God’s Only
Provided Place of Worship # 45
Brian Kocourek, May 3, 1995
The
Test
Psalm 26: 2
Psalm 139: 23 Prayer
154 GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP - 65-1128.1M 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.
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.
158 Notice how beautiful, "The lamb's blood."
These are Christ's Body, the Sacrifice: the lamb's blood on the door. Now,
remember, the lamb was slain, which was a type of Christ. 159 Or we could take plenty of time, but I haven't got...
just a few more minutes to stay here. I may just have to stop and start up
again tonight, see, because we're taking too long. It's... I got twenty pages
of this in here to go, see, on this one subject. 160 Notice now, on this, the--the lamb was Christ in figurative
form. Or did I say that right? Christ, Christ was the Lamb. He was to be a
male, the first from the old mother ewe; or yew, which ever way you choose to
call it. It must be her first. And he must be tested first to see if there is a
blemish on him. 161 Now, Christ was tested;
the lamb first from the mother ewe, Mary the virgin. And was tested by what? Satan against the Word. When he hit Eve, she fell; hit
Moses, he fell; but when he flew up against Christ, and tried to quote the
Scripture to Him wrong (uh-huh), he found out that that wasn't Moses. See?
He was tested. What did... he turn around, he said, "If thou be the
Son of God. Now they tell me you perform miracles, and they tell me that the
Messiah's to do that. Now, if it is, you're hungry, you haven't eat, turn these bread into... these stones into bread, and
eat."
162 He said, "It is written, `Man shall
not live by bread alone.'" Your creed, so forth.
But by what? Every Word! A
part of the Word? "Every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." That's
what man lives by. See? The Lamb was tested,
see if there's anywhere He had fallen. 163 The Pharisees, "O Rabbi, you young prophet, we think
you're wonderful. You are good." "Why call thou Me
good? There's only one good, and that's God. Do you believe that?" "Oh, yes. God." "Well, I am He, then." (uh-huh) He said, "There's only One
good. Why do you call Me `good,' when you don't
believe I'm God?" (uh-huh) "So why do you
call Me good? What makes you do that? What inspired
you to say that, when you know there's only one good and that's God?" "We
know Thou respects not the dignity of man nor the
word of the physician. We know it." Trying... He knowed that hypocrite. See?
168 He was tested to see where He was standing,
see, tested in every manner, tested like we are tested. But there was no giving
in to him at all. No, sir! That was the Son of God. 169 And
the lamb was tested, and was
kept up for fourteen days. That was two Sabbaths, or two ages. Once for the
Jews, which they offered the lamb in type; once for the Gentile, who has a real
Lamb, and all of them was made perfect by believing this Lamb would come. But
He was tempted fourteen... or examined fourteen days, He was the
Word.
ACTS.2:22 Ye
men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among
you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of
you, as ye yourselves also know:
Now this is what I want us to focus on tonight, if God
tested His own Son, to Prove Him, then won't everyone of us be treated the same?
ROMANS.14:18 For
he that in these things serveth Christ [is]
acceptable to God, and approved of men.
II.CORINTHIANS.10:18 For
not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom
the Lord commendeth.
II.TIMOTHY.2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
I.PETER.4:12 – 19 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you:
I.PETER.1:3 – 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honour and glory at
the appearing of Jesus Christ:
JAMES.1:12 Blessed [is] the man that endureth
temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
How can we think it will be any different with us when
God has always acted in this manner. He did it at the
first Exodus.
EXODUS.16:4 Then
said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and
the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove
them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
EXODUS.20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you,
and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye
sin not.
DEUTERONOMY.8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee
these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to
know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest
keep his commandments, or no.
DEUTERONOMY.8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy
fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to
do thee good at thy latter end;
JUDGES.3:1 - 4 Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to
prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars
of Canaan;
JUDGES.3:4 And
they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of
Moses.
JOHN.6: 1 – 6 And
this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
I.JOHN.4:1 Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because
many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Even our own Spirits
I.CORINTHIANS.11:19 For
there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made
manifest among you.
1 John 2: 19 - 21
I.THESSALONIANS.5:21 Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good.
ROMANS.12:2 And
be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
of God.
II.CORINTHIANS.13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates?
GALATIANS.6:4 But
let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself
alone, and not in another.
I.CORINTHIANS.3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it is.