ONENESS # 27
Separation is Sanctification
Brian Kocourek
135 ONENESS
62-0211 Oh, how we could go on down and see God
separating them. We're going to have to stop just a minute. I got some
Scriptures here I want to just bypass it, to get, hurry up to get to the end.
Then when... what happened when He taken place there, when the Moabite women? God
had to separate them again,...
As we have seen from
this paragraph in the last two messages, we see
now that it was God who does the separation. You know,
we sometimes think that we will do our separating in such a perfect
and wonderful way that we will just go out with love
in our hearts and we so we begin the arduous journey into the
Truth and for some reason beyond our control it seems to never work out
the way we planned.
I thought
that I could share this message with my friends in
college and surely they would have to receive it because
after all I did. And if I could see it I thought for sure I could
show them the same
things that was revealed to me and bingo, their eyes would become
open.
But I found out the hard
way that God doesn't work that way. When His Word says, "whosoever
comes", it doesn't mean "whosoever" as
if it's for anyone and every one. Because it isn't for every
one. So I
got loosed from the very group that I had co-founded. The
Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the
They turned me out
and asked me not to come back and that
next group of leaders turned me over to the
devil for heresy.
Fortunately, I found out they were actually worshiping Satan and didn't know it, so they were calling God satan and satan god.
Therefore when they
called on their god they were actually calling
on satan, to loose me. I glad he did.
Then they turned me over to what they
thought was the devil, but it was actually God.
Sounds crazy, and it was
but that's what happened. So they were actually praying to the devil and
turning me over to God. How
wonderful.
So
I
found out the hard way that you can't share the Truth with
make-believers. They won't believe it and as the scripture
says, "we are not to cast our pearls before swine
because they will turn and render you." And those SWINE sure did. I guess it is all right to call them pigs if God
does.
Anyway, I might have
found out the hard way but that didn't mean that
I learned 100% of the incident. A few years later I
came into the knowledge of the real meaning of the Message
for this hour,
"Christ's Presence" and the last message I
preached in that church in Minneapolis was called "In
His Presence". Soon after I was
loosed their. That was OK because I had already left, but
it is hard when you have to keep making new friends all
the time.
Fortunately, I have met some real friends this time. Now I know that I'm not the only one whose had to go
through this. Jim, I know you
and Linda went through very similar
circumstances. Craig, you, Ron and now Marion are repeating the cycle. But rest assured, Jesus said,
"He that lives Godly shall
suffer persecution." So don't fret. It's part of your growing
pains.
Now
we
see here this morning that brother Branham is letting us know that
God is the one who separates us. That's why we failed
when we tried so hard to walk at peace with those who opposed the Truth.
God was separating us, and we knew it yet we
thought it should be done a little different. I guess we got
educated in the school of the fiery trial.
So we see here that this
separation that God brings us through is actually a
cleansing process of
which we will call
sanctification….