God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 121

Brian Kocourek, February 24, 1996

In Remembrance

 

Last night we examined PP. 288 in light of [1 Cor 11: 23-24] Where Paul quoted Jesus saying "As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, This do in remembrance of Me". Since PP's. 288 through 290 focus on the condition of the mind, concerning God's Only Provided Place of Worship, we then looked at this remembrance according to the definition we receive from Webster. Webster says Memory refers to:  the ability or power for retaining or reviving in your mind, past thoughts, images and ideas; Remembrance refers to the act or process of having such events  or things come to the mind again. In other words, a revival in the mind. So we see Paul and thus Jesus  were addressing the minds of the people here when he said, "This do in remembrance of Me."

 

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.

 

̃    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.

 

̃    [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 17: 17-19 ] that we are sanctified through the Truth. And then He further defined what this Truth is when He said, "Thy Word is truth." Speaking of God's Word, Paul tells us also in [ 2 Thess 2: 13] that We are Sanctified in our Spirits through belief of the Truth in contrast to those who actually go after a delusion because they loved not the Truth. So we see the impact that the Truth which is the Revealed Word has on us. That's why it is so important to let our own thinking go. Because our own thinking is a vacuum. In the greatest Battle ever fought  brother Branham taught us that our minds are actually void of our own thoughts and that the thoughts that come to the mind are either God's thoughts or the Devils thoughts. Now he is not saying that we do not think. But what he is telling us by this statement is that when we do have thoughts, there are really no new thoughts under heaven. Every thought has either been thought by God or has been thought already by the Devil.

 

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 5: 26] we see that God cleanses us by the washing of water by the Word.  And so we see that we are washed in our Spirit. Our Spirit is said to be cleansed by the Word of God. But what is this Spirit that is washed and cleansed by Gods Word.

 

̃    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.

 

̃    [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.

 

̃    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 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.  We see that the word for Soul here is the Greek word, Psuche which is also translated as the word Life. When Jesus said, he that will lose his Life for my sake shall save it, he was using the word Psuche that is also used as the same word for your soul as we see in [1 Thess 5: 23] and so many other scriptures. 

 

̃    In [ Daniel 7: 15]  we read, "I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body."  So here we see the placement of the Spirit. Now the Soul is the Life of the Person. In Greek it is called psuche {psoo-khay'} and is translated as the word,  soul or even  life. Now the Greek word for Spirit is pneuma {pnyoo'-mah} and is translated as the word Spirit  and is the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul  of any one; the efficient source of any power, affection,  emotion, desire, etc. The word Pneuma is also translated as the word mind.

 

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.

 

̃    [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!

 

̃     [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.

 

̃     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.

                          

̃    [Matt 13:15] For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

 

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 1: 10] & [ 1 Cor 1: 8-10] & [1 Peter 1: 13] that we are to receive the very mind of God.

 

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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.