God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 37
Brian Kocourek. April 2, 1995
Another
Wednesday night we spoke from paragraph 124 - 127
where brother Branham brought out how The bride of Christ
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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 Seven Church Ages,
seven days. Why'd they have to eat it seven days? Before what? Before going out. And the whole church age, from the beginning
to the end, has to live only on the Word of God of that age. So your Roman
creed, Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal
creed's all dead.
Exodus 12: 15 (read)
Leaven
Matthew
Matthew 16: 6 - 16 Here Jesus tells us Leaven is Doctrine (false
doctrine or doctrine of man) So what we
are really looking at is that leaven is a type of polluted Word. A Word of God that is mixed.
Galatians 1: 6 - 7 Pervert = metastrepho...
to turn into something of an opposite character.
2 Corinthians 11: 1 -4
Another Jesus, allos actually a different one. But notice another Gospel
and another Spirit is heteros not a different one altogether but one of a
different nature. That's
why Paul says in Galatians 1: 6 not another allos
Gospel but one that's actually been perverted, or one that's been turned into
one of another nature.
1 Corinthians 5: 7 - 8 we are not to
keep t he feast with leaven ut with sincerity and
Truth.
Malachi
1 : 6 - 2:2 Because you do not
lay it to heart
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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. Now notice brother Branham had
been reading from Exodus where they were commanded to eat the bread that fell for seven days.
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
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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. PP. 130 One day, down
Jordan, after that Masterpiece had been formed and made, there He come sending
down in a... on the wings of a Dove, and said, "This is Him!" He was so enthused with this
Masterpiece until He struck Him on Calvary, that He would die, for the rest
of us was imperfect; that through the shedding of His Blood, He might bring
many masterpieces (being a Bride) to His Son. Masterpiece is scarred
because the enthusiasm of God to see such a Masterpiece, He struck Him for us
all. See? There He died, to perfect
we who are imperfect. The Masterpiece
PP. 131 Notice in
here, He said: ... seven days shall you
eat this unleavened bread... PP. 132 Now,
bread is typed. Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every Word." Not 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.
PP. 133
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.
PP. 135
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. PP. 136
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.
Oh,
if we could just do the same...Don't even look at people's response, just say
it like He said it period
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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. PP. 141 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 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. PP. 142 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." PP. 144 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.
PP. 145 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.
Notice what the first evidence of Life was. "The Just shall live by Faith."
Nothing we do but what God has revealed to us that He has done! Those who are justified shall live by
Revelation.
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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. PP. 147 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.
PP. 149 Notice: ... seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread... And there shall be with the
Bride... PP. 151 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. PP. 153
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,...
PP. 156 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. PP. 157
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.