God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 71
Brian Kocourek,
Full
Assurance
Wednesday night we spoke from PP. 233 and Hebrews 10: 22 where Paul tells us that
we have a true heart in Full Assurance of faith. And since faith is a
revelation we then have a true heart in full assurance because of this
Revelation. Now if our assurance comes from Revelation, then how much more
assurance could you have than at the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And especially because you see yourselves responding to the
Revelation and preparing yourselves by the Revelation.
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1 John 3: 1 - 2,
but notice verse 3 is our response.
In Hebrews 10 : 22 the word assurance
is a Greek word "Plero - phoreo" and it used in other scriptures as, " to fully believe", to be
"fully persuaded",
to "show full proof" and to be "fully known". The word actually means "to fill one with any
thought or conviction or inclination and hence to make one certain. To persuade, convince and be assured."
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Romans
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Colossians 2:
2 (read) God wants our hearts to be
knit together by having a Full Assurance
of understanding
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Thess 1: 5 Now what gives us this Full assurance except that the Word
comes with power and with the Holy Ghost alongside backing it up.
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Hebrews 6: 10 - 12
Now you see how this ties
together with what we have been trying to tell you that your expression of thie Revelation of Jesus Christ will bring forth a Full
Assurance of Hope or earnestly expection in you
because you actually see the effect of the Word in your life. That's why we
spent so much time on this one paragraph and thought of brother Branham's when
he said, " My action and the vindication of God's Word in my life shows
whether I'm a child of God on not."
And what we said last Wednesday night is that he is
making two things clear here. It is not our actions alone for that would be
works. But he is saying, " My action which is one
thing, and which we know is a conjunction, the vindication of God's Word in my life which is another thing altogether,.
He is telling us that these 2 things, my actions and The vindicated Word in my Life shows or outwardly demonstrates whether
I'm a child of God or not."
So we see by all of these scriptural proofs that our
assurance comes as a result of receiving a certain understanding or a
knowledge which as brother Branham put
it, when we have this knowledge and we see ourselves responding to this Revelation
of Christ in our Midst, we come to the place where we just know. Everything
just adds up to one thing, We possess God - Seed and
therefore, God - Life in us.
Now this morning I wish to continue with this great
Message of Brother Branham's entitled
"God's Only Provided Place of
Worship" as we pick up at paragraph number 233 again...."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."
Now
notice how this ties with the next couple paragraphs. 234 And
remember... You say, "Well, I believed I come in too." Remember, the
Bible says... You say, "Well, the Bible said, `Whosoever
believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is saved, shall be saved.' " Now listen carefully as
we keep reading on.
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It says that, but remember it also is
written, also is written, "No
man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." See? You might say "he is," but he
isn't until the Holy Spirit Itself which
gives Life to the Word proves it by vindication that you are the son of God. That's the Scripture.
Notice how well this fits with last Sundays Message.
He says here that just because you say it, doesn't make it so, even if you are
saying what is True. Now you might ask yourself " what are you
driving at preacher? You are probably
thinking, If I say it and it's true then what I'm saying is so." But brother Branham is telling us here that,
"just because you say you believe it, doesn't really mean that you believe
it." And that is what I'm trying to
tell you. The only way I can tell if you believe it is if your life is
manifesting what you claim to believe.
If Noah really didn't believe God's Message of the
rain, he would not have built the ark. If Moses did not really believe God's
Message of an Exodus, He would not have left
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"The
place that I chose to put My Name. You shall not worship in any other gate, but
in the gate I put My Name in; then I will receive you, you're in My
family." So until God accepts your Revelation, you are not even
accepted by Him as part of His family.
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Mathew 13: 10 - 17 (read) To Him that Hath, That
"Echoes" That is of such a
nature as "to hear, recognize and act upon the Word of God." That is the ones I have chosen to place my
name in them as part of my Family. And only those who were in Him before the
foundations of the world
will be of such a nature as to echo back His Word in an outward
expression or manifestation. You won't
be able to help yourself. Now, I am not
just speaking some legalistic thoughts here, I am telling you what God's
Prophet under inspiration of the Holy Ghost is telling you. Notice as we read
further in pp 237.
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Now, the family of God obeys the
order of the Father of the family. "And He is the Prince of Peace, the
Mighty God, the everlasting Father; and of His dominion and reign there shall
be no end, the government shall be upon His shoulders." And Him being
Governor, King, Emmanuel, First, Last, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God,
everlasting Father, every one of His
children obey every Word to the order because they're a part of Him.
You say, I don't believe that. "Well, that just shows your
an unbeliever, that's all. From page 25-1 THREE.KINDS.OF.BELIEVERS Ahab,
he was an unbeliever, though he--he act
like he wasn't. No, no, he was
amongst the believers, but he was a unbeliever.
What did he do? He married an idolatrous, and brought
idolatry right into
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And you go to church; don't set at home,
go fishing, and hunting, and things like that on Sunday. You say, "Well, I'm not a
legalist." Well, you'd better be in
that manner for a while, dishonoring the resurrection of Christ. You go to
church somewhere.
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Genesis 6: 3
(read) So you can see that God will not always strive
with man. One of these days soon you will have to give an account for all your
unbelief. Your excuses might sound ok to your own selves but God knows what is
in your hearts. He knows better than you do yourselves. I can hardly believe
that people are so stupid as to keep on feeding their flesh and pandering to
their lusts and somehow think that they won't reap what they are sewing. And
then they wonder why their kids get into trouble and their daughters get
pregnant before marriage or their boys run off with some little slut. Shame on
a people who know to do right and don't do it. Shame on parents who take off
for weekends and leave their kids at home to care and fend for themselves. Your post of duty is in church with your
families. Don't think that you are'nt already reaping
for your transgessions.
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Hosea 4: 6
(read) He says, because you have
forgotten His Laws, He will forget your children. Just keep on sewing to your flesh and watch
your kids go out into this world. Death Doomed...By Who?
By the parents who do not believe the commandments of God that said, Keep Holy
My Sabath!
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We live in our home like Branhams live. You
live in your home, the Joneses, like the Joneses live.
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And in the House of God we live
by the Word of God and every One that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God, and any other, fraud, we won't listen to him. See?
Now before we go further, I just want to add
this. There is a preacher who is telling his people that "under the shout
the Husbands are supposed to control their families, but under the voice we no
longer are responsible to control our familes." To me that man needs to be born again. Where
does he get that from anyway? Show me scripture and verse. And yet you might
think that he is off into lala land somewhere, but
you do the same by your actions. Then who is the hypocrite? The one who says it
and does it or the one who doesn't say it yet does it by your actions. He said , "in the House of God we live by the Word of
God and every One that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God,"
Now brother Branham continues here in pp. 239 by
saying, "You shall eat unleavened
bread, every church age, just as I give It to
you." But don't try to go back and inject that over into This, because it's come into a stalk. "You shall take
the bones and things that's left over of the sacrifice
and burn them!" Gone, the church age died, went on; we're in another one
now. Amen! 240
"The
place I choose to put My Name in." Oh, my! I Corinthians
12. 241 Notice Ephesians 4:30: ...
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the... (next revival?)... until the day of
your redemption. ... grieve not the holy Spirit of
God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption.
You say, well preacher, I am under so much stress I
need to get away. Then whereever you go you had
better be in church. That's your post of duty to God and to man. "Well, I
worked so hard and I was to tired. " Oh good excuse when you see God forget your
kids. When you see your kids get into trouble and leave the Word of God. Don't
blame anyone but yourselves. He said, You forget my
Word and I'll forget your kids." How are you supposed to apply the Token
when He is the Token.
You should be here every time the doors open with your kids instead of
them off to some ball game. That's applying the token.
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Now notice. Let's apply that to our Scripture lesson. Then we better go,
I think I'm wearing the people out. Don't you? People getting
up and going home, see, 'cause they got dinner cooking. And somebody
else wanting to leave, they didn't expect come down here to listen all day
long. See? But look, you know the... 243 Ben, I--I ought to work on you! Bless you! Thank you, Brother
Ben. I love you, Brother Ben.
Pp
246 whereby
you're sealed until the day of your redemption. 247
Notice! Now this
might pinch just a little bit, but look (don't fall out with me) just
remember.
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When
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Well, the Bible's always right. He puts words in there you got to place
It out where It goes, to make it... make the whole picture of redemption, see.
See? ... grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby
you are sealed until your redemption. (till you're
redeemed)
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You're sealed in there, you're beneath the Blood. You don't go out no more. And then what are you? God's son in God's family, sealed in by
the Holy Spirit. The Devil couldn't get you if he had to; for you are dead,
your old husband part is dead; and you are buried, and your life is hid in God
through Christ, and sealed by the Holy Ghost. How's he going to get you? How
you going to get out? You're there! Glory! Now I will leave that alone; just
enough so you'll know what I'm talking about.
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Then a new creation, not to a denomination but to the Word. You're a
creation of the Word. Because the foundation stone was
laid in you before the foundation of the world, predestinated to be sons and
daughters of God.
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And upon this come stone upon stone, in each age, to vindicate that Word
that's coming up, just exactly as Jesus did in His age, which is the Capstone
of it all. In Him laid every age. In Jesus was Moses.
In Jesus was David. In Jesus was the prophets. Is that
right? Look at Joseph, sold for almost thirty pieces of silver, throwed in, supposed to be dead, taken out, went and come
to the right hand of Pharaoh. Look, exactly, Jesus was... Joseph was in Jesus.
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And when He come, He was the fulness of the kings, prophets (hallelujah), the godhead
bodily rested in Him. He come to redeem out of there a
Bride, a Masterpiece. A Masterpiece that says to Satan that...
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When he says, "Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as
these things you're talking about."
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"Get thee behind me, Satan." See? See, a Masterpiece standing
and a-guarding.
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Sometime the Capstone will return, the head of all of it, and receive
the Bride unto Himself; which the woman is took from
the man, a part of the man. Every... Genes of the man
is in the woman, what makes the woman. And that's the way the Word of God is in
the Church, what makes the Church the Bride. Not a denomination, that's of the
Devil, every one of them. I ain't calling the people
in there that; there are poor deceived people, like Jesus said, "Blind
leading the blind." And He could not call them out.
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And they said, "Well, you are borned of
fornication! Who tells you to come to here? What school, what seminary
recognized you? There we have Moses. We are..." He said, "If you'd have knowed Moses, you'd have knowed Me."
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Cause Moses wrote Him in his four books, "The Lord your
God shall raise up a giver of the Word, a Prophet likened unto me, and who will
not hear that prophet will be cut off from amongst the people." That's all
there is to it. And what is He? The Word. And what is It? Don't leave none of the leaven
left in the... Just don't put no leaven amongst It. Don't
add any creed, any denomination, for it's polluted right there, your sacrifice
is finished.