God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 121
Brian Kocourek,
In
Remembrance
Last night we examined PP. 288 in light of [1 Cor
Now, as I said last night, what if there were no
connection between the event and the mind. What if there were no relevant
thoughts in the mind to connect the events that have taken place. Then, the
mind would be said to be void of understanding. A vacuum as it were.
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And remember last
week, the question was asked, please explain man as a three part
being - Body, Soul & Spirit. Where is the mind? Where and what is the Soul?
And the heart? Perhaps you could tie this in with how God is manifested?
And so we went to the scripture to establish the triunity of man. The three fold nature of man.
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[I Thess 5:23]
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now in looking at this Scripture we see not only a
separation of Body, Soul and Spirit here, but this scripture is telling us that
we are to be sanctified wholly or completely in our body, Soul and Spirit at
the time of the Parousia of Christ. So how do we
become sanctified completely in our body, soul and spirit?
Jesus told us in [ John
So we see that we are cleansed by the Word of God. Now
when the Scripture speaks of being cleansed by the Word it is actually speaking
of our minds which are in the Spirit portion of our triune being. In [Psalm 119: 9] we are told that we
cleanse ourselves by taking heed to the Word of God. In [ Ephesians
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Now we know that
there is a difference between your body, Soul and Spirit because we are told in
[Hebrews 4:12] For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So
here we see that the Word of God divides so cleanly that it can even differentiate
between the Soul and the Spirit.
And so this brings us to the next part of this Where
is the mind? Where and what is the Soul? And the heart?
Now in dividing the difference between the Soul and
Spirit we find a real challenge because they are both defined so closely
according to the Greek. But we are told in [Hebrews 4] that the Word of God, when it comes forth discerning, it
will also discern right down to the difference between the soul and spirit and
so we must go to what Brother Branham said about these two parts of our human
make-up.
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[And Knoweth it Not 65-0815] Now, this
outside man is the flesh. That's what we look at, what we see. And it has five inlets to that body. And any
grammar school child as myself, would know that
there's five senses control the body:
see, taste, feel, smell and hear. Without that, you can't touch the body.
That's the only way you have to the body: see, taste, feel, smell and hear. See
it, taste it, feel it. Now, that is the evil one on the outside.
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Now, inside of that is a spirit, which you become when
you're borned in here and the breath of life is
breathed into you, that spirit is of a worldly nature, because it was not given
from God, but it was given, permitted by God. Now, you got that? For every
child that's borned in the world is borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world
speaking lies. Is that right? So that person inside there is a sinner to begin
with. But now, ...there's five inlets to the spirit. (Conscience,
Affection, reasoning, memory and imagination.) You can't think with your body; you have to think with your spirit. You
can't have conscience in your body. It
has no mental faculties at all, your body doesn't. So you have to think with your spirit. You have to reason. You can't
reason with your physical being, 'cause reason doesn't see, taste, feel, smell,
or hear. Reason is what you can make in
your mind. If you're asleep or
you're out; your body's lying there dead, but your spirit can still reason;
there's five senses that controls that inside man. And that... Now, to the last man, which is the soul. There's only one sense that controls that,
and that is, free moral agency, free will, to choose or to reject.
Now,
as I have said, the Soul
is that part of man that identifies the man. It is His very Life, and nature of the Spirit. When we read [I Thess
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In [ Daniel
Now the question was asked, Where
is the mind? And we must
answer according to the scripture and what Brother Branham told us, the Mind is in the
spirit. Yet our Soul still has the last say on our choice. But the Affection,
and reasoning, and emotion and memory and conscience all exist in the realm of
the spirit. But the Soul is the nature of that spirit. And the next part of
this question is Where
and what is the Soul? I
think I answered this part by saying what the soul is .
It is the nature of your spirit. The very Life of your being.
Now you ask, where is it. It lies within the deepest
recess of your heart.
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[PP 37 Inter veil 56-0121] Notice.
There is an intellectual faith. And there's a faith that comes from the heart.
The old unbeliever said years ago, "When the Bible said, 'As a man thinketh in his heart...'" Said, "That's crazy. There's no mental facilities in the heart." Said,
"You think with your mind. There's no mental facilities
in the heart." But last year they found that's wrong. God was right. Right down in the heart, in the center of the
heart, there's a little compartment where there's not even a blood cell in it.
It's not in the animal heart, only in the human heart. And they say, it's the occupation, or the occupant of the soul. The soul
lives in the heart. Then after all, God was right, when He said, "As a man thinketh
in his heart." And I'd like
to add, So is he!
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[Ezekiel
36:26-28]A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do
[them]. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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IMPERSONATION.OF.CHRISTIANITY JEFF.IN 57- God had to give you a new spirit. Why,
the spirit you had, you couldn't even get along with yourself. So how are you
going to get along with God? So God had to give you a new heart, not a patched up one, a new heart. That's your intellects that you think with,
a new way of thinking. Then He give you a new way of thinking, "Yes,
that's right....( notice he's telling us that the new
heart is a new mindset, a new way of thinking) Then He said
after that, "Then I'll give you a new spirit." What's that? A new desire, "I want to do right.".... But now, that's the new spirit. Then notice the order of the Scripture.
After you get a new heart and a new spirit, He said, "Then I'll put My
Spirit..." See? Oh, what? That's the what the
Scripture says here. That's the order, the pneumatics and numerical order of
the Scripture: a new heart, a new spirit, and then My Spirit. Then God's Holy
Spirit... God's new heart that He put in you, sets
right in the center of you. That's your impulse, where your emotions
goes out. And the new Spirit sets right in the center of the new heart.
And God's Spirit, the Holy Spirit, sets right in the center of your new Spirit,
and there It controls your emotions. and to have a new heart, a new spirit, and His Spirit, part of the Logos in you controlling
your emotions... And when He coos through His Word, you coo back and answer to
Him. "Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever..." watch the
order of the Scripture. "I will take away the old stony heart, and I'll
give you a new heart." That's the first order. Some of them stop on that
first order. Now, that's... you're just getting started. Then He said,
"I'll give you a new spirit." There's where a lot of you Pentecostals
fail. You had to have a new spirit. Oh, you felt good and you felt like
that, "Oh, well, I just, oh, I feel fine. ...Well, you just got started.
You're just getting fixed up now to just... You're just coming in line. He had
to give you a new spirit. Why you couldn't get along with yourself with the old
spirit. So how could you get along with God's Spirit? So He had to give you a
new spirit.
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And finally the question was asked, "Perhaps
you could tie this triune being and the placement of the mind within the spirit
in-with how God is being manifested today?"
Well, let's read on in PP 289 & 290 to see how
this is done. Notice on the one hand the
people are losing there minds. Did you know that every one is losing their
minds in this hour? Sure! But only the elect is finding their real mind which
is the mind of Christ. "Let this
mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." This is the hour according to [ 2 Thess
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Seeing, Lord, that the mental conditions, the nervous age that the people's living in, is
driving them out of their minds; to exactly fulfill what the Scripture said
and promised, the great hideous things would come upon the earth; like locusts,
to haunt the women that cut their hair, they'll have long hair like a woman.
And different hideous sights that they'll be able to see, Lord, in that mental,
deluded condition they're in, and then screaming for the rocks and the
mountains. Women who would mother dogs and cats, and not raise children to
honor You. Those that You did
give children to and they did conceive them, turn them loose on the streets to
do as they want. No wonder You said, Lord, when You
were going to the cross, "Then they'll begin to cry for the rocks and the
mountains to fall on them." Now, remember, Brother Branham didn't give it another
50 years before every one would be totally insane.
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If the world
would stand another fifty years, the whole world would be totally insane. Look
at the sanity from forty--from twenty years ago to this time. See? And
when will this be? The year 2004.
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And we also can look around and see that the way that the human mind is leaving the people.
That, we--we can't stay too much longer, we'd
be in a complete insane institution, the whole world would be. See? So
we--we're at the end time.
So we see that something has got to happen to the
Elect before this takes place. We've got
no more than 8 years to go and every one will be insane. I think we are almost
there already. But now let's read this PP. 289 in conjunction
with pp 290 and see how they tie together.
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We see every other thing moving right up to
this time. ( notice he said every OTHER THING, what's that? He just spoke
of everyone losing their minds, right? And then he gets down to the main thing.)
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.
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May we be found in Him, the only provided place. And He is the sacrifice. We bring Him, what we've
heard about, Jesus Christ, into the house of God by the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, through the Name of Jesus Christ. And there our sacrifice is accepted
and we're brought into the family; because, yet straying out in the world, we
were ordained sons and daughters of God before the foundation of the world.
Thank You for that, Father. Oh, how could anyone ever turn back on something
like that (when they found the Truth, that God has selected them out of the
world)? There were millions lost, the day that I was saved.
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O dying Lamb, how can I ever thank You? How can my heart ever be reverent enough before You? Help me, dear God, to live true. Help my people to live
true. I pray for them, Lord, every one, that You
will... God, somehow, I don't... I--I wouldn't know how... I don't know how,
just how to ask, Lord; and I may of not even asking that in the right manner.
But You forgive my ignorance, Lord, and just look at
my heart. I pray that not one of them will be lost, not one of them, Father. I
claim them, every one, for You. In
the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. I
love Him, I... And if you love Him, you
love one another. Shake one another's hand.