God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 106
Brian Kocourek,
December 31 P.M., 1995
He Died for Us, We Die to Self
This morning w spoke on the Prophet of God as a
reflector of God's Word. One who by predestination was ordained, ( That is,
fashioned in his make up in such an order as to only be able to reflect God's
True Light and not even his own thinking.)
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(268) A prophet is God's reflector. and the reflector doesn't reflect itself, because 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.... He
had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
We then read from pp. 269-270 where Brother Branham said, 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, ... 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
Now one thing I left out this morning is this thought
here where Brother Branham says, He died for us, and we died to ourselves and
are buried in His Name. Notice, he said, that Jesus dies for us and we
also have to die to ourselves. I believe that this is significant if we are to
claim the authority to become sons. We can't keep going on and being bantered
about by every little thing that comes our way. Brother Branham said, God's
Prophet is a Reflector of God in his body
being made manifest the Word of God.
So we see the Word of each hour was actually lived out by One man and One
man only and that is the Prophet of that hour. But as brother Branham told us,
we can be a part of this living Word by believing it and receiving it. [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."
And remember, when the people wanted to do the works
of God Jesus Himself told them what the works of God were. In [ John
" 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." From these
words, we were able to break this thought down into 3 distinct points
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.)
And so we can see the significance of the Prophet of
God and His role in bringing to Flesh the Word for Each age. For not only is the Prophet of God,
the Word of God become Flesh, but by receiving this revelation of God to us,
the Elect then receive ownership of this revelation and the process of a change
in the body that is part of the Word becoming flesh. And thus this process
brings the Elect to the place where the Life that is in the Word is released to
them and takes over them and they in turn become a reflection of the Living
Word. The thoughts that were God's and
were spoken through the lips of His Prophet are now on the lips of His Elect
who have been sparked off by the Reflection of God through His Prophet.
This morning we read to you how that we receive our
transformation by first seeing the reflection of Him in the mirror of His Word.
When we see this Image in His Word and being lived out before our very eyes, by
His Prophet, we become sparked off by
this Revelation and the very same Word that we saw take over the Life of a
Prophet, begins to take over our mortal bodies, bringing on a transformation from
mortal to immortal. That is why I can
never understand how any one who believes this message could in any way state
that "Had
the bride read their Bibles and Prayed like they're supposed to we would never
have needed a prophet."
Just because they may not have read their Bible doesn't mean that others
didn't. Reading your Bible and Praying has nothing to do with it. It takes a
Reflector of God to spark you to the Word for your age, and that's all there is
too it. Because we have "thus Saith
the Lord" on that! Now this does not mean that we are to worship that
Prophet any more than it means that you and I will take that prophets place. It
simply means that God has a plan for our redemption, and it comes by a
Revelation and your receiving that Revelation.
[ I Peter 1:7 -
13] That the trial of your faith(
Revelation), being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto
praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not
seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end (goal or outcome) of your faith ( Revelation), [even] the salvation of [your] souls.( so you can see this Revelation has to do with your salvation) Of
which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you: Searching what, or what
manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ ( His first coming) , and the
glory that should follow ( His
Appearing). Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto
themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
So we see the great significance of this Revelation of
Jesus Christ and we know that we could never receive this great Promise of God
without it coming to us from the lips of God's Prophet as we see in [ Amos
3: 7 ] "Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth it by His
servants the Prophets."
And as we read this morning 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 as I said this morning, this implies two things, #1- 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].
Now, for the rest of our Message tonight I want to
first read paragraph # 271-272...
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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.
Now in this paragraph we come across a further
enlightenment to this thought on God's Reflectors. Here we see Brother Branham
telling us that not only is Moses and Joshua which were God's Prophets
reflectors of the Word for their Age, but now he brings it a step closer to
home and tells us that this reflection doesn't just stop at the Prophet but
reflects forth from the Prophet to and upon the Elect people of their day. And
when this reflection comes forth from God and reflects off of His Prophet, who
ever is in line with the reflection will begin to reflect as well provided they
are God's Elect Seed and have been built to be able to Reflect which we know is
an echo which means to say the same thing. Now you might ask, Scripture Please?
And so we shall oblige your minds, thusly.
[ 2 Cor 3: 1 -
18 ] Do we begin by commending
ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or
[letters] of commendation from you? (
now Paul is saying these things with tongue in cheek, and of course the answer
is no!) But we see Jesus address the same thing in [ John 5: 30 - 32] I
can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just;
because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
If
I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the
witness which he witnesseth of me is true. And so Jesus let's us know that
the witness of a lone individual is not to be taken, but that it takes the
witness of others, and yet Paul tell's you right quickly that it is not some
letter of credit from some group or organization that is to be our witness.
What he goes on to say is that The Word preached has an effect upon the hearts
and lives of those who really do hear and it changes their lives, and they
begin to reflect in themselves the life that is in the Word. He says, [ 2 Cor 3: 2] Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all
men: [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle
of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit
of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through
Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing
as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
In other words, Paul is telling us that He actually
was given the ministry of taking a - hold of the Spirit of God and etching it
into your very hearts. Now this would suggest to us 2 things;
#1) Either Paul had an over inflated opinion of
Himself and his own self worth, or #2) He was given the grave responsibility to
take the Spirit of God under His Control and to literally etch it into the
hearts of the believers. Now how is this possible? God's Spirit can not be
contained? King David said in [2Chron
Now, what then is Paul's precedent for declaring this.
For surely if this is God's way of doing things, and God changes not, then
surely there was a precedent, a previous time in which this same sort of
ministry took place where a Prophet of God was charged with the
[ 2 Cor 3: 6]
Who also hath made us able ministers of
the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth life.(
in other words, not just to give you a mental conception, for that alone will
only lead to death, but where the Spirit and life within the Word of God will
be opened to the people). [7]
But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of
[ 2 Thess 1: 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. So we see that Paul is speaking of the ministration of Glory
and he is comparing it to the ministration of Law under Moses. Then he explains
it like this, [ 2 Cor 3:12]
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:( so what Paul is saying here is that
this ministry that will take a hold of the Spirit of God and etch it into the
hearts of men will come by speech, by Word and not a word that has been veiled,
but a Word that is unveiled.) And not
as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could
not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this
day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which [veil] is done away in Christ. Now when Moses came down from the
[Exodus 34:29 -
35] And it came to pass, when Moses
came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron
and all the children of
And afterward all the children of
Now notice how Paul says, Moses could not speak
plainly to the people because of the Reflection, and because they were afraid
of the reflection he had to veil this reflection to them, and when he spoke the
Word of God it was veiled to them behind the law. But Paul tells us that when
the ministration of the Spirit comes, it will no longer be veiled behind
traditions and creeds, but will be openly declared by a True Reflector of God,
and thus the Life that is contained in the Word will penetrate into the very
hearts and minds of men and God-Life will transform their very beings.
[ 2 Cor
And by thus we receive as a promise for this age a
transformation that will come by the renewing of our minds which
is [ Romans 12: 1 - 2]
So there you have it. The importance of the role of
the Prophet of God as a True Reflector of God's Word. And as we receive the
Revelation that is brought to us by God's Prophet, we then become owners and
possessors of that which has been
revealed.
How many believe tonight that God sends His Prophets
to reflect His Word to us? How many believe that God will surely do nothing
unless He first reveals it to us through His Prophets? Then how many believe
that the Rapture can not take place without God first revealing it to His Elect
Seed? How many believe that God has sent His Prophet to us in this hour to
Reveal all that the Scripture says is to be revealed in the end-time? Then how
many believe that the ministry of this Prophet was to bring forth the Revelation
of Jesus Christ to us? How many believe that when it is Revealed to you the
ownership of that Revelation passes from God to you. Then if it is truly
revealed to you, your body change is now under way, the Rapture is now at hand,
and the catching away is ready at any time to take place.
Will you stand with me in a word of prayer while our
brothers bring froth the elements to commemorate the Revelation of Redemption
that our blessed Saviour had that made all this possible for us?