ONENESS # 6
To Believe in Him You must Be IN Him
SEPT. 13, 1992
Brian Kocourek
This morning I would like to pick up where we left off
the last time I spoke to you before going to
24 ONENESS 62-0211 " 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. [1]Believeth
in Me, not on Me, but in Me." Being in
Him, believing![1]
"If ye abide in Me and My Words in you." [1]In Him,
believing[1]!
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.[1]
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.
Now this statement is tremendous in itself. In order
to believe in Him you must be in Him. Until then, you are only believing
on Him.
That is exactly what
I've been saying throughout the first five sermons we have taken from this message ONENESS. I have
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? He's
the Word. Then it must be His Word Life in you. Jesus said, "My
Words are spirit and they are Life."
Now you know that I have taught you for years that you won't
make it in on just a mental conception. You know that is true. But I'm also
telling you that you won't make it in on Word plus. It isn't
the Word plus, it has got to be the Word period. Brother Branham said
from Q & A 8/23/64 " There's only one evidence of the Holy Spirit
that I know of, and that is a genuine faith
in the
promised Word of the hour[1]!
So if God's vindicated Word says, that there is only one evidence, then
anything else is Word Plus.
REVELATION.22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth
the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
REVELATION.22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.
So don't mess with this Word brother or sister. Leave
it as it is. Don't try to make it say something it doesn't
say. That's where people go off. And
remember, one word off and your finished. Your adding to it will put you in
the tribulation, you take from it and your names taken from
the book of Life. God don't want you to mess with His Word.
Keep it just as He said it.
You see, the thing of it is, Where people get so
confused, is that they might look out and see someone sitting in
our midst or in this message that has believed the message for years but
there
seems to be no revival going on in that person. And they want to say we
are all that way. We are not all that way. It'll be in the minority anyhow. But
just because these people might not see any
outward evidence in a persons life they think that nothing
is going on. But brother Branham said, one of these days
there is going to be a resurrection and a change of the
Living and many
people will be surprised as to who makes it and who does
not. Many people who thought for certain that they would
go, won't even be there and many people who you never thought would
make it
will be there. So who are we to judge. "Shall not the Judge
of all the earth do right?"
But we know one thing for sure, You can't
put your trust in anything outside of this
revealed Word of God. No vision, no experience, no
visitation, nothing. Did not our Lord Himself say, " Let every
man's word be a lie but mine be truth saith the Lord."
The only thing you can trust in is "Thus saith the Lord." That's
why brother Branham would always say, "Just say what the tapes
say, don't add to it and don't put your own words to it."
Now follow this through in PP. 25
25 ONENESS 62-0211
"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.
You see what I have been trying to teach you people for the
past few years? The only way you can be one with God is by
His Word coming in and replacing your thoughts with His thoughts.
ONENESS.
Now, let's just turn to the scripture that
Brother Branham is quoting from:
JOHN.15:7
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you."
He said, "If My Word abides in you." Now that answers it all. What
does it mean "If my Word abides in you." What does it
mean to ABIDE ?
ABIDE: MENO; TO DWELL, ENDURE, REMAIN; TO STAY IN A GIVEN
PLACE.
And what is that place? His Word. Brother Branham said
in God's only provided place of Worship that His Word is the
only place where God will meet the believer. Not a vision. But the
Word. Not
and experience. The Word. The Word. The Word. The Word. The Word.
It just slays me when I hear some well
intentioned person say that it is not the Word or
the Message that brings Life but you've got to have an
experience. Brother Branham said, there is no Life outside the
revealed Word. So I don't know what kind of Life he's looking for, but
outside this Word it can not be God's Life.
In fact from the Message "THERE IS A MAN HERE THAT CAN TURN ON THE
LIGHT PP 96
Brother Branham said, "There's nothing, n.o.t.h.i.n.g.
that can give you Life but the spoken Word of God."
I don't care how many times you have a vision or a
visitation or whatever you may have, THUS SAITH THE LORD, "NOTHING
CAN GIVE YOU LIFE OUTSIDE THE SPOKEN WORD." Do you hear me. That is THUS
SAITH THE LORD. Now try and show me contrary to that and your a
false
prophet. And the Bible said they would be so close that if
it were possible it would deceive the very elect. But Praise
God, The Word Bride will spot one Word off. Not Visions, Revelation. Not
Visitations, REVELATION. And a vision is not a revelation. A visitation
is not a revelation.
You want that Assurance:
HEBREWS.10:22
Let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance [1]of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us
hold fast the profession of [our] [1]faith without wavering[1];
<WHY?> (for [1]He
[is] faithfulthat promised;)
Oh, brother, if you can't take God at His Word, your
lost. How can you say that you've Got to see Him and say you won't
see Him in this Word. He is here in the form of the Word. If He wanted us
to see His Body or some other visible manifestation,
then He would be obligated to come that way.
Even Brother Branham said He received the Word by
faith when he was born again. He never had to have a
visitation to be born again and you don't either.
Except to receive the visitation of Christ Revealed in His
Word through His Prophet in this Hour. That's the only visitation
you will need to receive.
Look, Satan appeared visibly as an angel
of light to Martin Luther, while he was preparing one of his
sermons. You know what Martin Luther did? He sure didn't fall
prostrate before this angel of Light. He through his inkwell
at him. Don't, don't, don't fall for this stuff. You've got to trust in God and
His Word. If you don't trust God's Word for your assurance, then it shows
you are none of His. Because that is what sets his seed apart
from all this Pentecostal bate that is going on today. Only His
seed will have total confidence that if God said it then
heaven and earth will pass away before even one jot or tittle
of His Word could fail. It can't fail.
HEBREWS.10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw
back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Believe to the what? The saving of the soul. There you are.
HEBREWS.11:1 Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. Do you believe that?
Faith is what? It's an evidence. You want an evidence. I'll give you the bible evidence. It's
spelled F.A.I.T.H. Is that right?
And what is it the evidence of? THINGS NOT SEEN.
Doesn't the scripture say that "MORE BLESSED ARE THEY
WHICH HAVE NOT SEEN YET BELIEVE?"
Consider yourselves more blessed if you must
believe by Faith only.
But if
you can see it, then it can't be faith right? Then a vision
is not faith. A visitation is not Faith. And if faith is a revelation.
Then to see a vision can not produce a revelation because
to see it cancels out any hope of it being faith.
HEBREWS.11:6 But
without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and [that] he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
So if you got to see it to believe it, what is
that? It won't please Him. You're just doubting Thomas's.
26 ONENESS 62-0211 Now, the Word of God is a
Sword. Hebrews, the 4th chapter, says
so, Hebrews 4:12. Now, it is a Sword. And a sword is
perfect dormant if it isn't yielded by a hand or a power. And it...
but it takes a hand to hold the Sword. And the, take the hand
that
holds this Sword, is the hand of faith.
Now let's just look at this hand of faith. He says
here that it takes a hand of faith to hold the sword of the Word.
Right? And Faith is the evidence of things not seen.
Therefore, it takes
FAITH in the unseen to hold to the Word of God. Right? Then
to see a vision or to hold to needing a special visitation of
your own shows you are in no condition to hold the Word. For it
takes a hand of Faith. F.A.I.T.H. in His Word.
Now let's just stop here for a moment and just think
about this hand of faith. Now why did he say hand. What is there
about the hand that is so fitting about this Faith he is
talking about. What does the hand represent anyway? When you
receive the Mark of God, where
does it mark you. In The forehead and in the hand right?
And the same with the mark of the beast, right? So t have
the faith just in the forehead doesn't show yet a real belief and trust.
But the hand is a sign that the actions bare witness of what
is revealed in the mind which is the womb to the soul. And
before it can move into the hand, it must first drop from
the head down into the heart and then out into the hand. Right?
As brother Branham so often said, When the spirit
quickens that Word to you it drops down from the mind into
the soul, or the heart and it then becomes a spiritual
revelation. As long as it is only in the mind, it is doing you no
good. But when it drops down into your soul or heart and then moves
out into your body, then in the hands it becomes a revelation
breaking forth into manifestation. There you are. That's why the
hand is so important in this illustration. It is the hand of faith.
The hand shows that the revelation is moving out into manifestation
showing that it is alive and well in you. And showing that you and that
Word have become One. ONENESS. That's what we are studying.
27 ONENESS 62-0211 Now that hand of faith, it depends on how strong it
is. This hand of faith might just be strong enough to cut a
little hole through the darkness and say, "By
faith I'm saved." That's a great cut, but, then, if
that's all the stronger that hand is to yield that Sword, that's
all it can cut. But, if it's a strong-hand, it'll cut plumb
through everything the Devil can put out there, make every promise
of God shine forth in the power of His resurrection. If it's
a strong hand of faith, "The days of miracles!
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever", cut its
way through. It depends on the power of the hand behind the Sword.
Now remember one thing here lest you become
carried away. The Scripture plainly tells us , that it
IS NOT BY POWER, NOR BY STRENGTH, BUT BY MY SPIRIT SAITH THE
LORD."
So we must not think that this power is our ability to
handle the Word, but simply we have gotten our own thinking out of the
way and He is now in full control of our mental revelation
and has dropped it down into our soul to where it has caught on
fire and has begun to consume us as nothing else can. Nothing has
got a hold of me like this Word does. Everything is boring, but
this is LIFE.
Now brother Branham said, that hand is a strong
hand. It is a hand of POWER. So who' hand is it?
MATTHEW.26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I
say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting
on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
So who is the right hand of power. God!
The whole thing is in Him. It's not by might nor by power
but by My Spirit Saith the Lord. It's not your bulldog faith. It's
His Faith. Paul said, I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live,
Yet Not I but Christ That liveth in me and the life that I
now live, I live by the Faith [1]of[1]
The Son of God."
You see? It must be wielded by a strong hand of faith. And
therefore it must be His hand of faith living itself out through
me, through you. Now that doesn't mean it is me or you, but Christ in
me and Christ in you.
COLOSSIANS.3:4 "When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then
shall ye also appear with him in glory."
He is our life, and it's by His revelation of
Himself that we live by. His Life! His Revelation,! His
Faith! His Spirit! His Word! He is the all and all. The Lilly of
the Valley, The Bright and Morning Star. The Rose of Sharon my all and
all.
Song ( He's all I need, He's all I need. Jesus is all I
need)
I PETER 5:6 "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that
he may exalt you in due time: "
ECCLESIASTES 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all
this, that the Righteous, and the Wise, and their works, are
in the hand of GOD:
ECCLESIASTES 10:2 "A Wise man's heart is at His right hand; but a fool's heart
at
his left;"
And where you treasure is, there will your heart be also.
David said, in the PSALMS,
PSALMS 16:8 " I
have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right
hand, I shall not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my
glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt
not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of
life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there
are] pleasures for evermore.
28 ONENESS 62-0211 And the Sword is plenty sharp. Hebrews 4, said,
"It's sharper than a two-edged sword that cuts both coming and
going, and even goes to the--the marrow of the bone, and in
the joints, and a discerner of the thoughts
of the heart." Goes beyond the physical,
it goes into the spiritual realm and picks up
the thoughts of the heart and reveals them. The Spirit of
God, the Word of God.
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ONENESS -- JEFF.IN -- V-10 N-2 -- 62-0211
Now,
that Word will cut in there if there's enough arm behind It to push
It in, it'll find Its place and cut every promise out and give It to you,
if you just got the strong enough arm behind
it. The Sword, pick It up in an arm--an arm of faith! Grip
It tight, hold onto It and walk into the face of the enemy. How can
that uncircumcised enemy ever stand in the
Presence of the
Eternal God? So, you take the Sword of the Word,
and every promise belongs to you. Pick It up in a
strong hand of faith, walk forward! If you need healing,
cut it out with the Word, "Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, today, and forever." If you need salvation, every
promise in the Bible is yours. It's laying back in there and
Satan's trying to hide it, but take the Sword
and push through the darkness until the Light of God shines
in upon your soul and you have the promise. He will do it.
Notice, He says, How can that uncircumcised enemy ever
stand in the Presence of the Eternal God? How, By wielding with the
hand of Faith, Christ's
Faith, the Word of God. God is the Word. So
you are wielding God, and the Power of God as ROMANS 1: 16 say, "the
Gospel of Christ is the POWER of GOD." So then it is
His Faith wielding His Power of His PRESENCE on your
behalf. And Since you are abiding in Him and He, His Word in you,
then it's not you asking, it's Him asking for you.
JOHN.15:7 "If
ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,"What will
happen? " ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall bedone unto you."
Then it's not you asking, but it's Him asking through
you. You want wife and your kids saved? Ask and ye shall receive.
30 ONENESS 62-0211 "Adam was a part of, or, Eve was a part of Adam, she was
flesh
of his flesh and bone of his bone. And that's what the
correct union is. And that's what the correct union of the
Church is, Spirit of His Spirit, Word of His Words. Never deviating
from the
Word, the real true believer will not compromise on any
Word. Remember, it was just one Word that Eve compromised on, one Word. But
the true believer won't compromise on any Word. It'll hold the
Sword of the Faith with... in faith, rather, the Sword of the Word, and claim
every Divine promise God made. That's it."
A vision can't give you that promise. A Visitation can
not give you that promise. But THUS SAITH THE LORD. The just shall live
by faith. To Live by faith is to use the hand of faith which is to apply
the token. How do you apply paint. You roll it on the wall right? With
what do you roll it with? Your hands.
Then how do you apply the token? You use the Hand of faith
which is His hand of power, the mighty hand of God:
I PETER 5:6 "Humble
yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that
he may exalt you in due time: "
II CORINTHIANS 5:7 ("
For we walk by faith, not by sight:" )
HEBREWS.13:7 Remember
them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto
you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their]
conversation.
HEBREWS.13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give
account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that
[is] unprofitable for you.
LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS IN PRAYER.