Faith no, 18
Rapturing Faith or Reprobate concerning The Faith
July 19, 2017
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
This evening I would
like to speak on the subject of Rapturing
Faith or Reprobate concerning The Faith, because there are two groups at this
end time and those who claim to follow the Pillar of Fire will fall into one of
these two classes of believer. One hears The Message and enters into the Faith of the son of God, that is to say they
actually have the Message revealed to them and they step into that revelation, whereas
the other group hears the same Message but because they do not enter into The
Faith of the Son of God, and that is because it is not really revealed to them,
they end up missing it altogether and The Message has no effect upon them.
In his sermon, 40 God's Only
Provided Place of Worship 65-1128.1M brother Branham said, "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 before we go further, I want you
to stop and notice how brother Branham is associating the laying in
the Presence of the Son to with the ripening of our Faith.
Then he
says, Our faith isn't ripe. 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 in the heart, 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.
Now, brother Branham is
letting us know that something happens when we come to the place of laying in
the presence of the Son to Ripen. After all, you've got to know where that
place is and then go to it. To lay in It shows that you enter into a rest which
can only come from complete trust.
He says, once we lay in
the presence of the Son, and once we begin to understand the
Message, and once we "understand" It, then something else
happens. He says we become separated.
Notice his wording here. 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.
So then what we are
seeing here is our separation comes from the fact that we have truly come into
His Presence.
Now remember in Genesis
chapter 1 when God speaks the
first time, there is a separation that takes place "the
light separates darkness",
then the next time God speaks there is another separation that takes place, "the
waters from abve are separated from the waters below" and then the third time God speaks there
is another separation, as "Every
seed after its kind",
the law of life goes into effect, and every seed in
order to multiply must first divide and separate itself.
Again, remember in John
chapter 3 where
evil avoids the light but those who love Truth and have their source in God
come to the light.
So this evening, I wish
to focus further in this thought of these two groups of people and where the
same Word leads each.
Pt. # 1) separation as it has to do with the ripening of our faith.
Pt # 2) How the ripening of our Faith brings us to
the place of Rapturing Faith.
Let's begin by
reading 2 Thessalonians 1:7-2:3...So that will be a good place to start again this evening.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-2:3 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to
be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because
our 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. 2:1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition;
Notice here we are
looking at two groups of people. Those who
are being gathered to Him and those
who are being separated from Him. And as we read further I want you to recognize the
difference between these two groups.
You'll find it is faith. Now in verse 3 we see a falling away that must come first. This falling away comes via
attrition. It is actually a divorcement but comes through attrition. Now notice
in every exodus there is two groups. Both come out but what makes them
different is that one group goes on and goes in while the other either stops or
goes back where they came out from.
Remember what Brother
Branham said in the Message. Anointed ones at end time
65-0725M P:89 He said, "Ever learning,... never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth. (Now, here's
the shocking, here's the shocking part. Listen to this.) Now, as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also
resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobates concerning the faith...(That was once delivered to the saints, of course.)...
concerning the faith. ("And he shall turn
the faith of the fathers--or the children back to the fathers.") Reprobate
concerning the faith... You know what
reprobate means? If you got a Scofield Bible there's a "h" there.
Right up there says, "Apostasy" an apostasy. That's what it is. 90 Now, just a minute.
I want to look up something here. I think I wrote this down right. I'm not
sure, but I want to say it, and look it up before I say it. Now, just one
minute. Reprobates concerning the Truth, concerning The
faith, The faith. There's only one faith
(That's right.), concerning the faith, reprobates. Now, I want to read Luke 18. Just a minute. You don't need to put it down; you don't have to read
it. 'And he spake a
parable unto them unto this end, that men ought to always pray, and not...
faint; Saying--saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, and
regardeth not man:And there was a widow in the same city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he
would not for a while: but afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not
God, nor regard man; Yet because this
widow trouble me, I will avenge her, lest by... coming she weary me. And the
Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge his
Elect, which crieth day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of
man cometh, shall he find
faith on the earth?"
91 Now, that's the question.
Here's where I want to get to. In Revelation 10, we will get to it in a few minutes
to another Scripture verse, he said, "In the days of the message of
the seventh Angel, the mystery of God ought to be finished." Here's, the question is, if you
follow in that line in this hour: Will it be finished?
"Will I find the faith?" Will Malachi 4
be fulfilled in this time?: restore the faith of the children back to
the faith of the fathers, the original, the Word? See?
92 Reprobates, Jambres and Jannes, as they withstood... Now, also listen. II Timothy 3:8: "As Jannes withstood Moses, also in the last days these same reprobates would come (Now, see where it says here?) having a form of godliness, anointed ones...Now, let's just, you
go back and read it when you get home, so that I can finish out this, this
morning if I can.
Ok so we will
read it ourselves, II Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning
the faith.
Notice Brother Branham continues pp. 93 "Reprobates concerning the faith --not reprobates in living, they're fine, cultured man." Now, notice,
when Moses went down to Egypt with a message of THUS SAITH THE LORD, and was
vindicated, called on Israel, which was a people, not a church... Israel was a
people; they never was a church, 'cause the word "church" means
"called out ones." They were the people of God. Then when they become
anointed under the Word and called out, they become the church of God,
and then backslid, because they believed not the Word of God and listened to a
false prophet. I hope that sinks in. Israel being a people of
God, come out under the hand of God, anointed with the Word, with the
power of God, seeing the signs and wonders of God; and then when
God was moving on with them, a false prophet come in, anointed, and taught something contrary to the original
Word of God, that they heard; and every one of them perished in the
wilderness besides three people. Now, hold it.
94 "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein
eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." As it was in the days of Lot, where three came out of Sodom, so shall it be in the time when the Son
of man shall be revealed."
I'm only quoting Scripture, the Lord's Word; which heavens and earth will pass
away... It'll be a minority.
Now, keep that in mind as
we examine this, this evening. Because he is not talking about Egypt, or the world
here, he is talking about the two million people who followed the pillar of fire.
E-63
God Keeps His Word 57-0120.2E The Bible said, "They'd be lovers of their ownself. Boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient, unthankful, unholy, without natural affections,
incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. Having a form of godliness," just like they did, "but denying the power thereof," the Word. If
they speak not according to that, there's no life to them. That's right.
"Having a form of
godliness, but denying, from such turn away, for this is the sort that goes
from house to house with their books and campaigns and so forth, and lead silly
women laden with sin, led away with divers lust. Ever learning, and never able
to come to the truth." What kind are
they? Jannes and Jambres have all kinds
of fantastics and everything. "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so will these resist the truth: man of reprobate mind concerning the
Word." Trying to take the Word of God and pervert it into
something else, into a fantastic or a religious organization, or build them up a great name,
or make themselves some great name. From such, turn away! Stay with the
Word!
VINES : the word Reprobate means: unable
to pass the test because
these are men whose moral sense is perverted and whose minds are beclouded
with their own speculations, and the word Beclouded means, their minds are clouded over or muddled with
their own thoughts on why things
are and what it ought to be.. In other words, they have not let
their own thinking go.
Brother Branham said in
his sermon, World
again falling apart 63-1127 P:100 Now, just don't
be worked-up. Don't just say, "I belong to church." You be sure of
that. If Christ doesn't live you, till all your mind, heart, soul, body...You
say, "Well, I think..." You haven't got no thought coming, brother.
Let the mind that was in Christ be in you. "I think the days
oughtn't to be... I think this oughtn't to be. I think the Word don't mean
this." We have no thought coming. If the mind of Christ is in us, then we'll
recognize that Word to be the Truth, and It lives right through us.
You can't help it; It's Christ. Take the life out of a watermelon vine and put
it in a pumpkin vine, it'll bear watermelons. You can't keep it from it, 'cause
the life in it is. And if you say, "Well, I don't believe that the Word
here..." then that ain't the Spirit of Christ. See? There's some
other spirit in you.
So he said, "we have no thought coming". And many who claim to follow this message have
not yet learned that. That's why you've got false doctrines in this Message far
worse than those in denominations, like 2 souls and Female Holy Ghost, and 8th
Messenger doctrines, and Seven Thunders and two
Lords doctrines creeping in. Good grief, show me any of those in the
Bible. You can't do it. the Bible says the soul that sinneth it shall die, but
if that soul shall repent it shall live. Not two souls, one soul. Not Two
Lords, one Lord, not Two Christ's, One Christ, by One Spirit we are all
baptized into One body. "One Faith, One Lord, and One
God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all." Eph 4:5-6
Now, Lets
read from II Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do
these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning The faith.
163-1 The first Seal
63-0318 God
has promised it, when the Word is refused, then they are turned to their
desires. Let's read Thessalonians again. Let's... I want you to watch here just
a minute. Say, "Well, we read it awhile ago." II Thessalonians 2:9-11. It said that they would, turning down, rejecting the Truth, they would be given over to a reprobate mind and
would believe a lie and would be damned by it. That's what the Holy Spirit
said. 2
Thessalonians 2: 9 - 11.
So
let's read it for ourselves, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
79 Just Once More Lord
63-1201.2E Samson
knew one thing, and I wonder if the church realizes today. He knew that his
backslidden condition couldn't meet the challenge of the hour. And I know,
today, that the backslidden condition of the church can't meet the challenge of
this hour. And it's going to be worse. The Bible said, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will
they; men of reprobate mind, concerning the Faith." They can almost impersonate It
exactly.
E-110 Identified
Christ of All Ages 64-0401
Heavenly Father, you said it shall be light in the evening time. We
see, Lord, all signs--nations are breaking, Israel's in her homeland,
earthquakes in divers places, man's hearts failing, perverted minds reprobate concerning the truth. As jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, you said men of reprobated minds given over to a
delusion to believe a lie and be damned by it... But You promised in that day that You'd
make yourself known--the Son of man would be revealed, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, by his same characteristic that identified
Him in every age.
88 Who is Jesus 64-0620.1M And you know He said that it would
be in the last days, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses, so will these man of reprobate mind, concerning Truth." That's right, see, just simply impersonations.
So it does get a bit confusing to the people.
131 Anointed One at the End Time
65-0725.1M Reprobate! Jannes and Jambres, as
they withstood... Now, also listen. II Timothy 3:8: "As Jannes
withstood Moses, also in the last days these same reprobates would come (now see what it says here?) having a form of godliness, anointed ones.
257 Anointed Ones at the End
Time 65-0725.1M Now
notice! That was Jesus speaking.
Here come Paul right behind Him and said, "Now, in the last days there will
come religious people (see?) having a form of godliness, and lead silly women, led away with all
kinds of worldly lust (and
they wonder, say, "Why do you pick on them women?" Oh, for goodness...
They just don't even see it!)--lead silly women, laden with divers lust (away from things like, that's of the Bible.
See?)... And
as Jannes and Jambres (Matthew 24:24, false christs, false anointed, doing signs and wonders to
deceive the Elected)--now
as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will these reprobates ..." Reprobate mind concerning the faith, not a faith, The Faith. One faith, one Lord,
one Baptism. You can't have
one faith without believing in one Lord.
34 The Rapture 65-1204 When Moses went down
into Egypt to deliver the children of Israel with only a
stick in his hand for vindication, with the God of Heaven behind him, he
performed a miracle. There come impersonators behind
him and doing the same thing he did. See? Now, they come second after he did it first.
Then they come around, because they were copying
after what he did, impersonating the original. We find
that. And now, you say, "Well, that was in the days of Moses." But
the same Scripture says that they'll come again in the last days, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will
these man of reprobate mind concerning Truth." See? Impersonations, all kinds of things to upset people.
They've got their own
ideas of what the message is. And so they think that if they can do the same
things to any degree, then they have the message or that is the message. But
Brother Branham said, "My
ministry is to Declare Him, that He is Here!" Yet that is the one thing they cannot
take!
And they don't want
that! And they call it false doctrine. And they justify their own
beclouded ideas as ok since they claim they are only following brother Branham.
But the real Message is Christ in our
midst. Yet they don't want that and in fact they reject it. And turn to
something that focuses attention away from the One Who Has come down
and they focus on themselves.
267 Leadership 65-1207 And do you know that same thing's promised
again in the last days? "As Jambres and Jannes withstood
Moses, so will these man, of reprobate mind concerning the Truth." See, in the last days. And do the same
thing, (impersonate everything), right on in the same gully, "Hog
going to its wallow, and a dog to it's vomit."
Matthew 23:28 Even so ye
also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. And what is iniquity? You know to do right but you won't
do ti.
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered
together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one
upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees,
which is hypocrisy.
Galatians 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him;
insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Luke 20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men,
that they might take hold of his words,
that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
II Peter 2:1-3 But as there were false prophets
among the people, even so shall there shall be false teachers among you, who
privately shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And
many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they
with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a
long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Again we
read in 1
Timothy 4:1-2 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from The
faith, (How do they fall away?) by giving heed to (the Greek word here means that which holds the mind, in other words these
seductive seducing spirits and doctrines of devils get a-hold of the mind and hold it) by giving heed to seducing
spirits, (by implication) an impostor or misleader;
--deceiver, seducing. and doctrines of devils;
(The teachings of)
Speaking lies in Hypocracy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
Now what does that tell
you. These men know better but because they have a conscience that
has been seared with a hot iron, in other words their consciences have become
scarred over for life. Their conscience is no longer soft and pliable, but it
is scarred, tough and stiff. Stiff and determined to do what it wants to
do, because there is not changing them, they have crystallized in their
thinking. They know better but are hypocrites.
Now a hypocrite according
to Webster is, "a stage actor." "A pretender,"
A person who pretends to be what he is not. Just play
acting. The bible calls them .. hypocritical liars: Men
who take up another man's statement as if it were their own. Impersonate, Simulate, feign, pretend.
Now it says that their
minds or their hearts have
been seared. They know better but
they must have it their way. They do not live by faith , by The Faith! Yet they claim to have faith because they have signs and wonders
following. Or so they claim. These men do not have
The Faith of the Son of
God. That is why Jesus said
"when I come shall I find Faith!" They think that signs and wonders and
miracles justify them and they don't need to believe what brother Branham said
his Message is, "To Declare Him that He is Here!"
From
that time 62-0713 P:102 There are
apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists. Not all are apostles,
not all are prophets, not all are teachers, not all evangelists. I'm standing
here...But my
ministry is a different ministry from a pastor or teacher. I'm
not. And if I say things wrong, brethren, forgive me. I don't mean it. But this is my ministry
(See?) to declare
Him, that He's here.
Way
to have fellowship 55-1009 P:62 But my ministry is this: it just declares that God is
here.
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by
the works of the law, but by The
faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by The faith of Christ, and not by the
works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 3:2
This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:5
He therefore
that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or
by the hearing of faith?
These men deny the one that bought
them. Look,
He's here and they say He isn't. Or they deny the way in which He is. Now the
body isn't the one that bought them. That is only the price that was paid. But
the One that bought them is God Himself who paid the price of your Life with
another life, that of His own Son. The first born.
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well
as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it.
So we see there are 2
groups present with each Exodus. And what sets them apart is the effect the Word
of God upon them. Not a different Word, but the same Word upon each. On
one group the Word has an effect upon them while on the other Group the same Word
has no effect at all. Remember the 5 wise and 5 foolish both heard the same Midnight cry, "Behold" "Look see the Bridegroom is here, he is present" and yet it had a different effect on each type of
believer.
Now, we read
in Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I
will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith..
Now this word "froward" means "a perverted people". This word froward means perverted. These were a perverted people. A
people who cannot receive the Truth for what it is but receive a twisted Truth.
II Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable
and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
I Timothy 1:19 Holding
faith, and a good conscience; which
some having put away concerning Faith have made shipwreck
Now, what I want to show
you this evening is that these 2 groups of people are both ordained to hear the
same Message at the end-time. But One Group receives The Faith of the Son of God and through
that Faith they are quickened to the Message of the hour while the other Group has not received the same
Message by Revelation, only by intellectual reasoning. It is not revealed
to them and thus they cannot put it together in a way that will do
them any good.
And they thus lose what hope they
have and through attrition they wear away. They are reprobate concerning The faith. They are they who depart from The faith. And we have shown you that The Faith is the
same Faith or revelation that the son of God lived by. These people cannot live
by the Faith of the Son of God because they have not crucified themselves, and
the God-Life that lived in Jesus is not in them to live in them.
Now this attrition we are
speaking of is a wearing away or weakening to the point of exhaustion,
a
wearing or grinding down by affliction. And these either walk away
altogether as many have who followed the "believe the sign" boys
or they revert to trying "to do" the message by
imitating brother Branham. I even heard one of these men say that we
are to be imitators and he misquoted the scripture in doing so. He said when brother
Branham began on the field that he just guessed. Brother Branham said it is a
million miles from a guess.
56 Israel at Kadesh
Barnea 53-0328 Then
God, after fixing Moses, getting him ready, sent out the--the signs, then the
last sign (we taken last night) was death. And we found out, that's spiritual
death in the church, the last plague now, church drying up, blowing away. That's right. We're
living in a horrible time. How that the church, the old-timers that
used to really have the victory, is losing out, dying time, letting the
Blood get off the front of the door. "When I see the Blood I will pass
over you."
10-1 Discerning the Body of the Lord 59-0812 We can't discern by what people think, what intellectuals
tell us, what psychologists tell us; we've got to go by what God says!
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." "Not discerning the Lord's
Body, many are weakly and sick. Many are asleep" dead, spiritually dead. The
last plague that hit Egypt was death. The last plague
that has hit the church is spiritual death. What we need today
is a spiritual awakening, a spiritual awakening to discernment.
E-22 Speak to this
Rock 60-0612 How easy they had forgotten,
that when the plagues was in Egypt, that they were protected. When
there was flies all over everything, there wasn't a fly around them. When lice
filled all the beds, all the clothing, and everything, there wasn't one bit of
it on them. Frogs was in the cupboards and everything else, all over the rest
of the unbelievers, but they had been protected, God showing His mercy. Notice,
and when that final and great night came, God said, "This is My final blow
at Egypt. But before I can strike this blow, I've got to bring My children
to protection." And there was a sacrificial lamb killed, and
the blood was put on the post and the lintels of the door, and the congregation
went under the blood. Remember, that was the last plague that
struck Egypt. And the last plague that's striking the church today
is the same as that was: a spiritual death. Because as God led them
literally, He leads us spiritually. And the last blow at the--the enemy is
death is striking, and all from under the blood,
is disfellowshiped by the Holy Spirit.
E-59 Only Believe 61-0427 You remember the last plague
hit Egypt? What was the last plague hit Egypt which was the type
of the church going out? Was death. What's the last plague has hit the
Pentecostal church? Spiritual death. It's going right on back like the rest of
the world, spiritual death. But, the circumcised with the blood on the
door, took the homeward march. That's exactly with a Pillar of Fire
going before them to lead them away.
313-4 The
Fourth Seal 63-0321 Like He give Egypt, He
give Egypt place to repent. What was that last plague?--was death.
That's the last plague that's hit the Pentecostal church. It's
spiritual death; she's dead! That's in the Name of the Lord. She's spiritually
dead! He gave her place to repent, and she rejected it; now she's dead. She
will never rise again!
157 The Unveiling
of God 64-0614.1M They spiritually die now.
This is the spiritual veil. See? That was a natural veil. This is spiritual veil. See? They keep walking right on in behind
there, you can tell them. "Oh, I know! I know that, but I..." Go
ahead, it's all right, it only speaks... You remember, the last plague in Egypt was death, before the exodus. The last plague on earth is spiritual death, before the
exodus. Then they'll be cremated and turned back to the dust,
and the righteous will walk out upon their ashes. But the last thing is spiritual death, rejecting
the Word.
So we see the
paths of these 2 groups take 2 different directions. The One who
possesses The Faith of the Son of
God continues to move on
with the Word and becomes conformed to the Image of the first born son, a manifested
son, being led by the Pillar of Fire while the other rejects the Presence of
the Pillar of Fire and thus into death, spiritual death.
Now the difference in
these 2 groups is that one has the gene seed of God by
predestination and thus capable of being born again by the same Spirit that
came to Jesus in His Baptism, while
the other only tries to copy, or put on the form of Godliness but deny the
power thereof. But they are hypocrites because although they will quote the end
time prophet, yet they reject what he actually taught concerning the Appearing
and Coming and concerning the relationship between Father and son. And thus they
end up pointing people away from the One who is here and they instead point
people to themselves, or their little organization.
In the book of Matthew Jesus told them, "Fill ye up the measure of your fathers." And in John 8: 38 He said, "I
do what I see my Father do and you do what you have seen your father do." Then in verse 41 he said, "you do the deeds of your father who was a murderer
from the beginning."
Then he said, "ye
are of your father and the lusts of your father you will do."
So it is apparent that
these men cannot be gene seed of God. or else they would do what all other true
sons of God will do. Then you say, why do they want to imitate Jesus? The
answer is in which Jesus do they try to impersonate?
Galatians
1:6 I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that
called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is
not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
So they try to impersonate a perverted Jesus, and that is why they have
not died to self, like Christ did.
Romans 8:29 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.
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of
the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 5198 hugiaino {hoog-ee-ah'-ee-no} sound
; be sound ; be whole ; wholesome ; safe and sound ; to be sound, to be well,
to be in good health; metaph. Used
of Christians whose opinions are free from any admixture of error, of one who
keeps the graces and is strong
Romans 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the
way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no,
not one.
E-83 Jairus The Secret
Believer 55-0604 My, how
great it is to know that the Anointing of the Holy Spirit that will take the
Church in the rapture someday is present.
27 God Has A Provided
Way 54-0404 And now we're moving right on into another great age,
coming for the rapture of the Church. And in this, we're living in the time of
the restoration of the gifts. It stumbled many of the big fine churches; it
sent Nazarene backwards; it made fanatics out of a lot of Pentecost. But, just
the same, God is moving right on, bringing in the rapturing faith
for His Church. That's right. So, tonight, I represent that Faith, "The Faith that was
once delivered to the saints," in the way of a Divine gift.
E-52 The Faith of
Abraham 55-1118 How's He
going to Rapture the Church? That's up to Him, I just believe
He will do it, that's all. And He will do it, because He said so.
E-6 Balm in Gilead
59-1124 The one thing we have to move up to now is a
supreme faith to what we have had, something that... You cannot have that faith
until you know perfectly what you're doing. When you understand... Like you... You walk. You
just say, "Well, I'm going home. I'm going out and start the car." That's
all a act of faith. "Tomorrow I will meet you at a certain
place." That's all a act of faith, because you've just done it so
much, because it's a regular routine with you. Well, that's the way the things of God
are. After
you have trusted Him, and watched Him do so many things till it becomes
just like a regular routine. And that's the condition
I think the Church will be in just before the coming of the Lord. So
the rapture will
just go right on that way. It'll just be a regular routine upon the Scriptures
and the plans of God.
21 Q and A On The Holy
Ghost 59-1219 Jesus said, "Say
to this mountai." And you've
heard about what's been taken place; that's the ministry that we're entering
into. We're way up the road now. Soon the coming of the Lord Jesus. And we've
got to have rapturing faith in a Church that can he changed in a
moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we will not go. But don't worry, it'll be there.
It'll be there.
And when the power of this church rises, it'll bring its
brethren; the power of that church rises, will bring its
brethren; the power of that church will bring the other brethren;
then there'll be a general resurrection. And we're looking
forward to it.
E-45 Thy House
61-0808 All right, Jimmy,
have you got them, my boy? [Brother reads a question: "When the rapture
takes place, will all believer's families, wife and children go? They are in
faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord?"--Ed.] Yes, yes. Will all the family go in the
rapture? See, yes. See? Now, if you notice, the rapture is
going to be a universal thing.
E-49 God's
Provided Way 53-1201 Oh my, too late to
pray then. Now, the first thing you know, he begins to look around. I can hear
the little boy say, "Daddy, did the Word say that the elder son was going
to be killed in the home?""Yes." "Well, daddy, what
about our home?" "Son, we're just as safe as we can be." "How
do you know you're safe?" "We've obeyed God's Word. We got... we're
under the blood.. I can hear him say, just a little later,
after while, I look out the window, little boy does, look, there comes two
big black wings moving through the air. That's death. And if there's any
time that the black wings is shook the country today, we've had earthquakes,
we've had pestilence, we've had all kinds of things that could come to this
land, and all like they did in Egypt. But the last plague that
hit Egypt before destruction was death. And the last plague that's hit the
church is a spiritual death! Right. That's the last thing.
114
Perfect Faith 63-0825.2E And so when a man lives
by faith and walks by faith, I mean substance faith, he is isolated
from the entire world and becomes
a new creature in Christ. There, now
you're getting into Bride material. See? You're getting into rapturing condition, now. That means
for each one of us (not just the pastor, now), deacons, trustees, that means
for the laity, every individual walks in a world with God alone. You're baptized
into this Kingdom, and there's nobody in
there but you and God. See? He gives
the orders, and you pack them out. Whatever He says, there's not a shadow
of doubt nowhere, you walk right on.
If the Lord says this, there's nobody in the world can talk you out of it, you
go right on just the same. Now you're
coming into Perfect Faith, perfect perfection that cannot fail. That faith
never fails. Yes, He was a mystic to them with His Perfect Faith; and so is
it now with those who have Perfect Faith, are a mystic to others.
222 The end Time
Evangelism 62-0603 Now we're
going to end right here, by saying this. The end-time Message is to get the
Bride ready and prepared for the Rapture. What can it
do? According to Malachi 4, is bring them back to the Faith that was once
delivered to the saints. Bring
them back to the Faith of the fathers, the Pentecostal part, in the restoration time. "I will restore, saith the Lord." That's real event, end-time evangelism.
Let us pray.