God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 62
Brian Kocourek, July 9, 1995
Three
Must Nots
John 21: 18 - 25 (read )
Prayer
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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."
Name : A word
expressing some quality considered characteristic or descriptive of a person or
thing.
( a descriptive word used to illuminate or express some
characteristic or quality of a person or thing)
Manifestation: from manifest
= to appear or make apparent to the senses, especially that of sight, or to the
mind. to show
openly, reveal.
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That's what makes the gospel today. It's the unusualness, because God is
unusual. His Word is interpreted unusual to what we sometimes have it
interpreted. But as I've said before,
God needs nobody to interpret his Word. He does his own interpretation by
bringing to pass the things that He said He would do. He interprets his own
Word. He doesn't need our interpretation. It's... our interpretation is our own manmade thoughts that we put with it.
2 Peter 1: 16 - 21 & Matthew 17: 1 - 5 Unveiling of
God " God interprets His Word by Manifesting it.
Looking at the unseen
In the Message "Christ Revealed in His Own Word" brother Branham said, there
are three things we must not do.
We must not misinterpret the Word, we must not misplace
the Word, and we must not mislocate the Word. In various other
Messages he also said, we must not misconstrue the Word which is to
misinterpret the Word. Any of these three
must not's will cause a wrong result from the Word.
Interpret : Webster
= To have or show one's own
understanding of the meaning of ; to construe;
to give one's own conception of. And
the word conception comes from the word to conceive which is the beginning of
the process of life.
Mislocate: To In other words, to misplace the Word would be to wrongly
divide it. This is how you get the cow eating grass up in the tree. From the Message Jehovah Jireh
2 Timothy
Now this Word orthotomeo
suggests that the Word is to be given directly and correctly. In other words, straight to the point. So then we see here
that one who does not rightly divide the Word does not teach the Word directly nor correctly. And to do so let's us see that the intent is
wrong to begin with.
Genesis 4: 7 Septuagint: "If thou
doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Thou has
rightly offered, but thou has not rightly divided."
2 Peter 2: 1 - 3 feigned words. Plastos
= molded or put on. Pretentious.
"As there arose false prophets among the
people, so shall there be false teachers among you, who will be of such a
character as to bring in alongside of true doctrine destructive heresies, even
denying the Lord Who purchased them, bringing upon
themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their licentious conduct to
its consummation, on account of whom the way of truth
will be reviled. And in the sphere of covetousness, with fabricated words they
will exploit you..."
2 Corinthians 4: 1 - 5 Not handling the Word of God deceitfully.
1 Thessalonians 2: 1 - 13
(read)
Misplace: To
place one's trust or affection on an undeserving or unsuitable person
or object.
2 Corinthians 11; 3 => 6 "But now I am fearful lest that even as
the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so you minds may be corrupted and
seduced from wholehearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For you seem
so readily to endure it if a man comes and preaches another(allos) Jesus than
the One we preached, or in you receive a
spirit of a another nature(heteros)
from the Spirit you once received, or a gospel of a another nature (heteros)
from the One you then received and welcomed. You seem to tolerate all
that well enough! Yet I consider myself as in no way inferior to these ( precious - extra super [ false] apostles.) But
even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge - I
know what I am talking about; we have made this evident to you in all things."
So when we think in terms of conception we are dealing
with thoughts on life. And then also when we hear the word construe it brings
us to mind that brother Branham said that we must not misconstrue.
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That's what makes the gospel today. It's the unusualness, because God is
unusual. His Word is interpreted unusual to what we sometimes have it
interpreted. But as I've said before, God needs nobody to interpret his Word.
He does his own interpretation by bringing to pass the things that He said He
would do. He interprets his own Word. He doesn't need our interpretation.
It's... our interpretation is our own manmade thoughts that we put with it.
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Now, what did Satan do? Satan had the others anointed. Now, Satan
anoints his servants. Oh, sure, uh-huh, sure. He anoints his servants. What does he anoint them with? With unbelief.
Satan and his demons anoints humanity to disbelieve
God's Word. Now, if you want to confirm that, you turn to Genesis 3:4. Let's
just turn back there and listen to this just a minute, and see if that ain't
his first tactic. That's the first thing he did; he never leaves his same
tactics; he does it all the time. Now, just see if that--that's what it is. Now, he didn't disagree with the Word; he just
caused her to kinda misconstrue that a little, you know, just kinda make It sound like the way
he wanted It to sound--don't take the whole Word.
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That's the same way sin begin in the garden of
Eden. That's how death started by sin,
was when one word of God was misconstrued or doubted. You can't doubt or misplace one word of God that's THUS SAITH THE LORD...?...
Word be so.
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It's your faith. God has to have some sort of an object. He sent His
Word. You... That's the real foundation there, the Word. Then He finds out that people has misconstrued It and set it this way and that way. Then when He seen
the end drawing nigh, the time for deliverance again, He sends an Angel down
out of heaven that verifies it, proves it scientifically to the Church by the
witness today. If Jesus should come
today, the world is without excuse. Amen. He's here.
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Now, we're in
the evening time. And the messengers down through the age...
We find out that at the beginning when a messenger was sent, to--to misconstrue His Word or to doubt one
Word, it was total annihilation and eternal separation from God, to misconstrue that messenger's Word. And the first Messenger was God Himself.
And the--every other messenger has been God speaking through man since, which
is God's Word, for there's no man then for Him to speak through but just the
one He was talking to. But since He's made man and redeemed man, it's been God
speaking through man. He uses not the--the agency of--of any mechanical device,
but the agency of man, a man that's
surrendered and consecrated to God.
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And in that age God called a man called
Noah, just a common man, farmer, because he was found godly in his generation.
And God dealt with that one man on the subject of "build an ark."
Because, sin, we notice that in that time that "The daughters of--of the
men," the Bible said, "saw... the sons of God saw the daughters of
men." Discussing it, where many of
the writers think that that was sons of God that the fallen angels pressed
themselves into spirit. I don't see how a man could think that. That would make
him a creator, make Satan a creator. Satan's no creator; Satan is the perverter of creation (See?), all. A lie is only the
truth mistold. An adultery is the right act misconstrued. See?
And that's exactly what sin is. Satan cannot create,
he can only pervert what has been created.
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Now, we find then in this great time of--of the beginning, when God
fortified His children in this fortress of His Word, and--and told them, now
that was it... Now, just think: Eve didn't just turn the whole thing down. She
didn't say, "Well, God, I guess, is altogether wrong. I don't believe a
word of it." No. "I believe half of it, Lord." No. Satan just misconstrued a little bitty
fraction of It, not all of it, just a little bit of it. And because that
she listened to that one little term, it caused every funeral procession, made
every grave, made every gray hair, every sick baby, every sin that was ever
committed, because of just taking one little speck of God's Word and just
misplacing It.
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See, that's the way they might've had it all drawed up. But God has His
own way of doing things. See, see? He come just exactly with the Scripture, but they had the
Scripture misconstrued. I wonder if He comes, if He'd come tonight, if a lot of
us haven't got it all messed up. But the main thing is, be ready when He
comes; that--that's the thing. No matter
which way God sends Him, just let Him come the way He is, way He's--He's got
planned for Him to come. Some of us got Him coming on a white cloud, some
on a white horse. I don't care how He comes, just so I'm ready when He comes.
I--I want to see Him. And I'm studying hard to know just exactly what the Scripture
says, so I'll know Him when He appears. You see? Watch what the Scripture says
about Him.
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One Word of God misplaced, or misconstrued,
or It not accepted, breaks the whole Chain. "Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God." Why is it, women, you hear me
preach against these things, of wearing shorts, and paints, and--and hair-do's
of this here bobbed hair, and all that kind of stuff, and then every year when
I come back you're still sitting in the same condition? Is
because you're leaning to your own understanding instead of the Word of the
Lord. And, pastors, why don't you
clean up your church? Because you're going to your
denominational creed instead of the Word of the Lord. That's right. Lean
not to your own understanding. Well, lean not to your own understanding, but
upon the Word of the Lord. They would
not accept it, because they would not accept vindication. Jesus come with a--a Gospel,
just exactly the way He said He would come. Even many times...
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In the beginning God fortified His people with His Word. One word misconstrued caused every death,
every heartache, every sorrow. Eve--she never
broke a sentence, she broke a word.
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Ask God to pile Word on top of Word like
that until you become the full statue of a son of God or a daughter of God....
You cannot take one word of God out of the Bible! What caused the first sin?
Not by just a big point blank lie, but because Eve misconstrued (the devil did
to her) one word. One word broke the chain, and Eve refused to take one word.
That was the beginning of the Bible. Jesus came in the center of the Bible; He
said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God." That's the entire Word of God. Do you
believe that's the revelation of Him? The entire Word of God. Then in Revelation 22, Jesus came to John on
the Isle of
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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.
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Now, now the question is, "How do we get in Him?" Now, this may
pinch just a little bit; but, you know, like taking medicine, if it don't make
you sick, it don't do you no good. See?
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Now, the Lutherans wanted to get in one way, by joining the Lutheran
church. The Methodists wanted to get in by shouting. The Pentecostals wanted to
get in by speaking in tongues. That still ain't it! See? No, that's gifts, so
forth. But I Corinthians 12 says, "By one
Spirit." Spirit of God, which is the Life-giver to the
Word (the Seed), to vindicate that Seed for that season. See?
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Here's the Methodist-age seed laying there, it taken the Holy Spirit to
make that seed come to life and pure... purify the church by sanctification;
Luther didn't preach that, 'cause he didn't know it. The Pentecostals wanted to
speak in tongues for the restoration of the gifts. Each one declares,
"That's It! That's It!" See?
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"But by one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body," and that
Body is a family, the family of God. And that's the house of God, and the house
of God is the Name of Jesus Christ. "The Name of the Lord is a mighty
tower, the righteous run into It and are safe."
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Now, how you going to come in by a title? How's your check going to be
received by saying, "Pay to the order of--of Reverend, Doctor, Minister"? No. See? See? You might be a reverend,
doctor, minister. But the name of the Lord is "Jesus Christ." See?
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"I have chose to put My Name at the door of the house of My worship,
for My family will be gathered in there under the Blood; like it was in Egypt,
anything outside died. And in there
there's no leavened bread! There's no denominational mixture in It anywhere,
My house! My children, borned of My
genes!" Amen! Glory to God! "My
genes are in them! My... I put My Word in them. I
will write them upon the tables of their heart. That's My
family, the family of the Body of Jesus Christ; the family. And this door
you'll come in, not Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal, but in the door where I
put My Name." It ain't Methodist. God's Name ain't Methodist. God's Name
ain't Pentecostal. God's Name ain't Baptist. God's Name ain't Catholic. Stay
out of the doors then. See? See? See?
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"But in a place where I choose to put My Name." Now, there's
not another place in the Bible given where that God ever put His Name, only in
Jesus Christ, for He is the Son of God taking the Name of God, and God's human
Name. "And there's not another name given under Heaven whereby you must be
saved." I don't care, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, catechisms, or
whatever you want to do; only through the Name of Jesus Christ where every knee
shall bow and every tongue shall confess to it, Him being Lord. There's how you
come in.
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And if you was just baptized in
water right--right, and then deny the Word, then you're illegitimate; your
birth wasn't correct. You claim that you believed Him then, and you deny
Him.
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How could I deny my family? When... How could I
deny Charles Branham being my father? A blood test on the door shows it.
Uh-huh.
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My action, and the
vindication of God's Word in my life shows whether I'm a child of God or
not. Now, there's God's only place. See it? The only place that God will
receive your sacrifice (I don't care how sincere you are) is in Christ.