God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 29
Brian Kocourek
The
Conditions
Last Sunday we spoke from PP. 88 where brother Branham said ...
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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.
We went to the Scripture pertaining to this subject
and we brought out how certain conditions are necessary in order for life to
grow.
Notice how he said, "It is the condition that
grows it." Now what are conditions and specifically what are the
conditions he is speaking of which are conditions needed for growth?
CONDITIONS: (Webster) 1. Anything called for as a requirement before
the performance or completion of something else. This is what we usaually think of in the sense of the word as brother
Branham used it. Conditions for growth
to take place are requirements for that growth. What is required. What is needed to bring forth growth. Webster
also says, anything essential to the existence or occurance
of something else. External circumstance , factor or
influence.
So, as we brought out last Sunday, all life needs food
to grow. Now this fodd may take on different forms
depending on what Life form it is and what it needs to produce more cells of it's kind. So if we
are speaking about
Eternal Life, then we can see that we are speaking about something
Spiritual, and not necessarily physical perse'. In
other wards, body needs physical food for growth and Spirit needs Spiritual
food for Growth as well.
That is why Jesus said, "man
does not live by bread alone." Because man is a
threefold creature. He has body, Soul and Spirit. And so he can not
survive by paying attention only to the needs of his flesh. He must also feed
His Spirit and His Soul as well.
Now last week we brought out how food is taken in and
our bodies digest it and the food is broken down into it's
original state and becomes nutrients within our bodies. It goes to the stomache where it is digested and broken down in to complex
and simple carbohhydrates and proteins and fats and
in this state it is then distributed to the rest of the body through the blood.
Well, your Soul grows the same way. The Spiritual food
in due season that you eat is broken down by a five fold ministry who breaks it
down and feeds it to the flock of God and once it has entered your mind it is
constantly broken down further until it begins to take a hold of every fiber of
your being and finally takes a hold of your Spirit and Soul and then works it's
way back upward into your body and takes over the actions of your body.
We spoke last Sunday on the importance of feeding your
Soul this Spiritual food in due season. We showed how in all of God's creation,
every animal takes an active part in training up their young ones and
instructing them what to eat, and how to get it. And yet when it comes to
Spiritual Food how many people today are actively involved in their childrens Spiritual Growth?
Very few I would venture to say.
Now in this PP. We read here tonight, we hear brother Branham say,
"It is the conditions that determine the growth." Now as Webster
said, conditions are : 1. Anything called for as a
requirement before the performance or completion of something else or anything essential to the existence or occurance of something else. External circumstance
, factor or influence. Now, let's read further and see what
else he says about this.
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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
Readers Digest : "Not just any
talk is conversation. Not just any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation
then has an edge, it opens your eyes to something, it quickens your ears, and godd conversation will reverberate. It keeps on talking to
you in your mind even after the conversation is over. It talks to you later in
the day, and the next day you find yourself still conversing with what was
said. This reverberation after wards is the very raising of your consciousness.
Your mind has been moved and you are now at another level with your
reflections."
Now, I have preached on the atmosphere you live in and
how you set an atmosphere in your home and even you carry an atmosphere with
you. Your attitude creates an
atmosphere. And we see here that he is saying that this is so important to our
growth in Christ.
IS YOUR LIFE
WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL pp. 151
And did you
know, you are a little creator yourself? Did you know
that? Certainly! You've seen people that you just love to be around. You don't
know why. Just that loving type of person. Haven't you
seen that? Just as kind, you like you be around them. They create that
atmosphere by the life they live, the
way they talk, their conversation. Then you've seen those that every time
you - you shun them. All the time they want to talk about something
evil and talk about somebody, and say, "Oh, my, there they come, they're going to talk about this man. All they're
going to do is tell dirty jokes, or something about women, or something like
that." You just hate to get around them. See? They create. Seemingly
pretty nice people, but they create that atmosphere. And the things that you
think on, the things that you do, the actions, the things you talk about creates an
atmosphere.
THE TOKEN
63-0901 pg. 49
pp. 5
Apply it, create that atmosphere around you, that they will just
drop right into it. Oh, you are , if you've got the
Token, you create an atmosphere around you of power, that when you walk, people
know that you are a Christian. In love for you to say something to them. They believe your word, what you say,
they hold onto it. See? That is it. Apply the Token, then
walk in it. Claim your household. You must do it, now. This is the evening time
PHILIPPIANS
4:8-9
Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pur,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be
any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which
ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me
do: and the God of Peace be with you.
1 John 3: 2 And we find
that our mental and spiritual growth comes from what we see and hear. Just like
the kids today. The Psychologist are sending warnings
out lately telling society that we are headed for a blood bath. They said these
kids growing up today are the worst this nation has ever seen. And kids are
killing other kids like never before and these kids are becoming adults with
the same mindsets. Therefore a blood bath is all that is left to expect.
Proverbs 22:
6 "Train up a
child in the way he shall go and when he is old he shall not depart from it."
Deuteronomy
6: 6 - 9 Teach them diligently to thy children. You rkids are only a product of what they have been taught, and
we are commanded to teach them what we want them to know.
John 8: 37 -
47 Here we see Jesus tell the Pharisees that they do what they see done and He
does what He sees His Father do.
Galatians 4:
1 - 6 God wants us to be brought up right. He wants us to grow up in the right
sort of way and so He provides a way. Now there is one main thing that is necessary for a
child or any living being for that matter, to grow properly. And that is diet.
It must have proper nourishment to live. The body is dependant upon eating good
nutritious substance in order to be able to manufacture healthy cells. Life can
be described best as Living substance is need to produce other living
substance, and so living substance mmust live off of
what other other living substance can provide whether
willingly or unwillingly in order to sustain life. And thus our nutrition and chemistry needed
to produce new living tissue and substance must come from other life
sources.
Matthew
5:1-16
Colossians
3:1-25
1 Thessalonians
2
Thessalonians 1:2-4,
1 John
1:3-7,
1 Peter
2:9-23, 4:1-11, 5:1-10
2 Peter
1:2-14