ONENESS # 18
Oneness in Mind by Heredity
Rev Brian Kocourek
Last week we continued
from brother Branham's Message on ONENESS and we read from
paragraph 99 of ONENESS and spoke about this unity or oneness
that comes from saying the same thing that He said.
99 ONENESS 62-0211
" What was it? The union, saying
the same thing God says ! And that's the confession. Confess means,
"say the same thing." And He's the High Priest of our
confession, to act upon what He has said. We say It's the Truth,
and He acts upon It. Oh, my! There you are. There is the conception.
We examined brother
Branham's thoughts here by the Holy Scripture and showed that it is not only
"just saying the same thing", but actually it is a
condition of the heart which is the mind that causes you "to
say the same thing," that Christ has said.
1 CORINTHIANS
1: 4 - 10
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Something is
to happen to get us ready for the Revealing of
Christ. It is the anointing spoken of in 1 John 2.
1 JOHN 2: 21 <read>
This word
"unction" is the word anointing. So the immutable Word of
God let's you know assuredly that He gives you an Unction or an
anointing that allows you to know all things.
In our study
we found that this condition of the heart is God given and can only
come into the human heart through the Grace of Almighty God. It is His
desire that He places in you and it is His Faith that He gives to
you that even allows you to understand what He is doing and why He is doing it.
It is not your own faith
that produces this in you, but it is His faith that He places in you. Then, when
you receive His faith, He anoints it by His Divine Presence and it brings
illumination and revelation and understanding. In essence you then
are receiving His very mind, which He has opened up to you. And you
can only receive His mind if you are His seed as we read in Matthew
13.
ROMANS 8: 28 -
30
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Even science
has proven, that your attitudes and choices are
governed by your genetic disposition. In other words, you
can't get away
from what you are by birth.
Either
you were predestinated to be conformed to the image of
His Son or you were not.
TIME, FALL, 1992
pg. 82
"Like it or not, predicts Dr. Lewis Judd, chairman
of Psychiatry department at the University of
California at San Diego," " we are going to
find that the attitudes we take, the choices we make, are far
more influenced by heredity than we ever thought."
We find Jesus speaking
about this also in the Book of JOHN.
JOHN 8 : 38 <read>
Now let's break
this down a bit. He says I do that which I have seen with My Father. Then
He say, but you do that which you have seen with your father. Now
He was not saying that they both see first, then they do. This is a wrong
interpolation of Scripture.
First of all the
actual language here says, "I do that which I have seen,
perceived or had revealed to me by My Father. But then He says to
the Pharisees, "you do that which you have seen or experienced
[1]from[1]
your Father.
Now the
distinction here is this. Jesus said, "I am telling you what I
have experienced in My Fathers Presence, and you do that which you have
heard or experienced out from your father.
JOHN 8: 41 -
47
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You can see readily that
if you were not in God in the beginning, you'll never be with Him in the end.
99 ONENESS 62-0211
" What was it? The union, saying the
same thing God says ! And that's the confession. Confess means,
"say the same thing." And He's the High Priest of our
confession, to act upon what He has said. We say It's the Truth,
and He acts upon It. Oh, my! There you are. There is the conception.
Notice, there is
the conception!
1 PETER 1: 22
- 23
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NIV "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the Truth
so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply,
from the heart. For you have been born again, not
of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the
Living and enduring Word of God."
Now why
would both brother Branham and the Apostle Paul say,
"there is the conception" if they were not telling you
that to have or posses this oneness is Life. If God is the
Word and in Him is Life and the Life is the light of
man. Then to receive that same Word is to receive the very Life of
God Himself.
Then to reject that same
Word is to reject the very Life of God. Now remember, Satan just
inserted one little word or seed. NOT! And that started the whole
disintegration of the human race or of the God race in the flesh. So as
the scripture says, as by one man death entered, by one man Life
must come.
Now let's continue on
with his Message on ONENESS. Let's pick up at pp. 100. <read>
100 ONENESS 62-0211
"Now watch how she--she--her union
between her and her husband was broken. See, quickly, as soon as
God said, "Adam, how'd you do this?" Instead of taking up
for his wife, he passed it on to his wife. "The woman Thou givest
me."
101 ONENESS 62-0211
" What did she do? Instead of loving her
husband and telling the Truth, she lied. She--she--she--she
should have said, "He's innocent, I gave to him."
Amen. The Bible said, "She gave to her husband." She
should have said, "The man's innocent. I gave to him and then
he did eat, but I was the one that give it to him." Instead of
that, she passed it on to the serpent,
closest bypass."
102 ONENESS 62-0211
"That's the same thing they try to do
today. See, the husband, wife, the union broken. Husband and wife,
fellowship was broken between them. The oneness of them was broken, the
oneness between them and God was broken. The whole thing was marred. Why? Because
one Word was disbelieved.
He said, that's
why the union is broken between man and wife is that the woman
disbelieved something that wasn't God's Word. Now, if the husband and wife do
not see eye to eye on this Word, then you've got a breach between them.
The union is broken. Fellowship is broken between them.
That is the reason that
there are so many divorces in this nation and in the world today. The feminist
spirit is upon women and has raised up it's wicked head and they are just
falling for the same old trap that Satan lured her into back there
in the garden. God's Word wasn't enough for her. She had to
find something that she could teach her husband. Something she knew
before he knew. And look what it led to. Every filthy disease
and wicked sin known to man today is a result of this
rebellious spirit upon a single
woman.
In ISAIAH
chapter 4 it says, " In that day, seven women which
means many women, will take hold of one man and say, 'we will eat our own
bread and provide for our own clothing, only let us be called
by your name to take away our
reproach." Then the scripture says, In
that day the branch of the Lord will be beautiful
and glorified and it further says of those who are left in Zion, that the
Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion." ...
That's the Bride of course, but as brother Branham said
you look at the women and that will let you
know the condition of the church. And look what the women's vote
got you. A beatnik president wearing his sunglasses and playing his
Jazz music to gain votes with.
E-5 FROM THAT
TIME 60-0302
"They'll
have a beatnik president after while.
So we should be ever so
thankful that God has opened our eyes to His ways and that He is
delivering us from the ways of the spirit of this wicked and adulterous
generation.
I can never
understand why they called brother Branham a woman hater. They say
he was too hard on the women.
Hells a lot hotter than that!
"Oh, brother, my! Yeah, she
should have told the Truth. The oneness with her and
her husband was gone, and the oneness with them and God was
gone. And every church that doesn't take the whole of
God's Word, the same thing happens. I love It, don't
you?"
Now, I would like for
you to note here that he is showing you why churches have divisions and
problems within them. Their emphasis is not on the Word. And many
times even though it appears to be on the Word, or so they
claim it is on the Word, yet there ample evidence that
shows you that it is not. They as a group corporate may
emphasize the Word with their mouth, yet in their hearts it is not there.
ISAIAH
29: 13
<read> I like a couple other translations of this.
AMPLIFIED: And the Lord said, For as much as these people
draw near me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but
have removed their hearts and their minds far from Me, and their
fear and reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned
by repetition (without any thought of the meaning).
NIV: 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."
Why? Because the
The people
do not possess faith in God and His Word. They say they
believe, but that is only being able to read and having a
modicum of intelligence. Faith is not human belief. Faith is not your
ability to conceptualize. Faith is REVELATION. And EPHESIANS chapter 4
tells us that there is only ONE FAITH. And FAITH is a revelation,
so their is only One revelation and that is
the revelation of Jesus Christ. Any other revelation you have, if
it doesn't come back to the vindicated Word for this hour, then its
in error. And you had better flee from it.
But because they want to
have their own revelations, what did the bible say would happen? It moves
away from the Word into a man made effort. Pressing your way into
the kingdom, they say.
As it says
in the NIV translation of ISAIAH chapter
28, "The understanding
of this Message will bring shear terror."
Why? Because all you see
in the message is the law and in
which by it, no man can be justified. And
since you can not be justified by it you
never will overcome what the law calls for. Therefore, you are
constantly up and down in your faith. But my bible says that
the Word of God standeth sure and
abideth forever.
ISAIAH 28: 8 -
13
<NIV>
" All the tables are covered with vomit and there is not a
spot without filth." (What is vomit? " 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?
For it is, (what is? The Message
He is explaining to them) For it is: Do and do,
do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here
and a little there. Very well then, with foreign lips and
strange tongues God will speak to this people, 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. 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."
So as we can see, if you
can not take God at His Word, then what is left but a message that is
based upon the abilities of men to do or not to do. Rules and precepts
taught by men. Although they may start out with a right
motive or principle in mind, yet eventually it must go into
error and thus into bondage because it is not God's way. God's way is for
God to perform that which He promised. Period. Any thing outside of that
is mans own effort to perform God's Word.
Let's continue on with
pp. 103
103 ONENESS 62-0211
Watch her first-born, Cain, a
murderer, a lie, a deceiver, jealous,
jealous of his brother. His
brother kept the Commandments of God, and God had
made an atonement by killing an offering and offering it for them.
Watch the ignorance of that now, of Satan, trying to
substitute something. God, the Bible said went and
made them aprons out of skins; to get skins,
something died. Adam tried to make hisself some aprons out of fig leaves.
It wouldn't work, botany life. Life, moving life had to die. So He
killed a lower form of life, and saying in there that "Someday My
Own Life will be give for you, the real Life that'll draw in this union
again."
"Now, we
will get to it in a few minutes, God willing.
"See, here's a lamb's life. Now, you put this around you and hide
your nakedness." "You mustn't eat apples"? Nonsense!
See? "Put these skins around you." He had to kill something
Now, in light of what
He's telling you here, notice this example he gives. God killed
another as a substitutionary sacrifice. He is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. If He required a
substitutionary death then why do we all of a sudden feel that He no longer
requires a substitute life. So we say, yes, he requires life for
life, so I must give my life and die to myself. You
know, that sounds awful good, but that isn't the promise. Yes, it is true
that to be born again your old life must give way to a higher
life, but you can't do it. You can kill off yourself all day
long but unless He comes in your death is nothing
but a wasted effort.
You see,
this is where Christians as we know them, especially those
who profess Godliness and sanctification have made their
biggest error. They have turned from God's way of a
substitute death and have forced upon the
people a makeshift way of salvation and sanctification which
is based upon the rules and precepts of men. And in doing so they
have annulled the blood of Jesus Christ for many. That is why as brother
Branham put it, the foolish virgin must go into the tribulation period.
Because she did not recognize the blood of Jesus to be sufficient
enough to atone for her sins and so God makes them give their own blood.
134-3 THE FIRST
SEAL 63-0318
So if
you speak one thing and think another, you had better stop
that. Get your thoughts on God. Keep them pure and
stay right there with it, and speak the same thing all the time.
See. Don't say, "Well, I will say I will believe it; but
I will go find out." You believe it! Amen."
" Notice,
these type--the reason they die out, they go through the
purging of trial of the tribulation; because they're
not actually under the Blood! They claim they are, but they're
not. How can they go through a trial to purify them when the bleach
Blood of Jesus Christ takes every symptom of sin and stuff away
from you.
" And you are
already dead, and your life is hid in Him through God and sealed in there
by the Holy Ghost, what are you going to be judged for? Where are you
going to get your purification? What do you have to be
purified from when you are perfectly in
Christ?--sinless! How--What is the judgment for? But it is
the sleeping bunch that them people can't make out."
The problem is
that most of the people are not willing to just let go and let God.
They've got a better way than God's way. That is why they will obey the
Word outwardly but inwardly they will fuss and complain.
As we read from
Martin Luther's work on ROMANS last Sunday and again on Wednesday
night, He said...
"God judges
what is at the bottom of the heart. and for this
reason, His law makes it's demands on the inmost heart and cannot be satisfied
with works, but rather punishes works that are done otherwise than
from the bottom of the heart, as hypocrisy and lies."
"For although
you keep the law outwardly, with works, from fear of punishment or
love of reward, nevertheless, you do all this without
willingness and pleasure, and without love for the law, but
rather with unwillingness, under compulsion; and you would
rather do otherwise, if the law were not there."
" The conclusion is
that at the bottom of your heart you hate the law. What matter, then,
that you teach others not to steal, if you are a thief at
heart and would gladly be one outwardly, if you dared?"
"If the law were
for the body, it could be satisfied with works; but since it is
spiritual, no one can satisfy it, unless all that you do is done from the
bottom of your heart. But such a heart is given only by God's Spirit, who makes
a man equal to the law, so that he acquires a desire for the law in
his heart, and henceforth does nothing out of fear and compulsion,
but everything out of a willing heart."
"Where the
spirit is not in the heart, there sin remains, and
displeasure with the law, and enmity toward it, though the law is Good and just
and holy."
So many people
have it all messed up. Let's face it. You can't change Gods
mind, so Instead of getting upset about why He does what He does
and demands what He does, why not ask God to give you a change of
heart and a love for His ways. That's what Martin Luther is saying.
"How shall a
work please God, if it proceeds from a reluctant and resisting
heart?"
" To fulfill the law, however, is to do
its works with pleasure and love, and to live a godly life of one's own
accord without the compulsion of the law.”
"This pleasure and
love for the law is put into the heart by the Holy Ghost. But
(as we have studied so thoroughly), the Holy Ghost is not
given except in, with, and by faith in Jesus Christ, and faith does not come,
save only through God's Word."
"Faith alone
makes righteous and fulfills the law; for out of Christ's
merit, it brings the Spirit, and the Spirit makes the heart
glad and free, as the law requires that it shall be. Thus works
comes out of faith.”
As therefore faith alone
makes righteous, and brings the Spirit, and produces pleasure in
good, eternal works, so unbelief alone commits sin, and brings upon the
flesh, and produces pleasure in bad external works. Hence Christ calls
unbelief the only sin."
"Faith is
not that human notion and dream that some hold for
faith. The reason people can not accept Faith alone is
because they see faith as something which it is not. Because
they see that no betterment of life and no good works follow it,
and they can hear and say much about faith, they fall into error, and
say, "Faith isn't enough; one must do works in order to be
righteous and be saved,"
"This is
the reason that when they hear the Gospel, they fall into
the same old trap and make for themselves, by their
own powers, an idea in their hearts, which says, "I
believe". This they hold for true faith. But it is only a
human imagination and idea that never reaches the depths of the
heart, and so nothing comes of it and no betterment follows it".
"Faith,
however is a divine work in us. God places it there. It is
not our belief, It is His Revelation that He has in Himself
and by Grace He gives it to us."
Ephesians 2: 8 <read>
" For by
grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
And that not of your own, it is not your faith, it is the faith that
is the gift of God. It is His Faith that He gives you.
" Martin Luther
said, "Faith, however is a divine work in us. It changes us and
makes us to be born anew of God <John 1>;
it kills the old Adam and makes altogether different men, in
heart and spirit and mind and powers, and it brings with it the
Holy Ghost.
Have we died
out. Have we really come to a place where we can just let go
and let God? I hope so, because it's later than you think. You know a
dead horse don't kick back. And neither does a lamb kick and bite. It's
not in it's nature to do so.
1 PETER 1 : 22
- 23
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Oh, it is a
living, busy, active, mighty thing, this faith; and so it is
impossible for it not to do good works incessantly. It does not ask
whether there are good works to do, but before the question rises;
it has already done them, and is always at the doing of them. He
who does not these works is a faithless man. He gropes and looks
about after faith and good works, and knows neither
what faith is nor what good works are, though he talks and
talks, with many words, about faith and good works."