ONENESS 35
Perfection only through the Blood
Brian Kocourek
1 PETER 1:3-9 <read> PRAYER
Soul: PSUCHE
heart, mind, life
Salvation : deliverance or rescue. A deliverance from what?
EPH 4: 7-13 <read> Now, what
I would like to do this morning is to be faithful to my calling in which I am called to reflect only His
Word, and so by doing it may truly edify the body of Christ. Now
there are many who think they are edifying
the body of Christ by telling them things about themselves that are
nothing but lies. And if I would try to edify you by saying things just to make
you feel good, then I would be found a
false witness.
So
then
let me start by saying this truth. For those of you who may be
looking for some great Revival to come to bring
you perfection, "There is no perfection this
side of the resurrection,"
at least pertaining to this body. And if I were to do like some and tell you
any different, I would be found to be a liar and unfaithful to the blood of
Jesus Christ.
So
with
that uplifting statement, let's examine the scriptures this morning
before we turn to the next paragraph in ONENESS.
ROMANS 7: 1-25 <read> Remember in 1 PETER 1: 9 The
great deliverance we are promised at
the time of His Parousia
and ( Revelation of Jesus Christ)? It is that we are to be set free
from the body of this death.
ONENESS pp. 152 Notice what he says here. " The only way man could be back in his original state again, is
for the penalty of sin to be paid." And the penalty of
sin is what? Death. ...Is that what he said.?
By breaking the Word, by
adding to His Word, it broke the fellowship we had in Him, the oneness we had
in Him.
1 JOHN 1: 7 " If we walk in the light as He is in the
Light, we have fellowship..." But the fellowship, the Oneness was broken because man stepped out from
the light. And the penalty for that was death.
And then he said nobody was worthy to pay it. Because everyone
fell with the human being.
ROMANS
Now you may say, "No! I don't believe that.
I believe that the Bride will be perfect before she
goes in a Rapture. I believe that
the Bride will overcome so much that she will be entirely without
spot or wrinkle."
You
know,
that's the attitude of a lot of frustrated people in this
Message. They believe that because
they do not rightly divide the scripture. So they
look to themselves to have some sort of a
grand revival that will catapult them into perfection.
So
they
say, well who was Martin Luther anyway. He
wasn't a prophet. Brother
Branham had to come to set it straight. But listen
to what brother Branham said.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221 "The
stages of the eternal purpose He had in His secret has now been
revealed. Notice, there is still
three stages to perfection. Just like He redeems the
world; same way He redeems His Church.
He redeems the people in three stages.
Now look, first is
Justification like
Luther preached; second, Sanctification like
Wesley preached; third, Baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's right! Then comes the rapture."
So
if
there are three stages to perfection, and one of them is justification
"Like Luther Preached" Then Luther had it right. I can't help
what people have done to the truth. 99% of the people
in this Message do not understand "JUSTIFICATION
LIKE LUTHER PREACHED."
So let's continue.
ROMANS
JAMES 3:2 <read>
1 JOHN 1: 8-10 <read> People
who claim to believe this Message are still
striving within themselves to come to some sort of
perfection in this flesh. And when you do that you are only
deceiving yourself. Now, I'm not saying
that we shouldn't make an effort to keep God's Word. But
to think that you will somehow break through one of these
days and all of a sudden come into perfection in
this flesh, shows only two things.
Number one, You don't know your bible, and
Number 2, you don't know
the author very well either.
MARTIN LUTHER: "How does a person know or how can he know,
even though he should imagine that he does good and avoids evil,
how does he really know if it is so, since God alone knows the
heart and is the Judge of all the earth. It is in fact a most dangerous arrogance for men to imagine that they have such
a will (That does good an omits evil). Man by nature seeks only to
do what is to his advantage, he can love only
himself above all things, and that is the sum and substance
of al transgression. Such self sufficient
persons seek only to please themselves and secure
applause, even when they follow piety and virtue."
ROMANS
1 COR 2: 7-8 <read> Now this
is true. In referring to ROMANS 3: 11
<read>, it speaks of
both: those that do not at all care for God and also
those who seek after Him, or rather who imagine
themselves to seek after God. They do not seek after God as
He desires to be sought and found,
namely, not by human wisdom and searching, but by Faith
and in humility. The Apostle Paul first says that their
is none that understandeth,
and then he says, there is none that seeketh
after God. For the understanding goes before the
willing and doing. Otherwise you do not know what you are seeking
after.
The
true
seeking after God which moves you to dedication and obedience,
follows upon having the right understanding of God. If you have understanding
without the seeking after God, it is dead, just as
Faith without works is dead and neither quickens nor justifies
and therefore comes to nothing.
"
Now,
Faith is the substance of thing hoped for the evidence of things not
seen."
It
is
the spiritual apprehension of things which we cannot see. It is an understanding that man can not know by
himself, It is God breathed and God given.
Jesus told us no man can
come unto the Father but by Him. And He told
Peter, that flesh and blood had not revealed it to him, but it was
revealed by the Father.
1 COR 2: 9-13 <read>
MARTIN LUTHER" The inward desire or seeking after God is true love
for God, which moves believers to long for and love that which is this spiritual
understanding makes known to them. In this
life we never reach such perfection that we fully posses God, but
we must continually seek after Him; indeed, we must "seek Him
evermore."
As David wrote in PSALM 105:4 "Seek ye the
Lord,...seek His face evermore."
" Those who do not
make progress in seeking after God, are bound to retrogress; indeed, those who
do not seek, will lose that which they have already
obtained. We must never stand still in seeking
after God."
Brother
Branham
never did identify perfection as a condition of this flesh.
So why are the people in this Message so
obsessed with a perfection in this body? I believe it is the same spirit upon them that was on the early church
that had it's rank swollen by the sect of the pharisees.
legalist's. Looking to their
own merit instead of the merits of Salvation by
Grace.
FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS 64-0719 "You say
the Church has to go through the persecution for the
perfection of it. The Blood of Jesus Christ perfects the
Bride. A man who chooses a wife don't put her through a lot of
punishment; he's already found grace to--with her; she's found grace with
him. He engages to her. And if there's anything,
he will keep her from every place to turn her hand. His grace
is so great upon them, and so will it be upon the Bride, and
so is it on the Bride."
IDENTIFICATION 63-0123
"That don't
mean perfection in yourself. You can't be that."
In fact br. Branham placed our perfection in the resurrection.
145 THE.MASTERPIECE 64-0705
" The Life is coming up to go to its perfection, a resurrection."
30 PERFECTION
57-0419 " If there is anything that I can do to
make myself perfect in the Presence of God, then Christ did not
have to die for me. If there is one thing that you can do, that would
merit anything in the Presence of God, then
Christ died in vain. No law-keeping, no legalistic ideas of yours, none
of your own holiness, no things that you could quit doing, quit lying,
quit stealing, quit smoking tobacco,
quit going to the picture shows, still you are lost. Nothing
can do it! Joining churches, rituals,
ceremonies, baptisms,
orders of the church, reading of creeds, saying of prayers, all those things would count nothing. You
are lost! Not one thing can you do in yourself,
for you are a sinner under condemnation. And
there is not no way within yourself, or any creed, or anything that you
could do or think of, of yourself, that could merit one thing in the
Presence of God, because you are a sinner to start with."
62 THINGS
THAT ARE TO BE 65-1205 "
He's gone to prepare a place, a perfect place, where no evil exist,
no sickness exists, no old age exists, no death exists. It's
a perfect place calling you to that perfection, and you have to be perfect to
get there. The Bible said so. Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect even as
your Father in Heaven is perfect." And it's
a perfect Kingdom, so it must be a perfect
people come; because you have to stand and be married to a perfect
Son of God; and you must be a perfect Bride. So how can you do it through anything else but the perfect Word
of God, which is the waters of separation that washes us from our sins. Amen!
That's right. The Blood of Jesus Christ.
Think of it! The dripping, bloody Word! Amen!
The Blood, the--the Word of God bleeding blood to wash
the Bride in! Amen! Yes, sir! She stands
perfect, virgin unadulterated; She never sinned in the
first place. Amen! She was trapped into it. See?
There's the Father's House that He's gone to
prepare."
224-1
E-86 IDENTIFICATION 63-0123 "Then when we let his character be in
us, then we have become sons by having the mind of Christ--mind, which is
his character. " Your mind makes your character. "Let the
mind," Paul said, "of Christ, this
mind that was in Christ be in you." Let that mind of Christ be in you. It
molds the character of a son of God."
156
PERFECT FAITH 63-0825.2E " There's nothing left for us to do but believe It, and
"believe
it" is the substance, and that
creates a Perfect Faith. Just think
how--how numb we are; just think of that just a
minute, now. Now, let's see: Has
He done all things well? Has He ever told us anything,
but what happened just exactly the way He
said it? Hasn't He performed,
and hasn't the great Pillar of Fire been among us and done just
exactly like He promised to do? Haven't we seen
It? Hasn't science taken It, after it's been predicted
what would happened; go right there and have it
even in the papers and magazines, pack it right
back and show it, when it's told you months before it happened?
Hasn't He done just exactly the way He did in
the Old Testament, and the New Testament? And It's
just exactly the same One! The same Holy Spirit comes, and is a discerner;
and the Word of God, which is quicker and sharper than
a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Isn't that right? Isn't that the same God? And that same One, it's not a stranger off
somewhere else, He's here. He's here,
does this to create a Perfect Faith. I feel Him. I know He's here now. I know that His
Spirit is here. I know that He knows all
things. Amen! And I know He wants to--to do something.
He's been doing something, to--to create this perfection of faith in the
people.
9-1 SOULS IN
PRISON NOW 63-1110.1M So,
therefore He has partner-shipped you, see, and taken this man,
earthly, and This Eternal Spirit and put it together. Because, God reflected Himself back in that He
become a man when He become Christ Jesus, and He Was God. God was in Christ.
Lived in Him, reconciled the world to Himself, and [1]through that perfect man, each
one of us imperfect that believe in God and accepted that, becomes
a perfection in Him[1].
62 THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 And now,
Abraham was the foundation of faith. Let's say it had
four foundations. The foundation of
faith was Abraham. The foundation of love was Isaac.
The foundation of grace was Jacob (God's
grace to Jacob. Anyone knows that). But in
Joseph was perfection. There's where He could set the
monument, upon, not the first
foundation, the second foundation,
the third
Foundation, but on the fourth
foundation.
136 THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 Notice here. The life that was in the
husk, in the stalk, and
in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the
seed. And the life that was in the stalk, went--one
went to make the other. (1) Justification made a
way for Sanctification. (2) Sanctification made a way for
the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. (3) The Baptism of the Holy
Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection,
back to the Word again to manifest
Itself.
ONENESS 147, 149, 150 <read>
No
man's
spirit could do it. But only God's Spirit,
His Life could bring us into Oneness again.
In PP. 152 he said that our relationship and
fellowship and everything was broken until the debt for
sin was paid. We see then, the
importance of
JOHN 3: 5-6 <read>Unless born of water and Spirit can not even
see, Perceive or understand the
JOHN 6:63 My Words are Spirit and
Life
EPH 6;17
Sword of the Spirit/the Word of God
1 PETER
GAL 6:8
Sow
to Spirit reap to Spirit
ONENESS pp.
154 - 155
<read>
ROMANS 8: 2-39 <read>
Prayer.