whole world recognizes that God is God, but they will not make Him the Lord of
their life now will they? We even have that problem right in this Message.
People living no higher than a denominational Baptist.
When I was in High school, I remember the days that
the Baptists didn’t go to school dances, or to the movie theatre or bowling
alley, and yet today we have believers in this Message who have let down the
bar and will not take to heart what Brother Branham said about it. Let me just read you a couple quotes from
brother Branham on that subject.
Jezebel
religion 61-0319 P:16 Them young girls so drunk they couldn't
hardly stand up, and in the room all night with them boys, and awfullest dirty
talk you ever heard in your life. I put pillows over my head like this to try
to go to sleep. Out in the floors, drunk, and running up and down the floors
like that, religious...Now, I can expect these sinful people like now, that
call themselves sports, out here in the bowling game. One of my kids would start towards a bowling alley, I'd run him out of
the country (uh-huh). Call that sport; that's not sports. What's this... If
you want to be right, get right with God. True.
Wisdom
verses faith 62-0401 P:144 How can the true Word of God grow on these
bobbed-hair, short-wearing, cigarette-smoking, bowling alley-hangers,
church-joiners? How can it do, when such pleasure-loving, seeking crowds as
that, hang out, and love such things as that, and loving of the world, how can
the love of God come in? How can the seed of God grow in such a ground as that?
It'll never take root; it'll never bring any life to it. It'll lay there on
them old dusty denominational rocks and rot away, but it'll never bring life.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Pleasure-seekers, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God--terrible, yet they're smart. They're twice as smart as the other class.
See? Sure. Smart, educated, wisdom-seekers just like Eve was, and they got the
same dose she got, just exactly. It's the truth.
The Baptist’s in the 70’ wouldn’t drink, smoke or chew
or go with them who do. They were more committed to living a Christian life
than kids in this Message today. Ah, but you say, “By Grace are we saved and not of works”.
Well, that may be true, but if you have the Spirit of God living in you won’t
do those things because He won’t go to those places. So who is controlling you?
Br. Branham continues in
paragraph 75 You “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.
Jesus said in John 6:57 “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”
So I have a right to
ask the question, by whom are you living by and for?
Galatians
5:25 If we
live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Now, that word IF is a very big word here because he
is telling us that IF we live in the Spirit then we will also be walking as the
Spirit would walk if it has control of our bodies.
Hebrews
12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of
spirits, and live? And how do we subject our spirit to the Father
and Live? By taking heed to His
Word, and not just showing it aside as so many do and say that was for another
age.
And listen, you can not expect to avoid
the curse of God if you do not take heed to His Word. That’s a promise of God.
Deuteronomy 28:1 And
it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee
on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all
these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the
city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks
of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall
be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou
comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Notice he said if you
hearken diligently, and that means you listen intelligently with an ear to hear
the instructions so you might do them. To pay close attention to do so you
might know. And now let’s read what happens when we fail to hearken or pay
close attention to the Voice of the Lord. Let’s jump ahead to view just a few
of the curses.
15 But
it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command
thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt
thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and
thy store. 18 Cursed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy
kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou
comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The
LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou
settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou
perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken me.
So don’t think “well, everything is ok, I go to church, I pay my tithes,
I support the work, so I am ok. And besides I have great health and a good job,
so I am blessed. Listen, this nation was blessed at one time, and at one time
according to the blessings of God she was the head but now that she is under
the curse she is the tail. At one time we were the most lending nation of all
time, and within one generation we are the most indebted nation of all time.
Now, I’m not up here to make you feel little, that’s not my purpose, I
want you to be conformed to the image of the first born son. But if you are
chasing the world, it shows the Holy Ghost doesn’t have pre-eminence in your
life.
Look, according to the Word of God, our very lives are supposed to be
written epistles. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch
as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
The early church were called Christians because they were so much like
Christ in the way they acted and talked and conducted their lives.
QA
Image of the beast
54-0515 P:32 There's
only one way to be a Christian. The word "Christian" means "Christ-like." And you can't do it; you can't work it in yourself; there's no way at all you can do it.
You have to forget yourself, die out to
yourself, and let Christ come in and live the Life of Christ in you.
Again from his sermon Images of Christ 59-0525
P:17 Brother Branham said, “It's been told me by
authorities, that before they had the days of the smelter to take the dross out
of gold, take the iron and the pyrite. The pyrite is so close like the real
gold, till it's called the fool's gold. But the way they got all that out, that
they beat it out with a hammer. The Indians used to do that. And the old
goldsmiths used to do it. Beat it with a hammer, and turn it over and over, and
beat until all the dross was out of it. And the only way that they knew that it
was down to the gold, was when the beater could see his reflection in it. The
one who was beating could constantly look until he could almost shave by his
own reflection in the gold that he was beating. And when the Holy Spirit of God begins to beat on us with the Gospel
hammer, until all of the things of the world is beaten out and we can reflect the image of the Lord God,
then I believe we become Christians.
For the word "Christian"
means "Christ-like," and
to reflect Him.
And from His sermon An Absolute 63-1201M P:49 “I asked him if he was a
Christian, said, "I'm an American. How dare you." Like that's got
anything to do with it? See, they're tied to a nation. The other one's tied to
an organization, dogmas. But a
"Christian" means "Christ-like." And only way you can be Christ-like is for Christ the Word to be in you.”
Again from his sermon Images of Christ
59-0525 P:39 he said, “Church membership is all right. I have
nothing against it, or any of those things. But, brother, to be a Christian means to be conformed to the image of Christ. We
want to be living images, not pack an image, but be an image of the Lord Jesus.”
The Apostle Paul said in Romans 8:13 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.
Now, before we go further into what brother Branham
was talking about in paragraphs 74 and 75 of Christ is the Mystery of God
Revealed, let’s step back a moment and read his words own that built up to
these statements that he makes on being Christ-Like.
Let’s begin with paragraph 65.
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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.
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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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69
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.
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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.
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He 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.
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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.
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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.
Notice he doesn’t say you being identified with
Christ, He says Christ Himself is identified IN you.
First the Apostle Paul tells us in verse 11: But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now, what he is telling us here is that
if God’s Spirit, because it was God that raised up Jesus from the dead, so if
God’s spirit is in you, it will quicken your mortal body. That means you will
become alive to God’s Word in your body not just in your soul.
Look, this word “quicken” means to make alive, and
what is it that he says will become alive? He says your mortal body. Now the
mortal body is the body you are living in right now. I disagree with those who
say we must wait until we get a body change, or we must wait until the
millennium to have victory in this flesh. What in the world did Christ die for
if not to give us that victory. Victory comes by overcoming, and that
overcoming produces character. And
overcoming is not a gift, it is something that is worked at.
Church
Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:18 Why
does He stand by? The reason is in Romans 8:17-18,
"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. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Unless we suffer with Him we cannot
reign with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that
character simply is never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from
character is Satanic. But power with
character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even His throne on
the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we
have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering we go
through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be
revealed in us when He comes. Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are
willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation.
Why do you think we
have failed to see much of John 14:12 in the church although William Branham
said it ought to be there just as sure as it was in the first church age? It’s
because we don’t have the same sacrifice, the same suffering, the same
character as was displayed in that early church.
Darkest
hour Jesus comes 55-1114 P:22 Now, God gave Him the Spirit without
measure. He gives it to you and I by measure. He measured me out a spoonful. But when He measured it out to His
Son, He measured the whole oceans. See what I mean? But notice, the same
chemicals that's in this spoon is in the whole ocean. And all the chemicals in
the ocean is in the or a measure of them is in this spoon. It's the same kind.
See, it'll do the same thing. It'll do
the same works. It'll produce the same Life. Don't you believe that? That's
what makes us Christians.
The
Fundamental Foundation for Faith 1953 "Now, if we could throw yourself completely to God and to His
will and be lost to our own thoughts,
and just let the mind of Christ be in us,
them same operations of the Spirit
would work through us just as
the natural things does, just the same thing. Because we were first created for that purpose to control, to rule,
and to praise God and to live for
God."
Christ
is the mystery 63-0728 P:122 If a man says he's born again and try to
place these promises of Christ in this last day to some other age, making Him
Christ yesterday, but not today, then that man or that person has been in a
delusion by Satan. And if that man says
that he believes that, and it doesn't manifest itself through him... Jesus
said in Mark 16, "These signs shall follow them that believe...
into all the world and to every age." Casting out devils,
and speaking with tongues, and all of these great manifestations of gifts that
would follow, that they shall, not that they maybe, they ought to; they will.
And heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word won't.
Brother Branham said in his sermon, Blind
Bartimaeus 55-0818 P:14 Those Pharisees read the same Bible that
the apostles read, but they didn't have faith to put into practice what they read. Every denomination today reads
the same Bible. But what I want to see, somebody's
got faith enough, that'll step out and take the word of it. Amen. That's
what we need, somebody to practice what they believe. Faith without works is dead. Doesn't do you any good to have faith.
You say, "I believe that's the
Bible." Well, if it is the
Bible, It's got promises. And if you believe that's true, well, the only
thing you have to do is to let your faith loose with it. Practice what you believe. Every bit's a seed.
Brother Branham spoke of
From his sermon Smyrnaean church age 60-1206
P:8 said, “Another thing that I'd like to read you,
it's found in the book: "How Did It Happen?" by R. C. Hazeltine, the
history of the early churches. And here on page 180, "The spiritual Gifts In Irenaeus' Time, A.D. 177 to 202." Now,
the reason I'm quoting this, it's going on tape (You see?), and it'll be taken off on books." It was in Irenaeus' time that most of the
apostolic
St. Columba manifested mighty works of
Christ and also raised the dead as did the Apostle Paul. Brother Branham spoke of Columba many times
and in his sermon, Messiah the 61-0117 P:27 I wonder where people that don't believe in signs and wonders following
the believers... How would you ever
read the history of the church and think it ceased with the apostles? In
the church ages... I read the Nicene Fathers, the Nicene Council, oh, all the
ancient writers I could think of, reading Hislop's "Two Babylons" and
many of the other ancient books. And all the way down to the early Catholic
church... Down for the first six hundred years after Christ, there was Irenaeus,
75
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.
In the Church Age Book Chapter 2 - The
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That's the way the church is. The vine
has been split and limbs have been grafted in. They have grafted in Baptist
limbs, Methodist limbs, Presbyterian limbs, and Pentecostal limbs. And those
limbs are bearing Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian fruit.
(Denominational seeds from which they produce their fruit.) But if the vine ever brings forth another
branch of itself, that branch will be exactly like the vine itself. It will
be the same kind of a branch that was brought forth at Pentecost. It will speak
in tongues, prophesy, and have the power and signs of the resurrected Jesus
Christ in it. Why? Because it's thriving on the natural resources of the vine
itself. You see, it wasn't grafted into
the vine; it was BORN in the vine. When those other branches were grafted in, all they could do was bear their
own fruit for they were not born of that vine. They don't know about that original life and original fruit.
They cannot know for they were not
born of it. But if they had
been born of it, that same life that was in the original stem (Jesus) would
have come through them and manifested through them. John
14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father."
33 Denominations which are man directed cannot be born of God; for
it is the Spirit, NOT MAN, that
gives life.
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How thrilling it is to think of those seven lamps drawing life and light from
the resources of that main bowl because they had their wicks dipped therein.
Each church age messenger is depicted here. His life is on fire with the Holy
Ghost. His wick (life) has been immersed in Christ. Through that wick he is
drawing the very life of Christ, and by it gives out light to the church. What
kind of a light is he giving? The very same light that was in the first lamp
that was lit. And right on down the ages to the present time of the last day
messenger the same life and the same light is manifested by a life that is hid
with Christ in God.
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Not only can we speak thus of the messengers, but every true believer is dramatically depicted here. They are all drawing from the same source.
They have all been dipped into the same bowl. They are dead to themselves and
their lives are hid with Christ in God. They are sealed in by the Holy
Ghost. Ephesians 4:30, "And grieve not the Holy Spirit
of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."
No man can pluck them out of His hand. Their
lives cannot be tampered with. The visible life is burning and shining,
giving light and manifestations of the Holy Ghost. The inner, invisible life is hidden in God and fed by the Lord's Word.
Satan cannot touch them. Not even death
can touch them, for death has lost its sting; the grave has lost its
victory. Thanks be unto God, they have this victory in and through the Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Faith
once delivered to the saints 57-0610 P:46 Now, if Jesus Christ, God's Son, said,
"These signs shall follow them that believe. The works that I do shall you also. These
things that I do, you'll do
it also. I'll be with you even in you
to the end of the world," then the disciples followed right behind Christ, doing the very same things that He did. That's
right. Exactly. When they found out that Peter and John were ignorant and
unlearned men... They wasn't educated, neither was they smart. But they had to
take notice that they had been with Jesus, because the Spirit that was in Jesus was in them doing the same things Jesus did, taking the same kind of a motive. And everything that Jesus had, that's what they
had. You don't have to be smart, you don't have to have an education. You just have to have a willing heart.
God sends His faith down, His power. Faith is power.
New
ministry 59-1115 P:85 When he was here on earth, He told Peter, "On the revelation
of the Word of God," He said, "upon this rock, I will build My Church, and the gates of hell
cannot prevail against It." Isn't that right? All right. When He was... 'Fore He left,
in Mark 16, He said, "These signs shall follow
them that believe." Did He say it? "In My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new
tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things." He also said, "The works that I do, shall you do also." Is that right? That's
the signs that's to follow His Church. It's not a denomination.
It's a ordained of God, Holy Ghost filled, heaven born Church that comes out of
all denominations, a real believing bunch of people. Don't
you see what the greater thing is? That's the
greatest thing that could ever happen was to impart Eternal Life to people. 56
What is Eternal Life? The Life that He lived, the
Life that was in Him: impart that to others. Can a man
do that? A Son of God can. … There's
the greater works.
From the
beginning it wasn't so 59-1125 P:3 Jesus said at the beginning, "The works that I do, shall you do also." That's the way it was at the
beginning. What kind of a works did He do at the beginning? The same works that He's
doing now. What kind of a church did He have at the beginning? A
church that was filled with the Spirit, that healed
the sick, and prophesied, and great signs
and wonders. And it wasn't ashamed of the religion.
They shouted and danced under the Spirit like drunk men, and had cloven tongues
like fire set upon them. And they done signs and wonders,
and exploits followed them. That's the kind it was at the beginning.
That's the kind it'll be in the middle. That'll be the kind it'll be at the
last. You say, "My
church don't teach that." Well, it
wasn't so from the beginning. You say, "I'm a Methodist." It
wasn't so from the beginning. "I'm a Baptist." It wasn't so from the
beginning." I'm a Lutheran." It wasn't so from the beginning. They
were baptized saints of God with the Holy Ghost. That's what the
beginning was: signs and
wonders. You say "My church don't believe in it." It wasn't so from
the beginning. "My church don't believe in seeing visions." It
wasn't so from the beginning.
Messiah
the 61-0117 P:62 They look like him. They act like him. They
are his flesh, his blood, his spirit. Amen. That's the way God's church is, His Eaglets, His Messiahettes. They
look like Him; they act like Him; they preach like Him; they do the works that He did. "The
things that I do shall he also. More than this shall he do, 'cause I go to the
Father." Amen. "These signs shall follow My eaglets."
Amen "They'll do just as I do. If My
Spirit's in them, then they'll do the works that I do. If they don't
do the works I do, it's because that My Spirit's not in them."
Be not
afraid 63-0607 P:42 And Jesus said, "Who
can accuse Me of unbelief?" And, "If
I don't do the works of My Father,
then don't believe Me. But if I do the works, and yet you can't believe Me,
believe the works that I do." So, you see, here He was doing the same thing that God did.
Now, I want to ask you brethren, if
the life of Jesus Christ is in the church, then surely the church would do the
same thing He did, because the same life is in it. If here stands a
peach tree, and I take all the peach life out of it, and put apple life in it,
what kind of a fruit will it bear? Apples. That's the kind of life that's in
it. Well then, if the life that was in
Christ is in us, it'll bear the fruits that He bore. It's got to.
God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:36 Notice
now, we find that if He identified... The
works that He did identified that He was Deity, showed that He was. For He
said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me."
And could not the Christian say
today, "If I do not the works of my Saviour, believe me not"?
See?" As the Father sent Me, so send I you." And if you did the works, creation works of the Father that sent Him, then
it's a creation... The Christ the Creator that sends us, does the works of
Christ the Creator. See? "As the Father sent Me, so send I you. And if
I do not the works of My Father, believe me not." Then the Christian today has got to do the Life that Christ did or we
have a right to say, "It's not so."
Be certain of God 59-0708E P:49 If
I had the Spirit of Christ, I'll do the
works of Christ. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My
Father, then believe Me not." And if the church does not do the works of Christ, then don't believe that
church. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."
And we've perverted it by works of man,
doctrines of man. The Bibles said, "In the last days, they'd be heady,
high-minded, and lovers of pleasure more than of God, truce breakers, false
accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good." You say,
"Them's communists." No, them's
Christians, so-called, and church members. "Having the form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof."
Saying, "Oh, God did that in another age, not this age." The Bible
said, "From such, turn away." We're living in that day.
Love 58-0313 P:62 Any
spirit, anything, any life will bear
record of itself. Now, if that Angel of God Who's picture you see here, if that Angel of God is the Christ, it'll
bear the works of Christ. How many knows that? It'll bear the works of Christ. If it don't bear the works of Christ,
then it isn't Christ. If I had the spirit of John Dillinger, I'd have guns;
I'd be a...?... character. Whatever
spirit you are, that's what bears your record.
Perseverant
64-0305 P:44 No, she wasn't a hybreed, as a so-called
crop of believers is today. What did she do? She admitted He was right. The
Word and faith always admits the Word is right. Amen. If your faith don't
punctuate every Word of God's Word with "amen," there's something
wrong with your experience. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever. If it don't say "amen" to that, then there's something wrong.
Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also."
If it don't say "amen" to
that, then there's something wrong. If it don't punctuate every Word of God's
promise, with an "amen," there's something wrong.
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.
Absolute
the 62-1230M P:66 Then
when we know that our actions is
exactly with the Word, we know our
teaching is perfect with the Word, adding nothing or taking nothing, just
the Word; and we see the same results
that others who anchored to the same Word living up in our life, then your
anchor holds. The Life of Christ being reproduced in almost an incarnate way
through you as it was in Christ, because
it was God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And you see God in
yourself holding that same keel on the Word, just exactly the way Jesus did,
and you see His Life..."The works that I do shall you do also. He
that believeth... (Not
him that maketh believe, he that
thinks he believes, but he that believeth) He
that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also."
Why? He's anchored to the same Rock. What was the Rock? The Word, always.
You're anchored there.
Love 58-0313 P:62 Any spirit, anything, any life will bear record of
itself. Now, if that Angel of God Who's picture you see here, if that Angel
of God is the Christ, it'll bear the works of Christ. How many knows that?
It'll bear the works of Christ. If it don't bear the works of Christ, then
it isn't Christ. If I had the spirit of John Dillinger, I'd have guns; I'd
be a...?... character. Whatever spirit you are, that's what bears your
record.
God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:36 Notice
now, we find that if He identified... The works that He did identified that He
was Deity, showed that He was. For He said, "If I do not the works of My
Father, then don't believe Me." And could not the Christian say today,
"If I do not the works of my Saviour, believe me not"? See?"
As the Father sent Me, so send I you." And if you did the works, creation
works of the Father that sent Him, then it's a creation... The Christ the
Creator that sends us, does the works of Christ the Creator. See? "As
the Father sent Me, so send I you. And if I do not the works of My Father,
believe me not." Then the
Christian today has got to do the Life that Christ did or we
have a right to say, "It's not so."
Be certain of God 59-0708E P:49 If I told you I had the spirit of
Al Capone, you'd better call the police in and arrest me; I might have his gun.
If I told you I had the spirit of some famous artist, you'd expect me to paint
these hills out here just as natural as they are. 'Cause that's what the artist
would do if I had his spirit. If I had the Spirit of Christ, I'll do the
works of Christ. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then
believe Me not." And if the church does not do the works of Christ,
then don't believe that church. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow
them that believe." And we've perverted it by works of man, doctrines
of man. The Bibles said, "In the last days, they'd be heady,
high-minded, and lovers of pleasure more than of God, truce breakers, false
accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good." You say,
"Them's communists." No, them's
Christians, so-called, and church members. "Having the form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof." Saying, "Oh, God did that in another
age, not this age." The Bible said, "From such, turn
away." We're living in that day.
Mark of the beast 61-0217 P:38 When God sends something and
you fail to walk in it, then you're out; that's all. You either do or you don't. That's the way it was.
All that didn't get in the ark, drowned, and that was all there was to it, no
matter who they was. That's the same thing, all that's not in Christ today will
perish without Christ. It's true. So you can't say, "I'm a Methodist, or
Baptist, or Pentecostal, or anything else; you've got to be of Christ. And if
you're of Christ, you do the works of Christ. That bears record and proves
that it is. It's just as clear as the Scripture, I know how to say it.
That's just as plain as the big nose on this face of mine.
Have faith in God 58-0510 P:50 Any vine bears fruit through the
branch of what it is. If it don't do the same thing Jesus did, then it's not
Jesus. Certainly. If God told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, I'd
have guns, and I'd be dangerous. If God told you the spirit of an artist was in
me, you'd expect me to paint the picture of the artist. If I say, "The
Spirit of Christ in me," then it produces the works of Christ. He promised
it.
Let us pray…