Christ
is the Mystery no. 78
Attributes of a Son of God no 10
The Same Works
Brian Kocourek
This morning before our message, we will
dedicate little Silas Andrew Shearer, the son of Nathan and Rebeccah
shearer.
Deut 6: 4-9 4Hear, O
Now, what I would like to
focus on is verse 7 for it has words that strike home how important it is for
us to teach our children’s minds.
In verse 7 of
the NIV it tells us Impress them on your children. Talk of them when
you sit in your home and
when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Now, verse 7 in the Amplified version is even more memorable, it says, “And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be first in your mind heart; (now, that is the problem I have seen in
this Message the most. When children go wayward it is usually because the
parents do not have a true revelation themselves. The children see mom and dad
as hypocrites and know that that just play church and it is a social thing for them,
but because they are not driven by this word, the children do not come into the
proper manner of importance as they should have. I know that I must seem to many as a fanatic because of the strong stands I have
taken over the years, but I would rather know my soul is right with God and
have His approval than to have a large church full of compromising people.
Notice next what he tells us to do). then (when?
After you have established the word of God as first in your own mind and heart, then) you shall whet and
sharpen them, so to make them penetrate,…
Now, the scripture uses
symbolism here to get the message across. If you wish for a knife or dagger to
cut deeper into the flesh, you must first make sure it is very, very sharp, so
you use a wet stone to sharpen the blade in order to make it penetrate as deep
into the body as it can possibly penetrate. So he says.. you shall whet and
sharpen them, so to make them penetrate, and teach (that’s
number 1) and impress
them diligently upon the minds and hearts of your children, (that’s
number 2) and (number 3) You shall talk of them
when you sit in your house, and (number 4) when you walk by the way, and (number 5) when you lie down and (number 6) when
you rise up."
I hope you can see the importance of not being
wishy-washy with your children. We see that the people were commanded to place
pictures and Scriptures and all sorts of things that the children will actually
see with their eyes and when they see with their eyes it will have an influence
in their minds and in their hearts.
Now, we have already
explained what it means to wet and sharpen the Scriptures to your children, but
what does it mean when it says to imprss them upon
the minds of your children. It tells us how to do it. It says, You shall talk
of them when you sit in your house, and (number 4) when you walk by the way, and (number 5) when you lie down and (number 6) when
you rise up."
But what does it mean to
IMPRESS them upon their minds. The word Impress means 1. To
affect strongly,
favorably: 2. To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or
image of: 3. To mark or stamp with or as if with pressure: impressed a design on the hot wax. 4. To apply with pressure; press.
So it is not a laid back
attitude you are to take with your children, It is an attitude that when they
do wrong, it seems like the end of the world. You do not impress without a
press, for the word is IM-PRESS as in making an imprint. When you press a coin
into wax or clay to make a mold, that is what you are
doing to make the mold. And the word should be presented as Life and death, not
lackadaisically.
Malachi
3:6 For I am the
LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Hebrews
13:8 Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Now, this brings us to the The
tenth attribute of a son of God: They
will have the same works as Christ the original Seed had..
For if God is the same and changes not, and you have His
Spirit living in you, then how could you expect anything different.
Now, if you do
a search in brother Branham's Message, you will find that 198 times brother
Branham used the phrase "the same works" or "the very same
works" showing us
that the promise Jesus gave to the believers is that "the
very same works" that God did in
Him will be done in the believers. So we should not be looking for something
different, because after all "He is the same
yesterday, today and forever". And if you say he is the same
yesterday, meaning 50 years ago but he is not the same today, then you are preaching a false gospel. Because
today means today. Yesterday was yesterday and forever means after
today, but today means today, not fifty years ago. And if He is the same
yesterday as He is today, then why would you expect him to do any different
yesterday than he is doing today.
Let's look at
yesterday, and we don't even have to include brother Branham in that yesterday,
although we know he is, but let's just look at Br. F.F. Bosworth for an
example.
Do you think
God is proud of a bunch of children who are lazy and won't go out and work?
What father wants their children to grow up lazy and unwilling to work. Here we are with much more understanding of the
Godhead, and the hour which we live, understanding the Presence of Christ, His
Great Appearing, than men like Br. Bosworth or Martin or Columba or Ireneaus or Wesley or
Luther had and yet having been given the fully revealed Word, and yet we sit
here with no response like dead logs and hide behind the phrase we are resting
in what God's prophet did? Come on, that is a total copout. to
rest in that ministry does not mean to you lay around and do nothing in
response. It means you have full trust in what God has done and in response to
what he did you do.
The least you
can do is live the life he lived. Not you doing it of
course but God working in you to will and to do. And if you are not willing and
doing then God is not working in you. Then you are none of his.
There is a
passive faith and there is an active faith. The trouble is that people think it
is all passive faith, but let me tell you something, where there is no active
faith, there really never was a passive faith.
God did more
through one man who was only five fold, in Br. Bosworth than he is doing
through all the elect five fold combined in this hour? You think God could be
proud of that?
I don't think
if you add up all the healings from all the elect ministries from around the
entire world you could come up with 225,000 letters of healing. I think it is
shameful that we do not act as though He is the same yesterday, today and
forever. Why do they even preach it if they do not believe it?
And as we read
from brother Branham's message last night called, "if God is here, then where are all the miracles".
In that sermon, he brought to our attention that God is a Supernatural God and
where He is, there should be supernatural things taking place.
Now, what
bothers me is that we have a whole group of people who claim to believe William
Branham, and who claim to believe Br. Vayle and who claim to believe that God
is here, and yet they do not believe that God is obligated to His Word to be
the same now as He was 50 years ago.
Now, I am not
talking about the prophetic office or ministry of Son of
And I'm
talking about Jehovah Jireh, "the God who is our provider". There
shouldn't be brethren struggling in this Message if they truly work hard and
ask God to bless their sowing. The problem is either we do not sow correctly,
or else we do not come to God and ask as Jesus said for us to do.
From his sermon, Accepting God's provided
way 63-0115 P:68 Well, that's the way we're supposed to do. If I see a
promise in the Bible that's God's Word, then I just stay there and cry out till
God gives it to me. And He'd do that to get you off His hands. You see?
That would be in the natural. But He's wanting you to
do it. He likes for you to ask. "Ask
abundantly that your joys might be full." Yeah--yeah. Cry until His Word is vindicated. Now,
friend, let's watch just a minute now. Cry until the Word is a-vindicated. The
trouble of it is, we get a cookie and think that's all there is. There's
a whole table full. We get so we can speak in tongues; we say "Oh,
brother, that's it." Oh, no. That ain't it.
That's just some of it. That's right. "Oh, I got happy enough to
shout." That's some more of it. But there's a whole lot more of it. Just
keep on crying out until... That's God's provided way for His people. God's
provided way always is to take His Word and hold onto It
until It's a-vindicated to you. Now, do you follow me? God--a provided
way... Hold on to the promise until it's made manifest to you.
Listen,
brothers and sisters, God is not obligated to just give to you, you've got to
ask, then you shall receive.
Who is Jesus? 64-0620B P:38 There's where we fail, friends, not praying. Prayer is the keynote.
"Ask and you shall receive. You have not because you ask not; you ask not because you believe not.
Ask abundance, that your joys may be full. Ask and believe that you receive what you asked for." Then
hold onto it. Don't leave it. If it's a promise in the Bible, and it's been
revealed to you that God's going to give it to you, hold to it.
In the Book of James
4:2 we are told, yet ye have not, because
ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,
that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
The way to go about it, is
you have to recognize the need, then you have to find where God promised to
help you in that need, or find where he helped someone with that same need, and
then ask, and believing God is not a respecter of persons keep at it until God
does for you what he did for that other person.
Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For
every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
9 Or
what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?11 If
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the
prophets.
Does not your father
own the cattle on a thousand hills? Is he not the God who created the heaven's and earth? Then what is your small thing in
comparison to the creation of a universe?
Do we believe
that he is here? Brother Branham said, "He who
made the promise,
he is here to perform it."
Look, we all
believe theologically that God descended with a Shout in this hour and His
Pillar of Fire is here leading us to the Millennium, right? We might call that
the "Parousia of Christ", or "the
appearing itself" but those are just theological explanations of a reality
that is taking place at this moment in time.
I'm talking
about that same Pillar of fire that Brother Branham said is leading us to the
millennium. We claim to believe that Pillar of Fire is still here, and we claim
more than most to believe that, yet it seems we have limited what God is
allowed to do for us more than most. Sometimes it is more blessed to be a
little ignorant of the theology, because you muddle your mind with so much of
that, that you fail to receive God in simplicity like a little child who
doesn't know all that theory and theology but believes God and gets answers to
his or her prayer..
We all claim
to believe the Pillar of fire is here, and yet if we actually saw it with our
own eyes would we really believe it? Or if others claim to have seen it would
we believe them? So why if we believe He's here, why don't we expect Him? Why would we
think it odd for Him to make Himself visible in some supernatural act that
would help us along our way? We believe the picture up there don't we? we believe that same Pillar of Fire is still here don't we? Yet
when people have testified that the Pillar of fire hung over the tape recorder
while God's Prophet was speaking down in some jungle, why is it so hard for us
to believe them?
What I am
saying is, why do we say we believe but when God
manifests what we claim to believe why then do we doubt?
So this
morning I am just going to take a little break from my usual sermon layout, and
I am just going to read what God's prophet William Branham said, and throw in
an occasional Scripture or comment, to show you that what Jesus promised us is
not different works from what he did, but He promised us that the very
same works he did we as believers will also do.
Now, you might
ask, "so what's the point. Why do you keep
pointing to the works of Christ." Well, to be perfectly honest, because they
are promises of God and unless we step into them, we will miss our body change
which is also a promise from God for this hour.
Look, we have
promises that are very specific to this hour, but if we can not even take God
at His word concerning healing and supernatural intercession when we are in
need, then how in the world will you ever take God at His word concerning these
promises which are transforming in power.
As brother
Vayle said to me, "Some thing's got to happen to
build our faith because we don't even have faith for healing much less a body
change." I know that you get what you preach for, because God has a law that "whatsoever
you sow you shall also reap."
From his
sermon, 60-0911E Five
Identifications of the
In The
Spoken Word is the original Seed 89 brother
Branham said, “The
works that Jesus did, if a man has the
Seed of God in him with the Spirit
of God watering that Seed, the
same works that Jesus, was manifested in Jesus, Him being the
original Seed of God, His death brings you back to the original Seed of God,
and if the same Spirit that was within
Him is in you, then the same works will be manifested. You don't
believe that? All right, let's turn over to
In his sermon, Restoration of bride tree
62-0422 P:199 in quoting Jesus, William
Branham says, "I'll go with you, and
you'll be part of Me; you'll be My Bride.
My Life will be in your body. Just like a husband and wife is
one person, you and I are going to be One. At that day
you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me, and I in you, and you in Me." Hmm. I just love that. Satan just gets so angry at that. See?
See the Oneness of God? All that God
was, He poured into Christ, and all that Christ was, He
poured into the church. There you are. It
makes them all one. Now, look. Now,
the Bride are one, Tree of Life. In other words
like husband and wife is one, Christ and His Bride are One: same thing, same Spirit, same works, same
signs, everything else, "For the
works that I do shall you do also." How long? To all the world. How much? To every creature.
Is that right?
From God Testifying of His
Gifts 52-0713E P:38 Now, according to Jesus' own words, which I
believe they are the Truth. No one disputes that
Witnesses 54-0303 P:51
So we seen Him. When He was here on earth, He said, "It's
not me that doeth the work. It's My Father that dwelt in Me, He doeth the work.
I do nothing of Myself." St.
John 5:19, He said, "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the
Father doing. Whatever the Father shows Me, that I go
do. The Father worketh, I worketh
hitherto." Therefore, He did not heal anyone Himself. He said He only did as God showed
Him a vision on what to do… Now, another thing. … Now,
all these things that He did, He said, "You shall do also."
Said, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more; yet, you'll see Me..."
Who's you? "You
shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to
the end of the world: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
If that isn't plain Gospel preaching, I don't know what is. Now, if He raised from the dead and living in us tonight, the same works that a vindicated Him, will
a vindicate His Church. These signs shall follow them that believe
(Is that right?) to vindicate His Church.
Sir would we see Jesus 54-1205 P:15 They
questioned Jesus." Why," He said, "verily,
verily, I say unto you..." Listen. "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the
Father doing." Well, whatever doeth He showeth the Son. Is that right? "The
Father worketh and I worketh
hitherto." In other words, "I can do nothing as the Son of God."
And men claiming to be
Divine healers, when even the Son of God didn't claim to be a Divine healer.
He said, "I can do nothing."
He didn't claim to be a healer. Said, "It isn't Me
that does the work. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Then
if we're sons of God today
with the Father's Spirit in us,
what about it? The same Spirit, the
same mind, the same works, the same power...Now, He said, "I
can do nothing except My Father shows Me".
In other words... Listen close now. This may shock
just a little. But Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, never performed one miracle without first seeing a vision of it, or
He told something wrong there. He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what
I see the Father doing." Is that true? That was Jesus
nineteen hundred years ago. … Now, Jesus said that He did nothing. You say,
"Well, what about some blind man followed Him one day on the street; He
had no vision about him?" He was hollering, "Having
mercy. Have mercy." And the disciples put him back. And
He went into the house and set down. After while the blind man got in some way,
somebody brought him in. He come up to him, He touched their eyes, and said,
"According to your faith, be it unto you."
Is that right? 17 Now, quickly, while we close. He said, "A little
while and the world ('kosmos,' the
word meaning 'the world order.')... A little while and the world
will see Me no more. (The world's the unbeliever,
the self-styled, the starchy, the heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.) They'll see Me
no more, yet ye shall see Me." There's going to be some
"world." There's going to be some
"ye's."
"Ye
shall see Me (the believer), "for
I (personal pronoun), for I will be with you, even in you
(until the apostles are gone? No, sir.) until the end of the world."
Is that right? "I go away. But I come again." Is that right? "And
I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world":
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. No plainer Gospel, I do not know any more plainer Gospel. Then, here's the challenge. Now, if He would
come, how would He? Jesus
has no hands on earth today, but your hands and my hands. He uses my
mouth and your mouth, my eyes and your eyes. And the whole thing is submitting yourself to
the Holy Spirit of God. And God's works through the
individual. Do you believe that? May the Lord bless you. Now, if Jesus will come on the scene... Many of you
know my ministry. You've read the books. I'm your brother. There's no more grace to me than there is to the drunkard that was
saved five minutes ago. See? God
loves us all the same. We're not one
above another. We're all the same. We're children. I've got two little
girls and a boy. I do not make one ounce of difference in them; they're all the
same. That's the way God does. If you're
a housewife, or if you're a preacher, or a deacon, or whatever you are, in the
sight of God we're all the same. We're
just children. Each one has a job to do, and let's do it with all of our
heart.
Now, let me tell you
something. When that pentecostal
brother had his heel cut off, I never had a vision that God would heal him? I
just did what God told us to do, I laid my hands on him, and prayed for him,
and and then I left the results up to God and I told
that brother the same Words Jesus said, "Be it done unto you according to
your faith." And God healed him. Grew his heel back in
miraculous time frame, like over night.
It wasn't my faith that
healed him, it was his own faith. I had faith in God's Word to lay my hands on
Him and I left the rest up to God. That's all you are asked to do. He's not
asking you to yell demons out, or shake them out, he's asking you to just have
enough trust in him, but first you have to do something to prove you trust Him.
You've got to lay your hands on that person.
That is what James 5 and
Mark 16 are all about. The only part we have is to set the stage for His
appearing. Believe, and extend your hand. Brother Branham said, Mark 16 does not even require you to pray. Just simply
"they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall be healed."
Brother Branham had to
throw the rock into the air for the whirlwind to begin, and you have to do
something to start the process.
Choosing of a bride 65-0429E P:72
He told me of the things was
coming to pass, and it happened just exactly; how each of those Seals opened
and told the mysteries that'd been hid down through them ages of the reformers
and so forth, just perfectly; how I was standing upon top of the hill--men,
three or four of them standing right here present now; yes, more than that.
Going up the hill, the Holy Spirit said, "Pick up that rock." (We
were hunting.) He said, "Throw it up in the air, and say, 'THUS SAITH THE
LORD.'" I did. Down from there come a little funnel of wind. I said, "Within
twenty-four hours, you will see the hand of God."Men
setting right here present now, the next day about
73 Hear them fellows saying,
"Amen"? They were there when it happened. See? And it made three
blasts. When they got out from under the cars, and everything, and come back
over, said, "If that'd hit you, there wouldn't been
a greasy spot." I said, "It wasn't... It was Him. He was talking to
me." God speaks by a whirlwind. See? And there was that same Pillar of
Fire that you see on the pictures standing there. And when it went up, they
said, "What is it?" I said, "Judgment is striking the west
coast." Second day from that,
Law having a
shadow 54-1203 P:19 And
now, the Church is to give the Light, a lesser Light, in the absence of the
Lord. And then when the light, as the moon is shining, and the sun comes into
the moon, they both blend together, and it makes one light, so will it be when the Lord Jesus returns.
The Light that the Church has reflected... And the same Jesus, the same works, the same Light, the same
thing that He did when He was here on earth is reflected by His Church, showing
that He is living somewhere. When I look out tonight and can see the moon a
shining, the stars shining, the lesser light, when I can see that, it's a
guarantee of one thing: that the sun's shining somewhere. That's right.
1955) 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.
Jehovah Jireh
57-0326 P:104 Now,
if God made the promise, then here's what it is. He promised that whatsoever
things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it. “The
things that I do shall you also.” After the resurrection, He, if He was
supposed to do, that Spirit that was sent back that was in Christ to come on the church, was to do the same works that Jesus did when He was here on earth to
make the covenant of people exactly the same with the body. This is the
physical Body of Christ now. And when it is resurrected, it goes to meet its
Mate, Christ Jesus, as Husband and Wife or as King and Queen. It's the same
material that was in that Body is in this body of believers. The same Spirit that was in Christ is in
us, doing the same works if Christ keeps His Word.
We would see Jesus
57-0226 P:21 But now, while He's here working with His Church in the
form of the Spirit... Then if His Spirit is with us, He will act just
exactly like He act when He was here on earth. It'll
make you act the same way,
because it's not your spirit any more;
it's His Spirit in you, Christ's Spirit in you. "The things that I do... He that believeth on
Me (
Jesus Christ the same 58-0323 P:55 The Bible said; Jesus said, "I
am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit, the branch bears fruit. And the branch will bear the fruit of the vine
it's connected with. And I ask any scholar of the Scriptures to show me
where Christ ever organized a church or made an organization, where He ever
said a certain bunch of creeds would do it. He said, "Except
a man be born again, he cannot even understand the
Greater than Solomon is here 58-0625 P:34 Now, if Jesus is still dead, then He was
just a man. But if He's raised tonight, been alive two
thousand years, since His death, burial, and resurrection, then the Bible said,
"He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Then if He's the same, He will act the
same, do the same: same works, same miracles, same power, same
grace.
What Holy Ghost was given for 59-1217 P:45 Now. "The works that I do..."
God is in His church to continue His
works. That's why He sent the Holy Ghost. Now, He knew that. He knew it
couldn't be done that way, so was it by otherwise... So He had to send... The
Father sent the Son, put all that's in the Son in you. And the same works that
He did, the same very works
now that Jesus did, you'll do also,
the church. Wouldn't you like to do the works of God? Jesus said,
"If you want to do the
Faithful Abraham 59-0415E P:69 not just for the apostles, to the end of the world. "The works
that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do for I go to My
Father." And then the Holy
Spirit wasn't only in one Person; it's in the entire church universal
doing the same works that Jesus did. Hallelujah. I challenge the world to believe that. And you'll see a revival
break through this country. You'll see Divine healing
and the power of Almighty God. He's here now. works of
God, believe on Me.”
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.
Five identifications 60-0911E P:56 John 14:12, He gives the teaching what the church should do. In John
the 14th chapter, and the 12th verse, we'll see what that says. John 14:12,
so we read it, make it official. All right, John 14 and the 12th
verse. 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 do he, do,
shall; because I go to my Father. That's
the message of the church: "Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, today, and forever," living in the church, King of the
church, raised from the dead, same yesterday, today, and forever, performing the same works, doing the same
things that Jesus did. That's the message of the church. If the church isn't teaching that, it's
teaching some false theology. That's
what Jesus commanded them to preach.
Uncertain sound 60-1218 P:157 Now, when He was on earth, He
was the Pillar of Fire, led the children of
Queen
of
Message of grace 61-0827 P:130 If He's still God, He can use my lips to
speak the same words that He'd do, 'cause He has no lips but mine and yours. He has no eyes but ours. So He just comes down and operates His church through our body
(You believe that?), operates Himself.
That's what He said. "The
works that I do, you shall do the same." Is that right? "Same
works, you shall do..." That was the works He did to
prove He was Messiah. Now, if He is Messiah, and He is, then that being true, then He does the same works right now
through His church that He did then. That proves that it's right,
regardless of all your denominations. Oh, hallelujah.
Sirs we would see Jesus 61-1224 P:102 …
and let it die to its own thoughts,
and let this Word abide and come to life,
then they'd say, "If you don't believe me, believe the works that I do, for they are they which testify of
me." What is the works?
Jesus said, "These
works, the works that God gave Me to do."
And said, "As the Father sent Me, so send I you."
The very works that God did was in Him, made Him and the Father One; and the same works that Jesus did, and the
Holy Spirit of Jesus in you will make you do the same works. "The works that I do shall he do also."
Sure.
Faithful Abraham 61-0312 P:53 Now, the church that professes to be a
Christian church, will have to have that
same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ. For at the resurrection of the
church, Christ and His Bride will come
together and dovetail. The writings and promises of God will be made
fulfilled there. So it cannot come
together unless the same Spirit was in Christ is in you and me. And then if
that same Spirit is in there, It'll do the same
works, and live the same kind of a separated life, and do the works that He did. The Bible said so,…
The Spoken word is the Original
Seed 62-0318M P:89 The
works that Jesus did--if
a man has the Seed of God in him with the Spirit of God watering that Seed, the same works that was manifested in
Jesus, Him being the original Seed of God, His death brings you back to the original
Seed of God, and if the same Spirit that was within
Him is in you, then the same works will be manifested. You
don't believe that? All right, let's turn over to
Paradox a 65-0117 P:53
Was a paradox vindicated,
and it's then to be Gospel Truth; a Gospel that had promised this, and here it
happened and vindicated what it was. Now, let me give you a great noble paradox
here, just a minute. In John
What is the Holy
Ghost 59-1216 P:45 They
knowed the
church was to receive power that would work in the church the same works of
Christ, because as a shadow becomes deeper and deeper and reflects more...
You take a shade; farther away from the shade, the least reflection you get of
the shade. After while the shade gets closer, closer to the tree,
and the shade is the same thing.
Jesus Christ the same 58-0207 P:21 Jesus said these words, "The
works that I do shall he do also."
Let us see God 59-1129 P:76 Now,
this Angel of the Lord, if It doesn't
perform and do the same works that Jesus did, then it's not the Spirit was on
Jesus. But if It does the same works that Jesus
does; because He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I
do, shall he also." You know the Bible says, same
chapter, John 14, "The works that I do, shall he do also; even
more than this shall he do, for I go to My Father."
I know the King James puts it "greater." It
couldn't be no greater; the original says "more."
'Cause He stopped nature; He raised the dead; well, it's just
everything. You could do no greater than He did. But the church would do more of it, because while we're having a meeting here, they're having a meeting in
From the beginning it wasn't so 59-1125 P:52 Oh, just think now, just in a moment.
Think, in a moment the words that I've preached God has
to speak if they're truth, or if He doesn't, then I've misrepresented Him. And
if I've misrepresented Him, His Word has misrepresented Him. Did not Jesus say
in John 14, "He that believeth on Me,
the works that I do shall he do also." I said that to a man
one time, he said, "Oh sure, we got great churches, denominations; that's
the works that He didn't do." I said, "He said, 'The
same works that I do, shall you do also. Greater than this shall you do.'"
You show me the works that He did first,
then show me the greater. In the original
translation doesn't say greater; it says more. More than this, 'cause the
Holy Spirit would cover the whole earth at that time, this time now. "More
than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father."
Mary's belief 61-0121 P:33
We're looking for a Messenger. That Messenger is the Holy Spirit.
The Bible said, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more (Jesus did), yet
ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you to the end of the world. The works that I
do shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father."
Now, the word there "more," in the right
translation... I'm using it there and "more," because it said in the
King James "greater." Who could do any
greater? He raised the dead, stopped nature, done everything. But then He was is in
one Person. All of God was bottled up into one Man, Jesus Christ. But in this
time He's across the universe in His church, doing more of it, the same works.
"The same works that I do shall they do also. More than this
shall I do, because I return back to the Pillar of Fire that I was before I was
made flesh and dwelt on the earth. I showed Myself alive by the same works and the same manifestations I
did." That is exactly right. Jesus said, when He was here
on earth, "I come from God and I return to God." Is that right? All right. If He was God...
Greater than Solomon is here 62-0628 P:34 Now, we got resurrection by history. But
then we got resurrection by sign, that Jesus Christ lives tonight in His church.
He's not dead; He's alive.
Saint John 14:12, Jesus said, "He
that believeth on Me..." Not, "professes
to believe," but He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this
shall he do, for I go to the Father."
Now, I know King James says here, "greater."
They couldn't do no greater. He raised the dead; He healed
the sick; He stopped nature; He
done everything. But the right translation in the original Hebrew, yet it says,
"more than this."
That is, Christ was in one Man there,
and Christ is in His church universal now. "More
of the same works will you do, for I go to My Father."
"A little while and the world (cosmos, world order) sees
Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I (And 'I' is a
personal pronoun as I have said.) I will be with you, even in you (How long?)
to the end of the world." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today,
and forever."
What Hearest thou
Elijah 59-0412E P:36 Jesus said, "These
things that I do shall you also. These works that I do, shall you also,"
the same works, only more of it. It would be in the universal church around the
world. Where now it could only be in one place, that
was in Christ. But when Christ is in His church, the same works that He did
will be going on completely around the world, all the time. 37 What
we fail to see is to listen to that still small voice that speaks to us, then
wrap ourself in His righteousness, and walk out saying,
"Lord God, did You speak to me? Does it mean me, O Lord?
Way back the 62-1123 P:68
"These signs shall follow them that believe. The
works that I do shall you do also. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Let
the mind that was in Christ be in you." If that same mind's in there with the same power that's in there,
you'll do the same works that He did. If you take all the poison out of it, and all the hurt...Somebody, say, "I'm afraid to
tell you..." Sissy. God wants men." I don't like to say..."Oh, some... Need
to have... I don't know what. They need inoculation. Yes, sir. What we need,
inoculation. Yes, sir. It's for you, and to your children, them that's far off.
Hear ye Him 62-0711 P:68
That's the reason He could smile here. Jesus had carried out every
Word of it. That's it. He'd carried out
just exactly to the Word, now, because He was that perfect Son. And He is
the same, and He died to become the Vine, that we might become the branch, that
He can energize us with His Life to make
the same Life that He had, living in us. Then we'll do the same thing.
Jesus said in Saint John
14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Now, we watch what He done. See, we haven't time tonight, but we'll take it up
later, and see what His works was:
maybe tomorrow night. Then, see if He
will perform that same works.
If He does, He remains the same. Now, then God would be pleased with that.
What is the Holy Ghost 59-1216 P:45 They knew the church was to receive power that would
work in the church the same works
of Christ, because as a
shadow becomes deeper and deeper and reflects more... You take a shade;
farther away from the shade, the least reflection you get of the shade. After
while the shade gets closer, closer to the tree, and
the shade is the same thing.
From his
sermon, 60-0911E Five
Identifications of the
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in him.
Good shepherd of the sheep 57-0308 P:47 He's sending the Church in the same way that God sent Him. The God that
went, that sent Him, went with Him. The Christ that sends the Church, goes in the Church. And the
very same works... God was in Christ, what doing? Expressing Himself to the world. No man had seen the Father at any
time; the Father's a Spirit. But the only begotten of the Father has declared
Him. He's in here. God was in Christ expressing Himself to the world,
what His attitude was, what He thought of the world, how He loved the world. He
so loved the world that He laid down His own Life for it. And the only way He
could die as a mortal, He had to become mortal. God was in Christ. And what
Christ was He put that into the Church and redeemed us by His Blood. "And
the same works that I do, shall you do also."
Jehovah Jireh 56-0429 P:46 Jesus when He was here on earth, He claimed that He was going back to
turn to the Father in form a Spirit, but would come in the form of the Holy
Ghost and would abide with us forever. And the very same works that
He did then, He would do through His Church until He come
again. How many knows that's true say, "Amen." See?