ONENESS # 12

Not Recognizing the Awakening of the Bride

Oct 18, 1992

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: WEYMOUTH 1 JOHN 3: 9 " No one who is a child  of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in  Him,  and He cannot habitually sin-because he is a  child  of God."

 

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 Kentucky slang. But  according to  Webster it is a prefix that means in the act or state of.  So it  actually means a present tense happening. Something  that  is happening at this very moment. Something that is ongoing.

 

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 2: 22 - 23 22You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?  Notice that this other law is different  in nature  and even wars against God's nature that is in us  by  the new birth.

 

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 1:32 - 34  32Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' 34I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God."

 

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.