The Energies of God
Brian Kocourek
Last week we spoke from WHO IS THIS
MELCHISEDEC 70 where brother
Branham said, " 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...
Now, last night we spoke on
having the right attitude or the attitude that was in Christ being in you.
Toward the end of our sermon
we brought out a few things showing you that there has to be certain energies
behind our prayer. And we found out that the thing that energizes your prayer
and your faith is Love.
There's nothing like Love to
build up energy within a young man or woman. Just look at what it will do for
them. They could be as lazy and as discourteous as you had ever met, but let
them fall in love and they begin to do things they never even thought they
would do. They'll clean themselves up, they'll exercise to lose the fat, they'll
tone their body to look better. If the one they are in love with goes to church
and they've never gone to church before, they will start going to church with
their girlfriend of boyfriend. That's how the Lord got a hold of brother
Branham, was through Hope, his girlfriend and eventual wife. God had spoken to
him several times before, through visions, and even face to face through the
whirlwind in the tree, but did that get his attention? Not as much as when he
tried to impress his girl.
Guys who could care less
what their hair looks like will begin to cut it and wash it, and groom it, and
even take the time to brush their teeth, and comb their hair, and they will buy
new products like breath mints and you name it, trying new things to make their
appearance better. Let the love bug bite and those energies build, and build
and build, and begin to put into action that old dead weight.
So we see that Love is a great energy force and in 1 Corinthians
Paul says here that whern it
is all said and done there remains three things, faith which is a revelation,
hope which is an earnest expectation, and Love which is an outward expression
of that revealtion and expectation. Revelation begins
the energie cycle. It's the flipping of the swith, then the earnest expectation begins the building up
of the energies, and finally love is the outward expression of what that
revelation is all about.
A young man get's a revelation
of the one he is to marry, and that begins to build up an expectation, this expecatation begins to build up energies within and when it
reaches a level he can no longer contain, it bubbles over in an outward
expression of love, and he begins doing. He courts her with flowers, and
dinners, and things, trying to channel his feelings for her into some sort of
expression. And if a phileo love can do this for a
man, just think what the love of God that created the world can do for you.
I PETER 3:8 ¶ Finally,
[be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one for another, LOVE
as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
EXPLOITS OF FAITH 53-1213E
E-49 If we be in God then
we're energized by His Spirit. And His--my hand are His hands."
I JOHN
WORKS THAT I DO BEAR WITNESS OF ME 51-0413 E-22 After all, I'd rather have the LOVE
of God sealed in my heart than all the gifts there is in the Bible. That's
right.
WHERE I THINK PENTECOST FAILED 55-1111 E-65 When you've really been sealed by the Holy Spirit, love
Divine follows you. We saw last night
in our study that Jesus prophecied, "because iniquity would abound, the Love of many would
die out".
BELIEVEST THOU THIS? 50-0716
E-47 Used to be,
a long time ago, when the neighbor got sick or something, we went over and cut
his corn, cut him some wood if it was wintertime. And today the neighbor can
die, and you don't know it till you read it in the paper. That's right. No
friendship among one another anymore. That's awful. Love... "Because the
iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold," said Jesus in
Matthew's the 24th chapter. That's true.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 54-0103M
87-176 I remember years ago. You always heard them
talk about the sawdust trails and things in the Tabernacle. That didn't make it
any more, not a bit more. But then it was fresh; God was calling His church.
I've seen them sob and cry and lay on the altar all night long. I've went to
their houses, and you could hear them when you come up, just in their--in their
bedchamber, men and women, crying, "O God..." You'd see them walk
through the church, and I'd see the piano start playing, "Jesus Keep Me
Near The Cross," and the tears flowing down there, you know. [Brother
Branham sniffles--Ed.] Walk into this church, then walk down to another church,
and hear them there, "There's a precious Fountain..." "O God,
save my boy. Save my daughter; she's lost, Lord. Please." You don't find
that no more. What's the matter? The Spirit of God is withdrawed.
Jesus said, predicted this, that the love... because the love of many... the
love would fail. "That because iniquity would abound, the love of many
would fail." See? See, grow cold, go away... The love is dying away. And
what they got into, just a form;
Now, we are talking about what energizes a person, and
we have shown that it is love. Love for a new car might enrgize
a man to go to work to pay for it. Love for things causes people to work all
kinds of jobs and hours in order to have those things. And what we just heard
brother branham say, is that there used to be love
for one another in our lives, but that love is dying out. Our Love for one
another has been replaced with a love for things. That is the influence of
Notice he said, there used to be such a Love for God that
people would cry out to God day and night for their loved ones. But we don't
see that any more. He said, years ago, it was
fresh; God was calling His church. I've seen them sob and cry and lay on the
altar all night long. I've went to their houses, and you could hear them when
you come up, just in their--in their bedchamber, men and women, crying, "O
God..." You'd see them walk through the church, and I'd see the piano
start playing, "Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross," and the tears flowing
down there, you know. [Brother Branham sniffles--Ed.] Walk into this church,
then walk down to another church, and hear them there, "There's a precious
Fountain..." "O God, save my boy. Save my daughter; she's lost, Lord.
Please." You don't find that no more. What's the matter? The Spirit of
God is withdrawed.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN
COD SUNDAY_ 54-0103M You don't find that no more. What's the matter? The
Spirit of God is withdrawed. Jesus said,
predicted this, that the love... because the love of many... the love would
fail. "That because iniquity would abound, the love of many would
fail." See? See, grow cold, go away... The love is dying away. And what
they got into, just a form;
THIRSTING FOR LIFE 60-0304 E-36 Oh God, if we have
to take every miracle out of the church, if we have to take all the pipe organs
out, and the plush pews, give us back to that godly love, brotherly love among
the people and fellowship. If we have to do all that, take it back to that
again. Life, oh, life...
HE CARES DO YOU CARE? 63-0721 56 You know, the Bible speaks that, that
there'd be no love in the last days but just amongst the elect people. That's
right. The Scripture speaks of that, that the husband would be against wife,
and wife against husband, children against parents. Just among the elected of
the Lord will there be any love left.
I Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of
faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in
our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Now notice how Paul phrazes
his thoughts here. He says, Works OF Faith, and Labour
OF Love, and Patience OF Hope. Now, we asll
know the word "OF" means OUT FROM, or having it's source from,
and therefore we can read these words of Paul as, your works which spring forth or spring
out from your faith (revelation), and your labor which comes forth as a result
of Love, etc. It is the Love which
produces it. Love then is an energizing power.
In GALATIANS 5:6 Paul
said, …but faith which worketh
by love. Then we see that Faith (revelation itself) is energized by
love. Notrice
Paul tells us again that our Faith worketh by Love.
The word for worketh is a Greek word energeo and it means energizes. Our Faith is enrgized by Love, Paul says.
I THESSALONIANS
WISDOM VERSUS FAITH 62-0401 73-2 The disciples had It sowed into them, then
the Spirit come to energize the Word. See? "Not by power, not by
might, not by wisdom, not by understanding, not by this, not by that, but by
My Spirit I will energize My Word. By My Spirit, says the Lord." It's
the water of the Word of faith that energizes the Word of God and makes It
work,
I CORINTHIANS 12:1 ¶ Now
concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye
know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were
led. 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit
of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can
say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord. It is for yours and my benefit as we see in verse 6 And there are diversities of operations,
(energema or energes) but
it is the same God which worketh (energizes) all in all. And what is the purpose
behind the energies of God being utilized for you and me? 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal. It is for our benefit. 8 For to one is given
by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same
Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing
by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy;
to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to
another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh
(Are energized) that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
PHILIPPIANS 2:13 For it is God which worketh
(energizesd)
in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.
JAMES 5:16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and
pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual (energized) fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth much. And what
then energizes your prayer for one another? Love is the energeo
of God. And it is by Love that your prayers are engergized
with the power of God behind them,.
HEAR YE HIM
58-0301E E-112 Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today,
and forever, then He can, if He will come... And He knows you. And He can tell
me, just like He showed the Son of God. If He's the same, He has to... See,
Jesus... We are the (what?) branches; He's the Vine. Is that right? You Bible
readers know that? Does the vine bear fruit? Be careful. No, the branches bear
fruit. The vine only energizes the branches. So Jesus has no eyes
tonight but mine and yours on earth. He has no hands but mine and yours. He has
no voice but mine and yours. And He is the Spirit in us, and we are the branches
to bear fruit as He energizes us. Is that right? Now, that's the way
you'd have to do here.
I CORINTHIANS 12:5 And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
DEEP CALLETH TO THE DEEP 56-0415
E-54 Now, the vine only energizes the branch.
The vine doesn't bear fruit. The branch bears fruit. How many knows that? You
don't pick it off the vine; you pick it off of the branch. And who is the branch?
The Church, the branch.
WHY
61-0125 E-70 Oh,
how the Son of God took His own Life and inject it into my life, inject it into
your life, and then comes down and energizes it with His Presence. Oh, my.
EPHESIANS 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh
(energizes) all things after the counsel of his own will:
SPOKEN WORD ORIGINAL SEED 62-0318E
124-5 God never
placed signs ahead of His Word. (Amen. That's a scorcher.) God never placed
signs ahead of His Word. They were added for proof of the Word, but the Word is
first. To prove it, Elijah said to the woman, "Bake me a cake first."
Then watch the miracle happen. Come to the Word first and then watch the
miracle. The Seed Word Itself is what the Holy Spirit energizes. How can
a messenger sent from God just believe some of the Scriptures and not all the
Word? deny part of It...
EPHESIANS 1:19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his
power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought (energized) in Christ, when
he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the
heavenly [places],
AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAY 59-0814
E-70 So
the woman touched Him, and He turned and told her. Now, if He's the same God
tonight that He was then, the same High Priest that can now, this hour, be
touched by the feeling of our infirmities, He'd act the same way. Now, He's
gone into glory. He's the Vine, we are the branches. The vine doesn't bear
fruit, the branch bares fruit. Is that right? You
don't get fruit off the vine, you get it off the branch. Well, if we're the
branches and He's the Vine, then He furnishes the energy, which is the Holy
Spirit. And if the Holy Spirit's from Him, It'll act like Him.
EPHESIANS 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all
the fulness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to
do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that worketh (energizes) in us, (and
what power is that? He answers it in the next verse…) 21 Unto him (Him Who? Him God! And What is God?
God is Love, to Him) [be] glory in the church by
Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
JEHOVAH JIREH 57-0106
E-63 Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit, does it?
Who was He talking to? The church. "I'm the Vine. You are the
branches." The branch is energized by the life of the Vine; therefore
Jesus has no lips tonight on earth, but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine
and yours. He has no hands but mine and yours. He energizes us, and we bring
forth His Life, as He brings it through us. Whether it's preaching the
Gospel by lip, or it's seeing vision by eye, whether it's whatever it is,
laying hands on the sick, whatever it is, it's Christ working through the
branches of His Church, every office literally electrified by His Presence.
PHILIPPIANS 2:13 For it is God which worketh
(energizes) in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION FOR FAITH 55-0113
E-54 Many of you ministers here, you wouldn't
want to say that you just spitted out a sermon and stood, popped it off. You'd want
to say it come from inspiration. I believe it. Certainly. Well, it has to
come from the Holy Spirit that energizes you to speak that message. If it
isn't, you'll never be successful. This is Charles Finney, and so forth, and
man who copied their sermons out and when he got up there and preached with the
inspiration, the Holy Ghost... The same sermon he preached the night before,
hundreds brought to the altar. See? There's such a difference. It's got to be
by inspired. The Holy Spirit's got to unctionize in
that thing. So is it with healing. There's got to be something take place
through a Divine gift that'll energize the people with the Holy Spirit to
believe.
I THESSALONIANS
BELIEVE FROM THE HEART 57-0623
E-45 And now watch. I've seen it work. And to
think that if you'll get into that contact with God, it becomes till it isn't
your voice anymore. It's not your thought anymore. It becomes God's thought and
God's voice. You are just a vine, or just a branch. He's the Vine. And if His
Spirit that goes in and energizes, as long as you can get yourself out of the
way, He will fill it up. And then you can be a witness just like Noah's ark
was a witness, like Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till
him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the
very expression.
JAMES 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the
elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may
be healed. The effectual (Energizing) fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.
ARROW OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE 56-0801
E-19 Why, the reason Moses failed in the first
place... Here's what was the matter. It was the lack of having what the burning
bush had. That's right. And what's our failure today, is lack having what the
Holy Spirit has. And the Holy Spirit has all good things for us. And if we
receive the Holy Spirit, then all things are possible; and not only possible,
but promised to us. Jesus said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll
do it. If ye abide in me and My word's in you, ask what you will, it'll be
given to you." See? When we step into the Light of God's Word, with the unction of the Holy Spirit to shine the Light on It,
brother, the impossible becomes little things then. God asks us to believe His
Word. He sends the Holy Spirit to energize that Word when He falls into It.
When the Word's being preached and the Holy Spirit brings the Word, He
energizes that and flashes the same Light of God's blessed promise. God
said, "I have remembered My promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I'm
sending you down there to do it." See? Then when God's Word, His
promise becomes enlightened by the Presence of the Angel of the Lord, stop
Moses now; he's on his road. And God always keeps His promise.
FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION FOR FAITH 55-0113
E-25 What did Christ redeem us for? Did you ever
thing what He redeemed us for? Why didn't He just make you the atonement and
say now, "There's no need of giving them deep powers. There's no need in
making this man a son of God. There's no need in doing that. I will just ask
him to believe it and write his name in the Book of heaven and that'll settle
it." But He gave us these redeemed blessings that we might operate the
work of God, by the energy of the Holy Spirit. In
INNER MAN
53-1212 E-6 And I was just thinking. We are God's fruit
bearers. And I believe in
TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS 61-1105
191 A sheep's not asked to bear wool. He's not
asked to manufacture some wool this year. If he's a sheep, he'll have wool,
because he's a sheep. He don't have to say, "Well, now I--I'm--I'm... I
believe I'm a sheep, so I better get--hurry up around here, I got to get some
wool for the master." He don't have to worry about that. As long as he's a
sheep, he'll bear wool. He don't have to manufacture it. You don't have to
manufacture no self-made piety, and, "I, I've got... I... Now I shouldn't
do this; I know I'm a Christian." Oh, brother, trying to save itself by
itself, by its own human efforts, yet, sincere. What's the matter is weak
pulpits, weak schools, weak seminaries. That's what's the matter: teaching
man's theology. They give... You say today, the strength of a Christian, they
just... "Are you a Christian?"
"Oh, I'm Methodist." "Are you a Christian?"
"Oh, I--I--I'm Baptist." Now, that's the strength of Christianity.
How different. Hallelujah. How different from that first Church. They had none
of these things to say. But they had been filled with an energy, a power of the
Holy Ghost, that had set them free from sin and death. They wasn't nominal.
They had a love of God burning in their hearts, that sent them to death.
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 58-0523
E-31 Oh, if this group tonight, of you people
here from
QUEEN OF SHEBA 60-0110 E-76 If the first bunch
of people... He's the Vine (John 15), and we are the branches. Now, the vine
does not bear fruit. The branch bears fruit as it's energized by the vine. And
if the first branch out of that vine produced a church that wrote a book of
Acts, the second branch will do the same thing. Every branch that comes out
of that vine will be energized by the same life that's in the vine. Amen.
176-1 PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE - CAB
CPT 5 The seed
Word is energized by the Spirit.
JESUS CHRIST THE SAME 58-0214
E-47 You have to know it by the Spirit. Flesh
cannot do those things. What is it? The vine, the branches, the same life that
was in the vine comes through His branches. He feeds the branch through His
vine. That's how He declares Himself to be the same yesterday, and forever, for
He said, "I'm the Vine." The Holy Spirit now, Christ in Spirit form
in you, energizing you with His Spirit to believe God, and He's everything that
He does, He manifests Himself just like He did in the Bible times. "The
works that I do, shall you also. A little while, and the world won't see Me no
more (How many knows He said that? That's the unbeliever.), yet ye shall Me
(the believer), for I ('I,' personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you,
to the end of the world." Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and
forever. "The works that I do, shall you do also."