ONENESS #4
Oneness Expressed
Brian Kocourek
EPHESIANS.2:1 And you [hath he
quickened], who were dead in
trespasses and sins; <2> Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of
the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: <3>
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the
lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of
the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,
even as
others. <4> But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love
wherewith he loved us, <5> Even when we were dead in sins,
hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
<6>
And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in
heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: <7> That in the ages to
come
he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. <8> For by grace are ye
saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift
of
God: <9> Not of works, lest any man should boast. <10> For we are
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them. <11>
Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the
flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the
Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; <12> That at that
time
ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
of
hope, and without God in the world: <13> But now in Christ Jesus
ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the
blood of
Christ. <14> For he is our peace, who hath made both
one, and
hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; <15>
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the
law of
commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, [so] making peace; <16> And that
he might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having
slain
the enmity thereby: <17> And came and preached peace to you which
were afar off, and to them that were nigh. <18> For through
him
we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
<19> Now
therefore ye are no more strangers
and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; <20>
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; <21> In whom
all the building fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy
temple in the Lord: <22> In whom ye also are builded together for
an habitation of God through the Spirit.
PRAYER
Last week we spoke
mostly from PP. 3 - 13 and tied together the
thoughts brother Branham had laid out in his opening
statement
where he had referenced his Communion message from
the week
before and then he immediately read from Hebrews 1: 1-3 and
Genesis 1: 26-27. In doing so he had said,
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And now I want you to turn, if
you have a Bible and like to
read with me, to the 1st chapter of Hebrews, first. And I want to
read the first three verses of the 1st chapter of Hebrews,
and
then Genesis 1:26 and 7, to tie that together. And no man can say
anything that's worth saying unless God helps
him say it.
And--and that's along the Message this morning, too,
of the
oneness of the people and God. Now in Hebrews the 1st chapter, we
read this.
Now notice here that
he said he wanted to tie Hebrews 1: 1-3
and
Genesis
Seed. They both deal with the Image of the Father.
Hebrews 1
says, that Christ is the exact Image of
the Father and in Gene
sis says that we are also.
So as you saw last
week we understand by what brother Branham is
laying out so far that this Message on ONENESS will deal and must
deal with our relationship with Our Father.
In order to communicate
with Him and thus
enter into a ONENESS with Him, we must first have
the same mind as He
has.
Now I want you
to listen very closely to what I'm going to tell
you next. And that is this: It is impossible for you to have the
same mind as God unless you are His Seed. It is impossible
to
have the mind of God unless you are in
His image. It is
impossible to have the mind of God
unless you have the very Life
of God. And if you are receiving His mind which are His thoughts
that have been manifested in this hour for you to see, then you
are, and can only be ...His Seed. His Royal Seed. And as I said
last week, there's your Token. You can not possibly have the same
mind with out the same attributes and Characteristics as
Those
displayed by Him. And after all, the what is the mind or mind set
except it be the culmination of the same thoughts gathered in the
same expressed way.
Now that
is a mouthful. But I want us to examine this
more
closely this morning because although we have
only read 17
paragraphs in this Message, I am already thoroughly
convinced
that this is what brother Branham will be trying to get us to see
through out this Message of ONENESS. I have not read further in
this message yet, or at least not in the past few years, so I am
not saying this because I have read ahead. But I simply believe
the way brother Branham is approaching this subject
and the
scripture foundation he utilizes as his text can leave only one
outcome and that is what I have already said.
So let's read on now
with where we left off.
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Now,
the Spirit of God in the Word makes the Word live Itself,
act Itself out. It brings the Word to life, like a seed.
Now, what is the Word
except it is the thoughts expressed. So if
the Spirit of God will make the Word live Itself out, and
the
Word is the Expressed thoughts, then what He is saying is
that
The Spirit of God comes upon the Expressed thoughts of God
and
brings them to Life. Notice he says, Like a Seed. That's you and
me, see! We were in the thoughts of God before the foundations of
the world. But it took His Token of His very own Life to quicken
His thoughts which we were and to make them alive.
EPHESIANS.1:3
- 4
Blessed
[be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places]
in Christ: <4> According as he hath chosen us in him before
the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before His Presence:
So we see that we were
in His thinking before the world was ever
framed and what He saw in His mind was His own Seed
standing
before His very own Presence
in a condition that is Holy and
without blame which means we were to be cleaned up and set apart
unto Him, in His Presence, His own Seed expressed or manifested.
Let's now, pick up at
PP. # 15 of ONENESS.
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Any man and his family, a correct, good,
noble, obedient family
is one with another, any family. And if there's something in the
family
that moves them apart, then it's not right, the family's
broken somewhere.
Let's just stop here.
He saw us in Him as expressed Attributes of
Himself standing before His very own Presence. Not apart but in
His presence, holy and blameless. But somewhere this thought of
God was broken. We became separated from His Presence. But yet He
saw us standing in His Presence Holy and blameless, so there must
be a way with which He also planned for this to happen.
He continues
in PP. 15: "They should all be one, father with
mother, mother with father, children with parent, parent
with
children, all in agreement. And, when you see that, you'll
see
one lovely picture."
And as we saw in
Ephesians 1, that is the lovely picture God had
in His mind before the world was ever framed. So it must come to
pass. But what happened? What caused it to not happen
in the
beginning.
Well, in order to find
out let's go back and see for ourselves.
GENESIS.3:1
Now
the serpent was more subtitle than any beast of the
field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? <2>
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden: <3> But of the fruit of the tree
which
[is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. <4> And the
ser
pent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Notice what happened
here. God had said, "YOU SHALL SURELY
DIE."
And the
Serpent said, "YOU SHALL [NOT] SURELY DIE."
Just one
word off. One little
word off and it through the world and the Sons of
God into Chaos. All the death in the world. All the perversion in
the world. All the insanity in this world. All the sickness and
disease in this world. From ONE WORD off. Just one little itsy
bitsy tiny weeny word. He added only a little three letter word.
"N.O.T., not"!
You see how important
it is to say only what the Prophet and this
Word says? One little word off spoiled the whole picture. But we
know that if God had us in Him in a certain way
before the
foundations of the world and if He saw us in that condition, then
I don't care how many devils in hell come forward with one word
off, God's Seed that He saw in that condition are going to
be
Holy and without blame in His Presence, Period. And no Devil in
hell or out of hell is going to stop you from coming into
the
expressed Thought that He has already set in
motion by His
revealed Word.
I 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.
So we see
in I JOHN 3: 2 that we had come to a
condition of
uncertainty but God has promised that at His Appearing, When He
Appears and Manifests Himself, that His presence is Here
among
us, we then will see Him in the fullness of His disclosure, and
when we see Him this way, we shall snap out of our uncertainty,
we will snap out of the spell Satan has had us bound up in, and
we shall be set free to reflect the image of our Father.
The church, God's
Seed, had become bewitched. They had come under
a spell that Satan had cast upon them, and they had lost
their
vision of who they were.
GALATIANS
3:1
O
foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ hath been
evidently
set forth, crucified among you?
What does
this word bewitch mean? What does it mean
to be
bewitched? BAS KAH NEE OH : to fascinate by false representation.
They had become
fascinated by something that was represented to
be true but was really false. And they fell under it's spell.
That's exactly what
happened to Eve. Let's go back to Genesis and
see for ourselves.
GENESIS.2:17
But of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt
surely die.
Notice that God
said, don't eat or even touch the thing because
it will Kill you to do so.
Now let's see if His
mind set got through to Eve.
GENESIS.3:2
And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden: <3> But of the fruit of the tree
which
[is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
We see that she
perfectly understood. Right? She sure had God's
mind set on this one didn't she? So what happened.
The serpent
added just one little word of His own and
that
through the whole meaning out. He reasoned with God's Word
and
she listened and it caught her under it's
spell. She was
bewitched. Notice what her mindset now reflected.
GENESIS.3:6
And
when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food,
and
that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Now how could it
be good for food, if God said it will kill you
to eat it. It might be pleasant to the
eyes, sex is very
appealing but it is killing them by the millions isn't it?
So we see
by receiving this one word off it opened her up to
deception and she fell under the serpents
spell. She was
bewitched.
So, now, let's go back
to PP. 15 and read forward through PP. 16
to get the continuity of what brother Branham is trying to tell
us.
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Any man and his family, a correct, good,
noble, obedient family
is one with another, any family. And if there's something in the
family that moves them apart, then it's not right, the family's
broken somewhere. They should all be one, father with
mother,
mother with father, children with parent, parent with children,
all in agreement. And, when you see that, you'll see one lovely
picture.
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That's God's purpose. And His purpose
as Father, supreme, was
to be one with His family, earthly family, Adam and Eve. And the
only way that they could be one with the family, or with God, was
because God's nature was in them. So that made them with
God's
nature in them, then with each other and God, they become
all
one. Isn't that a beautiful picture, God in His family,
Father
over all, supreme! No death, no sorrow, no
heartaches, no
nothing; just joy unspeakable; never to be sick, never to have a
heartache, just one with God! What a picture! Because, the very
nature of God was in these people. And therefore, what they did,
they followed just in line with God, and God with them made them
one.
Now you can see
the importance of brother Branham's teaching on
the Seed here. You can't get to first base unless you see
this
principle. Then if you see it, and are thoroughly convinced that
it is not just brother Branham's opinion, but that it is
"THUS
SAITH THE LORD," Then it will bring a rest and relaxation because
you know that God is in full control. If you are His seed,
you
must come into His image. You can't get away from it. He
said,
"THE VERY NATURE OF GOD IS IN THESE PEOPLE." ONENESS.
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Now, Jesus prayed, in
John, the 17th chapter and the 11th
verse, to you who put down these Sunday school texts. I have many
of them this morning. John
and He would be one like He and the Father were one. That
the
Church, we as members of the Body of Christ,
would be one,
together, just like He and the Father are one. And at that day we
would know that He was in the Father... Father in Him, and He in
us, that together we were one. What a union, a oneness that would
be, to see God in His Church till every member is just perfectly
in harmony with each other and God. That's the Church that Jesus
is coming for. That's when His prayer will be answered, that we
will be one.
Now how could
they have harmony with one word off. One word off
is Satan's kingdom.
Brother Branham
continues:
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"And it is the only grounds of
fellowship that God has ever laid
down for Himself and His Church, is the oneness of Himself in the
people. That's the only grounds of fellowship. And the only way
that you can have those grounds, is by a union, to be united with
Him forever. Just like when you unite with your
husband, the
woman to unite with her husband, it is a vow until death.
Now,
then when you unite with God, it's the same thing that the church
united with Christ, it's until death we part. And then if
you
never sin or do anything wrong, you'll be Eternally united with
God. And only death can take you away from God, and not physical
death, but the sin of death. Sin is death, and that takes
you
away from God."
So, to be united with
Him in the Spirit of His power, is Eternal
Life, you're Eternally united with God. Oh, I want to get to that
after a bit. United Eternally with the Eternal God, perfectly in
harmony with Him, perfectly united together, a Church that all,
both God and His Church, is one, united together."
I hope you
are understanding what He is saying. If you do not
believe that you are joined together in union with God then there
is a reason for it. One word off. That's all it took to break the
first union. One word off. If you long
to be one with Him, then
how do you become one with God? How do you become joined together
with Him.
Remember our
illustration a few weeks ago about welding two
pieces together to become one. How do you become one with God?
Well, First you must
know Who He is. Who is God<?>
JOHN 1: 1
So how does a man
become one with a woman, His wife? He gives her
His Seed? And then how do we become One with God? By His
Seed.
And If a man passes His seed to His wife, he passes His Life into
her. Then If God puts His seed which is His Life into us, He must
place His Word in us.
EPHESIANS.5:31
For this
cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Now if you decide to spread
your seed around or receive seed from
another, you had better be careful because you can also
become
joined to that someone who is not your wife just as the serpent
became one with Eve and she then received His mindset. She came
under his spell.
I
CORINTHIANS 6:15I
Know
ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I
then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of
an harlot? God forbid. <16> What? know ye not that he which
is
joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one
flesh. <17> But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Now, we see that it is
the seed that joins together. And what is
the seed?
MARK.4:3
Hearken;
Behold, there went out a sower to sow: <4> And it came
to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of
the air came and devoured it up. <5> And some
fell on stony
ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang
up, because it had no depth of earth: <6> But when the sun
was
up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it
withered
away. <7> And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and
choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
MARK.4:13
And he
said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then
will ye know all parables? <14> The sower soweth the word.
So the seed is the
Word.
I PETER 1:22
Seeing
ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that
ye]
love one another with a pure heart fervently: <23> Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
As you can see the
seed you receive all depends upon what source
you are joined to and if you are joined to God you will receive
His Word, then if a human receives seed from a human it
will
reproduce Human, right? Then as it grows it will be human cell
upon human cell upon human cell as it grows up into the image of
the one who's life has quickened it. So then If it is born again
of Incorruptible seed which is the Word of God, then as it grows
into the stature of the Image of It's Father, who is God, who is
the Word, then, it must be Word on top of Word on top of
Word
until we come into the Fullness of the Image which Is Christ The
revealed Word.
I
CORINTHIANS 12:13
For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we
be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been
all made to drink into one Spirit.
EPHESIANS
4:4
[There is]
one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling; <5> One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
<6>
One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all,
and in you all.
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And if you'll notice how that
Eve was united with Adam, she
become part of him. God, did you notice in Genesis
1:27, He
created man male and female, created He them. Now, the man
was
a--a... both male and female when it come to being in the spirit
of feminish and masculine. Then God took from his side a--a rib.
Did you notice the body part was a by-product,
but not the
spirit? The body part of the woman was a by-product, after
the
creation had been finished, God took from the side of Adam a rib
and made a woman. But not the spirit, the spirit was
part of
Adam, for he was both man and woman, fem... spiritually speaking,
both masculine and feminish.
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Now, don't you see
the great picture? We, in flesh, are
different. We're like a by-product, a created being, by
holy
wedlock. But in Spirit we are sons and daughters, not some other
spirit, but the Spirit of the living God. We are in His likeness,
in His unity, in the perfect image of the living God, because we
become sons and daughters. Not separated, but the same
Spirit,
the same God, the same Person, joined in wedlock to the Eternal.
See how God planned it that we should be not a different,
but
Him! Not some other being of some other tribe, but a real union
and offspring of the Almighty, done by a holy union. Now,
the
body comes from mother and father, but the Spirit come from God,
God separating Himself as Adam was separated.
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On the Day of Pentecost, we find the Holy
Spirit, the Pillar of
Fire, separating Itself and setting upon each member of
that
Church, God putting Hisself together! Then with that group
of
people together, what does it do? Brings back the unified Body of
the Lord Jesus. Coming together!
I CORINTHIANS 1:9
God [is]
faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship
of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak
the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but
[that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and
in
the same judgment.
I 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;) <3> That which we have
seen and heard
declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with
us:
and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ. <4> And these things write we unto you, that
your
joy may be full. <5> This then is the message which we have heard
of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all. <6> If we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: <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.