The Masterpiece 107

IN

January 21st, 2006

Brian Kocourek

 

Again this morning we will read from paragraph 200 of The Masterpiece and there is but one small statement that Br. Branham said that I would like to use for my text..

 

THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 200 You stay IN the Word, the Life

 

Now, this word “IN” is a mighty powerful word. And you would not think that God would have a person to preach on just one word like that. But did you know that brother Branham preached one of his most powerful messages on just one Word?

 

It was the Word, “LOOK”, and he preached that sermon just two weeks after he preached the Seals because the people just did not understand the significance to what took place at the opening of the Seals. And he began by saying,

 

Look 63-0428 P:12 Now, we are going to try this morning to take just four letters in a word, "Look," for a subject, and to deal with it a little while as the Lord will lead us to do. I have a few notes written here and some Scripture that we might refer to as we go along. Look, l-double o-k, look, the word, really, when,  It's used often, "but, look..." When you hear the word it's usually somebody trying to get you to see what they are looking at. They say to you, "Look." Like going down the road you, someone might see a certain scene and they'd say, "Look," and then express what it is. It's at the mountain, at the cactus, or whatever they're looking at. But the first thing to get your attention is, "Look."

 

So we see the word look has a specific meaning, and it is used to get your attention to see what you and the one you are saying it to does not see what you are seeing.

 

The Apostle Paul said all words have signification. In other words, words have meaning, and the problem with our dumbed down civilization today is that words have lost there meaning. And when words loose their meaning, then it’s over. Death has set in.

 

Now, we are going to talk of the importance of one little word this morning and you will see before we are through that to not understand this one word will cause a person to go out from the presence of the Lord. Out from Life into death.

 

The word I want to speak on this morning is the word, “IN”. Now the word “IN” means “within the limits, bounds or area of,” and speaks of location, destination or direction; and suggests relationship with as coming into speaks of closeness or presence, whereas “Out” shows direction away from, absence, or disassociation, which is lack of relationship.

 

Jesus said, John 15: 7 If ye abide IN me, and my words abide IN you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

 

Therefore to not abide in or remain in Christ who is the Word, has a consequence to it. It has punishment. And the end result is death. And this morning we read brother Branham’s quote where he said You stay IN the Word, the Life

The apostle John told us that the difference between being “IN” the doctrine of Christ, and not being “IN” the doctrine of Christ will determine whether you even have God or not.

 

2 John 8  Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. (Notice that John is about to tell us about how a person can loose everything they thought they were working for. He tells us to be careful not to loose those things which we have worked so hard to attain. And then he tells us how this will come about. Notice the next verse.)

 

9  Whosoever transgresseth, (now this word transgress means to go beyond the limits, or to go outside of the limits. To add one word brings the plagues and to leave off one word brings death and having your name taken out from the book of Life. Then what about this simple word we are talking about this morning. To not understand what the word IN mans in respect to the relationship of God to Christ is to loose it all. ) So 9  Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not (or remaineth not) IN the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

 

 So we see in this hour this word “IN” is a very crucial word to our salvation and relationship with God. Notice what he is telling us here. If you do not remain IN the doctrine of Christ you do not even have God. And that word hath was translated from the Greek word “echo” and it means to reflect God and we know that God is life. Therefore to be outside the doctrine of Christ you could never echo God. You could never say what God says. And it shows you have no possession of God in your life either.

 

1 John 5: 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

 

1 John  5: 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

 

Now, in getting back to 2nd John we read: 9  Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not (or remaineth not) IN the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. (You’ve got to be in it. These men who preach that we must lay aside the doctrine of Christ to go on to perfection do not know what they are talking about. He tells us that without the doctrine of Christ you don’t even have God so how could you lay it aside and go onto perfection without God? The problem is that these are not men just think they are called to preach but are nothing more than business men who know what it takes to build a crowd, and to make money. And brother Branham warned the full Gospel business men to keep out of the pulpits. But these men have made it a business and the Book of Revelations tells us they deal in the marketing of the souls of men. That’s their business. But to teach truth? Far be it that they would teach truth. It would cut into their profits. So they point to a prophet to make a profit, but they refuse to teach what the prophet taught. )

 

He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:11  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

 

Jesus said in,John 10: 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

 

After hearing this message this morning I hope you will understand just how crucial this one little word is in this hour. You know in the Garden it was just one little word that brought all the sickness and dying into the world. God said if you eat of the tree you shall surely die, and the serpent said, “NOT.”

 

And in this hour to not understand the significance of just one little word, will keep you from the inheritance, it will put you out from the presence of God, and it will shut you off from a relationship with God himself.

 

Knowing and understanding this word “IN” is the difference between being saved or being lost. In Noah’s day to be out and not in meant death. It meant you perished with the rest of the world. He said come into the ark and be saved and those who did not enter “IN” were all lost. To be “IN” meant you were saved from the destruction.

 

In Moses day 2 million people came “OUT” from Egypt but only 2 of that 2 million entered “IN” and received the promise of God for that age. That’s how important this word “IN” is. To be “IN” meant Life, to be out meant being cutoff from the promises of God, and that is death.

 

Now, the biggest problem I see in this Message among those who claim to believe it, is that they can not read. Not only can they not read their Bibles, but they can not read the Message either. And if you can not read the word IN and understand what the word in means, then how in the world are you ever going to be part of the Third exodus. Because an Exodus has two parts. To come out, and then to go in. And if hey do not even understand the word “IN” and what it means then how are they ever going to enter in. And if they just go out then they are not part in danger of wandering like lost sheep and like Israel did for 40 years because they have no clue how to or even where to Enter in.

 

WITHOUT AND WITHIN

 

Mark 4: 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are WITHOUT, ON THE OUTSIDE all these things are done in parables:

 

So we see that in this Message like in the days of Moses, that brother Branham like Moses took the people out of Egypt which is a type of the world or the world church system, but it was under the Pillar of Fire that the people entered into the Land of Promise while Moses was off the scene. And in the message the Third exodus brother Branham said, “the Pillar of Fire is here to lead us into the Millennium”. that is what Brother Branham said. He said the Pillar of Fire is here leading us into the Millennium.

 

Third Exodus 63-0630M P:126 Now, I want you to notice, this same Pillar of Fire is leading, the people again to a promised land, the millennium, where we found under the inspiration of this Sixth Seal, that's never been taught before, how the earth has to be purified for the millennium. The Pillar Fire is leading them to a millennium. And notice, the Pillar of Fire that led Israel from the bondage in that exodus, the Pillar of Fire, under the leadership of God, God was the Fire, and the Pillar of Fire only anointed the prophet.

 

Third Exodus 63-0630M P:130 That was a burning Fire, that Pillar of Fire in the bush. When He died and rose on the third day, and Saul met Him on the road down, He was back to that Pillar of Fire. Said, "I come from God and I go to God." When Peter was in prison, that Pillar of Fire come in and opened the doors and took him on the outside. That's right. Where did that Pillar of Fire lead them? Now, remember, Moses was not the Pillar of Fire. He was the anointed leader under that Pillar of Fire, and the Pillar of Fire only vindicated his message with signs and wonders. And that Pillar of Fire led them to the land that God promised them, where He, Himself, would be made flesh among them someday. Is that right? What did they do? Murmured and squirmered and everything else to show it was under the blood of an ordinary lamb. But this time (Glory to God.) the Pillar that we see among us, the Pillar of Fire will lead us to the millennium, where He will return to His people in that great millennium reign after this exodus, where we'll live eternally with Him. He always has the Word of the Father, always proves that It's right.

 

Power of decision 55-1007 P:44 Now, it's a type of the Holy Ghost. When Moses had crossed from Egypt into this wilderness on his road to the promised land, as the same type of the Church coming up out of the world, separating itself from the world, in the wilderness journey, going on their way to the millennium, perfect. Has to be. And now, God led them in natural, because they were  a loose in the wilderness, and He led them in the natural. He's leading us today in the spiritual. And the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, here He is leading us, the same One, same Pillar of Fire, leading us on, the supernatural Light of God moving on, leading the Church spiritually.

 

There are 219 times that William Branham said that “God was IN His Son”.

There are 208 times that William Branham said that “God was IN Christ”.

There are 102 times that William Branham said that God was IN Him. Speaking of the Son of God.

There were 52 times brother Branham said, that God was IN His son.

There were 23 times brother Branham said, that God is IN His son.

There are 3 times that William Branham said that God was IN Jesus.

 

Did you know that Brother Branham never said “God was Jesus”? Not once in 1,200 sermons did he ever say that. Now he did say that Jesus was God, but then he would always go on to say Jesus was God because God was dwelling in Him. And then he would quote the Apostle Paul as saying,  “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.”

 

Show us the Father 59-0419E P:37 God is in His Word. Do you believe that? Now, God IN His Son, sure, He was. Christ Jesus was God manifested IN the flesh. The Bible said, that, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." The flesh part was man. The Spirit was God. Jesus said, "I can do nothing except My Father shows Me first." When He was here on earth He hungered like a man. He got hungry, looked around on a tree to find something to eat; that was the Man part. But when He taken those biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand people, that was God doing that. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He was weeping; that was the man; that was Jesus. But when He called a man out of the grave that had been dead and buried four days, that was God IN His Son, 'cause only God can speak to the dead. God was IN His Son.

 

Greater witness than John 53-1107 P:54 Do you believe Jesus was God?(Now, notice, he is not saying he was, he is asking you if you believe he was) He was Emmanuel, God was IN Him? God was IN Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. The Bible said so.

 

And the other times brother Branham says Jesus was God is like this.

Jesus was God IN a form.

Jesus was God manifested IN Flesh.

That's the reason Jesus was God. That's... God just worked through a Man (Is that right?), reconciling the world to Himself.

 

Time tested faith 58-0530 P:57 Now, when Jesus was God IN flesh, we believe that, the manifestation, He was here to manifest Himself IN the flesh. Jesus was the body, the Son of God; God dwelt in Christ. Now, Jesus said Himself, "The Son can do nothing in Himself," Saint John 5:19, "but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Did you ever read that? Then He didn't do nothing, till Father God showed Him a vision on what to do. Now, you see the Bible's infallible, Jesus said, "The Scriptures cannot be broken." Jesus said that. Now, and then if Jesus said, "I can do nothing until the Father shows Me first what to do. The Father worketh; I worketh hitherto." In other words, He acted out in drama what the Father showed Him to do. Watch each case, every time you find it the same way, unless that was the people's faith. Now, now we notice this. Then again, we find He said, "As the Father hath sent Me, so send I you." Now, the Father that sent Him was with Him and IN Him. The Father that sent Him, went with Him and IN Him. Well, the Jesus that sends us, goes with us and IN us. See? So Jesus shows us what to do.

 

And did you know that He only said IN one place that “God is Jesus” ? But, then he qualified how “God was Jesus”.

 

QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P:18 There is no three Gods. There's only one God, and that God is Jesus Christ. God is a Spirit that lives IN Jesus Christ, and is living IN His church, you and I today, separating Himself to us IN the form of the Holy Spirit, which is God almighty Himself living IN you.

 

Now, if God in Jesus makes Jesus God, then God in you makes you God. You see people just do not understand that God is a Spirit and the man Jesus was the vessel God chose and ordained before the world began to choose as His dwelling place. That is why Brother Branham could say from  God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:50 The man, the body was not Deity, but Deity was in the body. This body has to perish. The very Christ that's in you is the only thing that can raise you up. That's Deity, God in you.

 

Questions and answers COD 64-0830M P:62 Now remember, we are not the Word, but we are the Word. Uh-huh. Now, you got it? Jesus was not God, but He was God. He was a Man, yet He was God. He could cry, and yet He could raise the dead. He could cry for a man being dead and raise him back up again. He was Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses; He was Jehovah, all completely. He was Jehovah, and yet He was a Man. He owned the earth, and made the earth, and had not a place to lay His head. He said, "The birds that I made has got nests, and I haven't got a place to lay my head.

The foxes that I created, has holes in the ground, and I haven't even got one Myself even to be buried in." That's right. He had to borrow somebody's grave, to be buried in.

 

Well, let’s face it, not only did he have to borrow a grave to be buried in, and he borrowed a boat to sail in, but God borrowed the body of His Son to manifest Himself in.

 

And you know, we have read many places where brother Branham said God was in His Son, or God was in Christ, or God is in His Son, but did you know that he also said, that Jesus was in Jesus.”

 

From his sermon We would see Jesus 58-0612 P:55 brother Branham said,  Look. When He was here on earth, how many knows that that was the Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, that It was Christ, the Angel of the covenant? All right. And how many knows that that was Jesus IN Jesus, that same Spirit? Look, when they questioned Him, Saint John 6, calling your attention to it. They said, "You say you're greater than Abraham?" And said, that, "Why, you're only fifty years old, yet." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was in the burning bush. Is that right? A Pillar of Fire... When He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Did He say it? And then, if He came from the Pillar of Fire, He returned back to it again. After His death, burial, and resurrection, Saint Paul was on his road down to Damascus and big bright Light struck in his face and blinded him. None of the rest of them saw It. Paul saw It. It blinded him; he fell on the ground. What is this Pillar of Fire, again? "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?""Who are You, Lord?""I'm Jesus." Is that right?

 

God's only provided place of worship 65-1128M P:89 But we must find where He did put His Name, for in It is His only provided Gate. Amen. Glory. Watch. Where did He put His Name? In His Son. "Oh," you say, "now wait a minute, Brother Branham. That was the Son, not the Father. "The son always takes the name of his father in every case. I come to this earth in the name of a Branham, because my father's name was Branham. Jesus said, "I came in My Father's Name, and you received Me not." You wanting a Scripture on that? St. John 5:43. See? "I came in My Father's Name, and you received Me not." Then the Father put His own Name, which is Jesus, in the Son. And He's the way; He's the door; He's the House; He's where God chose to put His Name. God never put His Name in me; He never put It in the church; He never put It in the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic; but He put It in Christ the anointed Emmanuel.

 

God's provided place of worship 65-0425 P:30 Let's trace his name a little bit. The prophet said His Name would be called Emmanuel. Now, Isaiah said that, about the 7th chapter. And also in Matthew 1:23, said, "This was all done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 'His Name shall be called Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, "God with us." "Emmanuel, and His Name was Jesus, God with us, with His Father's Name. He came in His Father's Name. There's where God placed His Name, in His Son. That's the only Place that you can worship Him. The only Place God will ever meet you, is in that Son which was typed by the sacrificial lamb. And all down through the Old Testament, all brought types of that one thing, that that place alone, God, alone met under the sacrificial blood. Only place He met, the only place is He meets today; it's not in the name of creed, or in a name of a denomination, name of a church, or name of a group, or name of a society, but in the Name of Jesus Christ.

 

Show us the father 62-0722 P:64 God IN His Son, do you believe He was? He looked like God; He acted like God; He said He was God. He cried like God; He healed like God; He died like a man; and He rose like God. He was God manifested IN the flesh. God was IN His Son. Do you believe it? God was in His universe. You believe it? God is in His Word. You believe it? God is IN His Son. You believe it? Could you see Him IN Christ? Jesus said, "When you see Me you see the Father. Why sayest thou, Show Me the Father?" God was IN the Son, reconciling the world to Himself. Now, God in His universe, you believe it? God in His Word, you believe it? God IN His Son, you believe it?

 

Show us the Father 61-0521 P:71 God in His universe. You believe it? God is in His Word. Do you believe it? Watch how He keeps His Word and confirms It. Look what He told Abraham. Look what He told the apostles. Look what He told the prophets. Look how He promised in this day. God's in His universe. God is in His Word. Now, God IN His Son. You believe God was in His Son? Now, we have to hurry. God was IN Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. You believe that? One comment on God in His Son so we can hurry. I was talking to a woman not long ago that belongs to a church that does not believe that Jesus was Divine. She believes that He was just an ordinary man, a prophet, or something, but wasn't Divine. He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world's ever had. He was God, God manifested in a body called Jesus, His Son. Not just a man, not a teacher, a philosopher, but He was God manifested in the flesh. I Timothy 3:16 said, "Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifest IN the flesh, seen of Angels, received up into heaven." Well, sure. He was God.

 

GOD WAS “IN” CHRIST

 

2 Corinthians 5: 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

 

Love 56-0726 P:3, All the Fullness of Godhead bodily dwelt in Jesus Christ. We know that. He was all... He was God in complete. The dove came down, as we preached the other night on "The Dove and the Lamb." And the Dove abode in the Lamb. He stayed there. He was Emmanuel. God was IN His tabernacle, the Son of God, which was Jesus, was the flesh of God, a tabernacle that God dwelt in here on the earth. And now, that was Christ and God became united. And that's the way God could be seen. No man has seen the Father at any time, but the only begotten Son has declared Him. See? In other words, God was in Christ, showing His attitude towards the people. See? What He was, what God was, He was expressing Hisself through Jesus His Son. See? As He dwelt IN Him, making Jesus and God... Jesus being the Tabernacle that God was dwelling IN here on earth... "A body has Thou prepared Me." See? And God dwelt IN Jesus Christ. And that made the Father and the Son united together, now, and become One. Now, notice, now, what was IN Christ, was the Fullness of the Spirit, the entire Fullness of God. God gave Christ the Spirit without measure. But He's give It to us by measure. Christ had all the measure, everything. He was Emmanuel. But you and I are little cupfuls out of that Seed. But when the Spirit that's IN us, is of the same quality, not as much IN quantity, but the same quality, 'cause it's part of the same Spirit. See?

 

Listen, By One Spirit we are all baptized into One Body”, the Body of Christ. That does not make us Christ? That does not make us God. That just places us into the same Body, the same family.

 

God's eye 58-0225 P:13 And notice while they're lining the people up. When Christ was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Do you know that to be true? How many believes that Christ was in the wilderness with the children of Israel? That Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel was Christ? Do you believe that the Angel of the Covenant was in the burning bush? He said He was. "Before Abraham was, I AM." And I AM was the One that spoke to Moses in the bush. Then God was manifested in flesh to take away sin; which was in His Son's body, Christ, because God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He expressed Himself through Christ.

 

Deity of Jesus Christ the 49-1225 P:29 God Himself, coming out of Spirit, went into Christ Jesus. And the Bible said that, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." Is that right? God Himself, Jehovah, lived IN Christ and was made a Kinsman to us, because He was born in human flesh like we are. Is that right? The Blood cells were developed by God, and the flesh cells were developed IN the womb of Mary, that brought forth the Child. And God came down and lived IN human flesh, and was tempted in every manner just like we are. Do you believe that? All right. Now, then when He did that, He freely gave His Blood.

 

That is why Brother Branham could say that the blood was not Jewish blood but the blood of God. Because “God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.

 

IN WHOM

 

2 Peter 1: 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, IN whom I am well pleased.

 

Mark 1: 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, IN whom I am well pleased.

 

Calling Jesus on the scene 63-0804E P:16 He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth IN Me." When John baptized Him on the river Jordan, we see God descending from heaven like a Dove, and the Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son IN Whom I am pleased to dwell." Now, if you take the original, and really the way it's wrote, it's, "Whom I am pleased to dwell IN." See? But they put the verb before the adverb. "IN Whom I am pleased to dwell, or IN Whom I am pleased to dwell; Whom I'm pleased to dwell IN." See?

 

Godhead Explained 61-0119A P:56 The Spirit of God, like a dove, descended and a voice from heaven (which was above Him) saying, "This is My beloved Son, IN Whom I am pleased to dwell." (Really, the right translation... They got the verb before the adverb, like all the foreigner is... "This is My beloved Son, IN whom I am pleased to dwell IN." Or, "Whom I am pleased to dwell." "In Whom I am pleased to dwell." ) That was God coming INTO Jesus, and IN Him was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

 

QA on the seals 63-0324M P:108 Now, in there it says, "This is my beloved Son, IN Whom I am well pleased." You see? Now, that's wrote in the actual form of the Greek, putting verb before adverb; but you notice here, it'd actually be this... Now, just take the Word. See? The Bible says, in the translation of St. James here: "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell." But actually, if we'd say it like we'd say it today: "This is My beloved Son IN Whom I'm pleased to dwell IN." You'd turn it around. See, see? "This is My beloved Son IN Whom I'm pleased to dwell." See? Now, we'd say it today: "This is My beloved Son IN Whom I'm pleased to dwell IN,"

 

Matthew 17: 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, IN whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

 

Matthew 12: 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, IN whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

 

Matthew 3: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, IN whom I am well pleased.

 

And what about Jesus own words, and His own testimony how that God was in Him?

 

IN ME

 

John   17: 23 I in them, and thou (THE FATHER) 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.

 

John   17  : 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art IN me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

 

John   14  : 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father IN me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

John   14  : 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father IN me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

 

John   10  : 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is IN me, and I in him.

 

John   14  : 20 At that day ye shall know that I am IN my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

 

John 13: 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified IN him.

 

Notice that what Glory Jesus did have was actually the father being glorified in His Son. God said he will not share His glory with anyone, and I have often wondered how to reconcile that scripture where God said he would not share his Glory with anyone, and yet Jesus prayed that the Father would restore the glory He shared with the father before the world was.

 

Isaiah 42: 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

 

Isaiah 48: 11

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

 

God who is rich in mercy 65-0119 P:36 The people sinned later by taking this same thing that God had made an atonement for them, by the brass serpent, which represented sin already judged, and they idolized that gift. And that sinned again. "God will not share His glory with nobody." Therefore, we can't have no two, three, four gods. There's only one God. He'll not share His glory with anything else. He's God, alone (See?), so as the heathens have many gods. We have the one God, and He will not share His glory with another; neither will He let anything be an idol in front of Him. Even though He had made an atonement for the people, and it was God's Word, it was right; but when they become to idolizing that, then they got in trouble.

 

Is this sign of the end sir 62-1230E P:25 We find out that there's many things that God does, and that He doesn't reveal to His servants; and no servant is greater than his Lord. And then, God will not share His glory with nobody. He's God. And when a servant becomes a place that he tries to take the place of God, then God takes his life and moves him away somewhere, or something. We must remember that.

 

And yet we hear the prayer of Jesus in John 17: 5 where he says, And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

 

But Brother Branham tells us how to balance this out. And Actually if we knew how to read our Bibles you would hear Jesus explain how He was to be glorified with the Glory of the Father. He said, And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, and that is the key. Then if He is glorified with the Father’s own self, then it is the Father that actually receives the glory through His son expressing the Father to the world.

 

Jesus Christ the same yesterday 52-0810E P:22 God the Creator, made man. And man fell, and then God the Creator was revealed to us IN His Son Christ Jesus, and He did the will of His Father. He went about doing good. Let's look what kind of person He was now. We couldn't look for a, We read the Bible, and we find out what He looked like. He was a great Person. What He, His look like, not in His physical makeup, but what He was in His spiritual makeup. He was the Son of God. And He went around, and He healed the sick, the lame. Do you all believe He did that? Well, now. Did He do it at His leisure? I thought, I'd catch you on that, but I didn't. Good teacher, Brother Boze. Ever who's been teach... No, He didn't. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father." See, Him being the Son of God, did not claim to be a Divine healer. Is that right? He said, "It's the Father." No flesh glories before God. It was the Father that did it.

 

So not even Jesus could take credit for what God was doing for after all, it’s God that does it anyway.

 

The Son of God came to show us how to be sons. He said, It’s not me that doeth the works but My Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works. And again in John 5:17 He also said, My father worketh hitherto, and I work. He also said, the things I speak my Father commandeth me what to say, and thus I speak.

 

John 5: 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

 

John 7: 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

 

John 5: 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

 

John 4: 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

 

John 8: 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

 

John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

 

Matthew 5: 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

 

Only one true living church 51-0727 P:7 Now, Jesus the Son of God, said, "I the Son of God can do nothing about that, for I can only do what My Father shows Me to do. For, whatsoever the Son seeth (amen,), seeth the Father do, these things also doeth the Son. For the Son... The Father showeth the Son whatsoever things He doeth, and He will show you greater things than this, that ye may marvel." Saint John 14:12, quoting Jesus, "These things that I do, shall you also. And greater things than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." I quote again the Scripture, "It's expedient for Me that I go away, for if I go not away, the Holy Ghost will not come." Again, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." Quoting again, Hebrews 8:13--13:8, rather, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "When He the Holy Ghost has come, He will guide you into all truth and light, and will show you things to come." True? Those are quotations from the Scriptures of Jesus' own Words. Now, is it strange today, then, that the Words of Jesus would be fulfilled before our very eyes? Would it be strange today if the people that are unbelievers would say it's the devil? No, Jesus, quoting again, "If they have called the Master of the house (which was He, the house of God) Beelzebub (which was a spiritualist)... If they have called the Master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His household?" If they called the main Priest, the High Priest, the Prophet of all prophets, the King of all kings, if they call He, the Power of all powers, doing His works, because He was a Seer, and the Master of all seers that was, and was before, and will come, the Head of all of it, the Producer of all of it; if they called Him Beelzebub, a spiritualist, how much more will they call those minor seers of the household. If they call the Father a devil, how much more will they call the children a devil." You see what I mean? So take your stand tonight, my beloved friend, on the side that Christ is on, on the side that He's vitally proving Himself to be. "And now, this is not done," quoting from my heart, "these things are not done in secret. They are done openly, that all may see." They're not in one part of the world. It's confirmed around the world, and He shall confirm it again. These things are done that it might be fulfilled, which is already prophesied in the Bible to come to pass in these days. Here I feel the Spirit of God. Listen close. Here it comes. This is a glorious thing. This is the day of the Lord. This is the day that we should be happy. For in our eyes today, and our ears is fulfilled the Word of God to this day, that the Lord has said. Praise be the Name of the Lord. This is it, the Holy Spirit here in confirmation of His Word. The prophecy that's been already foretold and predicted, is being fulfilled now before your eyes in Erie, Pennsylvania, this night. And the Holy Spirit, He wrote these Words, is here at this armory building tonight, to vindicate the Truth of God, according to the Word, the seed, and the fulfilling of the Word. He's here. Then let us rejoice in our hearts, and be encouraged. Let us set up, and take heed to what we have heard, 'less we should let it slip at any time. Let us believe on Him with one heart and one accord. We are limited, and I am limited, to whatever the Father would show me, that I can do; without that, I can do nothing; for I only fulfill the Words that was spoken by the Lord Jesus. Jesus, when He came, He said He came to fulfill the Word of God, what the prophet have said. Amen. He came to fulfill the prophecy of the Old Testament. Do you believe it?

 

 Now, the Holy Spirit is here to fulfill the prophecy of the New Testament. Do you believe it? Then let us be glad, for today is the great day of our Lord. Do not be weary, you who are sick and afflicted. Do not be weary, you who are down hearted. And you beloved ones who are setting here in chairs and on stretchers and cots. According to medical science, you probably never get well. And the dear doctors has maybe done all they know how to do to help you, but they're men like I am. And God knows, if I had one bit of authority or power, I'd come right down out of this platform; there wouldn't be a sick person left in here in a few minutes. I would do it. And so would've my Master, when He passed by Bethesda, and look at that great mass of ten thousand people laying there, crippled, afflicted, and blind. But He said, "I can only do what My Father shows Me to do."  And so is every mortal limited to the powers of God. For no flesh, even the Son of God glories not before the Father, for He said, "It's not Me that doeth the work; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. He shows the Son what Himself doeth, and the Son does likewise." The same Gospel, by the same God, is here tonight. Soon we're to go to Africa in a few days. One way, I kind a hate to go. Hate to say good-bye to my wife and babies, and all. A lady, in a restaurant, the other morning, said, "Are you going to leave your little wife and those babies to go to Africa?" Said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "What are you going to Africa for." I said, "To carry the Gospel, of Jesus Christ." And I said, "He said, 'Whosoever will not forsake his wife, his children, all, and cleave to Me, shall not be worthy to be called My disciple.” And I said, "It's such a little thing for me to forsake my lovely little wife and babies and things, to go to the foreign fields, when He come from glory down, and died for me." She went around to get my breakfast, in a few moments she come back. She said, "Sir, there's so few people think that today." This world is hungering, friends. Give them the Gospel in its trueness, in its power. A green light, to flash to Africa...

 

Colossians 1: 19 For it pleased the Father that IN him should all fulness dwell;

 

Colossians   2  : 9 For IN him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

 

John 13: 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him IN himself, and shall straightway glorify him.

 

 1 John   4: 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God IN him.

 

John 1: 4 IN him was life; and the life was the light of men.

 

And finally. I would like to say, that if you do not understand the word IN and what it means, perhaps it is because you are out, which means you are not in. And what would that make you? It would make you serpent seed, because  Lucifer was the first to go out from the presence of the Lord, we see that in Revelations 12:7-8 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

 

And then we see the first seed of the serpent in Cain that he too left the presence of the Lord. Genesis 4:16.  Genesis 4: 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

    

The apostle Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that those who are not resting IN Christ at the end-time will be destroyed from or out from the Presence.

 

2 Thessalonians 1:2  Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Notice that is where our grace and peace comes from. You don’t get it with money. Money can not buy you grace and peace. It comes from God alone.

 

Peter said in 2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, So we see that through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ we are able to multiply that grace and peace.

 

And now in getting back to 2 Thessalonians 1:3  We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; 4  So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 5  Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6  Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7  And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 

 

So we see the picture of the seven angels coming in Glory which is the very opinion, assessment and judgment of God, in other words, the opinion is what a judge writes, and he comes as the Supreme Judge, and at that time he tells us to rest, and brother Branham said there is relaxation under the seventh seal. And that is what the angels came to open, those seven seals, which is nothing else but the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And at this time the same word that bring mercy and thus relaxation, also brings judgment, because the judge does not make the law, he only is to execute it, which means he is to bring into manifestation the judgment based on the breaking of the law.

 

And in this hour, the Supreme Judge comes 8  In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,(that is those on the outside, not on the inside) and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  9  Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,(now notice this tells us that they shall go out from the presence of the Lord. OUT not IN. They do not understand the benefits of IN so they go OUT. And notice what else they go OUT from?) and from the glory of his power;(and that Glory is the doxa of God which is His opinion, assessment and judgment. In other words, His very mind. Let this mind be in you which was IN Christ Jesus.) 10  When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,(see there you are. It is in this hour that the very mind of God is to come into His children, getting them ready for the adoption, for without having the mind of the Father he can not put our name on the checkbook.) and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (Notice here that Paul is telling us that down the road there will come a time when the Presence of God comes on the scene that his Testimony will be believed in that day. And when brother Branham was translated and brought into that dimension, he said, “I only said what Paul said,” And all the people shouted, “we’re counting on that Brother Branham.”) (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12  That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified IN you, and ye IN him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

So we see that we are to receive the mind of God and in this hour the name that Christ received will also be glorified in us at this hour. And how did Jesus receive that Name? By Inheritance that’s how.

 

In Hebrews 1: 4 we read, Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. So Jesus received his name by inheritance. Then if we are to come as he came, then we are at the hour when we are to receive our Father’s name as well. And what did Jesus do when receiving the name of His Father? Hebrews 2: 12 tells us, Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, IN the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. Well, if he is going to be IN the midst of the church, then it has to be at the time of His presence. Let us bow our hearts and our heads in prayer.