The Parables of Christ no. 40
Builded
upon The Rock
Rev. Brian Kocourek
This morning I would like to
continue with the parable we began last Wednesday night when we spoke on the
question, what
good is light if you are blind. Jesus said, in the Gospel of Luke 6: and
verse 39, And he spake a
parable unto them, Can the blind
lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the
ditch? And I took our text then from Revelations
chpater 3 where we are told at the end time the people will be naked, miserable
and blind and won’t even know it. I
asked the question, “what good is light if you are
blind? And we spoke on the blind condition at the end time and the gross
darkness upon the people.
This morning I would like to again
Approach this parable and reading from Luke 6:39, and then from verses 40-49 to show the endtime condition of
the people and to show there are two kinds of people who hear the Message of
the hour. Therefore let’s remain standing as we go to the Word of God, and
let’s open our Bibles to …
Luke 6: 39, And he spake a parable
unto them, Can the blind lead the
blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Now that is an excellent
question. And then a few verses later
after speaking this parable in a question format, Jesus continues to speak as
we pick up at verse LUKE 6:40 The disciple is not
above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. Now,
this word perfect comes from a Greek word that does not mean perfect as though
you have reached some sort of a perfect state where you make no error. But the
word simply means to equip.
Therefore we should read this
statement that Jesus is making here as thus: LUKE
As the Apsotle Paul said in ROMANS 10:13-17 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved. 14 How then shall they call
on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall
they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and
how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be
sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
Martin Luther in his comments on these verses said, "Even
though they say they hear, they boast in vain, unless they hear true preachers;
for to hear false prophets means as much as not to hear. They hear and they do
not hear. They have ears, but do not hear, nor do they preach The True Word of
God. There are four statements which
follow one another is such as way that one leads to the other, but so that the
last forms the foundation on which the others rest. Thus, 1.
It is impossible that those preach who are not sent. 2. It is impossible that those hear who are without a preacher. 3.
It is impossible that they believe who do not hear. 4. It is impossible that
they call upon Him who do not believe. To these must
be added a fifth, it is impossible that they who do not call upon the name of
the lord shall be saved. So, then, the entire source and origin of salvation
rests on this, that God sends out someone, (a true
minister of the Word). If He does not send out any, then they who preach preach falsely, and
their preaching is no preaching at all. In fact, it would be better for them
not to preach. Then also, they who hear, hear error,
and it would be better for them not to hear. Then also they
who believe, would believe false doctrine, and it would be better for them not
to call. For such preachers, do not preach; such hearers do not hear; such
believers do not believe; such callers do not call; they will be damned because
they would be saved by falsehood. As we read in Proverbs
Now, we know what Paul said in Romans 10, and we know
what he said in 2 Corinthians 11, and again in the book of Galatians, that if
they receive a wrong word, then they will receive a wrong spirit. How then can we think that anyone who sits
under a wrong ministry and has a wrong conception of the message has the right
spirit, which is the Holy Spirit? A
wrong conception is a wrong quickening to life. Conception means to quicken to
life. We know Peter said, in 1 Peter
Then to receive a wrong Word is to receive a wrong
seed, and therefore must produce a wrong spirit or a wrong life. How can it be
any other way.
Did you know that brother Branham said we must have a right teaching in
order to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? To receive
the Seal of God? And if you don't receive the seal of God there is only
one seal left and that is the seal of satan, which is
the mark of the beast.
Now notice that Jesus up to this
point in the parable in Luke chpater 6 has been speaking about not following
blindly, because you could be following someone who is as blind as you are. And
then he tells us that if your teacher has rightfully equipped you, then you
will become as that teacher. In other words, you will think like him, and speak
like him, and act like him. Now that is not to say that you are to look at the
flesh, but we are guided by one thing and that is the Word of God.
Jesus said, “The son can do nothing
but what He seeth the Father do, that soeth the Son likewise. Then the son will
do and act and speak and think as the Father thinks and speaks and acts. Now, let’s face it, the Holy Ghost is the
teacher, and if a man is yielded to the Spirit of God and called to teach this
Word then he will do as the Father has shown him to do, and the people that
look to that ministry will reflect the same principles and will become in a
fashion as the lor is to the discple. 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every
one that is equipped by His master shall be as his master.
Now, catch what Jesus says here next.
LUKE 6:41 And why beholdest thou
the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? 42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me
pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the
beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of
thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in
thy brother's eye.
Now, if you have become one with
your teacher, how is it that you are looking for fault in that teacher. It makes no sense to me, but they did it to Moses.
He led them by following Christ and they followed Him as he followed Christ.
And yet they wanted to stone him. And Paul said, Follow me as I follow Christ
and yet they wanted to stone Him. And the same with william
Branham and I have seen it with Brother Vayle and even with my own ministry. So
we see jesus warning the disciple about getting his
focus wrong.
Now notice the very next thing jesus teklls us here. 43 For a good tree
bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit. 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of
a bramble bush gather they grapes. And we
know that in the message “Anointed Ones at the end Time”, william Branham
tauight us that the fruit is the teaching for the season.,
what they are teaching for the season.
In other words, the fruit is what they are teaching. The
fruit of their ministry.
And he tells us that if you are a
good tree, then you can not teach error. Your teacning will be right smack on
target. For the word sin means to miss the mark. But the word righteous means
to be rightly wise. And how could you be a righteous man if you are unright in
our thinking.
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is good; (now remember the heart represents the understanding,) and an evil man out
of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the
abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Now in the light of what Jesus is
saying here he is saying if your understanding is good you will bring forth
good things, and if your understanding is evil then you will bring forth evil
things. If you recall, Several years ago I preached a series on the garden of
your mind and showed that the mind is a garden, and in it are planted many
seeds, and the seed that are planted in your mind are those things that become
manifested in your life. Therefore whatsoever you sow, you will surely reap.
And therefore what things you
are feeding your mind will become manifest in your life. Now,
this is the end time aqnd people must manifest what seed they are. And we know
that whatsoever doth make manifest is manifested by the light. That’s Ephesians
5;13. So then, we must understanding that all seeds
here on earth must come to a manifestation of what they are and the nature of
the seed that they are will manifest itself openely once that Light strike the
seed.
And so Jesus continues as we read
from verse 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which
I say? And how can you say you believe this message if you are not
living it? How can you say you have believe that token
if you do not apply it in your life?
Now, we are going to get to the
heart of this parable, as we pick up at verse 47. Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my
sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a
man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: (now
remember that a rock represent revelation, so this man built his house upon
revelation) and
when the flood arose, (And remember the Bible tells us that the
devil will come in like a flood) the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not
shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a
foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat
vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. Now,
notice that the only difference is that one heard and did what he heard and the
other also heard but did not do what he heard. Thus the revelation that the one
had was to do and the revelation of the other was that he did not have to do.
Look, what saved Noah and his household? His believing God that it was going to rain? Or His actions which came as a result of his believing God?
In other words, his doing what God had instructed him to do and that wa to build the ark.
And we have been commanded to apply the token, and I just do not
understand how people can think that that means to simply believe it. If I told
you to apply the paint you would find a roller or a paint brush and something
to open the can if you are going to apply it. And brother Branham said we must
apply it.
THE
TOKEN 63-0901M 34-9 You should love one another. Believers should
separate themselves from the world. Don't just take it now, lightly. And then,
you people that's listening to this on tape, you women, you men, you listen a
minute. If you ever believed me, you believe it now. It's time for--to quit
fussing with one another. Believe the message of the Bible. Believe Jesus
Christ; and love, and honor, and respect one another. Men respect your wives;
you respect your home. Bring your home together, because, you remember, this
Lamb was for the home, not just one. The whole home too had to be brought;
everything had to be brought in. We should love each other, and believers
should separate themselves from the world.
35-3
Notice, they were not just yet come together to talk about the message.
They come together to apply the blood, to apply the token. That's what you must
do.
Pastor
Neville, and to this congregation, trustees, deacons, to you brethren, it's
time that we laid aside all the foolishness of the world, time we laid aside
everything else. We've seen enough now, that we're positive, sure, and the
Token must be applied. Without it, you're going to perish; you must perish.
That is the only thing. Oh, don't come together, say,
"I believe it." Get beneath it. Get into it. How to do it? By one
Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ. Everybody believe with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for
any out from beneath it.
We find this same parable in MATTHEW 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a
rock. Now, if we want to apply the symbols in this parable we must
know what they mean first to understand what this is abll about.
Now, he said the rain would descend, and we know
according to Deuteronomy 32: 2 God said his Doctrine would fall as the rain. So
we see here that the rain must come before the floods. Now, we know that satan comes in like a flood, but we also know
that a flood represents judgment by the Word, as it was in the day sof Noah so
shall it be when the Son of Man is Revelaed. And as the doctrine begins to pour
forth upon the face of the earth, then the judgments that the doctrine bring
with it begin to take apart every house that is not founded in the rock which
is revelation. You see the flood is the waters of separation, and we know the waters of separation is the Word itself. Notice the rains
come first, then the flood which is the waters of separation which will take
away any house that has not been build upon a rock which Is Revelation. And not
just any revelation will do for Christ is that Rock. And therefore there is one
Faith or one Revelation and that is the revelation of Jesus Chreist. And
building your house upon that rock which is Christ will weather any storms that
will come.
So he says the rains will come, that’s the doctrine,
and then the floods will rise which is the waters of separation that will come
as a result of that word, and then the winds will blow, which speaks of every wind of
doctrine, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive. And will beat upon that house, and if it was
not founded upon the Rock of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, then it will not
last.
If you just come to church because you know you
should, watch out? The rain is falling, and the next thing will come is the
waters of separation! Then you will find out where your home was built upon. As
I pointed out Wednesday night, that If you have
receive the revelation of Jesus Christ you will be tested to see whether you
have it or not. That’s the trial of your faith, which is the trial of your
revelation.
26
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built
his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall
of it. 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not
as the scribes.
Now the King James version
uses the word astonished here but the word astonished is not a good translation
of the word ekplesso that Jesus used here, because it gives you a wrong idea of
what was taking place. The Greek word used here is ekplesso and it means to
strike out, to expel by a blow, to drive out or away; to cast off by a blow, or
to drive out. In others words, they didn’t want His doctrine. They wanted to expel him to get him to go
away, for his doctrine was too hard for them to hear. And they didn’t want it.
Why? Because they all liked to talk about the Lord and to talk about the Word but
he said with their mouth they draw near but in actuality their hearts were far
from God.
Remember Wednesday night we read from ISAIAH 29:13 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:
And that is what jesus
quoted to them in MATTHEW 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
[their] lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in
vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
JEHOVAH
JIREH PT 1 62-0705 23 See, you can't go by emotions. See, your
life that you live testifies what you are. See? No matter what kind of a
sensation, you cannot base Christianity on any sensation. It's a life. Jesus
said, "By their fruit you shall know them." Not by their profession,
not by what they say. And Jesus also said, "You draw nigh unto Me with your lips, but your heart is far from Me."
That's their profession. See, your life tells what. And if a man says that he
believes God, and denies one Word of this Bible, or changes It
in any way, why it's got to be wrong.
LUKE
6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom
he is like: 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid
the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently
upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like
a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which
the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that
house was great.
Luke 21: 34-36 <read> NIV 34 "Be careful, or
your hearts will be weighed down with (1) dissipation, (2)drunkenness and (3) the anxieties of
life, and that day will close on you
unexpectedly like a trap. 35
For it will come upon all those who live on the face
of the whole earth.36 Be
always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about
to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of
Now, let’s stop here
for a moment to see just exactly what this means. He told us to be careful
about three things that could weigh and close in on us like a trap.
Dissipation:
which means Wasteful expenditure or consumption. 3.
Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance. 4. An
amusement; a diversion. So we are warned to be careful not to become too
weighed down by these things which are rampant in our society today. That’s
Drunkeness:
which implies a losing of ones ability to rightly reason.
And to be resolute in our minds.
Anxieties
of this Life: And we are told by
jesu to be anxious for nothing. You see, God is not pushy, and he does not want
us to get pushy about anything. He said we need to lay
in the presence of the Son to ripen. Not run, run, run, but lay in His presence
until we get mellow in our spirit and ripe in our soul.
Now, this scripture tels us that if we are not
focused on Christ whent hat day comes, we are going to miss Him, and yet these
three things are what the entie world are focused on and they have missed Him
altogether. Notice he said, if you are
caught up in these things, that day will close on you unexpectedly
like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the
whole earth.36 Be always
on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to
happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of
So we are looking at the condition at the end time,
and we know that we must be focused. If the eye be single, that means focused,
then the body is full of light.
AMOS
8:11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I
will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea
to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek
the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].
Now, in the Book of Romans, chapter 7 and from verse
7 through the rest of this chapter paul deals with the
Struggle of sin which is unbelief. Now, in verse 6 Paul speaks to us about
living in a newness of the Spirit. He said, But now we are
delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and not [in] the oldness of the letter. And brother Branham in
speaking of the Shunamite woman, he said, When she was willing to
give what she had in support of the Word, God fed her. And if you're willing to
give what Spirit you do have, what Spirit that God's give you to support of the
Word, then God will keep you alive.
Now, I do not believe for one minute that God is
taking a count of whether you are naughty or nice. He does not look upon your
mistakes, and believe me we are all capable of making a lot of them. God looks upon your heart and your attitude
towards His Word. The support we give to this Word is what God looks at,
because that support is a reflector of our heart and shows what spirit
motivates our life.
Romans 7:7-25 (NIV) 7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not!
Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would
not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not
covet." 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the
commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law,
sin is dead. 9 Once I was
alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I
died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to
bring life actually brought death.
Now, that is a tremendous
statement Paul made there. I want to read it again and I want you to think
about what he is saying here. I found that the
very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the
commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy,
and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By
no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death
in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become
utterly sinful. 14 We
know that the law is spiritual; but I am un-spiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what
I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, it is no
longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful
nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I
cannot carry it out. 19
For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the
evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do
what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in
me that does it. 21
So I find this law at work: When I want
to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23 but I see
another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law
of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my
members. 24 What a
wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be
to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave
to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
The
Now, in understanding the two natures that dwell
within, we must first understand that although we have two natures, we do not
have two souls. What Paul is speaking of
here is the nature of the Spirit or soul, verse the nature of your flesh. It is you flesh that was sown in sin, and
came forth to the world speaking lies, but not your
Soul. That is the Life that God breathed into you. Now, I realize that the
Scripture tells us the soul that sinneth, that soul shall die. And this is
true. But that speaks of the life that sins that life is what must die. And
here Paul is telling us that we have two natures warring within us. The nature of God by the Spirit and the nature of the flesh by the
natural act of procreation. Now the miracle of the whole thing is that
God could bring together the two to make one vessel.
From Q & A
Communion
EXPERIENCES 47-1221Are
you two people in one? You're soul... Your soul, that's the nature of the
spirit 'course. But now, you're body and spirit. Is that right? You are a body,
flesh, and you're inside, then, spirit. Is that true? All
right.
CRUELTY OF SIN 53-0403 55
020 Made him out of the dust of
the earth, now, not in His Own image. He had already made the
man. Then He breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul.
So the soul of man is the nature of the
spirit. Now, when you're reborn, you
don't get a new spirit. You get a new nature of that spirit. It's the same
spirit, but a new nature of it. You take two men, stand them together, both
look alike; and one of them is a sinner, and one of them is a Christian. One
man say, "I got a spirit the same as you
have." See? But one of them is a different, his soul, his
nature's different. He's been changed.
WORD
BECAME FLESH 54-1003M 083
We are a threefold being: soul, body, spirit. We know that what this
flesh is; we realize that; it's here. We know what the spirit is; it controls
the flesh. But what is the soul? The soul is the nature of the spirit.
Now, where some have gone off in looking
at what Brother Branham is telling us here is they teach that since the soul is
the nature of the spirit, and since we are born with one nature, and then when
we are born again we receive another nature, then it must be that we have two
souls. The first soul is the one we are born with, and the scripture tells us
that “the soul that sinneth, that soul
shall surely die.” But what they
don’t quote you is the next verse of that Scripture which says, “But,
if that soul shall repent, it shall surely live.” EZEKIEL
THIRSTING
FOR LIFE 58-0611 A soul is the nature of the spirit. And
when a man is converted, he doesn't get another spirit. He gets a spirit
change, a conversion means to change his thinking, change his way of living and
so forth.
Therefore, in getting back to what Paul is telling
us, as long as we are living in the body of this death, we will have a struggle
with this body to bring it into submission to God’s Word. Because,
the body was created from the wrong seed or the wrong desire. Therefore
it will always manifest wrong desire. But when our Soul is quickened to Life it
will seek first the
EPHESIANS
2:1 ¶ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins; 2
Wherein in time past ye
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: 3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others. 4¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, 5Even
when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye
are saved;) 6 And hath raised [us] up
together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: 7
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in
[his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is]
the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man
should boast. 10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Martin Luther in His Preface to the Book of Romans
said, “God judges according to what is at
the bottom of the heart, and for this reason, His law makes its demands on the
inmost heart and cannot be satisfied with works, but rather punishes works that
are done otherwise than from the bottom of the heart, as hypocrisy and lies. …
“The law is spiritual,” For if the law
were made for the body, it could be satisfied with works; but since it is
spiritual, no one can satisfy it, unless all that you do is done from the
bottom of the heart. But such a heart is given only by God’s Spirit, who makes
a man equal to the law, so that he acquires a desire for the law in his heart,
and henceforth does nothing out of fear and compulsion, but everything out of a willing heart. That
law then is spiritual which will be loved and fulfilled with such a spiritual
heart, and requires such a spirit. Where that spirit is not
in the heart, there sin remains, and displeasure with the law, and enmity
toward it, though the law is good and jut and holy.
Sin, in the
scripture, means not only the outward works of the body, but all the activities
that move men to outward works, namely
the inmost heart, with all its powers. Faith
on the other hand is a living, daring confidence in God’s Grace, so sure
and certain that a man would stake his life on it a thousand times. Faith is not that human notion and
dream that some hold for faith. Faith, however, is a divine work in us. It
changes us and makes altogether different men, in heart and spirit and mind and
powers, and it brings with it the Holy Ghost.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
IMPERSONATION
OF CHRISTIANITY 57-0120M
So
God had to give you a new heart, not a patched up one, a new heart. That's your intellects that you think with, a new way of
thinking. 043
Then He said after that, "Then I'll give you a new spirit." What's that? A new desire, "I want to
do right."
E-6 Looking At The Unseen 59-0410 About
four years ago up in Chicago, I was reading a great headline in a paper where
that the medical science had found a little compartment in the heart of a human
being that did not even have a cell in it. It was not found in the animal life;
it was only found in the human body, the human heart. And they said, "It must been the dwelling place of the
soul." So then man does think with his heart. You look with your eyes, but
you understand with your heart.
Therefore, if you heart is right with God you will
want to have the right thinking which are His thoughts, and if He has given you
a new spirit, then you will have a desire to think His thoughts. And not until
your desire changes can He place His Holy Spirit which comes to you in the form
of His Holy word in you. Jesus said, “My Words are Spirit and they are Life.” Therefore,
God would not place His Holy Word in a vessel that had not the right
understanding nor the right desire to have the right understanding. That is why
I have said all along that the only thing the Five-fold ministry can do for you
is to teach you the doctrine that God might anoint it to your heart, and bring
forth the life of His Word abiding in your life.