ONENESS # 15

one heart, one mind, and one accord

November 8, 1992

Rev Brian Kocourek

 

Last  week  we once again reviewed pp. 62 where  brother  Branham stated the following five points.

 

62 ONENESS 62-021  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.

 

We  examined this progressive moving away from His  presence  and the complete denial and rejection that takes place when a  person or  a people leave His Vindicated Word in favor of another  word, or as the Apostle Paul said, "Another Gospel" that comes in  from a  source  that  is  not vindicated. This  leaving  His  Word  or drifting  away from it, takes us away from the influence  of  His Divine  Nature  and thus brings us under influence  from  another nature which is of another source and is not Divine. Our  Oneness with God is thus broken.

 

Today I would like to pick up at pp. 74 <read>

 

ONENESS PP. 74

"   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."

 

Notice how brother Branham says, "we must believe with one heart, one mind, and one accord."

 

Now  this is the Key to having oneness. One heart, One mind,  One Accord.

 

But  the  question is [1]who's heart, and who's mind will  bring  us into one accord. Now I believe you already know this answer,  but as the Apostle Peter said in 2 Peter 1: 11 ..." Wherefore I  will not  be  negligent  to put you always  in  remembrance  of  these things, though ye know [them], and be established in the  present truth. "

 

So today by God's Grace I would like to examine this thought here that brother Branham is speaking on. This [1]One accord which  comes by having one heart and one mind.

 

We  have  three things he spoke of here and these three  are  not different in nature although they be three. These three are one. One heart, One mind and One accord.

 

EPHESIANS 4:4 - 5 <read>

 

He said, " That's the way they was before the union was ever made on the Day of Pentecost; [1]one heart one mind, and one accord"...

 

So  let's go to the book of ACTS and examine this setting  he  is speaking about.

 

 ACTS.2:1

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all  with one accord in one place.

 

Now  this word accord here is a Greek word HOMOTHUMADON which  is actually  2 words HOMOS meaning the same and THUMOS which is  the mind.  So they were of the same mind in one place  together  when the Holy Ghost came down. Now just because they were in the  same mind set is not what brought in the presence of God. It had to be a specific mindset. In chapter 2 of ACTS we see more specifically what this mindset consisted of.

 

 ACTS.2:42 - 46

And  they  continued steadfastly in the  apostles'  doctrine  and fellowship[1], and in [1]breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.  44  And all that believed were together, and  had  all things  common;  45  And sold their possessions  and  goods,  and parted  them  to all [men], as every man had need. 46  And  they, continuing  daily  with one accord in the  temple,  and  breaking bread  from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness  and singleness of heart, ...

 

Now  there you are. They were one in Doctrine,  their  fellowship was  together,  not back and forth with the world  and  with  the Elect.  The breaking of bread (which I believe this  breaking  of bread  was  both spiritual and physical) but we  see  as  brother Vayle brought out last night and I had in my notes before we even went up there that this breaking of bread is scriptural. It is  a part of our worship of God and our fellowship of the saints.  

 

MALACHI  4:  1 -2 <read>

That  is why we are likened as calves of the stall. We  just  eat and rest, eat and rest. It does show in our inner man as we  just eat  of His Word and rest in it, and it also shows  outwardly  in our  flesh man, as we partake of the fellowship table  with  such wonderful meals as you sisters spread before us as we  fellowship together.  Then finally the fourth element is prayer.  They  were one  in prayer. They had one purpose and so their prayer was  for this one purpose and that was for the Presence of God to come  to them.

 

Remember,  just before Jesus went away He promised them  that  He would send forth the comforter to them, because they were sure in need  of comfort. So with one mind and one accord they  assembled to one place and besought God to fulfill His promise.

 

And you know what? He did just what He promised. Oh, if the Elect would  just  come together in one mind and one accord,  with  one purpose and that is to receive the Glory of God, His very mind in us which He has promised He would do. If we would just have  this one purpose in our hearts, then I believe the change of the Bride would take place.

 

Now, notice how an atmosphere of expectation was created and  how this  atmosphere  or influence became all  encompassing.  It  was conducive to the dynamics of God which came into operation within the church. Godly Fear, Reverence, expectation.

 

Now what caused this atmosphere? What brought it about? I believe it was the influence of the Word of God anointed in the minds  of the  people.  God's very presence in this Alpha  setting  as  the Pillar  of Fire in the midst of the people. This great  influence of  God  brought  about an atmosphere  which  produced  a  Christ centered  people. A  people  who could not help  but  to  be  in  expectation.

 

1 JOHN 2: 20 <read> NIV

"  But  you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all  of  you know the truth."    We are under the anointing of the presence of God Himself and that is what brings upon us this great atmosphere of expectation.

 

But why would JOHN say what he did here? He says, "But , you have an anointing, and you know all things." Notice what he says  just before  this. Let's read verses 15 - 19. Now what is the  differ­ence  between  those who stay together and those who  leave.  The ones who stayed together as JOHN put it have a special  anointing to  know this Word while the others did not and therefore  as  we have seen in Matt 13 and various other scriptures that talk about the seed that was sown, where some fell upon poor soil and  with­ered away. We see that only one group actually had a knowledge or an ability to receive the Word and to hold it in their hearts and then  to  also give it back or reflect it. The  others  are  then ordained to leave. The scripture says that they do so in order to manifest who they are and that they are not one of us. Like seed will  gravitate together. They will not separate themselves  away from others of like seed.

 

Remember the nature of God we have studied here recently where we see  that  in  GENESIS how that when God's  Word  went  forth  it brought about a separation, but that the  separation was  actu­ally a gathering of like seed with like seed, and so the  separa­tion  was those seed which were not of like seed separating  from the other types of seed.

 

Now just to be in one accord doesn't do the job. In fact although being  in one accord may create an atmosphere, that doesn't  mean necessarily that God is the author of the atmosphere.

 

Just  because a certain pervert was voted into office,  doesn't necessarily mean that the people  were all in complete  agreement as  to  why. Some used their vote as a means  of  protesting  the system but ended up cutting off their nose to spite their face.

                       

We see another example of this in the book of ACTS where  certain people  got very excited about what Paul had been  preaching  and through emotionalism they were able to get others worked up  into such  a state of frenzy that these people all rushed together  in one  accord and yet many f the people who did this did  not  even know why they did what they did.

 

 ACTS.19:28

"  And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of  wrath, and cried out, saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians. 29  And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and  Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in  travel, they  [1]rushed with one accord into the theater. 30 And  when  Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. 31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring [him] that he would not adventure himself into  the  theater. 32 Some therefore cried one thing,  and  some another:  for the assembly was confused; and the  (greater)  part knew not wherefore they were come together. "

 

So this ONE ACCORD which we are talking about this morning is not one  which is brought about for any reason, or even one which  is the  result of just any reason. But we are speaking of a  ONENESS
in  this  message which is brought about as a result  of  a  very specific  PURPOSE which God purposed in Himself before  even  the foundations of the world were established.

 

Brother  Branham said,  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.

 

So we must ask ourselves this question. BELIEVE WHAT? The  people believed that they need change. And that is true. I say they need a  change,  they need a transformation by the renewing  of  their mind." But that is not the change they are looking for.

                        

Isn't  it  interesting that during this  administration  that  is promising the people "CHANGE" that we have a promise of a  CHANGE that  looks  like it could very likely happen in  the  very  near future.  Isn't it interesting that the cry for change is  in  the land and yet they don't even know what they are longing for. This system we have will never work. The only form of Government  that will  ever  work  and meet the needs of every  one  is  a  DIVINE  BENEVOLENT MONARCHY which is promised when the SON of DAVID takes His thrown.

 

So  we see that brother Branham said, 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.

 

Believe what? Believe God! Take Him at His Word.

 

Notice, he said ONE HEART, ONE MIND, ONE ACCORD, believing God. There you are.

 

PHILIPPIANS.2:1

If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of  love,  if  any fellowship of the Spirit, if  any  bowels  and mercies,  2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having  the same  love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 3  [Let]  nothing [be  done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of  mind let  each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look  not  every man  on  his  own things, but every man also  on  the  things  of  others.5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 

ONE HEART

 

2 CHR 30: 12

 

JER 32: 39

 

EZEK 11:19

 

LUKE 24:32

 

ACTS  4:32

 

1 PETER 1:22

 

 

ONE MIND

 

1 COR 1: 10

 

ROMANS 12:16

 

2 COR 13:11

 

PHIL 1: 27,  3: 16

 

1 PETER  3: 8,  4: 1