God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 95

Brian Kocourek, November 19, 1995

Living Word of a Living God

Wednesday night we focused our attention again on pp. 259 where we examined the fact that every Jot and Tittle of God's Word is necessary and in fact vital and is a carrier of God-Life and the attributes of God-Life. We read where Jesus said in ....[Matthew 5:17 - 19] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled and we focused our attention on what Jesus said, "the Word becoming fulfilled" because to become fulfilled means to become as in Life becoming. And so we see Jesus speaking about Life in [John 6: 63] when He said, "My Words are Spirit and they are Life." And in [John 1: 4] where we read, "In Him is Life and the Life is the Light of Men." And again in [ John 14: 6] where He said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." And when we read the parable of the Son of Man sowing a seed, our thoughts automatically think of His a seed as sowing of Life, because after all, that is what a seed is, a carrier of Life, and in [Mark 4: 14] we read, the seed that the sower went forth sowing is the Word. So what we are dealing with here is the Life of God that is contained in the Word Seed of God, which is God-Life!

Now we found that the way we emphasize or punctuate the Word of God carries with it, our understanding of what we are reading. Remember, Jesus said in [Mark 4] Be careful how you hear, for with what filter you are using to hear with, the same filter will determine what understanding you will actually receive from the Word. The exact same words with a different emphasis upon them can make them say just the opposite of what the Words are meant to convey. Paul warned the believers in [Galatians 1: 6] that they had departed from the Message of Christ and were believing another Gospel. But if you notice, He said, it wasn't another Gospel as though it was different Gospel altogether, but it was a changed gospel in that it's nature was changed and therefore perverted from the original.

The wrong emphasis or punctuation can make a sentence say something that is not intended. Wednesday night Matthew Applegate turned in His homework assignment and we read from [Ephesians 5: 22] where Paul said, " Wives, submit yourself unto your own husbands as unto the Lord." When we read this we see a commandment from God. But I asked you children to examine how you could change the meaning of scripture by changing the punctuation and Matthew changed the entire meaning of this scripture by adding just a question mark. He changed it to " Wives, submit yourself unto your own husbands? as unto the Lord? And by placing a question mark in these two places he was able to make the Word place in doubt whether a wife should do this or not. Joey Howansky used the Scripture [Genesis 1: 3 ] And God said let there be light: and if we placed a question mark after And God said? let there be light? We would again see a question going forth that would cause a change in the True understanding and therefore you can see that the way we speak and the inflection we use and the punctuation we read is very important in conferring to us the true meaning of what we are saying. So in essence, we get the spirit behind what is being said not only from the words that are said, but also the way in which they are brought forth. Jesus said, They that Worship God must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.

Now to follow through on this can any of you adults tell me who used this strategy first? Who was the first one spoken of in the scripture to take a command of God and to re speak it with a question mark causing someone to begin to doubt the command of God?

[ Genesis 3: 1 - 4] Notice how the Seprent uses a question here to throw Eve off. "You shall not surely die? He says, did God really say that? And so he got Eve to doubt ! And one word off is satan's kingdom. Now to further understand the effect of every jot and tittle, remember what Jesus said in [Matthew 5:18- 19] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. In examining this scripture we notice that Jesus says the Word has got to come to the place of fulfillment which is a word {ginomai} which means to become. We use the same word when speaking of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly or a tadpole becoming a from.

It suggests to us that the thing being spoken of has not come forth yet but when it does it will fully express what it really is. And so we see Jesus even speaking of every jot and tittle of the word as attributes that must come forth and eventually express themselves. Fulfillment. So we see the importance of leaving it as it was given to us. The Word is Life expressed, God-Life expressed. And therefore, every jot and tittle, every punctuation mark is an attribute and therefore part of the expressed Life. God-Life. When you consider that the Word is a Living breathing organism, then you can see that every jot and tittle is vital to the fulfillment of the whole in the same manner that every gene and chromosome that you possess is vital to your being complete and able to become fulfilled. Branham taught us in pp. 129 that the Word of God is the Genes of God and in pp. 227 "God placed His Genes in us when He placed His Word in us."

Now, if then the Word of God is an expression of God-Life, then to take one jot away or one little tittle away or to change the emphasis or punctuation in any manner will also alter the genetic pool of attributes that lay within the Word of God. Then to distort any of the attributes will distort the God-Life that lays within the Gene Seed of the Word. Remember in [Genesis 1: 11] the Law of reproduction that states "every seed will bring forth after it's kind". And [ 1 Peter 1: 23] "Being born again, not of a corruptible seed but of an incorruptible, by the Word of God." So then the Word is a giver of Life and if so then every attribute and characteristic that is contained in the Word is placed there for a purpose. Just as your own attributes which are placed in your genes and chromosomes are placed there for a purpose and we must never think to alter them, for if we do, we also will alter the expression of that life. To take away any genes from our own gene pool could cause you irreparable damage to your body and mind.

In the November issue of Life Magazine about the Desert Storm babies that are being born with deformities we find out. that biological warfare that Sadam Hussein used against our troops caused mutations to occur in the men's Seed, and it remained unnoticeable until the man decided to fulfill themselves by bringing forth offspring. Then when children started to come forth, they were missing arms and legs. We see how Bio-Engineering in the Omega hour is just a repeat of the story of Genesis all over again when Satan working though the Serpent caused his seed to mingle with the God-life Seed in the sons of God and caused biological mutations in the sons of men. These men became big and mighty, men of renown, and yet we find their minds were incapable of thinking righteous thoughts.

[Genesis 6:1-9] And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God. Here we see the effects of the mutation of the gene Life of God after mingling with the sons of men.

[I Chronicles 20:5 - 8] And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver's beam. And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him. These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Notice the effect of this genetic engineering that satan did, not only did it produce a lineage of mutants physically, but look what it did to the minds of that lineage? every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. And if our way back to a Glorified body is determined by a change of our mind, according to [Romans 12: 2] then what if the mind can not think straight enough to receive a change in it? Didn't Jesus tell us in [ Matthew 13] that only some people are ordained to hear and understand while others are not made to understand? Then where are we at? Why do you think it is so important to marry only a True Genuine believer? Because if you don't, what kind of a chance will your children have? You're only gambling on your children's Eternal destination and placing your children at extreme odds to begin with because many more are the children of the desolate than she which has a husband. Now with this review in mind, let's move on with this message of God's Only Provided Place of Worship. Now notice how brother Branham ties portions of the Word with portions of the Body of Christ as though different parts of the Word will bring forth different attributes of the Body of Christ into Manifestation just as different Genes in your own body are responsible for manifesting different characteristics.

PP. 262 The Lutherans, under justification, the feet, raised it like that; Wesley, under sanctification. The Pentecostals under the arms, the works and deeds and so forth, had to be Calvinists... or had to be Armenian, had to be legalists. But now we come to the head, the capstone. "Grace! Grace!" the capstone cried. Now in this next paragraph I want you to notice how many times Brother Branham refers to Life and living in reference to the Word of God for the hour and how it affects the gene Seed of God in you.

PP. 263 The headstone crying what? "Grace! Grace!" Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God. God's only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that's lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word. Then what does that do? You being a part of God's gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God's Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there's no leaven among you. (See what He's talking about, Brother Brown?) No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in heavenly places, in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus. Now catch what he is saying here. Pure Word brings forth a pure complete body. No leaven means nothing has been injected, and we are talking about Life. And then he tells us that nothing can be injected. Why? Because it would cause another life form to begin to mingle and pollute the God-Life of the Word Gene Seed.

Now this morning I would like to focus our attention on what brother Branham is saying here in pp. 263 when he says, The headstone crying what? "Grace! Grace!" Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God. God's only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that's lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word.

Now let's just examine this thought here and take it back to the Word of God. Notice he says, Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God. I would like to make this point # I ) a living Word of the living God. Now, for Point #2 ) , His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that's lit off of something to make it alive. And Point #3 ) alive and subject to every promise in the Word. Now I don't know if we will have time this morning to get through all of this but if not we shall have to continue on next Satuday night at our Communion service.

point # I ) a living Word of the living God. I think by repeating this statement, we can see that Brother Branham is bringing to our attention the subject of Life. And he is speaking of here pertaining to a Living Word coming forth from a Living God. Now, I hope we can earnestly say that he is speaking in reference to a Living God in contrast to one who is not alive. And a Living Word in contrast to one that's not alive.

Life! That's what this Message is all about. He is talking about a God who is Alive and full of Life. In fact we find in Scripture that God is the Author of Life. Now what I want us to see in this study this morning, is the relationship between these two elements that make up this thought. He said, a living Word of the living God. So at first glance we see that we are looking at two different things here. #1) a Living Word, and #2) The Living God. Two different things, right? Wrong! There's only one thing we are dealing with here and that is Life. God-Life! And the Source of this Life is God Himself.

In order to show you the relationship between these two elements and that they are in reality just one thing, we will first have to look at what the Word is.

[ John 1: 1] In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. So then what we are looking at here is that the Word is no different from God Himself. It says, the Word was with Him and the Word is Him. Now how can this be? We are told in [Proverbs 23: 7] As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. In [Luke 6:45 & Matthew 12:34] Jesus said, For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. And in the message Word Became Flesh...pp. 212, It has to become a thought before it can become a word, and a word expressed, materializes. He also said, every word in the Bible is God's thoughts laid in seed form, that if received into the human being, and spoke by the same thought that materialized the Bible, brings the thing to pass...

So we see that a man is only the product of His thoughts. You have thoughts of becoming a architect, and that becomes your desire and ambition, then when yuo put your mind to it, that is what overtakes you and that is what you become. And as we hear Jesus say, , For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. So therefore, your mouth is a dead give away as to who you are and what you are. Now we read here this morning, Brother Branham speak of a living Word of the living God. And notice the word of joins or links these two elements together. Notice how Living Word is linked to The Living God by one little word of. Now, we know that the word of means out from, or having it's source from. Like if I say these pews are made of wood, they tell you what the source of the pews are. According to Webster's New World dictionary it also means, having as a distinguishing quality or attribute; or characterized by. So when Paul says, I am crucified in Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live, I live by the Faith of the Son of God who gave Himself for me. So when he says he lives by the faith of The son of god, he is telling us that it is not his faith, that this faith does not have it's source in himself but that this faith actually has come forth from or is the distinguishing quality or attribute of and is characterized by the Son of God's very own faith. Not Paul's faith, but Jesus own faith. So therefore we can see that Son of God shows that the Son had His source in God. Therefore we as sons of God also have God as our source or beginning. Now with this in Mind let's again go to the Scriptures to look at the great source of Life, which is in God Himself.

[Psalm 36:9] For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. Now notice closely that the Scripture does not say God is Life, but with Him is life. Life is an expression of what He is. And what else was with Him in the beginning? The Word, right?And we read of this Word and it's attributes in

[John 1:4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Notice, it says, In Him was Life and the Life was the light of men. Now at this point we are still looking at God Himself. But notice in verse 14 this Word which was in and with God begins to materialize and become or take on flesh and in doing so it becomes an expression of the Life that is in God and with God. And then when that Life became materialized before us we hear Him say, [ John 11: 25] Jesus said, " I am the resurrection and the Life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live. So now we see this Life begin to declare the Source of Life and how we also might obtain this Life. And it must come through Him. [Revelation 11:11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. Now notice here where the Spirit of Life came from, It came from God.

So what we are looking at is this, there is a Great Fountain of life that is somewhere, and we know this fountain comes forth from the Presence of God. But what we need to know if we are to receive this fountain, is by what means does it come forth. When we think of a fountain we think in terms of water perpetually coming forth without an ending. Now the water coming forth is not the source but is coming forth from the Source. And the fountain itself is not the source but is the means by which we may obtain the Life that comes forth from the Source. [REVELATION 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. But the Source is God Himself. And yet we see that there is a fountain that will bring froth from Him the very thing we desire, and that is Life. Eternal life. [Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: In this scripture we see that God is our very Life and yet it is His Voice that we must heed in order to obtain the Life of Him. So now we are thinking of this God-Life in terms of fountains and rivers of water. Because the analogy or type that God uses is that of something that is ever moving and flowing forth from it's source. So then there must be a source and a vehicle to move it from that source.

[Proverbs 13:14] The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. [Proverbs 14:27] The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. [Revelation 21:6] And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

[Genesis 2:7] And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Now in this verse we see God bringing forth His own Life and placing it in man through His breath. Yet in this illustration we actually picture God having made or molded a form and then literally coming down to earth and placing His mouth up to Adams and breathing into Adam His own Life. But is that necessarily the way it went? JOB 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life . Now if Job has the same testimony as Adam, then might there be another scene that took place with Adam as well as with Job? And what might that be? What is the breath of God anyway?

In [ 1 Timothy 3: 16] we read, all Scripture is God breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in right wise ness, that the man of God might be thoroughly furnished unto all good works. So we see that the breath of God is His own Word coming forth. Now isn't it strange that we see that In the beginning the Word was with Him and in Him and in this Word is Life and the Life is the Light of man. So then if the Life is in the Word, then we see that we must receive what is in the Word in order to have Life. In [1 Peter 1: 23] we read, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God which Liveth and abideth forever. There's your living word that Brother Branham spoke to us about. And notice it is a Seed that is to bring forth Life. And in [Mark 4: 14] we read that the Seed that the sower went forth sewing is the Word of God.

[Acts 11:18] When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Now notice then if the Word of God is Life, or a carrier of Life as a seed is also a carrier of Life, then it takes a change of our own thinking in order to receive God's thinking which is what a Word is, just a thought expressed. And so then if we are not able to change our thinking, then what chance have we at receiving God-Life. [Acts 13:46] Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. [John 3:36] He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[I John 5:20] And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

[John 17:3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

[Galatians 3:21] [Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

[Ephesians 4:18] Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

[I John 5:12] He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

[Titus 1:2] In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

[Revelations 2:7] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

[Revelations 20:12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. [Revelations 22:19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

[John 5:24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

[Acts 13:48] And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

[Philippians 2:16] Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

[I John 1:1] That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

[Colossians 3:4] When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

[II Timothy 1:10] But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

[Jeremiah 2:13] For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. [Jeremiah 17:13] O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.