Masterpiece
Number 31
Understanding and what is
Sin no. 2
October 30, 2005
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
1. This morning,
we will continue with the thought we brought out last night concerning “understanding and what is sin”. As yo9u may recall, last night we showed you
that sin is not only unbelief, but also it is willful ignorance. We also went
into a series of Scriptures and quotes showing how that God wants for us to
have an understanding but only those who are ordained to it, will understand.
2. Daniel prophesied
that in the end time the elect will understand. The Apostle Paul told us that
God has ordained for His elect to understand, and Jesus said that no man can
come to God except he first be taught of God.
3. We found
where the Holy Ghost brings an anointing upon the believer and anoints them
with an understanding, so that they might Know Him.
4. We also
found that the unbeliever is not ordained to understand and therefore, they are
left to their own understanding and thus they miss the mark which is sin.
5. This morning
I would like to continue with this thought and we will read first from, Ephesians 4: 18 again because this thought that
the Apostle Paul tells us here is of utmost importance for us to understand. He
said, Having their
understanding darkened, they become alienated from the
life of God through the ignorance that
is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
6. So we see
here that the darkening of their understanding means their understanding goes
further and further away from light as time goes on, that in the process they
are alienating themselves from the very Life of God. Why? Because God dwelleth
in the Light. Now, why is this possible? Because they are walking away from the
light instead of into it. And if you walk in the Light as He is in the Light, you have
fellowship with one another and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you from all
sin. So to walk from the light throws you into utter darkness and
there is not blood to cleanse you. And further more it shows you are trying to
hide something.
7 John 3: 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
8. Now the very
fact that they love darkness rather than light shows they do not want eternal
life, and have no desire for it, even though they might wish to live forever,
but they would never stand to live for God forever. Oh, no, they wouldn’t stand
for that. And so they depart from the light.
9. John 8: 12 Then spake Jesus
again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life. Therefore to
follow Jesus is to follow after the Light of Life.
10. John 12: 35 Then Jesus said
unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he
that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither
he goeth.
11. Notice
again that Jesus is telling us that they who would walk in darkness just don’t
know. They have no understanding of where hey are walking. And it doesn’t take
a rocket scientist to understand that if you walk in darkness you can’t see
where you are going. And therefore there is only one light to follow, and that
is the Light of the hour.
12. Again in John 1: 5 we
see how that those that are in darkness do not have any understanding, or in
this case comprehension which is the same thing. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
13. And we are
told that this light is actually the Life of Christ reflecting itself out to
the believer. John 1: 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Now,
what does that mean? It means that without the Life of Christ Jesus being
manifested to us as He did, we would have no clue as to the expectations of God
and our relationship with the Father, and the role that we have to play out in
this life and the world to come.
14. For
you see, we are told in 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, (that we may know who that is true? That
we may know God the Only True God.. And this relationship that Jesus had with
the Father and his words to us concerning that relationship helps us to also
have relationship with God as our Father and to know and understand the role
that God has called for us to play as obedient sons. And then John says, ) and we are in him
that is true, (Notice first he tells us that the Son of God came to
give us an understanding of the only True God, and then He tells us that in the
course of coming to this understanding we also recognize that we are also in
God as Christ was In God and that we thus are in Christ as well. Notice he
follows this being in God that is True with,) even in his Son Jesus Christ. (then
he tells us that this one that Christ was in and that we are in is the True God
and the author of eternal Life)This is the true God, and eternal life.”
15. From hi
sermon, God keeps His Word 57-0407M P:34 Brother
Branham said, After hundreds of years of the supernatural being gone, he showed
that God was still living and God had sent him and said, "Go tell them
that I AM has sent you." Not "I was," or "I will be,"
"I AM (a present tense.)" He didn't say, "I was." How
people can claim God, and say that the days of miracles are past, and Divine
healing and all the blessings are gone, and still say He is the living God, and
the I AM. If He's, I AM, He's just as real as He was at the burning bush. That
great Name that He appeared there, and no
scholar yet has ever been able to interpret it. J-v-h-u, no one, they call
it Jehovah, but it wasn't. No on can
interpret it. Why? It's the eternal One. Amen. He dwells in the Light; He dwells in eternity. He calls it,
immortality, the everlasting I AM. Hallelujah.
16. Now,
notice that Brother Branham tells us that God dwells in the Light. But notice
also that he tells us that there was a name for God that was spelled J-V-H-U and
notice further that He said, no man could pronounce it. Then why do we have
groups of believers in this Message claiming to be able to pronounce the name
of God.
17. I
will never forget an old friend of mine was taking Hebrew in College and one
day he comes to my home and he is literally dancing in the spirit he is so
happy. And he tells me that he just found out how to pronounce the name of God.
I said, oh, brother that’s nothing new. I know how to pronounce the name of
God? And then he seemed a bit taken back
and he said, “You do?” and I said, yes, brother, it’s [pronounced JEEESUSSSS,
and then I said Jehovah of the Old is Jesus of the New. A vindicated Prophet
told us that. Then he said, no, no, no.
It’s not pronounced Jehovah, it’s pronounced Yuh-hu-vah! Well, I had to hold
back a chuckle when he told me that. To him it was a great revelation, but to
me it was education gone amuck.
18. And why do
we have people running off after that kind of stimulation? The answer is very
simple. They want to think that they have something that no one else has. And
so they have run after this name pronunciation gimmick which a vindicated
prophet said no man can know how to pronounce it. So if they claim to believe
the prophet why do they insist they have the right pronunciation when it is no
even necessary to know because no man can pronounce it anyway. That is why when
God gave us the pronunciation it was pronounced as JEEESUSSS!
19. Now, in
getting back to our topic, understanding and what is sin, we told you that sin
is unbelief. People drink and smoke and chase and talk dirty because they don’t
believe they will have to give an account for what they say and do. But Jesus
told us that every idle word we say we will have to given an count of it one
say.
20. Matthew 12: 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
21. And brother
Branham said in, Questions and answers COD 54-0103E
P:69 20. All right, II Timothy 2 and 16 reads like this. But shun
profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Yes.
All right. You want to know what the profane babbling is. "Profane--shun
profane babblings, for they will increase." Now, the first thing is,
"profane babbling, for they shall increase." Now, anything that just
keeps babbling. Jesus said, "Let
your yes be yes and your no be no, for anything more than this will come to
sin." You're not supposed even to joke and cutup with one another. God
will make you give an account for every idle word that you speak. Did you know
that? The Bible said that you'll have to
give an account for every idle word. So what kind of a people ought we to
be? People that's frank, stern, loving, kind, and never a bunch of nonsense,
always going along...
22. Jesus keeps all of
his appointments 64-0418E P:103 What is a sinner? Not them who smoke. Smoking's not
a sin; drinking's not a sin. Cursing is not a sin. Committing adultery's not a
sin. No, no. That's attributes of unbelief. You do that because you're not a
believer. There's only two: one, you are a believer, or you're not a believer.
If you're not a believer, no matter how religious you are, you're still a
sinner. You're still a sinner, if you
don't accept every Word of that Bible, every Word of it. For both heavens and
earth will pass away, but not one jot or one tittle will pass from that.
And we'll give an account for it.
You say, "Well, I belong to church. My people don't..." That don't
matter. "I do this." I don't care what you've done. You're either a
believer or a sinner. That's pretty strong. But I'm just saying this because
the same One that knows the hearts of you, is telling me to say it. Are you
finished? I see a few more coming. I'm just waiting, 'cause I don't know if...
There might be somebody else. Just one moment.
When their eyes were opened 56-0420 P:7 What is sin?
Unbelief. Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, lying, stealing, that's not
sin. That's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're an unbeliever. If you was a believer you wouldn't do that.
See? Just because you quit drinking, and quit smoking, and quit drinking, and
committing adultery, that doesn't make you a Christian. You're a Christian
because you are a believer. See? You are a sinner be... You do the things that
you ought not, because the life that's in you makes you do it. A tree's known
by its fruit. And you... If a tree look like it was a apple tree and it was
bearing pears, then it's a pear tree, because the life in it is the life of a
pair tree.
23. Expectations and
what love is 54-0228A P:53 The accepting of Christ isn't raising up your
hands, or these things, it's accepting a Person into the heart, and then the
attributes comes out. First, get things first: Christ in the heart and It'll
bear record. I said, "Like smoking, drinking, gambling, committing
adultery, those things are not sin." Then I said that one night and a good
old Methodist mother raised up. I said, "It's no sin to drink, not sin to
smoke, gamble ."She raised up, she said, "Then preacher, would you
tell me what sin is?" I said, "Unbelief." That's right. I said,
"The reason you drink, smoke, and carry on like that is because you are an
unbeliever. That's the attributes of unbelief causes that. If you are a
Christian, you don't do it. And just because you quit drinking, smoking,
chewing, and--and committing adultery, that doesn't mean you're a Christian.
You can do that yourself." That's right. All right. But the main thing is
accepting the Person of Christ Jesus. Amen. Then It brings forth Its fruit.
24. Thou knowest all
things 52-0716 P:28 Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing
is because of unbelief. 'Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do
those things. You believe that? "He
that's born of God does not commit sin." See? All right. You must
believe. The whole thing lays in faith. Jesus said, "He that heareth My
Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, shall not come
into condemnation, but has already passed from death into Life." Do you
believe that's the truth? There it lays. There isn't nothing else that you can
do, only believe. And if you believe,
then them little immoral things will just drop off, like that. As you believe, you become love. And
love is God. And you begin to wind
yourself into Christ. And these other things, you don't have to quit doing
them; they just quit themselves. There's just no desire to do it. "The worshipper having purged, has no more conscience, or desire of
sin." Hebrews 9. See? "The
worshipper once purged..." See what I mean? When the worshipper is purged, is when he is born again, when his old
nature dies, and a new nature sets in. Then he becomes a part of God, a son
of God. He gets new Life, and the Life is... And the Greek word there is
"Zoe," which means "the Life of God." And you become an
offspring of God. And God can't hurt you without hurting Himself. See what I
mean?
25. The
Apostle John said, He that is born of God can not sin, for His Seed remaineth
in Him.
26. You must be born
again 61-1231M P:63 What do you do with a baby soon as it's born? Wash him. Is that
right? And as soon as a man has died to himself and's born of God, he's washed
by the water of the Word. Amen. If It says, "Jesus' Name," you say
"Jesus' Name"; says, "You must be born again," you say the
same thing. Ever what God says, you're washed by that water of the Word. Amen.
Now, you're ready now for life. You're ready to be--start out now. Now, you're
born anew, born in the family of God with a new parent. Yes, sir. Your tutors
used to be... Now you got tutors that is now; you got a new Parent. You can't
be born without having a parents. So if you're born in the brotherhood of a
church, that's what you got. If you're born in a creed, there you are. But if
you're born in God, conceived in His Word, you got a new Parent; that's God,
ready to make His Word known among us, with you, speak It through you. Oh, a
new Parent, that Parent is God. He's ready to take His Word now that He's
already spoke, and lay It in you and make It come to life. See? Now, you have
your training now. You're ready--you're ready to go into training now,
child-training. That's the hard part, when you think you ought to do this, and
the Word cuts you around and shows you something else. "Why, they believe
that over..." That don't make any difference what they believe. Here's
what God said. You must be about the Father's business. Now you're getting born
again. Now you're getting right, getting straightened out. You have a new
Parent.
27. union of the bride
65-1125 P:99 And a man that's born of God, a
son of God has to have the nature of God. He has to be like God. He honors
God. He's part of the Word of God. And in this last days of this Bride taken
form just exactly in the same power that He was in at the beginning... He's
come up through these organizations and so forth and come out for the Bride. He
can't be nothing else but that.
28. Who is this
Melchisedec 65-0221E P:33 Before the foundation of the world his Name's put
on the Lamb's Book of Life. Then from that He become the Word, the theophany,
that could appear, disappear; and then He become flesh and returned back again,
resurrected that same body in a glorified condition. But you bypassed the
theophany and become flesh-man to be tempted by sin. And then "if this
earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have one already waiting." We have not
yet the bodies. But look, when this body receives the Spirit of God, the
Immortal Life inside of you, it throws this body in subjection to God.
Hallelujah."He that's born
of God doth not commit sin; he cannot sin." Romans 8:1. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus; they walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." There
you are. See, that throws your body
subject. You don't have to say, "Oh, if I could just quit drinking, if
I could just..." Just get in Christ; it's all gone. See, see? Because your
body is subject to the Spirit, it's no more subject to the things of the world;
they're dead. They are dead; your sins are buried in baptism; and you are a new
creation in Christ. And your body becoming subject to the Spirit, try to live a
right kind of life...
29. Then Jesus came and
called 64-0417 P:37 But on this, when we really place our hands upon our Sacrifice,
Jesus, and feel in our hearts that we're guilty, and know what we're doing, the
Blood of that Sacrifice... The Life that was in that Blood was God Himself, so
He comes back upon you as the Holy Spirit. You
become a son of God then, with no more conscience of sin. "He that's born of God does not commit sin." He can't sin. The seed of God's in him; he can't sin.
There's no more desire of sin at all. So as long as you're desiring to sin,
you're guilty of it. But when you have no more desire, if you do anything
wrong, then you don't willfully do it. Hebrews 6 said if we sin willfully after
we receive the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sin: sin willfully. So if you continually want to sin willfully, there's
something wrong with your experience.
30. 1 John 5: 18 We know that
whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
31. 1 John 5 : 1 Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 1 John 5 : 4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our faith.
32. Seed of discrepancy
65-0118 P:13 But we find out God gave His children His Word for their Defense.
Their... We have no other Defense than the Word of God. That is our Defense.
There's no bombs, no shelters, no hiding places, no
33. Abraham's grace
covenant 61-0317 P:11 And Hebrews (now watch),
Hebrews the tenth said, "If we sin
willfully..." Now, what is sin, brethren? Unbelief. "He that
believeth not is condemned already." You commit adultery. Why? Because you're an
unbeliever. You steal, you lie, cheat. Why? Because you're an unbeliever.
That's right. A real true believer doesn't do that. See? He doesn't do it,
because the Holy Spirit in him... if he happens to even make a mistake... the
Bible said also, "And the worshiper, once purged, has no more conscious of sin." "He that's born
of God does not commit sin..." is not an
unbeliever, he's a believer. The Spirit of God remains in you cannot sin. You can't be a believer and an unbeliever
at the same time. You're either a believer or not a believer. Now, listen
to Scripture. The man or woman that comes to a fact of the Bible, comes up
against the Scriptural doctrine...
Ministers, whoever you are, I say this with Godly love, and you see it, and
know it is the truth, and turn away from
it, "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful looking for
the judgment, the fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries. He that
despised Moses law..."
34. Now, it’s
not as though you will never make mistakes or fall in your flesh, but God just
doesn’t give you credit for it. You see, if you are truly born again then
another Life has taken over and the life you once lived is dying out, and the
new life in Christ has taken over. You may still do wrong things, but in your
heart you don’t want to do them, so God just doesn’t give you credit for them.
35. Show us the Father
59-0419E P:44 You believe God's in His Son? God's in His universe:? God is in His
Word? God is in His Son? Now, is God in His people? What the death of Christ
was, was to sanctify a church that He might work through to continue His work.
There had to be an atonement made, and His
body, the Man Jesus, was made a Sacrifice, willingly, like we've take it
through this last week in a type of Isaac, willing, submitted himself to death.
He didn't have to die. He said, "No man takes My life; I lay it down." And He
did that, that through that sacrifice, that fulfills the Scripture, "He that's born of God does not commit sin,
because he can't sin." There's a bloody sacrifice for a man that's in
Christ. God don't see your sins;
it's covered by the Blood.
36. Demonology 1
Physical 53-0608A P:26 You can't sin. Oh, you... I might be a sinner in your sight, but if I'm in Christ, God don't see
it, because his sin's atoned, His Blood atoned for my sins there. See? I
can't sin. "He that's born of God does not commit sin, for he cannot sin.
The seed of God remains in him." See? He--he's willing to, if he makes a
mistake, sure he's right then willing to confess it. If he's a real Christian,
he will do it. If he holds it back, he shows he ain't got nothing in the first
place. That's right. He hasn't got nothing to begin with. But if he's a real
Christian...
37. 1 John 3 : 9 Whosoever
is born of God doth not commit sin;
for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Now the word commit here
was translated from a Greek word that actually means to initiate. Now, to read
this properly we would read it, Whosoever is born of God doth not initiate sin; for his (God’s) seed
remaineth in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God
38. Now the Greek word for
commit is poieo pronounced poy-eh-o, and means to initiate, celebrate, or
habitually do) verse 8: <wuest> The one who is habitually committing sin
is out of the devil as a source because from The beginning
the devil has been habitually sinning.
39. Notice verse 9:
40. Therefore we should read this as Whosoever
is born of God doth not initiate sin; or, better yet we can read
this verse as; Whosoever is born of God doth not
celebrate sin; or better still,
we can read this verse as Whosoever is
born of God doth not habitually continue in sin;
41. And why is that because
John continues by saying, for His (that's God's) seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin (In
other words, he has no power or permission to sin), because he is born of God. Look,
if you have been born again it means one thing, there has been a new birth,
which means a new life is now living out in you and that you life, that one
that is born again, is not the old sinful man, that man is perishing day by
day, the new man is being renewed daily by the Word of God which liveth and
abideth forever. And it is now God's own Life, God life that is living in you
and you have become a new creation in Christ, as we see in,
42. II CORINTHIANS
5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old
things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. things have passed away and all things have
become new.
43. 10 In this the
children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Now, what does he mean by
that? Was John just joking? Or is this Gods Word we are reading? He says here, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,.
Then are we to avoid this because it is too controversial? I think not. You can
call a buzzard an eagle if you want to but just because you say it doesn't make
it so. And you can call yourself born again if you wish, but your life will
bear you out.
44. Romans 8:1. "There is
therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; they walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit." There you are. See, that
throws your body subject. You don't have to say, "Oh, if I could just
quit drinking, if I could just..." Just get in Christ; it's all gone. See,
see? Because your body is subject to the Spirit, it's no more subject to the
things of the world; they're dead. They are dead; your sins are buried in
baptism; and you are a new creation in Christ. And your body becoming subject
to the Spirit, try to live a right kind of life... Now, if it throws your body subject, it throws your
body subject. Let's not try to change the meaning of what he said. Now, let's
see if he is saying the same thing as the Apostle Paul. 72 Like you women
claiming you got Holy Ghost and going out here and wearing shorts and things,
how could you do it? How could the
Spirit of God in you ever let you do such a thing as that? It just can't be so.
Certainly it can't be. He's not a filthy spirit; He's a holy Spirit. And
then when you become subject to that Spirit, it throws your whole being subject
to that Spirit. And that Spirit is nothing in the world but this Seed Word made
manifest, or quickened (Hallelujah.), made alive. And when the Bible said,
"Don't do this," that body quickly turns to it; there's no
question. And what is it? It's the earnest of the resurrection. This body
will be raised up again, because it's already started. It was once subject to
sin, and mire, and corruption, but now it's got the earnest; it's turned
heavenly. Now, that's the earnest that you're going in the rapture. It's the
earnest.
45. 1 John 3: 5 - 6 And you
know that He was manifested to take away our habitual error and missing of the mark, because in Him
is no error or missing of the mark. So Whosoever abides in Him does not
habitually miss the mark; whosoever habitually misses the mark hath not seen
Him, neither have they known Him. Little children, let no man deceive you: He
that doeth right - wise - ness is rightly wise, even as God is rightly wise.
But he that habitually misses the mark is of the devil for the devil missed the mark from the beginning
and for this purpose The Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy works
of the devil.
46. That's where we go; that is the Word.
Then we can look back and see what we done. Now, we don't understand it. We
have never become the Word; we've just become the flesh-man, not the Word.
But... And look clearly, makes it clear you will never be the Word unless you
was a thought at the beginning. That proves the predestination of God. See? You
can't be the Word 'less you're a thought. You had to be in the thinking first.
But you see, in order to stand temptation you had to bypass the theophany;
you had to come down here in flesh to be tempted by sin. And then if you
sin... "All the Father hath given Me will come to Me, and I'll raise him up
at the last days." See, you had to be first. And then you see,
He come right down the regular line, from attribute to...
47. 70 Before the foundation of the world his
Name's put on the Lamb's Book of Life. Then from that He become the Word, the
theophany, that could appear, disappear; and then He become flesh and returned
back again, resurrected that same body in a glorified condition. But you
bypassed the theophany and become flesh-man to be tempted by sin. And then
"if this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have one already
waiting." We have not yet the bodies. But look, when this body
receives the Spirit of God, the Immortal Life inside of you, it throws this
body in subjection to God. Hallelujah. "He that's born of
God doth not commit sin; he cannot sin." Romans 8:1. "There is
therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; they walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit." There you are. See, that
throws your body subject. You don't have to say, "Oh, if I could just
quit drinking, if I could just..." Just get in Christ; it's all gone.
See, see?
48. I JOHN 3:2 Beloved, now are
we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he
is. 3 And every man that hath this
hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.(having this hope purifies
himself, a process of purification, or sanctification takes place because of
the hope we have within) 4 ¶
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law. (The Wuest Translation says, Whosoever
habitually commits sin, also habitually commits lawlessness, and sin is
lawlessness)
49. 1 John 3:5 And ye know that
he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not
(Whosoever habitually is abiding in Him, cannot be sinning as a matter of
habit) whosoever sinneth hath not
seen him, neither known him. (Whosoever continues to sin as a matter of
habit, hath not seen Him, and neither do
they Know Him) 7
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is
righteous, even as he is righteous.(He that habitually doeth that
which is right, is right, even as Christ is Right) He that committeth sin is of the devil;(He that
habitually continues in sin is of the devil) for the
devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
50. 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is
born of God doth not commit sin; (does not initiate sin, does not sin out of habit) for His (God's) seed
remaineth in him: and he cannot sin (He cannot habitually sin or
disbelieve), because he is born of God. 10 In this
the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever
doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth
not his brother.
51. Now, brother Branham continues by saying, Because your body is subject to the Spirit, it's no more
subject to the things of the world; they're dead. They are dead; your
sins are buried in baptism; and you are a new creation in Christ. And your body
becoming subject to the Spirit, try to live a right kind of life...
52. Notice the key here is that you try to live a right kind of
Life. You are no longer a creature of habit. You no longer wander into sin
habitually like a dog running after its old nature in heat. But you are a
willful person, and you live with a sense of God's ever abiding presence in
your life. You know that something has happened and you are aware of the
fleshly desires in the body, and yet you are no longer constrained to follow
those fleshly lusts. Therefore, although you may occasionally fall, yet you try
never to fall.
53. You see, we must balance out 1 John 3
with 1 John 1.
54. I JOHN 1:6 If we say that we
have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 ¶ If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we
have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
55. Notice in 1 John 1 it seems as though John is telling us that we
can not get away from the fact that we have sin living in these mortal bodies
and if we try to deny it, we are throwing away the very purpose of God sending
His Son to die on our behalf. And yet as we read the King James version in 1
John 3 it sounds as though we know longer have sin living in this body after
the Spirit of God has come into us by the new birth. But by showing the literal
translation in the Wuest translation you can see that it is not that we no
longer have any sin living in us, but that we have died to our habitual
sinning. We no longer disbelieve as a matter of habit, but we are now made
conscious of another Life that is coming forth within us. A God life.
56. That is why Paul could say in GALATIANS
4:19 ¶
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be
formed in you,
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Notice, how wonderful, we love Him. Now, this body is subject to the
Spirit. Have not yet entered into the Word form, but we are still in the
flesh form, but subject to the Word. Death in the flesh will take us
there. Just the same thing. Think of a
little baby. You can take a woman, no matter how evil she is, when she is
pregnant and fixing to be mother, watch before that baby's born; I don't care
how cruel the woman is, she gets real kind. There's something about her
sound--seems godly, to see a little mother fixing to become mother by the baby.
Why is it? That little body... Now, it's not alive yet. See the only thing it
is, is just flesh and muscles. That little jumping, that's just muscles
jerking. But when it comes forth from the womb, God breathes the breath of life
into it, and then he screams out. See, just as sure as there is a natural body
being formed, there is a spiritual body to receive it as soon as it gets here.
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Then when a man is born again from heaven, he becomes a spirit babe in
Christ. And then when this robe of flesh is dropped, there is a natural
body, theophany, a body not made with hands, neither born of a woman, that we
go to. Then that body returns back and picks up the glorified body. That's
the reason Jesus went to hell when he died and preached to the souls that were
in prison. Turned back into that theophany... Oh, marvelous. Thank God. II Corinthians
5:1 "If this earthly body be dissolved (this earthly tabernacle),
we have another one." See, we have bypassed that to come
straight from God, the attribute, to be flesh to be tempted and tested by sin
like Adam did. But when testing of His Word is over, then we are taken up to
this body that was prepared for us before the foundation of the world. It
is the Word there that we skipped to come right around down here to be tempted
and tested. If we'd have come through that, there'd have been no
temptation; we'd knowed all things. That's the reason Jesus knowed all
things, 'cause He was Word before He was flesh. Then we become the Word.
Here we are formed to the Word image to be a partaker of the Word, feed on the
Word, by being predestinated since the beginning. You see, that little
spark of life that you had in you from the beginning when you started your
journey... Many of you can remember it. You joined this church and joined that
church, and try this and that; nothing satisfied. That's right. But one day you
just recognized it. Right.
59. And again in COLOSSIANS 3:1 ¶ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set
your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, [who is] our life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. And then
in verse 5 Paul goes on to tell us, that since we have died to ourselves, we
must also kill the desires that lay within the flesh, kill them immediately.
And then he goes on to list those desires.
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Like you women claiming you got Holy Ghost and going out here and
wearing shorts and things, how could you do it? How could the Spirit of God
in you ever let you do such a thing as that? It just can't be so. Certainly
it can't be. He's not a filthy spirit; He's a holy Spirit And then when you
become subject to that Spirit, it throws your whole being subject to that
Spirit. And that Spirit is nothing in the world but this Seed Word made
manifest, or quickened (Hallelujah.), made alive. And when the
Bible said, "Don't do this," that body quickly turns to it; there's
no question. And what is it? It's the earnest of the resurrection.
This body will be raised up again, because it's already started. It was
once subject to sin, and mire, and corruption, but now it's got the earnest;
it's turned heavenly. Now, that's the earnest that you're going in the rapture.
It's the earnest. A sick person laying dying, nothing left but death,
that's all can happen. I've seen the shadows of people done eat up with cancer
and tuberculosis, and see them persons a little while after that perfectly
normal and strong. If there is no Divine healing then there's no resurrection,
'cause Divine healing is the earnest of the resurrection. Amen. You know
what the earnest money is don't you? It's the down payment. "He was
wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we're healed."