ONENESS # 14
Broken Oneness Broken Fellowship
Rev Brian Kocourek
Last week we
spoke from PP. 62 - 73. We began in
review as we always do. This time we reviewed PP. 62
where brother Branham said,
There are
five points that brother Branham makes here in this
paragraph, and we shall briefly cover them this morning.
62 ONENESS 62-0211 Now, (1) when Adam and Eve listened to
the lie of the Devil, the holy image of God left them, (2) their
fellowship was broken with God. Their fellowship of
oneness with God was broken. (3) 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(4) That's the very minute that you go out from the
Presence of God, like she did, is when you failed to take God's
Word (5) just as It is.
# 1) When Adam and Eve listened
to the devil's lie the holy image of God left them. Now it was not just
simply or merely listening to it as though listening is only
hearing it. But it was more than just hearing it. It was her agreement
with and entering into the devil's lie that caused the holy
image to leave. Now remember what the holy image was.
HEBREWS 1: 1 -
3
<read> IMAGE = CHARAKTER, the very nature of God. The word character
means a distinctive trait, or quality, or
attribute; characteristic. The pattern of behavior or personality
found in theindividual. 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.
You see, when she
listened, she then partook of that lie and the life or nature of
that lie (the seed) entered into her. Brother Branham said, in order to
commit adultery, you have first got to agree to do it
in your mind. And that is what she did. She listened first to the devil's lie. The
seed of that lie entered into her. She then became one with that lie and
then as a result she became one with the Serpent who presented the lie to
her and as a result she received his seed into her.
Notice the wrong nature
came in and it's progression here.
JAMES 1: 13 -
15
<read>
It is a progression that
we follow. Even as we progressively are built up into Christ, so too sin
is a progressive tearing down.
We can see the
same thing hold true with every doctrine of man. The reason men preach
certain things is that they have a certain lust or desire in their mind.
They then begin to dwell upon that lust or desire and it
becomes all encompassing to them. The thought becomes an
action. Once the thought becomes an action it must become a
doctrine in order to justify themselves. And thus it grows and takes over
everything about that person or persons. You can see how it
developed in this message with the polygamy doctrine.
The 1st thing that
happened was that it all began by a certain minister wanted
to better control his people so he
began reaching that the pastor is
the spiritual husband. He then began to take the place of the husband in the
people's homes and began to counsel directly with the sister. The
husbands lost control of their own home as the head of it. This minister began
to get too close to the sisters in counseling with them and began to lust
in his heart for some of them. As he then tried to reason out what
was happening, he saw a statement that brother Branham made and he
began to dwell upon it. That statement is " the SOUL is the
NATURE of the SPIRIT".
He found another
statement where brother Branham said "we have two
natures". So then by the
principal of summation or interpolation, he
said if we have two natures and the nature of the spirit is the
soul, thus we must have two souls. This minister
began to preach two natures and soon it became
TWO souls. He began to focus all his sermons upon these two souls
in which he taught that men had two souls, an old soul and the
new soul. But God's Prophet never
said that.
If they
would have gone to the scripture they would have seen that
Paul spoke of having two natures also. But he placed one as the
soul and the other as the nature of the flesh. And he said, " O wretched man that I am, who
can deliver me from the body of this death." Then he said, " I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Now, one thing
leads to another, and the desire then must come forth into
manifestation. If the desire is a wrong desire it will manifest itself in
every wicked devise and eventually leads to death and separation
from God as we read in the book of James.
So the next
development was that when this man would lust for these sisters, he
would justify it as his old soul acting up. But then he came
across a statement that brother Branham said,
"Polygamy was a far cry better than what we have in this country
today with all this divorce." So off he went. He failed to
take heed to the last part of that statement where brother
Branham said, but it's still
wrong. So now this man could justify himself in his evil deed. He now had
quotes, so he believes, that justify his actions.
But you don't take
God's Word to justify yourself. You come to the Word as
it is and it will justify. So we see how the holy image of God which
is His Holy Nature left Eve. It had too.
And remember
also, as we have shown you in the scripture. The nature of
God is the Nature of His Word, for He is the Word. And what nature was
shown when His Word first went forth?
GENESIS.1:1
In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep.
And [1]the
Spirit of God[1]
moved upon the face of the waters."
Now this word
spirit here is a Hebrew word "ruwach" which means the rational
being, including His expressions and His functions. The mind." So we
see here that it was not only God, but the very nature of God that moved
over the waters as the wind or breath of God, so to speak.
God's very nature beginning to
move into operation.
GENESIS 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that [it was]
good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day. 6 And
God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the
waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day."
Now, notice
here the nature of God as His Word went
forth. Remember that before there
was a word it was a thought. And those thoughts as they were collected
and sent forth, they went into manifestation. And what did it
produce? A separation. God's Word calls for a total separation from
unbelief. That's His nature. Now, watch what happens next as His Word goes
forth into motion.
GENESIS
1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land]
appear and it was so. 10 And God called the dry [land] Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas[1]:
and God saw that [it was] good.
You see that this
separation is actually caused by a gathering. Those things of like
kind are gathered together, and those that are not of like kind are not
gathered together but are separated unto their own kind. 'The wheat can
not be heir with the shuck."
MATTHEW.3:11
I indeed
baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and
[with] fire: 12 Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly
purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn
up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
LUKE 17:36
Two [men]
shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 37 And
they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be [1]gathered
together.
Now, what does the
gathering? Christ's great presence. Why? It's His Nature to gather.
II THESSALONIANS
2:1
Now we
beseech you, brethren, by the PAROUSIA of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by]
our [1]gathering
together unto him[1],
I THESSALONIANS
4:16
For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: Notice, where have the dead in Christ been? In Christ.
Gathered by His Word in the 5th dimension.
1
THESSALONIANS 4:17
Then we which
are alive [and] remain shall be [1]caught
up together with them in the clouds[1], to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.
What comfort
to know that He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He
is God and He changes not. What He began doing by His nature He will continue
to do.
Then as the gathering
goes forth, it allows LIFE to come forth.
GENESIS 1: 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
[is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
I PETER 1:3
Blessed
[be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according
to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
EPHESIANS 2:1
And you
[hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and
sins; ... 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;)
COLOSSIANS 2:13
And you,
being dead in your sins and the un-circumcision of your flesh, hath
he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to
his cross; 15 [And] having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a shew of them
openly, triumphing over them in
it.
COLOSSIANS 3:1
If ye
then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are
dead, and your life is hid [1]with
Christ in God. 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall
ye also appear with him in glory.
POINT # 2
(2) their fellowship was broken with God. Their
fellowship of oneness with God was broken. We see how
their fellowship became broken with God and we examined this the
last few weeks in more detail, so I'll just leave this thought with this
scripture.
"How can two walk
together lest they be agreed."
I JOHN 1:6
"If
we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in
the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanseth us from all sin. "
II CORINTHIANS
6:14
Be ye
not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for which
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what
concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the
Once you leave His Word,
your fellowship is broken right there.
POINT # 3
(3) 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.
Not only did
it break their fellowship with God but with each other.
GENESIS 3:9
And the LORD
God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou? 10 And he said, I
heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was]
naked; and I hid myself.11 And he said, Who told thee that
thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof
I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said,
The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did
eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat.
What a cop out. He
passed the buck to her and she dumped it right off back to the
serpent. But the serpent didn't rape her. She wasn't made
or forced against her will. And neither are you
forced against your will to sin and leave God's Word.
Look at the
break up of their fellowship. He blamed her, she blamed
another and on and on it goes. Sound familiar?
I hope not.
73 ONENESS Then
as soon as the fellowship was broken between Adam
and Eve... As soon as their fellowship was broke
between God and them, then their fellowship between each
other was broke.
74 ONENESS Listen! Anytime a church breaks its
fellowship, to throw itself into an organization, the fellowship of
the believers is broke. We've got to believe with one heart, one
mind, and one
accord. That's the way they was before the union was ever made on the
Day of Pentecost; one heart one mind, and one accord.
And when you throw a church into an organization, you're going to get all
kinds of fractions in it. Because, some of them children in there
is going to believe in God, they're going to hold to the
thing that's right, and the others will go the other way. So, you have no
fellowship. Yes."
75 ONENESS What? Her
thinking changed. Oh, yes, her thinking changed. Her fellowship with her
husband wasn't right. They begin to pass the buck. See? Her
thinking was actually changed. Why? She had the life of
the Devil in her. Exactly! As soon as she disbelieved God's
Word, she accepted the life of the Devil
because she accepted his
teaching.
76 ONENESS I can make this awful strong right
here, but it's on tape. I'm sure you understand, the Church.
77 ONENESS She
disbelieved God's Word and it [1]disassociated
her from God, because in her right then was the life of
the Devil. She had believed his lie, said, "The
fruits is good," and she'd partake them with him. That's right,
POINT # 4 That's the very minute
that you go out from the Presence of God, like she did, is when you failed
to take God's Word...
Remember, if the
gathering together is by the SHOUT which is His WORD, then to leave that
SHOUT causes you to leave His presence.
How can it not, if
He is the Word. To lay aside His Word means you are walking out
from the presence of the Lord.
GENESIS 3:8
And they heard
the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD
God amongst the trees of the garden....
GENESIS 3:22 And the LORD
God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and
now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
POINT # 5
That's the very minute
that you go out from the Presence of God, like she did, is when you
failed to take God's Word (5) just as It is.
There in lies the
problem. To take God at His Word JUST AS IT IS. That is why I
try to take you back to the scriptures with everything that brother Branham
says. Because I have seen the damage that so many who profess
to be called by God have done. They Lord over God's heritage
and use the Word as a means of forcing themselves
into the very lives of the people they are supposed to
be serving. Just look at them. Who is serving Whom. By their fruits
you'll know them. And what do they do.? How do they ensnare the
people?
2 PETER 2:1 -
3 NIV But there
were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers
among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the
sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many
will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they
have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their
destruction has not been sleeping.
2 JOHN 9 NIV 9Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of
Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both
the Father and the Son.
JEREMIAH 5: 30
- 32 NIV A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: 31
The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my
people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
ISAIAH 28: 5 -
13, ( esp. 19b) In that day the LORD Almighty will be a glorious crown,
a beautiful wreath for the remnant of his people. 6 He will be a
spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those
who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and
prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they
stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions. 8
All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a spot without filth. 9
"Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? 10
For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule [1] ; a little here, a little there." 11
Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this
people, 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the
weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"- but they would
not listen. 13 So then, the word of the LORD to them will become: Do
and do, do and do,
rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there- so that they will go
and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.
ISAIAH 29: 6
- 30:1 NIV the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great
noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire. 7
Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and
her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in
the night- 8 as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he
awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is
drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with
the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion. 9 Be
stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from
wine, stagger, but not from beer. 10 The LORD has brought over you a
deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads
(the seers). 11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words
sealed in a scroll. And if yougive the scroll to someone who can read, and say
to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "Ican't; it is
sealed." 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot
read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't
know how to read." 13 The Lord says: "These people come
near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are
far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. [1] 14 Therefore once more I will
astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will
perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." 15
Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD , who do
their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Whowill know?" 16
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can
the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"? 17 In a
very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile
field seem like a forest? 18 In that day the deaf will hear the
words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will
see. 19 Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD ; the needy
will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 The ruthless will vanish,
the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down- 21
those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in
court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice. 22
Therefore this is what the LORD , who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of
Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow
pale. 23 When they see among them their children, the work of my
hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the
Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 24
Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will
accept instruction." 30:1 "Woe
to the obstinate children," declares the LORD , "to those who carry
out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping
sin upon sin;
JEREMIAH 23:
15 - 40
NIV Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty says concerningthe
prophets: "I will make them eat bitter food and drink poisoned water, because
from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the
land." 16 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Do not
listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false
hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD
. 17 They keep saying to those who despise me, 'The LORD says: You will
have peace.' And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say,
'No harm will come to you.' 18 But which of them has stood in the
council of the LORD to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his
word? 19 See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a
whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. 20 The anger of
the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his
heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly. 21 I did not
send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to
them, yet they have prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my
council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned
them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. 23 "Am I
only a God nearby," declares the LORD , "and not a God far away? 24
Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the
LORD . "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD . 25
"I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They
say, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!' 26 How long will this continue
in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own
minds? 27 They think the dreams they tell one another will make my
people forget my name, just as their fathers forgot my name through Baal
worship. 28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let
the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with
grain?" declares the LORD . 29 "Is not my word like
fire," declares the LORD , "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in
pieces? 30 "Therefore," declares the LORD , "I am
against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me. 31
Yes," declares the LORD , "I am against the prophets who wag their
own tongues and yet declare, 'The LORD declares.' 32 Indeed, I am
against those who prophesy false dreams," declares the LORD . "They
tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not
send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,"
declares the LORD . False Oracles and False Prophets 33 "When
these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, 'What is the oracle [1] of the LORD ?' say to them, 'What oracle?
[2] I will forsake you, declares the LORD .' 34
If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is the oracle of the LORD
,' I will punish that man and his household. 35 This is what each of
you keeps on saying to his friend or relative: 'What is the LORD's answer?' or
'What has the LORD spoken?' 36 But you must not mention 'the oracle
of the LORD ' again, because every man's own word becomes his oracle and so you
distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God. 37
This is what you keep saying to a prophet: 'What is the LORD's answer to you?'
or 'What has the LORD spoken?' 38 Although you claim, 'This is the
oracle of the LORD ,' this is what the LORD says: You used the words, 'This is
the oracle of the LORD ,' even though I told you that you must not claim, 'This
is the oracle of the LORD .' 39 Therefore, I will surely forget you
and cast you out of my presence along with the city I gave to you and your
fathers. 40 I will bring upon you everlasting disgrace-everlasting
shame that will not be forgotten."