Oneness
# 42
Evidence
of a God ordained Ministry
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[1], 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. I don't care how much you(1) spoke in tongues, how much you(2)
shouted, How much (3)churches you belonged to, or how (4) many
times you was baptized, or(5)anything else. The Word is Truth. That's what vindicates
the truth. If you got all these other truths and then with the Word,
amen, then you know you're coming home."
Now, I would like
to again look at this paragraph tonight and
bring a short little pastoral message from
this. He said, "I
don't care how many of these so called evidences you
have, if you
have all these things going for you and you deny one
part of this
Word, you haven't got the Word in you, and therefore you
haven't
got His Spirit in you.
Now let's just go to the scripture to see this once
again.
JOHN 6: 63 <read>
Now, he is not just saying His Words are spirit as if
to say they
are spiritual. He is saying they are Spirit, period.
JOHN 1: 1, 4-5 <read>
Here we see that His Words are life, His Life. Now the Scripture
tells us "As a man thinketh
in his heart, so is he." So What a
man thinks, is what he really is. If your thoughts are
adulterous
then it shows you are an adulterer. If your thoughts
are continu
ously
evil toward your brother or sister, then you have an evil
heart. It's just
that simple. It shows you have not been
born
again.
LUKE
You can't hide what is in your heart. It will give you
away just
as sure as this Word of God says it will. And even
more since we
know that this is manifesting time.
HEBREWS 4: 12 <read>
The Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and the
intentions
of the heart. It will pass judgment upon your own thoughts and
intentions. How many people constantly thinking
evil of the one
God sent to lead them and they don't think
anyone knows. God
knows. He knows even if you never say it. And if the
thoughts are
in there, you will say it because every thing that is
hidden will
be revealed. It has to when the light exposes it.
There is nothing that can
hide. Everything will become
manifest in His
presence. And we are living in the days of His
presence. And How
is He here? As the
Judge. As the Word which is the Judge.
And
there is no escaping the all seeing eye of God.
HEBREWS 4: 13 <read>
It is the light of His Word that brings into
manifestation. Just
as the light of the sun brings up every crop into the
full manifestation
of the seed that went into the ground, so too the Light
of His Glorious Presence brings up the wheat and the
tares.
EPHESIANS 5: 6-17 <read>
MARK
There is nothing that will not be manifested. N.o.t.h.i.n.g.
Then
in the next few verses he let's you in on how you can
give your
self the Word test. Hold your finger
here and let's turn to
1 JOHN 4:1 <read>
Now, what is the test we are to give them. Or for that matter, to
give ourselves. Because after all, I'm not concerned as much
about the next guy as I am about myself. How can
I check out my
own condition? Keep reading. Every body in every church wants to
take the next few verses and apply it to whether you
believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and
whether you believe He came in
the flesh. But let me tell you, the Devil believes He
did and He
isn't of God. So let's examine this further.
In order to do so we have to back up. Did you know that this
Bible was not written in verses and
chapters. That was done by a
monk hundreds of years ago. until
then each letter and book of
the Bible was written as a letter. Now, how many of you write
letters and put verse and chapter to them. Neither did Paul,
Peter, John of the writer's of the
Gospels. Anyway, let's back up
to the last verse before chapter 4.
1 JOHN 3: 24 <read>
How do we know?
By the spirit which He gave that abodes in us.
Now, this does not make every man an island to
himself, nor does
it give you a right to say we need no one to teach us.
It merrily
let's you know that if the Spirit that abides in you
wants to
keep His Word, then that is the same Spirit as the author
of This
Word.
1 JOHN 4:5 <read>
Now the thing about it is the scripture teaches us as
we read
earlier, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh,"
do you believe that? Then what you talk about is what is
in your
heart.
LUKE 12: 34 <read>
So what your desires are is the place where your heart
will find
it's abode.
If your heart is in His Word, if your treasure is this
Word, and
remember, His Word is Spirit and Life, then your heart will be
in
the Word of God day and night. Storing
up treasure in your heart.
A treasure that no man can ever take
from you. Why? Because It is
in you, and It is Eternal.
Now, back to
1 JOHN 4: 6 <read>
Hereby know we the Spirit of
Truth and the Spirit of error. How?
By receiving the One Whom God has sent. Now this word hear also
speaks of hearing those who are truly sent. The word heareth here
not only signifies to audibly hear the sound but also
means more
accurately to understand what is being taught.
It is the Greek
word AKOUO and it not only indicates a hearing of the sound
but
it also indicates the meaning or message of the voice. Not just
the sensate perception but the thing
as being perceived. In
other words, to understand the message.
Thus the scripture reads, "We are of God: he that
knoweth God
Hears and understands our message; he that is not of God
won't
even listen that he might understand."
JOHN 6: 29 <read>
To even do the work of God is simply to believe the
one He sends.
JOHN 8: 47 <read>
Then, it doesn't
matter who is handling His Word. As we said,
last week, the scripture in Jeremiah said,
"they have run but I
have not sent them."
NIV "I did not send these prophets, yet they have
run with [1]their[1]
message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophecied."
Yet, we read other
scripture where Jesus tells us that He does
send out a true ministry with His Message.
JOHN
"And you have not His Word (His thought)
living in your hearts, because you do not believe and adhere to, and
trust in, and rely on Him Whom He has sent- That is why you do not keep
His Message living in you, because you do not believe in the
Messenger Whom He has sent".
"You search and
investigate and pore over the scriptures dili
gently, because you suppose and trust that you have
Eternal Life
through them. And these very scriptures testify about me! And
still you are not willing, but refuse to come to
might have Life. I receive not glory from men - I crave no human
honor, I look for no mortal fame. But I know you and recognize
and understand that you have not the love of God in you".
"I have come in my
Father's name and with His power and you do
not receive me - your hearts are not open to me, you give me
no
welcome. But if another comes in his own name
and his own power
and with no other authority but himself, you will receive
him and
give him your approval".
You see, it doesn't matter how much you pour over the Scripture.
If you are not ordained to Life you won't see it.
"How is it
possible for you to believe - how can you even learn
to believe - who are content to seek for and receive praise
and
honor and glory from one another, and do not seek the
praise and
honor and Glory which come from Him Who alone is God?"
That's why Martin Luther could say what he did about Romans
10.
ROMANS
10 : 13-17 <read>
1)
They can not call upon the lord unless they believe.
2)
They can not believe unless they hear the truth. For it
wouldn't do them
any good to hear error. They'd be better off
not hearing at
all. Because if they hear false they will
believe what is
false.
3)
They can not hear without a True preacher. For what good would
it do them to hear
a false preacher.
4)
Unless the preacher is God sent, they can not preach.
So as Luther put it...
"is impossible that those
preach, who are not sent".
"It is impossible that those who hear, are
without a
preacher". In other words, he's saying, it is impossible
for
those who are without a preacher to be able to hear and
therefore
understand."It is impossible that they believe who do not hear". In other words,
if you don't hear how can you believe? You can't. You've got to
hear to believe. You can't stay away and move forward.
"It is
impossible that they call on Him, that they do not believe". How can you call on Him if you don't
believe Him. How can you
believe Him or even call on Him if you don't even know Him? You'll
have to call upon a false god. The God of your imagination.
"It is impossible that they who do not call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. So, then, the entire source and origin
of salvation rests on this, that God sends out someone, (a true minister
of the Word). If He does not send out anyone, then they
who preach, preach falsely, and their preaching is no preaching at
all. In fact, it would be better for them not to preach. then,
they also who hear, hear error, and it would be better for them not
to hear. Then also they who believe, would
believe false doctrine, and it would be better for them not to
believe".
1 JOHN 4: 6 <read>
Thus the scripture reads, "We are of God: he that
knoweth God
Hears and understands our message; he that is not of God
won't
even listen that he might understand."
1 JOHN 2: 19-21 <read>
They leave because it is apparent that they do not
understand
what is being said and therefore take as a
personal affront
things that perhaps the Holy Ghost is quickening in their
soul to
repent of. But he says, that we who remain
are not so, for we
have an anointing that causes us to believe because it
causes us
to understand.
Now, I have taught you that (that) anointing is the
Gift each is
given in Ephesians and in 1 Corinthians that is
the Spiritual
endowment that is like fertilizer to bring us into full
maturity.
It is the Spirit of Adoption whereby we can cry out an
identify
with our Father. It is this Spirit then, this anointing that
brings understanding which in itself brings us to an
identification.
Thus if we can identify with our Father,
and He is the
Word, then
when we hear that same Word coming forth from a vessel, we know and Identify with it and in no way
can we separate
from it knowing that even though the vessel may put
our faith and
confidence to the test by harsh and a pounding disposition,
yet,
we know that it is the Truth and therefore
whatever manner the
Truth comes, we love the Truth so much that we can in
no wise
depart from it. Then we know that the Spirit which we have
is the
same one that wrote the book. That is exactly 1 JOHN
4:1 and 4: 6. I hope you can see it.
1 COR 2: 9-14 <read
MARK 4: 22 - 25 <read>
He first let's you know that anything hid will be
uncovered. The
he let's you know that your very nature though covered
over or
even hid to your own self, will come into
manifestation of what
it really is when the Word shines forth. If they don't have the
measure of GRACE to receive the measure of the Word measured
out
for this age, they can not receive.
2 COR 4: 1-6 <read>
The Truth of this message of Christ's great Appearing
can not
stay hid from the Elect. But no matter how much you preach
it or
how many times and in how many fashions they who are not
elect
will hear it, they will regardless of hearing will not
hear, nor
will they understand.
MATT 13: 10-16 <read>
Then if you can't hear, you can not understand either.
And if you
don't understand, how can you believe. Faith isn't some sort of
make believe. It's a Revelation which means you
understand. You
may not be able to explain how you understand, but you
do. You
just know that you know. For how can you believe without under
standing what you believe. If you don't understand or know what
you believe how can you call it faith. How can
you say you be
lieve it?
So as he said in pp 168, it doesn't matter what
you have or
haven't done, that has nothing to do with your
salvation and
whether you are seed or not. It's that Word in
you which brings
His Spirit and
therefore His Life. "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 and
see It's the
Truth, and then refuse to do it, that's not the Spirit of
God. I
don't care what you have going for you."
1 PETER