ONENESS # 54
How do I know I am saying the same thing
Brian Kocourek
Last Wednesday night we
back tracked and read from PP. 187 where brother
Branham said, "You can't say 'It says this' and it says This,
and make it work. You've got to say the same thing It
says. That makes a confession."
We examined this thought
in view of the scripture and especially Galatians
1: 6-9. Where Paul said they had removed or
deserted the very one Who had called them by Grace. He said they deserted Him to go after
another Gospel, which is not an alternative Gospel, but
a Gospel that is perverted. In other words, it
was the same Message, only put together in such a way as to be of
a totally opposite nature. We examined by scripture that you
can indeed take the same scripture and quotes and actually
come up with a totally opposite meaning, just by the way you take
them and the order in which you do so.
When
Cain
had offered His sacrifice, God had said to him, "Thou has rightly
offered but thou hast not rightly divided." So,
even though the intent may be ok and the motive ok,
yet unless you offer back to God what He has given you, your
sacrifice will do you no good. And as brother Branham said, "It
won't work."
So then we ask
ourselves, Since things have become so muddled up, how
do I know what is the same way He said it? Now, since it is so critical that we have a right way of saying
what He said, then there must be a way that we will know if we are saying
it "The right way". So brother Branham preached a sermon
to us that tells us how we know when we
are in the correct way or not. He said there
are five musts that we must have in order to know it is
lined with God's thinking.
108 DOING.GOD.A.SERVICE JEFF.IN V-4 N-8
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" Notice, now
notice, there in following God... Now, I want you to--to
kinda jot this in your mind. To keep God's commandments, to do anything right for God, to
do--do God a service correctly, there is five musts, to do
God service correctly. 109 Now,
David was doing God a service. He was doing everything he
knowed to do, except leaving off
God. See? He was doing something that was right,
something good for the people, something good for the church. 110
But there's five musts; I want you to
remember these. No matter how sincere a man may be in doing it, doing God a service, this--these five must be
there: First, it must be His time to do
it. 111 What if--if Moses would come,
said, "We will come build an ark and
float up the
Jesus would come, said, "Now I will tell you what we will do. We will just go up on the mount like Moses
did and get a newdeclaration
of laws"? See? Uh, uh! He was that law. See? You must be
in His time. It must be in His season. You got that now? 113Must be in His time. It must be in His season, time
and season,and
it must be according to His Word that has been spoken. Itmust...
114 "I
don't care how well you say this ought to be, and that ought
to be, or this ought to be, it's got to be according to His Word, according to
His time and His season; and it must be given according to the
person He has chosen to do it by. 115 I
don't care how much dignitaries. There's king David just as great as any of them. He was king
over the nation. But He had a way of doing
it, and He had told them how He would do it. But they failed to do it. 116 It must be according to His Word,
according to His time, according to the--His program; and it must be by the person
He has chose to give it and to do it".
117
"Moses tried to run from it. "Take
somebody else!" But God chose Moses to do
it. Many of them... Paul tried to get out
of it, many others. But it's got to be by the one He chooses to do it. And it must come first to His prophets. The
Word of God must come to His
prophets, Amos 3:7, "The Lord God will do nothing until first
He reveals it to His servant the prophet." 118
Four, and the prophet must be a-vindicated by the Word
of God. 119There's your five
musts. It's got to be that way: His time; His season
(when He said it would be); and the man that He chose, and it must come to the
prophet; and the prophet must be a vindicated prophet. We
find out many of them in the Bible it come to the prophets
and it wasn't a-vindicated. Our prophet is Jesus Christ.
So we see that we must
have these five musts in order to know we have
rightly divided His Word. # 1> It must be in God's timing. # 2> It must
come in the season of God's choosing. # 3> It must
be according to His Word. # 4> It must come to the man of God's choosing and he
said in His Word that he chose to bring it by a prophet. And # 5> That prophet must be A - vindicated.
Now,
today I would like to pick up at PP. 197 of ONENESS.
This will be number 54. Let's read from 197 to 198. <read>
Before we move on,
Let's just take a short thought on this what brother Branham
is saying about the people are just so head strong.
We know that the people will be in this condition at
the end-time. So headstrong that they will refuse to accept the Word for the way He said it even though It
has been truly identified and a-vindicated.
Why? Because they are so headstrong. Do you know they will also miss the rapture because they are so
headstrong? And that is why they can't
receive the Appearing which get's us ready
for the Rapture.
2 PETER 3: 3 - 5
<read>
Walking after their own lusts...what is that? their
own desires. No thought as to what
God desires. He doesn't even enter
the picture. It's their own desires that they want to fulfill. Notice
also it says, for this they
are willfully ignorant. Now, it's one thing to
be ignorant. We know that we were all ignorant to what
God was doing in this hour. But He said, "If you be any otherwise minded,
God will reveal this thing unto you."
ACTS
Now,
how could He command them to repent, (which is to
change their mind) if there was
nothing to change there mind about? God will no longer accept our ignorance as
an excuse. Not when He has come down Himself to bring His own understanding to
us.
1 THES 4: 13
<read>
He would not have us to
be ignorant. Why? Because ignorance will only
do as an excuse until you've been warned. Then you can
not any longer use ignorance as an excuse.
ROMANS 1: 19 - 20
<read>
They are without excuse.
God has not done this thing in a corner. People are
in the system because they want to be. The scripture
tells us they are the ones who heap teachers to
themselves, because they have the itching ears. And these teachers hold down the
truth and by doing so, they suppress it
as we see in
Romans
And
the
laity by their traditions, they make the Word of God of no effect
just as we read in PP. 187 last Wednesday night.
MARK 7:7 <read>
Remember, on Wednesday night we read from Galatians
1:6 where Paul said, "How soon you are removed from the One
Who called you into another Gospel". A perverted
one. One of a different nature altogether.
And we saw that the word removed, according to VINE's
it means an actually deserting of Christ, He
says of this word remove "the
middle voice indicates that they are responsible for their
declension (falling away), rather than the Judaizers
who had influenced them." So you can't blame the false teachers,
they are only their because there is a
people who do not love the Truth.
2 THES 2: 10 - 12
<read>
And what is a delusion?
VINES says, "it is literally a wandering, whereby those who
are led astray roam hither and thither, is always used in the
NT of a mental straying, a wrong opinion."
According
to
Webster, a delusion is, " A deluding influence. A false belief or opinion. It implies a belief in something
that is contrary to fact or
reality, resulting from deception, a misconception,
or a mental disorder."
In
other
words, they haven't got a clue as to what is Truth and what is
fable. And that's the condition the entire world is
in this last hour.
Now, with this in mind,
I want to move ahead in this message and continue on at PP. 199 and read
through PP. 209. <read>
Now I would like to try
and hit this thought here on God gathering His Elect for the
next few minutes.
Now,
we saw the mess that we were in. Wrong influences on every hand. False anointed every
where. False teachers everywhere.
2 PETER 2: 1 - 2
<read>
Many: actually
means mostly. Mostly or most shall follow
their pernicious ways. Webster, Pernicious applies to that which does great harm by insidiously
undermining or weakening." In other words, because the
two spirit's would be so close as to deceive the Elect If it were
possible, then it will deceive all but the very Elect. So
these men bring in alongside of true
doctrine, their own ideas that are contrary to the real and those
who are not Elect will fall for it and come out from under the protection
of the Word.
Brother Branham says,
The same Word that brought Moses out is the same Word that caused the
separation of the Wise virgin from the foolish.
In pp. 203 he says, "The same thing that separated
Luke warm
Remember
in
Genesis, chapter one. Every time the Word of God is Spoken,
the first thing to happen is a separation,
then a gathering follows. And once like seed are together, it moves into reproduction.
So, then, how can one expect to be out from God's
Presence. How can one deny His presence and expect to
have His Life reproduced in them? It can't happen.
It's contrary to all nature. Even nature
must obey this law God set forth.
If you have a male
cherry tree and no female cherry trees, their will
be no cross pollenization. You've got to have both.
And then God's little workers, the bee's will
carry the pollen from the male to the female. But where you
purchase a tree and bring it home and
plant it you've stopped the reproduction cycle. It will
now take the seed to do the same thing. And can't you
see "The Spoken Word IS the Original sees."
And the same
One Who spoke it back before eternity, is here speaking
it in this hour. Why? Because He made
a promise to Himself.
So we see now in PP. 199
- 209 that brother Branham mainly speaks here of this gathering that God is
here doing. He's gathering His wheat into His garner.
2 THES 2: 1 When? At the
time of 1: 7, 10 <read> Ephesians 1: 10 <read> Now
what are these that He gathers?
Ephesians 1: 3 - 12
<read>
In
other
words, we were in Him. he loved us as only
one could love His own seed. He so wanted to see us in His
image, that He predestined into us, into that
gene seed, His very attributes and characteristics. And then He assures a plan
that will cause these attributes to begin to manifest themselves. He
predestines a plan to gather us and then to transform us into His image. It
says, we will stand before Him, or in His
presence - Holy and without blame. And He brings it about through His Love, by predestinating
us to it.
Then
He
must gather us together into Him. Now this
gathering together is more significant than we ever could hope or dram.
For you see God made promise to Himself
that He would have a seed after His kind. And He has
come to make sure that happens as precisely
as He ordained it to happen.
GENESIS 1: 11, 26 - 27
<read>
Now,
God just didn't set up some kind of hocus pocus that would make
this reproduction happen. He laid out a plan. And that
plan was for a gathering to happen. Like seed with like seed. So
first of all He caused a separation of all
like from unlike things. Then, this separation by it's very nature
brought on a gathering of all like seed. Once
the seed is gathered together, then cross pollenization may occur. Like seed pollinating like seed.
So we see how essential
this gathering is. That's why this female Holy Ghost
stuff is so far off the Word. God the father of
all Glory will give unto you the seed of all wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him. A Husband, a Groom coming for a
bride to pollenize her with
the Word, to bring forth the very same Life that is in the Father.
So
you
see, God, Our Father didn't just come in this hour to be seen. He
actually came to save His own Seed from perishing. So He came down with a
shout. A Kaleusma, which is a military
command. A calling together, a
summons to stand before the great Judge. Once
He has us assembled together, He then can transform us
by this same Word into His Likeness, saving us from extinction.
1 PETER 1: 3 - 5, 9
<read>
Notice
how
it speaks of this end time revelation which brings salvation.
Now, this were salvation here is a Greek word
which simply means to deliver or rescue. So He is here with a purpose in Mind and that purpose
is to rescue His seed. To not only Preserve
it, but to manifest it.
So
first
He has to gather it together. That is what the
Shout does first. Secondly, He must also cause it to come to the place of immortality. In order to do that this
Shout must also quicken
His seed to Life. Once that is done, This seed must come forth after It's kind. So then
it must come into the Image of the One Who's
seed it is.
2 JOHN 3: 2 <read>
1 COR 13: 12
<read>
Now,
what is the Image of God? JOHN 1: 1 says, He is
the Word. "As a
man thinketh in His heart, so is He". and " Out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh."
So,
when does it become apparent that His Elect seed are in His Image?
When She is saying the same thing He said! Then they are ready to be gathered up and taken out. Then
they are ready for a rapture.
MALACHI 3
: 16 - 18 <read>
LAMSA: In that day when
I will assemble my people.
So
we
see, then that God is obligated to His own Word to rescue His seed, so He
comes down Himself to do it. He Let's out a shout to
gather His seed together. This Shout Which is the Message of His presence is Life. And as John 1
says, "in Him was Life, and the Life
is the Light of Men." And just as in nature, it
takes Light to bring forth Life, so too it takes the Light of God's own Glorious
Presence that brings all seed into manifestation. Once they begin
to manifest, they begin to move together which constitutes
a gathering together. Then it becomes
apparent what is Wheat and what is tares. Then as the
wheat is gathered, she comes
into a maturity of what seed she actually is and as
she does, she is coming forth into His Image. She then begins to speak the same
thing He said, thus confirming that she truly is
in His Image.
This
then is the final stage that she must be in to be ready to take
on immortality, for her inner man has
already become quickened or resurrected into heavenly places
and will forever abide in His presence. "For where He goeth I will go, and where He
lodgeth, I will lodge. His people will be my people and His God will be my God."
Now, we are ready for
the honey moon. Bring on the millennium.
Let's bow our heads in
prayer.