God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 105
Brian Kocourek, December 31 A.M., 1995
God’s
Reflectors the Prophets
For the past few weeks we held a mini series within
this series from God's Only Provided Place of Worship on the false doctrines
floating about in the Message which came about as a result of a lack of
understanding on Godhead. This morning I would like to move ahead with this
tremendous Message of Brother Branham's as we begin to look at paragraph 265.
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Now, quickly, let us look just real fast now, and we will go in about...
in ten minutes we will be gone, the Lord willing. (266)Now let us
look at some that has been quickened into this house of God. Of
their age... (267) Enoch! (in ten minutes we will go, if you can just suffer that much
longer). Look, Enoch was the Living Word of God of his age, he was a
prophet. (268) A prophet is God's reflector. How many
knows that? The--the reflector doesn't
reflect itself, the--the reflector
isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike
the reflector to make it reflect. So a
prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing
at all but he's in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image
of Christ the Word. See, nothing
else can do it. You are a reflector, that's the reason the prophet had to
eat the book. That's the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
Now Webster tells us a reflector is simply a person or
thing that reflects. But that definition doesn't really help us
to understand what a reflector is all about, now does it? But it points us to
the fact that as Brother Branham said, A reflector
does not give off it's own light, but reflects the light of another. Brother
Branham said, "the reflector doesn't reflect itself, the--the
reflector isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike
the reflector to make it reflect. And that is what Webster says, a
reflector is simply a person or thing that reflects.
Last Sunday we examined what it takes to make
something reflect and we found out that it has to do with a preordained makeup.
God is Light, and He has Appeared to us in the form of
a Pillar of Fire which is actually a veil for the Word of God. Yet the Prophet
of God has to be made in such a way as to be able to reflect this Pillar of
Fire, thus reflecting The Word of God back to the people without reflecting any
other light, including his own light.
And remember, we are born with 4 lights of our own.
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Now, when we were made, if when we were made. And they just
found out, recently, that your body is full of light. X-ray proves that. The x-ray does not have any light of its
own. It's your light that it uses. You're
born with four rays. After a little while, say twenty, twenty-five, one ray
goes out; and thirty-five, another; or forty, another one goes out; and finally
when you get pass about sixty-five, you're living on your last ray. And every
time you take an x-ray picture, you are tearing them
rays down. That's the reason you don't have no more... you stick these kids'
feet in them machines, because it was just tearing the rays right out of their
little bodies. And that's cosmic light that's in you, that you are made up, full of light cells. Now, that's cosmic light.
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Notice Enoch, God's perfect
reflector in type. When God was through with him, He just translated him,
took him up. The mechanics that he had
reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up.
Same in the
days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made
manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it, he sparked to life
again. We are flesh and bone of Him, as
long as we are the Bride of Christ. Do you believe that? All
right. He died for us, and we
died to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would "no more
be of the world, but in Him," of which both the family in Heaven is named
after Jesus Christ. That's [Ephesians
That's
what He was, that's what Moses was, that's what Jacob was, that's what the rest
of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was
reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect image of God, Jesus Christ,
God's Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the
rest of them for a Bride that's been reflecting Him.
Now, I want you to notice that Brother Branham is
telling us here that a prophet of God is not only a reflector of the Word of
God but Brother Branham actually gets a little more specific in this paragraph
and says, " Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made
manifest the Word of God" then he says, "It's the Word reflecting
and sparking off the age that you're living in. That's what He was, that's what
Moses was, that's what Jacob was, that's what the rest of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was
reflecting Himself."
POINT # 1) God
predestinates a Word for each age.
POINT # 2) God predestinates a man to
reflect that Word for each age.
POINT # 3) These men of God's choosing are used by
God to spark off all others who are ordained to Life in their age. (And
they do so by perfectly reflecting the Word which contains Life.)
Now for the next few minutes, I would like to focus on
these three points.
POINT # 1) God
predestinates a Word for each age.
Now what do we mean by God predestinates a Word for an
Age. First of all what is an age
any way? Webster says an
age is a period in time characterized by some person or by some outstanding
event, feature or influence. And
so to begin with, we see that an age must have an identifiable characteristic
whether it be a person
or an event or influence. Some one or some thing that influences
the people of that generation. Now this is important because God told us
that He will do nothing except He first
reveals it through His Servants the Prophets. ( Amos 3: 7) And further more, we read in
[Deut 29:29]
The secret [things belong] unto the LORD
our God: but those [things which are]
revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. Now here we find two things, 1st of all
is this, (what
God has not revealed to us belongs only to Him). In other words, as long as God
has not revealed it to us, it does not belong to us and therefore we are not
accountable for it either. But what He
has revealed to us belongs to us, and the ownership of it is actually
transferred to us at the time of It's Revealing. Then if it belongs to us we
are also accountable for it as good stewardship would dictate.
Now we could go on and on about what the Word for this
season is that God's prophet was to reflect to us but I don't want to divert
our attention from this theme here and so I will just list a few.
God has come
down with a Shout or a Message to do the following:
1) To gather together His Elect Seed
from the four corners of the earth
2) To change the Living
3) To raise the Dead
4) To take us up and out of this earth
5) to Judge and
burn the earth over readying it for a millennium return
Now this is just a short list and of each of these
fazes we could actually develop another list of the Works of the Holy Spirit in
this Hour in which we live. But for now it will have to suffice. Now we read from [Deut 29:29] The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong]
unto us and to our children for ever,
that [we] may do all the words of this law.
And we said, 1st
of all, (what
God has not revealed to us belongs only to Him). In other words, as long as God
has not revealed it to us, it does not belong to us and therefore we are not
accountable for it either. But what He
has revealed to us belongs to us, and the ownership of it is actually
transferred to us at the time of It's Revealing. Then if it belongs to us we
are also accountable for it as good stewardship would dictate. Secondly, we find that there must be a
Prophet on the scene to handle this transfer of Revelation from God to us as He
indicated in [Amos 3: 7] Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Now a secret is something that is not revealed,
understood, or explained: in other words it is a mystery, and is hidden and has
not been made known. But when the secret is told openly, is no longer a
mystery, nor is it any
longer a secret, but it is a Word that has been declared openly. In fact the antonym of secret is open and obvious. I hope you can see the
importance of God predestining a man to say only what He is told to say. To
reflect only what God shows Him to reflect. Because after all, every man has
four lights of his own and if we are to receive Light from God and it must come
through a man ( a Prophet of God) then this man must
possess an ability to be able to reflect God's Light without adding his own
light to it.
Now this light we are speaking is word which is also Life.
Jesus said in [John 6:63] "My words are spirit and they are
Life." And we find in [ John 1: 1 & 4] In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.
In him was life; and the life was
the light of men.
So we see here that this thing that was with God even
in God identified God. And it is called His Word. Then in verse 4 John tells us
that the Word is Life. He says Life was in Him and God shown this light to men
but they could not comprehend it, which means that it remained a mystery to
them.
[John 1:5] And the light shineth
in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Men were not capable of
receiving this Light which contained the Life of God without a true reflector
to reflect is first to them.
POINT # 2) God predestinates a man to
reflect that Word for each age. Now this is more important than we give
credit for, and I see a trend away from this in those who claim to believe the
Message of Malachi 4. It is True that our emphasis
should be on the True Light and not the reflector as perse'.
However, if not for the role of the reflector you and I would not see the True
Light, because God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in
Spirit and in Truth. So you must have the Truth or True Light which can only
come through an ordained and predestined reflector which the Word of God
declares to be a Prophet. And so we see
John explain this in the following verse, [John
1: 6 - 8 ]There was a man sent from God, whose name [was]
John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
[men] through him might believe. He was not that Light, but [was sent]
to bear witness of that Light. And so here we find that God had to send
someone to bear witness or reflect the True Light. We are told that although
John was not the True Light, he was sent as a reflector of that Light so that
all who were predestined to receive the True Light might be sparked off or
quickened.
[John 1 : 9 ] [That] was
the true Light, which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world. Now,
we can't stop here because this word lighteth is a
Greek word which means to enlighten or give light to and comes from a root word
which {Phos} which means to shine or make manifest
and is actually translated as Light or Fire. So you can see the ministry of the
Prophet is to first recognize the Presence of God or The True Light, and then when He begins to
declare this True Light, which is the Life of God made known, it then has a
quickening effect upon the believer and causes them to become what they were ordained
to become.
[John 1:12]
But as many as received him, to them gave
he power to become the sons of God,
[even] to them that believe on his name: Now this power is not as though
you suddenly possess some inner strength to do something become something which
you aren't. But it means you are given the legal authority to claim what is
yours by inheritance.
Now, this is an important distinction because too many
Sons of God do not step forward to claim what is rightfully yours by
birthright. We sit back and expect God to spoon feed us and make every move for
us. We want to be coddled and pampered and somehow be called an overcomer without overcoming anything. But this power that
is given us is authority only. Just like the Policeman out in traffic. He has
no real power. No matter how many times he were to step forward and exercise
his authority, if the people behind the wheels did not respect that authority
the man would never be able to stop traffic. And if you do not respect the
Authority of the Word of God no matter how much God tells you that He has given
you this Power or authority to become Sons, unless you step forward to receive
it and then exercise it, this authority will do you no good. It's
just like people who try this diet and that diet to lose weight. Unless they
really have the desire to do so, and really want to lose weight, they will never
lose because they really don't want it bad enough. But if their doctor tells
them they are dying and have just so long to live, then they might change their
mind and suddenly find that they do have the willpower after all. The same with smokers. How many people have claimed to be
addicted and when they are told that they are dying, they suddenly find the
willpower to quit that nasty habit.
[John 1:13] Which
were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Now this tells us that this power we receive has
nothing to do with our willing it. God said it and it's yours. But remember
this, although it has been spoken, it has also got to be revealed to you. And
the moment that it becomes revealed to you then it is yours. The authority to
become is transferred from God to you. We are talking authority. If the
policeman questions the Laws ability to give him the authority, he will never
use the power behind that authority. And if you do not claim the authority that
God gives you, then you will always go through life a
defeated spiritual wimp. Which brings us to point #3.
POINT # 3) These men of God's choosing are used by
God to spark off all others who are ordained to Life in their age. (And
they do so by perfectly reflecting the Word which contains Life.) Now
we already read [John
[ John
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Moses was in Him. Joshua was in Him. And if
you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the world, the
family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to the cross
with Him, you raised with Him; and now you're still with Him, setting in
Heavenly places, reflecting the Message
of the age to the world, the Light of the world. "Ye are the Light of
the world," but if it's hid by a denominational bushel basket, how are
they going to see It? For your traditions, you make
the Light of no effect! By trying.. You denominationals, trying to keep the Light away from your
church; you won't go in, neither will you let them. Amen.
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Let's just stop. My, I got too much. No, we--we could go on... Oh, my!
Five minutes we got.