ONENESS
# 41
No
Word no Spirit
Brian
Kocourek
168 ONENESS -- JEFF.IN -- V-10 N-2 -- 62-0211
"You
say, "Well, Brother Branham, I spoke in tongues. I
shouted.
I did this." If you still got that kind of a spirit and deny
the
Word of God, you haven't got the Word of
God in you, you haven't
got The Spirit. If you'll sit and hear the Truth
preached, and look It up in the Bible[1] and [1]see It's the Truth[1], and then refuse to do it, that's not the Spirit of
God[1].
I don't care how much you (1) spoke in tongues, how much you (2) shouted,
(and I sure heard a lot of that last night). Usually the ones
who
shout the loudest don't have the foggiest idea
of what they're
shouting about. I think they are just infatuated by
the sound of
their own voice. They say they believe what Luke preached last
night, they don't even know what he was saying. If
they did they
would have humbled themselves and bowed their heads in
shame. But
you can't tell them anything, because they think they
understand.
First Words out of Brother Lukes mouth immediately following the
message last night, he said, do you think any of them
understood
what I was saying? )
How
much (3) churches you belonged to, or how (4) many times you
was baptized, or (5) anything else. [1]The Word is Truth.
That's
what vindicates the truth[1].
If you got all these other truths and
then with the Word, amen, then you know you're coming
home."
He says, "No matter if you were so moved by the Holy Ghost that
you actually spoke in tongues, and
no matter if you were so
stimulated by the moving of the Spirit and
you just couldn't
control your excitement and you shouted, no
matter what you did
or felt impressed to do by the stimulation that
comes from God,
even to the point of being Baptized over
again, or from going
from one church to another searching for the
Truth. No
matter
what happens in your flesh, if you have all this great
excitement
in you and if you are caught up into all the emotion that the
Spirit can bring, if [1]you
deny just One Word, it shows you haven't
got a thing.
That takes the evidence of the Holy Ghost completely away from
your flesh and places it in the mind and in the inner
man. It has
to do with your Soul which is the rational part
of your being.
Notice how brother Branham puts it.
He says, no matter what
excitement you can generate, and no matter what you
feel in your
flesh, if it doesn't come from this Word, it's going
to fail.
I
know a man who committed adultery by putting away his wife
and
remarrying another woman. He asked me if it was all right to do
it and I reminded Him what the Prophet of God said to
him. He was
told by God's prophet to stay with his wife and not to
leave her.
Well, he did it anyway. So when I challenged him as to why he did
it, he said, "Well, I prayed
about it". If you believe that
praying about it makes it right, then why don't
you pray to God
to help you rob a bank! The bible condemns that kind
of stuff!
I told
him that there was only one reason he could divorce her
and remarry, and that is if she committed
fornication before he
married her and she didn't tell him. That's what the prophet
said. Period.
"Well, I prayed about it, and God said it would be
OK because
after all He loves me so much." Ok, and who's
voice did you hear
it in. The Voice of God said don't
do it. Now did he hear it in
God's voice or in his inner ear coming from his own desire.
Yeah,
go ahead and turn down the Word in favor of
a feeling or
impression you get while praying. That just goes to show it
never
was God (the Word).
I'm not just picking on this one case. I'm just
using it to
illustrate my point. It goes to show that the One they are pray
ing
to isn't God the Word. For if you met Him Who is
the Word,
Then you would have a Word response.
Now a
lot of People go to God with wrong motives and they get
answer. Look at Balaam. God told him to go on down. But if you
read further in the story, God had an angel their to
slay him. If
that's what you want go ahead. I heard about a little
girl who
was really a brat. She was a cutie, but really a handful. This
little girl, when she was about three years old, she was
being
naughty and disobedient to her mother and so her mother sent
her
to her room to pray. She said, "Now go to your room
and pray and
don't you come out until you talked to God and He's talked
back
to you."
Well,
about fifteen minutes went by and the mother put her ear up
to her daughter's door and listened in. She heard her daughter
praying and so she peaked in to look. she thought, "Oh, how
sweet." She was so proud of her little girl, she said,
I'll just
have to give her a big hug when she comes out."
So
another five minutes went by and the little girl finally
came
out from her room and her mother said, "Honey come
here". And the
little girl came over and sat on her mothers lap. And the mother
said, now what did God tell you. And the little girl
replied, "He
told me to tell you that I don't have to obey you anymore,
that
you are supposed to obey me."
Now that might be a funny little story, but it sounds an awful
lot like many people I've met who claim to
be Christians. All
they want is for God to be their slave. To
do their bidding. Like
He's some kind of servant.
I
remember in Mpls, the fall right after I graduated, I
went back
up to the campus at the
group of Fellowship of Christian Athletes get started. There was
this gal who came back to campus who had cut off her
hair over
the summer. I asked her why she did it and she said, "Well, I
prayed about it and God told me it would be all
right".
I said,
that wasn't God, sister, Do you think He would tell you
something from this Bible. I said, that wasn't God you were
speaking to, that was the devil.
Well,
many of my friends thought I was cruel and I was wrong
for
hurting her feelings. But hell will hurt a lot more than
that.
You know I pray about being sensitive. In fact I
was praying
about it just this week and while I was in prayer, I
was reminded
about the Good shepherd and how brother Branham said, "The
Good
shepherd will take a sheep that has a tendency to wander and
he
will break it's leg, and then carry that lamb around in
His bosom
and feed it by hand for months, until the lambs leg
heals.
Thus building a bond between the lamb and the good
Sheppard. And
as these thoughts went through my mind and
in my heart, I
thought, Lord, I sure want to express all the
attributes of the
Good shepherd, but that's one thing I've fallen short on and I've
never done that. I've never broken anyone's leg yet!
And That
still voice that I've become so accustomed to hear within
me, He
answered back and said, " no, that's right, you haven't
broken
anyone's leg yet, but, [1]you have[1] stepped on a few toes." And
I
just had to laugh. He has a sense of humor you know.
How
many nuns have prayed about entering the convent. Show
me one
scripture for it. How many
men prayed about entering the
seminary. But It's death! yet they prayed about it.
One sister we know in
hair, and when she was challenged as to why she did it she
said,
"It can't be wrong, God's still answering
my prayers." Is He? I
think not. My bible tells
me if you regard iniquity in your
heart, He will not answer your prayers. And Iniquity
is to know
to do right and you won't do it.
JOB
27: 8-9< read>
JOB
35:12-13 <read>
God won't even pay any attention to it. He will treat you
as a
heretic is to be treated. He will just leave you alone. Did you
know that God even considers a heretic in the faith
no better
than a fornicator or a murderer?
TITUS
3: 10 NIV
"Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a
second time.
After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that
such a man is warped and sinful; he is self condemned."
VINES:
HERESY.. denotes a
choosing, choice, from (haireomai
meaning to choose) and hence, "an opinion"
especially a self
willed opinion which is substituted for submission to the
power
of Truth and leads to division and the
formation of fringe
groups.
GAL
5: 16 - 26 <read>
The Vines concordance says of GAl 5:20: such erroneous
opinions
are frequently the outcome of personal preference or
the prospect
of advantage.
JER
Notice, they have gone backwards to the
iniquities of their
fathers. Train up a child in the way he will go and he will not
depart. You all know what iniquity is. To know
to do right and
you won't do it. Show's they are lost.
Psalm
66: 18 <read>
" If
I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me."
Proverb
What
does it mean to be near. Try Present. or Presence.
Proverb
28:9 -10, 13, 26
How can a person put any trust in himself. It is God that
willeth and doeth the counsel of his own Will.
Proverbs
29:1
Don't
take your chances on being stubborn to long.
ISA
1:15-21
God
will hide His eyes from you. He will not answer when you
cry
out to Him.
John
9:31
God
does not even listen to the request of sinners.
James
4: 3 NIV
"When you ask, you do not receive, because you
ask with wrong
motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
PSALM
106: 13 - 15 NIV
" But
they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for His
counsel. In the desert
they gave in to their craving; in the
wasteland they put God to the test. So He gave them what they
asked for, but sent them a wasting disease upon them".
I
like the way it reads in the Amplified.
PSALM
106: 13 - 15
" But
they hastily forgot His works; they did not earnestly wait
for His plans to develop showing respect for
them; but they
lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted and tried
to
restrain God with their insistent desire in the
desert. And He
gave them their request, but sent leanness into their
soul and
thinned their numbers by disease and death".
169 ONENESS -- JEFF.IN -- V-10 N-2 -- 62-0211
"[1]How can the very God that wrote the Bible
turn around and
substitute
something else for His Word[1]? You Catholic people who
said that Peter was buried in your church, and his spirit
gives
you the rights to remit sins and things, how could
Peter, a Jew,
ever stand to have idols in the church? How
could Peter ever
refuse to say that the baptism of the Holy Ghost come,
and he
spoke in tongues, and all those powerful things he
done, and turn
back around and says take a little wafer, and
God's in that
wafer? Oh, [1]it's
ignorance, spiritual ignorance!
170 ONENESS -- JEFF.IN -- V-10 N-2 -- 62-0211
"Well, [1]now
you Protestants the same thing[1],
walk up and shake
hands with the preacher, and say, "I accept Jesus
as my personal
Savior," and
go back and live any kind of a life out of it, and
go right on living with the world. Another
171 ONENESS -- JEFF.IN -- V-10 N-2 -- 62-0211
"We're coming
down to the end now. Watch. God sent
the Holy
Ghost, and [1]The Holy Ghost is God Himself. He's the One that will
make the oneness between God and man[1].
Let's find out. Now let's--
now I want your undivided attention for the next five
minutes or
so. Watch."