Masterpiece 53
End-Time
Conditions
March 12th, 2006
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
2. In this paragraph he spoke of how all these
different groups; the people, the politics, the world etc. are falling apart.
The mental condition of the people is falling apart. Civility of the people is falling apart.
Decency and order is falling apart, but all this is only a sign that God has another Kingdom, an eternal
Kingdom which can never fall and that Kingdom is coming more and mo9re into
view Since He has come down with a Shout to introduce us to that Kingdom.
3. Brother Branham then spoke of how one kingdom must
fall in order for another kingdom to rise up. He then quoted the Apostle Paul
from the Book of Hebrews 12:28 who said, 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. Last
week we spoke of that coming Kingdom, which is an
5. So we see that God is The King, and He is here
establishing His Kingdom in righteousness and Holiness, and without Holiness no
man can see the Lord. Then that means He is invisible to those who are not
Holy, but very visible to those who are holy.
But we do not see Him with our eyes natural, but we see Him with the
eyes of our heart, which means the eyes of our understanding. And so we
examined this coming Kingdom that is now in the process of coming into
Manifestation by the personal Presence of this Eternal King.
6. And Brother Branham told us that the Holy Spirit
who is now in our midst will take us up in the rapture and we shall then meet
His Son in the Heir and when we do, at that time this Holy Spirit will then
incarnate the Son of God once again, and at that Time this Invisible King will
become visible to all and we shall crown Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
7. First seal the 63-0318 P:135 Notice, and when this Holy Spirit that we
have, becomes incarnate to us, the One that's in our midst now in the form of
the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we'll
crown Him King of kings.
8. So we see what this Message is all about. God the
Great eternal King has come down in this hour and has given us a Message of His
Soon coming kingdom which is to be established in the hearts of Men. And this
Message with is bringing forth a Kingdom, and a Kingdom is not a land, but
rather it is a King with His People. That is what makes up a kingdom.
9. In the Book of Luke we see a situation when the
Christ rejecting Pharisees asked Him when the
10. Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of
God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for,
behold, the
11. Now, Notice that Jesus said the
12. Jesus would never have said that anything as
precious as the kingdom of God would be found in the hearts of those Christ
rejecting, word of God rejecting Pharisees, The word “Within” was translated
from the Greek word “entos” which means, “in the midst of”. Therefore that
translation that says “within” gives a wrong perception of
how it actually will come. And the churches have preached for the past 2,000
years that the
13. But this Kingdom that Jesus was speaking consists
of a King and His People, and this King was standing in the midst of these
Christ Rejecting Pharisees and they did not even know it. As I already said, a
Kingdom is not a land, nor is it a geography, but a Kingdom must have two
things to be a Kingdom. It must have a King and it must have a people. As
14. When this happened Samuel the Prophet had thought
that the people were rejecting Him but God said they were not rejecting Saul
the Messenger, but they were rejecting God Himself as their King.
15. I SAMUEL 8:1 ¶
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over
16. So we see the rejected King is the Lord of Glory,
God Himself. Brother Branham said in his sermon, A DECEIVED CHURCH
"But as
17. Notice that Brother Branham is telling us that
just as it was with Jesus and the Pharisees back there, so is it today. Times
may change and circumstances may change but people do not change. If he came to
18. All the conditions are ripe because all Kingdoms
are falling. Not just
19. THE MASTERPIECE
64-0705 77 And we see (1) the condition of time. We see (2) the condition of people. We see(3) the condition of politics. We see (4) the condition of the world. (and
then brother Branham’s speaks of all these conditions show one thing, that
they,) It can't stand. (In speaking
of these conditions, he says,) 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.
20. So we are looking at certain conditions that are falling and these
conditions are an indicator that the kingdoms of this world are in a free spin
and are falling, and that shows that another Kingdom is ready to come forth in
power and Glory, and that is the Kingdom of our God and Savior.
21. End time evangelism 62-0603 P:80 The end-time
messenger and message should meet with end-time
conditions. Don't you think so? This message could not have been preached
forty years ago. No, the end-time message and messenger has got to meet. Back
there in them days they had, it probably wouldn't have worked. But it's got to cope with end-time conditions.
Be converted; believe the Gospel signs. That's the message of today. Wash your souls in the Blood of the Lamb
and believe the Gospel, that the end-time signs are here, the seed of the
Gospel has been taking place.
22. So we see that there are definitely end-time
conditions that we must look at to understand that this Kingdom that can not be
shaken is well on its way, and the King of Glory being here in the fullness of
His personal Presence is our greatest indicator that this soon coming Kingdom
is here to stay.
23. Rapture the 65-1204
P:80 The church can't receive Christ. The Pentecostals, we can't carry this Message on in the
condition the church is in today. How we going to carry out the end time in
the condition they're in today, when
every one against the other, and everything else, and ecclesiastically? Oh,
mercy. It's a mess. It's done gone into denominations. And any time, I ask any
historian to say different. Every time
that a message went forth in the earth and when they organized it, it died
right there. And Pentecost done the same thing as they all... The Pentecost
that come out...
24. Now, that ought to
tell us right there that all this fussing and trying to organize this Message
is not of God.
25. Satan's
26. So we see everywhere,
men are trying to establish themselves as God’s man, or as the church with the
biggest membership, or the biggest mission program, or the biggest printing
presses, or the biggest outreach, or the ministry that produces the most CD’s
or cassettes, or you name it. But Brother Branham said we must not try to
establish ourselves. We must establish the
27. But if the people
who claim to follow this Message would ever get a glimpse of a Sovereign God
Who is here as the Supreme Judge they would not be nearly so proud. They would
hold their heads in humility and shake in their boots to think at any time they
could have their life hauled into court to stand before the Supreme Judge and
have to give an account for their life, for their finances, for their tongue,
and for there attitude towards God’s Word, and His servants that He has
entrusted with his Word with.
28. What the People of
this Message need more than anything else is to understand that the Supreme
Judge is here. That would break their pride if anything could break it.
29. Birth pains 65-0124
P:53 Notice, oh, my, how that that church must've been in an
awful mess again. It surely must've been in that day. But it rocked the little
remnant, as I said. Now, let's be honest. If we see that church in that
condition today, haven't we arrived at that time again? Now, just look at the
things of promise of the Bible that would be going on in the church at this
time. We see what's going on in the world and we see it's at its end.
30. World is falling
apart 63-1115 P:31 The world is just about the same condition it was two
thousand years ago, when He come on earth on His first advent. When He came to
the earth, the earth had met its time. Every
so often the world gets in such a chaotic condition until there's nothing can
help it. We've had this several times, these preludes. And we find that each time when it meets this condition, and
it causes people to start praying. And they feel that everything's played
itself out, as all of our systems and everything that we have, play itself to
the end. It did that in the antediluvian world, and so forth. Politics and
other things just comes to its end; there's no more to it. And I think all that's done by God for a
purpose, to kind of rejuvenate, to kind of bring back. It has a way of
renewing itself. And I think it's just a law of God, that these things comes to
that place.
31. But this time, what is it going to bring back
when we are at the end of time. Time itself has run out. Decency and morality
have run out. Civility and brotherly love have run out. Honesty and integrity has run out. Kindness and
helpfulness has run out.
32. The Apostle Paul said in, Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, (now
word “finally” means “the last thing” is this)whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
33. And I am sure that
there are still some that live true in this world, but true to what? And I am sure there are some that are honest in
this world, but are they honest concerning the Word of God? And I am sure there
are some that are just and perhaps some that are pure, but are they pure in
their doctrine? And I am sure there are some that are lovely, and some that are
of good report, but where are they? You won’t hear of them in your newspapers.
You won’t here of them on the radio. You won’t here of them on television or in
magazines. And you won’t hear of them from the pulpits either. And if you won’t
hear of trueness and honesty and justice and purity and loveliness and good
reports from the pulpits, then how do you expect the people to manifest those
qualities.
34. He said, “if”
there be any virtue, “if” there be any praise, he said, “If
there be”. Then if there is we are to think on these
things.
35. But you won’t find
praise on the radio, all you get is conspiracy after conspiracy theories. And
you won’t hear any praise on the television or in the newspapers. All they want
to do is sell gossip, and innuendoes and falsehood and deceit. We have a lot of
good things happening in
36. Therefore, we see
the same End-Time conditions that we see in the world are on display right here
among us in the Message, and the condition of time, and the conditions of the people,
and the conditions of politics are no
different right in this message than they are in the rest of the world.
37. But if we are
supposed to have the Holy Spirit, then why aren’t we any different than the rest
of the world when it comes to these conditions brother Branham mentioned, “the
condition of time”, “the condition of the people”, and “the condition of politics”, or church
politics rather.
38. Evening messenger
63-0116 P:81 Here we are, end time, red light down, flashing, coming of
the Lord is at hand. Yes, sir. Listen. The
end-time Message should meet end-time conditions. Where they've got off, the Message ought to bring it back. Always,
end-time Message meets end-time conditions. All the way through the Scripture. It'll have to do it this time, a call back to the original Word. Oh, my.
Like other messengers did in the day, this Message will have to be the same.
We're promised that. God promised it in His Word. Malachi 4, said it would
happen, "And restore the faith of
the children back to the fathers." Promised it, and we're living in
that day. Oh, it's been always, each time, a group of leaders that gets the
people all mixed up. It's not so much the people; it's the leaders that get
them mixed up.
39. Let us pray. Dear
Father we see the condition of the church in this hour and it is not in a very
good condition to receive a change of the body because it is not willing to
receive a change of the heart first. And therefore your church is a needy people,
reflecting the same conditions that the world is reflecting in its people and
politics and time.
40. Yet Father, you
have given us so much in this Message to reflect upon that should change our
condition to expectancy of bodies receiving a change. And the opportunity to go
home soon, because Father, we see and we understand this wonderful Message you
have given us and we know You have come down in this hour to receive us unto
yourself, and to change our minds and our bodies to commensurate with the
change of the mind, for we know your word is Life, and not only Life but
eternal Life in every way, and that Eternal Life lays in those tapes and
sermons that you yourself spoke to us.
41. We know it was
your prophets vocal chords that moved but we believe it was your voice to us.
And we know that since it was your Message then it is Life and he that drinks
that water of Life shall never thirst again. We know this is true because we
have tasted that the Lord is Good and we have feasted from your table and you
have manifested to us the depth of those sermons in that we have taken complete
series that have lasted for 155 sermons from just one sermon of Brother
Branham’s called “Who is This Melchisedec”, and when we finished with that
series we felt that with what we had
learned in that series that we could have preached another 155 sermons
more and not even reproached the same material again. We found that this water
of Life that we are freely drinking from is so wonderful that we preached 146
sermons from your Message “Christ Revealed in His Own Word”, and 126 from your
Message “God’s Only provided place of Worship” and 75 from Your Message called
“Oneness” and on and on in these wonderful series that we have taken until we
realize that this Word is alive and living. Even in this sermon Father of the
Masterpiece, we have preached 53 sermons so far and we have not even gotten one
third of the way through it. Truly when your prophet said the little wash women
would have enough from just one tape that she would enter in we have seen the
fruits of those words come alive here in this little church.
42. And then to see
the hundreds of ministers around the world that are feeding their flocks on
these sermons and these series, and to see the number of these sermons and
studies being translated in 8 languages so far and to know that this is not the
work of man because no man sought out to do this and no man’s efforts have
reached out to find translators, but of their own will and spirit men have
begun to translate these sermons because they too have tapped into this same
fountain and are freely drinking in fellowship with us and truly our fellowship
is with you Father and with your Son Jesus. And therefore, seeing these things
transpire over the past few years it brings us to a place of true humility
knowing that there is only one way that this could be possible, and that is
because we have tapped into Thy Great fountain of Life and we are freely
drawing Life itself out from each thought that you expressed through your
Servant William Branham, and for this we are grateful.
43. As you said in
Your own Word, Father, “The Spirit, (Your Spirit) and the Bride say come and
drink, and so we drink, and in drinking this water we shall never thirst for it
is Living Water from the River of Life that has come down from Heaven and we
are being filled with your Spirit as drink from your word, and as we open
ourselves to the study of each and every thought that was expressed through the
lips of your faithful prophet William Branham, we are drawn more and more into
your Presence and are being changed into the Image of Your firstborn Son who
came forth in your Image, Oh God.
Therefore, Father help us to walk in the example that you gave us through
your dear Son Jesus. Help us to step aside from our own thoughts and receive
only your thoughts. Help us to do thy will Oh, God and to have the attitude of
Your Only Begotten Son, when He said, My Meat is to do the will of My Father
which is in Heaven. Grant to us Father that the Mind that was in Christ might
be in us, for we ask it in Jesus Christ name.