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Brian Kocourek,
Your
Attitude
Now the last two messages we emphasized the last part
of this pp. Where he said ? It
won't grow any other condition. It must be the condition that grows it. We
again went to the Scripture pertaining to this subject and we brought out how
certain conditions are necessary in order for life to grow.
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CONDITIONS: (Webster) 1. Anything
called for as a requirement before the performance or completion of something else. Conditions for growth
are requirements for growth. What is
needed to bring forth growth. Webster
also says, anything essential to the existence or occurrence of something else.
External circumstance , factor or influence.
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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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. 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.
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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 good
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."
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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.
Here we find where this atmosphere comes from. Your
life and your conversation. He said "you create a atmosphere by the things
you talk about, your conversation.
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Deuteronomy 6: 6 - 9
Teach them diligently to thy
children. Converse about them.
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Phillipians 1: 17 Let your
conversation ( your actions and your talk) be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that you might stand
firm in one Spirit, with one mind, striving together for the Revelation of the
Gospel.
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Proverbs 22: 6
"Train up a child in the way he shall go and when he is
old he shall not depart from it."
You kids are only a product of what they have been
taught, and we are commanded to teach them what we want them to know.
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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.
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Phillipians 3: 20 " For our conversation ( our actions and
our talk) is in heaven; from which place we also look for our Saviour, The Lord Jesus Christ."
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PETER 1: 13 - 15 Wherefore gird up the loins of your
mind, ( in other words, get your
minds ready) be sober, and earnestly
expect to the end for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the
Revelation of Jesus Christ. And as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
according to the former desires that you had in your ignorance, but as He that
called you is Holy, so should you be Holy in all manner of conversation ( your
actions and your talk).
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PHILIPPIANS 4:8-9 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are our, 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.
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Peter 3: 10 - 15 Knowing what we know and how
all things are coming to an end, we should turn our thoughts to Gods thoughts
and be filled with His thinking.
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Now notice verse 2: "Worship
in the place that I have chosen." The sacrifice, of course, where they
worshipped, 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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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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Romans 12: 1
- 2
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John 3: 2 - 3
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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.
God’s Only Provided
Place of Worship # 31
Sunday
Morning
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Now, this morning I want to continue in this same line
of thought as we examine further what brother Branham is trying to tell us in
this message. What I want you to keep in
mind is that he is laying out a law that works in nature. The law of Life.
Reproduction and life! And in this he tells us that the conditions are
essential for Growth to take place. We find that these conditions he also calls
the atmosphere. Getting in the right atmosphere. He said we are little creators
and are very capable of getting in the correct atmosphere, so it really lays in
your own laps. Now, it is true that you can not give your self life, Eternal
Life nor can you give yourself natural life. But once you are given life it is
up to you as a good steward of that life to feed it and nourish it and take
care of it. If you do not feed your body good wholesome food it will not
function properly, and the natural is only a type of the spiritual.
Every one would like to be like brother Branham and to
be able to talk to God and hear Him talk back, and yet that man had to be
tempered by God first before He was even allowed to come into that position and
relationship. In the late 40's he spent almost 48 hours straight praying for
the sick in
Now as we continue in this message I want you to watch
how brother Branham ties into this thought on conditions and atmosphere into
another very important element called attitude. Conditions, Atmosphere and
attitude.
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Attitude: The position or posture assumed by the body
in connection with an action, feeling or
mood. A manner of acting, feeling , or thinking
that show's ones disposition. One's
disposition, opinion
or mental set.
So we can see hear that the attitude is a condition of
growth. It is the outward reflection of a mind set. And if your attitude is a
reflection of what is going on in your heart, then the heart and mind must come
into the right disposition first and then the body will only reflect what is on
the inside. Once your mind has come to the place of live, die, sink or drown,
then your body will follow.
So many people walk around with such rotten attitudes
any more that you have to wonder what they have been feeding their souls.
Because the attitude is only a reflection of the inside. Now when we think of
the conditions we think of mechanics, but when we think of attitude, we see something
different. It is the breach between mechanics and dynamics. You can have all
the mechanics right and like brother Branham said, put a live egg under a dead
hen and it won't work. You can have all the mechanics right, al the conditions
right, but without this link between the mechanics and dynamics you will only
be a legalist. The mechanics is the
conditions, the dynamics is the Living Word of God in operation, and the little
link between them is your attitude.
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You put me on record tonight in these
recorders. I have no apology for this remark that I'm fixing to make. I
believe, and can prove, that the right
mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. Yes,
sir. The right mental attitude, but
you've got to have the right attitude. The--the attitude is what brings the results. If you say, "Yes,
yes, I believe it but I don't know now." That's not the right attitude. The right attitude is to receive it, and
say it's "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Then it's right.
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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 Passover
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?
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Look at Martha and Mary. When Jesus had come back, after He had taught
them this Gospel (the Light of His day,
Him being Messiah), He was hated,
rejected. Oh, the Pharisees and churches despised Him. But Lazarus had
died, the brother which was a bosom friend to Him. He let him lay there; and
they sent for Him, He didn't even come.
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But watch Martha, her attitude.
She said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here." (... give Him His right title: Lord, capital L-o-r-d; Jvhu, Jehovah) Glory! "If Thou would have been here,
my brother would not have died."
Life and death can't associate in the same channel, or the same house.
"Thou would... He would have not have died."
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Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and Life," saith
God. When He said first, "Thy brother shall live again."
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She said, "Yes, Lord, I truly believe that. As a Jewish, I believe
that there will be a general resurrection of the dead; and I believe my brother
was just as loyal and sincere and worship. And I believe that You are that
Messiah, that said in the Bible, because
God vindicating His Word in You shows that You're the messenger of this hour.
You are that Messiah. I believe that You are that Christ that was to come,
because Your works testify that God has sent You here to be that Messiah."
Oh, my! Watch the cogs begin to come in place now. See?
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Now, she had a right to say, "Why didn't You come raise my brother?
Why didn't You heal him? You healed others. Your very best friend, and now look
what happened." No, no, that kind of objective don't get no where.
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"I believe that You're exactly what You're identified in the Scripture
to be. I believe this is the day that the Messiah should come; we've been
looking for it. I don't care what the rest of them say. I believe with all my
heart that what I have seen and heard by the Word, that the Word is vindicated
in You, that You are that Messiah." See,
way down in her, she--she had something to ask for, but she had to come to the
right channel.
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What if she'd run up there and said,
"And then You tell me You're that Messiah! And not even the courtesy,
gentlemen enough to even answer our request; when we fed You and housed You,
and everything, and took up for You, and left our churches, as You commanded us
to get out of them denominations." (See?) "And here we've left it,
and now we're counted offcasts and renegades. And
everything that we've done for You, and then not even the common courtesy to
answer my call"? Now, actually, she
had that right.
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Like you say about your short hair, "I'm an American citizen, I can
wear shorts, do anything I want to, not illegal." That's your rights, but a sheep always forfeits its rights (uh-huh). If you're a lamb, you ain't got nothing but wool, he forfeits that. That's his God-given rights, but he
forfeits it.
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"I have a right to join any denomination." That's exactly
right, but you forfeit that. See? She forfeited all that she had rights to, to
recognize the Word of God manifested right there before her. He said, "I am the Resurrection and
Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
Believest thou this?" See, there was one more
little clause she hadn't come in line with. See?
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"Yea, Lord! I believe that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God!" O brother, everything
was ready to spark off right then. See?
"Where have you laid him?" See? And you know what took
place. See, you've got to get in that right place before He will receive your
sacrifice. See, got to come into it. Watch: ... in the
place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there Thou shall eat no leavened bread in it;...