The word Body
expression
Brian Kocourek
April 15, 2001
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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, no, 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...
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Notice now His attribute. Then the attribute was first God, the
thought, the attribute itself all in one, without being expressed. Then
when He expressed, secondarily, He became then the Word. And then the Word was
made flesh and dwelled among us, St. John the 1st chapter and the 1st verse.
Notice, this is in the beginning, but before the eternal. Notice, in the
beginning was the Word. When the time begin it was Word, but before it was
Word, it was attribute, a thought. Then it was expressed. In the beginning
was the expression, the Word. Now, we're getting where Melchisedec is.
That's this mysterious Person. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh and
dwelled among us. Hold that there now. Notice. His first being was Spirit, God,
supernatural (All right?), the great Eternal. Second, He begin to form Himself
towards flesh in a theophany, it's called, "the word, a body." This
then is the state He was in when He met Abraham, was called Melchisedec. He was
in the form of theophany. Now, we'll get to that and prove it in a few minutes,
the Lord willing.
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He was the Word. A theophany is something that you could not see. It
could be right here now, yet you cannot see it. It's just like, well like
television, that's in another dimension. Television... People are moving right
through this room now singing; there's colors also, but the eye is only subject
to the five senses. Your whole being is only subject to five senses, rather.
And you are only subject to what the sight has been limited to see. But there
is another dimension that can be seen by a transformation by television. Now,
television does not manufacture a picture. A television only channels it into a
circuit, and then the television screen picks it up. But the picture's there to
begin with. Television was here when Adam was here. Television was here when
Elijah set on Mount Carmel. Television was here when Jesus of Nazareth walked
the shores of Galilee. But you're just now discovering it. They wouldn't have
believed it back there. You'd have been crazy to have said something like it.
But now it's become a reality. And so is it that Christ is here. The Angels of
God are here. And someday in the great millennium to come it'll be just more
real than television or anything else, because they are here. He reveals
Himself in His great form of what He claim as He "En morphe's"
Himself into His servants and proves Himself. Now, here He is in the form of
Spirit. And then He comes in the form of a--of--"En morphe." Now, He
appeared to Abraham "En morphe." When Abraham was returning from the
slaughter of the king, here come Melchisedec, talked to Him.
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The other day in the Tucson paper I was reading an article that where
there was a--a woman driving down the road, at I believe about forty, fifty
miles an hour, and she hit an old man with an overcoat on. She screamed and
stopped her car. It threw him up in the air: right out of the plain desert. And
she run back to find him, and he wasn't there. So what did she do? Some people
behind her saw it happen, saw the old man fly up in the air, his overcoat
turning. So they run back to find out. They couldn't find the man anywhere.
They called the police force. The police come out to examine the place; there
was nobody there. Well, each one of them testified the car chugged, hit the
man. He went up in the air, and everybody saw it. Witnesses and two or three
carloads of them, they seen it happen. Come to find out, five years ago there
was an old man with an overcoat on hit and killed on the same spot. When you
leave here, you're not dead. You've got to come back even if you're a sinner
and be judged according to the deeds done in the body. "If this earthly
tabernacle is dissolved, we have one waiting." "En morphe,"
that's the word.
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Now, God in this stage of--at this stage of His creation later formed
into flesh Jesus. From what? From the great beginning Spirit, then came down to
be the Word, bringing Itself out. The Word doesn't yet make Itself; it's just
spoke out, "En morphe," later He becomes flesh, Jesus, mortal to
taste death for all of us sinners. When Abraham met Him, He was Melchisedec. He
unfolds here what all the attributes will do in the final end, every son of
Abraham. Every son of the faith will absolutely do the same thing. But I want
to watch how we have to come. Also we see Him revealed here in Ruth and--and
Boaz as a Kinsman Redeemer, how He had to come to be flesh.
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Now, we see the attribute sons of His Spirit have not yet entered into
the Word form body, but--a theophany. This body is subject to the Word and
earnest--waiting for the earnest change of the body. Now, the different between
Him and you as a son... See, He was at the beginning the Word, an "En
morphe" body. He came in and lived in that in the Person of Melchisedec.
Then later... We never heard no more of Melchisedec, because He became Jesus
Christ. Melchisedec was the Priest, but He became Jesus Christ. Now, you
bypassed that, because in that form He knowed all things. And you have never
been able to know that yet. You come like Adam, like me. You became from the
attribute to the flesh to be tempted. But when this life is finished here...
"If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting." That's where we go; that is the Word. Then we can look back and
see what we done. Now, we don't understand it. We have never become the Word;
we've just become the flesh-man, not the Word. But... And look clearly, makes
it clear you will never be the Word unless you was a thought at the beginning.
That proves the predestination of God. See? You can't be the Word 'less you're
a thought. You had to be in the thinking first. But you see, in order to stand
temptation you had to bypass the theophany; you had to come down here in flesh
to be tempted by sin. And then if you sin... "All the Father hath given Me
will come to Me, and I'll raise him up at the last days." See, you had to
be first. And then you see, He come right down the regular line, from attribute
to...
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Before the foundation of the world his Name's put on the Lamb's Book of
Life. Then from that He become the Word, the theophany, that could appear,
disappear; and then He become flesh and returned back again, resurrected that
same body in a glorified condition. But you bypassed the theophany and become
flesh-man to be tempted by sin. And then "if this earthly tabernacle is
dissolved, we have one already waiting." We have not yet the bodies. But
look, when this body receives the Spirit of God, the Immortal Life inside of
you, it throws this body in subjection to God. Hallelujah. "He that's born
of God doth not commit sin; he cannot sin." Romans 8:1. "There is
therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; they walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit." There you are. See, that throws
your body subject. You don't have to say, "Oh, if I could just quit
drinking, if I could just..." Just get in Christ; it's all gone. See, see?
Because your body is subject to the Spirit, it's no more subject to the things
of the world; they're dead. They are dead; your sins are buried in baptism; and
you are a new creation in Christ. And your body becoming subject to the Spirit,
try to live a right kind of life...
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Like you women claiming you got Holy Ghost and going out here and
wearing shorts and things, how could you do it? How could the Spirit of God in
you ever let you do such a thing as that? It just can't be so. Certainly it
can't be. He's not a filthy spirit; He's a holy Spirit. And then when you
become subject to that Spirit, it throws your whole being subject to that
Spirit. And that Spirit is nothing in the world but this Seed Word made
manifest, or quickened (Hallelujah.), made alive. And when the Bible said,
"Don't do this," that body quickly turns to it; there's no question.
And what is it? It's the earnest of the resurrection. This body will be raised
up again, because it's already started. It was once subject to sin, and mire,
and corruption, but now it's got the earnest; it's turned heavenly. Now, that's
the earnest that you're going in the rapture. It's the earnest. A sick person
laying dying, nothing left but death, that's all can happen. I've seen the
shadows of people done eat up with cancer and tuberculosis, and see them
persons a little while after that perfectly normal and strong. If there is no
Divine healing then there's no resurrection, 'cause Divine healing is the
earnest of the resurrection. Amen. You know what the earnest money is don't
you? It's the down payment. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His
stripes we're healed."
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Notice, how wonderful, we love Him. Now, this body is subject to the
Spirit. Have not yet entered into the Word form, but we are still in the flesh
form, but subject to the Word. Death in the flesh will take us there. Just the same
thing. Think of a little baby. You can take a woman, no matter how evil she is,
when she is pregnant and fixing to be mother, watch before that baby's born; I
don't care how cruel the woman is, she gets real kind. There's something about
her sound--seems godly, to see a little mother fixing to become mother by the
baby. Why is it? That little body... Now, it's not alive yet. See the only
thing it is, is just flesh and muscles. That little jumping, that's just
muscles jerking. But when it comes forth from the womb, God breathes the breath
of life into it, and then he screams out. See, just as--as sure as there is a
natural body being formed, there is a spiritual body to receive it as soon as
it gets here.
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when a man is borned again from heaven, he becomes a spirit babe in Christ. And
then when this robe of flesh is dropped, there is a natural body, theophany, a
body not made with hands, neither born of a woman, that we go to. Then that
body returns back and picks up the glorified body. That's the reason Jesus went
to hell when he died and preached to the souls that were in prison. Turned back
into that theophany... Oh, marvelous. Thank God. II Corinthians 5:1 "If
this earthly body be dis--dissolved (this earthly tabernacle), we have another
one." See, we have bypassed that to come straight from God, the attribute,
to be flesh to be tempted and tested by sin like Adam did. But when testing of
His Word is over, then we are taken up to this body that was prepared for us
before the foundation of the world. It is the Word there that we skipped to
come right around down here to be tempted and tested. If we'd have come through
that, there'd have been no temptation; we'd knowed all things. That's the
reason Jesus knowed all things, 'cause He was Word before He was flesh. Then we
become the Word. Here we are formed to the Word image to be a partaker of the
Word, feed on the Word, by being predestinated since the beginning. You see,
that little spark of life that you had in you from the beginning when you
started your journey... Many of you can remember it. You joined this church and
joined that church, and try this and that; nothing satisfied. That's right. But
one day you just recognized it. Right.