God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 125

Brian Kocourek, March 10, 1996

Conclusion- God’s Only Provided Place

This morning I would like to conclude this Great Message that Brother Branham brought to us only one Month before God took Him off the scene. In doing so, I would like to read from [PP. 291-292] of God's Only Provided Place of Worship] where Brother Branham said, "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. 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.

Now this morning I would like to repeat back what Brother Branham said here, and there are a few thoughts I would like to tie together and then wrap up our study of this Great Message. Personally I think it is one of the Greatest Messages that He spoke because there is so much that He covered. And I guess we can testify to that with 125 sermons covering this Great Message.

Point number 1) we hear him say, , "May we be found in Him, the only provided place.

Point number 2) We hear him tell us, "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."

Point number 3) we hear him say, How can my heart ever be reverent enough before You? Help me, dear God, to live true. Help my people to live true... But You forgive my ignorance, Lord, and just look at my heart.

Now, let's begin with point number 1) "May we be found in Him, the only provided place". I hope by now you will understand that there is no other light in this hour and therefore no other provided place where we may worship God than through the Message of this Hour. I remember when I lived in Bloomington Indiana, you would have to look high and low to find a real genuine believer, who believed this Message and walked in it. Up there the people would just take over the service with their music, and left no time for the Word. The Word of God has become second rate to the people and music and testimony meetings seem to hold more importance than the very Word of God that is to change our mortal bodies. Any way, it was just a dream but when I awoke, I knew that God was in it because we find in these three points that we see brother Branham make, the same undertone as this dream. Brothers, and sisters, brother Branham said, "May we be found in Him, the only provided place. And I repeat, He is the ONLY PROVIDED place of Worship. There is nothing we can add to it or take from it without changing the place of worship altogether. It is perfect as He gave it and to add to it will place you in the tribulation period. And to take from it will take your name from the book of Life. So don't mess with it.

I've seen too many people in this Message pay too much attention to things like this Nostradomos character and others like him. Stay away from that stuff. If God meant for you to hear that garbage, then He would have said it through the lips of His Prophet Brother Branham. Listen, The world is going after that stuff and if the world is accepting it, then it's certainly not of God. And further more, most of what this guy said is so vague that you can make what ever you want out of it. He would say things like, "I see a great storm rising amongst humanity." And so the interpreters of this man will say there is coming a third world war, and stuff like that. And a lot of the things Nostradomos wrote are taken right from the Bible but he added his own thinking to it. It's HOGWASH! He was not identified by God's Prophet as being even in contention for being a messenger to the ages, and further more, most of it is smoke and mirrors. And even if he was a minor prophet of some sort, so what! So was Joan of Arc, but what does that have to do with you or me in this hour. But I do not believe this man was anything more than a mystic. He did not proclaim the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Just like Edgar Casey. A mystic which is nothing short of a false prophet. But the final clue should tell you that if they are received the world or the things of the world, then God is not with it. For God's Wisdom is foolishness to men and men's wisdom ( Guys like Casey and Nostradomos are foolishness to God!

Now we have been studying how God first gives us a new heart, which is a new understanding. Next he gives us a new spirit which brother Branham taught us is a new desire that is a result of this new understanding, and finally when we have a desire for only the Word of God in our lives, then God will give us His Spirit which brother Branham said is part of His Logos which is God's Word.

Now, God doesn't come into your heart the first minute you have this new understanding. Oh, no! Uh, Uh! There is an order to His coming into our hearts and being received in our mortal beings, just as there is an order to His return and being received by our mortal beings. If God has an order to His Coming as with a SHOUT first, then VOICE, and finally a TRUMPET, then if He is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever, there must also be an order to the receiving of His Life in our mortal beings. And we know that Justification made a way for sanctification, and sanctification made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Himself to come down in our midst. Now, that is Thus Saith the Prophet of God to us and therefore Thus Saith the Lord!

God said in His word that there is an order to His Placing His Spirit or His Life which is His Word into our hearts. We read in Ezekiel 36 that we receive a New heart first. This is a new understanding according to Brother Branham. When you receive this new understanding it begins to fill your heart and soul with new desires toward God which then we call it a welcoming spirit. And God will not come into you and place His Spirit or His Word in you until He see this welcoming Spirit in your Soul.

So no matter how much your understanding of God's Word has changed, if you are not in possession of this Welcoming Spirit, this new atmosphere, this new desire to be filled with God's Word and only by God's Word, then God will still wait. He will not enter into a half hearted Soul, who is not sure. You must desire only the vindicated Truth and nothing else or He will not enter. Many people have heard the Gospel and seemed to receive it gladly for a short space of time, but before the desires are changed they fall away and thus never come to this new desire. And how does that happen? They open themselves up to false prophets . That's your Nostradomoses and Casey's and the like. And to bring it home much closer, the likes of certain men in this message who use their influence to bring the people back into a Pentecostal Message and destroy the understanding of the people through a false word mingled with the Word of this hour. Oh, they do not outright deny the Truth, but what they do is mingle it with the Truth of another day. With the Word for another hour.

In [ 2 Peter 2: 1-3] We are told that men will come in and sit amongst you and will bring in with them destructive heresies. Now if they bring them in with them, then neither the heresies nor the men themselves actually belong in the Message. They are both infiltrators, working for satan.

In fact we read in [ 2 Cor 11; 13-15 ] That these men are actually called ministers of satan. And they cloak themselves in the Shroud of the Message but in side are actually satan's own messengers. And the thing of it is, is that they come to destroy the understanding God has given you by the Prophet of the hour. And the message is full of these ministers of these so called messengers of light.

Ha! That's all we need. But the bible said they would come and so shall they come. Thus it is written, thus it shall be done. And so they come. One by one they come in and bring in their old Pentecostal food from another day. And you couldn't even call it old manna. The stuff these guys bring in is so ridiculous that it actually brings a reproach tot he rest of the Message believers because it is so insane and ludicrous. But the scripture did tell us that it would bring the way of Truth into disrepute, and so it has. It is shameful indeed to think that there are people who cam out of that stuff only to bring more of it back in and mix it with such a beautiful, clean, wholesome and good message. What a disgrace. What pollution!

[Hosea 4: 6 - 10] My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you as My priests. Because you have ignored the Law of your God, I also will ignore you children. ( that means the Token will do them no good!) The more the priests increased, the more they sinned ( disbelieved) against me; They have exchanged My Glory for something disgraceful. They feed on the sins ( disbelief) of My people and relish in their wickedness. ( and what is this wickedness? It is wrong understanding based on outdated word or word for another day as we see in [1 John 3: 10-12] Notice Cains offering was one representing first fruits which is resurrection, without the shedding of blood first. And with out shedding of blood there's no remission of sins.) And it will be: Like people, like priest . ( that's) [ 2 Tim 4: 3-4 & Jer 5: 30-31] I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution ( selling out themselves) but they shall not increase, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves prostitution, to old wine and new, which takes away the understanding of My people.

[ Isaiah 30: 9-11] They don't want to know that they are standing before the Judge. They just want pleasant things told to them like how Great they are and all that female Holy Ghost and Fullness of God in the Bride stuff.

[ Isaiah 29: 6-24] Read and explain

God promised us that He will send a testing of The new understanding, and because they are not predestined to pass the test, they come up short and are easily offended by the Word. Some people come so far but when the Word speaks of things that hit them in the pocket book or speaks of things that we should do or a manner of living that makes them loose their popularity with the guys or girls, then they lose what desire they did have and before they know it, they fall away from the Truth.

Brother Branham said God will not place His Word in Just anybody. He will not place His Spirit in just anybody. So we find in [ Hebrews 12: 6-7] Paul teaching us, that "Every Son that cometh to God must first be tried and tested. And if you can't take the testing then you are not a True Son but a bastard born, meaning you are illegitimate to the Word."

[Matthew 13:18-23 ] Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and the Word becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth [it]; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth fruit with patience, some an hundred-fold, some sixty, some thirty.

Now you will notice that the first group mentioned are those who hear the Word but because they do not understand it the Devil is able to step in and take what understanding they did receive away from them and thus they just simply fall away from the Truth. Then there are those who hear the Word but when the trials begin they can't take it and because they too do not really understand what it is all about they give up and they too fall away from the Truth. Then we have the Laodicean bunch who get caught up into the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches, and these things choke off the word and it can not bring forth in these people what it is meant to bring forth. These are the foolish virgins who run but do not finish the race. They are caught in the trap called the deceitfulness of riches. Money, money, money, the root of all evil. And notice that these riches are called deceitful. And since this group does not have a full understanding, they too fall short of receiving the True Word of God, which is His Holy Spirit into their hearts and thus they come up short. But notice the group that comes all the way into the True Baptism of the Holy Spirit, they are the Ones who hear the Word and Understand it in their hearts, and because they understand it they are not caught up by the deceitfulness of riches. They are focused and ready and thus the Word brings forth Fruit in them some even a hundred fold.

So you can see how important understanding is to the believer. And that is why Eve fell. Notice Eve had understanding. She knew better than to partake with the Serpent, because she told the serpent we must not eat of the Forbidden tree. It is cursed. And yet the Serpent pulled one over on her and got her to eat anyway. Now, he didn't tell her that her understanding was wrong entirely, but he told her that she just didn't quite have the full understanding of the picture. And so he explained it away from her. And so she stepped out from behind the protection of the Word and she fell for His interpretation or understanding of the Word of God. And that is exactly what we are warned of will happen in [ 2 Peter 2: 1 - 3 ] ( Read) . These men will come into the Message and give a wrong understanding of the Word of God and the people will be caught up into what these men say as evil interpreters of the Word of Truth.

Þ In [ Romans 1: 18 ] we are told that these men will actually hold down or suppress the Truth. Why? Because, they have their own personal motives for getting you away from the Truth.

Þ In [ 2 Tim 3: 13] we are told that these men who deceive are also deceived themselves. ( read)

Þ In [ Ephesians 4: 14] we are also told that these men actually lie in wait to deceive. ( read) men with ulterior motives. That is why Brother Branham always told us to check our motives. Motives play a very important part and really tell a lot from where you have your source.

Þ In [ John 3: 19 - 21] we see the actions of two groups of people. One who flees from the Word and won't go near it, and the other who run to it . and their motive is exposed by their flight pattern, just as the yellow warbler and the yellow finch are identified by their flight pattern as well. One makes a bee line and the other kinds of rises and sinks, then rises and sinks, as it flies through the air.

Þ In [ Matt 23: 13 ] We are told the reason those who oppose the Truth will not allow others to go in is because they won't go in themselves. Why? Because John told us that they would be exposed by the light.

Þ [Ephesians 5: 13] Tells us that all things are exposed by the light.

You see we are warned by Jesus and Paul and Peter and Jude and James and John even William Branham that false anointed men will arise and speak perverse things drawing away disciples after themselves. But we are warned to flee from such. [ Acts 20: 27-32 ] (read) , [ Matt 7: 15-16] (read) you shall know them by their fruit which brother Branham taught us is their teaching of what the season is.

Þ [ 2 Thess 2: 10 - 13] (read) then show Wuest: every kind of wicked deception geared to the gullibility of those who are perishing, this gullibility being caused by the fact that they did not accept the love for the Truth to the end that they might be saved, and for this cause God will send them a deluding influence resulting in their believing the Lie, in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth but took delight in wickedness.

Þ [ 1 Timothy 4: 1] seducing Spirits and doctrines of devils. Satan's messengers masquerading as angels of light. Which is [ 2 Cor 11: 13-15] (read) Paul calls them those super fine apostles more righteous than God is righteous, but false to the bone, and look what they did to the early church. Vs{1-4 & Gal 1: 6-9}

Þ [ Mark 7: 7-9] They reject the Word of God in favor of their own teachings. And what does this do? It voids the power of the Word in their lives. Thus they crucify the Word to themselves.

Þ [ Hebrews 6: 4] Notice they can't crucify God who is a spirit but they can crucify the Word to themselves, and that is exactly what they do, making it of no use to them by their own traditions and creeds.

Þ [ 2 Thess 1: 10] we are to receive His Glory in the saints in this hour. The very mind of God in us.

Þ [Ephesians 1: 17] the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him that the eyes of our understanding might be enlightened to what His plans for us are.

In Closing let's turn to [ 2 John 1: 8-9] He is warning us not to place ourselves in a place where we will lose what we have wrought, and then goes on to tell us how we could do this. He that transgresseth, which is to go beyond the limits of true doctrine, that's how you lose out. You have a certain knowledge and then add your own thoughts to what God's thoughts are. Let's pray.