Follow Me #13,
( Your Choice)
Sunday Morning,
Rev Brian Kocourek
Last week when we examined the
subject of obedience vs. works, we read from paragraph 137 where brother
Branham said, 137 You must make a
choice. Your choice will determine
what your eternal destination will be. Remember, Jesus asks each one of us,
"Follow Me if you want Life." See? Leadership, "Follow Me, and
you will have Everlasting Life." And I'm sure even to us adults, we get
something out of this too. If you want Life, you have to accept It. If you want religion, you accept it if you want. What
you have to do, what you accept, that's
what you get.
Now, I would like to examine this
thought here because there is a great debate between those who believe in
predestination to the point of God shoving you through a tube verses those who
believe that your election and salvation is totally left up to you as an individual and
your choice is what really matters. In others words, these think that your
choice is the only thing that really counts, and without your choice, you never
would be saved.
But then what do you do with [Proverbs
Now, we read this morning from
paragraph 137 where brother Branham appears to be telling us that your choice
is a very important thing, and that your choice will determine your eternal
destination. In another place brother Branham appears to be telling us that
free moral agency is the prime factor in your being saved. at
least that is what it appears to be from a quick reading.
E-15 GOD'S
COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM 56-0223
Now, Jesus didn't come to
Calvary just for a haphazard thought, "Well, I'll die up there; perhaps
maybe somebody will feel sorry for me and come down and get saved." No,
no, God don't run His office like that. You don't run your office like that. Jesus come for one specific purpose: that
was to redeem those that God foreknew would be redeemed. See? Now, God's not willing that
any should perish, but that all would come to repentance. But in order
to be God, He had to know... Now, the word "predestinate," as is used
in Ephesians 1:5, predestinate
there, isn't a good word. It means, in
speaking of predestination to the people sometimes leads them to think that God
just predestinated you to push you through a little pipe, or something. That's
not right. Predestination looks back to foreknowledge. And foreknowledge looks to destiny. 16
Therefore, God being God before the
foundation of the world knew that who would be saved and who would not. Romans 8, He could say that He hated
Esau and loved Jacob before either child was born. For by foreknowledge He
knowed what a little shyster that Esau would be, and how He would save Jacob.
So therefore, by foreknowledge God knew those things (See?),
foreknowledge. So then, look now I'm
basing something. Wish we had about three or four hours on this one subject,
but we haven't; we just have to hit the high places. And notice, now by
foreknowledge God knew, and He did say
that there will be a Church. 17 Now, talking, bring it right up to the age of eternal security here. I do believe in eternal security in this
way: I believe that the Church has eternal security. And as long as you are in
the Church, you are secured with the Church. Do you get it? As long as you are in the Church, you are
secured with the Church. You get it?
Now, then how do we get into the Church? By joining? No, by one
Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, not Methodist, not
Baptist, not Pentecostal, but by one
Spirit: I Corinthians 12,
"We're all baptized into one fellowship." And in there, as long as we're in this fellowship, the
Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us continually. God looking through the red as we had last
night, sees you and it's a red sinner, but sees you white through red. 18 Then God foreknowing, and there will be... The Church is going to be, whether you are in It,
or I am in It; It will appear before God without spot or without wrinkle.
God's done said so, and that settles it forever. Now, He never said, "In
this church will be William Branham."
He said, "The Church would be there, and she would be a glorious
Church, washed in the Blood, ironed out, and would be without spot or
wrinkle."
Now, it's up to me whether I want to
stay in that Church or not. Not... He didn't say He would predestinate me, and I'd be sure to be there,
but He give me the assurance if I was with this group I would be there, or if I
was in Christ Jesus, which is the Bride, I would be there. 19
Now, that brings us down to election now. Now, God by foreknowledge could set election. Therefore, when He called
Abraham... Who was Abraham? Abraham was no more than any other man. He came
down from
20 But notice, Abraham was no
different from no one else. But God by
election called Abraham, for he was no more than anyone else. Now, watch
the four patriarchs: Abraham is justification. We have stayed two weeks on
that, or Abraham, I beg your pardon, Abraham is
election. Isaac represents justification. Jacob grace, anyone
knows that, Jacob grace, and Joseph perfection. Election,
justification, and grace, and perfection, not an aught against Joseph anywhere. But now, Abraham was called of God by
election, or foreknowledge, knowing that Abraham would walk before God. And
that's the only reason tonight, by the same way... How many Christians are here
lets see your hands, all over the building everywhere?
Why are you a Christian? Because
God elected you. Amen. I hope
you see it. God said... Jesus said, "No man can come to the Father except
by Me, and no
man cometh unto Me except the Father draws him first." Is that right? 21 So if the Father has drawn you, it's God's foreknowledge of election.
"And all that comes unto Me, I'll give them everlasting Life, and will
raise him up at the last day." God gave the promise. What you worried
about? Now, notice just a moment. Now,
we see in the election that God, calling Abraham... And notice, the first thing when God calls a man, He calls for total separation
from the world. "Separate yourself, Abraham," as soon as he got
his call. Now, here it is. Every
Christian in here that's born again, when God called you, called for total
separation. If He didn't, you got
the wrong call. See?
22 God
doesn't make any difference between His children. Every son that cometh to God must first be tried or chastised. You
get it? First be tried, or chastened,
corrected, child trained, schooled,
everyone not one exception, every son... Have you went
through trials? Have you went through tribulation?
Have you suffered persecution? Then you're endure these things, you are real
children of God. But when you can't bear chastisement, when the
rod comes down heavy, and you run off and back into the world, the Bible said
you're illegitimate children and not the children of God. For when a man's born
of the Spirit of God, he expects those things, and he loves those things. And
the Bible said that the trials that come upon us, fiery trials, is more
precious than gold to us. Think of it.
23 So, you see these with these ups-and-downs,
they've never been there at the first place. See? They just a make believe.
Amen. Salvation is for
believers, not unbelievers, or make believers. It's for true genuine
believers. And it's not a case of law, and God's going to make you do
something; it's because you love to do it.
When I leave my wife to come on this trip, I don't have to say,
"Now, looky here, Mrs. Branham, you are a married woman. Thou shalt not
have any husbands before thee, while I am gone. Yet thou shalt not do this and
do that." And she turned right
around with the law to me as a married woman and say, "Now, Billy, you'll
not have any more wives before you while you're gone." No, that's not the
idea; this is a love affair.
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I go to her, and I say,
"Sweetheart, the Lord calls me to go preach the Gospel." Kiss her
good-bye and say, "Pray for me, honey, God bless you." Away we go. I
don't think nothing about home, and whether she's doing this or that. Neither
does she, because we love one another. And as long as we love another like that,
don't worry, it'll be all right. And if I serve Christ just to escape hell,
hard to tell what I'll do, but if I love Him... Oh, I wouldn't do nothing against my poor little old wife for nothing in the
world. Bless her heart, I--I love her. I'd do everything I can to please her.
There is an old expression that
says, God will never make you go against your will, He just makes you willing
to go. You remember during the first Exodus, God said that He was
sending the people into the Land flowing with Milk and Honey and they were to
drive out the inhabitants of the land and then go in and possess the land for
themselves. Well, God also said He would
harden their hearts against
[Exodus 23:28-30] And that is the way God works, little by little.. And so we are looking at our choice. And we see that
brother Branham said, Your choice will determine
what your eternal destination will be. Now there are two words here
that we must know in order to understand what Brother Branham is saying to us
and those two words are Choice and determine. He said your choice will determine what
you eternal destination will be. Now the word choice according to
Webster is => the act of choosing, selection. In other words, what you
select will determine your eternal destination. And now what does the word
destination mean...=> is the place to where someone is going or being sent.
Therefore what Brother Branham is telling us is that what you choose determines
where you will be going. Now that is perfectly logical and I agree 100% with
this statement, and I had better because we are not just listening to words of
a man here, but these are words of a vindicated Prophet. But now, just
because he says this he is not telling you that you have the choice that will
place you in heaven or the choice that will place you in hell.
He is simply telling you that you
are identified with your choice. The path you take is a determining factor in
where you are headed. And that again is a very logical statement. But this does
not mean that you determine your own destiny. He is not saying that. For Jesus
said,
“No man can come to Me except the Father which hath
sent me, draw Him.” Then you
can’t come on your own. It has to come from God 1st.
139-1 SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE --
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN EVERY AGE
Revelation 2:11, "He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." There is not one church age where this
verse is not mentioned. Every single age has the same admonition to the people
of every age. "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith." But it is
absolutely impossible for all men to hear what the Spirit says to the different
ages. I Corinthians 2:6-16,
"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom
of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught; but we
speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that
love Him. But God hath revealed them
unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a
man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth; but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are Spiritually discerned. But
he that is Spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ." Matthew 13:13-16, "Therefore speak I to them
in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not; neither
do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which
saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this
people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their
eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and
hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and
your ears, for they hear." John 8:37, ye seek to
kill me because My word hath no place in you. I speak
that which I have seen with my Father and you do that which you have seen with
your Father. 42-44, "Jesus said unto them, If God
were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded
forth and came from God: neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do ye not understand My speech? even because ye cannot
hear My Word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his
own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth , ye believe me not. which of
you can convince me of sin.? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
He that is of God heareth God’s Words: Ye therefor hear them not, because ye
are not of God." It is most evident from these Scriptures that no man of
himself can hear God. That ability has to be given him of God. Matthew 16:17, "And Jesus answered and said
unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona; for flesh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but My Father Which is in heaven."
Putting these verses together we see that there is only one group of
people, and that a very special group of people who are able to hear what the
Spirit says in each age. It is one special group that receives the revelation
for each age. That group is of God, because the group that cannot hear is not
of God. (John 8:42-44.) The group that can and does hear what the Spirit is
saying and receives the revelation thereof is that group described in I Corinthians 2:6-16. They are the ones who have the Spirit
of God. They are the ones that are born of God. They are baptized into the body
of the Lord Jesus Christ by His Spirit. They are baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Now, brother Branham also said, E-28 Marriage of the Lamb "She has made herself ready." So
many says, "If the Lord will take this evil spirit from me, from drinking,
or from gambling, or from lying, or stealing, I'll serve Him." But that's up to you. You got to do
something too. "They that overcome shall inherit all things," they
that overcome. You have power to do it, but you must be willing to lay it
down. See? She has made herself ready. I like that Word. You see, God
could not push us through a little pipe, pull us out on the other end, and then
say, "Blessed is he that overcometh." You had nothing to overcome;
He just pushed you through. But you've
got to make decisions for yourself. I have to make decisions for myself. In doing that, we show our faith and respects to God.
Now, then what is predestination all
about if you are not pushed through a tube? The best illustration I can think
of is like a seed. A seed has everything it will ever need right in it to begin
with. And according to Genesis
So if we are predestined to conform
to an image and yet we are not shoved through a tube, then it has to be like a
seed. God places in you beforehand everything you will ever need, but like all
seeds you can’t do it on your own. You need to be quickened. Therefore the
quickening is not left up to you, but up to God through His Son Jesus Christ, [John 5:26 & 21] For as the Father hath life in himself; so
hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; For as the Father raiseth up
the dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. So
the quickening is not up to you but up tot he Son.
Now, in getting back to what Brother
Branham said, He said that we have a choice and our choice will determine where
we end up. Now again let’s look at this statement a little closer. Our choice
or selection shows or points the way to where we will end up. Right? Now that is true. But Who
gives you your choice. Did not Jesus tell Peter that what He said did not come
from man, but from God? Did not we read that the Spirit of man can not
understand the things of God, and that it takes the Spirit of God to understand
those things from God? Then where do you get your choice from? Do you make it
up in your little minds? I don’t think so, but you do identify with your
choice. Remember when we heard brother Branham tell us that we are only a
reflection of where we are going? From The message Healing and Jairus He said, “What you are here is a reflection of
what you are somewhere else. "Those who He
called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified. “Already in the Presence
of the Father, we have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right or not.
"If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, what we are here, is a reflection of what we
are somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil, you know where it comes
from. You know where your other body's a waiting.
So what we are is a reflection of
what we are somewhere else, right? And what are we a reflection of?
[Genesis 1: 26] Iraneaus
said, We--who were but lately created by
the only best and good Being, by Him also who has the gift of immortality,
having been formed after His likeness (predestinated, according to the
prescience of the Father, that we, who had as yet no existence, might come into
being), . For inasmuch as He had a
pre-existence as a saving Being, it was necessary that what might be saved
should also be called into existence, in order that the Being who saves should
not exist in vain.
In other words, God being a Savior,
it was necessary for Him to predestinate a sinner in order to give himself a
purpose of being. And so we See the Great unfolding of
God.
In the beginning was GOD. And in Him were attributes to be a
savior, and healer and protector and etc, etc. etc. But in order for His
existence to not be in vain, He had to devise a plan to express Himself.
Seven compound redemptive names of Jehovah-Elohim + and eighth not
widely used.
1. Jehovah-Jireh = The Lord will
Provide for Himself a sacrifice.
2. Jehovah-Shammah = the Lord is
Present
3. Jehovah -Rapha = The Lord the Healer
4. Jehovah- Nissi = the Lord our
banner and refuge and protector
5. Jehovah Raah = The Lord is my
Shepherd.
6. Jehovah-Shalom = The Lord is our
Peace.
7. Jehovah-Tsidkenu = The Lord is
our righteousness
8. Jehovah-Qadash = The Lord that sanctifieth
God,
Elohim the self existent One
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The
Son of God John 1: 1 Everything God does is through Son
2 Cor
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Sons
of God Gen
1:26-27, Gen 5:1 1 Cor 11:7
Eikon = an image, Heb 10:1 a shadow, negative
Brother Branham said when a man takes a woman to be his wife and when he
takes her to his bosom, she makes an imprint and no other woman will fit that
imprint.
Now notice in God were all these positive attributes, but when He
created man He had to allow Him to be created in such a way as to fall. So man
was brought forth in a negative.
16-4 SERPENT’S SEED V-2 N-4
58-0928E
And when a man takes to himself a wife, and if she's correctly his wife,
a God-given wife, she'll be just to him as part of him. That's the reason you have so many scruples
in the marriage. Is because you go out and see some girl with pretty brown
eyes, or blue eyes, or something like that, some pretty figure, and you fall
for her. First time she has her first baby them teeth comes out, and she gets
wrinkled and old, and then you want to kick her out. And some of you women find some little boy
with his hair slicked down, his mammy's lard can half dumped on it, and curly;
it'll all fall out. I know that by experience. But what happens? What is it?
You fall for that. You ought to pray first, 'cause a woman is part of you. And if you've embraced a woman to your bosom, and taken her for
your wife, and she makes an imprint on you... (We'll say it like
this so you'll understand) and any other woman against that bosom won't fit
that print. And God will hold you responsible for it. You just remember that.
E-27 INNER MAN 53-1212 Like that light. You take the
one wire off, negative or positive. It certainly won't work. That's all. it's got to have
the ground. It's got to be grounded good, and it's
got to have the right type of wire and everything and it'll pack the current;
that's all it needs. Well, if we're really grounded in Christ
(See?), with the Holy Ghost in us, and rooted and grounded in the faith of God,
it'll certainly pack the Light of the Gospel to the world. That's right.
It'll heal the sick; it'll do great works.
119 ENTICING SPIRITS DE 79-112 55-0724 It's a negative and positive. No matter how much positive this current
runs here, if it hasn't got a ground wire it'll never light. That's right.
You've got to be rooted, grounded in the love of God. Oh, brother, bring that
negative and positive together and you'll have a light, the good old fashion
Gospel light spread from shore to shore. You'll never have it without it, no matter how much shaking and jumping you can do with a
positive. You've got to have the ground wire to flash the light. Amen.
E-55 JEHOVAH
JIREH 56-0224 And we live in the negative. But
when it's developed to the positive... Amen. What's
you scared about? Amen.
E-15 LIFE
STORY 51-0722A This is just the negative, the shadow, and someday that death shall
develop the picture from the negative to the positive.
E-9 EXPECTANCY 53-1108E Faith knows no defeat. Faith is perfect.
Faith brings things when there is no things to be
brought. Faith creates. Faith takes
doubt away, takes negative and makes positive. How beautiful.
E-6 DOCTOR
MOSES 55-0114 Now, my work for the Lord is to try to bring that person up to this level
where their faith becomes, not negative, but positive.
E-13 CHRIST 55-0221 if I see my shadow on the wall,
I can pretty near tell what I'm going to look like when the negative and
positive comes together. So all the Old Testament was a
shadow of the New. If they had the shadow, we got the positive. See?
They had the negative; we've got the positive. They had the picture in a
negative; we've got it in a positive,
after it's been developed at
E-19 GIFTS
56-1207
That's my theme, is love. Law works fear. Law is negative; works is negative. But love is positive. See?
It's absolutely positive. You can trust
anybody when they love you, not because they fear you, but because they love
you.
16-104 HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 HEB
57-0821
In other words, if you're looking at the shadow, the negative, you might
make a mistake; but this is developed. The picture's clear. That was by the
prophet; this is by His Son. That was by
a negative; this is by a positive. Amen. You see it? And there isn't a
chance to lose. It's a positive thing:
this day through His Son. Oh, how wonderful.
E-40 ABRAHAM’S
COVENANT CONFIRMED 61-0210
Look at my hand on a shadow on the wall. When
it's away from me, it's scattered out. As
it comes, it becomes more closer. There's not a
great big fingers, it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller, getting darker, darker, and darker, until the shadow, the negative and the positive becomes one. And
that's the way it is in the coming, the church has got to shape itself till it
hasn't got a spot or wrinkle in it. Amen. There is that second Bible.
128 ELIJAH AND MEAL OFFERING V-9 N-4
60-0310 That during the days of Luther, we
lived by justification. During the days of Wesley, we lived by sanctification,
the church become in the minority. In the days of Pentecost we've lived down
through the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the restoration of the gifts. Now,
we're really in the minority, the coming of the Son of God. Here they believed
by faith; here they shouted under sanctification; here they spoke in tongues as
a gift; but now the negative and
positive, and the--the cap's coming on the pyramid; and it's the end time, when
the Christ and His Church is so much alike till it's going to call the dead
from the Methodist, Lutheran, and all those back there, and there'll be a
resurrection. Them that fell asleep in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, and seventh watch, will rise one of these days to meet Jesus in the
skies. The hour has arrived, friends, the coming of the Lord is at hand.
E-26 UNCERTAIN
SOUND 61-0429E This is
just a negative, a picture, negative, waiting for it to be developed someday.
And death is the only thing that can develop it. When you die out to yourself,
a new picture starts on the inside. And then that new creature, Christ
Jesus, begins to show itself through. And one of these days, He will come and
receive you up to Himself. Then the whole thing will be changed. And then this
negative shadow will become a positive.
E-121 SIGN OF HIS COMING 62-0407 This stump's growed from Luther, to Wesley,
to Pentecost; and now is honing out those Pentecostals, and those that's got
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And shall come someday the headstone, Christ
Jesus, in these last days... And we'll have to have a ministry just exactly
like His--His whole Spirit as it gets closer, closer, closer, closer. The negative becomes so positive that
after while the negative and positive blends together, Church and Christ to
make one: for we're flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone. Amen. You
believe it? "It shall be Light in the evening time." Amen. We're here
today. You believe it? Sorry to keep you this long. Let us pray.
219 TOTAL SEPARATION FROM UNBELIEF V-3
N-20 64-0121 This ministry will end soon, and
the expected Son will appear, Himself. The Church has come from justification
through the Lutheran, sanctification through the Wesleyans, into the baptism of
the Holy Ghost through the Pentecostals, and now winding up to the Headstone
ministry, typing all the time right into
that perfect negative shadow becoming positive, then Jesus will come to catch
His Church someday, those who believe.
Separate yourself from unbelief
and believe tonight. Will you do it?
103 TURN ON THE LIGHT V-22 N-3
64-0125
Like my hand here in a shadow.
It's a shadow, only it's darker as my hand becomes more... It's a negative here, a positive here. As a negative and positive, it
gets denser, and darker, darker, darker, and finally it claps together, and negative and positive becomes one. That's
when Church and Christ unites together as a Bride, with the same Spirit that
was in Him will be upon Her, when that Church comes from justification,
sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, into the last days, and honing her
down now for the coming of the Lord. Oh,
don't be the rough part on It, Pentecostal brother. Shine up with the Word and
believe every bit of It. Don't get out into these
ism's and things, as we see going on today.
Don't be astonished at that, because the Headstone's coming, crying, "Abba, Father," pretty soon,
"My God. My God." Yes, I
believe that with all my heart. Do you
see it? You know what I mean? It's Christ now taking the rags of yesterday, the
Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and so forth, and He's putting it through a process. What kind of a process? A process of the Holy Spirit: what they
had plus, making it till He is pressing His Own image, when the Church and
Christ becomes one in union. God, grant it. I trust that you see it. If you do see it...
13 SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS V-19 N-8
64-0304
Now, if you were in His thinking at the beginning, if you've got Eternal
Life, there's only one form of Eternal Life, Eternal Life had no beginning and
it has no ending. So if you have Eternal
Life, you were an attribute of God's thinking before there was anything but
Him. Your form, your shape, and what
you're in now, is just a negative, when you come up to the--around twenty,
twenty-two years old. You were a
negative, and death develops the picture to the positive, that when this
earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting. See?
120 SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS V-19 N-8
64-0304 The shadow, the negative and the positive coming so close together,
till after while there'll be a uniting time.
E-11 JESUS KEEPS ALL OF HIS
APPOINTMENTS 64-0418E Just like this, when my shadow
here of my hand... If I never seen my hand, seen the shadow, it kinda... It
gets pale as it gets away. But as it gets
closer and closer, the negative and positive are coming together, until they
both become the same thing. And that's exactly when the church and the Word
has to be one, like Jesus and God was one, just exactly. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And so will Christ have to be in the church, the anointed of the Word, to make
everything fulfilled. And that's the
capstone that comes upon the last church age, the... Not the
11 MASTERPIECE THE V-4 N-7 64-0705 So we--we
realize that we're here in a negative form. And as long as there is a negative, there has to be a positive. There cannot be a negative without a
positive (See?), because it's because of the positive that makes the negative.
Like you had a negative picture of some object. There has to be an object
somewhere or it--to strike--the light strike that lens or there wouldn't be
any--any negative. So when we see that
our life here is in the negative and knowing that we're in the image of some
life somewhere, then we know that there is a positive somewhere that the light
has struck, and it's reflected something here on earth. And we are only
that reflection. The genuine object is somewhere. If that isn't, I'm the worst
deceived man in the world; I've spent my life in vain. But I know beyond a
shadow of doubt that it's there. That's why we're here.
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is the negative. The negative part of life is where you're living now. And
anything, if there is a negative, there's got to be a positive before there can
be a negative. Therefore, if this is a
negative, there's got to be a positive somewhere. And this ain't the real
thing; this is only a foreshadow of the real thing
that is to come. Now you got it?
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Now, we're told that all the old things happened for examples, for our
teaching, reproofs, admonitions; that all the old things of the Old Testament
happened, foreshadowed to see what would be in the New Testament in our days.
Just like, if you'd never seen your hand and you looked up and you seen a
shadow on the wall (as my hand would be from the light), if it's got five
fingers here in a shadow, when the negative--and you move your hands towards
being the positive towards the negative, it's got to come to five fingers. As the Bible tells us, that the Old Testament
being a shadow, type, of the new things, or the things that was to come, not
the very things that is, but it is a shadow, a type of the things that is to
come.