God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 55

Brian Kocourek, June 7, 1995

God Placed His Name in His Son

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That's the same thing in the church. They're trying to mix the denomination with the Word, to make the... try to make the Word say what the denomination says. And when you do that, you have to spray them, and baby them, and--and give them gold stars to come to Sunday school, and everything else. That's right. When, a genuine, borned-again Christian, borned with the Word of God, he's rugged, can't kill him. The lice and things of the world don't bother him. He's a eagle, he flies plumb a-past it. See, soars in the heavenly. See? It is true. Nothing...

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Notice. Now, we must understand that here, the denomination, creeds, and anything that's added of the a-leavened bread cannot mix with the unleavened bread. And the Bible foreshadows here in the sacrament, of going into the worship, that no unleavened can be taken with you, and God will receive it.

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You say, "I'm Methodist." Right there you die! "I'm Pentecostal's." You die!

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I am of Christ. That's right. You've got to stand on something. That's right. You're standing on something.

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Churchill once held up two fingers and said, "We got the victory." And England stood by that, they believed Churchill.

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And believe it or not, this morning, you are standing by something. There's only one thing that you can live and stand by, and that's Christ, the Word. True!

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Notice, nothing in the Bible types the denominations but Babylon. And Babylon was founded by Nimrod, and Nimrod was a renegade. And he had a bunch of women in there, was supposed to be his queens, that was prophetess. They even think that old Balaam come from that section, they had roots and so forth. They worshipped, you know (many of you scholars that reading Hyslop's Two Babylon’s, and so forth, and the history of the church), and how they did. And they had women that done this, and women... a goddess, and everything, and it was a forced religion. Everybody, every city around Babylon was compelled to come to Babylon to worship under Nimrod at the tower. See? That's right. They were forced to do it, debate it. There's where the confusion come.

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And that's exactly what the church is today, "If you don't attend Sunday school, if you don't do this, and have to hire you to do this and do this and do that, you're out of the picture."

Ezekiel 34: 1 - 16 (read)

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Out there in Tucson, is listening in this morning, I once wondered... I've always constraining people, "Go to church, no matter where you go." And I seen the people kind of pulling back, and going this way. And I thought, "What's the matter?"

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I went to some of them, "The first day you're there, they'll approach you, `Join our church.' If you don't do it, you're not welcome." See? See? It's a forced thing, it's forced upon you. See, and that's Babylon. But in Christ, you come in by election; not by force, your heart pulls you in. God said, "I will not put His name then in Babylon." Closely now. He cannot put His Name in Babylon, the churches. Oh, they, they put His Name in there, but He never.

Jesus said, It is not him that runneth nor is it he that willeth, but simply it's God that shows mercy."

He also said, He that hungers and thirsts for righteousness is the one who will be filled. You can't force feed people. They have got to be hungering and thirsting on their own.

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Now you say, "Well now, Brother Branham!" Wait, wait, wait, wait, you asked me stay a little longer. Asked me to stay long... Now notice, they put His Name in there, but He didn't. 208 Now, He said, "The place that I'm going to meet you and receive your sacrifice is where I choose to put My Name. You come in at this gate, this door where I choose to put My Name. There's where you come."

Look at Balaam, He forced his way into a permissive will of God. You don't come to God and try to twist his arm. You'll find yourself fighting God. Just take it as He brings it and enjoy it while it lasts.

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Well, they put, "This is the Church of Christ." If there's anything that's wrong in that declaration, it left out one word: "anti." Uh-huh, all that He taught, they disagree with It. Modern Pharisees. 210 But we must find where He did put His Name, for in It is His only provided gate. Amen! Glory! Watch! Where did He put His Name? In His Son. "Oh," you say, "now wait a minute, Brother Branham. That was the Son, not the Father. 212 The son always takes the name of his father in every case. I come to this earth in the name of a Branham because my father's name was Branham.

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Jesus said, "I came in My Father's Name, and you received Me not." You want the Scripture on that? St. John 5:43. See? "I--I came in My Father's Name, and you received Me not." Then the Father put His Own Name, which is "Jesus," in the Son. And He's the way, He's the door, He's the house, He's where God chose to put His Name. God never put His Name in me, He never put It in the church, He never put It in the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, but He put It in Christ the Anointed Emmanuel.

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And the Name is in the Word because He is the Word. Amen! What is He then? The Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God. No wonder... "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you Who I am. And upon this rock I will build My place of worship, and the gates of hell can't shake It down." Amen! O living Church of God, stand in firm foundation on Jesus Christ alone. You can sing the song, but if you're not on Christ the Word, you're on teetering, faltering sand. "But upon this rock," Christ, "My Word."

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He built the Lutheran message and they denominated it. It was growing, the footstool. Then He growed up into the leg part, the Methodist, and so forth. There's where He built His Church, upon His Word! Now, He's not all foot or all thigh, He's a body; and now is the capping part. Did you notice in the pyramid... which I don't preach a pyramid religion, now.