ONENESS # 69

Doubt Breaks Unity

Wed July 28, 1993

Brian Kocourek

                   

Oneness pp. 36 - 39 <read>

 

 Doubt breaks unity. To disbelieve breaks fellowship.

 

Now,  look.  We as human beings, not even speaking  about  Chris­
tians. Human beings in general, we find fellowship with those who
have  the same purpose or beliefs that we do. We find comfort  in
having  others around us who believe the same things. It  doesn't
matter whether you are a conservative or a liberal. When you  are
around  others  who think like you and talk like you there  is  a
certain comfort level we receive from that.

 

God is no different. He said in John 15, " If you love me  you'll
receive Me and My Words." That's fellowship.

 

   FELLOWSHIP:  Webster...companionship, friendly association,  a
mutual sharing. A group of people with the same interests. So  we
see  that  the  word  here  has to  do  with  a  togetherness,  a 
commonality  of sorts. And believe it or not most  fellowship  is
involved around principles.

 

Look  at the Right to Lifers. They gather together around a  cer­
tain  principle, and so do abortion rights people. Wars  are  not
fought  over real estate as much as over  principles.  Principles
are what control us whether we believe in God or not. And without
principles there can be no control. Complete anarchy is all  that
would result.

 

So  you  see,  when brother Branham said,  that  the  minute  you
disbelieve  God's Word you break fellowship with  Him.  remember,
Jesus  said,  "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"  and  He
also said, "For out of the heart the mouth speaketh."

 

So  you can see the importance of what we say and how it  affects
our fellowship. A husband that throws slams at his wife or a wife
that  throws slams at her husband, it only ends in a broken  fel
­
lowship.  A broken harmony. So it shouldn't ever be done. Now  as
human being we make our share of mistakes. I'll be the first  one
to  admit that. The scripture tells me that I was born by  sexual
desire,  therefore  it also says, I "was born in sin,  shaped  in
iniquity and came to this world speaking lies."

 

Now,  that's nothing to brag about, but so did you, so we are  in
the  same  boat together. And as brother Bosworth  used  to  say,
Fellowship is two fellows in the same ship. In other words,  they
have a lot in common. With every wave that beats upon that  boat,
they  feel  the same pain, the same fear. With every ray  of  sun
that  beats  down upon them they feel the same thirst.  They  are
together, Live..die..sink..or swim. Together. And I believe  that
is  the way the Bride of Christ is tonight. We are in this  thing
together with Christ as head of our homes and His divine presence
in  full control of our ship. Where He goes we go, what He  says,
we say, what we see Him do we do. Oneness.  

 

And when He departs from this earth we shall leave with Him.

 

2 Thes 2 : 7 Wuest

"  Only  He (The Holy Spirit) who is  holding  (the  lawlessness)
down,  (will  do  so)  until  He goes  out  from  the  midst  (of
humanity).

 

Now we see that He has come down as we read in 1 Thes 4: 16  with
a shout, voice and trumpet. And during this time of His  Presence

among us we know thoroughly by many infutable scriptures and by a
vindicated  prophet, that He is here to gather in His elect  into
the  fellowship of His Son. He has come as the Spirit  of  Wisdom

and  Revelation in the Knowledge of the Father and thus  by  this
knowledge that He is giving to us through His end time message he
is restoring the hearts of His children back to the fellowship we

had in Him before the foundations of the world.

 

1 THES 4: 15 - 18...

 

Ephesians 1: 3 - 4...

 

Now  this  fellowship comes, or shall we say is restored  by  His
Word.

 

1 JOHN 1: 1-3 ...

 

This  Word brings forth His Life because Jesus said in JOHN  6:63
"My Words are Spirit and they are Life."

 

We see in Romans that we are to receive our transformation by the
renewing of our minds.  ROMANS 12: 1 - 2...

 

This  transformation is to come because we begin to see just  Who
it is that has come down. 1 JOHN 3: 2 ...1 COR
13: 12...

 

We see that we were called to the fellowship of His dear Son,  so
therefore  He has come down to reveal to us what He  revealed  to
Jesus His Only Begotten Son. 1 COR 1: 8 - 10...

 

Now, we see here by this scripture that in order to maintain  the
fellowship  that  He has called us to we must all  say  the  same
thing. And what is it we must say...

 

1 JOHN 1: 7...  

  

Jesus said in His Word to us  "If you confess me before man  then
I'll  confess  you before my Father". This Word  confess  is  the

Greek Word HOMO-LOGOS which means to say the same thing.

 

So  in  looking  at  brother Branham's  statement,  we  see  that
fellowship  is based upon having the same confession. Saying  the

same thing. Believing the same thing. That is why John said  "try
the  spirits".  Give them the Word test.  

 

If they don't say what this Bible says, then don't believe  them.
Didn't  Jesus say to the Apostles after His own resurrection  and
after  He appeared to them and found them in unbelief, " O  fools
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken."

 

We must believe all to enter into Divine fellowship with Him.

 

Well,  you say, I'm only human, how can I be expected to  believe
all that He said, I don't even know all that He said.

 

Well,  first of all believe all of what you do know, and then  go
find  out what He has said. Jesus said, "If we be  any  otherwise

minded, God would reveal it unto us"

 

Deut 29: 29 ...And in this hour we find that God Himself has come
down  and  has opened the Seals and with it the entire  Book  has
been  revealed. So it is all for our taking. The things  revealed

belong unto us.

 

   James 1: 2 - 8, 13 - 15

Now  you just can't afford to waver. If God said it, He alone  is
obligated to bring it to pass. ECCL 3: 14 - 15

 

 Romans 14: 23

 

4. To lay aside or question God's Word shows nature is not the

    same. Separates us from His Presence and fellowship. pp. 36

 

 

 

5. Satan will offer anything to distract. Anything contrary to

    God's vindicated Word is Satan's kingdom. pp. 55 - 57

 

     DISTRACT:  WEBSTER..To  draw  apart...to draw  the  mind  or
attention  away  in  another direction, to  divert...To  draw  in
conflicting directions...to create conflict or confusion...

 

To divert is to turn aside from a course or direction...