ONENESS # 53
Wrong Nature - Wrong Message
WED-May-5,
1993
Before We move on in Oneness tonight, with the next paragraph, I would
like to read again a thought that I feel was not emphasized enough in one of
our earlier messages.
In
paragraph
187, brother Branham said, "You can't say 'It says this' and It says
This, and make it work. You got to say the same thing It
says."
Now, I feel that I can't
express enough to you the importance of what he
is saying here. He is letting you know that if you
don't say it like He said it, then you are saying the wrong thing.
Didn't Paul tell us in
Galatians the same thing also?
GALATIANS 1: 6 - 9
<read> You can't have the same message
with the wrong nature. It won't work. Paul said, they preach using the same words, It's
not a different message altogether as though there is
no connection, but what they are preaching, they are bringing forth
a different meaning altogether. The word
"perverted" here is a Greek word
We find the same word
used in ACTS
Again we see the word metastrepho used in JAMES 4:9 <read>Laughter is the
opposite of mourning, and joy is the opposite of
heaviness. So we see that the word emphasizes a
transformation from one nature to another.
Now, going back to
Galatians, Paul let's us know that the people had
actually moved from His presence which is Life into something else which
produces death.
Now we should examine
closer what Paul is saying where we read in Galatians where Paul says, "I
marvel that you are so soon removed from Him
that called you." What does he mean when he says,
removed? Removed from what or from Whom? It's not
a what but a Whom that he is referring to. And
Who is It that he is referring to? Who is it
that has called you into the Grace of Christ?
1 PETER 5: 10
<read>
The
God
of all Grace who has called you into His Doxa. His mind set. There you are. And how does He actually call you?
2 THES 2: 13 - 14
<read>
By
the
Gospel, the Good news. Remember, in 1 Thes 4 we see Him descend with a Shout, which is a call
or summons to appear before the Judge.
So, then we see in
Galatians that Paul was admonishing the people because
they were removed from the One Who called them. Now
the question still remains this. If God called them by His Gospel, then how do they become
removed from Him. Paul says, by another Gospel.
One of a different nature. So then the calling to His presence is by a Pure
Gospel or summons or shout, and to remove you from that Presence
will then take another message of a different nature.
And by accepting another Gospel of a
different sort of nature or characteristics, we see they
become removed from the very Presence of the one they claim to
worship.
If
a
pure Message from God brings you into Christ's Presence, then
it will take a perverted Message from a false Christ to take you out.
Say
after
me, "Pure - Vindicated - Message - brings presence. Changed
- Message - takes
you out."
Now,
remember. Eve was never raped, she was seduced. So these people, (who are removed from [1]HIM[1] who called them), were not forced
to leave His Presence. They actually desert Him. According to
VINES, he says, "the middle voice indicates that
they are responsible for their declension (falling away), rather
than the Judaizers who had influenced them.
After
all,
Eve was responsible for her actions as is any other woman who commits adultery. The man was not
the only one who was stoned for the act,
they both were stoned even if she felt she was seduced. Now,
if it was rape, then he alone was stoned. And so
we see these people Paul spoke of were being led away
from Christ by a Gospel that was perverted in it's nature. And these people were willing to be led away. Paul
then was warning them to repent or perish.
Get back to the vindicated word or be
lost. Now, the Scripture does tell
us that, "if we be any otherwise minded God is obligated to
reveal it to us," if we are His.
Now
another
thing we see here about this removing was that it wasn't
complete yet. He said, "I marvel that you are so soon removed" which is a present
tense usage and suggests that the removal wasn't fully
complete when Paul wrote to them. That is why
He warned them. They were in the process of
removing themselves.
The
Amplifies
version puts it this way, " I am surprised and astonished
that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him who invited you and
called you by the Grace of Christ..."
The NIV says, "I am
astonished that you are so quickly deserting the
one who called you by the Grace of Christ..."
The Wuest
translation probably puts it the clearest of all, "I am marveling
that in such a manner suddenly you are becoming
of another mind and deserting from Him who called you in the sphere
of Christ's grace to a message of good news diametrically opposed to the
Gospel, which message is not an alternative Gospel."
God
doesn't
have any alternatives. Live, die, sink,
swim or drown, this is
it! "There's one faith, One Lord, One
Baptism."
Period.
So
we
see that this removal of oneself from Him Who called them is actually a
deserting of Him. And Who is He, but the Word.
"As
a man thinketh in His heart so is He, and out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." So to desert His Word, the way He says it, is to desert Him.
So
in
getting back to paragraph 187, when brother Branham said, "You
can't say, 'It says this ' and 'It says this' and make it work.
You got to say the same thing It says."
For
if
we believe Jesus, then He said, "The Words that I speak are Spirit
and Life." Who's Life and Who's Spirit? His Life,
and His Spirit. "As a man thinketh
in His heart, so is He." Then out of
His mouth He will speak what he is. His words
then identify who he is.
So then to speak another Word and say it's His
Word, makes it bring forth another Life and another Spirit.
2 COR 11: 1 - 4 <read>
The Amplified says, "you tolerate that so well." The New American Standard says, " you bear it so beautifully,"
The Wuest says, "You so
beautifully tolerate it," and the NIV says, "you put up with
it easily enough." In other words, where was
your resistance, where
was your struggle to keep from receiving another man's
seed and since you didn't even put up a struggle to prevent it, Then it's not
rape, it's seduction and therefore consent.
Remember, Paul spoke in Galatians that they deserted
Christ of their own free will. No one forced them out. They
left on their own and therefore they are
responsible solely for their own
rejection of Christ. Webster says
of desert: (to forsake someone or
something that one ought not to leave. To fail
someone when most needed.)
So when brother Branham
says, "To say it differently from what He said,
will not bring the same result, or it won't work. He is saying this. To say it the way God said it is
blessing and to say it any other way is cursing. That's Deuteronomy 28. Blessings and Cursings.
Now, we know that the
only way you can say it the same way is if you
can repeat it with the same words and the same emphasis on each
word. Then it becomes an echo. And that is the only way
it will be the same thing.
MATT 13: 10 - 16
<read>
Now,
remember, this word hath is the Greek word, echo. So they who are foreordained to know are
built in such a way as to be able to not only hear but also to
understand and therefore repeat what they hear. They echo. Notice in Mark
4: 11 <read> he calls the others
who are not able to echo, those who are
"without" meaning to be apart from which signifies a
separation from His Presence. They
are not able to echo because they
were not fashioned to echo.
Now,
remember, brother Branham said, unless it is said in
the same way He said it, it won't work. It won't have the same result. Now isn't the Bride of Christ, His Elect supposed
to be
fashioned in His Image. (Romans
8:29) <read>
And
isn't
this transformation to come by the renewing of the mind.
Romans 12: 1 - 2<read>
And
doesn't
this change come about because we see Him as He really
is? 1 JOHN 3: 2
<read> 1 COR 13:
12 <read>
And Who
is He but the Word? John 1: 1 <read> JOHN 6:63 <read>So then you can see that the Life of the Word is Who
He really is, and when He manifests that Word Life to
us we see Him for what He is and as we receive it as only His own
kind can, the we are shaped to it and by it as only one who is birthed by
it can.
GEN 1: 11, 26 - 27
<read>So then, coming forth after the seed of
Him Who called us. We see that we are
Spoken Word Seed, fashioned after Him who is the Word.
Then as He manifests in
His True Character, we must also manifest in that same Character. Then His
Words which are Spirit and Life must
manifest and produce in His Seed the same nature and same character.
Then can yousee
why it must be the same Word to produce the same Life and
same Spirit?
And God said, Let every
Seed bring forth after It's kind. That is a law of God that can not be changed. Then we cannot help butcome into the Image of the One who hath called us into His marvelous
Grace. The Life of the Word
will bring forth after It's kind. Right? Then It must be the sane word to
produce the same results. Any other Word will not
work. Oh, it might bring forth, but unless
It is the Word of God as He said it, It can not
bring forth anything but what it is. After its kind.
Now, the word KIND comes
from the root of KIN, and has to do with origin or nature. So, you see
that every seed will bring forth after
it's nature. Then only a perfect word will bring
forth a perfect word bride. That is why God vindicates His perfect Word. So that there
is no doubt. And that is why Satan uses the
same word but puts a twist to it. To bring forth his
own seed.