Christ is the mystery no 201
Review no 24
Christian Life no 8
Only the Word has Life
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This evening we'll review
several more sermons from our series on Christ is
the Mystery of God Revealed, and beginning at no 143 Christian
Life No 23 Prisoners To The Word
In paragraph 228, Wm. Branham
said, "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."
Now, I'd like to focus our thoughts
tonight on this statement brother Branham makes,
"It goes right by them, and they don't
recognize it till it's gone." Then brother Branham contrasts that to those who are the
predestinated seed which he also calls the pregnated person with the seed of
God. And it is in them the ones who have received the true baptism of the Holy
Ghost that the word within them will manifest itself in them
because they are as he says, so surrendered to the will of God that the Word
and the Word alone manifests Itself in them.
If we truly believe that the Scriptures
were indeed brother Branham's absolute, and ours, as well, then we should not
believe for one second brother Branham would say contrary to them. That is the
first mistake many make because if Satan can get you to think brother Branham's
confusing, then you lay aside brother Branham's sermons and go try to find some
other absolute looking for another filter to replace "a thinking man's
filter".
And when you've laid aside the Message
that God Himself came down with and vindicated, you will take some other
ministry for your absolute, and then you enter into confusion and death. For
the Bible teaches us, "there
is a way that seemeth right unto man but the end
therefore is the way of death."
God's provided way has always been His
prophets and God will not reveal His word by a teacher or an apostle, or any
other ministry. God's provided way has been through His prophets. That is Amos 3:7 Surely
the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his
secret unto his servants the prophets. 8 The
lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken,
who can but prophesy?
And if God says He will do nothing lest
it come via His prophet, then He means nothing. He didn't say teachers, he
didn't say pastors, he said prophets. And the only way
you can rightly divide the Word is by hearing it done so via God's prophet. So when
men say, God's provided way is confusing, it's because they do not understand
what was taught.
Who else can rightly divide the Word of
truth except a prophet who comes with "Thus Saith the Lord". Because when God
vindicates that man with Thus Saith the Lord, then you know what he's telling
you what God wants you to know.
The word of the lord does not come to a
teacher or pastor. It comes to God's prophets, and the teacher or pastor is
vindicated to be a genuine teacher of pastor if they say what the prophet said
and don't deviate from it. Because the prophet is God's voice
to the people. Then to call a prophet confusing is to call God
confusing, because the prophet is his mouthpiece.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us
by his Spirit:
Therefore, if you do not have His Spirit
you will never be able to understand the Revealed Word as given by God's
prophet. And by rejecting what the prophet teaches you reject the right division
of the Word.
"For The Spirit (God's Spirit) searches all things, yea, the deep things of
God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God knows.
So Paul makes it quite plain that unless
you have the Spirit of God, you will never know the things of God. And then he
says,
12 Now we have not received the spirit of
the world, but we have received the spirit which is of God; (in order that) that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God.
So he is quite clear that only those
who've received the Holy Spirit can indeed know and thus understand the things
of God brought by God's prophets.
Verse 14 But the natural man (that is the man that is not born
again of the spirit of God, he's just a carnal believer, not a spirit filled
believer) receives not
the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can
he know them, (in other words it is impossible for
someone who is not born again to know and thus understand the things of God.) because they are spiritually discerned.
And if they are Spiritually
discerned, then they are spirit discerned, for spirit is the root of spiritual.
So there can not be
any discernment of spiritual things without having the Spirit to do it.
1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
Brother Branham said in his sermon, Discernment of spirit 60-0308 P:8 We have an order from God, is for the discerning
of spirit, trying the spirit. I believe that that is a very great lesson
for the church today, is to try the spirit of anything, have discernment of the
spirit. I do not think that we should ever, by any means, ever try to judge a
person by the denomination they belong to, or by the group that they are
assembled with...
Notice the command is to try the spirit,
see what motivates that person, what their objectives are. Don't judge
the man by what group he associates with, but by what he says, and the motive
behind what he says.
True discernment will look at motives
and objectives and line up what they say and do with their motives and
objectives. Those who have the holy Ghost will receive
the rightly divided Word of a Prophet, and when that prophetically revealed
truth is presented to anyone and they turn it down, God will place their ear
to an awl and pierce it, and they will never again be able to hear the
truth again. And if faith cometh by hearing and you can not hear then where will
you end up my brothers and sisters?
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
Now, that means if you come to this Message,
and hear that prophet God sends and you willfully
choose to snub your nose at the truth, God will cut you off because you have
stepped across the line willfully into unbelief, and from that point on God
will close your ears to the truth. And you will no longer accept true
Revelation.
From his sermon, Abraham's Grace Covenant -
61-0317 And Hebrews (now watch), Hebrews the tenth chapter said, "If we sin willfully..." Now, what is sin, brethren? Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." You commit adultery. Why? Because you're an unbeliever. You steal, you lie, cheat. Why? Because you're an
unbeliever. That's right. A real true believer doesn't do that. See?
He doesn't do it, because the Holy Spirit in him... if he happens to even make
a mistake... the Bible said also, "And the worshiper, once purged, has no more conscious of sin." "He that's born of God does not commit sin..." is not an unbeliever, he's a
believer. The
Spirit of God remains in you cannot sin. You can't be a believer and an
unbeliever at the same time. You're either a believer or not a believer.
Power of transformation - 65-1031M 106.... then he become willfully disobedient.
And when you know to do good, and do it not, to you it's
sin, if you know what's
right and you don't do it. See? Then he become
willfully disobedient. After the Word had been vindicated, then he crossed the
separating line; then he was ousted from
Have faith in God 58-0105 The rest lays on your shoulders alone. And if you
can't believe it, there's not a thing on earth can help you, that
I know of. If God can't help you, who can? So let us be reverent, and let us
believe.
You see, Paul also said in 1 Corinthians
Token the 64-0308 P:41 If you disbelieve any of that Word, there's something wrong
with your experience. See? You come right up to the Land and see it's there. You see
that Jesus has raised. He's among us. You hear the
Word that follows the message, and still don't believe It,
you know what happens? Then they died right in the wilderness."
Time Tested faith 58-0530 P:18 If the church would put more faith to work,
you'd see more things taken place in the church. The pastor might
stand on Sunday morning. He might stand on Sunday evening or whenever, and
preach hard on faith, in a mighty message, but if the members don't take that message and then start
putting it to work, it'll fall right back, and the birds of the air
will pick it up. See, see? Just take it out and put it to work. God wants you
to do it. Now, faith, always
an experience accompanies faith.
Law 55-0115 P:29 Now, if this is presented to you... Now,
look. "For it is impossible (See?) for those who
were once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, to fall away again.
For if we sin (disbelieve) willfully..." Let it soak. "If we
disbelieve willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." If the truth of the Gospel has been presented to
you in such a way that you have to see it, and because of popularity, or
something else, that you turn your back to it and walk away and don't want to
see it, there's where you cross the line. "For he that disbelieves willfully after he
has received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for
sins."
God's power to transform 65-0911 P:87 For if we sin willfully after that we...
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin,
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and the fiery indignation, which
shall devour the adversary. That's Thus saith God's holy Word. If we disbelieve willfully
after we have seen It and heard It, then we're across
the line. There'll
never be no more forgiveness for it; you've crossed
the line." Oh," you say, "God still blesses me." Oh, yeah?
Inter veil 56-0121 P:46 Death means separate. And if you sin, disbelieve
willfully, after Gospel's been presented to you, that soul nature of yours will
gradually move away from you, and you'll feel it no more, just drawn
away. You won't know it.
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 147 Christian Life No 27 The
Word Alone Has Life, where we took our text from John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I
speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some
of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore
said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of
my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no
more with him. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
And that is exactly what Peter said to Jesus when
Jesus asked the 12 if they were going to leave also as the seventy disciples left
because His words were too cutting and strong.
John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to
whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal
life.
And that is what John also calls it in 1 John 1:1 we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,
of the Word of life;
And we see also Paul teaching the same thing. Philippians 2:16 Holding
forth the word of life;...
Therefore we can see that "the Word is Life" is Life, and not only was
it taught by Jesus but it was also taught by the apostles as well. Now, let's look at
this Word of Life because we know that John 1:1 tells us that the Word was with God and the Word is God.
Therefore if God is The Word and the Word is Life,
then the Great Fountain of life that comes forth from the Presence of God is
what contains the very Life of God. Let me read you three Scriptures concerning
the fountain of Life, and I want you to see the progression in them.
First we read, Psalms
36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall
we see light. Then in order to receive the
life from this Fountain we need to have the right attitude towards it, because
the right mental attitude towards any divine gift will bring it to pass.
So we read in Proverbs
Revelation 21:6 And
he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I
will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely.
And so what is this fountain of water of Life? It is
the word, for we are washed with the washing of water by the Word. But what we need to
know if we are to receive this fountain, is by what
means does it come forth. When we think of a fountain we think in terms of
water perpetually coming forth without no ending. But the water
coming forth itself is not the source, but is coming from the Source. And the
fountain itself is not the source but is the means by which we may obtain the
Life that comes from the Source.
Revelation 22:1 And
he shewed me a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Notice the water of Life proceeds from the Throne of
God, so we see the Source of Life is God Himself. And yet we see that there is
a fountain that will bring froth from Him the very thing we desire, and that is
Life. Eternal life.
Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest
love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
is thy life, and the length of thy days:
In this scripture we see that God is our very Life and
yet it is His Voice that we must heed in order to obtain the Life of Him. So
now we are thinking of this God-Life in terms of fountains and rivers of water.
Because the analogy or type that God uses is that of something that is ever
moving and flowing from it's source. So then there
must be a source and a vehicle to move the Life from the source to wherever it
goes to be received.
Genesis 2:7 And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Now in this verse we see God bring forth His own Life
and places it in man through His breath. Yet in this illustration we actually
picture God having molded a form and then literally came down and placed His
mouth upon Adam and
breathed into him His own Life.
Job tells us in Job
33:4 The Spirit of God hath made
me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Now if Job had the same testimony as Adam, then might
there be another scene that took place with Adam as well as with Job? And what
might that be? What is the breath of God anyway?
We find out what the breath of God is in 1 Timothy 3: 16 where
we read, "all Scripture is God breathed, and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
right-wise-ness, that the man of God might be
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
So we see that the breath of God is His own Word coming
forth. And we see in John 1:4 that "In him was life;
and the life was the light of men."
So then if the Life is in the Word, then we see that we must receive what is in
the Word in order to receive the Life that is in Him.
And we are told in 1 Peter 1: 23 "being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God
which Liveth and abideth forever." There's your Life
in the Word that Brother Branham spoke to us about. And notice it is also
identified as a Seed which is a carrier of life.
And in Mark
And in Acts
Notice then, if the Word
of God is Life, or a carrier of God-Life and
is represented as a seed because
the word seed means a carrier of Life. Then it will take a change of our own
thinking in order to receive God's thinking which is what a Word is, because
the Word is a thought expressed. And so if we are not able to change our thinking,
then what chance have we of receiving God-Life.
So right before we hear
what Paul said in Acts
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath (echoes) everlasting life: and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
I John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is
come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is
true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is
the true God, and Eternal Life.
So then what are the attributes of eternal Life? We are told by
Jesus himself in John 17:3 And this is life
eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent.
So eternal life does not come by your keeping the law,
it comes by the Word of Life entering
your heart. Then Gods Spirit begins to live your life for you.
Galatians
3:21 Is the law
then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life,
verily righteousness should have been by the law. So it is obvious that keeping laws
is not life, then how do we receive God-Life?
Paul gives us our answer in Galatians
That is why we read in I John 5:12 He that (echoes)
the Son echoes Life and he that echoes not the Son of God echoes not
life.13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe
on the name of the Son of God.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
echoes everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death unto life.
And we find out that it is in this hour that we are to
come to the place that we are to manifest openly this eternal Life as we see in
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall manifest in His true
identity, then shall ye also manifest in your true identity with him in glory.
Why? because
this is the hour of the appearing, and since He appeared we also appear with
him in Glory, or doxa, which is the very values, opinions and judgments of God.
Notice it is the Appearing
that manifests the Life. And so it is through the appearing that we manifest
what life we have in us. And therefore with no expression manifesting or
appearing, there is no apparent life to be manifested as we read in...
Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart:
And that led us to Christian Life No 28
Harmony Between Christ and His Bride where we took our text from Isaiah 55:11 "So shall My Word be that goeth
forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it.
Now, keep this Scripture in mind as we read from pp.
239 "He, the Head, is the First-fruits of the
resurrection. ... He is the First-fruits of the resurrection. Is that
right? What? Then what is He? He's the Head of the Body,
which is His Church, Bride. Uh-huh. Then the Bride-body must
follow the Head, for it is part of His resurrection and part of the
mystery. It's impossible for it not to go. Oh, my. It's part of
God's mystery. How God revealed Himself here and raised it up by the Word, so
He reveals the Church and raises it up by the same Word.
It's a part of His threefold mystery.
240 As the Head was took from the grave, so must the Body follow
Him back to
There is only one theme that brother Branham is
bringing out here this morning and that is this.
There's one Headship; that's Christ. The Body only recognizes one thing: God's Word.
Jesus himself said, "man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every Word that departs out of the Mouth of God."
Therefore, it all boils down to one thing. Does the Word of God have preeminence in your life or
does it not. Are you still dependent on what someone else tells
you or what God's own Mouth tells you.
God Himself said in Romans
3:4 let God be true, but every
man a liar; saith the Lord. So
if God Himself said let every man's Word be a lie, then you have a right to not believe any one except
God's very own Word.
Notice Jesus tells us in Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is
written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of God. So
the emphasis is the Word which comes forth from God's Mouth, His prophets.
And in Luke 1:70 we are told the mouth of God is His
prophets. It is not the five fold ministry. It is not the Teacher. It is not
the Pastor. It is not the Evangelist. It is not the five fold Prophet. It is
not the Apostle. It tells us the mouth of God is His prophets. period.
Luke 1:70 As He (God) has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
So he tells us if you want to trace how God has spoken
to man all the way back from the beginning you will find it has been through His
prophets.
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the
times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began.
Now, the instructions God left us with concerning how
He will use his prophets, comes to us in Deuteronomy
18:15 The LORD thy God will raise
up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me;
unto him ye shall hearken; (hearken means to pay close
attention). 16
According to all that thou desired of the LORD thy God in Horeb
in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD
my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
So when God spoke to
In other words you are going to have to answer to God
for not listening to the One He places His Words in their mouth.
20 But the prophet,
which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even
that prophet shall die.
Now, that's a pretty tough thing to hear. Because he
is telling the people they will have to kill the false prophets who speak what
God has not told them to speak. And this word "presume" is the key
here because the word presume means: : to
think that (something) is true without knowing that it is true: In
other words, to believe something is true without it being vindicated to be
true.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume
to speak a word in my name,... which shall speak a
word in my name which he believes to be true but has not ben
vindicated to be true, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
So we see a pretty tough sentence on
those who would speak what they presume to be true when it is not vindicated to
be true.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.
in other words, God interprets His own Words by bringing
them to pass. So it all boils down to whether the things spoken comes to pass
or not. In other words, not mere words, but a living Word that must manifest
after it has been spoken. If there is no manifestation after
that word has gone forth then God never told the man to say it. So that throws theology
out the door altogether. That throws out about 99.9% of all that's taught in
pulpits throughout the entire world altogether. Therefore, unless the five fold
minister is echoing what a vindicated prophet taught, you don't have to hear
him, period.
We hear the prophet Jeremiah tell us this very thing
in Jeremiah
Are you getting it? in other
words, "marked
by futility or ineffectualness". In other words, the words
of that prophet will
not produce anything in you because there is no Life in those
words, because they are not the Words of God. So then what does come out of
their mouths if God did not send these men?
Chronicles 18:19 And the LORD said,
Who shall entice Ahab king of
Now we find the same story told in 1 Kings 22 but we don't have time to read it
tonight.
I would like to read again from Jeremiah 23:15-40 from the NIV Therefore,
this is what the LORD Almighty says concerning the prophets: "I will
make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because from the prophets
of
So those who have taken a filter other than the Mouth
of God, His prophet, He says they do so because of their own stubbornness of
their own hearts, and they will receive nothing from God, because they have
gone outside God's provided way.
21 I did not send these prophets, yet
they have run with their own message; I did not speak to them, yet they
have prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my council, they would have
proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from
their evil ways and from their evil deeds.
So look at the fruits of the people, if they are
stubborn, and arrogant, then it shows who they are listening to are also
arrogant and stubborn and surely not sent by God. In other words, if they had
heard God's word and echoed God's Word it would have had a result on the people
that would bring a maturity to them, and the fruits of
the Spirit echoing forth from them. But since there is no manifestation as a
result of what they preach it is because they are only preaching their
own deluded theology and they are not echoing God's Living Word which will not
return to Him void.
23 "Am I only a God nearby,"
declares the LORD , "and not a God far away? 24 Can
anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD . "Do not I fill heaven and earth?"
declares the LORD .
What is wrong with people who can claim to believe the
Judge is here and yet think the judge will not judge them when they disobey
God's Word?
I'll tell you the difference between a righteous
preacher and an unrighteous preacher. When you listen to a righteous preacher
who correctly echoes God's Words, you can feel the heat of the fire of God, but
when you hear the words of an unrighteous preacher you feel nothing, and
therefore you change nothing. You just continue on as though you are ok with
God, and you are deluded in thinking so.
Then God says, 25 "I
have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say,
'I had a dream! I had a dream!' 26 How long will this continue in the
hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? 27 They think
the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as
their fathers forgot my name through Baal worship. 28 Let the prophet who has a
dream tell his dream, but let
the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to
do with grain?" declares the LORD . 29 "Is
not my word like fire," declares the LORD ,
"and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
You see? God's Word is like a fire, and it cuts and it
cleans down to the very thoughts and intentions of the heart. And if you're
listening to someone who calls himself a preacher and brings no Fiery Word that
cuts and cleans, I'll tell you one thing, "that man is not called by God,
he's called by the people to tell them what their itching ears want to hear."
30 "Therefore," declares the LORD,
"I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
Now, look at what he is saying here. If it is not in
the written Word of God it didn't come from God. You hear men all the time
quoting some five fold minister saying, brother so and so said this or brother
so and so said that. But God said, "I am
against those preachers who
steal words from one another, words which supposedly came from me."
This Word supposedly implies these men are
trying to get you to think the quote they give you from another minister are words
from God, when they are nothing more than some man's opinion. Unless they are
Scripture or Words of a vindicated prophet, they mean nothing. Therefore it
doesn't matter who said what, unless it is Thus
Saith the Lord.
That's why I don't want you quoting me, you may quote
the scripture or the quote that I read you from God's prophet, but unless we
are quoting God's Word or His Prophet, I'm not interested and you shouldn't be
either. we can show respect to their opinion, but Iwe had better respect Gods Word more.
31 Yes," declares the LORD , "I am against the the
preachers who wag their own tongues and yet declare, 'The LORD declares.' 32
Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," declares the LORD . "They tell them and lead my people astray with
their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not
benefit these people in the least," declares the LORD
. False Oracles and False Prophets.
Let me continue our reading
from Jeremiah 23 from the translation
called The Message.
The Message 34 “And if anyone, including prophets and
priests, goes around saying glibly ‘GOD’s Message! GOD’s Message!’
I’ll punish him and his family. 35-36 “Instead of claiming to
know what GOD says, ask questions of one another, such as ‘How do we understand
GOD in this?’ But don’t go around pretending to know it all, saying ‘God
told me this . . . God told me that. . . .’ I don’t want to hear it anymore.
Only the person I authorize speaks for me. Otherwise, my Message gets twisted,
the Message of the living God. 37-38 “You can ask the prophets, ‘How did God
answer you? What did he tell you?’ But don’t pretend that you know all the
answers yourselves and talk like you know it all. I’m telling you: Quit the ‘God told me this . . .
God told me that . . .’ kind of talk. 39-40 “Are you paying
attention? You’d better, because I’m about to take you in hand and throw you to
the ground, you and this entire city that I gave to your ancestors. I’ve had it
with the lot of you. You’re never going to live this down. You’re going down in
history as a disgrace.”
Now, that's pretty tough
love if you ask me. But that is what God wants. God don't care if you knew his prophet.
God don't care if you fished with the man or hunted with the man, God is
interested in one thing, do you believe His prophets
that he sends to you.
There's too many people posing as believers today. Men still
rubbing a rabbits foot, rubbing it for luck. Men chasing
after answers from one preacher to the next instead of from the Mouthpiece God
gave us. What's the difference if you use a crystal ball a preacher to get answers. Brother Branham said, "The Body, the Bride, only recognizes one thing: and that's
the Word."
Isn't that what brother Branham told us the condition the
bride will be in at the very end?
From his sermon, The
Spoken word is the Original Seed 62-0318E P:175 brother Branham said, "Notice,
what harmony. Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father
showed Him first: (Harmony between God and Christ. See? John 5:19) So will the
Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life (He
shows Her), and she receives It. She never doubts it. Nothing can
harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be planted,
the water will raise it up again. Amen. (Now, I got a great big
"Hallelujah.") Here
is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to
know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it
in His Name. She has Thus saith the Lord. Then it is germitized;
so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its purpose. They do only His will.
(Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have Thus
saith the Lord, (they
have what the Lord has already said thus) or they keep still. Then they will do the works of God.
Remember Isaiah 55:11
where God said, "So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Let
us pray