ONENESS # 19
Laodicea is theEnd Time Conditon of the Heart
Rev Brian Kocourek
ISAIAH 29: 13 <read>
PRAY
Last week we left off at
paragraph 103 where brother Branham was
just beginning to explain the difference
in the attributes
between Cain and Abel. We spent most of the
message however looking at what brother Branham said, when he said,
Confession is to say the same thing Christ said. He said that is the
We read from our text
this morning that God is against those who only acknowledge Him
with their lips but in their hearts He is far from them.
What you have here is
the condition that is Laodicea at this end time where the
people profess Godliness but deny the power
thereof which we know is the Word of God. They are nothing
but hypocrites and lukewarm Christians and because of this they
will be spewed out of His mouth. For out the Mouth of the Lord
comes forth the Word of the Lord. And how could
something that is hypocritical to the Word dwell together in
the same resting place with the Word of God.
This is the same
condition that was spoken of and predicted by the scripture in many
places.
ISAIAH 4: 1-6 <read>
We see here
that this scripture speaks to us of the coming
Kingdom which is to come when the Lord Himself shall descend with a
shout. Notice the references here to His coming and our being
cleansed and being made Holy by the Spirit of Judgment and
the Spirit of burning. verses 5 & 6 are very
similar to the scripture that brother
Branham used as the setting for the Rapture.
He took His text for the
Rapture from PSALM 27: 1-5 <read and also note PSALM 31:20 <read>
So these are the
conditions at the end time when the women’s lib spirit is so
strong that it will affect many except a tiny
handful that are kept from it in the safety of His Presence.
So we are
living in a very hypocritical age where people are constantly
doing things out of ulterior motives and God hates it. So He says
that He will spew them out of His mouth. He can't stand to
have them in His presence and thus causes them to separate themselves.
This is the main thought I see coming up in the next few paragraphs we read
from this message on ONENESS.
How can two
walk together lest they be agreed. That's
the scripture. It can't be done. How can a marriage prosper where the
woman holds her career above her husbands career. She's supposed to
be a help meet. Not a competitor for the daily bread. That's why
this nation has so many rotten marriages. Both husband and
wife are going in two directions and never twain shall they meet. I've
seen marriages bust up because her career conflicted with his
career and she got a transfer to another city but he didn't, so they tried to stay married and live apart and it
doesn't work. After a while the temptation overwhelms them and off they go.
Can you
imagine God and His Bride going in
two different directions? It won't work. He wouldn't
permit it and neither should any Son of God who is
truly reflecting the attributes of His Father. That's what ONENESS is all
about. She, Christ's Bride is saying the same thing Christ
says. She has His mind and she reflects His thinking. It is not He reflecting her
thoughts, but she must reflect His thoughts. She's let her own thinking
go and she 's received His mind. That's a true picture of a
real true harmonious relationship. And if
your marriage is not blending together, united by ONE
purpose and with one objective, then you haven't got a marriage. You're
just living together.
That's right!
Now let's continue with
Oneness and pick up at Pp. 103 <read>
Now notice 2
things here. First of all, he says " Abel kept
the commandments of God and
secondly he says, "Cain was ignorant of this
commandment".
So you see here
that Abel did what the commandment of God. Now I don't recall reading
where God ever came down and told Abel to do this and don't do this. But
What did happen is that Adam and Eve his parents had been cut
off from God because of their sin and God made a way for them and
gave them coats of skins. An innocent lamb had died as a sacrifice to
atone for their sin. The blood of the Serpent was mingled with the fresh of man
producing Cain and thus caused the fall, therefore it took blood to
atone. Life for Life.
So Abel obeyed
what? The Word of the Lord. He saw by God's own example and
did what God had done. There's your oneness. Now
contrast that to Cain’s sacrifice. He offered up the fruit of the ground.
That in itself is an outright denial of why sin
had entered. He offered the same fig leaf religion that Adam and
Eve had done before Him. Now why did he do this? That's the question.
If you can
tell me why he did this, I will tell you why the people
continue to offer back to God the wrong thing.
Notice brother Branham
said, "Watch the ignorance of that now, of how Satan tried to substitute
something else."
PP. 104 - 105 <read>
There you are, One
knew and the other didn't. One had a revelation and the other didn't.
HEBREWS 11: 4 <read>
Now, remember, what is
righteousness? Isn't it
right-wise-ness? So he had a correct understanding and revelation.
But notice it doesn't say Cain had a wrong revelation. It
says Abel’s was more excellent. and in order to be more excellent the
other had to be excellent. Cain' offering in order to be an excellent one
had to be scriptural. Because how could a God who is
the Word call anything contrary to His Word excellent.
But although it was a scriptural sacrifice, it had nothing to
do with atonement. The resurrection can not happen without a death.
And that is the problem
we have today is that we are not willing to die to our own
thinking. How can we receive His mind if we haven't died
to
Now, although
you may have thoughts that you
believe are scriptural, yet if they are not reflecting from a
vindicated Word for this hour, I don't care how scriptural they might sound, they
are actually wicked. The Amish use the scripture to
produce their legalism's as do the
Pentecostals and every other denomination. And what does the scriptural thoughts
through a wrong filter produce? Wickedness.
1 JOHN
Now notice it says
he killed his brother because his deeds were evil. It did not
say the killing of his brother was the evil deed. A man
is not a thief because he steals. He steals because he is a thief.
His deeds were
evil before he killed his brother. And
the only deed recorded by scripture before the killing took place
was his sacrifice. So there you are.