ONENESS
# 67
Interruption
of the Union
Brian
Kocourek
DEUT
23: 14, 29: 29
Last Wednesday night we continued to recap Oneness as we
shall
this
morning also. This is number 67 in our series.
Wednesday night we spoke about the first five
points brother
Branham mentioned in his sermon Oneness and we saw that he tied
Oneness with God into Communion. In other words, to have
Oneness
you must
be able to communicate. And in order to communicate you
must be on the same wave length. Your mind must be able to
com
prehend the mind of the other person.
Now
we saw also that he immediately tied this point into
Hebrews
1
and Genesis 1 that spoke of Christ and Our own coming into
the
Image of the Father.
So
we see here that Oneness has to do with having the same source
as the
one we wish to have oneness with.
So point number two is this[1]:
Our Oneness with God depends upon a
certain
relationship which we can have only because we are of the
same
source.
Point number
three[1] breaks forth from number two and two from
one.
Having the same source is essential to this oneness for
out
of the
same Source we have the same Life. And if we thus have the
same Life
then that Life will produce in us the same Nature. And
of course how can that Life be sent forth but by a Word if in
fact He
is the Word and "as a man thinketh in His heart,
then so
is He,"
and if he is the Word and we are to come forth in His
Image
then we must be dealing with a Word of Life, according to 2
Peter
1: 1-4.
Which then brings us to [1]point
number four. It is essential to
have the same Nature in order to produce the harmony that
is
necessary
for Oneness. Oneness is dependent upon having the same
Nature in both communing parties. "How can two walk together lest
they be agreed?" You could never put a fox in the chicken
house
nor could a wolf have communion with a lamb. At least
not with
their present natures which are a result of the
fall in the
garden.
Now this harmony then causes a desire for fellowship. A being
together.
so we see then that out of point number four
which is
the
nature that is produced by the Life which comes from the same
source,
we see point number five[1]
which is a desire or longing to
come
together in fellowship. We just can't get away from it. To be
apart then becomes contrary to our nature that is within. No
matter
how many times we may have been hurt by our flesh natures,
we still have a higher nature that loves the Harmony that comes
from the Life of the Word. Brother Branham
said, "The only
grounds
for fellowship is oneness."
Now,
Wednesday night we looked at the interruption in the
Garden
that caused the Life and nature of God to be interrupted in the
lives of His Seed in which we may count ourselves to be among
that
number.
Point # 6 then is the interruption to the nature that caused an
interruption
to the harmony and therefore oneness in the garden.
Now
our flesh has a different nature than our spirit.
We showed Gen 1: 11 that all things must reproduce after it's
kind and
the scripture also says, " Who's seed is in itself"
We
found in Eph 1: 3 - 4 That
we were in Him. And being His seed
we had to
be in Him. Then notice, that seed must come forth after
It's kind, or in the image of the seed bearer and giver. So we
had to be
in Him at one point if we are to come into His Image.
Because
Gen 1: 26 - 27 says we were created in His own image then
formed us
of the dust of the earth....Gen 2: 7
We Then followed this through and saw the interruption take
place
in
Genesis chapter 3 and then the result of that interruption in
chapter 4 when Cain murdered Abel. Now in Chapter 3 we
find 2
seed had
been planted. The Son of Man came forth planting and the
man in
black came right behind as we see the parable in Matthew
and the
other Gospels.
So the
Satan through the Serpent caused a great interruption in
the Life
stream of God through His children.
Now
this interruption not only caused an interruption in the Life
Stream, but also since the Life dictates the nature, we see
man
now had a
dual nature. Up to the time of Noah, those seed of God
through
Adam still possessed a nature that was 100% compatible to
God and His Word. But at the time of Noah, we found in Genesis 6
that this compatibility was destroyed because the Sons of God
began to look upon the fairness of the women who were in direct
descent
of Cain and therefore the serpents lineage.
Now the sad thing is that this intermarrying that took
place
produced
offspring that were no longer pure sons of God, but now
became a hybrid. Not any longer pure lineage of God but
another
life was
interjected into the blood stream and produced a hybrid
people or race. Noah was the last man that was genetically
pure
and a
perfect son of God. From Noah'sons and on, all men would
have some serpent nature in their flesh and this hybrid nature
would war continuously against the nature of God, which
we
understand that He is the Word. "For as a man thinketh i His
heart, so
is He."
Now, we see it was at this point of the
interruption in the
garden
that death set in. Now, I would like to examine this
life
and death
scenario this morning.
Last night while in prayer, The Lord opened my understanding to
some
things I never perceived before concerning life and death.
As you
know we are looking at the two natures that we have. The
nature of our Spirit and that of this flesh which Paul calls in
Roman's, "The body of this death." For that is exactly what it
is.
1 Cor 2: 10 - 16
no man understandeth the things of God save
the
Spirit of God in Him
There is no way we can possibly understand the things of
God
through
our mental abilities. And that is where the rub comes. We
toil
within ourselves over these two natures that are so much in
conflict.
Now
what God revealed to me last night was this. "A
man that has
Life in him has a living hope in Him. Now that
is scriptural,
That's 1 PETER 1: 3 <read> A man that has Life in him
has a
living hope welling up within him like an artesian well. He
is
living
for something. He is anticipating something. He has
goals
and he
has personal targets to shoot for in his life. He is
constantly
bettering himself or at least trying to do so because
he is
motivated to do so out of Life itself.
He will always be sowing and therefore reaping. That is the
principal of Faith. If you sow you shall also reap. But a man
that has
no hope, although he may have sowed for a while, because
he may
not see anything come of it immediately, he begins to draw
back and
quits sowing. That's when whatever fruits of his sowing
begin to die out and there becomes no chance at all of
ever
reaping.
The
rich young ruler had understood sowing and reaping. The bible
tells us
that he even told Jesus that he paid tithes of all. But
when Jesus asked him to take that one step further and sow all
that he
had for the
join him
and disciple and perhaps become one of the Apostles, yet
he could
not see that far ahead.
So we
see the scripture tells us that his barns overflowed and
had to
build more barns. But one day he felt he had all he wanted
and he
stopped sowing. He died that night. That is the way
with
people
today. They are not happy unless they get some new toy and
when they
do, the joy may last a day, a week or maybe a month but
it soon
begins to rust or tarnish and the joy flees as quickly.
That's because they are sowing to the flesh, and of the
flesh
they
shall reap. But if the flesh was sown in corruption then all
you could
ever hope for is corruption and that is why people give
up hope.
What use they say to work so hard and you can't have it
forever.
The joy flee's away. The excitement leaves. And all
that
is left
is the bills.
You see, Life is an energy. Life is an ever changing force
within us that is constantly looking to expand it's boundaries,
to press out into uncharted waters so to speak. To bring
us to
the limits. My grandmother broke her hip at the age of 89
while
weeding
under her
doing so
much and she just told them this, "The moment I cease to
work is the day I'll begin to die. Her hip took longer
to heal
than
hoped for and she passed away a few years later because her
activity level ceased. She was right. Her broken hip slowed her
down long
enough for death to catch up.
Life
is all about challenge and change. Always pressing
forward,
never
worried about yesterday but looking to tomorrow and enjoy
ing today. But
death on the other hand is motionless. It has no
aspirations and no ambitions. It only looks on with
disgust at
all the commotion that goes on around it. It neither has
breath
nor has it vitality. It is simply
stillborn, motionless, empty
and void of energy. It has no expectations, no hope.
Therefore
reality no longer has a hold upon those who are dead. They
have
no hope
and therefore nothing to Live for.
Yet
Life is constantly in a struggle with something. That is
the
nature of Life. We get the wrong idea of rest and peace. We
say
we long for rest, yet our idea of really making it is to
have
everything
we desire in life and not have to work anymore. Do you
realize
how contrary that is to nature itself.
Let's
just look at a life capsule for a moment. A young child
is
so full of Life and vitality that his parents have a fit trying
just to keep up with it and put the things back in their proper
order
that it misplaced or messed up. Energy. Bundles of it. Why?
It's full of life, zeal, vitality. It's
little muscles are
constantly pressing the limits. Growing up, pushing out. energy
unlimited.
Then that child begins to grow taller and begins
to
develop great strength. Maybe it pursues athletics
because it
simply
becomes an outlet for all that pent up energies.
At
16 - 20 that person is at the peak of it's life cycle.
Full of
ambition,
full of dreams. Full of Love and full of hormones.
Oh
those
hormones. They are so pent up that they seem as though they
will just
burst out all over.
Yet
as the child grows older, if he has been properly brought up,
he begins to acquires wisdom to control his energies and
to
channel
them.
Then with his dreams in mind he begins to channel his energies
into
college and a career and his desires are to continue to move
upward and outward. He has the pioneer
spirit. By his mid
twenties he doesn't realize he is already dying and death
is
setting
into his body. But his mind still has great ambition. He
begins to push his mind more than his body and he strives for
material
achievements.
A job,
a home, a family, a car etc. As he reaches his 30's
his
body begins to slow down to a less hectic pace but he is going
through denial. He only tells himself that his body isn't func
tioning the same because he has made other choices, but in reali
ty by the age of 20 to 25 one of His lights goes out and by
mid
thirty of
forty he looses another one.
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" Now,
when we were made, if when we were made. And they
just
found out, recently, that your body is full of light.
X-ray
proves that. The x-ray does not have any light of its own. It's
your light that it uses. You're born with four rays.
After a
little while, say twenty, twenty-five, one ray goes
out; and
thirty-five,
another; or forty, another one goes out; and finally
when you get pass about sixty-five, you're living on your last
ray.
And every time you take an x-ray picture, you are
tearing
them rays down. That's the reason you don't have no more... you
stick these kids' feet in them machines, because it was
just
tearing the rays right out of their little bodies. And
that's
cosmic light that's in you, that you are made up, full of
light
cells.
Now, that's cosmic light."
So then what we see is that as we reach a certain age we
are
dying and what Life we had is fading pretty quick. Death is
setting
in these mortal bodies and we try to tell ourselves that
it isn't. We begin to look forward to retirement,
because why?
Our
bodies are wearing out.
Yet that is so contrary to life. Life is always breaking
through
barriers
that would bind it and hinder it's growth. Life wants to
break free of any constraints that would hold it back. Life
is
energy,
life is motion.
Now,
I'm telling you these things so that you might have a better
understanding of the spiritual implication. We are looking at the
two
natures. The nature of the flesh and the nature of the Spir
Yet
we see that the parallel to this is that our Spirit, if it is
full of
Life will be constantly pushing forward and moving ahead
in the
ways of the Lord, but if we are spiritually dying or even
dead yet while we are living in these bodies, we will have lost
our ambition to serve God and to do the things He has called
us
to do. Life has hope, death has none.
With this in mind I would like to go to the
scripture this
morning and examine these thoughts on "What is
Life?". Now,
remember,
we are still recapping Oneness, but this ties in quite
well with the overall theme of Oneness and this Life and
the
nature of
this Life that we have been focussing on lately.
1) What is HOPE: WEBSTER = very weak- a feeling
of what is
wanted that may
happen. But the scripture usage is ELPIZ or
ELPIZO "an earnest
expectation - similar to faith. 54 times
this word is used
as faith and 53 times as hope.
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JEFF.IN. -- V-2 N-22 - 63-1110.1M
And as the
Father sent Him to preach to the living; to those
who had hope and then present the same Message to those who had
no hope,
it seems to fitting at this time that that will have to
be done; because the Spirit of Christ living in us
does not
change
the nature of Him, or doesn't change God's system. He must
be the
same in every generation. He must be the same. Said,
"As
the
Father sent Me, so send I you."
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And this
world must soon come to an end. It can't
go much
longer.
Sin is too deep. It's beyond hope. There is no more
hope
for the
world. It's past that.
JOB.11:20
But
the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape,
and their
hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
JOB.14:7
For there
is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
sprout again,
and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
JOB.14:19
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the
things which
grow
[out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest
the hope
of man.
JOB.27:8
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul?
JOB.41:9
Behold,
the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast
down
even at
the sight of him
PSALMS.33:18
Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear
him, upon
them that
hope in his mercy;
PSALMS.33:22
Let
thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
PSALMS.42:5
Why
art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou
disquieted
in me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him
[for] the
help of
his countenance.
Hope
lifts you out of depression.
PROVERBS.11:7
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation
shall perish: and the
hope of
unjust [men] perisheth.
PROVERBS.13:12
Hope deferred
maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire
cometh,
[it is] a tree of life.
ECCLESIASTES.9:4
For to him that is joined to all the living
there is hope: for a
living
dog is better than a dead lion.
ISAIAH.38:18
For
the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee:
they that
go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
I.CORINTHIANS.13:13
And
now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but
the great
est of these [is] charity.
II.CORINTHIANS.10:15
Not
boasting of things without [our] measure, [that is], of other
men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is
increased,
that we
shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundant
ly,
GALATIANS.5:5
For we
through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by
faith.
2) Where does it come from:
PSALMS.38:15
For
in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
PSALMS.39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
PSALMS.71:5
For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my ¨
youth.
PSALMS.78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works ¨
of God,
but keep his commandments:
PSALMS.119:81
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope
in thy ¨
word.
PSALMS.119:114
Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I
hope in thy word.
ROMANS.8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but
by reason
of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,
ROMANS.15:4
For
whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
might
have hope.
ROMANS.15:13
Now the God of
hope fill you with all joy and peace in believ
ing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power
of the Holy
Ghost.
EPHESIANS.4:4
[There
is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of
your calling;
II.THESSALONIANS.2:16
Now our
Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
which
hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation
and good
hope through grace,
I.TIMOTHY.1:1
Paul, an
apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our
Saviour,
and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our hope;
TITUS.1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie,
promised
before
the world began;
TITUS.3:7
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs ac
cording
to the hope of eternal life.
I.PETER.1:21
Who by
him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead,
and gave
him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
3) Why we need to have it:
ROMANS.4:18
Who
against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father
of many
nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be.
PSALMS.71:14
But I will hope
continually, and will yet praise thee more and
more.
PROVERBS.14:32
The wicked is
driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous
hath hope
in his death.
ROMANS.5:2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we
stand,
and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
ROMANS.8:24
For
we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for
what a
man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
I.CORINTHIANS.9:10
Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For
our sakes, no
doubt,
[this] is written: that he that ploweth
should plow in
hope;
and that he that thresheth in hope should be
partaker of
his hope.
I.CORINTHIANS.15:19
If in
this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
most
miserable.
II.CORINTHIANS.3:1
Seeing then
that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
EPHESIANS.1:18
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may
know what
is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of
his inheritance in the saints,
I.THESSALONIANS.4:13
But I would not
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which
have no
hope.
TITUS.2:13
Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of
the
great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
HEBREWS.7:19
For
the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope
[did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
I.PETER.1:3
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again
unto a
lively
hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
I.PETER.3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready
always
to [give]
an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of
the
hope that
is in you with meekness and fear:
4) What will it produce in me:
JOB.31:24
If I have
made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,
[Thou
art] my confidence;
PSALMS.16:9
Therefore
my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
also
shall
rest in hope.
PSALMS.31:24
Be of
good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
that hope
in the LORD.
PSALMS.119:116
Uphold me
according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me
not be
ashamed of my hope.
PSALMS.130:5
I wait
for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
hope.
PROVERBS.10:28
The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expecta
tion of the wicked shall perish.
JEREMIAH.17:7
Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope
the LORD
is.
ACTS.2:26
Therefore
did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover
also my
flesh shall rest in hope:
ROMANS.5:4
And
patience, experience; and experience, hope:
ROMANS.5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed
abroad in
our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
ROMANS.8:25
But if
we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience
wait for
[it].
ROMANS.12:12
Rejoicing
in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer;
COLOSSIANS.1:23
If ye
continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard,
[and] which was preached to every creature which is under
heaven;
whereof I
Paul am made a minister;
COLOSSIANS.1:27
To
whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of
this
mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory:
I.THESSALONIANS.1:3
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight
of God
and our Father;
I.THESSALONIANS.2:19
For
what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are]
not
even ye
in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
I.THESSALONIANS.5:8
But
let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breast
plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salva
tion.
HEBREWS.3:6
But
Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we
hold fast
the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto
the end.
HEBREWS.6:11
And
we desire that every one of you do shew the same
diligence to
the full
assurance of hope unto the end:
HEBREWS.6:18
That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for
God
to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for
refuge to
lay hold upon the hope set before us:
HEBREWS.6:19
Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and
stedfast,
and which entereth into that within the veil;
I.PETER.1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the
revelation
of Jesus Christ;
I.JOHN.3:3
And
every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even
as he is
pure.
1680
elpis {el-pece'} from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usual
ly with pleasure);
AV D hope (53) D faith (1) [54]
1) expectation of
evil, fear
2) expectation of
good, hope; and in the Christian sense, joyful
and confident
expectation of eternal salvation
GREEK LEXICON D STRONG'S NUMBER
1679
1679 elpizo {el-pid'-zo}
from 1680; TDNT D 2:517,229; vb
AV D trust (18) D hope (10) D hope for (2)
D things
hoped for (1) [31] 1) to hope
(in a religious
sense,
to wait for salvation with joy and full
confidence),
hopefully
to trust in