Masterpiece 49
Vindication proves
the Doctrine is right with God
February 19th, 2006
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
2. Now, after brother Branham speaks of God
perfecting His Son, in paragraph 71 brother Branham makes a very non orthodox
statement concerning the Son of God.
3. 71 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!"
4. Now, before we go on to paragraph 72, I want to
bring up something he said in paragraph 71 concerning the Son of God. He said, “So perfected, a
Redeemer of man, so Godly, yet there was no
beauty that we should desire him.”
5. Now, you can’t be perfected if you were always that
way. And as I said last week, if you understand the Godhead correctly you will
understand that there is only “One” that is perfect and that is God. Therefore,
this Son of God became perfect when God entered into Him. For He is our
perfection.
6. Now, another thing he said, in speaking of the Son
of God brother Branham said he was, “So Godly”.
Now, Godly means piety which is characterized by a God-ward attitude, and is
expressed in that the actions are God centered and for the purpose of pleasing
God.
7. Now, that describes Jesus very well. He said, “My meat
is to do the will of my Father. Now, If Jesus and God were one like your finger
is one as the Unitarians believe, then this statement he made concerning the
devout nature of the Son of God to God, would not make any sense at all. But
seeing that brother Branham said God and Jesus were not one like your finger is
one, then we can understand that hr used this phrase when describing the Son of
God’s attitude towards His Father. Now God could not be Godly, because He is
God. And to be devout and God-ward speaks of another and not of God Himself. But
Since the Son of God was not God, then He could be Godly or God centered in His
Life.
8. Now, in paragraph 72. brother Branham said, “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 is
the Masterpiece."
9. Now, I would like to stop here for a minute and
examine something brother Branham said concerning the relationship that God had
with His son. Notice he quotes God as saying, "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.”
10. Just think, here is a glimpse into the
relationship between the Father and the Son. He is telling us that God spent
the past 4,000 years bringing him to this? To what? To the place that He would
enter into his Son.
11. Now, that may seem like heresy to many who believe
Jesus and God were one like your finger is one, and that may seem like heresy
to those who believe God was a committee made up of One called the Father,
another called the Son, and still another called the Holy Ghost or Holy
Spirit. But they wouldn’t know God if He
met them in their porridge.
12. I saw a film the other day called “God’s General
William M. Branham and after showing many clips from the deep calleth to the
deep and the 20th Century Prophet the that was going over the life
of William Branham said, he was truly a prophet but he went off when he forsook
the gift that God gave Him and tried to be a teacher.
13. It was very apparent while watching this video
that many people believed in the gift that Brother Branham had while praying
for the sick, but in that sense they are no different from you and I in that
they believed that Gift. But what sets us so different from them is that
although we loved the gift of God that was in the life of William Branham, we
do not look at that gift as the end-all, but rather that which got us to sit up
and take note that this man was very different from all others and that God was
definitely with Him, and if so, then we ought to shut up and hear what he has
to tell us.
14. But these men don’t want to shut up and listen.
They have to exalted of an opinion of there owns selves, and completely missed
God hiding Himself in simplicity.
Brother Branham said,
15. From his sermon called, Voice of the sign 64-0313 P:14 brother Branham
said, “Now, the sign has a
voice. And now, every true God-sent sign has a voice, and that voice must speak
according to the Word that's given for that day, just exactly. If the voice
comes the same old voice of the same old... You see a sign, rather, and the sign that the man's doing is the same
old school of thought, then you can say right then that didn't come from God.
If it keeps identifying the same old school of thought, it never did, it never
has, it would be against God's program. It's got to be something new. It's got
to be something that the people don't understand; it's got, or it wouldn't be sent. It don't need to be sent, if it's the same
old school of theology. It's got to be something different, yet it's got to
be identified in the Word that it is for that day (See?), the positives of
God's Word. It has to be that. There's no slip-ups to it. It's got to be the
truth, got to be vindicated by God the truth. And the man who speaks it has to
be vindicated of God to be a seer from God, or it's wrong. They don't
even--they don't even see it at all, don't even believe it.
16. I like especially what he said here that what
sense would it be for God to send a sign among the people and then direct them
into the same thing they already have been in. I remember what brother Vayle
said one time concerning this. He said,, could you imagine sitting at the table
eating your porridge and me bursting on the scene telling you I had a message
from the Lord for you, and you say, what is this message, and I would say,
“Thus saith the Lord, you are eating porridge” Now, what kind of a message
would that be?
17. Frankly I do not understand that mindset.
When I came to the message it was not because of the miracles, it was because
of the doctrine. That is what attracted me was the doctrine. Look, miracles are
nice to talk about and even nicer to have in your life, but they are not
eternal. But the Word is eternal and the Life in that word is eternal, and that
is what we are feeding on.
18. I believe in praying for the sick, and I have
seen many miracles in my own meetings, but God makes you better in this body,
and your still in this body. The body is made well, but the body is going to
get sick again. But there is something about the doctrine that takes you out of
this body if at least for the moment and you forsake all your troubles and you
are lifted into the presence of the eternal one and given a glimpse of Life to
come.
19. The doctrine brings you rest, it settles your
soul, it gives you peace, it stimulates your mind, and gives you a for-taste of
Glory divine. It places you, and let’s you see your status with God and your
state as a Son of God. But healings come and go. I’ve seen people healed of
cancer in the lungs just to die six months later from another kind of cancer in
the brain. But the word of the Lord
endures forever.
20. Voice of the sign 64-0321E P:26 Every true sign of
God is followed by the voice of God. Now, if a man gives a sign in the country
or any time, and that voice that he speaks behind that isn't the Word of God,
then watch it. Don't believe it. If some old school... If a man gets up and
says, shows a sign from God, and then
the man's teaching is the same old theology you've had all these years, God
never sent that sign. Look back in the Scripture and see if it was. Search
the Scripture. If a guy comes back and says, "Now, we all want you to join
this. It's been an old established affair," don't you believe that. We're
going to go in that just in a few minutes. See? No, don't you believe that. God always vindicates His signs. Sign from God always speaks God's voice.
And if it's the same old school you've
had, why would He give a sign? You're
already in it. He's trying to get you to that corner. Stop sign, slow up,
look where you're going. You'll dump yourself off at the corner, if you don't
watch. There's a sharp curve. And it's always a sign there, before you make
this curve, to keep you from wrecking up. A good road builders gives signs, and
we're traveling the road to glory. And if
the sign speaks of the same old thing, it wasn't from God. God gives signs to attract the attention of
His people. Signs are to attract the attention of God's people; God's signs
is. God's signs is given to attract the
attention of God's people.
21. What is the purpose of a sign anyhow? Signs
are a way of bringing a message to people. Stop sign means that you have to
stop or you might wreck up. A sign that says slippery when wet means that the
road is slippery when wet. Look out for deer means look out for dear. But the
Pentecostal world just doesn’t understand this. They think stop means go, and
yield means full steam ahead, and slippery when wet means good riding ahead.
And they’re nuts. Just plain stupid. That’s all. So self centered that they
have left God out of the message of Pentecost. He’s on the outside knocking
trying to get in and they won’t let the Word come in. Just stupid; dumb, dumb, dumb.
Getting more dumb and dumber all the time.
22. From Voice of the
sign 64-0321E P:34 brother Branham said, To the
elected, they see it, like the little woman with a pure heart in a defiled
body, and the Pharisee with a pure body and a defiled heart. It condemned one
and saved the other one. And the very judgment that saved Moses, condemned the
world, his preaching. It gets the
elected ready. What's the elected ready for? When they see a God sent sign, they look back in the Scripture and see
if that's supposed to be there. "Yeah, here it is. What is it? Pending judgment." Then the elected listens to the voice. But
the unelected ignores and says,
"Nonsense. Go on. We'll take the same old school." That's the way
they did in the days of Luther. That's the way they did in the days of Wesley. That's the way they do now, way they've
always done. But it is a sign, and it
has a voice that follows the sign. And the voice is identified as a
Scriptural voice. Now, don't forget that. I keep that going in, because I may
never see you again. I wished I had a
way that I could come down here somewhere, and get all my brethren when they
had no revivals going on, put a tent up, and just set day after day, and teach
it till it really soaked in. But He
wouldn't permit that, I don't think. See, we're too close to the end. I
believe we're right now at the end.
23. and again from Voice of the sign 64-0313 P:52 he said, “When a man raises up with a sign, the same old school of
thought, there's something wrong. It isn't coming from God. Oh, my. Make His
path straight now. Do you believe it?
24. And from his
sermon, Man running from presence 65-0217 P:76 he said, If a Message goes forth, there's signs and
wonders, and you still see that same old
school of thought that you come up with, that didn't come from God. God
don't just have to do... And God is trying to get your attention attracted to
something. And then, when Jesus went down there, He started healing the sick
and doing great works and things. He always, He, Jesus did it. And Moses and
Jesus done it, and the rest of them. And when He was here He did it, and He's
doing it, the same thing today. When He sends forth a meeting like that
revivals and starts a meeting in the earth, and starts a moving along with these
great signs and wonders, and then you see come back that same old school of
teaching, there's something wrong there somewhere. There's something new coming
forth.
25. And from his
sermon Trying to do God a service 65-1127B P:113 he said, We have
false impersonators rise up. What's that to do? To deceive. The Bible said
they would. "As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these in the
last days." See? They're the same thing, come right along impersonating it, just exactly. See? Be careful. Watch the doctrine of the Bible. Watch the message that follows them signs.
Still the same old school of message?
Forget it. God sent the miracles and signs to attract attention of His
people. When Jesus come just healing the sick and so forth, so did the prophets.
They thought, "Oh, glory, He's a-coming; He's going to be a Pharisee.
He's going to be a Sadducee." But He
said, "You generation of serpents and vipers." Said, "You're of
your father the Devil; his works you do." Said, "Except you eat the
flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, there's no Life in you." He didn't explain It. He didn't have to
explain It (Hallelujah.); that was for
another season. (uh-huh) He just said what He had to say, "I always do
that what's pleasing to the Father," and that's keeping His Word. "If
I don't, My life and My works don't compare with His Word I'm supposed to do,
then don't believe Me, I'm not Him; but if it does, then believe the works if
you can't believe Me."
26. And from his sermon The Token 64-0308 P:30 he said, Now, when you see
signs going on, and no message behind it, just the same old school of theology
and on down, that wasn't from God. But where
there's a sign showed, a Message follows it.
30. Therefore
when Brother Branham said in his sermon the Masterpiece, "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.” Then we had better listen up because he is going to
tell us something that we did not know.
31. And so he continues, in paragraph 73 Remember, He was
portrayed all times back through the Old Testament. We find Him being the Rock
in the wilderness, that was smitten Rock in the wilderness: "I am that
Rock that was in the wilderness." But that was a stone; that had not come
to its perfection yet. But in type form It followed the Church to draw from It
that, that He could draw, and give Life to those who He could give Life to. But
He was that Rock in the wilderness. He had not been made man yet; He was
only in type.
32. PP. 74 Moses
saw Him standing on this rock. He saw Him pass by, and he said, "It's the
back part of a man." You see, the
Sculptor was presenting to Moses which was a potential image of Christ, what the great Masterpiece would look like
when It was perfected. He passed His... He projected to Moses the vision of what the Masterpiece was going to
look like. It was the back part of a man when It passed by in the
wilderness.
33. 75 Remember, 'Angelo could only cry out and smite the image
and say, "Speak!" But how different it was to God, the Great
Sculptor. When He made a man in His own image, so perfect that It reflected Him, God spoke through the image of man, showing what He would do. He
spoke to the prophets as they were in their potential image, as He was bringing
it up to the Head. But when He come in
the Head, He was all the image of God. He
was portraying Himself. Then smitten for us... Now He is the Masterpiece to
us, the Gift of God, Jesus Christ, Eternal Life. I hope we never forget that.
34. Let’s bow our hearts in prayer.