The Cross and The
Gene Seed
April 15, 2001
Brian Kocourek
JOHN 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was
made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 ¶ And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
JOHN 1:10 He was in the
world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came
unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received (Lambano, to lay hold of, to
appropriate to oneself, to give one access to oneself, to experience) him, to them He gave power (exousia =
authority, right, judicial decision or judgment, in other words, the ability to
make a right decision, a right choice) to become (ginomai,
To come to fulfillment as) the sons of God, [even]
to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (This tells you it was not your choosing,
neither did you have anything to do wit it, but simply you were chosen and
ordained by God to be fulfilled as Son of God). 14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Now, this morning I would
like to take the next paragraph of WHO IS THIS
MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E and continue with takig brother
Branham's Message back to the Word of God. Now, let's read from PP. 46 Now, in the
beginning God dwelled alone with His attributes as I spoke of this morning.
That's His thoughts. There was nothing, just God alone. But He had thoughts.
Just like a great architect can set down in his mind, and draw out what he
thinks he's going to build. Now, he cannot create; he can take something that's
been created and make it in a different form,(but he cannot
create), 'cause God's the only One can create. But he gets in his mind what
he's going to do, and that's his thoughts; that's his desires. Now, it's a
thought, and then he speaks it, and it's a word then. A thought, when it's
expressed, it's a word. A thought expressed is a word. But it has to be a
thought first. So it's God's attributes; then it becomes a thought, then a
word.
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Notice, those who have tonight Eternal Life, was with Him and in Him,
in His thinking, before there ever was an Angel, star, Cherubim, or anything
else. That's eternal. And if you have Eternal Life, you always was, not
your being here, but the shape and form that the infinite God...(I would like to stop here
for a moment and reflect upon these words.)
Brother Branham is telling
us that if you have Eternal Life, you always were. Oh, not this body, This body
had a beginning. But notice what he says,
And if you have Eternal Life, you always
was, not your being here, but the shape and form. What you are
in your stature, you were in the mind of God before the beginning of the
universe. In other Words, what you are in your statue, in your frame, is what
God designed before the very beginning. That is why you should be very content
with the body God gave you. Because after all, He designed you. It was God Who
shaped your form. God made you the way you are because that is the way His mind
thought of you to begin with.
Why is it that we as a
people are so simple minded and so gullible that we will allow the media to
tell us that we need to reshape out bodies. Why are we so obsessed as a people
with making our bodies into someone else's form or shape. Learn to be happy with the body God designed
just for you. Every one of you are quite unique from each other. Some of you
may have a different shaped nose from the other, or different shaped ears, and even in our torso, we have
different shapes. Now, I am not saying that we should not try to keep the shape
God gave us. But to change that shape is wrong. And Brother Branham said, And if you have Eternal Life, you always was, not your
being here, but the shape and form. In other words, if God
designed it, you should be content with it.
And
if He isn't infinite, He isn't God. God has to be infinite. We're finite; He's
infinite. And He was omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. If He isn't, then
He can't be God: knows all things, (He knows what is happening in all places at
all times) all places because of His omnipresence. Omniscient
makes Him omnipresent.(Now, notice the next thought here,
Brother Branham says,) He is a being; He's
not like the wind. He is a being; He dwells in a house, but being omniscient,
knowing all things, makes Him omnipresent, because He knows everything that's
going on. There can't be a flea bat its eyes but what He knowed it.(And
why do you think that is? Because he designed it that way. He designed each
flea that will ever live, and he programmed how many times it would bat it's
eye, so to speak. And He made them all different. That's our Omniscient God)) And He knowed it before there was a world, how many time
it'd bat it's eyes and how much tallow it had in it, before there ever was a
world. That is infinite. We can't comprehend it in our minds, but that's God,
and God is infinite.
(Now, let's
catch the next thing brother Branham tells us here. He says, 50 And remember,
you, your eyes, your statue, whatever you was, you were in His thinking at
the beginning. And the only thing that you are is the expression word.
(I
like that terminology he uses here. He says, And the
only thing that you are is the expression word Noticed, not the
expressed Word, but the expression Word. Jesus was the Expressed Word. You and
I are the Expression Word. The word EXPRESSION according to Webster's New World
Dictionary in speaking of genetics, means the manifestation of a trait, caused
by a particular gene. And how beautifully that fit's with what Brother Branham
is telling us here.) After He thought it, He
spoke it, and here you are. If it isn't, if you wasn't in His thinking,
there's no way at all for you ever to be there, for He's the One that gives
Eternal Life. (Then if what brother Branham is telling us here,
if you don't like the body you have now as far as the form and shape, you had
better get used to it, because that is the form and shape that God gave you,
and that is the one you will have for
all eternity. Now, I am not saying the 40 year old you or the 50 year old you
that is falling apart at the seams. But what you were in your prime, somewhere
between 16 and 20 years old is the way you will be throughout all eternity
unless you had destroyed your form before that age somehow through over eating,
or drugs, or some other way.)
Brother Branham
continues, You remember how we read the Scriptures,
"Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God..."
And that His predestination might stand true, He could choose before anytime
who... God's sovereign in His choosing, did you know that? God's sovereign. Who
was back yonder to tell Him a better way to make the world? Who would dare to
tell Him He was running His business wrong? Even the very--the very Word Itself,
very sovereign... Even the revelation is sovereign.
He
reveals to whom He will reveal.(In other words, if God doesn't choose to reveal
Himself to you, no matter how much you study, no matter how much you try, you
will never know Him that way.
MATTHEW
13:10 And the disciples came, and
said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said
unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, but to them it is not given. 12
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he
hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not;
and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is
fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross,
and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at
any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and
should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should
heal them. 16 But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for
they hear.
MARK
4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve
asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to
know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without ,
all [these] things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they
should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them. (Now the Greek word for the
word without is the word EXO, which means: on the outside or strange.
We see the word use in the following parable that Jesus tells in Luke 13.)
LUKE
13:23 ¶ Then said one unto him,
Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, 24 Strive to enter in
at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall
not be able. 25 When once the master of
the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand
without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he
shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then
shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou
hast taught in our streets. 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you
not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity. 28 There
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (That's tribulation, and notice what Jesus
says as He continues…), when ye shall see
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and
you [yourselves] thrust out. 29 And
they shall come from the east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and
[from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And, behold,
there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. (That
speaks of the order of the resurrection). The first age to go down is the last
one to come forth, and the last age to go down is the first one to come forth).
Seven
Church Ages - 54-0512 Now
the Cloud He's coming in is not a cloud, like a thunderhead, but it's a Cloud
of Glory He's coming in. See? Now, when Jesus was overshadowed by God on Mount
Transfiguration, Clouds overshadowed Him and His raiment. See? And when Elijah
would come down, a cloud come down and received him up, not a not a
thunderhead, but a Cloud of Glory. His great glorious Presence will strike the
earth. He cometh in Clouds! Oh, I love that.
Clouds, there'll be wave
after wave of His Glory will come across the earth - and the resurrection of
the saints shall come. … THEN HE SAYS
A great wave of that same Spirit and a sshhewww, wave after wave - He
that was last will be the first. He that was first will be last. I kinda see it
that way...that's the order of the resurrection. I won't know nobody in the
generation before me or the generation after me. I'll know those in the
generation with me. Every generation will come successfully right as it went
down. They which were last will be
first. Sure, that's me. See? I'll know my people, the next time my dad and his
people, my grandfather and his people, on down like that, wave after wave after
wave after wave. And the saints will rise from everywhere. Won't that be
wonderful, Amen. That makes the old
people feel young again, yes. Now notice closely, for I come to you in a Cloud,
and every eye shall see Him, no matter how far back they died, they'll see Him.
Now Wednesday
night we spoke on the time of the resurrection and notice how what Jesus said
ties right into our Message from Wednesday night where we showed how many
people were actually witnesses of the resurrection in the Alpha, and yet the
question comes up, could there be a people who will know the resurrection is on
and will they be thrust out into weeping and gnashing of teeth which is the
tribulation period? Remember, "not all that
say, Lord, Lord will enter in, but He that doeth the will of the Father."
Remember, there
were over 500 witnesses of the first resurrection at one time, and the
scripture tells us that a great number of people actually saw the dead saints
which had arisen, walking the streets of Jerusalem. And yet at the end of that
first age the admonition went forth in the book of Revelations to that first
church age, "Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left
thy first love. 5 Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his
place, except thou repent."
That is why we
read earlier from John 1:12 But as many as received Him, (The word
received is the Greek word Lambano, which means to lay hold of, to appropriate
to oneself, to give one access to oneself, to experience) and John is talking
of him, to them He gave power (He gave exousia = He gave authority, He gave the right, He gave the judicial decision, He gave the judgment, in other words, He gave the ability to make a right decision, He gave the ability to make a right choice. And what is that right
choice?) to become (to ginomai, to
come to fulfillment as) the sons of God,) Brother Branham goes to say, The very revelation itself is sovereign in God. That's how people pound
at things, and jump at things, and hit at things, and not knowing what they're
doing. God is sovereign in His works.
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Now, we find Him at the beginning, His attributes. And now, you were
with Him then. Then is when the Book of Life comes into view. Now, we read
over here in Revelations the 13th chapter, the 8th verse, that the beast that
comes upon the earth in these last days will deceive all those people on the
earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the
foundation of the world. Think of it. Before Jesus was ever born, four thousand
years before He came on earth, and several thousand years before you come on
earth, Jesus in God's mind died for the sins of the world, and the Book of Life
was made; and your name was put on that Book of Life before the foundation of
the world. That's the Bible truth. See? Your name was ordained of God and
placed on the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. You were there
in His attributes. You don't remember it, now, because you're just a part of
His life.
You
are a part of God when you become a son or a daughter of God, just as you are a
part of your earthly father. That's right. You are... The male carries the
hemoglobin, the blood. And when that has gone in the egg, then you become a
part of your father, and your mother is a part of your father also. So you're
all a part of your father. Glory. That lets the denomination out altogether.
Certainly does. God in all, the only place...
Now, notice he
said, Your name was ordained of God and placed
on the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. You were there in His
attributes. You don't remember it, now, because you're just a part of His life. You are a part of
God when you become a son or a daughter of God, just as you are a part of your
earthly father.
And remember the Life is in
the male, and the Life we now have was first in our heavenly Father if we have
eternal life in us. Now, brother Branham is telling us that who we are began as
a thought in God, just as when our earthly father has a desire to have a child,
he consummates his thought with an act in his flesh with his wife (the bedding
ground) and out from him comes forth life in a expression of Love, which
results in an offspring).
He said, Jesus in God's mind died for the sins of the world, and the
Book of Life was made; and your name was put on that Book of Life before the
foundation of the world.
Then if our name was in that
Book of Life before the World was even framed, then we had to be a part of God.
An expression Word as brother Branham put it, and as Webster says, The word
EXPRESSION in speaking of genetics, means the manifestation of a trait, caused
by a particular gene.
And in the Book of Revelations, when it speaks of the Lamb of
God being slain from before the foundations of the world, it speaks also of
those whose names were written in the Lambs Book of Life. Then we ought to know
that when God, the great architect and designer planned out His family, He
planned out for our Older brother Jesus to go to the Cross on our behalf to
redeem back all of God's other Seed that had been taken captive by satan. The
Word Redeem means to buy back, and only those who belonged to God in the first
place can be bought back. None others have that privilege.
Therefore if we trace back those last few moments in Calvary, we
will see an older Brother Who struggled and laid down His own Life for His
Brethren. In fact when Jesus was Speaking of his own Love, He prophecied what
that love would be willing to do when He said in, JOHN
15:13 Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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498-129 His love did it. His love paid for my sins. His love taken it
away. Love is the most powerful force there is. Take a husband that really
loves his wife, he'd die for her freely. And brotherly love... There was a man,
a certain man, comes to this church once in a while from up in the country. Was
setting at his brother's house the other day. He said "What if something
would happen to Brother Bill?" He said, "Gladly would I stick out my
chest to catch a bullet for him." See? Die for you. That's love. Greater
love has no man than them that will lay down his life for his brother. See?
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In love, chosen us in love before the foundation of the world... Now, watch: Having
predestinated us... (Now, there's the word "predestinated.")... Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will. What about that, Brother Mike? Isn't
that wonderful? He loved you. He loved you before there was a world. He
knowed your nature; He knowed your weaknesses; He knowed your habits. He knowed
all about you, what you was going to be. (I'd like to stop right here for a moment
and say this. Just think, God knew you before you even came to earth for
testing. He knew how you would struggle! He knows your weaknesses even better
than you do. He knows your habits both good and bad even better than you do,
and He still Loves you so much that even before you had a chance to do good or
evil, he sent His Son, His eldest Son, to die on your behalf, even before you
came and committed any sin, He knew you and Loved you so much, that He laid out
the great plan, to Redeem you back before you could ever go astray.) And then, when He looked all over the great universe, as it
was, He said, "I choose you."(Choose you for what?
Chose you to be conformed to the Image of His eldest Son.)
ROMANS 8:28 And we know that
all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the
called according to [his] purpose. 29 ¶
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 ¶
What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be]
against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any
thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. 34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ
that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all
these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And God proved His Love for
us by sacrificing His Only begotten Son so that you and I would never again be
separated from His presence.
And when He did that, before there ever was a
speck of life, then you're eternal with God. When you receive the Holy
Ghost, then you become eternal, because you have a--you're with God, you're
part of God. Can you see what I mean? You are as eternal as God is, because
you're... 499-133 I'm as much Branham as my father was a
Branham, because I'm a blood of a Branham. I'm a Branham with my father,
because I was borned of my father. I'm a Branham with him. You're a Wood,
because of your father being Wood. You're as much Wood as Jim Wood is; you're
just Banks Wood. Amen. Oh, my. You're a Neville because that your father was a
Neville. You're just as much Neville as he was Neville. Glory. We're just as
eternal as God is, 'cause we are a part of God, sons and daughters of God by
Eternal Life, and can never perish. "I'll raise him up in the last
days."
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No wonder when they was fixing to cut Paul's head off out there... He
had to walk that death route. He wrote that last letter to Timothy, said,
"I've fought a good fight; I've finished my course; I've kept the faith.
Henceforth there's laid up for me the crown the righteous Judge will give me at
that day, not only to me, but all that love His appearing." Then death
said, "I'm coming after you." He said, "Where is your
sting?" The grave said, "I'll get you." Said, "Where is
your victory?" But he had an example: looked back to Calvary and said,
"But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ." There you are. Oh, it has to stir emotions; it's just got
to. 499-136 Life is... The Word is going out. Life, the word life catches
Life, and within a human being just something has to scream out.
Then when Jesus walked that
Calvary Hill, as the pain seemed to ebb forth from every joint in his aching,
whipped and bleeding body, and as He stumbled and fell, within Him something
spoke, and said, "get up, get up, your brother Joe
needs you now", get up, get up,
brother Peter and Paul need you now more than ever, get up get up, your brother
Matthew won't make it without you. Get
up get up, brother Chris needs you help. Get back to your feet and press on ahead,
your Brother Don needs you, your brother Ron is depending on you, And
as he struggled to his feet, with the weight of that cross across his aching
and blood torn back, as he felt the sting of the splinters in His back, his
thoughts turned toward His brothers, Dwayne, and
Mike, and , and Brian, and Jeremy, and Jared who are all depending on him, And
as he began to walk again toward His death at Golgotha, he thought of his
brothers Eric and Steve who are going to perish if
he doesn't make it to that hill. And He
thinks, Get up, get up, and walk on, get up and walk to your destiny. Walk on,
walk on…
And when at last He arrived
at His destiny, He laid down His Life for the brethren. And when that first nail pierced His Hands,
I wonder which of you he was thinking of at that moment. Oh, the pain. And then
the second nail, as they held it to the other palm of His hand, He could
already feel the pain before it was driven through, and I wonder which of us He
was thinking of. Then when they pierced His feet together, bye this time He
could hardly stand it, as His body ached so bad, in every fiber of His being he
hurt with so much pain that His body wanted to twist into a knot, and as He
laid there hanging on that Cross, before His mind went blank from the
excruciating pain in every limb, in every tissue of his emaciated body, I
wonder Who He was thinking of at that moment.
Was it I? Let's bow our heads in respect for a moment
in prayer. Dear Father, As your son lay dying upon that cross, his limbs all
twisted with pain, and his flesh torn and hanging from his body, as the blood
used out of his open wounds, blinding His vision and causing nausea to grip
what senses He had left, as He hung their dying and trying to breath, but
couldn't because of the crushing, twisting, convulsions His body was going
through, I wonder Lord, Were His last thoughts of Me? And I realize My Lord and MY God, How much you Loved Your Only
begotten and yet how much you must Love us to have allowed all this to happen
that I might be found blameless. As He
hung their on that Cross, His Mind only reflected your mind, and all His
thoughts were your thoughts.
And you said in Your Word, According as You had
chosen us in Yourself before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame in Your
Presence. Therefore in love You
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Your Son Jesus Christ to
Yourself, according to the good
pleasure of Your will, 6 To the praise of the glory of Your grace, wherein You
have made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through the
blood of Your Son, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of Your grace; And with this we cry
Abba Father.