Christ is the Mystery no. 86
Organized unto death
May 5, 2013
Brian Kocourek
This morning we will
continue in our reading from Christ is the Mystery of God and this will be
number 86 in our series. We will read from paragraph 194 through 196 for our
text.
194
Notice, God manifested Himself in His Body, Christ. Now, you see the threefold
beautiful thing? Christ in His Body, the Church, vindicating His
promised Word like God did through Christ. "Who can condemn Me of sin? If I do not the works of the Father, then where
have I failed? Now, you fellows say that you're doing it, you denominations,
now, now, show Me. Yeah, show Me where I failed to be
the Messiah. Show where I failed on one sign that God said the Messiah would
do, that I haven't fulfilled it," He said (See?), God in His Body.
195
Now, Christ... "The works that I do shall you do also" See,
see, the same God. See? "The works that I do shall you do also,
more than this, for I go unto My Father." The Church will be a little
longer in Life (See?) vindicating His promised Word as God did His promises in
Christ's Body, so is Christ doing His same works in Christ's Body, the Church.
See? Now, making His mystery known to His Bride Tree here in the last day,
bringing forth the fruits that was in the Tree at the beginning.
196
Watch, the tree puts forth a branch, a Lutheran. What did it do? When the tree
started coming up, here come the fruit coming up with it. What happened? They
denominated. So the Pruner come by (the Father,
Husbandman) and cuts it off at, "It's dead." Up come the Wesleyan; it
done fine coming up. What did it do? The fruit went right back into the tree
again, so He cut the vine off; it dead. Show me one church... I want to know.
I've got thirty-three years of church history. Show me one time, one place,
where any church ever organized that didn't die on the spot. Show me one
place it ever rose again outside of just numbers and
things, not a revival. See? It's not there. No, sir, she's all gone.
Notice Brother Branham speaks concerning the last
three ages where the life was coming up as in Luther's Message but then they
organized around doctrine and it died right there. Then the life kept moving on
up through Wesley's Message and when they organized around the doctrine, the
Life kept moving on and what had organized died right there. Then the light
moved on up through the restoration of the gifts right into this Message, but
men chose to organize in order to try and save their doctrine, and when they
did they died just as sure as they did in every age that tried to safeguard
their doctrine by organizing it. we see the
explanation of it in the Church Age book.
Church Age Book Chapter 3 - The Ephesian
Church Age P:64 But as usual people don't heed
God's warning. That revival fire built upon the sacred Word is so wonderful,
and the manifestation of the Spirit so blessed, that a little fear creeps
in and a whisper in the heart says, "How can we protect this
truth we have? What can we do to see this revival goes on?" That is
when the "antichrist spirit" comes in and whispers,
"Look, you have the truth now, see that it doesn't get lost. Organize
and set up your creed of what you believe. Put it all in a church manual."
And they do it. They organize. They add to the Word. And they die just like
Eve did for taking One wrong word. It's God's Word
that brings life. And it's not what we say about the Word that counts, but
it's what God said.
Notice he told us it is fear that motivates
them to organize what they know of the truth, and when they do that is when
they die right their.
Church choosing law for grace
61-0316 P:51 Watch
just a minute. They stayed there; they married wives; they raised children;
they had good crops; they were blessed, yeah. And they--they had a great time.
They was in there... They stayed there how long? The
Bible said, "Until all the old fighters was dead." That's right. All
those said, "Glory to God; we are the Assemblies." "Well, glory
to God, we are the so and so." "God, we are the Oneness, hallelujah,
the rest of them's wrong." "Bless God, we're the Church of God of Prophecy."
"Hallelujah, we're so and so." All right, go ahead. What'd they do? They
kept arguing their doctrine till they stayed there till they died. And
that's what's happened right now. They're dead. Dead with
their organization. I'll bring any theologian to call this. A historian,
I know of two good ones setting right here now, as good
as there is in the nation. I ask any historian to tell me that any time that
God ever moved in a revival, supernatural signs followed. When did He
ever move that supernatural didn't follow? And when did they ever
organize that to an organization but what it died and never did raise again?
Show me one time that a organization ever raised to
its beginning again. It died as soon as it organized. So did the Pentecostals. You
old fighters out there, that wants to say, "Hallelujah, we have nothing to
do with that old new issue. Glory to God, it's give to us by prophecy.
Hallelujah, we'll have nothing to do with the Assemblies or the Oneness, either
one. Hallelujah, we're different." They're dead. That's not pulling any
punch. And they're dead, marked out: X. He stayed there and let them die until they
were all the way dead.
Church Age Book Chapter 7 - The Sardisean
Church Age P:51 these people ORGANIZED ON A
DOCTRINE and bound themselves right back as did the organization ahead of them,
proving that instead of being the real seed, they were the chaff or protecting
cover for the wheat seed which should come. This chaff stage was the danger
period that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:24, "deceiving the very elect if
it were possible."
Church Age Book Chapter 6 - The Thyatirean
Church Age P:68 The minute the first church of
Rome organized, it died. The minute that the Lutherans organized, death came in
and they died. The Pentecostals came along last and they organized. The
Spirit left, though they don't believe it. But He did. That marriage
brought death. Then the light of Oneness of the Godhead came. They organized
and they died too.
Church Age Book Chapter 7 - The Sardisean
Church Age P:31 Not one of these messengers was organized. Either they were put out or got out because they were convicted of the
sin of organization. How can the Holy Spirit possibly be in organization
when it is organization that takes the place of the Spirit and denominations
take the place of the Word? Remember, "Organization" is
"DEATH". It just can't be any other way. If the world takes
over, the Spirit departs.
Church Age Book Chapter 6 - The Thyatirean
Church Age P:66 Show me one church that ever came
out of organization that didn't go right back into it. There isn't one. Not
one.
Church Age Book Chapter 10 - Resume of the Ages P:22 This is a good place to make an illuminating observation. Look. The
deeds and doctrines of the Nicolaitanes, the doctrine
of Balaam, and the teaching of the false prophetess, Jezebel, do not constitute
three spirits or make three spiritual principles. These three are but the
various manifestations of the same spirit as it goes from depth to depth. What
it all is, is the antichrist spirit of organization
in its three various stages. Once the clergy separated themselves and
organized themselves they oppressed the people by leading them into, and
binding them to organization also. This organization was based upon the
creeds and dogma which they taught the people instead of the pure Word of God.
Ritual and ceremony was given an increasing part in worship, and soon this
whole system was a militant and diabolical power that did its best to control
all through the persuasion of discourse or literal force. It received its
energy from its own false prophecies and not the Word of God. It was now
absolutely antichrist though it came in Christ's Name.
Church Age Book Chapter 6 - The Thyatirean
Church Age P:69 So you see, "Death"
or "Organization" came, and the church died, or to make it
plainer death became a resident wherein shortly before only LIFE reigned. As
the original Eve brought death to mankind so now organization has brought
death, for organization is the product of the double corrupters, Nicolaitanism and Balaamism,
propagated by the prophetess Jezebel.
Church Age Book Chapter 5 - The Pergamean
Church Age P:150 So Balaam got Israel to commit
fornication. Do you know that physical fornication is the very same spirit
that lies in organized religion? I said that the spirit of fornication
is the spirit of organization. And all fornicators will have their place in
the lake of fire. That is what God thinks of organization. Yes sir, the whore
and her daughters will be in the lake of fire.
Church Age Book Chapter 10 - Resume of the Ages P:20 For
the clergy to organize themselves with one rank over another until they are
finally headed up by a president is a manifestation of the antichrist spirit, regardless of how wonderful and necessary it may seem. It is nothing
but human reasoning taking the place of the Word. And any person who is in the
organized denominations is right in the midst of an antichrist system. Now let
me say this and make it very plain. I AM NOT AGAINST THE PEOPLE. I AM AGAINST
THE SYSTEM.
Church Age Book Chapter 9 - The Laodicean
Church Age P:118 Brother Branham said, "when you subscribe
to a doctrine that can not be substantiated by Scripture, your doctrine is
false and when you organize around that doctrine, that is when death sets in.
"The falsity of the doctrine
can not only be seen by a lack of Scripture to substantiate it, but those who subscribed to the doctrine immediately organized on
the basis of the doctrine, proving that they were not in the truth as they
would have people believe. Oh, it looked good. It looked like the return of
Pentecost. But it proved it wasn't. It could not be, for it organized. That
is death, not life. It looked so close to the real that multitudes were
deceived."
Church Age Book Chapter 7 - The Sardisean
Church Age P:43 Now I just said that this era
gave tremendous growth to the denominational spirit. If the Corinthian attitude
of "I am of Paul, I of Cephas" was ever
exhibited, it was now. There were Lutherans, Hussites,
Zwingli's party, etc. Such fragmentation of the Body was deplorable. They were
living a name but were dead. Certainly they were dead. They died the minute
they organized.
Church Age Book Chapter 6 - The Thyatirean
Church Age P:54 Can any man living tell me what
church or what move of God ever had revival and came back after she went into
organization and became a denomination? Read your histories. You can't find
one--not even one.
Church Age Book Chapter 5 - The Pergamean
Church Age P:151 Denominations are not of God.
They never have been and never will be. It's a wrong spirit that separates
the people of God into hierarchy and laity; and it's, therefore, a wrong spirit
that separates the people from the people. That's what organization and
denominations do. In organizing they separate themselves from the Word of
God, and bring themselves into spiritual adultery.
Church Age Book Chapter 5 - The Pergamean
Church Age P:149 That is what has happened in
every age since. God delivers the people. They come out by the blood,
sanctified by the Word, walk through the waters of baptism and get filled with
the Spirit; but after awhile the first love cools off and someone gets the
idea that they ought to organize in order to preserve themselves and make a
name for themselves, and they organize themselves right back in the second
generation and sometimes even before then. They no longer have the Spirit of
God, just a form of worship. They are dead. They have hybridized themselves
with creed and form and there is no life in them.
Church Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:47 the horse is a type of the true
believer and the ass a picture of the unrighteous one. Mix them and you have a
sterile, formal religion. It hasn't the seed of life. It is dead. It can
talk about truth but it can't produce it. It doesn't have God in its
midst, yet it gathers together and talks about God, and all the while
systematically denies the power. They will deny the Word in the very Name
of the Lord. And there is never any hope for them. Do you realize that no
organized religion ever had a revival? Never! Once they organized they
died. They can't ever come back. No sir.
Church Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:4 With Irenaeus
this was not so. He was militant against any form of organization. Also, his
life history, wherein he served the Lord, was one of much manifestation in
the Holy Spirit; and the Word was taught with unusual clarity and
conformity to its original precepts. His churches in France were known to
have the gifts of the Spirit among them, for the saints spoke in tongues, prophesied,
raised the dead, and healed the sick by the prayer of faith. He saw the
danger of any kind of organized brotherhood among the elders, pastors, etc.
He stood solidly for a unified, Spirit-filled, gift-manifesting local church.
And God honored him for the power of God manifested among the saints.
Church Age Book Chapter 10 - Resume of the Ages P:34 these people (even before a second generation had appeared) organized,
and wrote their unscriptural doctrines and built their own fences as every
other group ahead of them did.
Church Age Book Chapter 10 - Resume of the Ages P:19 Now watch this doctrine of Balaam most carefully. Notice above all, that
it is the deliberate maneuver of a corrupt clergy to bind the people to them,
by leading the people deliberately into the sin of unbelief. The Nicolaitane doctrine was the corruption of the clergy as
they sought political power amongst themselves, while Balaamism
is the subjection of the people to their system of creed and worship in order
to hold them. Now watch this carefully. What was it that bound the people
to the nominal church and thereby destroyed them? It was the creeds and
dogmas formed into church tenets. It was the doctrine of the Roman Catholic
Church. They were not given the true food, the Word. They were given the
food that came from idol worship, Babylonian paganism wrapped up in Christian
terminology. And that very same spirit and doctrine is right amongst all
Protestants and it is called DENOMINATION. Nicolaitanism
is organization, humanizing the leadership of the church, and thereby deposing
the Spirit. Balaamism is
denominationalism which takes the church manual instead of the Bible. And
right to this hour, many of God's people are caught in the snare of
denominationalism and God is crying to them, "Come out of her My people, lest ye be partakers
of her sins, and that ye receive not her plagues." You see they are ignorant. But if the rapture should take place
at this moment, ignorance would be no court of appeal from the judgment of God
for being in the wrong ranks.
Church Age Book Chapter 10 - Resume of the Ages P:7 The false church organized, humanized the government and the Word, and fought
the true Christian.
Church Age Book
Chapter 9 - The Laodicean Church Age
P:96 What is it that all these denominations
are based upon? The claim to originality, and that of God, the
claim that they are right. Now they ALL cannot be right. In fact NOT ONE
of them is right. They are whited sepulchres,
full of dead men's bones. They have no life. They have no vindication. God has
never made Himself known in any organization. They say they are right
because they are the ones that are saying it, but saying it does not
make it so. They need the vindicated "Thus saith
the Lord" of God, and they don't have it.
Jehovah Jireh 61-0209 P:49 Never one time did an
organization ever rise up that didn't die and never come back again. I
challenge any historian. I'm looking in the face there of one of the best there
is in the nation. That's right. A historian of the historians is setting right
with us. And I'll ask that man, or any other man, to ever show me one time
that a church ever organized, but it didn't die and stay dead. It never did
rise again in the history of the churches of the world: never did. God don't
want that. God wants us to be free in Him. He wants us to a place where we can
accept all of God.
Influence 64-0315 P:62 We've seen the Pentecostals do
the same thing, and you see it. When they organize, they die. There's no
way back. There never has been, and there never will be. God is against the thing.
That's the reason He said in the last days He'd say, "Come out from among
them, My people, that you touch not their unclean
things, and I'll receive you."
Trying to do God a service
65-1127B P:122 And
any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the
Word of God, it's shaking sands and will fall. It'll die as sure as anything,
because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride. You can't have it all
foot, all arm, all thigh. These things come in their season. And Pentecost, you
made it all one thing; therefore you can't accept new revelation. when is mothers day 2013?
Mark of the beast 61-0217 P:59 But the people, when you get organization they hang
to the organization instead of the cross and Christ. See? Therefore they... If you got a
organization, and you draw it up, and if you end it with a comma, "We
believe all of this plus as much as the Lord will reveal to us," that's
good. But when you end it with a period, you die right there. And show
me one's not ended with a period. Sure, it is. See?
Trying to do God a service
65-0718M P:64 Many
sincere persons go join an organization, or a group, or a cult of some
sort, and there they die spiritually. You can't tell them nothing. They get
that stuff drilled into them: "Why,
these bishops said this, and this said this; this said this." You show
them right here in the Word of God where it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, "But
our pastor..." I don't care what your pastor says, don't care what I say,
or anybody else says. If it's contrary to God's vindicated Word, the hour, the
time, the Message, and so forth, forget it. Stay away
from it. And I've got to stand before every one of you in the day of judgment, and you know that. And little would I say
that, knowing I'm an old man now. I'll... It ain't
that I know something, but He knows. I just follow what He says.
Influence 63-0112 P:74 Up come the Pentecostals, and
what did you do? The General Assembly, known as the Assemblies of God, oh, you
organized yourself. What did you do? Begin to corrode. Then along come the
Oneness, called the New Issue. What'd you do? Went out and organized yourself. God added a little something to the church, and
you, "Oh, we've got it, and you all are out of it." Oh, my,
brother, that's not God. Don't you see? What did you do? Died
right in the tracks. God
raised up the Christian Business Men here in the last day. And if they start
the same thing, they'll die right there. That's exactly right. Don't you never do that.
Notice here. The life that was in the husk, in the stalk,
and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the seed. And the life that was
in the stalk, went--one went to make the other.
Justification made a way for sanctification. Sanctification made a way for the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the
Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again to
manifest Itself.
Notice how he differentiates between the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost Himself. Now, this is the one
thing that the Oneness among us do not understand.
Christ in you the Hope of Glory is not the Presence that Brother Branham spoke
of more than 4,400 times over his 1299 sermons. And the reason they do not
understand this difference is because they do not understand God Life. The Holy
Ghost is God. And God is the fountain of Life. There is only one source of
eternal Life and that is God, the author of that Life. Eternal Life is God
Life. And they do not understand the difference between a person having God
Life in them and God Himself in them.
The Fullness of
God dwelt in His Son, not in you and I. we have God Life in a portion, Jesus
had it without Measure, because God indwelt Him. So when he says, Justification
made a way for sanctification. Sanctification made a way for the baptism of the
Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself
to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again to manifest Itself, we
see the difference between the Appearing and Coming right there. We see the Parousia of Christ in perfection, back to the Word again.
Now, listen what
brother Branham says next. But what denominated, dies.
Like Life in Luther went to make Wesley. And from the Wesley It went to
Pentecost, and from Pentecost to make the original seed. On
to... Pentecost comes out of the Wesley until that time. The reason that
Pentecost come out of Wesley, because it was no denomination, Pentecost was. Then
Pentecost went to denominate. And what did it do? It turned to the husk. It
looked like the real thing."
Notice how he
is showing us the Life coming up in a sort of resurrection like the sap that
comes up in the spring time, is a sort of resurrection, and the tree comes back
to life again after remaining dormant throughout the winter burial. He says
this life begin to come up in Luther, then on into Wesley's Message and then on
into Pentecost's Message and now it comes back to Seed again Word again at the
end-time. But then he contrasts the cycle of Life with death showing that when
the life leaves anything it must die. And he tells us the clue that it is dead
is that it denominates or organizes.
Again we find
him carrying this thought of God Life as it comes up through the different
stages of the church. And each stage of this planting of the Lord is identified
with a Message that swept the world. That was the Life of God sweeping up all
the predestinated seeds of God laying out there.
Now in this
next paragraph I do not know how you could make it any more plain than what
brother Branham is telling us here.
Masterpiece 140 Living, they produced in their early
revival a holder of a certain portion of the seed Life; but when they
organized, the Life moved out of it. That's proved by all history. Never
an organization ever done a thing after it organized. It was dead. That's
right. Watch, the life's traveling on now. It's moving on. Notice.
What they have done, all these have done, is proved by history just exactly the
way the church has come, never to be useful to Him again. Organization
is laid on the shelf. There never has been in all the history of church after
it organized, but what it died. And the organization died and never did raise again. Can't you see it? Men
who are blind, open your eyes. Nature and the Word coordinating together and
proving it right here that this is the Truth, that it is the Truth: That Life
leaves the stalk to make the tassel; from the tassel it makes the husk; and
from the husk it goes into the original again. Notice, never
again to be useful to Him.
Now, I don't
know how much more clear any person could say it than what Brother Branham is
telling us right here. Once a move of God organizes it is never again
useful to God again!!! Every denomination began with some truth, but
when they begin to organize that truth that is the minute the life went out of
it. He said, they produced in their early revival a holder of a certain portion
of the seed Life; but when they organized, the Life moved out of it.
I hope that you people who hear this
sermon or read it on the internet catch what brother Branham is saying here. Do
not try to organize this Message. The minute you do, the Life of God will move
out of what you are trying to organize.
Now, what does it mean to organize the
Message? Because that is really what we do not want to do.
I do not believe there is anyone who wishes to organize themselves right out of
the Life of the Word. But they do it any how, not really understanding what
they are doing.
In order to
better understand what it means to organize let's read what the dictionary
tells us:
Organize: 1. To put together into an orderly,
functional, structured whole.
Now, there is nothing wrong with
structure or with order, or with making things functional. Therefore, so far
what we read concerning to organize does not sound like anything that would be
too awful that God would be displeased with it. But let's read on, because the
definitions become a little more definitive.
2.a. To arrange in a coherent form; systematize:
organized her thoughts before speaking.
Now, again there is nothing wrong with
presenting the doctrine of the Message in a coherent fashion. And to do that
you must systematize or place it together in an orderly fashion in order to
make the presentation of it more easily understood.
b. To arrange in a desired pattern
or structure: again there is
nothing here that would cause the life of God to take flight, because even
Jesus own Life was ordered a right, and set the pattern for all other sons to
follow. But this next definition begins to give some clarity on the danger of
organizing.
3. To
arrange systematically for harmonious or united action: then it gives some
examples of this organizing to form a union: organize a strike.
4. a. To
establish as an organization: organize a club. b. To induce (employees) to form
or join a labor union. c. To induce the employees of (a business or an
industry) to form or join a union: organize a factory. To
develop into or assume an organic structure.
So what we see here is an evolution from
a harmless attempt to present the Message in an orderly fashion so that people
can better understand it, to a place that where it actually organizes the
people into an harmonious union that it binds the people to a core value
of beliefs and excludes others who do not hold to those beliefs.
That is what
every false doctrine has done that has crept up in any move of God. And that is
what has even happened in this message with movements like the Thunders group,
and the Two Souls Group, the Tapes only group, etc. And notice when they do
that the Life of the word leaves them and they begin to establish among
themselves a hierarchy of men in which if you do not listen to them you are
considered out of it altogether. And when the people reach
that state they are on their way into organization.
That is why brother Vayle said, "you
do not have to hear this from me, but you've got to stand with this
Truth". It does not matter who you hear the doctrine from, but you had
better hear it, for "He that does not have the doctrine of Christ does not
have God."
You do not have
to hear it from brother Vayle, nor do you have to hear it from me or any other
person, but you had better hear it and believe it if you wish to echo God?
So you see there is a real danger anytime
you try to improve on what God has given by inspiration. The danger comes when
people try to organize any move of God. And the reason they organize a move of
God is because they are not satisfied with the way God presented it to begin
with? And they try to then fashion it into what they feel is a better way of
presenting it. They end up taking a Life altering word, and make it into a
works oriented Word.
Just look at
any place where God has had a truly anointed pastor or teacher, and when that
man leaves the scene, the people try to hold to what He brought them, and
pretty soon they begin to organize it into a set of rules taught by the sleight
of man. And then the word becomes to them rule on rule, rule on rule, precept
on precept, precept on precept, a little here and a little there and then they
fall back into what they came out of which was works. And if you think I am
wrong in saying this just read the NIV translation of Isaiah chapter 28.
Isaiah 28:8 All the tables are covered with vomit and
there is not a spot without filth. Now, what is vomit but food from another day
that has become mixed up in man, and then regurgitated. 9
"Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his Message? To
children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?
The Apostle Paul said when you should be teachers you
have need of milk. No, those on milk see things a little differently. Paul said
when I was a child I thought as a Child therefore I spoke as a child and acted
in a childish manner, but when I became a man I must put away childish thinking
which results in childish talk and childish actions. So the word of the Lord to
them becomes,
10 For
it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a
little there."
Notice their perception of the Word
reverts to legalism, does and don't.
11 Very well
then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people, So
if God will speak to this people, then what they will hear will be "Thus Saith the Lord", and this is the rest that God has for
His Elect. The elect rests on "Thus Saith the
Lord". 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary
rest"; and, "This is the place of repose", but they would not
listen.
Ah, so we have a prophet that knocked on the pulpit
while He was preaching on the Seventh Seal and He said while knocking on that
pulpit, "It's
relaxation time under The Seventh Seal
83-84 seventh Seal. And notice what we are told here in Isaiah. This Foreign tongue will bring rest but the people will not listen,
and thus if they do not listen they will not enter into this rest but will
revert to works. And that is what we read in the next verse of Isaiah.
13 So then, the word of the
LORD to them will become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a
little here, a little there, so that they will go and fall backward, be injured
and snared and captured.
The wording
could not be more clear and perfect here. We are
told that because they will not listen to the Voice of the Lord, they then will
refuse the rest and will enter into works. Do and do, and rule on top of rule.
And so we see a very clear indication of a people who leave the Life of the
word that sets a man free from works, and enters Him into rest, but when
they leave that Word, they always revert back to works. Now, it does
not say that they knowingly leave the word of God for works. No one does that.
But it says, 13 So then, the word of the LORD to them will become: Do and
do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there, so
that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.
You see the Word of the Lord to them becomes
works. In other words, they begin
to try to do it for themselves because the Life of the Word is gone from them
when they refuse the rest that God has given us by entering into Jesus Christ
the same yesterday today and forever.
Therefore just
watch any move of God and when the ministry God was using goes off the
scene many of those who followed that ministry will begin to try to hold onto
what was taught but in doing so they will organizes it and when the Life goes
out, and the rest is gone, the works will always follow.
Instead of preaching the Life that is in
the Word, the sermons will become focused on dress, and conduct and clothesline
theology, what you should eat and what you shouldn't eat, and pretty soon the
people begin to eye one another looking for fault in one another and then they
begin to separate into clicks and clans, and once that happens that work is
about gone spiritually. Oh, they may end up with more people than the ministry
that stays with the Word, but that is no surprise because the Apostle Paul said
in Galatians 4:27 "many more are the children of the
desolate than she which has a husband". And she which has a husband is a Bride.
You know I
can't read this verse of Scripture enough in warning you about what is
happening in this Message even today.
9 "Who is it he is
trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his Message? His
Doctrine? To children weaned from
their milk, to those just taken from the breast? I don't think so!!! 10 For to them it has
become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a
little there." 11 Very well then,
with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people, 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting
place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose",
but they would not listen. So then, the word of the LORD to them will become:
Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little
there, so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and
captured.
Brother Branham
said in The Masterpiece
in 143 Don't you see why He never used an organization? He can't
get back in it again. It's dead. But the Life passes on from one to the other.
See? They put creeds and inject... "Whosoever shall add one word or take
one word out..." See? He's blocked off from it. It must be the Life seed
traveling on.
And in every
age after every revival, once the people move away from the Light God sent to
them, and move backwards into works programs, the Life leave s them and God
moves on with His Light. Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 17 that when they loose what understanding they have of
the Word the Life of God leaves them as well.
Ephesians
4:18 Having the
understanding darkened, they become alienated from the life of God through the
ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
So because their hearts are blind, and
they are willfully ignorant as they move away from what understanding they did
have they actually shut off the Life of God from themselves. In essence they
are walking away from the fountain of Life. There is never any reason to quit
preaching the doctrine to revert to works, for Christ is the doctrine. If you preach
Christ, the hearts of the people will be filled with Life and there will be no
need to preach a clothesline religion. Fill a person with God life and God will
live through them.
And it does not
matter what you do to clean up your life, if you are not born again it is not
even acceptable to God any way. All that kind of righteousness is as filthy
rags. That is what He said.
Now, in getting back to the Masterpiece, and pp. 144
brother Branham said, 144 He'll have a Church
without spot or wrinkle. It'll not be connected any way with any kind of an
organization or a denomination (the cursed thing). It's passed through those such things, but it'll never be there.
147 Oh, and notice. Then the husk when it comes forth looks just
like the grain. But when the grain Life begins to leave the
husk to go in to make the Grain (the Bride), the husk opens up and
excommunicates the Grain. Is that right in nature? That's exactly what
she did. In Revelations 3 we find out the Laodicea
church age put Him out. Now, see, it didn't back in the other ages, because
there was something else yet to be made. It just passed through and went on to
another. I told you all along, there's no more denominations
coming. We're at the end. And they put Him out, because why? He's the Word
again. He's like the one that fell down there. He's the same doctrine
that come forth from the beginning. And when the seed Word begins to
grow forth, the husk puts It from itself. The Life
leaves all the others to follow it; that's the true believers; they follow the
Life, wherever the Life goes.
Now, notice
once again that Brother Branham says that the
true believers will never organize but they will follow that Life wherever it
goes. Brother Vayle told me in his living room a few years ago,
he said, "they are saying that when I am gone
that teaching will be over, but they are wrong, because as long as the Holy
Ghost is here there will be teachers, because the Holy Ghost is the Teacher."
And notice what brother Branham said,
He's the Word again. He's like the one that fell down there. He's the same doctrine that come forth from the beginning
So it has to be doctrine. Because if you focus on the Doctrine of Christ you have God period.
And John said, he that
hath the son hath life. And the word "hath" was translated from the Greek word "echo", and so "He that echoes the son echoes Life", and "He that echoes the doctrine of Christ echoes God Himself".
So as the Life moves on the doctrine of Christ will continue to be taught by
those that have been faithfully taught themselves. And
When a church stops teaching the doctrine and begins to focus on rules and
order and do and do, it has lost it's first love and has left the doctrine of
Christ and when they do that they no longer echo or reflect Life, nor do they
echo or reflect God, and God is Life.
The Apostle
Paul said in Colossians 3:4 "When Christ who is our Life shall phaneroo,
(to manifest Himself in His True character), so
shall we phaneroo (manifest in our
true character) with him in glory
(and we know this doxa is the opinion, judgment and
assessment of God.) Therefore, "when Christ
who is our Life appears, our life shall manifest in it's
true character as well, which we know was ordained to have the
very mind of Christ in us.
From ANOINTED
ONES AT END TIME 65-0725M 168 Brother Branham said, "Now, you go back and try to live again... What if that
life took back down... You think that Life would ever go
back after that old shuck's dried up, ever go back
and live in it again? It never does. "For
it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with
the Word as it come to pass..." They're dead, gone. "And the thorns and
thistles which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to
be burned..." Is that right? Now, hurrying just as quick as I can."
1 John 1: 2 For the life was
manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew
unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto
us;
Dead men don't
grow. They don't manifest life either. And they certainly can not change
either. and dead men certainly don't know they are
dead.
The Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3:18 But
we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord.
Now the apostle Paul told us here that
when we look into the mirror of the Word we are changed into the Image that we
see in the Word which is Christ Who is our light. And then he tells us we are
changed from image to image and from glory to glory, from doxa
to doxa, which is the
opinion, assessment and Judgment of God. So he tells us that we are changed
into the image of Christ who is our light and we are changed from one opinion
to another and to another and to another until we come into the mind of God.
Therefore the Life moves on and those
walking in the light continue to walk in the Light as He is in the light. They
don't look back, because anyone driving while looking through a rear view
mirror will crack up eventually.
Let's bow our
heads and our hearts in a word of prayer.