MASTERPIECE No. 5

The Blood Covering 

Sunday, May 8, 2005

Rev. Brian Kocourek

 

Isaiah 1: 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

 

Let us bow our heads in prayer. Dear Loving Father we come before your Presence this morning in Reverence and respect to your august presence, and knowing surely that we are sinners saved by your Grace and that no works that we shall do or ever will do could atone for our sinful nature. But we have assurance that the just shall live by faith and that by Faith we have entrance into this Grace wherein we now stand, and based on your Word Father and the blood of your Son Jesus, we can now come boldly unto thy throne of Mercy.

 

Father we ask this morning that you take our thoughts from us. Help us Father to freely give up our own thoughts, as your prophet said, “we have no thought coming.” Therefore Father we pray that you would cleanse us by the washing of water by the Word and allow us to enter into your presence which is Life, and to absorb your God-Life into our beings by the regeneration of the Word. As your Apostle Paul said in Titus Chapter  3  and Verse 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

 

Therefore Father, we come to thee this morning not only as our loving Father, but also as our God and Savior, and we ask  that you would impart to us a better understanding that wee might abide in your Presence until the time of our departure from this land, and from among these peoples, for we ask it in Jesus Christ name, thy beloved and Obedient Son in whom we have received redemption by His free will offering of His Own blood. Amen.

 

Now, this morning I would like to continue with our study of the Masterpiece sermon that brother Branham preached on July 5th 1964.  If you have your book with you let’s turn to the first page and we will pick up at paragraph number 2. This will be our fifth in this series.  

 

Ok, let’s read. MASTERPIECE THE  64-0705  2 Lord Jesus, Thou the Fountain, inexhaustible Fountain of Life, flow through us today, Lord, and cleanse us from all unbelief and all sin, that we might stand in Thy Presence now, knowing that there is need among us, that... We know that we are sinners and not worthy of any blessing. But then when we think of Him Who came and took our sins, then when His Blood's there, it's not, it's not us in the Presence of God, it's Him, just our voice through His Blood; His Blood's speaking. Oh, God, then cleanse our hearts from sin and unbelief.

 

This morning I would like to speak on these words in brother Branham’s opening prayer because they are of great significance to us. Notice after acknowledging the God of all Life, the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, brother Branham asks this Great God of Life to cause that Life to “flow” through us, and then he adds, while that Life is flowing through us, may it cleanse us from all our unbelief and all our sin.

 

Now, this cleansing is what I would like to speak on this morning. These words of God’s vindicated Prophet are so wonderful that they deserve much discussion concerning what he is telling us here.

 

So let’s take some time this morning and look at this Life of God flowing through the believer to not only bring forth the same life in the believer, but in the process this Life is to bring forth cleansing of the believer.

 

Now, it is a known scientific fact that the blood is a great organ that not only brings the nutrition from the digestive tract to the different parts of the body to nourish the body, but it also takes away from the infected area that which is not good for the body and sends it to the kidneys and liver for cleansing before returning tit o the body to start the cycle of nutrition all over again.

 

Now, the blood in the body running throughout the body is like a great river that flows from the Throne of God. This river comes forth from the heart in man as the River of Life comes from the throne of God. We have a saying,  “the life is in the blood” because in the blood is our DNA and the DNA is the great seal of who we are. The DNA makes up all of our characteristics and attributes of the body and this DNA flows through the body in the blood entering into cells and giving them not only substance but the characteristics and attributes which makes those cells act and manifest in the way they are ordained to do.

 

That is why men are trying to use stem cells and bone marrow grafting to help people whose immune systems are not what they should be. They are hoping that by injecting the substance that is in the bone marrow, or the stem cells that they will be able to transfer those molecules of DNA into the body and thus help to guild up the body in resistance to the disease. 

 

And that is the same with God. He has given us His word in which His Life is contained, for Jesus said, “My words are spirit and they are life”. And we are to receive the engrafted Word into our being to bring forth the same Life that was in Him in the beginning into our very own bodies.

 

James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

 

Now, in speaking of this engrafted word, brother Branham said,

 

Trying to do God a service 65-1127B P:144 Let us pray. O church, here and across the nation, listen to your humble servant this morning, will you? Look where you were at a few years ago when this first started. Now look what impersonations has capitalized on it, and great millions and billions of dollars has flowed into the organizations. See? Still away from the Word of God... Buildings and organizations is not the way God stirs His Spirit. He stirs It right into His Word to make It live. And if you were ordained from the beginning of the earth to that Word, every Word will come right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have one human cell, and the next the cell of a dog, and the next the cell of a cat; it'll be human cells. But it's got to have a cell first to start with. Is that right? say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well, if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are ordained to make it a full body. Don’t be children, only in love, but be men in Spirit and in judgment. Judge ye whether I've told you the Truth or not. Judge ye whether It's the Word of God or not. Judge ye whether it's the hour we're talking about or not. Judge ye whether these things are promised. Now, are they vindicated? By things that there's not a human being in the world could do it. But it's become so common to us till we're letting it flow right on a past us. Wait, church, wait.

 

Leadership 65-1207 P:59 And like a baby formed in its mother's womb, when the baby comes into the, to the mother's womb, by the little germ, it crawls into the egg. It doesn't form one cell a human, the next a dog, and the next a cat, and the next a horse. It's all human cells because it's building off of an original human cell. And when a man has been borne again by the Word of God, predestinated to Eternal Life, called the Elected, it'll be Word of God on top of Word, Word on Word. Not a denominational creed and then a Word, and a creed; and it won't work. You can't have that leaven in It. Only one Eternal Life, Jesus Christ the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us."

 

And thus by taking into our bodies His Word which is His Spirit we are engrafting His Life into our being, like the germ of life coming into the womb and starting the process of life. But you had to have been in his mind before the world began for it to work, because God’s Word can not come into a serpent seed and bring forth God-Life. But when God’s Word comes into a predestinated Seed laying there it will spark it off to God-Life.

 

The Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 2: 1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; And again in  Colossians 2: 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

 

Therefore we know as brother Branham said, when word cell is piled upon Word cell it will bring forth the image of the Son of God.

 

Romans 8: 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

 

And How does that come? By being born of and through the same spirit or same Life as the Son of God was born.

 

Thus as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:13by One Spirit we are all baptized into one Body”, Whose Body?  The body of Christ, the Anointed Ones.

 

Now, the problem that we have today is that science also has treatments for disease that sends chemicals through our bodies to kill off the diseased cells. We call this chemo therapy. But all that we are doing is poisoning the entire body hoping to kill off the weakened and sickly cells first before the chemicals can  kills off the healthy cells. And all that is doing is gambling with your life, like playing Russian roulette.

 

But what Brother Branham is speaking of is the very Life of God coming into our bodies and flowing through us until it cleanses us from all unbelief and sin.

 

Paul told us that we are washed by the washing of water by the Word, and David told us that a young man cleanses Himself by taking heed to the Word of God. So we have found in our studies so far concerning this great message The Masterpiece that God sent forth His Spirit in the form of the Word in the Very beginning and in Him was Life and the Life was the Light of man. The very Life of God came forth as Part of the Word that came out of God the Word, and went forth as the Logos that came forth from God which brother Branham said was a part of God, and as it came forth it manifested as a Son, and in this hour is to manifest sons.

 

And this Word-Life that is to come into the believer, or as brother Branham prayed to God that it might flow through the believer just as our own blood flows through our veins, and His request to God was that while it was flowing through the believer it would remove all unbelief and sin from our lives, just as the blood flows through us to do the same thing in our bodies of flesh. 

 

Now, I would like to continue to read from this sermon of Brother Branham’s from paragraph number 2. THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 2 Lord Jesus, Thou the Fountain, inexhaustible Fountain of Life, flow through us today, Lord, and cleanse us from all unbelief and all sin, that we might stand in Thy Presence now, knowing that there is need among us,…

 

Notice the very reason he prayed for us to be cleansed from unbelief and sin is to be able to stand in the Presence of God. Just think about that. We must be cleansed first to stand in the August Presence of this Holy God. For He is Holy and he is Spirit and therefore his Spirit is Holy, for He is the Holy Spirit. And He demands holiness.

 

One thing that has bothered me more than anything else over the years is the callousness of the believers. We claim to believe that God is here and yet the lives of the believers do not reflect what they claim with their speech. Brother Branham’s life equaled what his words said. He lived a life that was very aware of the Presence of God. He constantly was aware of that Presence and it made him live right, talk right, and act right.

 

Oh, if the church of God who claims to be His Bride would have such awareness of God’s Holy presence, they would not say many of the things they say, and they would not do many of the things they do, and they would not think or allow such thoughts to even enter into their minds such things as they allow into their minds.

 

 

 

Yes, if we truly knew and not only by means of a mental understanding, but if we knew by a personal awareness that the Holy God, the Creator of the universe was here among His people, we might act and speak a whole lot different than what we do today. As I have said before, it has bothered me that there are so many who claim to believe that God is here, and yet live as though they have not a clue to His Personal Presence among us.

 

God is Holy, and no man can see God unless that man lives Holy before God, for Paul told us in Hebrews 12:14 without holiness no man shall see the Lord. So do not tell me that you believe he is here and then live a life that is not worthy of the Gospel. That only makes you a bigger hypocrite than the Catholic who goes to confession and says three hail Mary’s and four our fathers to receive his absolution.

 

God is Holy and they that worship God must enter into His Presence in a state of Holiness. And yet no man is worthy, and our righteousness is as filthy rags. Therefore, no man is able on his own to present himself as holy before a Holy God.

 

In Fact Martin Luther said, we are like dung, covered by snow.  And we find brother Branham tell us the same thing in the very next words he says in this opening prayer.

 

MASTERPIECE THE  64-0705  2 We know that we are sinners and not worthy of any blessing. But then when we think of Him Who came and took our sins, then when His Blood's there, it's not, it's not us in the Presence of God, it's Him, just our voice through His Blood; His Blood's speaking. Oh, God, then cleanse our hearts from sin and unbelief.

 

So we see then that  it is not what we do but what has already been done for us by the Gift of God to us, His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Ephesians  2: 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

 

Let’s bow our heads in prayer.