God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 112
Brian Kocourek,
Word
Goes to Word
282 GOD'S PROVIDED
PLACE WORSHIP 65-1128.1M
You Oneness united, the old J.C. of... Pentecostal
Assemblies of Jesus Christ. One for the colored, and separated
yourselves because of segregation. You that did that, and
then united yourself and call it "United." And then organized,
and fussed at the Assemblies: "As a dog turns to its vomit." If the
vomit made the dog sick in the first place, won't it make him sick again?
Change your diet from your denomination to the Word, and live with Christ.
Shame on you! [283] [ I've got a Father over yonder, I've got a
Father over yonder, I've got a Father over yonder, On the other shore. Some bright day I will go and see Him, Some bright day...
go and see Him, Some bright day I will
go and see Him, On the other shore. Oh, won't that be a happy meeting, Won't that... (Word
goes to Word!) meeting, (When the Bride goes up, Word by
Word)... happy meeting, On the
other shore. Oh, that bright day may be tomorrow, That
bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, On the other
shore.] You say, "You mean that,
Brother Branham?"
[ 284] Yes, sir! When the Lutheran of that age, the
Wesley's of their age, the Pentecostals of their age (the true ones, not the denominationals);
the Pentecostals, the one that added leaven (their denomination), died. But this true Word moving on, see. Just
like Jesus said, (1)"At that day,
(2)you will know that (3)I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, and I in you and you in Me." (C) It's all the Word [Oh, won't that be a
happy meet... (when His sons gather to
His gate) ... happy meeting, Won't that be a happy
meeting, On the other shore.]
This evening I would like to take a short Communion
Message from these three paragraphs. If you notice in pp. [283] Brother Branham is singing about a wonderful meeting when we
meet our Heavenly Father, and then says, "Won't
that... (Word goes to Word!) meeting, (When the Bride goes up, Word by
Word)...
So we see that it is the Word of God which is taking a
hold of the Bride and will actually present us before the Father on that Distant shore, or shall we say that other dimension.
Now two things caught my attention here. Remember, He
is singing about a meeting that will take place when we go to meet our Father.
He stops his singing long enough to inject two thoughts. Now, Brother Branham
did not write this song he was singing. He was only singing a song that the
Pentecostal People sang about going home to Heaven. But since he did not write
it, I think it is interesting that he did interject two thoughts here to
actually place the correct emphasis upon the song and it's
message. The first thought is this, #1)
("Word goes to Word!") Now, to me this tells me that there is a magnetism involved where two things of the same kind are
attracted to each other. A magnetic attraction so to speak. And those two things are both called here The Word! Which we know is not any word,
but He is speaking of the Word of God! The
Bride who were in the thoughts of God before the foundations of the world
become or are changed from simply God's thinking, into a true outward
materialization or manifestation of those thoughts of God which is His Word expressed. In other
words, "The Word made flesh once
again as it was in Jesus."
Now, as I said, these two things which he calls "Word," are attracted to each
other, and since the One is Greater, Being God Himself, Who is our Father, then
it is only natural that we, the smaller, go to Him the Greater. Now if you
think in terms of magnetic attraction, or
how magnetism works, if two objects are magnetically attracted to each other,
there must be a pull toward one another. And since there is another law called
gravity, then the lightest object is the One which will move. If you have a
large piece of metal, even larger than the magnet, the magnet will move to the
metal. And if your magnet is larger than the metal the metal will move to the
magnet. I use a very strong magnet to pick up nails and metallic debris that is
in the grass. Though I can't see the nails, yet my magnet is strong enough that
it pulls the nails out of the grass. But
the magnet can't just sit in my garage if it is going to work.
I had to bring the magnet out into the yard and sweep
it over the grass and then it begins to pull out the hidden nails. And so too,
God has come down in this hour to sweep over the field of this world to draw
together in One place,
(That's the Magnet of the Word)
all things in Christ. And then when we feel the sweep of His Presence,
It draws us toward Him in a magnetic fashion that pulls us from the world and
the things of the world.
In [Genesis
So we see the mystery going is the Rapture or catching
away as we term it, and notice he said the Bride is drawn together by this
mystery and then as she is caught up in it Spiritually,
her body must manifest it and when it does, she literally will be taken out of
here. No wonder he started singing, Oh, won't that be a happy meeting, Won't that... (Word
goes to Word!) meeting, (When the Bride goes up, Word by
Word)... happy meeting, On the
other shore. Oh, that bright day may be tomorrow, That
bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, On the other
shore.]
Now this is why he also said, (When the Bride goes up, Word by Word)... what a
happy meeting, On the other shore. So first we see (Word goes to Word!), then (When
the Bride goes up, Word by Word). So I hope you can see the importance
of this Word for This hour. If the Word for Noah's hour was come into the
Now, I don't usually jump ahead to another Paragraph
to make a point, but in order to really drive home what He is telling us here
about Word going to Word, and the Bride going up Word by Word, I want to read
from pp. [290] where Brother Branham
says, [ 290] We see every other thing moving
right up to this time. We see the
Scripture being vindicated, proved. And ( just as ) we see That, Lord, You with our own eyes (being
made manifest), some day there will be a Rapture and we will see the manifestation of that Word,
"For the Son of man shall come in the clouds of glory, with His holy
angels with Him, and we will be caught up to meet Him in the air." It will
then be... We hear of it now, then we will see it with our own eyes.
What He is saying here is that in order for you will ever see
the manifestation of the Rapture when it happens, you
have got to see the manifestation of His Presence here now, among us. We must see the Manifestation of the Presence
of God now, or we will not see the manifestation of the Rapture when it takes
place. Let's read it again as he said it, [ 290] We see every other thing moving
right up to this time. We see the
Scripture being vindicated, proved. And just as we see That, Lord, You with our own eyes (being made manifest),
some day there will be a Rapture and we
will see the manifestation of that Word, "For the Son of man shall
come in the clouds of glory, with His holy angels with Him, and we will be
caught up to meet Him in the air." It will then be... We hear of it now, then we will see it with
our own eyes.
What a Glorious statement to have in our possession.
And remember as we read from [ Deut 29:29](read)
Whatsoever has been revealed belongs to us and to our children forever. Then
the Rapture is ours as well. I don't
have to wait for it to happen
to know whether I'm a part of it. I know by Thus Saith the Lord
that I will be a part of it, because I know that I see Him standing before us,
manifesting Himself to the Church making Himself known
to the Church, and because I see that, I have been told that I will not miss
seeing this Rapture when it takes place. No wonder we can sing, "Won't
that be a happy meeting, won't that be a happy meeting, won't that be a happy
meeting, On the other shore. Oh, that bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be
tomorrow, On the other shore."
The next thing we hear brother Branham say is in PP [284] when He actually quotes Jesus, as
saying,
[ 284] Yes, sir! When the Lutheran of that age, the
Wesley's of their age, the Pentecostals of their age (the true ones, not the denominationals);
the Pentecostals, the one that added leaven (their denomination), died. But this true Word moving on, see. Just
like Jesus said, (1)"At that day,
(2)you will know that (3)I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, and I in you and you in Me." (C) It's all the Word
[ Oh, won't that be a happy meet... (when His sons gather to His gate) ...
happy meeting, Won't
that be a happy meeting, On the other shore.]
Now notice again that brother Branham says, not all the Lutherans of their day, and not all the
Pentecostals of their day, but the True
Ones. Then he tells us who the True ones are when he says, Not the ones who add their own leaven or their
own thoughts to what the Word for their hour declared, but
those who receive it as it was presented and move on with the True Word for
their hour. Those are the ones who will be there at this Glorious
meeting on the other shore. Not just
anyone who claims to follow the Message, but those who actually believe it and
have received it as it was presented to them. The Real true
believers. That's why he sings, [ Oh, won't that be a
happy meet... (when His sons gather to
His gate) ... happy meeting, Won't that be a happy meeting, On the other shore.] And what is His Gate? His Only Provided Place
of Worship? If Christ is the Door, then He is the Gate as well for a Gate is a
Door. And He is the Word.
And notice what else Brother Branham said, He quotes
Jesus saying, (1)"At that day, (2)you will know that (3)I am
in the Father and the Father is in
Me, and I in you and you in
Me." (C) It's all the Word
Now this is taken from [ John
Let's read verse
[19-21] Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall
live also. At that day ye shall know
that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him.
Jesus is saying "there
is coming a time when the world will not see me but those who Believe and
possess my Word, shall see Me because I will come and
manifest Myself to them. Then at the day when this happens, You
will know the Relationship that I have with the Father, you will also have this
relationship."
Now our next question would then be, then in what form
will this manifestation occur? And we must go back to verse [12] to find our answer. Now,
before we read, remember [John
So we see the day, That Day that Jesus is speaking of
is the Day when [John
And so it is in this day that (2) "you will know" You
will know what? To know means you will have an understanding of something. And
so we must ask ourselves, what this understanding is. And he tells us that it has to do with a
relationship between us, Christ and the Father.
(3) "I am in the Father and the
Father is in Me, and I in you and you in Me." In that day we
shall have an understanding of how we fit into this glorious relationship of
the Father and His Son. He says, "I (Christ the Word of God Expressed),
am in the Father, (The Great
Fountain that contains and authors this Eternal Expressed thought), and the Father, ( The Great Fountain of Eternal thought) is in Me ( the Word Expressed) And I ( The Word Expressed in you, ( God's Seed) and You ( God's Seed) in Me ( the Expressed Word).
In (Conclusion) "It's all the Word" because that is
where the Life of God resides. So let's just reread from pp.[ 284]where Brother Branham said, But
this true Word moving on, see. Just like Jesus said, (1)"At that day, (2)you will know that (3)I am
in the Father and the Father is in
Me, and I in you and you in
Me." (C) It's all the Word
[ Oh, won't that be a happy meet... (when His sons gather to His gate) ...
happy meeting, Won't
that be a happy meeting, On the other shore.]
Let's just bow our heads in a Word of Thanks giving
and prayer.