ONENESS
# 44
Substituting
the Word
Brian
Kocourek
Last Sunday we read pp. 168 where brother Branham
said, "[1]Deny
the Word of God, you haven't got the Word of God in you, you
haven't got The Spirit.
You hear the Truth preached, look It up in the
Bible, see It's the Truth, then refuse to do what it says, that's not the
Spirit of God[1].
Now, that is quite a
bold statement, but it is, "[1]Thus
Saith The Lord." So then we
must ask ourselves, how is it possible that someone could
be so brash as to hear the Word of God and then deny
it. No one in their right mind would do such. Yet
we must answer this question with just one word. Substitution; which is a Perversion. It's not that people
will outright deny the Word. All religious people claim to believe the Word of
the Lord. It's just a matter of what they call
the Word verses what is actually the Word of the Lord. They don't
outright deny it, they just can't take it
for what it is so they alter it to fit their own thinking instead of
altering their thinking to fir God's Word and away they go.
Can't you see why I've hammered so hard on this subject.
You have no thought coming.
"You, you say, "Well, I think..." You haven't got no thought
coming, brother. Let the mind that was in Christ be in
you!" Now, that isn't my words. That's God's Words through the lips of
His prophet fro his message WORLD.AGAIN.FALLING.APART
151 INVESTMENTS CHICAGO.IL 63-0803[1].
"You say, "I thought. I think. I..." You ain't got no thought
or think coming. The Bible said, "Let the mind
that was in Christ
be in you." And He always did that which pleased the Father,
because He was the Word. See? So we have no thought coming. We
must just believe what He says."
115 THE.WORLD.IS.FALLING.APART NY NY 63-1115
"You say,
"Well, I--I tell you, I--I--I believe I..." You have
n't got no... You ain't got no thought coming. And that's right.
You say, "I think this. And I..." You
haven't got a thought. I
haven't either.
The Bible said, "Let the mind that was in Christ
be in you."
And He was always about the Father's business. So that's the only
thought you ought to have, what God
said about it, not what
somebody else said. But what God said, that's all
there is to it.
He said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the
Truth."
See?"
124 THE.TOKEN SHP.LA
63-1128.2E
" And you are not yourself no more. You are Christ's. You don't
think your thoughts. You don't think your
thoughts, you say, "I
think." You have no thought coming. The
Life that was in Christ
is in you. The mind that was in Christ is in you. The works that
was in Christ is in you, and Christ Himself is
in you. You are
dead; your life is hid in God through Christ, sealed
in there by
the Holy Ghost. You're not your own."
You have no thought coming. It's All God's Word or
nothing. It's
all His thoughts or nothing. Live, die sink or swim.
It's all or
nothing. No in between's. Either you are sold out for this Word,
or you're still caught up in the world and your own
opinion.
17 REDEMPTION.IN.COMPLETENESS
LVL, KY 54-0330
"So when
you come in, you have to stand on the strength of your
ministry. That's right.
And even the... everybody is like
a
politics moving in. It's on the strength
of your ministry, to
draw from whatever the Lord will send. I like it that way.
Broth
er if Jesus Christ ain't my
stay here, and my dependence, then I
have nothing else to depend on. That's right. He... On
Christ the
solid Rock, I stand; all other grounds is sinking sands, to
me.
I'd rather preach to five people that I
know God had sent to hear
the Message, than to preach to ten thousand that was
politically
pulled into it. That's right. I'd rather see one
old-fashion conversation, get down to the altar and cry
and boo-hoo through, than to see a ten
thousand stand, just say, "Well, I will try It." Try It? He's
not a Christ to try. He's One to accept. Live or die,
sink or drown, take Him anyhow. That's
right."
E-31 DIVINE.HEALING -- DES.MOINES.IA -- 54-0620.2E
"If I
pray for five hundred people tonight and all five hundred
died in the morning, tomorrow night I'd be praying for the
sick
again. That's right...?...
thinks, that's what God's Word
said. ...I believe Him. He's my heart; He's my life;
He's all I
got." And I believe every believer in Christ, that's
been borned
again has the same attitude towards Jesus Christ. Amen.
Whether we live, die, sink, or drown, we still
believe Jesus
Christ; His Word is real. No matter whether I can make it come to
pass or not, or whether my faith is strong enough or not,
Jesus'
Words is always
right."
207 HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF JEFF.IN 54-1212[1]
"God, by
sovereign election, has called Abraham's Seed. Then, if that type of Life
that was on the inside of that blood cell was upon Abraham,
who called the impossibles possible,
called the impossibles that they would
be, because God said so, what kind of people are the Seed of Abraham?
[Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit
three times--Ed.] Oh, don't--don't
miss this. Please don't. I feel it coming from the top
of my head. Looky. Look.
Then if you are Abraham's Seed, you can't
dispute with God.
Abraham's Seed is a part of this Spirit. For God gave Abraham a
sign of circumcision, cutting off the flesh, for a witness
He had
received him. In this last days, has took the
Holy Ghost and
circumcised every believer, of cutting off all
doubts and unbe
lief, to believe God's Word is pure and holy, and It's the
Truth.
Circumcision--cutting
away all unbelief, everything, cutting
loose every shore line. Saying, "God, I believe You, live or die,
sink or drown. It's Your Word. I believe It." Then, see what
I
mean?"
59-1 STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN JEFF.IN
62-1014.1M
" Lust for money. Lust for big
things. Lust for popularity.
These things are dead to the believer! We
don't care--a tent or a
cottage! Why should I care? Live or die; sink or drown;
this is
the thing that I'm interested in: the
maintain my home; whether I
maintain my family; whether I
maintain whatever it is; let me maintain Christ, the
hope of
glory!"
E-39 VICTORY.DAY SIERRA.VISTA.AZ 63-0421[1]
"We've
got to get ourselves focused to whether we live or die,
sink or drown, it's
wants us to come back to. And man, in the focus of God's word...
Instead of bringing it together, and
making it say the one thing
that God makes it say, we look at the natural side."
What we need is an absolute in this life. And without
the Word of
God what else could there be
Even Satan never denied the Word outright to Eve. He
just changed
it a little bit. He kept the same Words but added his
own word to
it and it changed the entire meaning. He said,
"what is it that
God told you about me? And Eve said, "God said in the day you
partake and enter into oneness with him, in that day
you will
surely die." And the Serpent said to her, just one little word.
"NOT!" But in doing so, he substituted something and changed the
meaning altogether. Substitution, what a
dangerous game to play.
ONENESS pp. 169 <read>
Last Sunday we spoke from this paragraph
about substituting
something else for the Word. Now the word substitute
means to use
something or to take something else in the place of the real
one.
And that is exactly what Satan has offered man for ages.
He is
the king of bluff's. And a bluff is not a real thing. It's a
phony, just like it' author. He has no Word of
His own, so He
will take and pervert God's Word for his own purpose and
his own
gain.
REVELATION 22: 18 - 19 <read>
Add to the word and you get the plagues. Aid, herpes, syphallis,
gonorhea, you name it. And what does it mean to add to the
Word.
What is the Word. God's thoughts expressed right? And so if His
Word is His thoughts expressed, then what is adding to it?
It's
adding your thoughts right? Doesn't the scripture
teach us, "As a
man thinketh in
his heart, so is he." Doesn't it also say, "for
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth
speaketh." So in
order to add to the word you've got to speak it, and in
order to
speak it, the heart must think it.
So in order to avoid the
plagues, you've got to stop the thought back in the recess of
the
heart before it comes forth from the mouth.
Martin Luther, said, "Satan
will come to you like a little bird
and you can't stop him from coming, but you can keep
him from building a nest."
We also read that "he that takes away his name is
taken from the book of life." That means they are lost. And how is it that their name taken off the book of life? They
take away. And how do they take away from the
Word? They make it to say something it doesn't
say. They say, oh, it don't mean that. But God means
what He says, and He says what He means.
So we see, substituting anything for the genuine Word
of God is a
horrible thing and is very costly to your Eternal destination.
In
pp. 169 he hit's the Catholics pretty hard, but
they aren't the
only ones who substitute other things
for the Word of God.
They're
just less of a hypocrite about it. They come right
out
and say that their church supersedes the Word. They don't deny
that. But the Protestants
are far worse because they hide it.
Especially in this message. Churches denying the Word
outright by
their own actions and all the while claiming to believe it.
Then
Who's worse off.
The harlot or her daughters.
ONENESS pp. 170 <read>
So the whole thing stinks in God's nostrils. There's none righteous, no, not even one.
PSALM 14: 2-3 <read>
Did you understand before this message was made known
to you?
As Paul said in 1 Cor 14..."What,
did the Word of God come out from you, did
it originate with you? Or did it come to you only?"
ROMANS 3: 10 - 12 <read>
They've all become useless, worthless.
What a testimony we have in this hour. The bride of Christ sit's
useless and worthless because she just will not submit
her Body,
Soul and Spirit to the
author and finisher of her faith. So here
she sit's rotting
away, day by day instead of becoming into the
very image that the Word of God promised would be made
manifest.
Why?
Because we don't seem to be able to
be taught. His great Presence
has been here now since 1933 and in It's fullness since
1963 and
here we sit still 30 years later still debating
if we should
believe every Word or not. No wonder he said the Laodicean Spirit
was so lukearm
that He would spew them out of His
mouth. And
what is the mouth of God. His Word!
Now, I would like to read to you from the AMPLIFIES
version but I
have made the translation a little more appropriate to the
doc
trine as we understand it by God's
Messenger Prophet who was
surely vindicated by God's own Presence Himself.
ISA 28: 8 - 13 AMPLIFIED REVISED
"For all pulpits
are full of filthy vomit, spiritual food from another day,
so that there is no place clean. To whom will
He teach knowledge? And to
whom will He make to understand the Message, the shout?
"Those who are babies, just weaned from the milk
of the Word and
taken from the nurturing breast's of the church? Is that what
we are in His thinking? It must seem to be so for It is His
prophets repeating over and over, "precept must be upon Precept,
precept upon precept; church order upon order, Word
order upon Word order, here a little and there a little.
Indeed, He will speak to this people, but not as you think, for with a foreign
tongue and strange grammar shall He speak to this people, to whom
He said, This is my resting place, where My presence shall
remain, the place I have come to rest, yet they will not listen.
Therefore the Word of the Lord will be to them merely monotonous
repeating of stories and doctrinal
precepts, precept upon
precept, and rules upon rules, and church order full
of does and
don'ts, a
little here and a little there until they shall fall
backward, and be broken, snared and
become souls that are
imprisoned."
Is that where it's all headed for? Is that our lot? Is that not
the result of so many substitutes for the Word of God. Did not
brother Branham say that the Bride would find herself preaching
to the totally lost? Is that not what God's prophet said
the 3rd
pull would be? Are we there and don't know it?
Is it later than
we think? May God Help us. Even
Brother Branham, when he had
thoughts of escaping His responsibility of preaching the
Gospel,
he had a vision of Himself as a bum along some dirty,
grungy dump
trying to warn himself before a smoldering, stinking,
fire.
Have we so neglected our responsibilities in this hour
that we've
become so insensitive to the Light shining forth in this
hour? Or
is this a picture
of the foolish virgin and the church in
the hill dressed with only newspapers covering her
forefront and
leaving her backside exposed? Is that the condition we see in
this message all around us? Or can we by
the Grace of God see
ourselves among that very small group of little girls dressed
in
the robes of the Word for this hour walking up to the
tune of
Onward Christian soldiers, Marching off to war. Are we ready
for
battle or have we gotten so out of shape spiritually
that we are
only weekend warriors. May God grant us the Grace to be marked
out and set apart for service by our King Himself who
is Here
tonight in the form of the Pillar of Fire.
ISA 6 : 5 - 8 <read>
Now, let's bow
our heads in prayer and pray like we've never
prayed before.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.3 - JEFF.IN - HEB 87-120 - 57-0901.1M
" There's no more Gospel that
few stragglings now and
then; but just as the Gospel, it's over.
And you can't even preach to them, can't
talk to them. They won't
believe nothing. See? They just got their own hard-headed ideas,
and they're set, and the next thing's for
this nation is
judgment. She's going
to have it, too. It may
be through
depression, it may be through an atomic bomb, it may be through
a
great plague, a disease or something; but she's
ready. It's
a-coming; thousands times thousands will fall."
E-93
FIVE.JUNCTIONS.OF.TIME -- STURGIS.MI -- 56-0122
"One day,
the Bible says, that things will break out on this earth and
diseases and things, and all the people
will be plagued, till
the flesh shall rot on them and so forth. But the
Bible says, "Don't you come near any of those who has the Seal of God in
their forehead. And the Seal of God is the baptism of
the Holy Ghost."
134 THE.ONCOMING.STORM -- PHX.AZ -- V-15 N-2 -- 60-0229
"We see
the newspapers and the oncoming storm! When you go home tonight, do
me one favor, don't go to bed till
you read
Revelations the 8th chapter. You see the oncoming
plagues and
storms, that they'll hit the earth, and thunders
and lightning
are going to shake the heavens. Woes are going
to pass over the
nation. Man will rot in their flesh. Diseases will strike them,
the doctors knows nothing about."
88 ADOPTION.OR.PLACING -- JEFF.IN -- AD.PT.4 -- 60-0522.2E
"You
think cancer's something? The Bible said there's coming a time
when men will rot right in their flesh, and the buzzards will
eat off of carcasses before they even die. Cancer's a toothache
to what's a coming. But, remember, that horrible thing
was forbidden in that day to touch those who had the Seal of God. That's what
we're striving for now, to get in and be positionally
placed into the
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.FELLOWSHIP KLAMATH.FALLS.OR 60-0709
" How we thank Thee, that in this great
hour, that when all
hopes of mortal life has finished... Atomic bombs are laying in
hangers, hydrogen bombs, sickness and diseases, germ
warfare... O
God, and everything the way it is, knowing that
the Bible said
that man would actually rot in their flesh... But that Angel was
given commission, "Don't you touch any of those! Don't you come
near those who has the wine and the oil. Don't touch those who
has the seal of God upon their forehead."
And we realize that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is
the seal
of God. For it is written in Ephesians 4:30 "Grieve
not the holy
Spirit of God whereby you're sealed until
the day of your redemp
tion." Lord God, seal
this church tonight. Those who are wanting
the seal of the Holy Spirit, kiss away every fear, Lord,
and seal
them with Thy Seal of the Spirit in their hearts, that
they'll
come forth as newborn babes, crying, "Abba, Father".
Grant it,
Lord. I commit them to Thee in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son."