ONENESS
# 46
You
cannot denominate Oneness with God
Brian
Kocourek
I
would like to continue in Oneness this morning. This is
number
46 in our series. But before we do
let's go to the Word of God.
JOHN
20: 16 - 17 <read>
PRAYER
Now
I do not believe this message this morning is what you
might
term a typical Easter message. In fact I hope
and trust that I
will never preach a typical message to you
as long as I live.
What I mean by a typical message is this. The world looks this
Easter at an event that happened nearly 2,000 years ago. And
man
has been preaching about that event for nearly the
same amount of
time. Yet, I do not believe that in that first church
age, it was
a typical message to preach that because it was a
living word to
them and they were eyewitness of His majesty. Yet
after time set
in the message of His resurrection
became historical to the
people and no longer a reality to them.
Now that is what has happened with the message that
brother
Branham brought in this hour. It has become common. Why? Why
has
it become common. Because the old timers that
kept it alive as
eyewitnesses are dying off. So another
generation is coming on
and to them the message is a historical one. God sent
a man. The
man came. He spoke 1100 sermons which the people
believe to be a
message from God and now he is gone. So all we have
left is some
tape recordings of these sermons and also printed
material. Some
are striving to revitalize the followers of that
message by writ
ing
periodicals with pictures and telling the stories all
over
again. But alas,
that is all that it has become to some. An
effort to keep alive a message that once was life.
That
is why I tell you that I can not and will not by the Grace
of God bring to you a typical sermon. Because I believe Jesus,
when He said, "My Words are Spirit and they are
Life". If all we
want is some stories to make us feel good then why not
just have
a television to do it for you? That is
what the world uses to
satisfy their feel good needs.
In fact to many it has become their Guide and their God. Could
you imagine the 23rd Psalm like this? Read along
in your bible
please.
Psalm
23: (1) The TV is my shepherd, I have been found wanting.
(2)
It maketh me to lie down and become of no
use to God. The
greener pastures presented are material wants.
It leadeth me to
the still waters, beer commercials.
(3)
It restores to
my soul the things of the world I had discarded as useless, it leadeth me into the path of
un-right-wise-
ness for their name's sake.
(4)
Yea, as I flip through the channels of the shadows of
death,
I fear only evil. For the programs are with me in my sleep and in
my speech; the "club" and the door bars
bring no comfort to me.
(5)
It preparest a table full of vomit before me in the presence
of my enemies; it anointest my head with evil thoughts,
and my
cup runneth over with them.
(6)
Surely goodness and mercy are nowhere to be found and
shall
escape me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in my
house
alone with my TV set for ever.
I
feel sad for those people who need it as they would a pacifier.
But
that is even what this message has become to many. A child's
pacifier. Read me a bedtime story pastor mom!
That
is why I can not and will not resort to preaching a
typical
Easter Message to you nor any message that is Typical,
because
this Word is Life to me and not only Life but it
has become my
health as well, and why not? Is it not the Tree of Life we are
partaking of? And what good would it do to have eternal life
with
poor health.
PROVERBS
4: 20 - 22 <read>
I think it is interesting to see the reaction Jesus had to Mary
at the grave. He said, "Go, tell".
Isn't that what Easter is all
about. "Go tell, my brethren, that I ascend unto
my Father and
your Father, My God and your God.
What a
beautiful thing to say. The very first Words out of
His
mouth, to any mortal being and He chose to announce His
plans to
them.
I heard Paul Harvey make a comment about this meeting
between
Jesus and Mary Magdalene right after His resurrection. He said,
"Do you know why Jesus appeared unto the
women first?" Then he
said, "because He knew that if He told it to women
first the news
would spread faster than it would from the men."
So
He said, "Go tell." I like that, because we are His Bride and
if we truly believe He is the same yesterday, today
and forever,
then He speaks to us the same Words this Easter
morning. "Go
tell."
"Go tell my brethren, that I am risen and alive
forever
more. Go tell them that I am here speaking to you
still. Go tell
them that My Father is your Father and My God is your
God."
Do you
believe He is risen? Do you believe His Presence is
Here
this morning? Then what are we waiting for, "Go tell
Now,
I would like to pick up here in Oneness at pp. 172.
ONENESS
PP. 172 <read>
Now,
notice he says, "Man under the Devil's plan." The Devil
has
a plan? You bet! But what exactly is a
plan? If Satan has one
where did he get it? If Satan has one, then God must also,
because Satan can not do anything on his own. He only takes
God's
things and perverts them for his own use. He is only a perverter
of the original.
Well
you say, he is the father of lies! And if a father, then the
originator of it. Well, That may be
true, but what is a lie but a
Truth miss-told, or
misrepresented. Right?
Then what Truth? God's
Truth is the only truth there is.
Now we
see here that Satan has a plan and that is to
bring
oneness to the church through what? Brother Branham
said, that
Satan would do it through education and denomination.
So we must
ask ourselves what education. In fact what is
education any way?
Webster
says, EDUCATION is the process of training and developing
the knowledge, the mind, and the character. Now that in itself
is not so bad. In fact God does the very same thing and even
expects us to do the same with our kid.
PROVERBS
22: 6 <read>
EPHESIANS
6: 4 <read>
2
TIM 3: 14 - 16 <read>
MATT
28:19 <read> Go Tell! Teach all nations!
In fact He would not have us do the same if it was wrong.
He
wouldn't even come close. God Himself is considered
the Great
Teacher.
JOHN
14: 26 <read>
So
we see, that surely brother Branham is not saying education of
itself is wrong. I believe what he is saying that's of
the devil
is that educating the
people to the denominational way of
thinking. Because the
very word denomination means having a
specific name or value. And the very nature of denomination is
to
follow or attain to the same value that the group has
attained to
or has
followed.
JOHN
6: 44 - 45 <read>
In
fact we can not even come unless the Father teaches us and
we
learn. That is
why Ephesians
Lord descends with a SHOUT, a military command. A message. We
must learn it. Then we come. So without a shout, there is no
transformation. Remember, our transformation comes by the renew
ing of the mind. <Romans
12: 1-2
He
said, "Man under the devil's plan has tried to denominate
the
church into oneness."
So we
see the real culprit here is the fact they have tried to
denominate the church into oneness. They figured if
they can come up with a set value, then men will
have the same value system and thus, they will come into oneness. But
that will never work. It can't work. It's wrong to begin with. And he
called it a plan of the devil.
ONENESS
PP. 172 - 173 <read>
Now, catch what he does here. He says to try and denominate the
church to oneness is the plan of the devil. Then He says in his
own defense, "I'm just saying what He said, I'm
confessing His
Word. "Confess
means to say the same thing." Can you
see the
difference between the devil's plan and God's plan? He let's you
know that Satan's plan is to educate by denomination. To educate
to a certain value. But God's plan has always been His Word.
Every Word. " For by Grace are ye saved through Faith; and
that not of yourselves: It is the gift of God."
ONENESS
PP. 174 <read>
Notice,
by this time he doesn't say, educate, he says denominate.
That's
what the devils plans are.
Now,
as I said before, if that is Satan's plan, then it must be a
perversion of God's plan. So let's examine this thought for a
moment and search what plan of God's that Satan has
perverted and
twisted for his own purposes.
God's
intention has always been to bring His Elect into a
oneness
by His Word.
JOHN
17: 20 - 22 <read>
Oneness by His Word, or His Expressed Thoughts or
opinion. Having
the same Opinion and the same assessment of Himself.
You know we
never have had His thoughts concerning Him.
ISA
55: 8 - 12 <read>
His
thoughts are not our thoughts. But fortunately for us we were
in His thoughts before the foundations of the world and
because
of that we will come into Oneness with Him.
PSALM 40: 4 - 10
<read> "Go Tell!"
JER 29: 11 <read>
So
we see that God's plan is to fill us with all of His thoughts.
But the wicked
have no room for His thoughts.
JOHN 8: 37, 43, 47
<read> understandeth.
Psalm 10: 4 <read>
The
wicked can not take God's Word. They therefore do not put any
Trust in God's Word. They trust only in their own ability. And
Trust is Faith.
Therefore, they have no Faith and as Jesus said,
because they
have no place for His Word in their hearts.
PSALM 56: 4 - 5 <read>wrest =
twist, distort
PSALM 94: 11 - 17
<read> "Go Tell!"
PSALM 139: 17 - 18, 23 -24
<read>
His presence is more to me than words could ever
express. To
think He has not left us alone. But He is here to make sure we
make it.
PROVERBS 12: 5 - 6 <read>
"Go Tell"
PROVERBS 16: 1, 3 <read>