ONENESS # 13
False brethren who crept in unaware
Rev Brian Kocourek
II COR 11: 2- 4
I hope you will put up with a little of my
foolishness; but you are already doing that. 2I 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
prayer
We
see here that Paul was afraid that some other life had become interjected
into the Church here at
In
The book of Galatians, he said, it wasn't exactly
another Gospel, as though it was contrary altogether with a
completely different set of characters etc. But
it was one which was different in nature. It did not
truthfully depict the same thing he was preaching. It caused the people
to rely more upon their own selves than the
promise of God. It was man made and man directed to produce
in man a man made effort. But the Gospel Paul was accustomed to preaching
was one which caused the people to not even focus upon
themselves, but to focus upon the Word of Promise and thus to allow the Word to work in them to do
and to will.
PHIL
PHIL
From
His message entitled THE UNRECOGNIZED PRESENCE,
brother Branham said, " If we could realize that He is APPEARING to
us in these meetings for ONE purpose, and that's to release our desires that
we have in HIM - to us. But we've got to
recognize His Presence."
He
also said in the same message, " Working for this one purpose; for you to
recognize the PRESENCE of Jesus Christ, see? If He is PRESENT then, why,
everything is settled. He made the Word, He's here to confirm it."
Now
that is much different from those men who came into the early church and
brought the people back into a legalism. They got the people
looking back upon the law so much to the place that they even
felt the Gentiles that came into the message of that hour must
first be circumcised in their flesh before they could
be received into the fellowship of the brethren and be accepted.
They
felt that the people had to
embrace Judaism first, then they could come into Jesus message.
I
think that is a little bit like today when
many of the ministers
in this message bring the people back to a form
of Pentecost and sanctification first. The first thing they
point the people to is their own short comings in the
flesh and by pointing us to ourselves first, we are
being directed away from the main focus which would be Christ.
I
believe with all my heart that when a true seed of God comes to this
Word, when he or she hears the VOICE of God, that's all it takes.
The conception begins and from there on it is Word piled upon
Word until the Word of God takes a-hold of every fiber of our
body bringing our body into a conformity with the life that is
growing forth within us.
The
same can be seen in nature, there's no difference. A woman doesn't
go out and work her body into a pregnant looking condition
and then go to her husband to receive the Seed of life. She receives
the seed life first, then that seed life is what pushes
out within her and brings her body into conformity with the
life within her.
And
if the Word of God is presented to the people, and if Christ is given
preeminence, Then His very Life will begin to take over and bring into
manifestation His very nature within the believer. I do not believe that you browbeat
God's children into receiving and believing and living His
Word. In fact in the message THE EASTER SEAL brother Branham said,
"If you were Elected to see it, you
can not help but see it." There's no way you can miss it."
So
you see, if you lay that Word out there, it will do what it is meant to
do, and as you can't get blood from a turnip, neither can you
get the Life and Nature of God out of Someone who isn't seed of God.
For
the last few weeks we have been focusing on the Nature and Characteristics
of God and last week in particular on
both Wednesdays and last Sunday, we brought forth what I feel has been an
ever increasing understanding of God in His
Nature and Attributes and how He displays Himself in His True
nature to us, His own Seed.
We
read from PP. 62 Where brother Branham
said "When Adam and Eve listened to
the lie of the devil, the holy Image of God left them".
Now
in order to understand what he means by this, we must
ask ourselves what the image of God is. For if it
is a physical looks, then how could simply listening to the
devils lie bring on anything. But the scripture tells us in JOHN chapter
1 that God is the Word. " In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God and the Word was God."
Now
if MAL 3:6 and Hebrews 13:8 are correct, then God can
not change. If He was the Word in the beginning, then He must
ever remain the same.
So we
see His image is the Word. And by listening to this lie, it mingled the
devils thoughts with God's own thoughts and that brought
forth death. " One Word off is satan's kingdom."
Now
let's open our bibles to:
HEBREWS 1: 1 - 3 <read> IMAGE = CHARAKTER, the very nature of God The
word character means a distinctive trait, of quality, or attribute; characteristic.
The pattern of behavior or
personality found in the individual. Essential quality; nature, KIND or sort.
And
didn't GENESIS
So
when Adam was created in the IMAGE of God, and God is
the Word, then Adam came forth as a manifestation of
God's Word. Then, when he and Eve listened to the lie of the devil,
it wasn't just a matter of her listening and then going
away, but she entered into that lie and she allowed herself
to receive the seed of the serpent's own life, and that seed was interjected into her
and it produced in her a life that was contrary to God's own Life
from whence she came, a nature that was contrary to God's own
nature, a word which was contrary to God's own word
which said, every seed after it's own kind. So what was produced in her
womb broke the nature and the pattern
of the nature of God in His offspring.
Now
in continuing on in this message of ONENESS we
will pick up at PP. 63
and read. Now, remember and don't forget, brother Branham
is speaking on ONENESS with God. That is his subject for this
entire massage. So everything he is telling us in
this message should be focused
upon this thought and this text.
PP. 63
<read> That is why we take every thing he said back to this
word. To show you from this word, that what he is
teaching you is Word piled upon Word upon Word.
Now
this is where I might differ with some right here. If God's Word
is our absolute, then don't mess with it. If Paul called those
men in his hour false brethren, who did not point
the people directly to the Message of Grace.
Then
are we any different. One Word off is satan's kingdom. It's not
that I have any bone to pick with my brethren.
But God doesn't browbeat his kids. He loves them so much He puts
His own nature in them that causes them out of their own heart to want to obey.
Now if there is nothing in your heart that really wants to obey God's
Word then I would be worried. But It is not for me to get up here
and pick you apart. Because Satan is the accuser of the brethren, not me.
There are literally thousands and hundreds of thousands of people that
claim to believe this Message.
But
Satan believes this message is from God. Why do you think he
attacks it so much.
PP. 64 - 69
<read>"God don't want us smart, He wants
us to lean on His understanding."
Oh, I
wish the people could just receive that one little piece of advise, for it's
THUS SAITH THE LORD!
I've
got a dear friend of mine whom I love very much but he just can't get
this through his head. He's been trying to compete with brother Vayle
as though brother Vayle is trying to compete or something.
This brother who I love very much has a doctorate in theology
from a Southern Baptist University and he told me that brother
Vayle thinks he is the only one who is
capable of bringing out theological concepts and things like that.
Well, he couldn't be any further from the truth.
I
know first hand that Lee wants nothing to do with theology. He simply
has a gift to teach what the Prophet brought
to us. ¨Brother
Branham himself told Lee that they had much in common. And
Lee, said, "like what, we both wear shoes?"
And Brother Branham
told him, "Lee, I have a gift and the people don't want it and
you have a gift to teach and the people don't want it.
E-22 JESUS CHRIST THE SAME
58-0323 " And if there's
anything you lack of understanding, something that you do not
understand, my associate Brother Vayle here, is available at all times to
explain anything that seems mysterious to you ministering
brethren, or wherever you are, or any lay member, anything.
If there's a question, if
we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's not a promise of God
in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and ask us like
brethren. And we ask you to do that. We ask you as our brothers and
sisters to come to us. We want to be servants of Christ. That's
what we represent, the world around."
Yet
brother Branham also told Lee in an audio tape the following.
E-26 AUDIO LETTER TO LEE
VAYLE 64-0500"
See, what I'm confessing to you, Lee, is you know
that I understand and you
understand this position[1].
But I can't tell it to the people. See? And now, you can just make
this if you want to use this. [1]Make
this as yourself talking."
Now
is that theology or is it a gift of God positionally placed in
the church. And the greatest gift is to get ourselves out of the
way. God don't want our ability. We have none. He
doesn't want our theology. He said in Malachi, "All tables are
full of vomit. " So just say, what He said.
Now
I'm not up here to preach Lee Vayle. I love him for what he is
in God's economy. If that was my intention, then I would be found
a false witness of Jesus Christ and I
would not be preaching
Jesus Christ to you. So that is not my intention. But that you
might understand, we are not playing church here and we do not
respect God's ministries just for popularity sake. If we did that
then we would have to go for some else's
ministry because Lee
isn't too popular you know. And neither was brother Branham. And neither
is any true minister of God who preaches the Truth of God without
compromise. In fact Lee told me in 1979 or 1980, he said,
"Kid, stick around me and you won't have any friends." And he was right. I lost many a friend in
this message because I believe this message like brother Vayle, because I feel he
is perhaps the only 5 fold minister that was around brother Branham
that understood this Message with the
exception of brother
Neville and possibly a couple other brothers I know. So, if God gives a
man a job to do, then he had better be doing it, and woe is me if I stand
in his way.
E-69 AUDIO LETTER TO
LEE VAYLE 64-0500 "You know, Lee, even though you think about standing in
front of a person like that, and talking to me in that way. You think that, but you don't.
See, you don't control your own self. See, you can't think at all.
That's the reason you have to get your own thoughts away so
He can put His thinking through you. See? You've got to have
your own thoughts gone. It just registers on your own mind. You
understand, Lee?"
So
in no way will God accept your theology or even your opinion of
this message. One Word off is satan's kingdom. You must stay with
THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now I believe you can put it in your own
words to break it down to the people, but you had better not change the
meaning of it or your gone. God can not use you if you intentionally alter what
He has said. To willfully misquote God's Word or His Prophet puts you in the
tribulation. That's all.
Now
he said in PP. 69, " Don't lean upon your understanding, lean upon His
understanding. No matter how contrary it seems, and how big the
bright lights look out here , don't pay no attention to it. Just lean on
His understanding, what He said is Truth.
PP. 70 - 71 <READ>
ECCL 4: 9 - 12 <read>
And
who is the third cord? Some say children, but that is wrong. Christ is
the Third person in every marriage that tightens the bond of
marriage that can not break.
Now
maybe we should Examine a bit closer what he is saying here about
oneness. Look, even in your home, you can't have a correct oneness
without Christ as the center of your universe. If your home
is without Christ except on church days, you've got a mess on your
hands.
Look,
don't think for one minute because you are in this church or in
this message that your kids will turn out ok. You say, well I apply the token.
Oh,
yeah? How do you apply it. What does it means to apply anything?
WEBSTER : APPLY: to place so as to be touching. Are your kids
being touched by the power of God? What is the Power of God?
The Word, right? So are your kids being touched by the power
of God? If they're not, I wonder if they are being touched
by it. If they're not touched by it then it isn't being applied.
Just because you believe it doesn't mean they do.
WEBSTER
also said to APPLY means to put to some practical
or specific use. It also means to concentrate ( to apply oneself) so do
you concentrate upon this Word of Life? Do your kids see that you
really believe it? Or do your own kids think you are just a hypocrite.
I
would not want to answer on the day of judgment for my kids and find out that
they never received my God and my King because they thought I was only
playing church. But if I am sold out to this Word without question
and I live and brief and this Word is my all and all, then I
believe that will rub off on my kids and as I include them into my
devotions and worship and make an altar in my house, that as the
scripture says, bring them up in the way that they should go and
they will not depart.
Now,
all you have to do is just look at your family. Do
your children have a revelation which can not be removed.
Are they grounded in this Word. Do they dress like a lady
covering their knees when they sit. Some don't even cover their knees
when they stand much less sitting. Look, who are we living for. If
we are
living for our King, then all our thoughts will be Him. All our efforts
will be made to please Him. But if the young ladies can't even wear
the proper attire to cover themselves like a lady
should and if the young men want to still be parading around in shorts,
then I as a parent would ask myself. Am I really applying the token. Are my
kids being touched by this Word. If not, Why? What influence is so
great upon them that this Word is being
smothered out. I'll tell you what it is. Turn with me to
MATT
LUKE 21: 34 - 36
MASORETIC TEXT
" Be careful, or
your hearts will be weighed down by spending too much
time and energy on indulgence and pleasure, like a drunken condition where your thoughts are not correctly focused and the
result is that you will be caught up into worrying about what may happen
and that day will close on you unexpectedly as a trap. For it will come
upon all those who live on the face of the earth. Be always on the watch,
and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen,
and that you may be able to stand before the PRESENCE of The Son of
Man."
PP.
71 - 72 <read>
Now
he didn't say take them to church. That is Good. That is part of it.
But he said what? L.E.A.D. Now what does it mean
to L.E.A.D. ? Glenn? What does it
mean to lead?
WEBSTER:
LEAD: To show the way by going along with. To guide. To mark the way for.
Now
how many of the parents that you know mark out the way for their
kids. Do you stand before them and inspect what they are wearing
to school. Do you mark out who they should and should not associate with.
If you don't you are not leading. I'll give you THUS SAITH
THE PROPHET and Thus IT IS THUS SAITH THE LORD on that.
You
say, that's too old fashioned. God don't change. Only people change.
So what will you have. If the world loves you, you know one thing
for sure. God don't!
"He
<(or she) That generic,> He that loveth the Word
or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in
them."
That's
pretty strong, but that is THUS SAITH THE LORD.
WEBSTER
says of to LEAD: to guide or direct as by persuasion or influence,
to a course of action or thought.
I
challenge you parents this morning. Are you leading? Guiding? Persuading? Or have you given up. Remember, you
are only given these children as stewards of God's heritage. What
you do with
them you ill be judged for. There are no delinquent kids,
only delinquent parents. I hope none of us is in that category.
You
think some of these preachers in this message are going to have
to answer before God for what they have done with the sheep. What about
all the parents who have not made effort to pluck there
children out of the brands of the fire.
I'll
tell you what parenting is. It's a responsibility. It's a challenge.
And it's your duty before God. You had them, your
responsible for them.
Now
some of these kids are becoming young men and young ladies. And
they are at the age where they are beginning to think
in terms of dating. I'm going to tell you one thing. Like I
said, before, My girls may not like it, but I'm responsible. I've
seen young ladies in this message walk around with some
unbelieving boy with their arms around their shoulder. If that were my
daughter, First thing is I'd go directly up to that boy and tell him
to get his filthy paws off my daughter. Next, I'd tell him that if I ever
caught him around my daughter, I'd break every knuckle in his filthy
hands. Next I'd take my daughter out and give her a SON tanning.
That's SON. This son of God would tan her little behind till
she couldn't sit for a week.
That's
the problem with parents today. They grew up listening to Dr. Spoc
instead of to the Word of God that said, "Spare not the rod or you'll
spoil the child."
Who
was this guy dr. spoc anyway? What would they want to listen to a guy
with pointed ears for anyway. Looks like the devil, and talks like him.
Anyway,
you're responsible. My girls know just how I feel, and I am raising
them up to be some Son of God's Wife if the Lord should
tarry. And if He comes soon, then they'll still be The SON of God's Wife, His
bride. Train them up in the way that they will go and they will not
depart. You think we like to put pressure upon ourselves. You think
any mother is thrilled about schooling at home. But I've taught in
the public schools, and I've also seen where the so called Christian
schools are just as worldly.
Look,
the Southern Baptist used to believe in Holiness. Now what have
they produced. A
Now I
am not saying that you have to do what I do, but I do have Word for what
we as a family are doing. But if you do
send your kids into that pack of liberal wolves you had better
be on a constant vigil to protect their little minds
from the pollution and corruption.
I've
seen good kids raised up in this message go away to school ( I'm not
talking about border line kids. I'm talking kids whose parents
were serious about this message, kids I've known for 14 years)
They went away to school and got in the wrong crowd and got
so mixed up they don't know what they believe any more. You wonder
if they even believe their is a God much less believe what he says. One of them
had a child and had to get married.
Why?
Because satan goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
You
parents are responsible. Brother Branham heard one time that some
boys were coming over to his daughter and brother Collins motel
room one night, so he sat in front of their door all night with a
shotgun. Tell me he didn't feel responsible? And
yet parents that say they believe that brother Branham
was God's mouthpiece and they'll let their sons or their
daughters go out with unbelievers?
God
never did forgive the children of
The
devil whispers in your ear and says, oh! Don't hassle
the kid. Again he says, it's too much effort. Just let it
go. But your responsible. regardless of the effort, your
responsible.
Brother
Branham consecrated His home to God. He wanted to keep a certain
atmosphere in His house and when Billy Paul got in his teens
and got rebellious, he wanted to play his rock and roll in the
house. Brother Branham told Him either honor His home
and keep the atmosphere that he wanted or move out. Billy Paul
moved out and years later he said it was the greatest mistake he
ever made in his life.
PP. 73
<read>
pp. 15 - 18 <read>
LET'S
PRAY.