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
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 12:13 “by 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.