ONENESS
# 47
Gathering
together unto Him
Brian
Kocourek
ONENESS
PP. 175 <read>
Now, before we go on here, if you do not understand what
he is
saying, you may get carried away here and think that
you need to
have the works of God such as miracles and discernment
following
you or you are in this same category. But let me read to you
something I heard brother Branham say on a
Sermon Shalom this
week.
171
SUPER SIGN 63-1129
It's on your
hands, tonight, throwed right back in your
lap!
Hebrews 13:8, regardless of how many Council of Churches we have,
still remains as "Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, today, and
forever." "The works that
I do!" If--if His Life is in you, it'll manifest Jesus Christ. Amen Now you
all can't be that one, but you can be a part of that, with your
faith. All of them couldn't be a Jesus,
when they was on earth, but they
could believe Him and accept the message[1]. There was [1]one[1] Moses, [1]one[1] Elijah, [1]one[1] Noah, on down, always been that, but the rest
of them could accept it. And they would a had no
ministry unless there had been somebody believe
it. Jesus
would a had no ministry unless somebody believed it. Paul would
a had no ministry unless somebody believed it.
108 IDENTIFICATION -- TUL.CA -- V-22 N-14 -- 64-0216
A lady asked me, coming down the road the other
day from up
here, she said... It's
sister-Sister Williams and them, sittin' in the car. She said,
"[1]Brother Branham, I fast, and fast, and fast, and still
I can't cast out devils." I said, "You wasn't born to do such. Your duty is
to fast. The Holy Spirit's working on somebody else out
there for that[1]."
You don't know the place.
If we had time we'd teach those things in long
meetings, how
one person's burdened like this for
something over here. You
don't know... it's not for you to know. It's Him doing
it. You're just submissive to your
call[1]. Always line it
up with the
scriptures, to see if it's right or not.
As I said before if you get carried away you
will think that
brother Branham was saying that if you don't
have the works of
God following you that you have no proof of your calling and
you
are only an educated church member. But as
I read these other
quotes, if the finger does it the body does it. He is
criticizing
the scoffers who say he is off the Word and yet He is
vindicated.
In fact he is emphasizing the point of vindication. So as long as
you are siding with this vindicated Word then
you can claim the
works it has produced.
We say, out team did this or that. What about our God
did this or
is doing that. We see God come down in this hour and
stand before
groups of men and declare Himself as ever He did. It
is pure and
simple jealousy that would cause them to fight against
it.
ONENESS PP. 176 <read>
They will try to unite by some false doctrine or some creed
but
when God has come down and has vindicated His presence
among the
people, then it is too hard a saying. Who can hear it?
Look, there is where man has gone wrong through out
the ages. Men
can not stand to have to submit to a vindicated
message. Show me
one Prophet in the bible that was not
vindicated? You can't do
it, and yet men continue to reject the
vindicated Word in favor
of their own understanding.
PROVERBS 3: 1 - 13 <read>
Lean not to thy own understanding. Keep the word
always before
you. Now we know that "as a tree leaneth, so shall it fall". And
if the tree is a type of man, as the scripture plainly
declares
in the first PSALM, "the righteous are planted like
a tree by the
rivers of Life", etc. then it says, as it leans
so shall it fall.
So if it is leaning to it's own understanding it will go in
the
way it is leaning.
PROVERBS 16: 25 <read>
Man's ways are death. "Let every man's word be a
lie and Mine be
True, saith the Lord."
So we see that unless we are vindicated, it is death
to follow
our own thinking. We must have "Thus saith the
Lord", or surely
we shall perish. That is why I can not understand
these people
who will not take the Prophet's Message to the Scripture
and visa
versa. One minister
up in
that he no longer quotes brother Branham, because by not
doing so
he has opened his ministry up to others, who so vitally need
to
hear from him. well, he
didn't use those exact words but he might
as well have done so. In truth, what he is saying is that he is
ashamed of William Branham and His message, and he has a
better
way of preaching the Word of God. And that man has
blasphemed God
and His Prophet and doesn't even know it.
Look, I could care two bits if someone gets offended
by my quoting the prophet of God. If they can't take the Word whether from
Brother Branham's lips or the Apostle Paul's then I don't
want
tot waste my time. It's only cannon fodder anyway. You
won't see
them on the other side. Well, he might. It's like the
little girl
brother Branham was telling about. We saw a man
talking about
whales and he said to think of all the nonsense, that Jonah
was
swallowed by a whale. He said, in the first place a
whale doesn't
have a large enough throat to swallow a man. and so he went on.
Well, this young lady didn't like what he
was saying so she told
him so. Then he tried to make fun of her and said,
"you mean you
believe that myth?" He said, "you can't prove it?" And she
said,
Well I believe it. Then she added, "when I get to heaven I'll
just ask him what kind of a fish it was." and
the man said,
"well,
what if he isn't in heaven when you get there?" And she
replied, "then you'll have to ask him."
That's what I'd like to say to that false messenger in
you can't identify with God's prophet down here, you
surely won't
be identifying with him up in heaven.
So, you see. We can't afford to have our own thinking about this
message because it's "live, die, sink or
drown." either it's
right as the prophet brought it or
it isn't. And frankly
speaking, if we can't take it the way he said it then
we might as
well get as far from it as you can. Because it'll condemn you in
the end as a hypocrite.
JAMES 5 : 7 - 9 <read>
JOHN 12: 48 <read>
What are we going to say when we stand before the Judge
of all
the earth and He asks us why we turned Him down
for our own
ideas. Where will he
be standing then? I'd hate to be in your
shoes if you turn Him down.
ACTS 3: 19 - 23 <read>
HEBREWS 12: 25 - 26 <read>
And that is a vindicated voice. We have no way of escaping it.
We've heard it. It's Jesus on your hands. But do you think they
will believe? The bible foretells that they will not.
ACTS 13: 40 - 41 <read>
In fact at the time of the rapture we know by
this vindicated
prophet that the message and revelation of the rapture will
be
scoffed at and made fun of.
2 PETER 3: 1 - 16 <read>
Alpha is Omega. They wrestled at Paul's
writings, what about
brother Branham's : The church ages etc.
ONENESS PP. 177 <read>
Now, he asks the question,
" how will God unite and bring
together His Elect?" Then he asnwers it by saying, "There
was
pillar of fire over them, showing the first exodus and the
last
must be the same. Then he says, they stayed in the wilderness
over forty more years until God raised up another
Group that
would receive it." Praise the Lord!
ONENESS P. 178 <read>
Notice, he says, if God
has truly gathered them they will have
God's signs with them. And then he asks, "what kind of signs?"
Then he answers, "The Pillar of
Fire among them or in their
midst." How much plainer does he have to make
it, and yet they
will still scoff and make fun and call brother Vayle and myself
and others who believe it "off the Word". These
people don't even
know the Word for their day. They're still living in
the light of
another day, a Pentecostal message for an hour gone by years
ago.
So we see he speaks of a gathering. A uniting in pp. 177, he
says, "That's how I will unite my
sheep." Speaking on behalf of
God, then he adds, "I'll bring my
sheep together." So there must
be a gathering, right? And where will this gathering be?
Well we
know it must be in the word, but let's face it every
screwball
who thinks he is a preacher because he has
a gift to gab also
claims to have the word of God. Look at the mess in
Karrish. Why this message is full of those guys. Screwed up
worse
that a light bulb.
But the fact still remains that God will have a
gathering, as
brother Branham said, and it will be a gathering together to
His
Word. But Notice that brother Branham says, there must be a sign
that this gathering will have vindicating that the gathering
is
in the correct place. And what is that
sign? He give
them a
sign, a Pillar of Fire and a prophet.
So, those people in this message who claim to follow
God's proph
et but turn down the Pillar of Fire Who is among us haven't
got
the full equation. They have turned down God Himself
EPH 1: 9 - 10 <read>
He is to gather us into Himself, and we know that He
is the Word.
MATTHEW 3: 11 - 12 <read>
This scripture tells us the season of this gathering is to
take
place and by Whom it takes place.
2 THES 2: 1 <read>
This scripture tells us we are to be gathered together
unto Him.
When? read
chapter 1: 7 - 10 <read> At the time He comes a
s
Judge to bring vengeance and the curses and yet the blessings
as
well.
Brother Branham
always quoted to us the
gathering from
LUKE 17: 37. <read>
MATT 24: 28 <read>
We see the setting for the time of this great gathering
as depicted in MATT
13: 36 - 43 <read>
This shining forth of course is the Elect
appearing as He appears
as we see in
ONENES P. 178 -
180 <read>
do we need to say any more? Let's just bow our heads in
prayer.