ONENESS
# 73
God
is obligated to Preserve His Word
Brian
Kocourek
As we
continue to study this message of ONENESS that brother
Branham spoke to us and that we have
been examining by the
Scripture for over a year now, we have
seen lately in our review,
that this Word just keeps opening up and we continue to
feast on
Spiritual Food in Due season.
This Message this morning
is number 73, and I no longer even
think about going onto another sermon
because we are learning
more in this review than we did during the regular
examination of
this message. Each week this Word keeps opening
up even further
and I believe we are witnessing the Word of Life
first hand and
are recipients of eating from the Tree of Life.
What
else could explain what is happening with this Simple sermon
in which we have been looking at for over
a year now. Brother
Branham spoke of the Seventh Seal as a Roman candle in which
the
first ball goes up and explodes. Out of that explosion comes
forth another ball that shoots up and out
and it then reaches
it's climax and explodes and out of that explosion
comes forth
another that goes up and out and it too
explodes sending yet
another and the whole process keeps on repeating
sending forth
another and another and another until it goes plumb
into eternity
"Time is
blending with Eternity". "We are in His presence". You
say, that's an awful big statement to make
preacher. How do
you
know that you are in His Presence? Because
His Word is living. It
has been made alive. Didn't Jesus Himself say in
"I am the Resurrection and the Life." In St. John 14
He also said, " I am
the Way, the Truth, and The Life." "In Him was
Life
and the Life was the Light of Men." He said in
Words Are Spirit and they are Life." So if the Bible is The Words
of God Himself and therefore True, then His Own
Words tell us,
"As a man thinketh in His Heart, so is He."
And then, "out of the
abundance of his heart his mouth will speak."
Then if your Words are only a reflection of His Words, (
and
that's what Jesus said to Confess is. “Saying the same thing". Then
your thoughts are only reflecting His thoughts, so then if
His Words are Eternal Life and you are
filled with His Words,
then you have also His Spirit and therefore His Life.
Has His Word become a reality to you? I hope so. Because
if it
hasn't, your still dead in your trespasses and
sins. He is here
to quicken the living and call forth the sleeping out
of slumber.
MATT
25: 1 - 13.
Now didn't brother Branham show us by scripture that 13 is the
number of this nation. And Here in the 13th verse we
see that the
Son of Man is to Appear. Where? In this very nation who's
number
is 13.
Now
as we were saying, God is obligated to His Word, to keep it.
So
point number one this morning is this....
1.
Therefore God is obligated to preserve His Word. pp. 63 <read>
We are truly blessed with the fact that God
can not lie. If He
gave His Word about
something, He is obligated to do what He
has promised.
Titus 1: 1 - 3 He can not lie. And notice also how He
manifests
His own Word. Through preaching.
Have you ever wondered why the penalty in
Hebrews chapter 6
is so great for
turning away from this end-time Word? The
Scripture tells us there is no room for
further repentance.
In other Word that's the all of it, your finished. That's
Why brother Vayle
hits so hard on, "Live, Die, Sink or Drown,"
as brother Branham
puts it. That is why brother Vayle has hit
so hard on those
who said, "If this isn't it, then we'll be
for it when it
comes." Because to say that, you've got to turn
down this which is 2 THES 2: 10. <read>
Now let's just examine this penalty in
Hebrews 6 and look at
the reason behind
it's harshness.
Hebrews 6: 1 - 20... It let's you know that
it is impossible
for
God to lie. It let's you know that
the
very fact God said it, that ought to
settle
it. It becomes an anchor in your
Soul.
You can enter into rest.
So then what does God do to make sure His
word is preserved?
3. A) To ensure we
enter into ONENESS with God He gave us 3
things.
Oneness pp. 177 - 183 What
was the sign He gave them so
that they might
know He is in there midst?
1> Pillar of Fire.
2> Prophet to set church in order.
3> Message
Now, these 3 signs will indicate God's very
Presence. Then
When you fix upon what God is doing through
these signs you
will see Him
vindicate this Man and His message. So first
He will indicate, then He will vindicate.
That is the way God
works. Indication then vindication. Then anyone who walks out
it just shows they
never had representation in Him to begin
with. That's why
God calls them scoffers in 2 Peter 3 <read>
2 Peter 3: 1 - 3 ( notice
they are scoffers. The dictionary
in
Strong's suggests that this word actually
has
to do with a nature that is derisive and
more
so because of false teaching.
Now to
be derisive is to poke fun at or ridicule. Isn't
that
exactly what has happened in this message? And what is the
derision over in 2 PETER 3? Isn't it over
the issue of His
Presence. His Parousia?
Didn't brother Branham warn us in Psalm 27: 1
- 5 when he
preached on the Rapture that the setting for the Rapture would
be
2
Peter 3 and Psalm 27: 1 - 5? Let's just read His text for
that
sermon...Psalm 27: 1 - 5 <read>
Now, notice the attitude of David, A man after God's own
heart.
His main desire was to behold the Beauty
of the Lord and what? To
enquire in His Temple.
Now, I would like to ask 2 questions. #1) What does it mean to
behold. Doesn't it mean to look upon.
Didn't John say in the book
of Revelations 1: 7 "Behold
He cometh with clouds." Did He not
come in this hour in Clouds. Doesn't 2 Thes 1: 7 tell us
who
those clouds are? His angels? And doesn't
The cry that He comes
with in Matt 25 say, "Behold, the Bridegroom, come out to meet
Him?" Doesn't Revelations 3 tell us "Behold He standeth at the
door." Doesn't James 5:7 tell us "Behold,
the Judge standeth at
the door."
So then David longed for this hour. Now the second question
was
this. 2) What temple was David referring to when he said that he
wanted to enquire at the Lord's temple. What is the Lord's
temple. People have misunderstood this for ages. David was not
speaking of the temple that wasn't even built yet. He
was talking
about the temple built without hands. "A Body hast Thou prepared
Me." even
the Pharisees misunderstood Jesus when
He said,
"Destroy this temple and I will raise
it up in 3 days."
They
didn't understand that He was not speaking of the
temple in
the
are a living temple of the Holy Spirit?
So David longed to behold The same One you have opportunity to
behold in this hour and he also longed to enquire into the
very
presence of God Himself or he wouldn't have further
clarified
himself in Psalm 31: 20 <read>. In Psalm 27:
5<read> Now contrast
this with Psalm 31: 20 <read> Notice the secret of
His Presence.
It is a secret. David wanted to go to the
Source to enquire of it
Now
a secret is something that is known only to a certain
person
or persons and purposely kept from the knowledge of
others. So it
is purposely concealed from sight or notice and hidden.
Something
that is not revealed, understood or explained except to a
certain
individual or individuals so that it may remain a
mystery to
others. So when
they tell you that all the mysteries are not
revealed, you know that the person telling you these
things has
not been let in on the secret. The mysteries are
apparently still
hidden from them.
MARK
And what is the door but
Christ the Word.
MATT 13: 10 - 17 <read>
So the
reason they can not receive the Truth when it comes is
that they are not made to receive it.
JOHN
* 37,43, 47 <read> So when He is here and uses a
Prophet as
His Voice, woe to them
that would turn
away
or even follow while and then turn
back.
To do so is calling God a liar.
ACTS
one
God sends.
Hebrews 12: 25 - 29 <read>
Now, in the book of Jude these men are called mockers.
This is
the same word as scoffers used in 2 Peter. And these men are
separators. They leave you with their nose up thinking they are
a
better class of person. The word mocker
or scoffer here is
EMPAIKTES which has to do with
insults being cast at the Elect
by those who are doing the mocking. It is used in various other
scriptures in reference to the way Jesus was
treated by the
religious people of His day.
Jesus said, "if they called the master
of the house Beelzebub,
how much more will they call you." If they have done
those things
in a green tree, how much more so when it
becomes dried out.
That's this hour. If you stand for the
Truth they will not
understand you, nor will your motives be
understood. Brother
Vayle took me aside one time and we were talking about love.
He
stood there with tears in his eyes and looked me in the
eyes, and
said, "I'm going to tell you about Love that
people just don't
understand." The he hit me in the arm. It
hurt. He continued to
look me in the eyes with tears coming down his own and he
said,
"Now, was that Lee Vayle or was that God?"
Brother, if you stand for Truth, you can't
expect people to
understand you or your motives. Unless they have
walked in your
shoes, they are only quessing.
Lee get's letters all the
time
from people who think he's out to hurt people. And I can under
stand why he says what he says. I've had people
send me letters
too. One guy told me that He was writing on behalf of God
to tell
me this work here is just my human effort and is only a
treadmill
affair.
Now a
treadmill doesn't go any where. It's just wasted
effort.
It's just another way to say "you're just spinning your
wheels."
Well, I think we're moving quite well in
this Word, thank you.
This man doesn't realize that you reap what you sow? And if
you
don't sow you will never reap? He Doesn't
realize what Jesus said
in Matt 7: 1 - 2 will come back upon him? <read>
They
just don't understand what is happening. That's all.
JUDE
17 - 19 <read>
2
JOHN 9 - 11 <read> Abideth : meno : to stay in a given
place.
And this says, abideth not. These people can't just
abide.
They are restless. The Revelation of
Christ's presence isn't enough.
They're still
looking
for something beyond this. What is there
beyond
Christ Himself.
1 JOHN
2: 18 - 19 <read>
He
tells us that the evidence showing that they are not of us
is
that they no longer are of us for they have separated
themselves
from us.
But what's new? The scriptures tells us,"He was
sent to His own
and His own received Him not." He said, "Oh
Jerusalem, How often
I would have gathered you but you would
not."
2.
In order to have harmony you must have the same nature.
ONENESS <read> pp. 16 - 17.
And as
We have studied quite thoroughly, that your nature is
produced by the Life that is in you.
Now
we know that every life has it's own nature. The word nature
according to WEBSTER =
NATURE = The essential character of a
thing, the quality that makes something what it is,
it's essence
of being or inborn character. It's
innate disposition or inherent
tendencies. It's kind....
GENESIS 1: 11 <read> Every thing will bring forth after
it's
kind. The very essence of Life itself is to
reproduce itself in
another. Every life form must reproduce itself or it's own nature
in another
called offspring. It is impossible for one kind
to
produce another kind. Therefore simple bible logic would tell
you
that
Brother Branham made this clear when he often said, "If you
had
the life of Dillinger you'd
rob banks. If you had the life of
Beethoven you would compose music."
So you see, you can't have a
Life form without having the nature of that Life form.
Now let's just go back a moment and follow this through back at
the beginning right after the great interruption took
place. Now
remember, God had said in GENESIS 1: 11
that every seed would
bring forth after it's own kind. And we see by Webster's
definition of KIND = 1>origin 2> nature 3> essential
character.
How does God preserve His Own Word?
3.
He is here to place His own Life in us therefore guaranteeing
His nature in us and
oneness with Him. pp. 144-150