God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 36
Brian Kocourek, March 29, 1995
Blindness
of the Heart
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You remember the last Thursday night's message? Your old husband must be
dead. Right. Your new Husband is the Word.
... seven days shall thou eat unleavened bread
therein,...
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"Seven days," what does that typify? The complete
Exodus 12: 15 Leaven
Matthew 13: 33
Matthew 16: 6 - 16
1 Corinthians 5: 7 - 8
Galatians 5: 1 - 9
Malachi
1 : 6 - 2:2 Because you do not
lay it to heart
2 Corinthians 3: all esp 14. Therefore
the heart is blinded by a veil of traditions and creeds
2 Corinthians 4: 1 - 7
Ephesians 4: 11 - 18 blindness of the heart
brings darkness to the understanding
Ephesians 1: 15 - 18 That the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened
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Now watch: ... therein, even the bread of affliction;... (persecuted for
It; Luther, Wesley, Pentecostals; all persecuted, and so will you)... for thou comest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:... thou
mayest remain the day when... remember the day when thou comest
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. And there shall be no leavened bread
seen in... with thee in all thy coast seven days;...
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In the beautiful Bride of Christ, after Her death through the Dark Ages
by the
Unless a corn of wheat falls into the
ground it abides alone. Therefore alpha must bring forth Omega.
Exodus 12: 16 A Holy convocation on the first day and on
the last day. First and last, Alpha and Omega.
Convocation: Mikraw .. a meeting, a calling out, a rehearsal, an
assembly and notice no work is to be
done. That means only rest. And what else? The only thing you are allowed to do
is to eat then rest.
No work in the first and none in the
last. Only to eat the bread from heaven.
Acts
2 Thessalonians 2: 1 => Malachi 3: 16
- 18 => 1 Thessalonians 4: 15 - 18 => Ephesians 1: 3 - 11
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When I stood yonder
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He had in His heart, before the foundation of the world, a Son, because He
is a Father. But it was still in the genes of His Word. And He created a man,
and He had to put him on free moral agency, but that man fell. But the great
Sculptor, God, who made man from the dust of the earth, He didn't settle for
that, He started making man again. And He made a Noah, he died drunk. He made a
Moses that failed to keep His Word. He made prophets that run in the time of
trouble. And He kept building and molding until after awhile He wanted a--a
masterpiece to reflect Him, His nature, what was in His heart what a son should
be.
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One day, down
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Notice in here, He said:
... seven days shall you eat this unleavened
bread...
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Now, bread is typed. Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every Word." Not just--just a Word here and there as
denominations would have you believe It. But the Word of God is perfect! It's
God Himself in letter form, called a "Seed." And the right kind of
unadulterated faith in that Word will bring that Seed to its Life.
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That's exactly what you see at night in the discernments, and all these
other things, because it's a promise that God made. And He stood by me and told
me that, and told me these "fakers would rise up, but hold steady." I
believe It. And no selfish motive to hurt anybody, but to be reverent to God
and to do the work that He called me to do, that's why I say these things. And
God confirms it back, and receives the offer and the sacrifice, by vindicating
it to be the Truth. No question to It! Now watch that Word!
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Now, we notice here, "Seven days," that's for every church
age. Now, as that Masterpiece had to die, in order to be resurrected to redeem
us all. Then He had a church set in order at Pentecost, but that Church had to
go through a sacrifice; and the Roman world killed it, put them in the ground.
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As this author of this book, I can't think of it now, made so much fun
of me, and said, "Of all of the devils, it's William Branham." See,
that's what the Devil tries to think. He said, "Visions and things,"
said, "that's of the Devil." He said, "Oh, he's some kind of a
hypnotist, or working in super sensory perception." The intellectual world
always trying to figure It out.
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That's where they tried to figure out Jesus. "How do You do these
things? What done it?"
He said, "I will ask you a question. Was the ministry of John the
Baptist... Was it of God or was it of man?" See?
Said, "We can't say."
Said, "Neither do I tell you." That's right, and went on with
it. From henceforth no man asked Him anything. See? He just cut them off, He didn't
tell them nothing about It; none of their business. He had a work to do and He
finished it.
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God help us to do the same thing. We don't have to answer the Devil's
questions. That's right. "If thou be, do so-and-so." You're
responsible for that Gospel, a preacher is, and that's all; not how It's
written, it's just responsible for saying It.
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And as a servant, if you're a prophet, you're responsible to God. And if
the visions that come to lightens this Scripture and shows what It is, you're
responsible for every Word that's in that Bible, 'cause It was all wrote by the
same kind of people you are. "God of old moved, by the prophets, and wrote
the Ho... the Holy Bible." See? And no genuine prophet of God could deny
one Word of It, but believe every Word and preach the same. And then God's
obligated out of that channel to make that Word come to pass just exactly the way
It's promised, the Seed will grow.
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Now notice again, quickly, we find here that all seven days that this
bread was to be eat, through
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And this critic that talked about me, said, "Of a God that you
people worship, that could set in the Dark Ages and watch them mothers,
pregnant, some of them little babies in their arms, sincere people, be throwed into the arena and the lions tear them to pieces,
and them screaming; hang them upon crosses and burn them; strip the women
naked, young virgins, and throw theirselves back like
this, and turn lions in on them." Said, "A God that could set in
Heaven, supposed to be on His throne, and looked down and say He enjoys
it."
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So then, see, that's the intellectual conception which is of the Devil.
If the man had been spiritual, he would have knowed
that that corn of wheat has to die, it had to be buried in a Roman cathedral.
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But then the first little sprout of Life come forth in the reformation
by Martin Luther, that, "The just shall not live by a blessed kosher that
a priest does, but by the Word of God. `The just shall live by faith!'" It
brought two sprigs, the corn of wheat begin to grow.
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Then along come John Wesley and added to that. (There was many of the
others that... Zwingli and them come forth and denied the virgin birth, and it
just died down). But along come the Methodist, the tassel, the pollen, the
missionary day. And they preached sanctification; added the tassel.
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Then along come the Pentecostals in the shuck, so much, to deceive the
Elected. Looked like a real grain of wheat, open it up, there's no wheat at
all. But the Life's passing through the shuck.
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Now, have you noticed, every three years after a--a great meeting, what
takes place? A denomination. This is twenty years and no denomination. Dear
dying Lamb, may it never do that. If I go in this generation, may the people
who believe this Message never stand still for a denomination! God will...
You'll die right in your track! Remember that! The very hour that you mention
denomination among you, I don't care how sincere you are, take man for your
leader instead of the Holy Spirit to confirm this Word, that's the hour you
die! The genuine Seed cannot, because there's nothing left after the seed, it's
the same thing was back at the beginning. It's the Bride that fell into the
ground to bring forth the corn of wheat again.
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Notice:
... seven days shall you eat unleavened bread...
And there shall be with the Bride...
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Now, you people that had that old shouting Methodist mother, and so
forth, that you wondered "If she didn't speak in tongues, she ain't going to be there." That's a lie! She was that
same Holy Spirit that you have today, but it was impossible for them... not
restoration of gifts. But all seven days, just eat the unleavened bread, the
Word. Then, back, them that denominated, they're dead. They're stalk, they'll
just be gathered and burned. But the Life's going right on through. And what
happened? All the Life that was in the stalk, in the tassel, in the shuck, all
winds up in the wheat. And that same Holy Ghost that brought Luther, brought
Wesley, brought the Pentecostals, winds up in the Bride at the resurrection.
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"Seven days, eat unleavened bread." No leaven shall be found
amongst the Bride, no--no word added, no nothing. Remember, one word caused
every death that's in the earth; every illegitimate child was borned because Eve, the first church, the bride of the
first Adam, doubted God's Word and accepted a denominational, or a
intellectual, or a school exceptions of It; because It was reasoned out, that
"Surely, God is a good God." God is a good God, but He's also a just
God. We must keep His Word! School, she accepted it.
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There's where some of you seminary boys, no doubt a call in your life,
but you run off to some Bible school to have this doctrine injected in you, and
there's where you die. Stay with God and His Word. They won't let you; or, you
can't even belong to their congregation, won't accept you on the platform. So
let them have it, let the dead bury the dead, let's follow Christ the Word.
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Now, seven days there shall be no leaven mixed in the Bride, the Church,
seven days.
Now notice:
And there shall be no leavened bread seen in
thee in all thy coast seven days;... (the sacrifice here is a type: the Bride
coming forth from the Sacrifice which is Christ)... neither shall there be any
thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificed the first day at evening,...
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And remember--remember how we just went through the Church Ages? The
messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other church age,
always. The dying of the Pentecost brings forth the rapture of the Bride. See?
The dying of Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought
forth Pentecost. The dying of Pentecost brings forth the Message now. Here,
it's right here, patterned all through the Scripture. There's not a scripture
in the Bible what hooks right one with the other. See? All these types. I have
no education, but I have the Holy Spirit that shows me through another channel
that teaches me that from nature; and that's by the Word. Has to be the Word,
brings His promise.
... flesh,... the sacrifice the first day...
even, remain all night until the morning.
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Now, even Luther, who had the Truth and taught the church "the just
shall live by faith." You don't want to hang onto that being the full
doctrine, in the Methodist age. What shall you do? Burn it with fire. What was
the type of? The denomination that comes out of that Word is the shuck, the
stalk, the husks, must be burnt with fire. That denominational part that it
come through must not remain, it's got to die. Don't leave it till the breaking
of another--another age, burn it up! He's talking now to the Bride here, just
the Bride, coming up through every age.