Christ
is the Mystery no. 99
Attributes
of a Son of God no 21
Harvest ready
July 14, 2013
Brian Kocourek
Joel 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for
the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine
do yield their strength. 23 Be glad then, ye children
of Zion, (In the
Future Home brother Branham said when the term Zion is used, whether it be the
children of Zion or the daughters of Zion, he said it always refers to the
Bride of Christ, So the Tree that shall bear its fruit will be the bride of
Christ.) and rejoice in the
LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I
will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and
the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in
plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath
dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 And
ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the
LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Let us pray, Dear gracious and Loving
Father, we come to you this morning in the precious name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, that name which is your and in which you gave your son Jesus by
inheritance and that name which also you have given to your entire family both
which are in heaven and us that are here on earth. That name identifies us in
your family, Father, and we come humbly and reverently this morning wanting to
hear from you for of ourselves we have nothing to offer to you, but a body, a
conduit, and channel for your Holy Spirit to work through, but we know that we
must die to ourselves in order for you to use us, because without You living
our lives for us, we would be like most men miserable. But we come thanking you
Father for your great atonement, redemption, and Baptism into Life through the
instrument of Your Word which is Your Spirit, and thus we acknowledge to you
Father that we are dead, and
our life is hid with Christ in You Father who art our God. For in you we live
and breathe and have our being, in Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen.
Now, we are looking at Joel 2 and we
see he is talking about trees which are likened to sons of God. Psalm 1:1 tells
us that the righteous are like a tree that is planted by the Rivers of water
and shall produce their fruit in their season. Now this is important because a
tree that does not produce fruit is only fit for one thing, and that is for the
burning.
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat
of the scornful. (in other
words, look at his attributes, they are not negative, He doesn't take the counsel or advice of
ungodly men, He doesn't go the way of the sinner which is the unbeliever, nor
will he find himself in the company of the scorners, that's the mockers, the
make-believers who are looking to find fault. So he is a separated person,
separated unto God.)
Notice
what he does do, it says in verse 2 "But his delight is
in the law of the LORD (that's
God's Word, His opinions, His judgments, His Values); and in his law (values, opinions and judgments) doth he meditate day and night.
Those
are wonderful attributes of a righteous man. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, (so
notice that he is likened to a tree. Not one that is in dry ground, but one it
says here that is planted by the rivers of water.) "that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season"; Notice then that there is a fruit for a season the right
season. So His fruit is identified with the season in which he lives. The
fruit, the teaching for the season, and notice his fruit doesn't wither, it
never dries up, "his
leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. "whatsoever he
doeth, that's his works, hid deeds, his labors, whatsoever he doeth it says.
And
that reminds me of John 14:12 because even though in the Gospel of John the
words works is used and sometimes it includes miracles, yet much of the time it
refers to other things, and that word "ergon" is translated as not
only "work", and "works" in Scripture, but also as
"deed" deeds" "doing" "labor" It was translated from a Greek primary
preposition "ergo" which means to work; to toil (as an effort or
occupation); and by implication, it speaks of an act: or deed, or a doing, a
labor, or a work.
And in John 8:39 Jesus exhorts the
Jews to "do the works of Abraham," and there is no
record of Abraham doing miracles, and so Jesus must be saying, "do what
Abraham is known for, and that was his believing God despite the physical
evidence that might seem to say otherwise. In other words,
his unfailing faith.
And in John
14:10 it is interesting that Jesus says, "The words which I speak to you I do not speak From myself, but the Father abiding in me does the works."
Here the "words" of Jesus in the first part of the verse are defined
as the "works" that the Father does in the latter part
of the verse.
And in John 14:13. Jesus says to those who
he had just made the promise of John 14;12 to, that whatsoever ye
shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. 14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I
will do it.
Notice that the whatsoever, and the anything
you ask for, is the work that Jesus promised he would do.
Thus, the evidence is clear that when we compare the context of these
verses the word "works" should not be restricted to
signs and wonders, but rather speaks of the very nature of Christ in
manifestation. Also, another thing we must
consider is when John speaks of miracles, he
consistently uses the word "sign." "Sign" is
the unambiguous word John uses to describe Miracles, and the word "works"
is a more generic term, which may include miracles, but does not necessarily
focus on signs and wonders, but rather, our labor and deeds which reflect the
innate nature of the God-life of the Father that is manifesting itself in the
son and in sons.
And that is what Psalm 1 is all about. The righteous
being planted by the water receive their energy from
that Life giving water, and are destined to produce fruit abundantly. But then
he contrasts the ungodly. He says they are not like the righteous. They don't
produce fruit, at least not the fruit for the season. They are all dried up,
and every wind of doctrine scatters them away.
4 The ungodly are
not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Now
the word away here is interesting because it was translated from a Hebrew word that
means to be shaken and tossed about and thrust to and fro, so it appears they
are not very stable themselves, but are unstable souls, tossed to and fro by
every wind of doctrine as we are told in Ephesians 4, and are shaken like a
reed in the wind.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
No,
they are not found worthy to stand with the righteous, not to sit with them. So
the Lord will end them a deluding influence, which is usually an organizational
spirit that will tie them up and bind them so they can not produce any fruit.
And
then in verse 6 we
read, "For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: (He
knoweth them, they are kin, they are His seed, and that word knoweth actually
means the Lord actively participates in the way of the righteous) but the way of the ungodly shall perish".
And that word perish
was translated from the hebrew
Word awbad which means they are left to themselves.
Now, we were looking at Joel 2:22 that was referring to the children of
Zion, the bride which shall be like trees that will bear her fruit, for the tree beareth her
fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23 Be
glad then, ye children of Zion and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he
hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to
come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the
first month.
(Now, remember that the former rain
is the teaching rain, and he says I will give it moderately, then
he says the former rain and the latter rain. Now, I know some years and years
ago some tried to make an organization and called it "the latter
rain", but God never deals with organization, he deals with His Children
only. They claimed brother Branham as the first of the latter rain, and they
were not so far off in that, but they were off in that they strove to try to
duplicate what brother Branham was sent to se, when and tried to produce what
only God can do. So it went into fanaticism and carnal impersonations, and all.
But this latter rain is the harvest rain, and being harvest rain it has to do
with when the fruits shall be ripe and ready for harvest. In
other words, when the fruits on the trees shall be manifested to the place of
harvest.)
And we continue in Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm,
my great army which I sent among you. 26 And
ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name
of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall
know that I am in your midst, and that I am the LORD
your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. 28 And
it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And so we are looking at a scene
where God planted a seed in Luther of Justification, and the locusts (the
theologians) came along afterwards, and organized it trying to protect it, and
like the locust
they ate up the tender planting of the Lord that was just coming up. Then out
of what tender plants of Luther's Message that survived the theologians, came
forth Wesley's Message of Sanctification and the stem began to grown up, But then the cankerworms came
along, the theologians, and ate up the stem of sanctification, and organized it
until it dies out. And then what survived the intellectuals who took over the
Wesleyan Message, came up the Pentecostal experience, and the planting of the
Lord began to grow leaves, and the caterpillar intellectuals came along with
carnal impersonations and the Pentecostal experience in the individual was
organized into creeds and sensations, and the true meaning of the Life of
Christ manifest in the individual was indoctrinated into creeds and dogmas
instead of a genuine new birth.
So God sent a former rain, a teaching
rain, a prophet with "Thus saith the Lord" and God promised that He
would come down with a Shout and restore all the years that the theologians and
intellectuals had destroyed the working of the Holy Ghost int
he Individual.
He said "I will restore",
and yet like Moses, when He said to Moses, "I have head the cry of my people, and I have
come down to deliver my people, now you Moses go do it and I will be with you", So God came down in this hour
to restore but he promised to do so using a prophet as we know according to Amos 3:7 "Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth
his secrets to His servants the prophets".
And this restoration was to be in two
phases, first a rain that would be a teaching rain. And God likens the rain to
His Doctrine. Deuteronomy 1:1 Give
ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the
small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
So there would be a time when God
would send His former rain, the teaching rain, when the Doctrine would be taught,
and then after that teaching rain, and I believe that was God restoring His
Word through His vindicated prophet, then he says, I will send the former rain
again more, that is the expounding of the doctrine by men like brother Vayle
again, making sure the doctrine was established in the Word, and then he adds,
and I will send the latter rain, which is also rain which then must also be
doctrine. It is the final rain which is to come right before the harvest, so it
is the harvest rain, which is also a harvest doctrine.
To me, I believe that is where we are
at today. The harvest rain or doctrine is that doctrine which focuses on the
fruits of the harvest, the fruits for the season.
Now, I know I will have my critics on
this but if they think the teaching rain is the last rain they are mistaken. It
is the former rain, the teaching or doctrine rain, but the latter rain is also
a rain which God calls his doctrine. And it is the harvest rain or doctrine.
This is what Paul referred to when he
said in Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the
foundational principles etc. but rather let us go unto perfection.
Now, Paul is not saying here that we
are to lay aside the doctrine becauae after all
Christ is the doctrine, But as brother
Vayle told us who would gather for his little sermons the last 12 years that he
no longer preached in his church, but rather chose to preach in his home, he
said, Hebrews 6 "
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection;" he
said that means quit fussing over who is right and who is not, and get our
spirits ready for going home."
Now, that is the fruit
for the season, for as brother Branham said of those who had gone beyond the
curtain of time and who no longer had the body of this death to contend with,
he said from, God's only provided place of
worship 65-1128M P:20 " There's no way of ever explaining what it is. Just take my word if
you believe me. Be sure to make it,...Burn every
bridge of the world behind you. I believe
the church is beginning to hear the message, and beginning to understand.
But, friends, listen, we've got to lay in the
Presence of the Son; we've got to be ripened. (Now, that' harvest talk he telling us here, he's talking of the fruit
being ripe or matured) Our faith isn't ripe. (You see our faith is not mature he is saying,
it's not ripe, it's not harvest ready. Then he says,) Intellectually we're hearing the message that God has give
us, and seeing the signs that He showed us, and proving it by the Bible
as that; but, oh, how the church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders
up, you know, and gets sweet in the Spirit so that it can
bathe down. Sometimes in speaking the message, you get harsh,
have to break it in like that, because you've got to clinch a nail to make it
hold. But when the church once gets it, the Elected is called out and
separated then in the Presence of God, I know it'll be something like the
people was there when it takes its rapture.
What I would like to do for the rest
of the time this morning is talk to you about what this means to be harvest
ready. You know Monsanto has a product
that they call "round up" ready. and we know
the final round up is when He comes to catch His bride away. So you see how
Satan's Eden perverts God's Word. Because Satan's round up is polluting the earth, when God's round
up will gather His wheat into His garner.
Now that I've given you some
Scriptural background for what I am going to read from brother Branham's
sermon, "Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed" this morning, let us go to paragraph 196 or for those of you who have your books, where it
is found in paragraph 422 and we will read where brother Branham says, "Watch, the tree puts forth a
branch, a Lutheran. (Now,
keep in mind Joel as we read on) 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's 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."
Now, notice he is talking about the fruit that began but when they
organized it killed off the fruit, and so the move of God died right their.
And that is what I am afraid has happened to
many in this message as well. It has been 50 years which is a jubilee since the
Seals were opened. In 1963 the emancipation proclamation went forth by ABRAHAM
Lincoln, freeing men from slavery once and for all physically, and in 1963 the
seals proclaimed our emancipation from the slavery of organized religion.
But when the Jubilee trumpet sounded if the man refused to go free, an
awl was placed to his ear, and from that point on He would never have the right
to go free again, and was destined to bondage for the rest of his life.
This morning we've been looking at the Fruit of the teaching rain and I
would like to know what that teaching has produced? Because if it has brought
forth only an intellectualism, in other words, if all it has produced is a
better knowing, then what good has it done.
But I believe the teaching rain was to get the trees, the people, ready for producing a fruit that will take off at the
harvest rain, or the doctrinal understanding of what harvest is all about.
You see, for the past 7 years I have been crisscrossing the globe
trying to gett he brethren to focus on the promises
associated with the Harvest. In other words, we have gone into the adoption of
Sons, the understanding of what the manifestation of the sons of God is all
about, the dying to self, and letting Christ live your life for you.
Because if we have sat under the teaching rain and are not yet ready to
bear fruit, then those who are fruitless will be like the tree Jesus cursed and
said was only fit for burning.
No, brothers and sisters, the teaching was to get us focused on the
relationship of the Father and son that we might bear the fruit of sons. And if
you have sat under that ministry for all these years and bear no fruit then you
are incapable of bearing fruit.
Brother Branham spoke in paragraph 196 this morning about how the
church constantly refuses to bear the fruit for the season, and thus organizes
instead and dies right their. And I am afraid that many who followed the
teaching of an indicated teacher have done just that, that the Words of Br.
Vayle might not go without Judgment when he said many of you will die under my
ministry. And many have because they have not moved on witht
he Word of God as it is coming to pass.
Back in his opening prayer in this sermon, Christ is the mystery
63-0728 P:50 brother Branham said, "Make
the heart that hears be fertile to receive Truth. And may it grow into great
trees of Eternal Life to be shining lights and read epistles of all men,
they might know that Jesus Christ has raised from the
dead and lives among us. Make us so full of love and the fruit of the Spirit
until other men and women, boys and girls can see the results of the Life of
Christ still living in us after two thousand years from the great event.
Grant it, Father. To honor Thee, we ask in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
So you see, these trees are you and I brothers and sisters, and God is wanting fruit from His planting, or there will be no
harvest. Or perhaps I should say no harvest for you, if the fruit is not there.
But he did ordain that some would be ready but he also said the Bride has made
herself ready, so it's up to you. The right mental attitude toward any divine
promise of God will bring it to pass. so just die to self,
and let Christ produce the fruit in you and you will be ready. for He which began the work in you will perform it, and that
work is the same work that Jesus spoke of in John 14:12.
There has got to be a harvest rain, a harvest teaching, a harvest
doctrine, just as their was a former rain, a teaching
rain.
And I believe by God's grace that teaching or doctrine will focus on
the fruit for the season which are the promises for the season. I mean what
other fruit could you have than what God promised for the season?
He promised an adoption for His children who are the right kind of
sons.
He promised us that we would be conformed to the Image of the first
born son, and that promise if not for the millennium,
it's to be before we are caught up, as brother Branham said in God's Only Provided
Place of Worship. he said we would be ripe in our
Faith when we take the rapture.
He promised that we would manifest as
sons of God, and that is not talking about the Millennium either. That is a
promise that he said all creation is groaning and waiting for it to happen, and
we have the promise it will happen before we are caught away.
We have the promise of a capstone ministry. The Captsone
has already come, Christ is here, the pillar of fire is leading us to the
millennium, we
have the potential but the manifestation in the bride is still yet to come.
Brother Vayle said in his sermon, Adoption and Placing
of Sons, Now, reading from the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans. Just one verse at this time, the 15th verse at this time.
For ye have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby
we cry, Abba, Father.
Now in the first message on this subject which was
last night we showed from the prophets teaching that there would be a word
identified Bride who would be able to manifest the very life of Christ
at the end time, quoting brother Branham
"there'll be a power come into the church and
now is coming in that the holy spirit will so anoint the people [plural]
so that they'll [plural] speak the Word and
it the word will create itself like that or identical to what was spoken."
Now, before I read any further, I want you to
understand, this man, lee Vayle taught that there
would be a word identified Bride who would be able to manifest the very life
of Christ at the end time. And what is this Harvest fruit except it be a Christ-like, Word Bride bearing the fruits of
His Spirit and living a Life that is holy and pleasing to Him.
And then brother Vayle went on to say, "So we see according to the Word of God given to us by a vindicated prophet that the creative
Word will be in the very bride at the end time. Now this great capstone
ministry of the bride it's called the
manifestation of the sons of God or the adoption or placing of
the sons, and to me, and I emphasize to me, it is also the manifestation of
what brother Branham called the third pull in the bride.
Up until 1963 brother Branham talked much
of this manifestation, but after 62 and 3 he spoke of the pull of the various
pulls, and he said there would be a third pull in the bride which would come
into manifestation. Now, we have no details concerning it, but remember it
will be the creative word within that bride. Now let us just think of the
potential or the prime cause of this great manifestation. It is already in
the bride but its is evidently subdued, Now, It's
in there but subdued. See ...
... But, letting that power lie dormant,
see, does not annul that the power is there. So it is that the lack of the
manifestation does not annul the power, the power is there but the
manifestation is not here because it is not yet time for it.
Now this is what you must understand. See, The bride is not without the prime
cause or the cause to bring about the effect, it is just that God is not
ready to produce the effect. See now, it is not time to show it forth.
Now, with that said, in closing let me read
some statements brother Branham makes in this sermon, Christ is the mystery 63-0728 concerning the Life of Christ
coming into manifestation in this hour, and this Life is the fruit that God is
looking for in His bride.
In P:120 Look, Christ in
you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation. See? Christ's
Life in you makes Him the center of the revelation. Christ in the Bible, makes the Bible a complete revelation of Christ. Christ
in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing. See, what
God's trying to do? What is the new birth then? You say, "Well, Brother
Branham, what is the new birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus Christ
personally to you. Amen. See? Not you joined a church, you shook a hand;
you done something different; you said a creed; you promised to live by a code
of rules; but Christ, the Bible... He is the Word that was revealed to you.
And no matter what anybody says, what takes place, it's Christ. Pastor,
priest, whatever it might be... It's Christ in you. That is the
revelation that the Church was built upon.
Then in Christ is
the mystery 63-0728 P:145 So therefore, there's no school, no theologian, no teachings
of the Bible, among any school that knows anything about it. They cannot
know nothing about it. It's impossible for them to
know anything about it. God has hid the senses of knowing it from the very elected teachers and everything else. It's a
personal, individual affair with the person that Christ is revealed to them.
And if you say, "He has been revealed to me," and then the Life that
Christ produced here in the Bible (that same Life was in Him) does not
produce Itself in you, then you got the wrong
revelation.
Now, we got a lot of proud people in this
message that think they have "The revelation" that counts. We got two
souls group, and the seven thunders group, and the return ministry people, and the
bride Boys who believe they will speak and the rapture will take place, and we
also have the Missionary people that believe that is the preeminent thing for
the bride, and even the parousia cirle,
and the One-ness and two-ness people, and it seems like every circle in this Messge claims they got it, but Brother Branham said, And if you say, "He has been revealed to me,"
and then the Life that Christ produced here in the Bible (that same Life that was
in Him) does not produce Itself in you, then you got the wrong revelation.
So beware brothers and sisters, because it
boils down to the individual, not the church, not the group you associate with,
not this camp or that camp, but is that Life of Christ producing itself in you
or is it not. and that is where we are at for the harvest
time. Because only those who are so anointed with the Life of Christ will he
take with him when he comes.
In the very next
paragraph, no. 146 brother Branham says, "If I put a life of a pumpkin into the life of a pear tree,
it would bear pumpkins. "By their fruits you shall know them." It's exactly
right. And if the first, or first you put a tree (a grape vine), and it put out
a bunch of grapes (the first shoot it put out brought grapes), the next one
brought out lemons, the next one brought out pears, the next one brought out
apples, there's some kind of a grafted affair in there that's bearing its own
life. Every denomination will bear a life of itself. But if that
original vine ever puts out another shoot, it'll bear grapes like it did the
first time. And if The Life, The Life of Jesus
Christ ever puts out another body of believers, it'll bear the fruit that the
first one did; they'll write a Book of Acts behind it, 'cause it'll be
the same--the same Life. See, what I mean? You just can't get away from it.
It's the Life of Christ in you, been injected in you by the Holy Spirit
Itself, living Its Life through you. Blind leaders of the blind...
147 Notice, God holds this key
alone. No theologian can tell you. It's not known; it's hid from them.
They know nothing about it. So the schools... "Well," you say,
"I got a Ph. LL.D." You only make... To me and I believe unto God and
to any real, true believer, that means you're just that much farther away; you
just backed off. God is not known by education; He's not known by how to
explain it. God is known by simplicity and of revelation of Jesus Christ in the
most illiterate person. See? Not your theology; it's a revelation of
Jesus Christ. "Upon this rock, I'll build My Church." No other rock's
accepted; no other thing's accepted; no other Roman rock; no other Protestant
rock; no other school; no other nothing; but on exactly the revelation of
Jesus Christ in a new birth. He, born in there and injects His own Life,
and your life is gone, and the Life of Christ is projecting Itself through you
with the preeminences to the people that they see
the very Life, and works, and signs and wonders that He did is doing the same
thing through you. Outside of that, the rest of it's not even called to at
all.
Now, listen, that's John 14:12, the deeds, the
works, the actions, the life, the nature of Christ living itself out in you. So
many times brother Branham says it's an individual affair and then we have
people say that's not for anyone else but brother Branham, he's the individual he's
talking about.
Good grief, how stupid can we get. here is the Prophet spoken of in Malachi 4 that his whole ministry
is to change the hearts, the understanding of the people, and get them ready
for a rapture, and you say it's all about that guy himself. Hogwash, he's the gift
God gave to the people to get them ready. Let me read a few quotes from this
very message where brother Branham speaks of the individual and he is not
speaking of himself, but of any individual that God has ordained to this Light
and Life.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:123 So it's Christ expressing
Himself in the individual, whether he's intellectual, or whether he don't
know his ABC's. Half the apostles didn't know them. That's right. But they
knowed Christ. They never taken heed to Peter and John, knowing that they
had been out of some seminary. They said they taken heed and noticed that they'd
been with Christ when they healed the lame man (See?) at the gate. They knowed they
had been with Christ. Doesn't sound like one person to me. Let's read another.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728
P:226 His Presence in the individual with a personal a-vindication of
Himself expressing Himself--the
living Word that's promised for the day, expressing Itself through you,
(not me he says, you!!!) a vindication of the great revelation of God... Look, only in an
individual, never in a group: an individual, not in a group, His
identification is with an individual. (Now, i
know the minds of these guys who want to place it all in William Branham, and
they will say, see, not in a group, in one man, but that is not what he is saying
here. God doesn't deal in groups, he deals with one
person at a time. That's individuals whether they be
one or many. Then he says...)
You get that? Not with the
Methodists, not with the Baptists, not the Presbyterian, not the Lutheran, not
the Pentecostal, but as an individual. "I'll take one and leave
one. I'll separate them." That's right. "There'll be two
in the field; I'll take one and leave one. There'll be two in bed, and I'll
take one and leave one." It's not a group. It is a personal
vindication of a pregnated child of God filled with
the Holy Ghost, so surrendered to God that he don't care about anything
else, and the Holy Spirit living Its Life, pulsating through him, showing the personal
vindication of the Word Itself expressing Itself to the people and to the world.
Look, that is the adoptable sons, that is those who will be conformed to His
image, that is those who will be those manifested sons.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:228 It goes right by them, and they
don't recognize it till it's gone. It only picks up the predestinated seed
that God predestinated before the foundation of the earth. The same thing come through in the days of Noah. Same thing come
through in the days of Moses, days of Elijah, days of the prophets, days of
Jesus, on down through and to this very hour. The pregnated
person with the seed of God, the Word in there manifesting Itself, so
surrendered to the will of God that the Word and the Word alone
manifests Itself and this person's a prisoner, to an individual.
229 Not say, "My church done..." My church has nothing to do with
it. It's an individual, one person. All hell is against this teaching.
All hell's against this truth, but it is the truth. Jesus never said,
"Now, Peter, you, and John, and all the rest of the people, you've got the
revelation now; the whole church is saved." No, it was to him
personally. "I say unto thee ('thee,' not to them,) to thee,
thou art Peter, upon this rock I'll build My Church." And the word
"Peter," means "a stone"; "stone" means "the
confessed one, or the separated one." Upon a certain stone, upon a certain
thing (See?), a called out, the Church called out, upon this stone, upon
this revelation. "Flesh and blood never revealed it to you, but upon this revelations (called out group) I'll build My Church
in them, and all the gates of hell will never be able to withstand it. Not
one hair of your head shall perish. You are Mine; I'll
raise you up in the last day, give unto him Eternal Life and raise him up at
the last days." There it is, the revelation.
Not them, but him, an individual: not a group, an individual. All hell's
against it.
Now, back to the last few quotes I have for you
on the very life of Christ manifesting in you.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:200 The Church is the Blood of
Christ by the Spirit, because the Life is in the blood. That's
the baptism of the Holy Ghost that baptizes us into His Body,
that recognizes only His Body, His flesh, His Word. Denomination won't
ever touch that; it's a revelation. She knows it. So did Eve know it;
but she fell; but this one knows it and won't fall. She's ordained to.
Hallelujah. She's ordained to not fall. She won't fail. She's
predestinated to it. "Blessed is the man who God will not impute
sin."
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:204 And see, God Himself making Hisself known and pulsating Himself through the Life
that you're a prisoner to Him now. You are His love prisoner. The world can
laugh, make fun them, say, "Come on out." You could go, but you're a
prisoner. The other women can act Hollywood, but not you; you're a prisoner.
Amen. See, you're a prisoner to Christ. Other men can smoke and drink and carry
on if they want to and call themselves Christians, deacons, and even preachers,
but not you; you're a prisoner, a prisoner to the Word. Yes, sir. Yes,
sir.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:224 Remember. Think of it, that
people born of His Spirit in a day like this, in this great denominational age that
we live, and the living God takes His living Word and vindicates It personally.
This Life that's in the Word, the germ that's in the Seed (and the Word
is the Seed that a sower went forth to sow), and the
Life is Christ in the Word personally in you, vindicating something that
you cannot do, proving Hisself that it's not you, but
it's Him. And you become a love slave to Him to be a Bride.
And finally, watch how this lat quote says,
when you see the individuals in the body of Christ becoming one with Christ who
is the head of that body, then you will know that the rapture is about ready to
take place.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:253 Watch. Now, to the Life in the
Body is a vindication of the rapture is at hand. When you see the
Headship and the Body becoming one and the Fullness of the measure of His
manifestation, shows that the Body is about ready to be received to
the Headship.
And that brothers and sister is our harvest
doctrine, our harvest rain, the latter rain, the manifestation rain.
Let us bow our heads in prayer.