Doctrine no. 3
There must be ones God reveals Himself to
Brian Kocourek,
Last Sunday we began a new mini
series on doctrine, and we began by showing you that there are 3 things
necessary in order for us to have correct doctrine.
No 1 there must be One
Who reveals, and therefore the whole purpose of the doctrine is to
point to the One Who is Revealing. That be God
Himself.
No 2 Which we preached on Wednesday night, there must be
the One In Whom or through whom God Reveals
Himself. In other words, there must be a vessel of God's choosing and
that be a prophet according to the many Scriptures we brought on concerning
this point.
No 3 and this is what we'll focus our thoughts on this
morning, concerning doctrine, and that there is there must be Ones to
whom the doctrine of Christ is revealed to.
Notice that you need all three
of these to have correct Bible Doctrine. 1. The
One Who Reveals
2. The One in
Whom he reveals-The vessel of God's choosing to reveal
Himself. And no 3 The Ones to Whom he reveals Himself.
Therefore, this morning we'll
focus our thoughts on point number 3) There has to be a people in
which His Revelation of Himself is to be made known to and
upon receiving this revealing or Revelation, they will become one with it by
receiving the manifestation of It and then echoing or reflecting it themselves.
And you will find this in the following Scriptures.
Hebrews 12:25-29 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. (Now,
Who came down in this hour with a Message? God, right? So He's the one speaking. And he uses the voice
of His prophet.) For if they escaped not who
refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if
we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then
shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not
the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And
this word, Yet once more, signifieth
the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that
those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we
(the ones who remain after all the shaking is finished) will receive a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For
our God is a consuming fire.
Let
us pray...
Now
let's turn in our Bibles to Colossians 3:1-4 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on
the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth.
3 For
ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When
Christ, who is
our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Doxa, God's opinion,
God's values, and God's judgments)
In other words, this i the hour that the very
Life of Christ is to reflect in such a way that we grow up into Christ, we
become in the image of the first born son. That's Romans 8.
Romans
8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now,
we could take an entire sermon just on this verse, bujt
notice these are the people that he is being revealed to in this hour. And he
has placed his spirit in them to live their lives for them.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to self, to
live after self. 13 For if ye live after self, ye shall die: but if
ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Too
many people today are not led by the spirit of God,
they are led rather by their church or their denomination. But This is speaking of Sons, ones in Whom God has placed His
Spirit in them.
15 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.
Notice
he calls receiving the Holy Spirit the Spirit of adoption. Because
this Spirit of adoption will take you from a babe in Christ all the way to a
fully mature adult.
16 The Spirit itself (that's God's Spirit) beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Not
your spirit will bear witness with his spirit, but His Spirit will bear witness
by what He does in and through you. You are dead and
your life is hid in God through Christ.
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory (the doxa, the values, opinions and judgments of God) which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the
same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself
also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but
ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen
is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we
hope for that we see not, then do we with
patience wait for it. 26 Likewise
the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we
know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth
the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we
know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who
are the called according to his purpose. 29 For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many
brethren. 30 Moreover whom he
did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (endoxazo,
the doxa magnified in our zoe, our life) 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be
against us?
Ephesians 1:13-20 13 In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which
is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory. 15 Wherefore I also, after I
heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks
for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
There's
your spirit of adoption, and notice He came down with a Message to give you
this. And notice what it is for.
18 That the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the
riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding
greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of
his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from
the dead, and set him at his own right hand in
the heavenly places,
If we go back to verse 3 we see
these are the people that were In His thinking before the world ever began.
3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory
of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein
he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself: 10 That in the
dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are
on earth; even in him: 11 In whom also we have
obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise
of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
1 John 3:1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:
but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself,(to morally purify
himself) even as He (God is morally) pure. (Then
notice what he says) 4 Whosoever
committeth sin (and remember sin is unbelief, so whosoever
disbelieves) transgresseth also the law: for
sin is the transgression of the law.
Notice this transgressing of
the law, means to go beyond the limits of the law. And we find the same words
spoken by this same apostle in his Second Book.
2 John 8-9 Look to yourselves, that we lose not
those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, (whosoever goes beyond the limits) and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath (echoes)
not God. He that abideth (remains) in the doctrine of Christ, he hath (echoes) both the Father and the Son.
2 Thessalonians 1: 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2
Thessalonians 1:10-12 10 When he shall come to be glorified (en-doxa-zoe, in other words
in that day when His glory is magnified) in his
saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony (Paul's
testimony) among you was believed) in that day. 11 Wherefore also we pray always
for you, that our God would count you worthy of this
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12 That the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 (we see in the mirror of God's Word, and we are
changed from image to image and) from glory to
glory, even
as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:9-12 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But
when that which is perfect is come, (and Who is perfect but God and who is God but The word.
So when God comes down, 1 Thessalonians 4) then
that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I
put away childish things.
12 For now
we see through a glass,(a mirror)
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Why? Because faith is a
revelation, and hope is an earnest expectation that comes from the revelation,
but Love is an outward expressing of the revelation. In other words, it is when
the revelation becomes manifested in you.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:124 The new birth is Christ, is a revelation.
God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that's the new birth.
Now, what are you going to do when you get all that group together, where the revelation is
perfectly in harmony, and God expressing it through His Word by the same
actions, the
same things that He did, making the Word manifest? Oh, if the
Church only knew its position. It will one day. Then, the rapture will
go when it knows what it is. Now, notice. You say, "Brother Branham, but that
ain't..." Oh, yes, it is, too. It is the Truth.
Jehovah Jireh 58-0127 E-36 And the
same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be operating in
His church to make them coincide together at the rapture, or it won't go
up at that time. The Spirit that was in Jesus, will have to be in His
church, or the two pieces won't dovetail together, the life of the
church and the life of Christ cannot dovetail together.
Hear ye Him 60-0313 E-32 And
the church will have to have the same Spirit, doing the same things that
Jesus did; or it'll
never go in the rapture.
Romans 12:1-3 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (the NIV says, which is your
spiritual act of worship when you
present your body to God to use as He sees fit that is your highest form or a
spiritual act of worship.) 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
every man that is among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God
hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Now, in Hebrews 6 we see at the time of the
once and for all enlightenment in verse 4-5
that to reject this manifested Word, the person
will never be able to renew their mind again.
In other words, they will never be able to empty out their own thinking, for
they have taken the mark of the beast. They have had the awl placed to the ear
and they have become deaf to the Word of God which we find in verse 6.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is
impossible for those who were once for all enlightened, and have tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers (companions)
of the Holy Ghost, 5 And
have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age, 6 If they shall fall away, (it will be impossible
for them) to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
And we know that His Word
contains His Spirit and Life as we see in Mark
Mark
And we find in 1 Peter 1: 23 That our
new birth comes by the Word of God which is an incorruptible Seed.
1 Peter
Therefore the Word of God is a
carrier of God Life as we see in John 6:63 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.
And John 5:26 For as the Father
hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; Notice that The Life comes from the Father and is
passed down to the Son.
Now Life as we know it is a
very complex thing. And it contains what we call attributes and
characteristics. These attributes and characteristics are what we call the
nature of the Life. Those identifiable characteristics which give the Life it’s special uniqueness.
In 2
Peter 1:2-4 2 Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life and god-like-ness, through the knowledge of him that hath
called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
You’ll notice that God's word
tells us that "everything we have need of that
pertains to Eternal Life, even the very nature of that Life itself, comes forth
from the Word of God. So why would anybody look outside this bible
for eternal Life. It's all in here, because remember, the Word is a Seed and in
that Seed is Life, God-Life.
And it takes Light upon the
Word to release the Life that is in the Word because it takes Light to manifest
Life.
Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
And notice it was this light
that brings about our change from glory to glory and from Image to image as we
saw in 2 Corinthians 3:18.
And it is this nature that I
want to speak on this morning. Now, we need to be able to know this nature, and
identify this nature, because being a
nature, it has identifiable characteristics, and if we
know what those characteristics are, and can identify them when they are
manifest, then we are able to
identify that Life when we see it or come in contact with it.
1 John 4:4-6 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They
are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We
are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the
spirit of error.
Notice that the world will hear
them but not those who are of God. And the world will not hear God’s seed
either. But I want you to pay close attention to verse 6. John is telling us that those who
are of God will hear those who are from God. And in discerning who is from God
and who is not from God you will know also the difference between truth and
error.
Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared the LORD spake
often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD,
and that thought upon his name. 17 And they
shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels;
and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son
that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and
discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.
Notice that we are told that at
the time of the great gathering of Sons, God will anoint us with the Sprit of
discernment, which we know according to Heb 4 that the Word is the Discerner. So God will
anoint us with His own Spirit.
Hebrews
John 3:18-21 He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than (in a greater way than they loved) light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the
light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are
wrought in God.
Those who possess the nature of
God will come to the Light, others will not.
1 John 2:18-20 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye
have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists;
whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but
they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that
they were not all of us. 20 But ye have an unction
from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 I have
not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and
that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that
denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father
and the Son. 23 Whosoever denies
the Son, the same hath (echoes) not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath (echoes) the Father also.
Others will have to leave
because there nature is not the same and they can not feed on the same things. But notice that we have received a special anointing from God that
we might KNOW all things. The others might be eating from
the same table, and they may be feeding off the same food, but they don’t
really know what they are eating, and they don’t really know care what they
eat. The buzzard eats the same food as the Eagle, only he can’t smell it until
it has become rotten.
In Matthew 24:8 we read, “for wheresoever the carcass is,"
{that word carcass was translated from the Greek word Ptoma} meaning, the dead body or
corpse, there the buzzards will gather,
and yet we see in Luke
And this is exactly how brother
Branham clarified this in Anointed ones at the End-Time.
214 Anointed
Ones at the End-Time
"Where the Carcass is there the eagles will be gathered. Where the
Carcass, where the killing is, there the eagles will be gathered. Where the
fresh Meat is, the Word of the season, there the eagles will gather."
But after it's rottened,
then the vultures will swarm to it. See? See what I mean? When a kill's
made, here comes the eagles, but after it lays there and rotten, then here
comes the vultures. The eagle won't have nothing
to do with it. See? Jesus said, "Where the Carcass is, where
the Manna fell, the night the Manna falls fresh, there the eagles will gather
for It." That's the Manna for the day. See? Notice. But after it gets rotten, maggots get in it, then
here comes the vultures. They can't smell it till it gets rotten. No
wonder Jesus stood up there and said, "
233 Anointed Ones at the End-Time "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.”
Brother Branham Audio Letter to Lee Vayle “God
then, in order to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to inject this,
make this real again, show the people the hour we're living
in? Because if they only see it in
the hour past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends
His prophet to manifest, present
tense of it. You see? And then, after it's over, then history is.
22 Without money
without Price 59-0802] After
the taking away of the Holy Spirit out of the earth, that formal church
religion will go right on, not knowing the difference. ... They don't know
the Holy Spirit, so they won't know when It's gone,
and they'll just be going right on just the same. When the last one
is sealed into the Body of Christ; they'll still be going on,
trying to bring converts to it, because they don't know what It
is. ... they'll be so far away, just in
religious rituals, until they will not miss the Holy Spirit, because they don't
know what It is to begin with.
You see, they don’t know the
Holy Ghost but because they see you eating, they circle around like vultures
do, and they wait until there appears to be an opening for them to come in and
eat the left over’s. They come and join in the feast after the fresh food has
been sitting for some time.
2 Peter 2: 12-22 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly
perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall
receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they
that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with
their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes
full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart
they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the
right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who
loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was
rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the
madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without
water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when
they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much
wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While
they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for
of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For
if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto
them.
If they are again entangled in
the things of evil after they have come to this knowledge, there remains no
more hope for them.
Jude 10-13 10 But these speak evil of those
things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in
those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe
unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain,
and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and
perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots in your
feasts of charity, when
they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they
are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth,
without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.