ONENESS # 56
Gathering through Separation
Brian Kocourek
ONENESS pp. 199 <read> A
gathering. How? By separating first.
A gathering shows: 1) Movement
2) Focus
Notice Matt 3: 11 - 12 Direction, into a
definitive place.
Luke 3: 17 <read>
Now, gathering means a coming together. It
doesn't mean everybody does their own thing. Gathering shows cohesion. Oneness, like the sermon title.
Luke 17: 37
Matt 24: 28 gather together - in
ONE.
Eph 1: 10 In One. So who is this One?
2 Thes 2: 1 In Him! How?
2 Thes 1: 7 - 10
<read>
This is actually a continuation of 1 Thes 4: 16 - 18 <read>
Mark
Matt 24: 31
So we see this gathering shows that those who
are being gathered are becoming focused. And
once our focus is one, it draws us to that
single focus.
How many eyes does a person have? 2 right? Yet why don't we see 2 of every thing? Because our eyes are focused together to see one. So our
eyes must focus and work together to see just a single object. If you see
double, you are not focused on one. You see more than one.
Matt 6: 19 - 21 Now,
notice, His parable doesn't end here. Let's keep reading.
Matt
23 - evil - poneros - diseased.
Now, what happens
when your eye become diseased? You loose your sight?
Right? Your vision becomes dimmed. filmed over. corrupted. And that's what happened to Cain!
1 John
Gen 4: 6 - 7, 16 Cain went from the presence of
God.
Heb 3: 12 In departing from the living God. Soon this Word which He is the Living Word, becomes
nothing too you. No more
than just attending church. And there you are lost.
When that happens - you're gone. The Life has
left you. The oil is gone out of your lamp.
You've sprung a leak.
Matt 25: 1 - 3, 4-7, 8 Our
lamps are gone out
Matt 6: 22 - 23 Notice
Schofield's marking here- the light is a lamp.
Matt 6: 23 But if your lamp
is diseased, dying, then it becomes darkened and
separation set's in and death.
Eph 4: 17 - 18 Separated from the Life of God
Now, remember, the lamp represent the Word of
God.
Ps 199: 105
Proverbs 6: 23 Notice here the
tie between lamp and light. Light and life.
John 1: 1, 4-5 So when
we see the lamp went out for the foolish Virgins, it is because the Life of the Word left
them. Therefore, God's very Life became
only a work effort to them. Go to
church. do this. Don't do this.
Isa 62: 1-2
2 Sam 22: 29
Rev 4: 5 He is our
lamp. The gathering together is unto
Him.
And by our rejecting Him, or let's just say by
our setting aside His lamp, His Word, His Life we thus cut
ourselves off from the Light and the Life that only His Presence can
bring.
Proverbs 13: 9
2 Peter 2: 1 Denying
the One that bought them
This is not an outright denial of Christ, but
they are saying "I can do it!"
PP. 199 separating
from the tares but gathered together unto Him. The Word.
Matt 3: 11 - 12
Why does the lamp go out and therefore a
separation from the Word which is life take place?
PP. 200 because they are too headstrong!
1 John 1: 7
But we also know that in the end-time the spirit
of men will be so headstrong.
2 Tim 3: 1-4
Matt 6: 22 - 24 you can't serve 2 masters.
James 1: 6-8 it won't work.
Matt 6: 25, 27, 28 take no thought, 31, 34 You have no thought coming.
Luke 12; 11, 22, 25, 26
Mark
PP. 201 not our thoughts. They have no
life of their own. Only His Life will do, therefore only His
thoughts will do for only His Word can bring life.