ONENESS 38
No Unity because no understanding
Brian Kocourek
ONENESS PP.
157 The disciples, even walking with Jesus, they didn't have no
oneness. They didn't have any unity. No, they argued, "Who's going to be
bishop after this. Who's the greatest among us?" They couldn't even believe
Jesus. They couldn't understand Him. "Thou speakest
in riddles. Tell us plainly what You mean." There
was no unity between Jesus and the disciples, or disciples to Jesus, and the
disciples among one another.
Matt 20: 17-19 <read> Now, look how solemn this situation is. Christ was
telling the Apostles all about how He had
to suffer many tings and be rejected and
Crucified, Die, and be buried and arise again. All the agony and pain He
revealed to the Apostles and look at their
response. Notice where their minds were. Isn't Alpha become Omega?
Matt 20: 20-23
<read>
They wanted something for themselves.
PP. 157
again.
157 The
disciples, even walking with Jesus, they didn't have no oneness. They didn't
have any unity. No, they argued, "Who's going to be bishop after this.
Who's the greatest among us?" They couldn't even believe Jesus. They
couldn't understand Him. "Thou speakest in
riddles. Tell us plainly what You mean." There
was no unity between Jesus and the disciples, or disciples to Jesus, and the
disciples among one another.
Matt 20: 24-28 <read> He
brought the thing right back to where they left it and right back
to where He was at before He was interruption.
PP.
158 No matter,
that goes to show you, brother.
Listen close now; I want this to stick real deep down in your heart. See? God's
got a plan. Outside of that plan, I don't care how much wisdom's behind it, how
many fine millions of dollars of buildings, how many schools of theology, how
many holy men and holy this, and holy, holy, holy, makes no difference at all;
if one Word of God's Bible is denied, it's of the Devil. Now, I've proved that
to you by the written Word of God from New to Old Testament, and I'll bring her
on down to the day if you'll just set with me a few minutes...?
... Outside of His Plan it doesn't matter what
Wisdom you have.
PP. 159 The disciples who
walked hand and hand with Jesus, slept with Him, eat with Him, watched His
miracles, and associated with Him, close as any brother could be, and yet they
didn't have it. They wasn't fit to preach the Gospel.
Jesus said, "Don't you preach anymore; don't you even try. You wait up
there at the city of
Why
were
they not fit to preach the Gospel? Because they
were unaware of His plan. It's not as though He hadn't told them His plan. He did,
but their minds weren't into it. They hadn’t
yet received it.
Matt
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160 - 163 "Now, Father,
I pray that they'll be one just as You and I are one. And I... As My Father has sent Me
to preach the Gospel, so send I you."
And the very Father that sent the Son, came in the Son. Unity is one. He said, "If I do
not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if My
works that I do speak so loud, you're perfectly deaf, dumb, and blind if you
don't see it." Oh, brother, whew. Said, "You hypocrites, you can
discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the time you can't discern. If
you would've known Me, you would've knowed My day. Well did Isaiah speak of you.
You got ears, and you're so deaf you can't hear. Eyes,
and so blind you can't see..."
Well did the Apostle Paul said,
"In the last days they'd have a form of godliness and deny the power
thereof," and Scripture after Scripture, what would take place in these
organizations in the last days. Then they wonder why I cry out against that
manmade system of the Devil. See them precious children lured out there like
sheep going to a slaughter... Bring them out, Lord.
163 Yes, disciples had no unity. They could not
understand Jesus. They said, "Aw, who can understand these things?"
See, God wasn't in them yet. They were just associated in fellowship. They just
associated with Him. That's many a good man today. They didn't drink, lie,
steal, nothing, but they didn't have that oneness of God. They wasn't one with God yet. See, they couldn't be. Oh, they done miracles. They cast out devils. That ain't a--that ain't a...
They had no unity
because they had no understanding.
JOHN 13: 21 to JOHN 17: 21 They had no unity because
they could not understand. So the unity is to have the same understanding. The same mindset.