God’s Only
Provided Place of Worship # 34
Brian Kocourek,
Scriptural
Sacrifice Rejected
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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.
Before we go any further tonight, let's just examine
what brother Branham is telling us here. He said, Both
Cain and Abel brought Sacrifices to God. And we know that both of them brought very
scriptural sacrifices. So what is there
about Abel’s sacrifice that was acceptable and what was there about Cain's
sacrifice that was not acceptable to God.
Genesis 4: 3 - 8 (read)
Deuteronomy 26: 1 - 2 (read) Notice Cain's sacrifice was scriptural. But
why then was it rejected?
1 John 3: 12 ( read) now this speaks of
evil works. What were the works that were evil?
It says he slew his brother because, because his works were evil. Then
what were the evil works? To find out,
we need to read the rest of What John was saying.
1 John 3: 1 - 4 ( notice here he talks about
sin, To miss the mark or to be mistaken. And
To transgress is to go beyond the
limits of true doctrine.
2 John 9 Wuest Everyone who goes beyond the limits of True
Doctrine and does not remain in the
aforementioned teaching with reference to Christ does not possess God. The one who remains in the aforementioned
teaching, this one possesses both The Father and the Son
2
John 9 NIV Any one who runs ahead and does not continue in teaching of Christ does not have God;
and whosoever continues in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.
1 John 3: 5 - 6 (read)
Matthew 13: 11 - 17 (read) Those that miss the mark don't have Him.
Matthew 7: 15 - 23 (read) ye that do
iniquity? What is iniquity? To know to do right and you
won't do it. You've got your own ideas about it.
James 4: 17 (read) to know better and
still don't do it is sin. Iniquity.
1 Samuel 15: 23 (read)
Proverbs 16 : 6
(read) By truth iniquity and sin are purged.
John 3: 19 - 23 (read) but men loved
darkness rather than ( in a greater measure
than light).
1 John 3: 7 - 13 (read) So we are looking at Cain's deeds
which were evil that were the reason for slaying his brother.
Genesis 4: 5 - 8 Septuagint God
said, If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted? Thou has rightly offered, but thou hast not rightly divided.
5 Musts : Time , Season, According to the
Word, The man of God's choosing , He must be vindicated.
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... Now, I want you to--to kinda
jot this in your mind. To keep God's commandments, to do anything right for
God, to do--do God a service correctly, there is five
musts, to do God service correctly.... But there's
five musts; I want you to remember these. No matter how sincere a man may be in
doing it, doing God a service, this--these five must be there: First, it must be His time to do it. What if--if Moses would come, said,
"We'll come build an ark and float up the
Must be in His time. It must be in His season, time and
season, and it must be according to His Word that has been spoken. It must...
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I don't care
how well you say this ought to be, and that ought to be, or this ought to be,
it's got to be according to His Word, according to His time and His season;
and it must be given according to the
person He has chosen to do it by. I
don't care how much dignitaries. There's king David
just as great as any of them. He was king over the nation. But He had a way of
doing it, and He had told them how He would do it. But they failed to do it. It
must be according to His Word,
according to His time, according to the--His program; and it must be by the
person He has chose to give it and to do it.
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Moses tried to
run from it. "Take somebody else!" But God chose Moses to do it. Many
of them... Paul tried to get out of it, many others. But it's got to be by the one He chooses to do it. And it must come
first to His prophets. The Word of God must come to His prophets, Amos 3:7,
"The Lord God will do nothing until first He reveals it to His servant the
prophet." Four. And the prophet must be a-vindicated by the Word of God. There's your five musts. It's got to be that way: His time; His season (when He said it would be); and the man that He chose, and it must come to the prophet; and the prophet
must be a vindicated prophet. We find out many of them in the Bible it come
to the prophets and it wasn't a-vindicated. Our prophet is Jesus Christ.
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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. 106 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;...
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What does that typify in the sacrifice? Don't mix it with any creed, got to be the Word. "No leavened
bread." Leaven is the... You know what a leaven is in anything. "A
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump," the
whole lump is the Body. You can't put one speck of denomination or creed into
Christ. No, sir, it won't work.
Matthew 16: 6 - 16 (read)
Luke 12; 1 - 3 (read)
Matthew 13: 33 (read)
1 Corinthians 5: 7 - 8 (read) Galatians 5: 1 - 9 prayer