The Parables of Christ no. 39
Light
Rev. Brian Kocourek
Luke
REVELATION 3:14 ¶ And unto the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of the creation of God; 15
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert
cold or hot. 16 So
then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out
of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I
am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and
white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest
see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant
to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne.
Dear Gracious
Father we recognize this call as a call to repentance which is a change of the
mind. And we see that
We all know that we are living in Laodicea and it is
increased with goods, we think we have need of nothing and yet know not that we
are miserable blind, and naked.
So the question we must ask is what good does light
do for a bvlind man,. The greatest light is the Pillar
of Fire itself. So bright that it will light the whole earth in the new Jerusalem. There will be no need for the sun or moon for
the Lamb is the light thereof.
JOHN
12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a
little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness
come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of
light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
Walk ye while ye have the
light less gross darkness come upon you. And how does gross darkness overtake
you. By leaving the ligth.
JOHN
1:1 ¶ That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and
our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have
seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was
with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
How is anything manifested? We get our answer in Ephesians
Then what if you did not have
light.
I
JOHN 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we
unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is
with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that
your joy may be full. 5 ¶ This then is the message which we have heard
of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all. 6 If we say that we have
fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But
if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Now, I ask the question. If we are not walkiing in
the light, can we have fellowship, or the real question is do
we fellowship with one another? And the answer is how can you.
If a man does not have light how does he even know
where he is going? And if you refuse to walk in the light with those that have
the ligth, then what does that say for you?
So I wask the question, what good does the light do
for a blind man? If the blind lead the blind won’t they all fall in the ditch?
ISAIAH
29:9 ¶
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath
he covered.
Now the prophets are the eyes of the people. But what
if they haven’t a clue to what the prophets are telling them? In other words,
what if they have become blinded to the words of the prophet? What good does
light for a blind man? What use is light to a blind man?
ISAIAH
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:
And that is what they say about the se4als that the
Book is sealed, it is not opened. And yet the book is a scroll and unless all
the seals are opened the book is stuill closed.
ISAIAH
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from
me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, (notice that God Himself says He will do it, not
another, but He himself) [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of
their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men]
shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that
seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark,
and they say, Who seeth us? and
who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning
of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the
work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall
the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? 17 ¶ [Is] it not yet a very little while, and
ISAIAH
28:9 ¶
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom
shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are]
weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be]
upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
little, [and] there a little: 11 For with stammering
lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This
[is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the
refreshing: yet they would not hear. (He
was speaking but they would not hear. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh!)
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and]
there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
snared, and taken.
If you are not going forward you are going backward,
and in this hour to go backward brings you back to pentecost.
So what is blindness? Webster tells us it is the
power of sight, not willing or able to notice or to understand, or even to
judge.
II
CORINTHIANS 4:1 ¶ Therefore seeing we have this
ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; That means we do not allow ourselves to give up. If
you are a true son, you will get back up when you fall. 2 But have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, (we are not sneaky) not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every
man's conscience in the sight of God. (In the Presence of God, and
if you are not aware of His presence you will not walk as you should be
walkiing. And how can you walk in the Ligth with Him if you are not aqware He
is here.) 3 But
if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: So the
questionj is what good will light do for a blind man? When you get older your
eyes seem to need more light to be able to see. I need reading glasses unless I
am in the sunlight. Well, then what about those that are older in the Lord? You
need even more ligth than you had yesterday to see the same things? And what is
easier to get lost in, light or darkness? 4 In whom the god of
this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, (notice
the mind is what is blinded) lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them. So if they are in the Message
or even out of the message and can not see what the Message is, then they are
blinded. And it is not God that blinds, but the god of this evil age which is satan. And how do they become blind? By
staring at the wrong light. Just like the blind man in
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But
we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, and not of us.
Notice it has blinded the minds of them that believe
not. Not those that believe but those that believe not.
Notice God has commanded the light to shine into our hearts, our understanding,
to give us the glory which is the doxa or very mind of God. To give the light of
the knowledge of the glory The Doxa of God in the face (presence) of Jesus Christ
Now notice II CORINTHIANS
The greatest train robbery in hiostory took place
using a false light.
ROMANS
Now what if God does not send the
man. Then they which preach
preach error, and they which hear hear error, and then they that believe are believing error and thus they which are calling are
calling out in error, and thus God will not hear their call.
So we asl the question what
good does light do for a blind man? Webster said it is the power of sight to
understand and to judge.
Heb 10 If we sin willfully after we have heard there
is no more sacrifice for sin.
JOHN
3:19 And this is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil
hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be
reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Notice they will not come to the light. They do not
walk in the light with Him, and they do not want the correctyion of the light.
They do not want the reproof. Brother Branham said the only reason we come to
church is for correction. The word corrects the error.
The condition of the heart then is associated with
sight.
JOHN
12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that
they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and
be converted, and I should heal them.
The condition of the heart is associateed with the
ability to see.
2
PETER
Notice their heart and eyes are associated with one
another. A heart full of adultery and eyes full of adultery.
Again I ask the question, what good is light to a
blind man. The greatest light to ever strike the earth and what good is it
doing man.
EPHESIANS
1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
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, 19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised
him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly
[places], 21 Far above all
principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Notice the
light came that you might have underrstanding. The Purpose of Gods presence is
for you to know.
ROMANS
5:1 ¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: And what if you have not been justified by this
revelation, then can you have peace with God? Then what about people who have
no victory and walk around in a frump all the time? Haver they received the
revelation of Christ?
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. 3
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation
worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and
experience, hope: 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.
Turn with me to 1 Peter So
what if we have this faith, what if we have this revelation? Then according to
1 peter you canexpect to be put to a test. You think God is going to take your
word at it?
Well, teacher I know everything you have taught us.
Well, then are you ready for the test> Test? Yes! God proves your faith, God proves your revelation by testing it.
Satan thought Job just worshipped God because God had
placed a hedge around him. But God said, Not so, and he put Job to the test for
the purpose of showing him off.
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, 4 To an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 ¶
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are
in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith,
being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with
fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ:
The test is for the purspose of producing something.
We take a test after being taught for twelve years of school. We are not given
the senior test at age six? But after we have received the course work for each
grade then we are tested gfor that grade and we are told to come up higer.
Why would the trial be more precious than gold? Because it produces in us that which is more tprecious than gold.
In the wold you receive a higher wage for the more education you have, and the
more tests you take the more value you have to offer. Thus with God it is the
same. When the test comes praise God for it because it is His way of showing
you off to the world. He said there is nothing that he will place upon you that
you can not take, so what are you afradi of then. The fact that you are tested
shows you are worthy of being tested.
From the Word follows faith. And from Faith the new birth, and from the bnew birth we pass onto hope which is an
earnest expectation, and we are assured of the blessing.
EPHESIANS
3:12 In whom we have boldness and access
with confidence by the faith of him. Noticxe
then, His faith and our capturing His faith leads us to a boldness and a
confidence to walk in the lIght as he is in the Light. A
confidence that can not be shaken.
PHILIPPIANS
3:4 ¶ Though I might also have confidence in the
flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the
flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the
eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of
the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 Concerning zeal, persecuting
the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count
all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but]
dung, that I may win Christ, 9 ¶ And be
found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by
any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I
had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that
I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren,
I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before, Notice that you have to
forget those things which are in the past and keep your focus on the end of the
road. If you keep looking at the circimstance you will never be stable. They
said to brother Branham, people are saying this about you and your family, and .
14
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus. 15 ¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be
thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even
this unto you. 16 Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
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. Then
what if we don’t? can we be his house? 7 ¶
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty
years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway
err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my
wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) And if you harden your
heart, you will never know peace and rest in Him. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Remember last week we read where jesus
said, “When the Son
fo Man cometh shall he find faith? “ Shall He find revelation?
Let’s bow our heads in prayer.