God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 57
Brian Kocourek, June 18, 1995
Parrhesia
Wednesday night we focused our attention on Paragraph 202 where
brother Branham said, " nothing in the Bible types the
denominations but
Amplified But understand this, that in the last days
there will set in perilous times of
great stress and
trouble - hard to deal with and hard to bear.
Wuest This be
constantly knowing, that in the last days difficult
times will set in.
Amplified For people will be lovers of self and utterly self centered, lovers of money
and aroused by an inordinate greedy desire
for wealth, proud and arrogant
and contemptuous boasters, Did you know that the Wuest translation
calls them (swaggerers, That sounds a lot like Swaggert to
me, as in Jimmy Swaggert or shall we say "Jimmy the Swagger". You
know their is something in a name. Brother Branham
said don't ever name your kids Elvis or Ricky or names like that. Well, the
name Swaggert sounds like it comes from the word swagger which according to
Webster means to boast, brag or show off in a loud and arrogant manner. A kind
of arrogant way or walking and that is exactly how he is. He is even so
arrogant and proud as to belittle God's vindicated Prophet, brother Branham
before millions of his viewers and call him a false prophet and even deny Election and Predestination and say that
Predestination is a lie from the pits of hell.). And then their are names today
like Swindle, and Oral Robber ( he talks people out of their livelihood) He uses
his mouth to persuade people to give him the loot. He even told such tall tales
as a 90 foot Jesus and that God was holding him hostage for 8 million
dollars.
Well the scripture continues in saying that "they will be abusive, blasphemious
& scoffers, disobedient to parents and ungrateful, unholy and profane. They
will be without natural human affection, callous and inhuman, relentless -
admitting of no truce or appeasement.
They will be slanderers - false accusers, trouble makers; intemperate and
lose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled
and haters of good. They will be treacherous
betrayers, rash
and inflated with self conceit. They will be lovers of sensual pleasures and
amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. For although they hold a
form of piety, True religion, they deny and reject and are strangers to the
power of it, their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession. Avoid all such people - turn away from them. Now just because the Bible says these things
will happen, it also says "WOE to the person that does them!" it says they will be more fond of pleasure than having
an affection for God, and they will have
a mere outward assemblance of piety toward God but deny the power of the same.
And the Scripture tells us to
be constantly shunning them, That means to avoid these kind
of people.
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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."
Notice how he said this. He said,
not if you put my name on your door, but the place where I choose to place my name.
Now that's a big difference there. Just because you might call yourself
Christian doesn't make it so. To be Christian is a name given to those who are
followers of Christ. Not just saying it, but there is a certain confidence that
permeates your being. The Greek word for
it is Parrhesia
in the bible. And we see it in Christ Himself and then after others received of
His Spirit, they also show forth this excuding confidence.
John 7: 26 Jesus Himself
spoke openly and full of confidence.
John 18: 20 Jesus tells of His
confident espousal of Gods Word.
Matthew 7: 28 & 29 The people were astonished
at His Doctrine and His Speech
Acts 4: 13 -
21 (read) Notice that the people perceived this
boldness. This is Parrhesia = it is an open
confidence, usually demonstrated through speech. A freedom in
speaking, free and fearless confidence, unreservedness in speech, open and
frank.
Acts
1 John
Ephesians 3: 12 through His Faith we receive Parrhesia and thus
access to Him.
Hebrews
1 John 4: 17 - 18 Boldness in the day of Judgment
Hebrews
1 John
1 John 5: 14
Confidence that He hears us
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Jesus said, "I came in My
Father's Name, and you received Me not." You
want the Scripture on that?
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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."
The
Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God. Now what did
brother Branham tell us about how God interprets His Word. Didn't He say, God inerprets His Own Word by bringing it to pass. So
the Word interpreted is the Manifestation of it, right? The, if he said, " the Name is in the Word because He is the
Word and The
Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God. So therefore, the Word that comes
to pass is the revelation made real and it is the interpretation of the written
Word. And so then, to worship in the Place where God Chose
to place His name, we must worship in the present tense Word which is in the
process of being interpreted because it is in the process of coming to pass
before our very eyes. Then and only then can you enter into worship in full
confidence and assurance.
Hebrews 10: 22 - 23 Full assurance
Hebrews 6: 9 - 15 After we hear the admonition of those who reject we then
here the praise who stand fast. Now
remember, brother Branham tells us here that it is this place where God chooses
to place His won name, this is the place where we must come to worship Him. And
that place is in the present day Word that is in the process of being
interpreted by it's coming to pass. And remember, Worship is two words, it
comes from Worth and Ship. The worth = value and ship being its state or
condition.
So to worship then is to place a specified value to the
state or condition of His Presence. For His Appearing in this hour is the
interpretation of the Revelation.
Said, "I AM sent me." I AM,
not I was, or will be, I AM, present tense, the Word now. Not the Word that was
or Word that will come,
the Word that's now. False anointed ones at the end-time pp.219
"For it is impossible for those
which were once enlightened and didn't
move on with the Word as it come to pass...
They're dead, gone. False anointed
ones at the end-time pp.233
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Now you call that fruit of the Spirit? Certainly not.
Then where is your fruit of the Spirit landing up at? No more than you think of
compassions, and Him going through a multitude of people there, multitudes
laying, blind, crippled, afflicted, withered, halt, lame, and never healed any
of them; full of compassion. People with a carnal mind will never know It.
Seminaries don't teach It. It's a revelation. Certainly.
Fruit of the spirit drops off there, doesn't it? Them
priests had ten times the fruit of the Spirit. How would you know what's right? The manifestation of the spoken Word of
God being made manifest, Light of the hour. Certainly. There is what the evidence of the Holy Spirit is,
believing the Word of God when It's manifested. He was the Word,
manifested. And some of them denied It, laughed at It, made fun of Him and
called Him a--a fortuneteller, some evil spirit; there is evidence, speaking in
tongues, there is evidence of the fruits. The only evidence there is, is when man
believe the written Word. When It's vindicated, walk
in the Light of It. Jesus was the Light of the hour because He was the
promised Word of the hour, and tried to tell them so, but they were too--too
much in darkness to understand It. So is it, today, now.
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The new birth is Christ, is a
revelation. God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that's the new
birth. Now, what are you going to do when you get all that group together,
where the revelation is perfectly in harmony, and God expressing it through His
Word by the same actions, the same things that He did, making the Word
manifest? Oh, if the Church only knew its position. It will one day. Then, the
rapture will go when it knows what it is.
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Now, it's all to be manifested in the grain of wheat at the end. Another
come back... Now, if you take Luke the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, He
said, "As it was in the days of
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It's the revelation of the manifestation of
the Word made true. And we're living in that day. Praise be
to God! The revelation of the mystery of
Himself.
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The next thing waiting is for that elected and called out seed of
Abraham, who's recognized the manifestation
of God among His people and standing and waiting. That'll be the one that'll be
caught to meet Him in the air.
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He's still the same, yesterday, today,
and forever, and the manifestation of
His Spirit is catching away a Bride. Let that faith, revelation, fall into your heart, that this is the hour.
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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.
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But the first
Bible was ever wrote, was wrote in the sky, the zo... [Blank spot on tape--Ed.]. Did you notice it? It starts off
with the virgin, the first figure in the zodiac. The last figure is Leo the lion. He come first by the virgin, He comes next as the Lion of the tribe of
Now how
is He to come in this last Day? With a shout right?
1 Thessalonians 4: 15 - 18 Now watch closely this
shout.
Revelations 10: 1 - 7 but especially notice verse 3. A loud voice is what? A shout, right? And how does the shout sound? Like a Lion. And what
does a Lion signify?
Amos 3: 7 - 8 So then when
the Lord speaks it sounds like a lion, but it is actually the prophetic utterance
of God Himself. So then this scripture speaks of a Loud voice that is a prophets voice but is
actually God's own Message.
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And the pyra... pyramid being those foundations, up into the king's
chamber. And just before you hit the seventh wall, there's a little
introduction plank there, where a messenger comes out to bring you to the king.
(The messenger John the Baptist that introduced to the King), but the Headstone
was rejected. And they don't know, the Stone of
2
Peter 1: 1 - 12 (read) The last one is Christ
Himself. And since this is where we get the church age
messengers from, then we see that the last age Messenger is actually Christ
Himself. As brother Branham said, "you are
not feeding on a man, a man his words will fail, but you are feeding on the
unfailing body word off the Son of Man.
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Now, a son
always comes in his father's name. Any son comes in his father's name. And
Jesus said, "I came in My Father's Name." Then what is the Name of
the Father? What is the Name of the Son? And He said, "A little while and
the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me."
Yeah, He's come in the form of the Holy Ghost, that same Jesus. That was the
reason they was worshipping, "O Jesus!" See? See? Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost: It's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's all. "I come in My Father's
Name, and you received Me not."
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Now, remember,
He also added here and warns us, "another will come," a denomination,
a creed. "They'll come in their name and you will receive them. You won't receive Me,
the Word vindicated and proved before you."
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As He was
right then, so is He today. Don't you miss that, people across this nation!
"Another will come, a church, and you'll believe that, because you can
just do any way. I won't vindicate it." He's never (at any time, ever)
vindicated anything (in any church) outside of the Message that was given:
Luther's, justification; Wesley, sanctification; Pentecostal, restoration of the
gifts. After... And as soon as they make a
denomination out of it, there it died. Search the Scriptures.
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But He said,
"I will choose the place to put My Name." And the Name was Jesus. And
Jesus is the Word,
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Now, the 5th
verse shows that He is the door. By now, many other invisible proofs, this
gate, and Name, and place can be proved to be there's only one place that God
meets man to worship, and that's when he's in Christ.