Masterpiece
Number 30
Understanding and what is sin no.1
October 29, 2005 Communion Service
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
1. This
evening, being that this is our communion service and we are commended to come
to this service prayed up and having searched our souls to make sure there is not
unbelief in us, I feel led to take a short sermon on “understanding and what is sin”.
2. Now we know
that sin is unbelief because the Scripture tells us so. John 16: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
3. John 8: 24 I said therefore
unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he,
ye shall die in your sins.
4. So we see
that sin is unbelief, but it goes even further than just not believing. It goes
to the point that they believe because they just do not understand.
5. We are told by the Apostle Paul
that the princes of this world crucified Jesus the Word made manifest out of
ignorance. 1 Corinthians 2: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
6. The Apostle
Paul further speaks of the unbeliever as being those whom have a darkened
understanding. Ephesians 4: 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because
of the blindness of their heart: Notice here he
tells us that what understanding they do have becomes darkened because of the
ignorance that is in them, and because that they are blind in their heart, and
we know that whenever the Scriptures speaks of the heart it speaks of
understanding.
7. When their eyes were opened 64-0212 P:26 Notice He said, "Fools, and slow of heart to
understand the Scripture promise for this age." Fools, said, "Oh,
He's gone. They crucified Him. And we understood He rose again. But, oh, my,
that's just a mystery story that somebody said and we didn't know nothing about
it. Oh, I'm telling you; it's the most miserable thing." He said, "You fools, and slow of heart to understand
that what the Scripture has said for this age." Amen. There you are. I
wish I could blast that to the ecumenical council. Yes, sir. Slow of heart,
knowing the Scripture says these things, still
don't understand it. There you are. He said, "Fools, and slow of heart to understand the
Scripture that's been prophesied for that day," and just exactly how it
would happen. And here it's happened. Christ entered into His glory by
suffering first, being buried, died, rose again the third day. Didn't... That's
the way the Scripture said He was to do it, raised up on the third day. He
said, "This is the third day since it has happened." He said,
"Well, that's what I'm trying to tell you." And still they didn't understand it. Then He
said, "You're fools, and slow at
heart to understand all that the prophets have said, and the Scripture
being said about this day. And here it's happened right before you, and you
don't know it."
8. Notice that Jesus called them fools
because they were slow of heart to understand. And we know the foolish virgin
were called foolish because they just had no oil in their lamp and a lamp
without oil is useless, and can not produce the light that is necessary to walk
in a dark world.
9. The very reason a person is called a fool is because they
have no clue as to what is going on. We call a person a fool that is ignorant,
because they have no desire to know and to understand. And the foolish virgins
were called foolish because they had the Word but they did not seek to fill
their vessel with the Spirit of God until it was to late.
10. And without
the holy Spirit anointing your vessel, you will never understand because the
Holy Spirit brings the understanding.
11. The Apostle
Paul prayed for the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of God to
come to the people.
12. We are
promised in the Book of Daniel that in the last days the elect will understand.
13. Daniel 12: 10 Many shall be
purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none
of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
14.
Daniel 2 :21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and
setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that
know understanding:
15. We find the
Apostle Paul praying that the people would receive an understanding in their
hearts. Ephesians 1: 18 The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints, And notice he used the term eyes of their
understanding because eyes represent to see which means to understand and to
know.
16. Adoption or placing 60-0522E P:88 You know, and
the Bible said you were blind and didn't know it. But here Paul said, "I'm
going to pray that your eyes of understanding..." You understand with your
heart. That's what he's talking about. You look with your eye, but you see with your heart.
17. Man running from presence 65-0217 P:79 I pray that
He'll saturate every heart in here with His goodness and mercy, with
understanding. We realize, Father, that's
what we need, is to understand. For if we do not know what we're doing,
then how do we know how to do it? But we
must have understanding. As Daniel said he had understanding by the prophet
Jeremiah's Writing, and, Father, we have understanding by the Holy Spirit's
Writings as He will reveal It to us in this hour.
18. But the
sinner will not believe because he just has no understanding to believe with. 2 Peter 2: 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken
and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own
corruption;
19. The Apostle
John told us that the Holy Ghost anoints us in order that we might have an
understanding.
20. 1 John 2:19 They went out
from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no
doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made
manifest that they were not all of us. (Now, if they were
of us then they would have known that and would have remained, but the fact
that they left he says is because they just don’t have the unction from the
Holy Ghost, and thus they just don’t know, nor do they have an understanding.
Notice the next verse, John says, ) 20 But ye have an unction (that means an
anointing ) from (who?)
the Holy One, (and
what does this anointing do?) and ye know all
things. 1 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the
truth, but because ye know it, and
that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? (THE
ANOINTED ONE)
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. (and the
reason they deny the Father AND the Son is because they have not an unction
from the Holy One that they might know.) 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:
(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Now, let’s skip
down to verse 27. 1 John Chapter 2 Verse 27 But the
anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you: but as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even
as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
20. So you must
have an anointing from God to know and to understand or else you remain in your
sin. Now, I have shown you from 1 Peter 1: 13 and 1 Corinthians chapter 1 that
there is a spirit fo Grace that is to come into the church to anoint the church
with an understanding .
21. Brother Branham said in his sermon called Seventy weeks of Daniel 61-0806 P:36 But you
remember in Daniel 12 He said, "The
wise shall understand in this last days"? It's been given to him. The Spirit of wisdom comes into the church to
make known to the church by the revelation of the Holy Ghost--bringing the
church in and revealing what day that we're living in. Just the same as Gabriel
come to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to
the church in the last days to reveal these great, deep, secret things. Do you
understand now?
22. 1 John 5: 20 And we know that
the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know
him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life.
23. Easter seal 65-0410 P:18 The world has
been shut up in doubt for many ages until then, this was proven: not only
talked about, but was proven. I think that anything that's worthwhile...As
Jesus said, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations and prove to them by
demonstrating the power of God to them. These signs shall follow them that
believe." Them who promise and say they believe, He give us a definite understanding of it, that these signs would
follow them that believe. It would be the proof of their testimony. Now, we can say we believe, but until we have
the proven sign that He said that would be upon us, then we are just confessing
to be believers and not the possession of believers.
24. Proving His word 65-0426 P:58 I got a picture
here, of Brother Lee Vayle's here. I'd like to show you just what taken place
up on the mountain the other day, when all the school kids turned out, just
before this great subject of the open of them Seven Seals. When the school kids
turned out, when I was up in there praying, here was Fire just in a funnel
coming down, then go back up and burst out, and turn around and come back down
again. That's what He said what to go tell the people. We... And there It is,
where the schools of
25. God wants us to know and to understand. That
is why Jesus told us in John chapter 8 that all that will come must first be
taught by the Father.
26. And the
Apostle Paul told us, 1 Corinthians 14: 20 Brethren, be not
children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in
understanding be men.
But the main
reason that God wants us to know is because understanding gives us assurance, and
if an assurance then a rest and peace and trust. Colossians
2: 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love,
and unto all riches of the full
assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God,
and of the Father, and of Christ;
27. I have heard but
now I see 65-1127E P:85 Now, I don't care how much the people act in these
denominations, say they're looking for Christ; their actions prove they're not.
That's right. Your actions speaks louder than your words. All they think about
is making denominational members, but there are some people, one here and
there, that's looking for the coming of the Lord. They're watching for though.
Only those will He reveal Himself to; only
those will understand.
28. The Apostle
Paul said, Colossians 1: 9 For this cause
we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire
that ye might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
29. Look, Paul
was a teacher and a teacher is sent to teach, and what good does it do to teach
if you don’t have anyone to listen and learn. So he prayed that the people
might listen and learn and be filled with the Holy Ghost so they would be
filled with the knowledge of God.. Ephesians 5: 17 Wherefore be ye
not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
30. Trying to do God a
service 65-1127B P:8 But it's so
hard, I, used to bother me so bad, and
then I found out even our Lord was misunderstood in so many things. He'd say
anything, and they'd--be misunderstood. I guess it just has to be that way. But those who are wise will understand.
See? The Bible said so. They'll catch It.
31. Even when the
Apostle Paul was instructing the people concerning the gifts of the spirit he
emphasized that they must be used with an understanding or they become useless
to the people. 1 Corinthians 14: 14 For if I pray in
an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but
my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the
spirit, and I will pray with the
understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. And
then in verse 19 he says, 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my
understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten
thousand words in an unknown tongue.
32. Luke 24: 45 Then opened he
their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
33. Luke 2: 47 And all that
heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
34. Mark 12: 33 And to love him
with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and
with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all
whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
35. Easter seal 65-0410
P:44 Now, that quickening power that come upon Jesus quickened Him to manifest every promise of the Word of that day.
So does the Holy Spirit that come upon
us in this day. If it's not a mockery holy spirit, if it's not the devil
mocking the Holy Spirit, but is the real true Holy Spirit, it'll manifest the promise of this hour. When It fell upon Luther, It manifested that promise of that
hour. When It fell upon Wesley, It manifested the promise of that hour.
When It falls in this day, It manifests the promise of this hour.
When It fell upon Moses, It
manifested the promise of that hour. Fell upon Noah, It manifest the promise of that hour. When It fell upon Jesus, It manifests the promise of that
hour. See? It's the Holy Spirit coming
down to quicken, make alive those people that's foreordained of God to be
in the rapture. Oh, that is, if he's a true eagle, he will understand the
message of the hour: if he's a true eagle.
36. Rising of the sun
65-0418M P:63 The Dynamics, if It comes upon water it'll just splutter:
"Days of miracles is past, putt-putt-putt; oh, I believe Divine...
pomp-pomp-pomp; but they--they don't... pomp-pomp-pomp." See? but when it
hits that one thousand octane, "Whrrrr" and away she goes. You see?
Now. My. The Dynamics strike that... But if It strike a chicken, It won't do no
good. But when It strikes a eagle he moves out (Amen.), the Dynamics with the
mechanics. See what I mean? That is, if he is a true eagle now, he will
understand .Let me straighten a little Scripture here for you. (I think we're
off the phone, but we are still here.) St. John 5:24, Jesus said, "He that
heareth My Word, and believeth on him that sent me, has Everlasting Life."
37. Voice of the sign
64-0214 P:64 Notice. And when he did... One day He begin to speak to the people.
And He said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His
blood, you've no Life." What would doctors say about that? Now, He never
explained it. He never said any...He just come for so many. Them that He
foreknew, He come. He said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws
him. And all the Father has given Me, they will understand Me. They'll come.
(See?) They'll come. They'll understand it, the one the Father has given Me,
whose name's on the Book of Life." He come to redeem them.
38. Pardoned 63-1028
P:81 Our heavenly Father, knowing that--that the sun is swiftly going
down, time shall be no more, one day the great Archangel will step out on the
scene of time, from out of eternity. And the trumpet of God shall sound and
every man and woman will answer to what we know to be the Truth, the Word of
God. There's got to be some standard that God has to have here on earth that
we're to be judged by. And if we took the standard of our church, our
denomination, how far would we miss it? And which denomination would be right?
Therefore, we'd be confused. We wouldn't know what to do. But there is a
Standard and that is Your Word. And Your Word said, "Except a man be
borned again he cannot even see the
39. Evening messenger
63-0116 P:126 Now, our heavenly Father, we give to You this audience, these
broken up words has been lengthy, Lord. Even many has gotten tired and weary,
and has gone home, and maybe some felt a little bad, and, Lord, I--I just can't
tell who's in the audience all the time. And after all, Father, It's Your Word
and You know my heart. So... And I'm... Woe is me if I don't do it. And I--I
must do it, Lord. So I pray now that the people who has understanding of the
Word will understand clearly, and I'm sure those that You've called to Life
will, that it's not anything in the world but a heart full of love for God and
His Church that I plead these things. Father, practically every hand in here
went up for a circumcision, to be cut away all the surplus that doesn't belong
there. God, help us all. I stand right with them, Lord. I'm one of them. I'm
watching for the coming of that glad millennium day when sin and shame shall be
destroyed forever. And, Father, while we're in this world we know that we're
subject to these things; we're subject to mistakes; we're subject to sin; we're
still walking, and yet we don't desire to do it. As the Bible said, "Faint
not when you're reproved." But I pray, Father, that the reproving of the
Word cuts me just as hard as it cuts the rest of them. And I pray, Father, that
they'll understand it that way.
40. Go awake Jesus
63-1130E P:20 They do the same thing today, just the same. See, if He come today,
and just in the same thing, the way He did then, the people today would boo Him
and call Him crazy just as they did then. See? It'd be just the same. And they
do do it. They would not understand Him. The world never did understand the
true moving of God. And it never will understand it, because it's the world.
"The world seeth Me no more," He said, "but you shall see Me,
because I'll be with you, and I'll be in you to the end of the world." If
the people could just see that one quotation from Him, right there, they'd
recognize where we're at tonight.
41. God hiding Himself
in simplicity 63-0412E P:65 Could you imagine a man like Moses, an ordinary man
doing the things that he did? Could you imagine that Elijah, an old,
woolly-looking fellow with hairs all over his body and a piece of sheepskin
draped around him, could you imagine God taking a thing like that, when there
stood priests, and clergymen that was robed, and polished in their theology,
just as smooth as they could be? But God bypassed every one of them. He always
does. Tell me one time He ever did it. Never. No, sir.He bypassed the whole
thing to come down to some simple form. He reveals Himself, and works in
simplicity, real simple so that everybody will understand it. That's what makes
Him great. He be--He comes simple, simplifying it. And now, He bypassed...