Masterpiece 52
The
March 5th, 2006
Pastor, Brian
Kocourek
2. THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 77 And we see the condition of time. We see the
condition of people. We see the condition
of politics. We see the condition of
the world. It can't stand. It's got to sink like the Titanic. It must go down. For one nation gives
room to another as it falls. And this kingdom must fall and every other kingdom
to give room to that Kingdom that's
coming which cannot fall. For we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved
through this perfect Image of God, the Masterpiece.
3. Now, that’s what the
Apostle Paul said in Hebrews 12: 28 Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
4.
But why did brother Branham quote this passage of Scripture that the Apostle
Paul wrote? Well, let’s examine it in the context of what he was saying in
Hebrews chapter 25.
5. Hebrews 12: 25 See that
ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that
spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that
speaketh from heaven: (Now, who do you suppose that he is referring to?
It is this same apostle that tells us the Lord Himself shall descend with a
Shout, Voice and Trump. And he let’s us know that we had better not refuse His
Message when He comes) 12: 26 Whose voice then
shook the earth (that was in the days of Moses when the Voice of God
shook the earth and the people feared, so they said don’t speak to us directly
anymore, but speak through Moses, so God agreed that from then on He would
speak to the People through a Prophet. And if God agreed to speak through a
prophet then He is the same yesterday, today and forever.) but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
6. Hebrews 12: 27 And this word, Yet
once more, signifieth (this word signifieth means To make known, as with a sign or word: and then he tells us what things he is going to make
known via a sign or a word, and that is ) the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (Now, he
tells us here that those things that can be shaken are man made so they are not
eternal. But then he tells us that those things which can not be shaken will
remain because they are eternal and they have their source in the Word of God.
For Peter said, the Word of God lives and abides forever.
)12: 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear:
7. So we see brother Branham referring to this
coming Kingdom which is an eternal one because it is the
8. Now, in getting back to
brother Branham’s sermon and the paragraph we are examining, I do not like the
first part of this paragraph because not because it is not true, for it is and
he spoke it back 40 years ago and foretold it happening. But what I do not like
is not what he said but the fact it is true. I do not like to see my country
falling apart as it is. But brother Branham pinned it right down to the people,
the world and politics, that is destroying this nation
and bringing it down into the mess that it is in. This was a great land when no
people were here or when the Indians roamed this land.
9. But the white man came
in at first with good intent. They wanted to establish a land, a nation where
there would be freedom of religion. A place where you could
worship God after the dictates of your own conscience. But then when our
forefathers established a tolerance for others having different views, that
tolerance made an opening for Catholicism to come in and over time with the
help of the Jesuits and the
10. Then when the Irish
Catholics came they filled up the filled up the military and went west opening
these lands up and driving out the Indians, and killing off the
11. In the beginning of
this great country when it was being established, they made law in the
constitution that Government would not adhere to any one religion, and would could not establish a national religion like the
countries of Europe had done in the past, because they knew the power of the
12. The Founding Fathers
had said that no man that is not a Christian should hold public office, and
that only a Christian people could continue to hold onto a democratic form of
government because they would not need so many laws to govern them because they
knew that they would one day answer to a higher power and have to give account
for their actions.
13. But those days are gone
forever, and this country which has held for 230 years is falling apart because
of the people, the politics and they have opened the door to the world.
14. So we see brother
Branham tell us that as the nation goes so goes the people, the politics and
the world. And since all here are tied together, then when the one falls it is
because the others have fallen as well.
15.
As politic goes so go the people and the world.
And I have never seen the political arena more vicious than it is today.
It is hard to think that anyone in their right mind could use such hateful
speech concerning their president as they do today on a daily basis. Now, I am
not saying that we must blindly follow the blind but we should at least show
respect for the office. But it seems there are no holds barred and the opposite
sides in the politics actually hate the other side just because they disagree
with their political platform.
16.
I read an interview with the Vice Presidents wife Lynn Chaney the other day and
she said there used to be a time when the two political parties would do a lot
of social activities together even though they opposed each others politics,
they were still friends and they would often do social events together or go
out to eat together or go picnic together and they enjoyed each others company
and had many family interests where they would share with each other. But she mentioned
how vicious the atmosphere has become where they actually hate you because you
are not in their party.
17. I think that is because politics has become a
religion to many and we all know that the most vicious attacks throughout
history have been one religion against another.
18.
It wasn’t the street prostitute that crucified Jesus Christ,
it was the most religious people of the day. And as we see politics go so go
the people. Now, just because it is called politics doesn’t mean it is not a
religion. Liberalism was a religious view long before it became a political
view.
19.
The Jesuits poisoned the Christian world by interjecting liberal theology in
order to weaken the conservative church world. That poison has worked its way
into almost all denominations today until it has come even into the message
churches. Now, they don’t like to be branded liberals so they call themselves
progressives.
20.
And what they mean by that is that they claim that they are open minded, and
not closed minded. So the person that is conservative is called closed minded
because they are not open about alternative lifestyles, homosexuality and
illicit behavior. Lifestyles that they choose to lift up were called evil and
wicked by God Himself, so they want to do away with God and any reference to
Him in the public arena, and if they had their way in the private households as
well.
21.
They have pushed to have government school to do their bidding in raising up your children so they can begin to control their
little minds at an early stage in their life when they are most vulnerable to
influences. They make children to think that if they are not progressive then
they must be archaic. But it just doesn’t end there. They not only disagree
with you about your moral stand, but they actually hate you because you do not
eschew their values, or their lack of them.
22.
But God said, Isaiah 5: 20 Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
23.
It is not uncommon today even right in this message to have this sort of
warfare and hatred coming from the pulpits. But no wonder, because we are
living in a time that the Apostle Paul described as perilous times.
24. In 2 Timothy 3: 1
the Amplified version, we read: "But
understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great
stress and trouble - hard to deal with and hard to bear. Now
Brother Branham told us it is the hybrid foods
and the tensions that are rotting the bodies and if the bodies
are rotting then the brains which are part of the body are becoming rotten as
well.
25. So tensions or stress are a very critical thing in
the undoing of the human race. And you will notice that 2 Tim 3:1 tells us these times of great tension
and stress will be hard to deal with and hard to bear, that is why the suicide
rate is so high.
26. In our study of “The End Time Neurosis” brother
Branham said, "Men now and people today are
in such a neurotic condition, the whole world"... Therefore
we see this neurotic condition is universal, for he said,
the whole world! And we know also that he spoke of how the body is
becoming rotten and women are reaching menopause at an earlier age, and we know
menopause is a condition that the body goes into after it passes out of it's life cycle and enters into it's dying cycle.
27. Brother Branham also said,
the deteriorating mental condition of the people is happening so quickly that
the entire world is going insane. He said, The
whole human race is rotten. Well, if
them physical beings of our body is tearing down like
that from eating hybrid foods, tensions, that rotten it, does not that also
rot the brain cell? Then we can see how women can get on the street naked.
We can see how they can speed through the streets at a hundred and twenty miles
an hour, all these things. It's come to a place where the whole nation, the
whole world, not only this nation, but everywhere, mentally gone.
28. Then after all this Brother Branham said, Men will be so
insane after while and we see it almost every day when you pick
up a newspaper, or turn on the radio, or watch the news on your computer or
television. We see how the whole nation if not the whole world are losing their
minds and becoming open to hateful intolerance of that which is good and
righteous, while telling you that if you are not tolerant of their sin then you
are a bigot, and a homophobe etc.
29. And so, today we see the condition of man in this
last hour and the condition of the mind. And if the condition of man has
fallen, then that explains the politics of corruption and vitriol that we hear
in the daily news. Brother Branham is telling us that the whole world has come
to a condition that it is mentally gone. He said, the hybrid foods and the
tensions have caused our bodies to rot and since our brain cells are part of
our bodies, they are rotting as well. And we hear men making extreme statements
on a daily basis. Our ex Vice president going to a terrorist supporting state
such as Saudi Arabia and making public speeches that this country is a
terrorist nation. And then he expects to run again for office to represent this
same nation that he calls a terrorist nation. The man is completely insane.
30. But we find this condition that brother Branham is
speaks of in the scriptures. We are warned that there is coming a time that
will be full of tension and stress and men will be traitors, and it will be a
perilous time that is hard to bear. We are also told that the anxieties of life
will be self-consuming everyone who lives on the face of the earth.
31.
And not only is our President under attack but our government is under attack
daily by these weird left wing people. The things they say are so filled with
vitriol and hate speech that you can not help but to think you are hearing the
ramblings of a bunch of insane people.
32.
It worries me that we live in a very tumultuous time, where everything that can
be shaken is being shaken. But I know that is only because we are getting ready
to usher in a Kingdom that can not be shaken. But the question is who will be
worthy of that Kingdom and what kind of person ought we to be to receive that
Kingdom.
33.
In II THESSALONIANS 1:2 The
Apostle Paul speaks of the condition at the end time and also the process
whereby we will be made to enter into the Kingdom that God is preparing for us,
this kingdom that can not be shaken. Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the Love of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;(so we see a condition in the people
of God whereby they have a faith that is growing and a love for one another is
abounding or overflowing in a generous way toward one another) 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:
34.
Here we see that our patience in our suffering at the hands of these who oppose
this coming Kingdom is a righteous token that we are worthy to inherit this
kingdom.
35.
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,(Now, we have already seen and
are witnessing the Appearing oft eh Lord, and this appearing in clouds of
angels has been seen all over the World as a witness of the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ in His Great Parousia Presence ) 8 In flaming fire(That is in the
form of the Pillar of Fire he has come as Judge of men’s hearts) taking vengeance on
them that know not God, 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, and from the glory of his power;
36.
Notice then at the time of this Great appearing in a cloud with His angels and
in the form of a Flaming Fire he is separating the sheep from the goats, and
those who do not love His Appearing are being separated from His Presence
because they will not be a part of this coming Kingdom of our God and our
Christ. But notice on the other hand this is the same time when he comes to
bring the very mind of Christ into the people, to make us fit for His Coming
Kingdom. 10 When he shall come to be
glorified in his saints,(and wee know this word glorified was
translated from the Greek root word doxa which means the very opinion,
assessment and judgment of God are to come into the Elect though this great
Appearing.) and
to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed ) in that day. So here we see that the same Word Paul
preached will be preached once again in that day.
37.
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.
38.
Now, in closing let me say that there are several other Scriptures where Jesus
tells us the attributes necessary to inherit this Kingdom and be found worthy
to enter into it.
39.
John 3: 5 Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
40.
John 3: 3 Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born again, he cannot see the
41.
Luke 18: 17 Verily
I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
42.
Mark 10: 15 Verily
I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
43.
Matthew 24: 14
And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall the end come. And that is what we are seeing today with the internet
ministry going into all nations. Our own little ministry has touched people in
over 160 nations, and brother Branham’s and Brother Vayle’s ministries have
gone into as many if not more. And I believe there aren’t very many more
nations in all the world, so we see that we are getting
close to the fulfillment of that promise.
44.
That is why the Kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a net as we see in Matthew 13: 47 Again, the kingdom
of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every
kind: Now, remember the sea is defined as peoples nations multitudes
and people. Therefore it would take an awful big net to go into all the world. So it has to be speaking of the inter-net,
and therefore we see we are living in the hour of the fulfillment of this
parable..
45.
Matthew 13:24 Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a
man which sowed good seed in his field: We
see that the Son of Man went forth in this hour sowing seed, and as a result
there arose ministries to water that seed, and now the seed is coming to
manifestation as son of God.
46.
Matthew 13: 31
Another parable put he forth unto them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and sowed in his field: Now we
know that grain of mustard seed represents Faith which begins very, very small
but grows into a tree that covers much area. And we know that Faith is
Revelation and there is only One Faith and that is the revelation of Jesus
Christ and the Son of Man came in this hour with a Shout to give us that
Revelation and we know the Revelation of Jesus Christ is being received
throughout the world today as the Understanding of the Godhead is being taught
and received.
47.
Matthew 13: 33
Another parable
spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman
took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
48. GOD'S
49. Notice
that the meal represents life, and the woman took three measures of this meal
which represents three measures of life and yet she mixed in with life
something to try to make that life more beautiful, to make it bigger than it is
supposed to be, and to make it better looking than what it was meant to be, and
by doing so she perverted it and caused death in the pot.
50. Now, we
have shown you how that women represent the church,
and yet we have also said if you look at the nature of the woman it will tell
you if she represents a Bride or a false bride. In this parable Jesus tells us
what kind of woman this church is. She is a false church because of her very
nature declares what type of a woman she really is. Jesus says, the woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was
leavened. Notice that she hid it. she
was sneaky about what she was doing. The word hid mean to 1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete. 2. To prevent
the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts. 3.
To cut off from sight; cover up:
Clouds hid the stars. 4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in
shame or grief. v. intr. 1.
To keep oneself out of sight.
51. And notice
if this woman reflected Christ as her husband she would not be trying to
conceal but reveal. So we see this woman is a bad church. She is a whore. She
has tried to hide and get away with this deed so no one would notice. And Jesus
said what she did leavened the whole lump. Leavened the entire lump. And what is to be made from the
lump? It is to be baked and the bread is the result. And so she leavened the
entire bread of Life until there was not Life left in it, only death in the
Pot. And remember, the same Word that is our blessing becomes our curse if we
do not handle it the
way it was ordained to handle it. Thus all three measures of meal were thus
polluted, until Jesus said the entire lump was polluted. All tables become full
of vomit.
52. What the
canker worm didn’t eat the locust did, and what the locust left the palmerworm
ate, and what the palmer worm didn’t eat the caterpillar ate and so on until
the whole thing was destroyed. And that is why God had to come Himself in this
last day to restore all that had been eaten right down to the very roots.
53. Now, what
are those three measures of meal? Justification, sanctification and the Baptism
of the Holy Ghost, and notice how she perverted the teaching of these three
Scriptural doctrines.
54. And what
did she pervert them with? False
Doctrine! She took false doctrine to pervert the True meal or true
doctrine. We find our answer to this
from the very words of Jesus in Matthew 16.
55. MATTHEW 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them,
Take heed and beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they
reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we
have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of
little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many
baskets ye took up? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not
understand that I spake it not to you
concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and
of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of
the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
56. So we see
that the leaven represents false doctrine that is added to the right portions
of word. And remember the burrs had to be ground to the same in every detail.
Therefore, the meal represents a rightly divided Word, and yet the leaven
represents a false doctrine that was added to the three measures of
Justification, sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that just
perverted the whole understanding.
57. And
without these three rightly divided measures of meal you can not have communion
and fellowship in the Presence of God without breaking the bread of Life with
Him. God wants to have fellowship and communion with us, around His Word. And Abraham, the Father of our Faith showed
us how it is to be done.
58.
Finally we see that the kingdom of heaven is vary
valuable and if we are to invest in anything it should be in the
59.
Matthew 13:45 Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: