God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 26

Brian Kocourek February 15, 1995

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Now watch that Cain spirit come right down through the Scripture, right on to this very last day. Fundamental? Just as fundamental as the other one was.

That Cain Spirit is fundamental.

Genesis 4: 1 - 16 Twins - fundamental - religious

Hebrews 11: 4

1 John 3: 12

Jude 11 Notice here we see another one who was as fundamental as Cain.

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Look at the prophet Balaam and the prophet Moses. Both of them with seven altars, Jehovah's altars, blood on each one; and not only that, but rams on each one. In numerology, exactly the right number, seven, "perfect," seven rams. Just exactly alike, both altars. As fundamental as one was, the other one was also. But who did God vindicate? See? See? The one that was in His Word. Fundamental doesn't mean too much; it's the revelation of God.

The name Balaam comes from two Hebrew words. The first part is " Bal " which means "a failure" and comes from a root word "Balah" which means to fail, or wear out, to decay or consume away, to fail or be spent or to waste away." By implementation it actually means a nothing. And the second Hebrew word which makes up the name of Balaam is the word "Am" meaning a people." So you can see here that Balaam was an example of what the people would be like who are the gullible that are spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2 and who are destined to fail or wear down and go backwards and not forward.

Numbers 22, 23 and 24 (read all) if there is time..... or just explain

2 Peter 2: 15

Jude 11

Revelation 2: 14

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Now think! These man, why was they called and was put in this condition (these Pharisees) by Jesus, said, "In vain you worship Me"? Worship Him: genuine worship, true worship from their hearts. "You... In vain you worship Me." Why? "Teaching for doctrine their tradition of man, therefore you make the commandments of God of no effect to the people."

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If I brought you a Methodist message, it would take no effect on you, this is Bride time. If Moses taught the message of Noah, it would take no effect. If Jesus taught Moses' message, it would take no effect. Because the predestinated seed are laying there that will only be watered by that type of water that's give for that seed. See? It won't grow any other condition. It must be the condition that grows it.

Ephesians 4: 15

Malachi 4: 1

1 Corinthians 13: 9 - 12

1 John 3: 2

Matthew 13: 30

1 Corinthians 1: 4 - 10

1 Peter 2: 2

2 Peter 3: 18

2 Thessalonians 1: 3

Ephesians 2: 21

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Now, you can take a chicken egg and put it in a incubator, when it should be under a hen, but it'll hatch anyhow. Put it under a pup it would hatch. It's the warmness, the condition that makes it hatch. So it has to be under condition. You could take a good live egg and put it under a dead hen, it won't hatch. See? See, it's the condition.

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Well, that's the way it is in this age that we're living in, you've got to find what is God's way of doing it for this age. That's what Martin Luther found, that's what John Wesley found, that's what the Pentecostals found in their age. God's age and time to do it.

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Now, the Pentecostals. That brother, one... I believe his... one of his eyes was out, a colored brother who really started the Pentecostal message in California, old Azusa Street. He was laughed at, and because he was a negro he was made fun of, but he brought a message for that age. Just a little bodily fellow that could hardly sign his own name, but the Lord had revealed to him that this was the age for the restoration of those gifts, and they come. No matter what said, it come. But everybody got in the atmosphere of it, and seen it was that age, and seen God vindicating that those people could speak with tongues, and so forth, it happened. But then when he went and pinned it down that "this is the only evidence," that killed it. See? Goes right on, see. That did it. Then they started separating this, that, and making denominations; and one's coming on a cloud, and the other one's come in a bush. And oh, my, there it goes.

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That's what denominations does. See? God is not a author of denomination, because denomination is Babylon, and He's not the author of confusion. We see her all... You don't have to be even intellectual to see that. It's Babylon! See? Tradition (think of it), sincere people. Now, still, because they believe that, there still needs to be one sincere place where God meets.

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Now notice verse 2: "Worship in the place that I have chosen." The sacrifice, of course, where they worshiped, where they sacrificed. "The place that I chose; not what you chose, what man chose. But what I have chosen, you worship in this place." There shows there's then only one place, others is vain. It must be not of your choice, but it must be His choice.

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"Well, I don't have to go to the church." Or, "You are so narrow-minded! Why, you even fuss at women about preaching, and... or women about bobbing their hair, and man about these other things. Why, you're so narrow-minded!"

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All right, you don't have to take God's Word about it, you go on out where they do that at. See? And you'll find out it's in the Scripture, so, "In vain do they worship Me." See? Jesus spoke of the same thing. See?

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That every little jot, everything, you must be faithful in. It's always the little--the little vine, the little--the little foxes spoils the vine. Sometimes you leave... It's not the big things you do, it's the little things you leave undone. Remember, a chain is only its strongest at its weakest link. "Blessed are they that do all the commandments of God, that they might have a right to enter in." Do all God said, if It said for women to have long hair.

You say... A man told me not long ago, said, "I don't preach a clothes-line religion."

I said, "Then you're not preaching the Gospel." Yeah.

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God laid it out there, He said what to do. And you either do it... That's your natural, reasonable thing. What little thing... what... the little insignificant. Jesus said, "Blessed are they that would take all the little thing, do the little thing." And a woman to let her hair grow, that's just a... why, it's just something she can do, and she won't even do that. She won't even do that.

"Oh, teach us the great things."

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How can you teach the great things, when you won't do the simple, common thing? Because, you see, your motive and your objective is wrong.

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It's your love to God, "Lord, I don't care what You want me to do, I'm willing to do it." Then you're getting somewhere, but if you don't do it that way, the way He said do it...

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It's His choosing, "The place that I have chosen." That's where you worship with your sacrifice."

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You put... Cain brought his sacrifice, Abel brought his, it depends on what place you take it into. If you take it into the place where He's chosen, it'll be all right, He will accept it; if it's not, He won't accept it. Don't care... it's the same sacrifice, whatever it is, it's still un... rejected, unless it's brought to that one certain place.

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Now we want to find out where we want to bring this sacrifice. If we could find out... We all want to go to Heaven. Don't we? And we all know we've done wrong. We all believe that Jesus is the Sacrifice. Now we want to know where to take Him, it'd be--it'll be accepted. See? That's right. The Bible tells us where to take Him at, and then it'll be accepted; outside of there, it won't be accepted.

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Let us notice here also the place that He chose for the sacrifice to be laid, the place that He chose to put the sacrifice. You can't put it on any of these gates; but the place that He chose to put it, He also put His Name in that place. See, that's what He said here. He chose to put His Name in it. Now let us search the Scriptures for this place, for that is the place where He put His Name.

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Now let's read from the text. And I had a little note laying here that I... this morning, come to me. Let's take the 2nd verse of this chapter. Now, I don't want to hold too long, on account of the people on these hookups out here. Now the 2nd verse of this 16 chapter:

Thou shall therefore sacrifice the pass-over unto the LORD thy God, of thy flocks and thy herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to put his name there.

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Now, you can't take this... your sincerity and all that you want to confess, you just can't take it to the Methodist altar, to a Baptist altar, to a Pentecostal altar, but there is a altar somewhere that He chose that He... to put His Name in it, and He would meet you at that place. Now, if you get everything running just right, it's going to run; everything's set in order. If there's a short in that wire, that light won't come on; because it's been grounded. And when you'll take one of God's Words or one of His places, and in your own heart have selfish objectives, it'll ground the power of God right there. If you do it because you want to be smart, you want to be different from somebody else, or something, right there it's grounded, it'll blow the fuse. You're wrong. You've got to come with sincerity, with all your heart. Your motives and your objectives, placed right on God. Then search for His place, find where He said, and bring it there. See?