ONENESS # 12
Not Recognizing the Awakening of the Bride
Rev. Brian Kocourek
1 JOHN 3: 1 - 10 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.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.3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin (Does not habitually keep on sinning).; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
PRAYER
Notice verse verse 8 again:
<In the Wuest translation> The one who is
habitually committing sin is out of the devil as a source because
from The beginning the devil has been habitually sinning.
Notice verse 9:
Now in
utilizing this scripture for our text, we shall
move further in the Message ONENESS and examine the
Word and the Message in light of this TEXT. We know that
satan ithe accuser of the brethren and he is like a roaring lion seeking
whom he may devour. So as we have read from God's Holy and
UN-adulterated Word, we see that He that is God's Seed Germ cannot
habitually continue in sin or unbelief because God's Seed Germ abides in
You and greater is He that is in you than He that is in the World.
Now with
this in mind let's move into our message #
12 of ONENESS.
Last Sunday we examined
the thought that brother Branham laid out for us when he said,
She thought, because it
was presented to her, it looked so real. Oh, don't fail to
get this. It looked so real, something that could be added to
what God said. It looked like that she'd have something that God hadn't
told her just how far she could go. God hadn't give her the boundary
line like He set the sea and it cannot pass because the moon
watches it. She thought that Satan had something on the ball, as we say, that
she could still be in union with God, and yet be
smarter, she would have a better education. But God had given
her just exactly what she had need of.
He said, God had given
her just exactly what she had need of and yet she thought that there had
to be something more, because she felt something was missing. She
thought perhaps that there was something that God had
withheld from her, so when this guy came along, the Serpent, Satan
incarnate, he came along and worked on this feeling that she had.
You know I hear
that so much when I talk to people around this message. Every
one feels like there must be something missing. Something's
still got to happen.
Why do they
look for something more? Why would we look beyond " Thus saith
the Lord."
It reminds me of what
brother Branham used to say about old Jack Moore, a real godly
brother who loved brother Branham with all his heart but
never understood what brother Branham's ministry was all
about. He was the brother who wrote the
magazine, "The
Herald of His Coming."
Brother Branham said in
the message RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY AND IT"S
MESSAGE PP. 82 " Everywhere now there's no
revival. Everybody's complaining, ministers crying. I
was reading one of the outstanding papers that comes here to the
church, a very fine paper. And I know the editor, and I know
the people. And they're godly people, very fine, Brother and Sister
Moore, of the Herald of His Coming, one of the finest papers on the
field, Herald of His Coming. But they hardly will print anything unless it's
about, "Fast, pray, fast, pray! Sound a trumpet! Get..."
How many reads it? You know, you see it all the time.
"Fast, pray, fast, pray!" That's all you hear.
"Fast, pray! We're going to have a great breaking of the
day! There's a great thing going to happen! All of you
pray, pray, pray! We're not too late yet!"
Now, before
we go any further, you are probably at this point saying
in your heart, "what is so wrong with that!"
You look around and you see the condition of the people and you
even look at your condition and you say, "we
need more than what we got now, because just look at our
condition." And yet listen with me as I read what brother Branham said
about this very same thought.
" But they hardly will print anything unless it's about,
"Fast, pray, fast, pray! Sound a trumpet! Get..." How many
reads it? You know, you see it all the time. "Fast, pray, fast,
pray!" That's all you hear. "Fast, pray! We're going to
have a great breaking of the day! There's a great thing going
to happen! All of you pray, pray, pray! We're not too late
yet!"
83 RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY
64-0726 " Why do they do that? Why do they
do that? They want a great awakening. They're crying, believing
that there will be awakened. They're good people. Why is it? What have they
done?"
Now here is the real
question? He doesn't say what has God done, or what is supposed to
be going on, but he says, what have they done? Let's listen to his
answer.
" They have not recognized the awakening of the Bride.
See? By being a Christian they feel the pull of
the hour, but they haven't recognized what's been
done. That's what's making them feel that way. They
know something is supposed to happen; but see, they are looking for
it way off in the future to come, when it's already happened right by
you.
Oh, my! Look at what he
is saying here. He says to feel the pull of the hour is good, but unless
you have recognized the awakening of the Bride, and what has
already been done, you're going to miss it altogether. He
says, that is why they feel that way.
He said, "
They have not recognized the awakening of the Bride. See? By
being a Christian they feel the pull of the hour, but they
haven't recognized what's been done. That's what's making
them feel that way. They know something is supposed to
happen; but see, they are looking for it way off in the future to
come, when it's already happened right by you.
He goes on to say:
84 RECOGNIZING YOUR
DAY 64-0726.1M That's the same thing they did in the old
days. They was believing in a coming Messiah. They
believed that there'd be a forerunner come. But it was right on
them and they didn't know it. They didn't recognize it. They
believed there would come a forerunner that would forerun the
Messiah. And they cut his head off and killed their Messiah,
because it was prophesied that they'd be blinded. Hosea said
so.
Now this is the
reason why I have been preaching the way I have for the past number of
years. That is why I try to bring the Word of God to you as present tense
as I know how to do and by God's Grace He allows me to do.
Brother, Sister,
That is how people are missing this great move of God today. They feel
the tug in their heart to get right with God because they
feel the pull of the hour and they know His second coming is
imminent, so they begin to fear and get uptight and feel that somehow
they just won't be ready.
But I tell you when you
start to feeling that way, it's just the same old Devil that
worked on Eve and got her to feeling like there certainly
had to be more than what God head given her, after all
why would she feel the way she did if it wasn't true?
Now, I would like
to ask you to be honest in your hearts before God, this morning. How many
in here have felt that same burden or heaviness in your soul that I speak of
here. How many of you have this feeling that keeps coming back to you that says
there's got to be something more than what we
have right now. I'm not satisfied. I'm longing in my heart to see all my wrongs
righted, and all my faults corrected.
Now, do you know
why you have this feeling in your heart, and I know what this
feeling is because I have felt this tug and pull too. But it never comes
when you are in the present condition of being caught up into Him
through His Word. When the stimulation that comes by revelation is
upon you, you never feel that way. It is only when you
have been looking at yourself and all the conditions around you
that you begin to feel that way.
So, then what brings on that depressed feeling? It's not
God! He's not the author of confusion.
24-8 REPROACH FOR THE WORD 62-1223 Man are
always the same as ever. Now, I'm going to say something
again, and I want you... and I don't know whether
it's being taped or not, but if it is on tape, I want you to listen at
me--you on the tape. Don't you miss it! But study it! Man, now, is
like he's always been. He's praising God for what He's done,
looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He has done and is
doing. He praises God for what He has done; He
looks forward to what He will do; but he ignores what God's
a-doing, and there he misses the whole thing! Hope they get it.
Ignoring what He is doing. He knows what He has done, and he
knows the promise what He will do, but he fails to see what He's
doing.
Notice what brother
Branham said here, " he ignores what God's a-doing, and there he misses
the whole thing!
Now, I've looked up this
prefix "a" that brother Branham seems to use so often. He
says, a-vindicated, and a-doing etc. The "a" prefix is not just some
hillbilly
So here he says, they
ignore what God's "a-doing", or what He is in the act or state
of doing. And by ignoring what God is doing, they actually miss out on
what He is doing it for.
53 JUST ONE MORE TIME
LORD 63-0120
And that's just about the way man is, as I said here
sometime ago. Man is always thinking back what
God did, and looking forward to what God will do, but
ignoring what God is doing. See? Look what He's doing now! We know
what He has done. And He's sending to us and trying to stir
us up again, trying to bring us back to the path to His Word, and proving
It by His a-vindicated Word. And we just sit, sleep, go home, say,
"What did he say? I hate to go hear them carry on so long."
Now that I've got
your attention, let's move a bit further into this Message of
ONENESS that we've been speaking from for 12 weeks now. Now
pay close attention to what he says here.
62 ONENESS 62-0211 Now, when Adam and Eve listened to the
lie of the Devil, the holy image of God left them, their
fellowship was broken with God. Their fellowship of oneness
with God was broken. The very minute they listened to the lie
of the Devil, that broke their fellowship. And the very minute that
you listen to the lie of the Devil, it'll break your fellowship. That's
the very minute that you go out from the Presence of God,[1]
like she did, is when you failed to take God's Word just as It is.
There you are.
When you fail to take God's Word just as it is. Can't you see
the importance of believing God and taking Him at His Word? Don't
add to and don't take from it, just say what He said. Believe what He
said and live what He said.
Now for the next few
minutes I want to focus down on one thought that brother Branham says,
here...Now, when Adam and Eve listened to the lie of the Devil, the holy
image of God left them, their fellowship was broken with God.
There you are.
What have I been teaching you for the past year plus. The
image of God you come into is all dependent on your coming into
God's Word and reflecting that Word.
Notice what he said,
"Now, when Adam and Eve listened to the lie of the Devil, the
holy image of God left them, their fellowship was broken with God.
So, as we read from 2
Cor 11: 2 last week where Paul said, I have presented you as a chaste
Virgin to Christ to be His Bride. He was saying that He was
presenting to Christ an Elect Lady who had no admixture of anything outside the
Word. In other words, he was presenting a Bride who was Word piled upon Word
upon Word and one who had known no other man's seed, but Christ's Word seed.
1 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.
Now we see this in
MATTHEW 13 and MARK 4 the parable of the SEED.
MARK 4: 2 - 25 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered
unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea;
and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.2 And
he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,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.8 And other fell on good ground, and did
yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some
sixty, and some an hundred.9 And he said unto them,
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.10 And when
he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the
parable.11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is
given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are
without, all these things are done in parables:12 That
seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not
understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins
should be forgiven them.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.15 And these are they by the
way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh
immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.16 And
these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have
heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;17 And
have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when
affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are
offended.18 And these are they which are sown
among thorns; such as hear the word,19 And the
cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other
things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.20 And
these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and
receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an
hundred.21 And he said unto them, Is a candle
brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a
candlestick?22 For there is nothing hid, which
shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should
come abroad.23 If any man have ears to hear, let
him hear.24 And he said unto them, Take heed what
ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you
that hear shall more be given.25 For he that hath,
to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that
which he hath.
MATT 13: 36 -
43 36 Then Jesus
sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto
him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.37 He
answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;38 The
field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the
tares are the children of the wicked one;39 The
enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and
the reapers are the angels.40 As therefore the
tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this
world.41 The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;42 And shall cast them into
a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.43 Then
shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who
hath ears to hear, let him hear.
2 COR 11: 2 –
4 I am jealous for you with a godly
jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you
as a pure virgin to him. 3But I am afraid that just as Eve was
deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from
your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4For if someone comes to
you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a
different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one
you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Paul wanted to
present Christ with a pure un-adulterated Word Bride, but
before he could do so, he found that there were some who came
in a preached another seed. Another Jesus,
another spirit and another Gospel. As he said in GAL 1: 6 - 7 He said
it
was not actually another Gospel they were preaching, but one that was perverted
because it was of another nature. The word another here is the Greek word
heteros.
There are
two words used in the New Testament for the
word another: Allos and
Heteros. Allos expresses a numerical difference and denotes another of
the same sort. It is used when Christ promised to send another
comforter, another like Himself. But Heteros refers to a difference
in nature.
ROM
ACTS 7:
17 - 19
"As the time drew near for God to
fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt greatly
increased. 18Then another king, who knew nothing about Joseph,
became ruler of Egypt. 19He dealt treacherously with our people and
oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so
that they would die. This shows that this other king
had a completely different nature and character toward God's
people.
Now this is
where I am trying to get you to see. We just read brother
Branham say, that when they listened to the lie of the devil,
the holy image of God left them.
Why? Because
they received another seed. One that was of
a different nature.
Now you say
well, I can see where Eve received death into her body
because she received the serpents seed into her body, but how
is it that Adam received death into His body.
He never received the
serpents seed into His body? But he did receive the serpents aids virus in a way. His body
was programmed in his DNA to never die or wear out right? So
what infected his body to cause him to die?
Satan's germ of unbelief. Now it may have incubated in
his body for hundreds of years, but it finally got him, Right? what
is AIDS. It is Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome.
How did he acquire
death in his body. Contact. From then on man needed healing, and that is
how death entered in. Alpha is Omega. We are back to the beginning.
Do you
realize that science has proven that when you have sex with a
person, you are actually having it with every person your partner has had
it with for the last 10 to 15 years?
You kids better be
keeping yourself clean and chaste. If you go outside this Word, you'll
die.
You have sex
outside of marriage, even kissing will spread the others
germs into your body. Aids is known to be found in any
body liquid. And saliva is a body liquid. The aids virus
takes
over every fiber of your body. And so does the Word. So aids is a perversion
of God's Word. It works into the DNA structure which is in every
cell of your body and turns your bodies natural laws of healing
against itself. It's in the tears, in the mucus, in the saliva.
You say, there's no harm
in kissing a boy. Are you willing to bet your life on it? Because that's what
you'll be doing.
Look, What if he's had
sex in any form, kissing or otherwise with any other person. When you
kiss him, you've picked up the germs in his body. Now if he has had
it with say, 10 girls, and they have had it with 10 boys, and those
10 boys had it with 10 girls, and those had it with 10 boys, do you
realize that you have now come in contact with 1,000,000 people
through the cesspool that is within that boy.
I believe that the
majority of this nation have aids and don't even know it. It
has a 15 year incubation period and it mutates so fast that testing for
it can not always detect it.
So, flee into Christ and
away from the world.
Now, getting back to our
thought here on the IMAGE that left Adam and Eve.
Now what image was that,
might I ask. The word IMAGE according to Webster : 1) a
copy 2) the visual impression of something
produced by reflection 3) a person or thing very
much like
another; copy; counterpart;
likeness 4) a type 5) to picture in the mind.
Now Adam was a type of
Christ but fell from that type by allowing Himself to sin willingly. He knew
better, yet he did it anyway in order to save His Bride. And Jesus became a
curse, "Cursed is He that hangeth on a tree." He
became a curse that we His Bride might not be separated from
Him. Just like Adam who typed Christ.
But when Adam
listened to the Devils lie, the Holy Image of God left them.
Now let's go
to the scripture and see for ourselves what this Image of God is
that left them. First of all let's see what this Image is.
HEB 1: 1 - 3 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at
many times and in various ways, 2but in these last days he has
spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom
he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God's glory and
the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful
word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty in heaven. Image =
charakter = an engraving instrument. A
distinctive mark, trait, quality or attribute; characteristic. Essential
quality; nature or pattern of behavior.
Oh, how beautiful.
Remember what we've been studying on Wednesday night for the past 2 weeks?
Looking at the nature of God and how He operates. Well, there you are.
Jesus Christ
is the very essentiality of God. The very innate nature of
God was impressed into Him.
Did you know that this
is the only place in the entire scripture that the word character is
used? No other place in the old testament or new. Look it up. Now some of the
other translation might
swap experience with the word character, but experience doesn't
produce character, it only molds the character that is
already there by nature.
"Jesus
learned obedience by the things that He suffered."
The suffering didn't produce His nature, it just reinforced
it. It gave substance to what was already in Him by His nature.
So what is in you by the
new birth is God's own Germ of Life and His nature will come forth
and reflect His own Character. Your trials are only a test to prove
that what is in you is His nature
and that is why many times you simply are amazed at
how you handled a situation that maybe a year before
you would simply have blown.
JOHN
MATT 17: 1 - 8 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother
of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2There he
was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes
became as white as the light. 3Just then there appeared before them
Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. 4Peter said to Jesus,
"Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three
shelters--one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 5While
he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the
cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.
Listen to him!" 6When the disciples heard this, they fell
facedown to the ground, terrified. 7But Jesus came and touched them.
"Get up," he said. "Don't be afraid." 8When they
looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
In Whom I am well
pleased. Or rather, This is my beloved
son in whom I am pleased to dwell in.