Masterpiece 47
Perfect yet no
beauty
February 5th, 2006
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
2. THE
MASTERPIECE 64-0705 71 So perfected
a Redeemer of man, so perfect, so godly (Yet there was no beauty we should
desire Him.), when this virgin-born Son of the living God become so perfect,
and humble, and in the image of God, until the great Master Who had brought His
life up through the prophets (and He was the fulfilling of all the prophets)...
He was so perfect, until God seeing this, He smote Him and has cried out,
"Speak!" as Michelangelo did, "Speak!" You say,
"Is that so?" St. Mark 9:7, we find upon the Mount Transfiguration,
when there stood Moses, the law, there stood Elijah, the prophets. All the way
back from the patriarchs, the fathers, the law, the prophets, and all of them
standing there, we hear a Voice coming down from the cloud and said, "This
is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." And if they're going to hear, He's got to
speak. It was just a few days before He was smitten. "This is My Son, Who
I'm pleased to dwell in. I have molded Him. I've been four thousand years
bringing Him to this. And now He is so perfect I've got to smite Him so He can
speak. "Hear ye Him." He's the perfected One. He--He is the
Masterpiece."
3. So perfected a
Redeemer of man, so perfect, so godly (Yet there was no beauty we should desire
Him.), when this virgin-born Son of the living God become so perfect, and
humble, and in the image of God, until the great Master Who had brought His
life up through the prophets (and He was the fulfilling of all the prophets)...
He was so perfect, until God seeing this, He smote Him and has cried out,
"Speak!" Now, this
morning I want to just look at the first portion of this paragraph where
brother Branham said, 71 So perfected a Redeemer of man, so perfect,
so godly (Yet there was no beauty we should desire Him.), when this virgin-born
Son of the living God become so perfect, and humble, and in the image of God,
until the great Master Who had brought His life up through the prophets (and He
was the fulfilling of all the prophets)... He was so perfect, until God seeing
this, He smote Him and has cried out, "Speak!"
4. So perfected a
Redeemer of man, so perfect, so godly (Yet there was no beauty we should desire
Him.), when this virgin-born Son of the living God become so perfect, and
humble, and in the image of God, until the great Master Who had brought His
life up through the prophets (and He was the fulfilling of all the prophets)...
He was so perfect, until God seeing this, He smote Him and has cried out,
"Speak!"
5. Notice, Jesus Christ the Son of the Living
God was so perfect in every way and yet not in his fleshly appearance. To me
that shows the markings of God all over it. God hides in simplicity and His
gifts are always simple, yet perfect. In James 1:17 we read Every
good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.
6. Yet when you have a
need and God sends us an answer to our need, it is always the perfect answer
for “we know that
all things shall work together for the good of those who love God and are the
called according to His purpose.”
7. And we know
that God sent us the gift of His Son, “for God so Loved the world that he gave His only Begotten
Son”,
8. And we know that this son was perfect in the eye’s
of God’s and that God was so pleased with Him that God entered Him, and God
made Him His mouth piece.
9. In Matthew 17:5 We read “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.”
10. Now, this is
interesting that the God who created the universe so perfectly until the oceans
are kept in control by the moon, and the earth is kept in check by its gravity,
and the earth is kept warm by the sun that if it moves just a little out of
orbit, the sun would burn up the earth if that movement was closer and if it
moved just a little bit further away from the sun, the earth would freeze over.
11. Yet we are told that the body of this man, this
Son of God, the perfect Gift from a perfect God, was not despised and rejected
of men.
12. I wonder if God just doesn’t do that on purpose to
confound the unbeliever. God takes a man and molds and fashions him after the
likeness of His son, and the man receives the mind of Christ and yet there are
still things in his body that people don’t like.
13. And so we see that it is the veil of the creation
that man always finds fault with.
14. They found fault with William Branham by looking
at the clothes he would wear into a campaign. In the book all things are
possible, the author pointed out some of the criticism of William Branham was
the combination of clothes he would wear into the campaign. They pointed out
that his jacket would not match with his pants, etc. And so they looked at the
vessels exterior to find fault because they knew this man was from God, and yet
they could not see it with their eyes, because their eyes were not focused on
what God looks at but their eyes were focused on what man looks at.
15. Jesus Himself said
in John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but
judge righteous judgment.
16. Not too long ago I
was talking with a certain minister who has access to many of the ministers in
this message because of his relationship to Brother Branham’s family. And I
asked him, why do the ministers hate brother Vayle so. And he said, they don’t
hate him, they just can’t stand his language and the way he says things.
17. And to me that is what attracted me to brother
Vayle’s ministry. I had never met anyone who was so truthful, and so forth
right, and just laid the axe to the root of the tree and started chopping. And
that is what attracted me to William Branham. I came to this message not
knowing he was a prophet sent from God. I was given the
18. I read those books and I checked out every
Scripture and every historical event and the times of those events and I was so
amazed because I had never heard anything so perfect and so straight forward
and not polished and politically correct.
19. And for this I came to the message, not even
knowing of the miracles. I had no clue that any miracles had taken place. I
came because of the doctrine.
20. But what is it that men look to the flesh and not
to the spirit in a man. This flesh is not who we are. We are two thirds spirit
being. We possess a spirit and a soul, and the soul is who we are. Yet why is
it that we look at a person in the flesh to try to know them.
21. Why is it that a man and woman can fall in love
and marry because of that love, and yet over time become common to one another.
What makes them begin to look at each others flesh instead of their spirit and
soul? Why are girls attracted to a man’s
looks and not his soul? Why are young men attracted to the girls flesh and not
her soul? These are questions I want us to think about.
22. Marriage and divorce 65-0221M P:45 Let
me show you something in the Scripture. I got to take you back to Scripture and
you draw your opinion as you look at it today. Satan is the one who features
that kind of beauty. If we'll notice, he was the most beautiful of all these
Angels in heaven. That right? And he desired to make heaven a more beautiful
place than the
23. P:46 Now, she's beautiful so she can deceive. The world is
beautiful so it can deceive. I mean cosmos, the order of the world. It's
beautiful so it can deceive--great fine places and luxury.One of--the prophet,
Amos, when he come up over, looked down into the city and seen it like a modern
Hollywood, his little old eyes got little under that gray hair hanging in his
face, and he walked down there with a message and burst it out on that place.
He said, "The very God that you claim to serve will destroy you."
Right. Sin is pretty.They picture Judas as some old drunken sot out here on the
street somewhere, mouth hanging with flies in it, and so forth, as Judas. Judas
was handsome, strong, a deceiver. It ain't that guy to watch around you. It
ain't a guy that--the old farmer come in with a pair of overalls on to watch
around your wife; it's that slicker. He's a rascal.Sin is beautiful to the eyes
of the world. But God is not featured in that kind of beauty. Did you know
that? God is featured in character, beautiful character.
24. P:47 In the Bible... (Isaiah 53, if you want to put some
Scripture down.) I've got rows of Scripture wrote on the side here for it
(Isaiah 53)... The Bible said of our Lord Jesus that there was no beauty that
we should desire Him, and we hid as it was our faces from Him. That right? We
didn't desire Him because He wasn't pretty. He was probably a little fellow,
stoop shouldered, ruddy-looking, and He wasn't desirable to be a leader. He
didn't look like a leader; talked with common street talk and so forth like the
people does (the common people); so therefore, He didn't look like He was any
great scholar, educated, fine, all robed up and everything; He was just an
ordinary man. There was no beauty of Him
that we should desire Him. He walked in and out of men right along, and they
didn't even know Who He was. He didn't look like a god walking along, what we'd
think was a god. But the same, He was.
25. P:48 Did you notice when
the Lord God said to--to Samuel, "Go up to the house of Jesse and anoint
one of his sons king to take Saul's place."... Now, the people chose Saul
when Samuel absolutely told them not to do it. He said, "God don't want
you to have a king. He's your King." And said, "Have I ever said
anything to you in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? Have I ever
begged you for money or something another for my living? "They said,
"No, you never begged us for money, and whatever you said in the Name of
the Lord, it come to pass, but we want the king anyhow." So they chose
Saul. Look what the world chose. Look what
26. P:49 And Jesse, his
wife, and all of them looked around and said, "Yes, our oldest son, he's a
great, tall, handsome man. He'll look just right for the king's crown. He's
smart; he's educated; he's a fine man. I know he'll be just right. He speaks
his word proper. "When they brought him out, Samuel took the cruse of oil
and went towards him; he said, "No, the Lord refused him." So he went
all the way down to six sons, and the Lord refused every one of them. He said,
"Isn't there another one?" "Oh," he said, "yes,
there's one. He's back out there herding the sheep. He just sets back there and
plays songs, and sings it, and shouts, and goes on; but he's a little old stoop
shouldered, ruddy-looking guy. He would never make a king. "He said,
"Go get him." And while David come in the sight of the prophet, the
prophet run with the oil and poured it upon his head, said, "This is God's
chosen."
27. P:50 Not pretty, but
character, God looks at character. Man looks at natural beauty. It's deceiving.
And that's why a woman was given that beauty for deception, to deceive. A
beautiful woman, if she don't use it in the right way, it's a curse to her.
That'll send her to hell quicker than anything else I know of. If she
just--if... She could be pretty, sure; as long as she stays with her husband
and does what's right, and that--that's fine and dandy. But she can take that
same thing, and, my, how she can deceive with it, for it was give to her to do
so. Notice now, but God is featured in character. There was no beauty we should
desire Jesus, but there never was a character like Him on the earth. Now, we
find out today that the--the church character, Satan and his group, look after
big beautiful churches, beautiful things. That's what the world looks at today.
Oh, if the pastor, the great So-and-so times So-and-so, so priestly and godly,
walking out in these big robes and things like that; they call that beauty. But
the real saints of God looks for the character of the vindicated Word. That's
what the saints did in that day when they seen Jesus. He wasn't nothing to look
at, but they seen God was in Him; they seen God was with Him.