God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 77
Brian Kocourek,
Go
In and Never Come Out
This evening I would like to continue where we left
off on Sunday. But first let's just recap our thoughts so far concerning with
pp. 241 where he said, " Notice [Ephesians
Now, as we said Sunday, a Seal is used to indicate security and permanency. The Greeks used a seal when preparing sacks of grain that were to be
transported from one area to another. The seal was to ensure that the full contents placed
in the sacks would indeed be the same
full contents that met their destination.
So you can see that in viewing Paul's use of this word, He uses this
word it with thoughts of
Security over the length of our journey. It is the Word of God
which is His Spirit that seals us in.
Ephesians [1: 13b] "In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise". [
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[Peter 1: 23] " Being born again, not
of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which Liveth and Abideth for
ever." Now, the fact that this
being born again is by a seed that has a certain type of Life that will never
die, ensures you that this Life will indeed endure through out the journey; for
he says, 'Which Seed Life liveth and abideth for ever,"
and this word Abideth is used in reference to (1) time
and (2) condition. In time it shall continue, it shall survive,
it shall endure, it shall not perish, but it shall Live. Now,
the fact that words are expressed here of continue, and survive and endure etc.
Shows that the journey will not be an easy one, but one of struggle, but of
prevailing as well. It shows us that this Life Seed has a journey to go through
before it reaches a place of Rest and fullness of Life.
In reference to
condition, it is said that is shall remain
as one and it shall not be altered
or changed to another. So it can not
be hybridized nor can it become perverted.
So then, we see here that there will be a struggle to change it, but that it is
made to resist any change that would alter it and pervert it's
true nature. So then, for all intents and purposes it is said to be sealed in.
Now, remember, The Scripture says, "this seed Life Liveth
and abideth" and the Word liveth shows Life and the word abideth
shows a period of time and it's conditions necessary to remain full of life. But it also speaks of
rest, which may seem like a paradox because we would naturally think, "how can something that shows a struggle be at rest?"
Yet the very fact that it is abiding shows it is not being moved from where it
has planted it's roots. "When it has done all it
can do to stand, it is therefore standing."
Let's continue at paragraph 248
"When
Notice how brother Branham substituted the words, " whereby you go in and don't go out anymore
until" for " whereby you are sealed until". So he is telling us that the sealing
in is to keep us from going out. Then we know that those who "depart
from the faith" in this last hour were never really sealed in to
begin with. They could not have been sealed-in if they went out. Now, remember,
we are living in the end-time, and it is very apparent that one of the main
attributes or characteristics of the end-time is that there is to be a falling
away, which shows that those who fall away were never sealed in to begin with.
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[ 2 Thessalonians 2: 3] " Let no man deceive you by any means":
( not by letter, nor by spirit, nor by word) "for that day", ( The Day of Christ, His Parousia) "Shall
not come except there come a falling away first," So we see the earmarks of the Parousia of
Christ is that there must be a falling
away. And notice that this falling away is at the time of a gathering unto Christ at the time of
His Parousia as Paul states in verse 1.
"Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the Parousia of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
together unto Him, that you be not soon shaken in your minds, nor be troubled
in your spirit by any word or letter as supposedly from us," and then
Paul tells us to watch for these earmarks of a falling away. Then we shall know
that we are indeed at the time of this great Parousia of Christ.
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[ 1 Timothy 4: 1- 2 " Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart
from The Faith, Giving
heed, ( paying attention to) seducing Spirits and doctrines of Devils; And Also
Speaking Lies in hypocrisy; ( what lies?
these are lies that they know better and are even doing differently in
their own actions, but they speak them to the people any how, because these are
hypocritical lies) and the reason they do
this is because they have no consciences, their consciences have become seared
with a hot iron." Now, this is not just the church because
in
Here we find out where they are falling away from THE Faith. Not just faith, but THE Faith. And there is only One
Lord, And One Faith, and that is THE
Faith. And Since Faith is a Revelation, then there has to be a certain
Revelation that they will be falling away from. So we see,
they will be departing from THE
Revelation. And since their is only One Faith or one revelation and that is THE Revelation of Jesus Christ,
[read Revelation 1: 1]. We must
concur then, that these who are falling away from THE Faith are those who have become aware of His Presence
and yet they fall away any how.
Now, remember, Brother Branham said, "My
Ministry is to declare Him, that He is here."
And in this statement we have two points.
Point #1] to Declare Christ, and Point #2] to declare His Presence. Now the word to declare means to show forth
or to bring into view. So we see two things are to shown forth and brought into
view. Christ and the fact that He is here.
That is why the Parousia of Christ and the Godhead are the most attacked
doctrines in this Message today. Because if you do not
understand Godhead, then you could never understand How He is here. And
these doctrines are not just opposed by the clergy running them down as being
wrong, but remember, in [2 Peter 2: 1 - 3] we are told, "that
there will be men of such character who shall identify with being called
teachers, and these men shall bring in, along side of True Doctrine,
destructive heresy, even denying the one that bought them".
Now, I want to ask this Question,
#1] "Who bought you, and #2] what was the purchase price or
what did He use to pay the price? Now, think before you answer, because I am
being very careful with the Wording of this question. "Who bought you, and what was the purchase
price or what did He use to pay the price?
Now, I am
actually asking you two questions and so I will also need two
answers. Answers: #1] God,
your Father bought you, and what did He pay for you? #2] The
purchase price was a lamb without blemish, the very Life of His own Son. So then if these men who call themselves
teachers bring in alongside of true doctrine, heresies that God calls
destructive, then what will these heresies be? They will be pertaining to the
One that bought them. They will end up denying the Father. And Who came down in this hour according to Ephesians 1: 17? The Father of Glory. So if they will deny Him then they must
also deny His presence. Right? And in order to bring in destructive heresies
into the Message alongside of True Doctrine, they must be able to know and
identify what is the True Doctrine and they must be preaching it, but preaching
it wrong, and therefore denying the true by interjecting false along with it.
Do you understand this.
That is why they do not understand Who
it is that came down. They think we are preaching the presence of the Body, but
we are not. We are preaching the Presence of the Father of Glory. But because
they do not understand that there is One God and He had a Son, they therefore
think that the Son is the Father and the body is somehow lifeless somewhere.
And so they are doing away with the Father altogether and this is how. Some men who once
preached Parousia but never really understood it, thought that the Parousia was
the second coming of Christ. And I even had very strong discussions with these men and I could
see back in the early eighties that they did not understand God head. One man
wanted to do away with the Body all together, while another wanted to put the
voice of the resurrection in the Bride, while yet another emphasized the
Parousia of Christ as the Revelation of
the Son of Man and ended up putting the fullness of the Godhead in brother
Branham. But they all have one thing in
common. They are all moving into Humanism and they are placing the fullness of
the Godhead now in the Bride.
This they are doing, whether they call it the female
portion of the Holy Spirit, which is utterly nonsense and heathen, or they are
doing it by using teaching techniques which are absolutely Trinitarian in
concept. One man who told his audience in
Scripture please! Verse Please! But I'll tell you where the problem is.
These men take a
few quotes from brother Branham and try to make doctrine from it without understanding
by scripture the Truth of what he is saying. He said in several places, " All that was in God He poured into Christ and there
fore the entire Fullness of the Godhead was bodily in Christ." Now, I have
no problem with that, because we have scripture for it. But let's see what else
they do with this. He also said, " And all that
was in Christ He poured into the church."
I still don't have any problem with that. But what I have a problem with
is what these men are doing with that. 1st of all, brother Branham never said
anything about God pouring all that was in Him into his Son and then He was
emptied out and
there was nothing left of Him. And neither did he ever state the same thing
about the Son pouring himself out and being emptied
out until there was nothing left of Him. What he was stating is that God poured
out Himself or changed His mask. He is quoting [Joel
From [The
Mighty God Unveiled]
Now notice how brother Branham says here, that God
never changes His Nature. So we are dealing with the very nature of God. I want
you to hold that in mind now as we read the very scripture that these men use
to lay claim to the fullness of the Godhead in themselves.
[John 14: 20] where Jesus said, "
In that day, ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in
you" And again in [John 17: 21-23] where Jesus said,
" That they may be One; as Thou,
Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they may be One in Us: that the world
may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the Glory which Thou hast given Me I
have given them; that they may be One, even as we are One: I in them, and Thou
in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that
Thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as Thou
hast loved
Me."
So then we must ask ourselves how did He come into the
people? From a
Message entitled, [Behold a Greater Than all is Here].
So it is the Word which is to come into us and we know
that if the Word is in us then the very Life of God is in us as well, for Jesus
said, " My words are Spirit and they are
Life."
Now always remember this, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word
was God." Brother Branham even
took us back before He was God to where he was an Eternal fountain of thought.
And then when that Eternal Mind began to bring forth His Thoughts into Word
form, then that Word was the beginning of the manifestation or expression of
God. So we then can say what Jesus said in this manner, "In that day, [which is this day], you shall know, that I [the Expressed
Word] am in My father [the Source of
that Word, the Eternal Mind and Fountain of Thought] and He, [the Eternal Mind and Fountain of Thought] is in Me, [the Word Expressed], And you in Me, [the Word Expressed.]
So you see, unless they know what they are talking
about, they absolutely take away from the Father and Son of God altogether and
place everything into the church. And didn't brother Branham even warn us in
our prayers to never think that you could ever exhaust God. He said, "could you imagine a little fish ever
thinking that he had better drink of the ocean sparingly unless he drink it dry." And neither do you do away with the
Father by pouring out into the Son. Even after Jesus had received the Fullness
of the Godhead into Him, He still prayed to the Father in Heaven when He said, "Our Father which art in heaven." But as I said, if these men understood the
doctrine they would not teach such diatribe. Even Webster understood that
Godhead is God Hood. And God hood is the state or condition of being God. In
other words, the very Life that was in God He poured into His Son and from the
Son it was released to come into Sons. That is why in [John
But what ever these men are trying to do, they are not
a part of it. For in [2 John 9] he
said, "Whosoever transgresseth,
[which means to go beyond the limits] and
abideth not [which means to remain in ] the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. He that remains in the doctrine of Christ,
hath both the Father and Son." As
brother Branham said, when you are sealed you can't go in and out, you must
remain in it. And if you remain in it and are sealed into it, then nothing from
the outside can get in either. It's like a boat, If
the rain water won't leak out, then it won't leak in either. It's got a good
seal. And all this hogwash that has crept into the Message about Female parts
of God is nothing but worldly humanism and new age hogwash.
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[2
Timothy chapter 3]:it tells us, "That
the last days will be perilous time, times of great stress and troubles, hard
to deal with and hard to bear, because although they will have a form of God
likeness, they will turn down the power which is the Word according to Romans
This is of
Course Hebrews 6, where it is said,
that these people "were once for all enlightened, (which
is Revelations 10, for the book is
only opened at this hour ) and they have tasted of the Good word of God, and were made aware of the power of the age
to come, (which is the millennium),
and they were even made companions of
the Holy Ghost Himself." Now
what other people could this be speaking of but those who saw the Millennial
powers exhibited in God's Prophet with bees being talked to and a mad bull
understanding the words of
God's servant and opossum's coming for prayer, and even
violent storms being turned back by the
words of a man. And to clinch the nail,
we see that these people were even made companions of the Holy Spirit just as
the people who fell in the wilderness of Sin were made aware that they were
following the Pillar of Fire, and yet they also fell away, because although
they did not return to Egypt, yet their hearts had already turned back and they
had the desire to do so,
and so God just let them die off one by one in the wilderness of
Sin.
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Now notice in [2 Timothy 3: 8] The Scripture calls
these people "reprobates concerning THE Faith which is The Revelation". And this word reprobate is a Greek word adokimos which
means, "Not having stood the test."
Now, this leads us to another thought about this
sealing in. Because we find there is a group of people who will be sealed in,
and then their will be another group who are not sealed in, and yet both will be aware of
the Presence of Christ or the Parousia of Christ, in the last days. Yet the
Ones who are sealed in will not be deceived, and they will not go out from the
presence of Christ, but those not sealed into the Presence of Christ will not be able to stay in His Presence as
we see in 2 Thessalonians 1: 7 - 10
these two groups. It calls them
reprobates, and this word means as we said, "those who do not stand the test." And since this reprobate condition is said to
be concerning THE Faith,
which is THE Revelation of Jesus
Christ, then the test must also be concerning THE faith or THE revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now, if we would open our Bibles to 1 Peter 1: and read verse 5 we will see that there is to be in the last times a Faith or Revelation
that will bring forth salvation which is a deliverance. And then in verse 6 we see that there is to be all sorts of testing go on
concerning this Revelation. Now, how does God ever test His People? The
same way we are told to try or test the Spirit. Give them the Word test. And so
the test of our Revelation will result in the Elect, a condition of Praise,
which has to do with our lips acknowledging this Revelation. And then a
condition of Honor, which is a sense of value or a high estimation, and so we
see that those who speak this Word also will esteem it of great value.
In fact, they will esteem it the greatest value in
their lives, and this will bring them to the place of Glory, which is the Doxa of God, His very mindset in the Elect.
Now if those who are considered reprobate concerning THE Faith, or THE Revelation of Jesus Christ
and His Parousia with us, then this means that they have failed the test, which
also means that although they know it is True, or The Truth, yet they will not speak it, and thus it shows, and the
reason they do not speak it is because it has not the value to them that it has
to the Elect. Hence, they will never receive the Mind of God which is His Doxa or Glory. And how could they ever receive the mind of
God? For they are not sealed. So
then as a broken cistern, they would only leak out what Living Waters they had
poured in any way. That is why in
Matthew 13 Jesus said, "To Him
that Hath will I give, but to them that have not, I will not give, because what they
do have already is being taken away. It is leaking out and they are loosing
what they thought they had." So
now, we should see the importance of what brother Branham is telling us here in
this Message of God's Only Provided Place of Worship.
Now, let's continue with the next paragraph number 250.
250 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.
Now, remember, "if you walk in the Light as He is also in
the Light, then the blood of Jesus Christ His Son Cleanses you from all sin (disbelief).
And so then, as long as you are walking in the Vindicated Word, you are under
the protection of the blood. We are told
in [Romans chapter 4], that
Faith is counted for righteousness. And so "Blessed is the man in whom God imputeth
righteousness without works, saying Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, and
blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. " Now, he never said that you didn't do it,
but he just tells you here that God just
won't give you credit for it. This
doesn't mean that we have license to go out and freely sin, but it means when
you have fallen, it is the Grace of God which causes you to get up and move forward
again, all the while forgiving you seventy times seven in a single day. In [1
John 3: 9] we read, "He that is born of God, ( He that has been sealed by God) Does not commit sin;" Now, this word commit is a word which
means to initiate and habitually
practice. You may backslide daily, but there is no willful intention to do
so. You just got yourself into a trap. And so we see the Seal of God go
unbroken. Why? Because it says, "His Seed remains in you."
The Seed, His Seed is sealed in, and in [Psalm 37] we read, " The
steps of the righteous are ordained of the Lord: and the Lord delights in your
way, although you may fall, you shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord
shall uphold you with His own Hand of Power." In the next Paragraph brother Branham tells us
we become new creations in Christ by the Word not by any thing that we do, but
because we are predestinated to it.
251 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. It is all a work of Grace and Election. He seals us
in, and we are sealed. So we mustn't ever desire to go out, but if you have His
mind, how could you have such a desire? Remember, The
greatest battle takes place in the mind and you have no thoughts coming. Your
mind is only a filter and either God's thoughts or satan's
thoughts will filter through your mind down to your inner man. That is why the
Token is so important. And the Life in that token must be displayed. Finally in
closing let me read to you from the Token.
28-1 TOKEN THE JEFF.IN.
V-2 N-19 63-0901M
Oh. Oh, it should make us be--should make our hearts... Oh, apply it, church. Don't--don't fail. Will you not? Don't--don't--don't let the sun set.
Don't--don't--don't--don't--don't rest day or
night. Don't take no
chance; it won't work, children. It won't work. You must have the Token. You say, "I believe, yes. I go...
Yeah, I believe the message." That's all right, but... That--that's good. But you must have the Token. Do you hear, Branham
Tabernacle? You must have the Token displayed.
Without it, all your believing is in vain. See?
You'll live a good life; you listen to what the Word says; you go to church;
you try to live right; that's fine, but that's not it. "When I see the Blood," that's the
Token, and the Token here is not... 'cause what did... He had to see the actual
chemistry, because the life had gone, he--had gone from it. It was an animal. But here it's His Own Life that was in
the Blood, and the chemistry was only a signal, or
sign of sanctification. But the Life
Itself is the Token. For without the
circumcision, without the Token, you're not even in the covenant. The whole
thing works together. If you say you're circumcised to the Word,
and It only, then you'll believe the Word. If you believe the Word, then the Token's got to come. ( and remember, he said the Token is the Life of the Word).
For He said, "Repent, and be
baptized everyone of you in the Name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost." There you are. Oh, my. Notice, then the preparation for His
promised land people... Notice, what he did. First, He had a people that He had
made a land for them. He had prepared a land for them. And now, He sent down
there a preparation for it, for the promised land
people. It was only for those who were
predestinated to that promised land. Right. And
how He done it, He sent a prophet
with a message, identified it by a Pillar of Fire, and gave a token that they
could rest assure that It was right. That's right.
It was for consolation.
So we see then, that it all comes back to this one
thing. If you are sealed in by the Word of God which is a Seed, then you are
quickened by the Life of that Seed which is the very Life of God Himself, and
you will not only recognize your day and it's Message, but you will be a part
of it. For every Messenger that brings a Message, there has to be someone to receive that Message. As brother Branham preached the message
called, "HEARING, RECOGNIZING
and ACTING on the WORD of GOD", we must also hear it, and that is to
recognize, or understand it, and then if we do, then we shall act upon it.
We are sealed in by the very Life of God Himself. So then, as
brother Branham quoted the Apostle Paul, he said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed until the day
of your Redemption." And what
does it mean to grieve the Holy Spirit of God?
The word grieve
means to cause deep sadness.
Why? Because you are going to get clobbered for what you do that is
outside His will. I hate to have to discipline my kids, but when I have to I'll
do it, because I love them. And God hates to have to discipline you as well. It
hurts Him as a Loving Father to do it, but if you sow, you shall also reap. And
what Parent would like to see his kids have problems in their life. What Parent
likes to look in on their kids and see marital problems, or financial problems,
or alcohol problems or sexual problems. No, sir. I want the best for my kids. And I want them to
have a Life that is prosperous and full of joy and peace and rest in the Lord.
I want them to be happy and have positive thoughts about this journey we are
on. I don't want them to get side tracked for one minute. They might miss out
on the beauty He's created for them, and the wonderful things He has for them.
Remember, He said, "No eye has seen , and no ear has heard, what
He has in store for those who love Him." Brother Branham even said, that because God
knew that some of His Kids would like mountains, He created them for our
enjoyment. And because some of His kids would like the lakes and rivers and
oceans, he created them for our pleasure. So if He will go to that much
trouble to fulfill our desires and fulfill our pleasures and give us joy, won't
He do what He can to keep us sealed in? Remember, we have a promise. "He
will keep us in perfect peace who's mind is stayed on
Thee." Let's just bow our heads
and our hearts in prayer as we approach Him in thanks giving for this Word of
Life and the Hope He has given us this even.