ONENESS # 55
Oneness with God is having His Mind
Brian Kocourek
ONENESS pp. 210 - 211 <read>
What is oneness with God? "Let the mind
that was in Christ be in you."
"His own mind in you will recognize every
Word that He wrote."
You must recognize in
order to be able to rightly divide the Word. The reason
people can't rightly divide the Word is that
they can't recognize.
2 TIM 2:12-15 (correctly)
Rightly dividing - Then how
do you wrongly divide? Rightly (correctly) divide -
make a straight cut. To dissect, breakdown, expound
correctly the divine Message, rightly divide.
Now when he says you've got to have Christ's own
mind in order to recognize what is His Word and what is not His Word.
Therefore, to me
, I believe that unless you have the very mind of Christ there is no way
you can recognize. So here we see that the word
"recognize" is the key. What does it mean to
recognize? What does this word even suggest to us.
WEBSTER: RECOGNIZE - to experience or
appreciate, but I'm sure brother
Branham was speaking to the Apostles as more than just appreciating
the Words of Jesus.
Now, if we
take our language at face value, then what brother Branham is
telling us, is that Oneness is to have the mind of Christ.
And once you have His mind, it will bring back
with it your memory. Because memory has to
do with the mind.
To recognize according to Webster, is to experience
or to identify someone or something as to having known it previously.
Let's face it, as I said Sunday - how can you
rightly divide what you are unsure about. You'd
just be stabbing at it in the dark. Just guessing at it or presuming. And brother Branham said to presume is to venture without
authority.
So we see here, that we
can not have Oneness with God without understanding God.
Now, I am getting
ready to fly over to
Once in a while you hear
a slang word or expression that will throw you off - like -
"I'll be back in a fort night." Unless you know what a fortnight is
you don't understand what is being said.
A fort night is 2 weeks.
But you must know that to be able to understand
what is being said.
Now, when I was in Norway and
Sweden, the languages were very different but having grown up in
Minnesota where there is a high percentage of Scandinavians from Sweden
and Norway, I was used to hearing at least the sing song fashion in which they
speak. Also
many of the words in their language have a basis in
English, ie:God is Gud,
goods are God(e). Out is ut, and sale is salge. so when we
see words that we can recognize, even parts of the words, we sort of pice together a communication through identification and
piecing enough of them together to make out a thought.
1 COR 13: 9 - 12 root
GINOSKO to understand.
Known = epi - ginosko.
to know upon some mark. to
recognize.
Matt 24: 32 <read>
MATT
ACTS 22: 1 - 15 esp. vs
14 <read>Why? Because this "know",
this "ginosko" means that there is more than a mere ability to intellectually be
able to know or by reason of mental prowess. It has to do
with Seed. Notice vs. 12. Those who are
made to echo will be able to understand the Word and thus echo it.
Luke 1: 18 - 34 Know no man. This has to do with
Seed.
2 COR
Eph 3: 19
Phil 3: 10
Luke 10: 22 - 24
John 10: 14 - 27 - 38 esp. (14, 15, 27)
John 14: 7, 20, 31 17: 3, 23
1 John 2: 3 - 5
1 John 5: 20
Let's just bow our heads in prayer.