Masterpiece 67

The Life Moves on

May 28^th, 2006

Pastor, Brian Kocourek

This morning I would like to talk about the Life that is in the Word. We know that Jesus taught us that His Words were Spirit and they were life. That is what he said in John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

So we know that the Word of God is Life to us, and even our New birth is determined by the Word of God being quickened and made alive in us. The Apostle Peter taught us that the new Birth is brought about by the Word of God as a seed being quickened in us.

1 Peter 1: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

And therefore without the Word of God being made alive in you, you will never understand what the Kingdom of God is all about. That is what Jesus said in, 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 kingdom of God.

Jesus said in Matthew 13: 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

And William Branham taught us that to see means to understand.

It shall be even as it was told me 50-0818 P:23 No matter what it looks like here... We don't look at what we see; we look at what we do not see. Is that right? Anyhow, "to see" doesn't mean "to look at." The word "see" means "to understand." Jesus said, "Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." In other words, he can't understand the Kingdom of God until he's born again. See? You have to accept it by faith. And then when He comes into you, you understand it. You accept healing the same way. Stay right with it. Not what you look at, what you believe, what you understand to be the truth, what you're looking at, the unseen, then stay with that. That's why all these visions. I just lay my life right on any, for it never fails. I have faith in it. I believe it. If I can get you to believe the same thing, it's over then. See?

1 John 1: 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

Now, the reason it is important to see what God is doing now, (which the Kingdom of God is not a place, but it is the King Himself and His People). A kingdom is not a physical location, it is a King and His people. You can have a country that is not a Kingdom, unless it has a King. Otherwise it is just a nation or country. But a Kingdom has to have a King. And the Kingdom of God is the place where God lives, and His life lives itself out in a people. That is why Jesus said it is within in. The Life is within you. The King is in your midst, and you live a life worthy of His Gospel. Therefore, without a new birth you will never understand the Kingdom, and you will never understand the Message of the King.

Now, what I want to look at this morning is the next several paragraphs of Brother Branham’s Sermon, The Masterpiece. In this we find brother Branham talking about the Life moving on. He talks about life in stalk, then in the tassel and then finally up into the shuck and into the seed. He talks about how that in each of these different parts of the plant, when the life travels up the plant, as the plant grows from root to stalk to tassel to husk, the life is traveling on in that plant, and eventually the Life that is in each part to give that past life must leave that part as it journeys up into the fruit.

Now, we know that Jesus Christ is the Light of Life, for that is what the Scriptures declare to us, and that is what our personal Christian experience also declares. 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.

And the Apostle Paul told us that it is light that makes manifest. Ephesians 5: 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. And of course you can have no greater Light that the epiphaneia of Christ because the word epiphaneia means a shining forth.

That is what the apostle Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 1: 10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

And John told us that Christ is our Life and He is our Light. John 1: 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And when we come to the Light it will manifest our works that they had their source in God. John 3: 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. But if we run from the light it is because our life is not manifesting God life but our own wickedness in this flesh.

The Apostle John said in, 1 John 1: 7 But 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.

And in the Book of revelations we are told that Jesus Christ is the Light of the world Revelation 21: 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

So if you wish to be saved there is only one way to be saved and that is to walk in the Light as He is in the Light, then the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse you from all your sin. And the word walk means to live, so you must live in the light as He is in the light if you wish to be a part of that New Jerusalem city, and if you wish to be cleansed.

In Deuteronomy, the Book of Two laws, God teaches us how to walk in the Light of His Glorious Presence. Now, as we read this Scripture it will do you no good unless you read it for yourself and apply your own situation in it. That is how we should read all of God’s word. As thought He has written it to you personally. Then it comes alive to you.

Deuteronomy 11: 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ¹⁹ Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ²⁰ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, ²¹ so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. (In other words, for an eternity, and to do that you must have eternal Life, and eternal Life comes via the Word of God, for it is the Seed of God.) ²² If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow--to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him ²³ then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. ²⁴ Every place where you set your foot will be yours (and there are over 800 promises in the Scriptures for our taking. And He said every step you take in this journey with God where you are walking in the Light as He is in the Light, you must claim them for your own. )

Your territory will extend from the desert (in our Case the desert was Kentucky) to Lebanon, (that is where our new church will be located, Lebanon Ohio, that is the nearest city) and from the Euphrates River to the western sea (in our case the western sea is the Pacific Ocean). ²⁵ No man will be able to stand against you. (I like that. It’s a personal thing you know to have a guarantee from God like that.) The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.²⁶ (and you know that has happened already. A Man that opposed me coming to Africa the first time, when he found out I was coming the very next day, he hung up the phone and went to his room, and dropped dead before his wife to get him to his car. God backs up his Word.)

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-- ²⁷ the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; ²⁸ the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. ²⁹ When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. ³⁰ As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, west of the road, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal. ³¹ You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, ³² be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.

So you see, we must continue to walk in the Light or that very Light will become a witness against you. And we can not stop walking in the light if we expect to enter into the City. We must walk as the Pillar of Fire leads.

In his sermon on Hebrews 6 Brother Branham said, Hebrews Chapter 6 57-0908E P:10 Now. Leaving… Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;...I like Paul saying those things. Paul never was a person that liked to stay too long in one place; he liked to move on deeper. One time in the Scripture he said, "I... Forgetting those things which are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling." See, he keeps pressing on. Here he said: Now forgetting the principles of the doctrine of Christ... (Who He was, What He was),... let's go on to perfection;...

And that brings us to the next few paragraphs that Brother Branham speak from the Masterpiece in which he deals with this thought that the Life continues on and each part of the plant that once had the life in it, then dies out and is useful only for the burning.

THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 114 You know, I read a book here not long ago. Someone wrote a book that said: "The Silent God." You might've read it; I forget, I think Brumback... No, I'm not sure who it was wrote it. I can't remember... I got it in my study: "The Silent God." Said, "God, two thousand years of Dark Ages set still, and never moved a hand, and watched faithful martyrs go to the lions' pit and be burnt by the Romans; assassination of all kinds; women stripped of their clothes, set fire to their long hair with tar and burn them." Remember, short hair first begin in Rome. And the women of Christians had long hair. So they dipped it in tar, and set them afire, and burned them, and them naked, and fed them to the lions. And this writer goes to say, "Where is that God?" Oh, the blindness of men sometimes. Do you not know that that Seed had to die? He never tried to deliver a one of them. They went down in victory. They went down bleeding and dying, giving their lives. Why? It was a Seed; it had to fall into the ground. In John 12 tells us the corn of wheat has got to fall into the ground and there die, and not only die, but rot. But little did that denomination know that that Life was still in there.

115 Though the church in itself at that Nicaea Council of fifteen days of bloody politician debate, when them aristocrats come in and wanted to inject these big dignitaries into the church... And prophets come out of that wilderness there, eating herbs and wrapped in animal skins, genuine prophets, and they throwed them out. Why? The Seed's got to fall into the ground. It's got to die. It died in the Dark Ages down beneath the dark dirt. They thought it was gone. You know, St. John 12:24, Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, it abides alone." And the first Church was that reproduction, that Bride, that Seed, that Word made manifest that fell into the ground at Nicaea, Rome.

117 Listen, church, throughout the nations that'll hear this; there is your dirt; it's them denominations. There's where the Word was crucified and they accepted dogma. And for hundreds and hundreds of years of Dark Ages the power and manifestation of the Word was hid from the world. Only Catholicism ruled. We all know that, as reading history. Only Catholicism ruled. But you can't hide a germitized seed. It's got to come forth. Because why? The Great Sculptor is on the job. Going to build again, so the Seed went down, the Word.

119 When we see St. Paul, Peter, James, John, all those who wrote the Word, and the word they wrote become alive and lived. And It lived. And when we find after it begin to get ripe, John begin to write in epistles. He was throwed on the Isle of Patmos after being burnt in oil for twenty-four hours. But the Word must come forth. It's got to be wrote.

They couldn't boil the Holy Ghost out of him with oil, so he come forth. His work wasn't finished. He died a natural death. Polycarp, which was a disciple of John, carried the Word on. And from Polycarp came Irenaeus. And Irenaeus, the great man of God who believed the very same Gospel that we believe, "The Word is right," the church trying to squeeze It out.

121 Finally it come to Nicaea, Rome, and there she fell into the ground (after St. Martin), and was murdered. St. Martin believed the same thing we believe. He stood the same thing: the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the baptism in water in Jesus' Name. He stood in the very same thing that we do, as he was a prophet, believed the full Word of God. And finally they were crucified, and mashed into the ground, and laid there for hundreds of years until it rotted, that outside seed. The old bodies just rotted away. (I've been in San Angelo in the catacombs and see where they died and their broken bones and everything.) They finally rotted till their bones were gone, but the Life was still there.

122 The corn of wheat that fell into the ground on the--at the Nicaea Council begin to sprout again in Martin Luther, like any corn coming up or wheat. After the seeds rot, the life springs forth. And it begin to bring forth in Martin Luther. What did he do the first thing? Reject the denomination of Catholicism, protested that it was wrong; for he said, "The just shall live by faith." What was it? A little weak Life that put up a couple little shoots. That was the Lutherans. It sure don't look like the grain that went in the ground, but the Life is coming out now.

Then it went on to a stalk. Then what happened? In the days of John Wesley, what did he do when he brought out sanctification? He stayed with the Word, and what did it do? The Lutherans had organized and made an organization; so it was time for something to happen. The masterpiece is being built now. What did he do? What did he do? He protested that Anglican church and came out in the reformation as a tassel. What is it? The seed's coming to Life, growing now.

124 Now, the stalk doesn't look like the seed, neither does the tassel. Now, Pentecostal brethren throughout the nations, I want you to listen, my brother, if this is the last message I'll ever preach. This is my masterpiece. Do you notice when the wheat's, the corn of wheat that falls into the ground, when it begins to form back to its--its grain again...? Watch nature. Nature exactly is God; God working in nature is all it can. But from the Pentecostal revival, as they think, was the seed... It wasn't. Now, watch. But something come forth just like the seed. Now, watch what Jesus said in St. Matthew 24:24, that the two spirits at the last days would be so close together it would deceive the elected if possible.

127 Now, that stalk don't look nothing like a seed; neither does the tassel look like a seed. But notice now, not in Luther's day, but in the last day... The first thing (There's wheat farmers setting here.)--the first thing that comes forth on a wheat seed, you'd almost think it was a seed, but what is it? It's the husk. It forms a little outside thing like to hold the seed. It forms a husk. But the husk is not the seed no more than the tassel or the stalk was; it's only a carrier of the life, the corn of wheat then of St. John 12 (You see?), Jesus speaking.

129 The wheat, after the tassel, after Wesley, puts forth the husk, which is the foremost like the grain of anything else. The husk is more like the grain--is coming more like the grain all the time, the one that went in the ground. And when it comes forth the stalk, it's got life in it, but it sure isn't the grain. Comes forth the tassel, the pollen, it still isn't the grain. And then it comes forth the husk. And it's just in the shape of the wheat, just exactly like the grain of wheat; but yet it isn't the wheat: Just exactly the same shape, perfectly. The Pentecostals come out just like the wheat would. Each one comes out from the other, coming out from the other; but they're only a carrier. They go to denomination. And that's what Pentecost did: went to denomination. And what did Pentecostal do when it come out just like the grain? It went right back, like in Revelations 17, to one of the sister denominations. That's exactly what Jesus said.

131 Now, watch. The Gospel's going to come out through Luther, through Wesley into Pentecost. And at the last days it'll deceive the very elected if it's possible: the elected. Oh, Pentecostal brethren, can't you see? The wheat in its first beginning is just like the seed when it begins to form like the seed; but it's the husk. It denominated, exactly done the same thing they did down here in Luther. In Revelations 17 it proves the same thing of the churches. Now, the grain seed in the original fell at Nicaea, for it was the first denomination. Notice. Here the life that was in the stalk, tassel, all now ends up in the seed. The life that come out of the original seed, come up through different processes, three different processes, and then turns back till its original condition. Hallelujah. Oh, my. I'm the happiest person in the world that God would let me see this.

135 Watch how perfect the Word and nature works together. Just like we prove the resurrection: Rise; the sun setting and the sun rising again; the leaf going out of the tree down in the sap, into the root, and comes back up and the leaf comes back up with it again and falls on the ground. The life of the tree sucks it right back, the calcium and potash, and brings it right up to another leaf again. See? All nature, everything works right with the Word of God. And here it is exactly perfectly in these church ages. That's the reason the Holy Ghost came down and drawed those things and made them out for us the way He has. That's exactly.

136 Notice here. The life that was in the husk, in the stalk, and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the seed. And the life that was in the stalk, went--one went to make the other. Justification made a way for sanctification. Sanctification made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again to manifest Itself. But what denominated, dies. Like Life in Luther went to make Wesley. And from the Wesley It went to Pentecost, and from Pentecost to make the original seed. On to... Pentecost comes out of the Wesley until that time. The reason that Pentecost come out of Wesley, because it was no denomination, Pentecost was. Then Pentecost went to denominate. And what did it do? It turned to the husk. It looked like the real thing. And anybody...

138 How many ever seen a seed--a seed of wheat start to grow? What's the first little thing? It's just exactly like the seed, but it's the husk. See the three stages? Stalk, tassel or the pollen, then the husk. And then, out of the husk comes the original seed. Not a seed, it was the Life of the seed growing through this to come to the seed. Amen, amen. Do you see it? What is it? A resurrection, coming back to a Masterpiece again, like the one that went in. Pentecost came out of the Wesley, because Wesley was an organization. Pentecost come out as no organization and then turned to one. It had to make the husk. The true Word of Life on it was on its way then to the original grain through these stages: through the stalk, then into the pollen; from the pollen into the husk; and from the husk it made seed. No... Stalk, tassel, husk.

140 Living, they produced in their early revival a holder of a certain portion of the seed Life; but when they organized, the Life moved out of it. That's proved by all history. Never an organization ever done a thing after it organized. It was dead. That's right. Watch, the life's traveling on now. It's moving on. Notice. What they have done, all these have done, is proved by history just exactly the way the church has come, never to be useful to Him again. Organization is laid on the shelf. There never has been in all the history of church after it organized, but what it died. And the organization died and never did raise again. Can't you see it? Men who are blind, open your eyes. Nature and the Word coordinating together and proving it right here that this is the Truth, that it is the Truth: That Life leaves the stalk to make the tassel; from the tassel it makes the husk; and from the husk it goes into the original again. Notice, never again to be useful to Him.

143 How noticeable this life is in its travel in the corn of wheat than it is in the tree. God called His people like a tree. See? The life goes down in a tree and comes back up again, goes down and comes back up. See? It goes down and comes back up. But in the corn of wheat it goes up from the original stalk through the stalk, tassel, and husk; and the thing that it passed through dies so it can't get back through it again. What is it? It's no use any more. It goes on to its perfection. Amen. Don't you see why He never used an organization? He can't get back in it again. It's dead. But the Life passes on from one to the other. See? They put creeds and inject... "Whosoever shall add one word or take one word out..." See? He's blocked off from it. It must be the Life seed traveling on.

144 I'm using this in a parable now of the Bride, the Masterpiece that's coming forth. There's a Masterpiece fell; there's a Masterpiece rising. The Masterpiece fell at--at Nicaea, Rome. After Nicaea, Rome, She's come through a process; but She's coming right back again to that Masterpiece, perfected, 'cause She's a part of that Word that was spoken by Him. He'll have a Church without spot or wrinkle. It'll not be connected any way with any kind of an organization or a denomination (the cursed thing). It's passed through those such things, but it'll never be there.

145 Notice. The seed is coming up. That Life is coming up, not going back. There'll be no more resurrection after this. The Life is coming up to go to its perfection, a resurrection. Notice, the husk put forth... Notice, the husk puts the original seed out of itself. In Revelations the 3rd we find this. Now remember, no other church was He put out of in the Bible, of the Seven Church Ages. How many remembers it? He passed through the church age to go on to make something else. But this is it. There's nothing else. But the Sculptor has got back to perfection again, the Word. See? Don't go back. How different it is. Yes.

147 Oh, and notice. Then the husk when it comes forth looks just like the grain. But when the grain Life begins to leave the husk to go in to make the Grain (the Bride), the husk opens up and excommunicates the Grain. Is that right in nature? That's exactly what she did. In Revelations 3 we find out the Laodicea church age put Him out. Now, see, it didn't back in the other ages, because there was something else yet to be made. It just passed through and went on to another. I told you all along, there's no more denominations coming. We're at the end. And they put Him out, because why? He's the Word again. He's like the one that fell down there. He's the same doctrine that come forth from the beginning. And when the seed Word begins to grow forth, the husk puts It from itself. The Life leaves all the others to follow it; that's the true believers; they follow the Life, wherever the Life goes.

Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:168 Now, you go back and try to live again... What if that life took back down... You think that Life would ever talk--go back after that old shuck's dried up, ever go back and live in it again? It never does. "For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with the Word as it come to pass..." They're dead, gone. "And the thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned..." Is that right? Now, hurrying just as quick as I can.

You’ve got to move on with the Word or you will die and shrivel up in your walk with God. That is not different than if you take a plant that you are growing and move it into your basement and seal up all the light. That plant, no matter how much you water it, and spray it and give it fertilizer, it will not grow without the Light. And then people wonder why their walk with God I not what it should be, and they stay home and think they can have a victorious life without the Light. It will never happen.

1 John 1: 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

Dead men don’t grow, and they don’t increase, except if they are recently dead and then they bloat.

The apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Now the apostle Paul told us here that when we look into the mirror of the Word we are changed into the Image that we see in the Word which is Christ Who is our light. And then he tells us we are changed from image to image and from glory to glory, and we know that this glory comes from the Greek word doxa which is the opinion, estimation and Judgment of God. So he tells us that we are changed into the image of Christ who is our light and we are changed from one opinion to another and to another and to another until we come into the mind of God.

We are also told by the apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 15: 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1 Corinthians 15: 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In Romans 12: 2 the Apostle Paul said, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And again in Colossians 3: 10 he said, And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Now the evidence that you have put on the new man is that you have been renewed in knowledge of Him.

The Apostle Paul further said in Ephesians 4: 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Now to renew does not mean to make new again. The Greek word that was used here means to renovate or reform. And we do not renovate something unless it has become worn out or in need of repairs. And we do not reform someone unless that person needs a change of the mind from that which was corrupt to that which thinks right.

And we are told in Hebrews six that those who fall away from the Once for all enlightenment, that it is impossible to renew them again. Hebrews 6: 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Therefore to not change shows you are either dead, and can not change, or you have crystallized your thinking like Lot’s wife became crystallized in her thinking as she turned to a pillar of salt. Or the third conclusion we would have to make concerning that person that can not change is that they have turned down the once for all enlightenment, as the apostle Paul.

Hebrews 6:1 for it is impossible If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Now notice he said they could not renew them to repentance, and we know that repentance is a change of the mind. So these are not capable of renewing their mind. So what does that tell you about such a character? It tells you they have crucified to themselves the Word of God Afresh.

Therefore, as were are in the natural where we must eat everyday to keep up our energy, thus has God made us in the Spiritual to eat from The Tree of Life on a daily basis to keep up our Spiritual energy. There is an old expression that says, Seven days without prayer makes one weal, and if you did not eat in the natural for seven days you would become very weak in your body. And seven days without prayer and the Bread of Life will weaken the man in his spirit.

Now, remember when the Pillar of Fire was first on the scene, the people walked with that Light when it moved and when it stopped for a certain time they stopped with it. And why is that? Because if they didn’t move when it moved, it would have left them behind. And if they kept walking when it stopped they would have walked out from the presence of God like Cain did.

So the Light represents the Presence of the Living God. And where there is the most light coming forth from a ministry, is where the Spirit of God is working at presently. Brother Vayle used football terms like when the man has the ball you are supposed to block for him, not try to take the ball away. And when you see God is moving in a certain ministry and you see that ministry moving on with God, then get behind it and walk in the light of the glorious presence of the Living God.

Now, let’s stop and examine this step by step process whereby brother Branham is telling us that God only gives us enough light for a step by step walk in the presence of the Light. Notice he tells us, the Light only provides for step by step but then he adds, just walk with the Light. So if you are going to walk with the Light then the light has to be walking as well. And John tells us in 1 John 1:7, If you walk in the Light as He is in the light, you have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you from all sin.

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13: 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And again in 2 Corinthians 3: 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

And in Colossians 3: 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

And the Apostle John told us in 1 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.

And Brother Branham told us in the sermon Trumpet gives an uncertain sound 63-0114 P:89 Let's take that little something that's put around your heart tonight, and say... "You know you're wrong. Now, raise up your hand." All right. You stepped on the log, the log of His promise, the tree, the cross that was cut down. Put your arms around this cross now. Walk right up here and say, "Now I'm going to ride on it. Right now I'm going to believe it. I'm going to accept it. I believe it. I'll never change. I'm going to stay right with that Word until that one's confirmed. And then after that one's confirmed, I'm going to reach right over and get on another one, and start riding right on." See? And word by word, step by step, you'll possess everything that God promised you. For all things are possible to him that will ride on it. Ride on His promise, for it's certain to bring you to the camp. It'll bring you to the Presence of God.

So keep walking on, and stop when God stops, and move on when he moves on. If the people had stopped when Moses their prophet died, then they would never have crossed over the Jordan into the promise land. And if the people stopped when William Branham their prophet died, then they too will not cross over into the promise of God. So we must continue to walk or live in the light as He is in the light. Let’s bow our heads in prayer.