Oneness no 5

ONENESS # 5

Oneness by Seed

AUGUST 30, 1992

Brian Kocourek

JOHN.17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the

world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name
those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are].

PRAYER

This morning I would like to examine further this thought we
picked up on last week in reading PP. 17 - 21. But instead of
reading right through, I think it would be better if we should
read it a bit more slowly, to savor the juices so to speak. So
let's begin at PP. 17 and read.

17 ONENESS 62-0211

" 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 17:11, Jesus prayed that the Church
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, I would like to break this down a bit, point by point. So
point number One, is this: Brother Branham's hope was the same as
Jesus expressed in His prayer; He wanted the Church or His Body
of Believers, The Elect, to be ONE together with each other. Now,
that is point number ONE, Do you agree.

So we must then ask ourselves this simple question. How can the
Bride of Christ, God's Elect be one together. What will bring her
together in a real ONENESS, A ONENESS that she is lacking even as
we read these Words today. Now, remember, ONENESS means the
quality or state of being ONE. So we must ask ourselves what it
means to be ONE: simply put, it is being a single unit, not two
or more and characterized by unity, undivided. In fact VINE's
says: A single, (One) to the "exclusion" of others.

Now, how could we have this ONENESS since we are many
individuals who are as different one from another as snowflakes.
No two individuals is exactly alike. And yet Jesus prayed here in
JOHN 17:11 that we might all be ONE.

Now, I would like you to hold that thought for a while as we
examine point number two which is this: He prayed that this
ONENESS of the people together would be the same ONENESS, that He
had with His Father.

So we see that in order for the Elect to have this ONENESS
together, to actually become one unit, a single Unit, exclusive
of others, there is a prerequisite. It must be the same ONENESS
that He had with the Father. So in order to find out what will
bring us together in such a harmony as to become ONE, we must
know what brought Jesus and the Father together as ONE. What made
Jesus and the Father One. Now that could take us light years to
answer because we would have to touch on each and every attribute
that God possesses because all that He was He poured into Christ
Jesus the Lord.

So instead of taking on a task that would perhaps take us into
Eternity, let's just ask the same question in another way to get
the same result. You know in math, when you have many digit
multiplication or divisions to perform, it could take you for
ever to find the right answer and then to check out your answer
to see if it is true. So the great mathematicians came up with a
quick way of proofing your answer and they called it
canceling out nines. I'll explain it at our fellowship picnic
this afternoon for you students who are curious and would
like to save time in your math problems. But to make a point,
when the problem is so exhaustive, it is good to have a time
saver available.

So maybe instead of asking what is the same about Jesus and the
Father, we should ask the question in another way, such as, what
is different between Jesus and the Father. Kind of like canceling
out nines. If we know what is different, then we know that every
thing else is the same, Right?

So, what is the difference between the Father and Jesus? One
Thing. The Body. The body is what made Him man. Yet The fullness
of the Father dwelt in that Body, making Him God manifested in
flesh. But God Himself is Spirit and they that Worship Him must
worship Him in Spirit and Truth. That's what Jesus said.

So Point number three is this: The Oneness of the people together
can only come by the Father coming into each ONE of them as He
came into Jesus. Outside of this there will never be ONENESS.
That is why He said, "At that day ye shall know that I am in the
Father, And the Father in Me, I in you and You in Me."

And as I said, last week: You can not have the same exact
mindset unless you have the same exact mind. And how can you have
the same mind if you don't have the same physical makeup in the
brain. In other words, the same mass, the same chemistry, the
same attributes and characteristics and everything. Then you can
insure that you will have the same mindset. You see it takes the
gene of God in you to be able to think as He thinks. You've got
to be His seed, His offspring in order to come into His image. No
matter how hard Stephen Gray tried, He'll never come into my
image because he is not my son. He's Steve's son. Therefore, He
will come into Steve's image. You see? Notice how Brother Branham
brings this out Himself.

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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."

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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."

Now, before we go any further, let's just dig into this thought
here. I don't want you to forget one important thing. If we are
God's offspring, His seed, we are part of Him, Right? And What is
He? <John 1: 1> He is the Word. And when we are born again it is
the Word, God Himself, that does the begetting. You didn't have
one thing to do with you natural birth, did you? How many of you
pressured your dad to get with it and start the process of your
natural birth? Sound ridiculous doesn't it? Then why do you think
that there is anything you have to do with your spiritual birth.

I PETER 1:22 - 23

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.

So it is the Word of God that causes us to be born again, right?

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

So who does the begetting? God , The Word, Himself!

Now, remember, brother Branham said in the flesh we are
different, but in the Spirit we are to be the same. So how do our
spirit's all become the same. Didn't Jesus pray that we would all
be the same as He and the Father were the same. And Even we and
the Father are to be the same as He and the Father are the same.
All in One. Right? So How did God accomplish this.

Well, if you follow Jesus entire prayer in JOHN 17 you will find
the answer.

JOHN.17:1 - 2

" These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy
Son also may glorify thee: <2> As thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou
hast given him."

Look at the responsibility Jesus had. To give forth Eternal Life
to all those that The Father had given Him.

JOHN.17:3

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Now what is Eternal Life, The revelation of the LIFE. Ginosko,
to know Him in a personal and intimate way. Remember, Mary used
this word GINOSKO when she made reference to not having received
seed by any man. So GINOSKO makes reference to an intimate Life
giving relationship, which is what Revelation is all about.
Tapping into the Life blood of God Himself.

JOHN.17:4

" I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work
which thou gavest me to do. <5> And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was.

Now, stop just a moment and ask. What work did He finish. He at
this point had not been crucified, right? So he can't be speaking
of the crucifixion then right? So what other work did He come to
do before His crucifixion? What did He finish in that hour.

JOHN.17:6

" I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me
out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and
they have kept thy word."

So we see the work that He finished had something to do with
Manifesting His Father's name before men and their responding by
keeping the Father's Word.

Why did these that He is speaking of Keep the Fathers Word?

JOHN.17:7

" Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given
me are of thee."

JOHN.17:8

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and
they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out
from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

JOHN.17:9

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
thou hast given me; for they are thine.

JOHN.17:10

And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in
them.

Now, I would like to stop here and reflect upon these great and
notable Words of Jesus here. How many believe these Words of
Jesus were infallible? Now, by the sound of His prayer here, it
really sounds like the brethren that He is speaking to the Father
about in prayer, were sold out to His Word, or shall we say the
Father's Word. Live, die, sink or swim they were sold out, right?

Well? Before, we go further into this prayer, let's just see
what kind of condition these great warriors of the faith were in.
Shortly after He spoke these Words while praying to His Father He

entered into Gethsemanae. Notice how Jesus was extolling these
whom the Father had given to Him and How they believed and had
received the Fathers Word. But let's see now what strength and
virtue these men displayed themselves.

MARK.14:37

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter,
Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

Real heroes of the faith, right?

MARK.14:38

"Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit
truly [is] ready, but the flesh [is] weak."

Boy, if that isn't an understatement. Not only of them, but what
about us. Alpha is Omega. Right?

MARK.14:39

And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.

MARK.14:40

And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes
were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. <41> And he
cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and
take [your] rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son
of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

So let's go back to His prayer to the Father about this ONENESS
we are studying.

JOHN.17:11

"And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name
those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are].

JOHN.17:12

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gavest me I have kept, ( who kept them?) and none
of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture
might be fulfilled.

JOHN.17:13

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

So how will His joy be fulfilled in them? Keep listening to His
prayer.

JOHN.17:14

" I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Notice, I have given them THY Word! That's why the world hates
them.

Now, we are speaking of ONENESS. He's praying of ONENESS.

JOHN.17:15

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. <16> They are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. <17> Sanctify them
through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Now, Jesus knew that they still needed cleansing, and He knew
the way of cleansing must come by the Word. God's revealed Word.

JOHN.17:18

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. <19> And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

As you sent me so send I these into the world? For what Purpose?
To spread the Fathers Word! and notice, what brings the ONENESS?
The Fathers Word which is Life, which is a seed, which brings
forth Life giving Revelation.

JOHN 17: 20

" Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; <21> That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."

JOHN.17:22

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they
may be one, even as we are one:

And how was He and the Father ONE? " In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God, and the
Word was made flesh.

JOHN.17:23

" I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast
loved them, as thou hast loved me."

And what brings forth this love into manifestation? The Word
only!

JOHN.17:24

"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with
me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast
given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
<25> O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I
have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
<26> And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare
[it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them,
and I in them.

JOHN.18:1

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his
disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the
which he entered, and his disciples.

So we see that even though Jesus spoke of a finished Work in
those who had followed Him and had believed on Him through the
Father's Word, yet we see that it had not yet fully manifested
itself through them.

Now the only way I know to reconcile this thought is to liken it
to a husband who basically has finished His Work once the seed
has been transmitted to His wife. What else can He do
except trust in the natural laws of reproduction as God set them
in order back in the beginning. He then can do one thing and that
is to rest in the laws of reproduction. God said it, it's got to
happen.

Now, I don't know about you, but this example of Jesus praying
for these men gives me great consolation for myself. He believed
they were ONE and He believed that they had not only received the
Fathers Word but He Himself was resting in the finished Work
knowing the seed had been planted and it was just a matter of
time for it to begin manifesting.

Notice how everything Jesus pointed to in regards to this
ONENESS that He had with the Father and we with Him and we also
with the Father all had to do with the receiving and believing of
the Father's Word. That's why I keep telling you, don't look for
anything outside this Word, because you will only be led astray

and disappointed.

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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!

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And today in this great separation that we are living in,
denominational differences and things, what a pity, what a
disgrace!

Brother, the only differences you are entitled to have with your
brother are those things pertaining to this flesh. Anything
pertaining to this Word we had better have the Mind of The Father
or we are lost.

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Joined in Heavenly wedlock to the Eternal God, part of Him,
part of God. In flesh I become Branham because of my father,
Branham. You become part of your father and mother, but in spirit
we become in union with God, is part of God. That's the reason
that the spirit cannot die. "He that believeth on Me has
everlasting Life. And in the image that he is here on earth, and
in his likeness, I will raise him up in the last days." Not a
spirit being, for we will have a body like God's glorious Body,
the glorified Body of the Lord Jesus, raised up in That Image.

You see what I have been saying for years. We may have
difference over personalities, but we had better not differ over
this Word. I don't want my opinion, and I don't want your
opinion. I want God's Opinion and that only.

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" Jesus said, going to the grave of Lazarus, "I am the
resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he be

dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me
shall never die. Believeth in Me, not on Me, but in Me." Being in
Him, believing! "If ye abide in Me and My Words in you." In Him,
believing! Oh, my! I hope the Holy Spirit gets that right down to
you.

Now, you're the little flock, that's why through the week,
praying and asking God, I chose this text, to show you where we
stand. Believing in Him. You cannot believe in Him until you come
in Him, or, He comes in you, then you're believing in Him, then
you have Eternal Life. You're believing on Him until you receive
Eternal Life, then Eternal Life is God's Life in you, then you're
believing in Him."

That is exactly what I've been saying throughout the first five
sermons we have taken from this message ONENESS. I told you all
along that brother Branham is telling us we can not have ONENESS
with God unless we are a part of God. That Seed, which is His
Word, must be in you. Nothing else will do. I don't care who
comes to you and tells you different. Paul said, "If I or an
angel from heaven come and preach any other thing than what I
have already preached, let him be accursed."

Brother Branham said, " You cannot believe in Him until you come
in Him, or, He comes in you, then you're believing in Him, then
you have Eternal Life. You're believing on Him until you receive
Eternal Life, then Eternal Life is God's Life in you, then you're
believing in Him."

And Who is God? The Word. Then it must be Word Life in you.
Jesus said, "My Words are spirit and they are Life."

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"Ye in Me, I in you. That they might be one, Father, even as
You and I are one." God in Christ, Christ in the Church. See?
"Just as we are one, so they be One." Then how can you be one?
"If ye abide in Me, My Words in you." See, abide! "My Words in
you, then ask what you will." For it isn't you no more, it's the
Word that's in you, and the Word is God."

LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS WITH THIS THOUGHT IN OUR MIND AND PRAY.