God’s Only
Provided Place of Worship # 39
Brian Kocourek,
April 9, 1995
The
Father and the Son
128
GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP - SHP.LA - V-7 N-4 - 65-1128.1M
I stood yonder
Los Angeles at Forest Lawn, one day, and my heart jumped. How many's ever been to Forest Lawn? There is a statue of Moses by
Michelangelo. And it's a perfect statue, all but on the right knee. There is a nick about a half inch deep. I was
looking at it and the guide pointed it out to me. He said, "Michelangelo
had spent a lifetime trying to make it... He was a sculptor, and he was trying
to make the image of Moses. Back in his mind, he had in mind what Moses
should look like. He had that in his heart, what Moses should look like.
And then he spent his lifetime; chisel a little here, and rub it, stand back
and look at it. Year after year after year, he worked on it. Finally when it
was completed, and he stepped back and laid down his rag and his hammer, he
looked at the statue. It was so perfect the image of Moses that he had in his
heart, till he got so beside himself, he grabbed the hammer and struck it,
hollered, `Speak!'" It's called Michelangelo's Masterpiece. 129 That great something in that sculptor, that vision that
he had of what Moses ought to be with, was only portraying in type of the great
Father God. 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 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.
Now, just what is brother Branham trying to tell us
here by this illustration. Remember, Jesus used parables and his
disciples asked Him why? He told them that He used parables because parables so
that certain people who heard them would come to a better understanding, but
that others who were not ordained to Eternal Life could not figure out what He
was saying.
Matthew 13: 10 - 17 (read)
Now this morning we read brother Branham's
illustration of Michelangelos Masterpiece and this is
what he was driving at: He said, "Back in his mind, he had in mind
what Moses should look like. 129 That
great something in that sculptor, that vision that he had of what Moses
ought to be with, was only portraying in type of the great Father God. 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."
So now we are looking at a type of God and how He
brought forth the Life that was in Him into manifestation. So, this morning we will look into this
coming forth of the Life of God. The Becoming God, as brother Branham so often
put it What I
would like to do is to take this step by step and show you the three main
phases of God Becoming. In the beginning
He dwelt alone. But within Him was all wisdom and power. Before there was anymolecule or any atom, there was the Great Jehovah, Elohim. The self existing One. Now
in our study this morning I will be laying out the three stages of God's
becoming.
I. The great
Fountain of Life
II.
The Son coming forth from the Father (Logos)
III.
Show the Flesh coming forth from the Word
I. The great
Fountain of Life
Deuteronomy 6: 4 "Behold o Israel, the Lord thy
God is One Lord."
Ephesians
4: 5 'There is One Lord, One Faith, And One
Baptism"
Genesis 1: 1
In the Beginning God. But the Word
God means "Object of Worship" and there was no one to worship Him so
He in order to fulfill Himself He began to come forth or to become or to execute a plan to
fulfill Himself.
John 4: 24 God
is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
1 John 1: 1 - 3 W eare
dealing with Life.
1 Timothy 6: 16
II.
The Son coming forth from
the Father (Logos)
Psalm 2: 6 - 7 this day have I begotten thee
Show there are two of them:
Matthew 22: 41 - 46
2 John 3, 9
1 Peter 1: 3
Matthew 17: 1 - 8
Romans 1 - 9
Collosians 1: 3
Ephesians 1: 17
The son must bear the name of the Father:
John 5: 43
Philippians2: 9 - 11
Acts 9: 1- 5 He is the one who appeared to Paul
Revelations 3: 14 Through the
son He created all things
Collosians 1: 12- 19 God
created all things through Him
Proverbs 30 :4 What is the
creator's name and that of His Son?
Phillipians 2: 5 - 8 Preincarnate in
God
Hebrews 1: 3
The exact representation or likeness of the
Father
Hebrews 7: 1 - 3 a son has a beginning
Proverbs 8: 22 - 30 pre-existing
Job 38: 4 - 7
same with us...
John 1: 1 - 4
Life
John 13: 3 He came from God
John 17: 5 He knew what Glory He had shared with His
Father
III.
Show the Flesh coming forth from the Word
John 1: 18 no
man hath seen God, the son declares Him.
1 John 3: 2 We can't receive our change without
seeing Him.
1 Tomothy 3: 16 God manifest
in the flesh
2 Corinthians 5: 18 - 19 God in Christ
Romans 8: 2 - 3 The law of
life God sent forth His own son into flesh to die for flesh
John 3: 16
John 1: 14
Luke 3: 21 - 22 This is when the fulness
of God entered into Him
John 10: 30 'I and My Father are One"
John 15: 23- 24 & 17: 21 - 24
John 8: 29 The Father Hast not left me alone, for
I do only those things that please Him
Collosians 2: 9 The godhead dwelt in Him
Matthew 26: 36 - 46 This is when the Fulness
of God left Him to die as a man.
John 13: 3 In His Theophany before He became flesh
1 John 3: 2 We must see Him
to get our chage and be like Him
Hebrews 2: 11 - 12
Jesus is
not our Father, He is our brother
John 20: 17
The role of the Father and Son at the end time. 1 Corinthians 15: 20 - 28
1 Thessalonians 4: 16 Notice there are two here . The One who descends & the one we meet in air.
So who came down?
Revelations 10: 1 - 7 Not the lamb
Revelations 5: 5 - 7
146 HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF -- 54-1212 When God
condescend, overshadowed virgin Mary, He was a Life.
And a Life overshadowed and created a blood cell around Itself.
E-97 RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS
-- ERIE.PA -- 51-0729.1A
And we
are redeemed through the Blood of Christ. And God Almighty is a Spirit. And
He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created... God the
Creator, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that woman, knowing no man by
sexual desire. You believe it? And that Blood cell developed into the
Man which was the Son of God. And through that unadulterated Blood of the Son
of God, creative Blood by Jehovah, without sexual desire; through the shedding
of that Blood on Calvary's cross redeems us from sin and sickness. Hallelujah.
E-19 EXPECTATION -- SHAWANO.WI -- 55-1001 Almighty God overshadowed Mary and created the Blood
cell that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. And God tabernacled Himself, Jehovah, in that body, in His Son.
The Father dwelt in the Son, being the tabernacle.
E-22 WHAT.IT.TAKES.TO.OVERCOME.ALL.UNBELIEF -- 60-0729
When the Son of God... God once lived in a
Pillar of Fire, led the children of Israel, then He came down and lived in a
Man, His own Son, a created body.
E-114 PARADOX -- TAMPA.FL -- 64-0418.1M
So, God created a blood cell which was his own son,
Jesus Christ. And God came in and lived in there, and lived... identified
Himself in Christ. That was God Emmanuel. Jesus said, "I and my Father are
one. My Father dwells in Me," see, God in Christ
reconciling the world. Jesus was the body, the tabernacle, God
was the Spirit that lived in Him.
137-4 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE -- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.4 God came down in a blood cell, not through a
man, but by the Holy Ghost, and in that virgin womb a tabernacle for the
purpose of death was built.
The Seed of the woman came in order that He be bruised
to bring us our salvation. When the Holy Ghost came upon Mary, He created
within her womb the cell that would multiply and become the body of our Lord.
That cell was created. It was the Beginning of the Creation of God. That is
Who Jesus is. And that Holy One was filled with
Holy blood, even the blood of God. That tabernacle came to birth. He grew to be
a man.
He went to
Jordan and there that Sacrifice was washed of John in the river called Jordan. When that Acceptable Sacrifice rose out of the water,
God came and in-dwelt Him, filling Him with the Spirit
without measure. And when He died and shed His blood, the
perfect life of God was liberated to come back upon the sinner who would accept
the Christ as his Saviour.
E-22 LIFE -- JEFF.IN -- 57-0602 Let's close
our eyes to our imaginations for a few moments and go way back into the...
before there was anything. The great fountain of all Eternity was that
spirit of love, joy, that spirit of honesty, that spirit of trueness in this
perfection. And then out of the
existence of the Father went the Logos which was the Son, which was the
theophany, which was the body of the great Jehovah God went forth in a
celestial Body. That's the Logos. The Word spoke out of them great
Fountains of Life and went forth. And there was the theophany, which was God
made into Word.
129 HEBREWS.CHAPTER.1 -- JEFF.IN -- HEB 1-32 --
57-0821 Now, here's what happened. Oh! (excuse me), I--I--I just get on this... This just gets me
right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this Great
Fountain; this Great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end.
This Great Spirit began to form in the creation, and the Logos that went out
from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible
form that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany,
which means a body, and the body was like a man.
282 PARADOX -- BAKF.CA -- V-22 N-5 -- 64-0206.1M And this little Boy, twelve-year-old Child, no
wisdom at all, why, but just a twelve-year-old Boy. The Father didn't dwell in Him at that time;
because He come on the day when He baptized Him,
"He saw the Spirit of God coming down, see, and went in Him."
43 Q.A.ON.GENESIS -- JEFF.IN -- COD 11-58 -- 53-0729 He got all
those things together, made...?... Made all the other things, all the animal life, the birds, the bees, the monkeys, and
whatever it was, put all of it here on earth. And then He asked this
question now. "Let us" (Who? Father and Son)
"make man in Our Own image."
E-12 BLIND.BARTIMAEUS -- COLUMBIA.SC -- 56-0414 Now,
Jesus--that I might speak to you this way, when He was on earth, He did not
claim to be a Healer, He claimed He only did as the Father showed Him to do. Is
that right? How many ever read that in the Bible? You know, Saint John 5:19.
That Jesus Christ Himself, never healed anybody, no.
He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me
first what to do." He saw a vision of what to do, and then He did what the
Father told Him. He said that, and His Words, of course, is true, isn't it?
Saint John 5:19, when He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son
can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the
Son likewise." Now, He had to tell
the truth, because He was infallible; He was the Son of God. And God Himself, was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. The
Body, the Man was Jesus, the Son of God; but the Spirit in Him, was Jehovah
Itself, tabernacled here in human flesh, in order to
take away sin.
131 HEBREWS.CPT.4 -- JEFF.IN -- HEB 121-164 --
57-0901.2E Jesus was a house that God
lived in, the Bible said
that--that, I Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy" (that's argument)
"great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifested in the flesh,
seen of angels, received on... preached, believed on, and received up into
Glory." God was! The Bible said, "His Name shall be called
Emmanuel," which is by interpretation, "God with us." The Bible
said that, "Jesus, in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
197 QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS - JEFF.IN - COD 361-406 -
59-0628.2E Now
somebody Brother Branham is a "oneness." No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that Jesus could be His own
father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that was God. But God dwelled
and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was
Immanuel, God with us. And
there's no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And
the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost... Father: the Lord, Son: Jesus, Holy
Ghost: Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Lord Jesus Christ; that's
Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
E-40 TESTIMONY.WILLIAM.BRANHAM -- SAN.JUAN.PR --
60-0210
...the Spirit of God that's among us, is the same God
that met Moses in the wilderness, was in Jesus Christ on earth, because the life of It proves It's the same Spirit.
It's doing the same thing. It's a promise of Christ. Oh, how... There's just no
place to stop.
85 MANIFESTED.SONS.OF.GOD -- JEFF.IN -- AD.2 --
60-0518 If Jesus could take
another person and make Him go and die to redeem this person here, He would be
an unjust being. There's only one way that God could ever do it, would be take
the place Himself! And God became flesh that He might taste the pains of death,
to take the sting and death away from us, that we might be redeemed by His Own.
That's why He will be so worshipped. Jesus was a man, sure He was. He was a
man, m-a-n, borned of the virgin
Mary. But the Spirit that was in Him was God without measure, in Him dwelled
the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He was Jehovah-Jireh, He was Jehovah-Rapha, He
was Jehovah-Manasses, He was Jehovah; our Shield, our
Buckler, our Healer; He was Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and the End; He was the
First, the Last; He Was, Which Is, and Shall Come; the Root and Offspring of
David, the Morning Star, why, He was All-in-all. In Him dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily!
E-76 THE.WAY.BACK -- SHREVEPORT.LA -- 62-1123 You are God. You was always God.
You'll always be God. Your Words cannot fail. When You
stood here incarnate on earth in Your own Son, a tabernacle that You built to
dwell in, how that blinds people. Well, doesn't a carpenter build himself a
house to live in? Did not God, the great builder, build Himself a house to live
in?
7 SHALOM --
SIERRA.VISTA.AZ -- V-13 N-5 -- 64-0112 Jesus. "No Man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the
Father has declared Him." See? In other words, God was identified. The--the
Person of God was identified in the Body, the Lord Jesus Christ, so He was the
expressed image of God. Or, God expressing Himself through an image, see, through an image, Man. God expressed Himself
to us, and He was God. Not a third person or second person; He was the Person,
God. He was God Himself, identifying Himself, so we could feel Him.
101
THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD -- JEFF.IN -- V-9 N-1 -- 64-0614.1M He's veiled in a man, as He always was veiled. But He was
veiled unto them, He was in His human temple. God
was in a human temple. Be real careful, now He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. See, God veiled, hiding Himself from
the world, veiled in human being. See?
236 PROVING.HIS.WORD -- JEFF.IN -- V-9 N-6 -- 64-0816 Now, remember, that was not Jesus talking to Abraham
there, that could discern the thoughts in Sarah's mind behind him. That
was not Jesus, He had not yet been born. But it
was a man in human flesh, that Abraham called "Elohim,
the great Almighty."
237
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS -- JEFF.IN -- COD 993-1060 - 64-0823.2E
On
top of Mount Zion will set the Lamb. And the City will need no light, for the Lamb is the Light thereof.
And above the Lamb will be the Father, which is the Logos, God, the great
Light, the Eternal Light that'll shine just above the
Throne. And Jesus will not be on His Father's Throne, He will be on His
Throne. And the Father will hover over the Son, which the Father and Son
will be One. "And while they are yet speaking, I will answer. Before
they can think, I'm thinking for them." That's right.
98
WHY.IT.HAD.TO.BE.SHEPHERDS -- TUCS.AZ - V-6 N-15 -- 64-1221 He had started a new creation. What was it? A creation of Himself. God was made flesh and dwelt among
us. That's... The Bible said, "In the beginning of the creation of
God." God was created in human form; in Jesus Christ, His Son, God
dwelt. He built His tabernacle of flesh and bones, and lived in that
tabernacle; God, Emmanuel, "God with us." He built Himself a
house, to live in it, so He could reflect His Word to His subjects through
that. You know what God is, when you see Christ.
332-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE -- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.9 Here is Jehovah of the Old Testament, "the God of
the Amen". Here is
Jesus of the New Testament, "the God of the Amen". Hear, Oh Israel,
the Lord thy God is ONE God. There it is again, the Jehovah of the Old Testament
is the Jesus of the New. "Hear, Oh, Israel the Lord thy God is ONE
God." The New Testament does not reveal ANOTHER God,
it is a further revelation of the ONE AND SAME GOD. Christ did not come down to
make Himself known.
He did not come to reveal the Son. He came to reveal and make known the Father.
HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT TWO GODS; HE TALKED ABOUT ONE GOD.
And now in this last age, we have come back to the capstone revelation, the
most important revelation of Godhead in the whole Bible, that is, JESUS IS GOD,
HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THERE IS ONE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST.
E-82 TESTIMONY -- W.P.BEACH.FL -- 53-1129.2E Come, sir. You believing with all your heart? Be reverent. God's
Eternal power and godhead is moving through this building. I don't know
what you're going to think about it, but God knows all things.
217 Q.A.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST - JEFF.IN - COD 149-207 -
54-0515 Now look, let's get the baptisms here. The
first time baptism was ever mentioned in the New Testament, was John the
Baptist. Is that right? (I will place this up here.) You see, you have to
get your Godhead straightened out before you can get baptism straightened out.
That's John the Baptist, first baptism.
20 LAW.OR.GRACE --54-1006 And then,
God wrote three Bibles. God does everything in threes. He wrote three Bibles.
He had three comings of Christ. There is three
dispensations of grace. There is three persons in the
Godhead... three manifestations of the one Person in the Godhead, rather.
And all those things. See? Now, like Jesus came the first time, He has
been here once hasn't He? He come to redeem His Bride.
He comes the second time to receive His Bride, catch her up, meeting in the
air. And comes the third time with His Bride as King and
Queen. See? So then, then, there
is three also, the three in the manifestations of God. God manifested Hisself once in the Fatherhood as He led the children of
Israel. The next time God manifested Hisself was in
the Sonship, the Lord Jesus Christ. The third time
God manifested Hisself is with us now, the Holy
Spirit. See, three manifestations. Everything in the threes.
E-25 THE.WATERS.OF.SEPARATION -- 55-0606
Many people said Christ died on a dogwood cross. Wish we
had time to go into it. Oh, and the hyssop, where they'd always sprinkle the
blood, was a live root, they pulled up, a sagebrush, pulled up root and all. And was put with it. All of it speaking of the offices of
God. Cedar, scarlet, and hyssop; just like Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the
offices of the Godhead. How that the same God lived in the Fatherhood, in the Sonship, and in the Holy Spirit dispensation. All the
same Father, same God. And how that each one of those woods
represented the same thing, the same God.
64 HEBREWS.CPT.5.&.6.PT.1
- - 57-0908.1M God didn't have three people up there and
He sent one of them, His Son, It was God, Himself, come in the form of a Son, a
Son has a beginning, and the Son had a beginning. That's some of you dear
Catholic people, I got your book, Facts Of Our Faith,
said, "The Eternal sonship of God." How you
going to express that word? How you going to make it have sense? How can it be
Eternal? That's not the Bible, that's your book. Eternal sonship,
they don't... that word's not right, for anything that's a son had a beginning,
and Eternal has no beginning. So it isn't Eternal sonship.
Christ become flesh and dwelt among us. He had a beginning. Wasn't no Eternal sonship, it's the
Eternal Godhead, not sonship. Now He came to
redeem us, and He did redeem us.
526.HEBREWS.CPT.6.PT.3. --57-0915.1M The
Great Jehovah came down and was made tangible by living in the body of His Own
Son, declaring and reconciling the world to Himself. God was nothing... Christ was nothing short of God,
and--and God was nothing short of Christ. The two together made the
Godhead bodily, made a little lower than Angels so that He could
suffer. Angels cannot suffer. Jesus was the Tabernacle that God dwelt in.
E-23 LIFE -- BANGOR.ME -- 58-0519 Now,
what are you getting at, Brother Branham? Here's what it is: When Jesus was on
earth, He was God manifested in the flesh. We have the Spirit by portions.
He had it without any certain portion. All the fullness of the Godhead bodily
dwelt in Him. He was not just only a Man, He was
God.
E-66 AS.I.THOUGHT.ON.MY.WAY -- CHATAUQUA.OH -- 59-0814
Now, Jesus, one time in His ministry... Now,
He had the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Him. How many knows that,
the Spirit without measure? We have the Spirit by measure.
146 PALMERWORM.LOCUST.CATERPILLAR - V-14 N-1 - 59-0823 The right hand of God, where the Bible said, "I
looked up and seen Jesus standing at the right hand of God," Philip, or
Stephen when he was stoned. Don't mean that God has got a right hand, and Jesus
is standing up on top of His right hand. It means that He's in the right hand
of Power and authority. "All powers in Heavens and earth is given unto Me," said Jesus. He was in authority.
God was in Christ. He's in, in Him. The Bible said, "In Him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily." When you try to make
three individual Gods, you're just pagan as pagan can be.
184 REV.OF.JESUS.CHRIST ROJC 9-67 -- 60-1204.1M "God was in Christ." The body was Jesus. Jesus,
in Him dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Can't make Him three people, now.
36-7 IS.THIS.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR - 62-1230.2E The Book that is written within is then
completed when this angel ceases. Now please understand this! When the Seventh Angel's message is completed: the godhead mystery,
the serpent's seed mystery, all the other mysteries of all these things, eternal
sonship, as they talk about. How can He
be an eternal son, when eternity never began or never ends? And a son is
something that is begotten of. How can it make sense?
74-1 THE.BREACH
63-0317.2E Now, but it is a
Book, a mysterious Book. It's a Book of Redemption. (We will get into that in a
little while.) And now, we know that this Book of Redemption will not be
thoroughly understood--it's probed at through six church ages, but at the end,
when the Seventh Angel begins to sound his mystery, he winds up all of the
loose ends that these fellows probed at, and the mysteries comes down from God
as the Word of God and reveals the entire revelation of God. Then the Godhead
and everything else is settled. All the mysteries: serpent's seed and
whatever more is to be revealed.
23-5
THE.INDICTMENT -- 63-0707 Now,
compare that with the Calvary today. When God (it so pleased the Father,
God, the Spirit, to raise up His own Son) overshadowed
the--Mary by the Holy Spirit and brought forth a body that could serve Him and
serve His purpose to... He--He... The--God was in Christ, the fulness of the Godhead bodily, in Him reflecting what God
was to the people, letting the--letting the whole world know what God wanted
each individual to be: a son and daughter. He took one Man and did it. And
because that He didn't join with their organizational ranks, they condemned Him
and crucified Him.
332-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE -- CPT.9 Here is Jehovah of the Old Testament, "the God of
the Amen". Here is
Jesus of the New Testament, "the God of the Amen". Hear, Oh Israel,
the Lord thy God is ONE God. There it is again, the Jehovah of the Old
Testament is the Jesus of the New. "Hear, Oh, Israel the Lord thy God is
ONE God." The New Testament does not reveal ANOTHER God,
it is a further revelation of the ONE AND SAME GOD. Christ did not come down
to make Himself known. He did not come to reveal the Son. He came to reveal and
make known the Father. He never talked about two Gods; He talked about ONE God.
And now in this last age, we have come back to the capstone revelation, the
most important revelation of Godhead in the whole Bible, that is, JESUS IS GOD,
HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THERE IS ONE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST.
25 HEBREWS.CPT.7.PT.1 - 57-0915.2E Now, the reason that
there's a difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning, God had no
beginning; Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus
had a beginning. But Jesus was made liken unto Him. A priest abideth forever.
E-9 OBEY.THE.VOICE.OF.THE.ANGEL -- 50-0713 Moses never performed one miracle. It was the
Angel of God that went before Moses. It was a Pillar of Fire at night, and a cloud by day. And when you
see the picture that we're going to show you, shortly, if we haven't. I
believe you'll feel that it's the same Pillar of Fire. It's leading the people
today, the Angel of God. Which we know the Angel that led Moses was the Angel
of the covenant, which was Christ, the Son of God. And now...
Or, the Logos that came out of God, was the Son of
God.
E-15 ATTITUDE.AND.WHO.IS.GOD? -- 50-0815 And we're
taught in the beginning, that the Logos, or the Son of God went out of God. Now, I do not believe in eternal sonship. That's even radical to even mention such a thing,
eternal sonship. How... He
had a eternal sonship...?...
way, it's even eternal sonship, how could He be a
Son? He had to have a beginning. See?
E-16 ATTITUDE.AND.WHO.IS.GOD? --50-0815
So He first was God, Jehovah. And out of Him... Let's
just picture now as a little drama so you can get it. Let's see coming out of
space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like a mystic
Light, like a Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of God in the
beginning. That was the Son of God that came out of the bosom of the
Father. ... In the beginning was God. And then out of
God came the Logos, a part of God that went out of God.
E-17 ATTITUDE.AND.WHO.IS.GOD? -- 50-0815
And in there... Now, see, this is just like a child
playing before the door. It was the Son of God, the Logos. And I can see
Him out there, and He spake, and said, "Let there be light." And
there was nothing. But there was something happened, and an atom turned there,
there begin to whirl around this a way. The sun begin
to come into existence, because He said, "Let there be." There's the
authority.
E-31 RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS --51-0729.1A His
Son. Son has to be borned of. So the Logos, which was the Son of God that
went out of God, ... Now, let's just picture that as
being a white halo coming out of that space. That was the Son of God, the
Logos. And there It was in space moving around, like a
little child playing before the door of its parent. And He drawed in His mind what should be.
38 CRUELTY.OF.SIN -- JEFF.IN -- V-25 N-4 -- 53-0403 And now we will watch coming into existence a little
white Light. We will call it, like, a Halo. And that was the Son of God, the
Logos that went out of God, in the beginning.
E-61 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY -- -- 53-0610 Back yonder, beginning... Let's take a little trip to
see Who He was, and you can find out whether God was
in His Son or not. Let's close our eyes as it was, and take a trip a
hundred million years before there was ever a star in the sky, there was God.
God was there then. And now look in the
beginning now. I see that great space yonder. And then the Logos went out of
God, which was the--the Christ, the anointing that went out.
E-62 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY -- 53-0610 There was nothing. And then here come the Logos. That
looked like a halo hanging yonder. No man has seen God at anytime now, eye to
eye. And here's the Logos. Looks like It's a supernatural Being. It's a Halo.
That's the Son of God. NOT ETERNAL SONSHIP, 'cause the
words don't go good together. That's Catholic doctrine. But Eternal. How could it be a Sonship
and be Eternal? If He's a Son, he'd had to have a beginning of time. Eternal's
forever. See? So Eternal Sonship, there's no
such a word to make that sensible. But
it was the Logos that went out of God. And there He was playing out there in
space just like a child before the door. I can see Him draw the whole picture
in His mind of the Kingdom and what it might be.
E-65 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.IT'LL.SATISFY 53-0610 And when He made everything that
looked nice and good to Him, now He said, "Let us," plural,
"make man," plural, "in our own image." What was He? There
is a supernatural Being. There's the One that could not be seen. God the
Father never was seen, never will be seen. He's all
nature. And there He is. And now here's the Son, which is the Logos that went
out of Him, made in His image, a supernatural Being
that went out in the beginning.
22 Q.A.ON.GENESIS -- COD 11-58 -- 53-0729 He was, in other words, Adam, the first man in the lower
creations of God. The first creation was God Himself; then out of God came
the Logos, which was the Son of God; then out of the Logos, which was the
Word ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."), out of
the Logos came forth the--the man.
33 Q.A.ON.GENESIS COD 11-58 -- 53-0729 Now,
back there, then, when this little halo comes. Now, we can't see nothing
yet, but just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now,
that's the Son of God, the Logos, Now, I can see Him playing around like a
little child, before the Father's door, with all Eternity. See? And, now,
then in His imaginary make-up He begin to think of what things would be, and I
can hear Him say, "Let there be light."
E-97 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER -- 53-0907.1A
God was in His Son, and now I've unfolded to you also,
God is in His people. Do you believe that? Then when God that same God, that
lived back yonder in the days when the... Moses seen the Pillar of Fire, was
that right? How many believes that was the Angel of the Covenant, say,
"Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Well the Angel of the Covenant was Jesus Christ.
Moses esteemed
the riches of Christ greater treasures than that of Egypt, and he forsook Egypt
following Jesus Christ. He followed Christ through the wilderness which was
the Logos. All right.
E-23 PREPARATION --53-1111 Setting way back in eternity, that was God. And
then going out of God, or God unfolding Himself, come the Logos, which was the
Son of God or the Word of God. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us. The Logos.
Now, watch, we're seeing God unfold Himself.
E-12 THE.RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS -- 53-1122 I wish I had time to get into it, I talk on it this
afternoon, how that He unfolded, and then folds right back again. How that God
unfolded Him before the beginning of time, how He--He unfolded Himself out
of great something that you see nothing, brought it into the Logos, and then into man. And
then how, last night I was talking, how He unfolds Hisself
down through man. Out of the Pillar of Fire, into the Son,
out into man. How wonderful. Then how that man was brought from
death, the penalty of death, how he come down. Now
coming on his road back through justification, through the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, then back into the... From this mortal back into the immortal like He
was in the beginning, and then back in the flesh again. Just like God brought
Him in the beginning, to eat, drink. Oh, wonderful, see.
E-31 GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD -57-0120.2E "I
believe that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that in His body He was a man. He was borned of a woman,
just like I was. But His Blood was not of a woman, It
was of God. I believe in a body He was man. I believe in His soul He was
God. He was God's manifestation here on earth. God was in Christ,
reconciling Him... the world to Himself.
E-22 LIFE -- 57-0602
And then out of the existence of the Father went the Logos which
was the Son, which was the theophany, which was the body of the great Jehovah
God went forth in a celestial Body. That's the Logos. The Word spoke out of
them great Fountains of Life and went forth. And there was the theophany,
which was God made into Word.
129 HEBREWS.CHAPTER.1 -- JEFF.IN -- HEB 1-32 --
57-0821
Now, here's
what happened. Oh! (excuse me), I--I--I just get on
this... This just gets me right where I love it. See? The
Logos, and this Great Fountain; this Great Fountain of Spirit which had no
beginning or no end. This Great Spirit began to form in the creation,
and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of
God. It was the only visible form that the Spirit had. And It
was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man.
130 HEBREWS.CHAPTER.1 -- JEFF.IN -- HEB 1-32 --
57-0821 Moses saw It when It passed through the...
by--by the rock. And he looked at It, and said,
"It looked like the hind part of a man." It's the same type of body
that we receive when we die here, "If this earthly tabernacle be
dissolved, we have one already waiting." That was It.
And that was the Theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos,
became flesh because we were put in flesh. And the Theophany, the Logos, became
flesh here among us, and It was nothing else but the
dwelling place, for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it?
There He is! That was the One that in...
132 HEBREWS.CPT.4 -- JEFF.IN -- HEB 121-164 --
57-0901.2E As we had it the
other night, God in the beginning was Spirit. And then from God went out the
Logos, or the Theophany which was a form of a man called the Son of God
(prefigured). He came in earth, in a body of flesh, even before He came in
Jesus Christ. Now swallow that one once, brother. I will prove it to you.
386 Q.&.A.HEBREWS.PART.2
COD.HEB -- 57-1002 Or, as I have went through it, the Catholic
call It, "the Eternal sonship of God."
Which, as I have said before, the word doesn't even make sense, See, there
cannot be an Eternal son, because a son had to have a beginning. And so Jesus
had a beginning, God had no beginning. See? But the Son was the... not
Eternal sonship, but the Son that was with the
Father in the beginning was the Logos that went out of God.
E-43 SHOW.US.THE.FATHER -- 59-0419.2E What is Messiah? Well, it's
the--the Logos, the Spirit of God. Messiah is the Spirit of God, the Christ,
the Anointed..... The only one that ever will be able to say,
"I'm he that speaks to you." What was that? That was God speaking
through His Son.
197 QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS COD 361-406 - 59-0628.2E Now somebody Brother Branham is a "oneness."
No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that
Jesus could be His own father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that
was God. But God dwelled and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was Immanuel,
God with us. And there's no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost... Father: the
Lord, Son: Jesus, Holy Ghost: Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, Lord Jesus Christ; that's Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.
212 PALMERWORM.LOCUST.CATERPILLAR - V-14 N-1 - 59-0823
"The Lord said unto My Lord,
`Sit on the right hand'"; Son, Jesus; Christ, Logos that went out of
God in the beginning. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
There you are.
484-4 Q.AND.A.ON.THE.SEALS --63-0324.1M But, there's supposed to be an Eagle time
come. See. That's the time it's to straighten all those mysteries out. Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost is titles of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Watch all three of them.
Matthew said: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Peter
said: Lord Jesus Christ. Who is the Father? The Lord said unto my Lord,
"Sit thou on my right hand." Is that right? Father, Son--Jesus, Holy
Ghost --the Logos that went out of God--Father, Son, Holy
Ghost is absolutely three titles of the person of God manifested in three
different ways or three attributes of Himself.
162-4 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE --CPT.5 Now we can see His association with the Word. HE IS THE
WORD. That is Who He is. THE WORD IN
HIS NAME. In John 1:1 where it
says "In the beginning was the Word," the root from which we get our
translation for `Word' is `Logos' which means 'the thought or concept.' It has
the double meaning of `thought' and 'speech.' Now a `thought expressed' is a
`word', 'or words.' Isn't that wonderful and beautiful? John says the
concept of God was expressed in Jesus.
And Paul says the very same thing in Hebrews 1:1-3, "God, Who at
sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the
prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, (Logos)
Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds; Who
being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person, and
upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." God
became expressed in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus was the Express Image
of God. Again in John 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh
and dwelt amongst us." The very substance of God was made flesh and
dwelt amongst us. The great Spirit-God unto Which no man could approach,
Which no man had seen or could behold was now tabernacled
in flesh and dwelt among men, expressing the fullness of God to men. John
1:18, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Which is
in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."
God, Who on
occasions would manifest His presence by the cloud or pillar of fire that
struck fear in the hearts of men; this God, Whose heart characteristics were
made known only by revelation of words through the prophets, now became
Emmanuel (God with us) declaring Himself. The word, `declare,' is taken from
the Greek root which we often interpret as exegesis, which means to thoroughly
explain and make clear.
That is what
the Living WORD, Jesus, did. He brought God to us, for He was God. He revealed
God to us with such perfect clarity that John could say about Him in I John
1:1-3 "That Which was from
the beginning, Which we have heard, (Logos means speech) Which we have
seen with our eyes, Which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of
the Word of Life; (For the Life was manifested, and we have seen it, and
bear witness, and shew unto you that Eternal Life,
Which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That Which
we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship
with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus
Christ." When God was truly revealed, He was manifested in the flesh.
"He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.