God’s Only
Provided Place of Worship # 103
Brian Kocourek,
End Time Error no 4
From pp. 264 from God’s Only Provided Place of Worship Brother Branham said, "No leaven among you,
that brings the entire fullness of the Godhead bodily among you." We could also say that the fullness of God in
the midst of His people (which brings vindication),brings
the people to a place where there is no leaven.
So we can see from this statement that we are living in the hour when
there shall be no leaven. Why? Because we have "Thus
saith the Lord" concerning Doctrine and Godhead. Yet this is not to
say that there will not be any leaven anywhere, but what He is telling us
here, is where God's fullness shall
precede and prevail, and be preeminent, the people will "have no
thought coming" and among those people, who shall receive "Thus
Saith the Lord", there will be no leaven, which means they will
not have their own doctrines and ideas of their own or in other words, they
will be in possession of a complete and fully restored Word, because the Book
has been opened and the Lord Himself has descended with a Message and since He
has said it all, we then have no thought coming, because God has revealed to us
Himself by His Word. In other words, those who really believe The Message
that God has descended with, will in no way try to add to it or take from it,
but will only say what He said, and that should be good enough!
Now, I know that this doesn't sit too good among those who want to be somebody, but friends, that is
the Truth whether we want to admit it or not. I could go on some more about these doctrines
that are floating about, because I'm really not finished with them, and I'm not
finished yet in exposing their error. But we shall take up the Sword against
these heresies some time in the future, as we must move ahead with this Message
from God's Only Provided Place of Worship". So let's pick up where we left off at
paragraph
[264 GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP] No leaven among you, that brings the
entire fullness of the godhead bodily among you. Couldn't do it in Luther's
age, couldn't do it in Wesley's age, couldn't do it in the Pentecostal age; but
in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought
back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people,
showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the
beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God. Ooh!
Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the
Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of
God, seated (in present tense).
Now, what is the name of this sermon that we are
examining? God's Only Provided Place of Worship, Right? Then I want you to notice how he keeps coming
back to God's Presence that is manifested and revealed through a prophet or as
he refers back to the Alpha in a Prophet-God or God Prophet. That's the Only place where God will choose to be worshipped! You can't
come on your own, you can't come by what religion your mother had, you've got
to come to where God has chosen to Reveal and Place His name in, and that is in
His Word for the hour in which you live. And remember, [Amos 3: 7] Surely, the Lord God will do nothing,
but what He reveals through His servants the Prophets!" There's your Place of Worship. There's the
only Place that God has Provided for us to come to
Worship Him. Jesus said Himself, "They that Worship God, must
worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." And since Jesus said, I am the way the
Truth and the Life," and Truth is what God reveals, Therefore the
Revelation of Jesus Christ is the Revealed Truth. And it must come through
God's Prophet. Any Truth outside of what
He has revealed through His prophet is not only an irrelevant truth, but is not
fit for the worship of God.
[ Deuteronomy 29:29] "The
secret things belong to the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed
belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do the words of this
law." Now if the things
revealed belong to us and to our children and nothing will be revealed outside
of a Prophet to Whom the Lord our God send to us, then where is the place of
worship for our families to be at? It can be no where outside this present day
truth, the Message of the hour. Look, brothers and sisters, we have no hope
then outside of this end-time Revelation of Jesus Christ which God brought to
us through His Servant, William Branham. And to think there is something else
for us to know is absolutely ludicrous and insane. That is why I can not sit
idly by when men are constantly trying to replace what God has revealed to us
through His Prophet wit ideas and conceptions of their own minds. It is
blasphemous to think that we will receive anything from God outside His
ordained way of revealing it. And so here we must stay.
This is where the brethren of the first church age
made their big mistake. They left their first Love for God and His word. Now, I don't say
they left His Word as though they departed it altogether, but what they did was
to open themselves up to others who also claimed to know the Truth,
and in listening to these others who preached another Jesus, they
brought with it another Gospel. Not a different Gospel, but they used
the same Gospel in a perverted sense of the word. They presented a
twisted Gospel and thus the people received another spirit which was a
twisted spirit. I have preached sermon after sermon to you on this very
same subject because we war not against flesh and blood but against principalities
and powers. These men don't think what they are preaching is false no more than
you and I believe what we teach is in error. But when you can go back to the
Alpha and see the error that was presented in that day, it is easy for you and I to see that the same things are being presented in our
day. And where they all missed the boat
is that they quickly had forsaken the Words of Jesus, and Paul and Peter and
Jude and John et al, who warned them day and night without ceasing that grievous wolves would enter in amongst them not sparing
the flock. And thus we have seen the emergence of this picture played out
before us. Grievous wolves did enter in amongst the early church despite the
warnings to beware,
and Brother Branham warned us in this hour, but despite the warnings, the same
thing has occurred once again.
Let me tell you how they do this. Jesus told us in [Matthew
7] that
there would be wolves in sheep's clothing. Now what would a wolf be doing dressed
up like a sheep except his motive is to get close to the sheep without being
recognized. So these men know that they are not the same as the sheep but they
have an inner desire to be lords over the sheep and so they come on into the
fold where the sheep are at and dress and act like and even make sounds like a
sheep, In other words, they use the same words: (Token, Prophet, etc.).
Paul called them false brethren who have come in privily
to spy out our heritage. Peter called them false teachers and said they would bring
into the Truth from the outside damnable heresies, even denying the Lord
who bought them, and He warned us that they would come in and sit with us as
and eat from the same table of the Lord.
Jude warns us that they will come in and partake with us around
the Word of God which he called our Love feasts. And of Course John doesn't
mince words, he just says they are of the Devil and he tells us to have
nothing to do with them. He also tells us to try every man's spirit to see if he is in The Faith.
And since there is only One Faith then it should not be too difficult.
And then John said "If they do not abide in The Faith, but persist
in transgressing it, which means to go beyond the limits of True Doctrine, then
we are not to have anything to do with them. Not even to say Godspeed
for we are not to accompany them nor give aid to them.
In fact Irenaeus tells a story he had heard from Polycarp about John's utter loathing and contempt for these
false brethren. He says, "There are also those who heard from Polycarp that John,
the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without
bathing, exclaiming, "Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down,
because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is
within." And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, "Dost
thou know me?" And Polycarp replied, "I do
know thee, the first-born of Satan." Such was the horror which the
apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with
any corrupters of the truth; as Paul also says, "A man that is an heretic,
after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is
subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of
himself."(3) There is also a very powerful(4)
Epistle of Polycarp written to the Philippians, from
which those who choose to do so, and are anxious about their salvation, can
learn the character of his faith, and the preaching of the truth.
In the Book of Revelations we even find that in the
first church age the Church was praised for being those who "tried them which said they
were apostles and found them to be liars". And of course Jesus
said, by their fruits you shall know them and Brother Branham
told us that the fruit is the teaching of the season. And if the
teaching of the season is "To declare Him that He is Here!" then, when we hear anything that does
not declare Him and His Presence, then we are to reject it as false and as an
impostor. Sp when they come declaring a Bride, that She
is here, they are totally off the Message.
In fact Jesus Himself said, "If I bear witness of
myself My witness would not be True, but there is
another that bears witness of Me. And so if the Bride bears witness of herself
then her witness is not true either and therefore is not True Bride. These are
the Bride boys who preach all about the bride and make their prey to feel so
good about themselves because after all, by what these men tell them, they are
in fact God. Yes, indeed, they teach the people that the fullness of the
Godhead is indeed in them. Then if this is the case, who
needs Jesus? And so blasphemous is their doctrine that they even take
the words of God's prophet and twist them and where possible they only use
parts of sentences
or thoughts and try to piece together enough bits and pieces so that their
scheme may be hidden in the obscurity of what they preach. They have made a
female counter part of our Sovereign Lord and Father and have given her female
sexuality and attributed to her all the attributes of our beloved Father which
they deem to fit her role. Then they attribute this feminine quality to the
Holy Spirit and divide it from the Father. Then of course they believe that
this feminine Spirit entered into Jesus and afterwards into the Church. And this is what they
call the fullness of the Godhead. It is not a hard thing for me to speak out
against such. What would be asking a lot from me, and something which you would
be asking the impossible of me, and that is to keep still on this matter. For I can not.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ is under attack and I can not stand idly
by and see the sacrilege and desolation of His Holy Name. Therefore I speak
out.
Now, had these men been outsiders in costume, I could have
let it go. They are outsiders, but through their dress and mannerisms and
speech they claim to be one of us, but they are not. Had they presented
themselves as unbelievers and without the cloak of sheep's clothing, I would
not feel as compelled to disclose them for they would be already disclosed. But
because they proceed to hide behind the mask of this Message in the guise of
being shepherds of the sheep, I can not but cry out in warning against them.
As I have said many times, Brother Branham taught us
that [ John
After the seals were presented, brother Branham told
us that there could only be One that this scripture is
talking about, and since he claimed this under Divine vindication, I think we had
better leave it that way. It is enough that we have [Mark 16] for
ourselves, which says, "These signs shall follow them that
believe, they shall lay their hands on the sick and the sick shall be
healed." Now if you
understand the language, The words, they and them are
plural and speak of more than just one. But this [John 14: 12] does not
say it in plural, but in singular. And while we are looking at this in the
singular, let's look at
[Revelation 3: 20] Behold I stand at the
door and knock, if any man hear my Voice, and open the door, I
will come in to Him, and will sup with Him, and he
with me. Now Jesus did not say
"every man" who hears him, that He will come
into that man. But He said, if any man, ( singular)
hears My Voice and opens up to Me, That is the One I will come into. And
Brother Branham said himself, "I wasn't the One that Appeared down
on the river, I was only standing there when He appeared." And what happened when the Lord appeared down
on that river? A Voice spoke out and said, "As John the Baptist
foreran My first coming, so will your Message forerun
My second Coming." We see then that Brother Branham was the One to
Whom the Word of the Lord came. We know that it is the Word of the Lord who was
knocking on the door trying to gain entrance and who was it that opened the
door? It was God's Prophet who was ordained to open the door. For years your
denominational thinking has placed this scripture as for "who so
ever will", let him come. But it is not so. And neither is [John
Brother Branham said in [SUPER.SIGN] pg. 171 63-1129 "It's on your hands, tonight, throwed right back in your lap! Hebrews 13:8,
regardless of how many Council of Churches we have, still remains as
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "The works that I do!" (John 14:
12) If His Life is in you, it'll
manifest Jesus Christ. Amen. Now you
all can't be that one, but you can be a part of that, with your
faith. All of them couldn't be a
Jesus, when they was on earth, but they could believe
Him and accept the message. There was one Moses, one
Elijah, one Noah, on down, always been that, but the rest
of them could accept it. And they would a--had no ministry unless there had
been somebody believe it. Jesus would a--had no ministry unless somebody
believed it. Paul would a--had no ministry unless somebody believed it."
So what we have
then is mere men who desire to be what they are not and who attempt to
use the Scripture, The Words of God's Prophet, or what ever other means they
can utilize, in order to exalt
themselves and thus over come the sheep of the fold. So we see their false doctrines began way
back in the Alpha and were uncovered by Irenaeus when he said, " Such, then, is the account which they
all give of their Fullness, and of the formation(12) of the universe, striving,
as they do, to adapt the good words of revelation to their own wicked
inventions. And it is not only from the writings of the evangelists and the
apostles that they endeavor to derive proofs for their opinions by means of
perverse interpretations and deceitful expositions: they deal in the same way
with the law and the prophets, which contain many parables and allegories that
can frequently be drawn into various senses, according to the kind of exegesis
to which they are subjected. And others
of them, with great craftiness, adapted such parts of Scripture to their
own figments, lead away captive from the truth those who do not retain a
steadfast faith in one God, the Father Almighty, and in one Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And
committing many other abominations and impieties, they run us down
(who from the fear of God guard against sinning even in thought or word) as
utterly contemptible and ignorant persons, while they highly exalt themselves,
and claim to be perfect, and the elect seed. For they declare that we simply
receive grace for use, wherefore also it will again be taken away from us; but
that they themselves have grace as their own special possession, which has
descended from above by means of an unspeakable and indescribable conjunction;
and on this account more will be given them.,.... but that to them who are
called "the spiritual and perfect" such a course of conduct is not at
all necessary. For it is not conduct of any kind which leads into the Fullness,
but the seed sent forth thence in a feeble, immature state, and here brought to
perfection."
And then, in CHAPTER. VII .which
is entitled, --The Mother Achamoth ( Sophia) , When all her seed are perfected, shall pass into
the Fullness, accompanied by those men who are spiritual. We see the title alone tells you what is
being preached today is
the same falsehood that was taught by Simon Magnus and his
followers in the first church age. Irenaeus goes on to say, #1. When all the seed shall
have come to perfection, they state that then their mother Achamoth ( Sophia)
shall pass from the intermediate place, and enter in within the
Fullness, and shall receive as her spouse the Saviour,
who sprang from all the Attributes that make up the fullness, that thus
a conjunction may be formed between the Saviour and
Sophia, that is, Achamoth. These, then, are
the bridegroom and bride, while the nuptial chamber is the full extent of
the Fullness. The spiritual seed, again, being divested of their animal
souls, and becoming intelligent spirits, shall in an irresistible and invisible
manner enter in within the Fullness, and be bestowed as brides.... but
nothing of an animal nature shall find admittance to the Fullness. When these
things have taken place as described, then shall that fire which lies hidden in
the world blaze forth and burn; and while destroying all matter, shall also be
extinguished along with it, and have no further existence."
Now, I rest My case. Is this what is being taught today or is it not. If it is not,
then Alpha has not become Omega and we are warning you about nothing. But if it
is then we have come full circle. And as we also showed you last week, these
doctrines are not just something that is peculiar to the Message people, this
is being preached all over the world and
as Peter said, is being brought from the outside and mixed with The Truth thus
bringing the Truth into Disrepute. New Age Doctrine right
amongst the Message Believers today.