The
Parables of Christ 5
The Leaven
Rev.
Brian Kocourek
Exodus 12: 14-29 14 And this day shall be unto
you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your
generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days
shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out
of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until
the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
Now, Brother Branham typed Israel as a type of the
Bride, and there is to be a memorial that he wants us to do, and we will find
out that that seven days represents the seven church ages, and that no leaven
is to be found in those seven days, and whosoever is found with leaven is to be
cut off.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy
convocation,(that means a gathering,
or ingathering)
and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; (notice
we are to have another gathering that is called a holy convocation or Holy
Ingathering once again as it were at the first. This let’s us know that what
was in the Alpha must repeat in the Omega. There was a gathering together unto
Him at the first and there will be another gathering together unto Him at the
last.) Now, let’s read on to see the tenor of that holy convocation, or that
holy gathering unto Him. In other words, we want to know the setting for this
holy convocation, the atmosphere in which it will come about. And Notice God says, here, “no manner of work shall
be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of
you. (Notice what kind of activity is to take place during the time
of this holy convocation, this holy ingathering. We are to be eating and
resting, just like we are told in the Book of Malachi the 4th
chapter concerning the time of the prophet of Malachi 4.)
MALACHI 4:1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn
as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings;(those are
healing campaigns just like he did in alpha He is to repeat again in the Omega.
And as a result of this presence among you which is evidenced by the great
healing campaign it is to have an effect upon us, ) and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves
of the stall. (Now the question is what is a calf of the stall? It
is a calf that is hedged in and all he can do is eat and rest, eat and rest,
for he is there for the purpose of fattening up. Notice the Scripture says, and ye shall go
forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. So it is all about
growing up. Coming to full maturity. That is what this ministry of the Son of righteousness is all about,
bringing the elect to a full maturity.
17 And ye shall observe [the
feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies
out of the
Now this is the verse of Scripture that brother
Branham used when speaking on the Token, and the blood was taken here and was
wiped onto the two door posts, and on the lintel which is the span just above
the door opening. That formed the sign of the cross, and it was the blood of
the lamb that was represented on the door which represents the Word. Jesus
said, I am the door to the sheepfold. And He is the Word. And so the blood of
the lamb was wiped on the door in the sign of the cross, foreshadowing what was
to come when the Lamb of God would be slain on a cross. Now, notice they were to take a lamb for a
house, each house was to have their own lamb. Each house was to have their own
relationship with the Lamb of God. And
so is it today. So I ask you the question. Does your family have a lamb for the
entire house?
Now, let’s read on…23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite you. 24And ye shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when
ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath
promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when
your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27That ye shall
say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of
the children of
In other words the Lord did not spare anything that
was outside of the blood. And brother Branham told us that the last plague then
was death and that the last plague today is spiritual death.
Now, I want to say this without hurting feelings, but
if you will notice at this first Exodus, death took out the first born son of
all who did not have the Token properly displayed in their home. And if the
type holds, then is what we are seeing today the fulfillment of the spiritual
death striking this nation and every home, and every first born son, in whose
home the Token has not been properly displayed? I don’t have the answer, but
when I see the falling away from this Message of so many young men, I have to
ask the question, and the parents must ask the question, did I have the Token
properly displayed? And you know in your
heart if you have done all you can to display the Token. But when I see so many
television sets in so many homes of believers in the message, and I hear
brother Branham tell us in order to display the token we must clean up the
house and get rid of the television sets, and filthy news papers, etc, then
have we properly displayed the token if we still have television sets in the
home?
Matthew 13:33 Another
parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a
woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Our Gracious and Heavenly Father we
just thank You for coming down in this day and manifesting yourself amongst
Your people in this hour and bringing with You Your spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of your self, unveiling Yourself and showing your
people your presence. And Father we know that there is one purpose for you to
do this and that is to gather your Bride together to change us and to catch us
away that we might meet him, of whom is the fullness of the attributes of you,
knowing that we are coming to that place where you have placed al things under
his feet excepting your owns self. Knowing that at that time all things will be
subject to you as it is through him.
Father we pray that you would take a
hold of our lips this morning and every morning both day and night, and that we
would only give over to say those things which you have placed in our heart to
speak. Father we pray that we might
yield to thy spirit, and be led by Thy Spirit through Thy Word, That Thy Word would quicken those that have
not been quickened and Lord bringing them to eternal Life, eating from the Tree
of Life, and for those who have been quickened that Your Word might take them
from one Glory to a further Glory, even as by Your Spirit, we pray. In the
lovely name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen!
Now, we have several Scriptures here this morning
that would appear to the carnal mind that they are completely in contrast. For
in the Old Testament we read that for seven days there shall be no leaven to be
found amongst you. For seven days, there will be no leaven in your home, or in
anything with what you have to do. No leaven period.
And by the way, Matthew 13 is the Rapture chapter and
chapter 24 of Matthew, and in this Matthew chapter 13 we find many parables
that speak of the end time and in particular the time of the setting froth of
the
And
we find the same parable in the Book of Luke, Luke 13:20-21 20:
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the
Now, if we are not careful we can look at this
parable and come to just the opposite meaning than what Jesus is laying out for
us to know. You could say, the
Now, if we turn to Luke the 17th chapter and
verse 20
through 22,
we read, ¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees,
when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of
God cometh not with observation: It doesn’t come with an outward
show. Now, the Pharisees had a leaven of their own, and it was externalism.
Everything to them was an outward show. That’s like what we call the social
Christian today, or the social Message Believer. You can’t get them to come to
church but when there is a social event they all show up for everyone to see
that they are Believers. Everything was done in a way that you could see who
was who, and who was doing what. Jesus told them, you wash the outside of the
pots and make them clean, so everyone could see you do it, but on the inside
you are full of dead men’s bones. And so
we find Jesus telling these Pharisees, that the
You know, people are looking for the coming of the
Lord and for the clouds to part and for angels to descend and for everyone one
earth to be able to see when it comes, but that is not the way it will come. It
is a secret coming, for He has Appeared already and they don’t even know it,
nor are they in their churchianity even aware what has taken place.
And Jesus continues talking to the Pharisees saying, 21 Neither shall
they say, Lo (or look) here! or, lo (look) there! for, behold, the
He wasn’t beautiful, he wasn’t a polished up preacher
with a beautiful delivery. He wasn’t what they were looking for, nor was He
what they were expecting. This tree of Life was not some great big beautiful
tree full of beautiful and delicious fruit, but the Bible tells us he was a
tender plant, )
ISAIAH 53:2 tells us, For he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant, and as
a root out of a dry ground:
and what is a root out of dry ground? It’s all shriveled up and there is
nothing beautiful about it. It says, he hath no form nor comeliness (no splendor, no majesty)
and the description Isaiah gives us continues, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. THEREFORE 3 He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Now, you say, that was the man Jesus? And I tell you,
NO, that is God Himself in the man Jesus.
God was in the prophet’s and no prophet was received among his own people. God
in those prophets was never received and never will be received because he
changes not.
Now, I don’t say this to make something of myself,
but I know just exactly what this Scripture is speaking of here. I can go
around those men I have known for twenty plus years and I still get reports
back to me of the awful things that are being said. They think I go to these
distant lands to make something of myself. They are always questioning my
motives, and yet will they go? They have no heart for those people, and so they
don’t think anyone else should. I’ve had brothers I have known for years tell
me I should take my sermons off the net because they are interfering with Br. Vayle’s
because people happened to tell him that they really enjoyed my sermons, and he
said it to me as though that was some sort of sin. They always say, “don’t get in the way of the
man who has the ball”, and yet when God gives the ball to another to run for a
while, these same brothers would try to strip it from him. They don’t even know
what that statement means because they never have played football.
There are 11 men on the same team on the same field
at the same time. And not one man is
responsible for moving that ball down field. It takes a team effort to move
that ball forward, and I thank God for brothers like br. Vayle and MCrae who
have stood behind me in this effort to move this word into places it has never
gone before. And when a brother has the ball we should block for him, but when
the ball is handed to another on the same team, members of this team seem to
want to tackle their own team mate.
And so it is Christ in us that is despised and
rejected, because he is the coach of this team, and He is the One who assigns
who is to carry the ball, and it does not matter what person He assigns to do
it, it is still His purpose and His plan, and He calls the plays.
Can you imagine a team getting upset because the
coach uses different players to move the ball downfield? Oh, no, we have our
man to do it, and yet the man they want might be injured and not even on the
field any longer. Well, let me just say this. If a team will not do as the
coach assigns them to do, He will just get rid of those players and get Himself
others that will do as He tells them to do.
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days
will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and
ye shall not see it. and why won’t
they be able to see one of those days? Because they are so busy looking
backward or forward, and failing to see that God is the same and changes not.
Now, Jesus was telling those Pharisees that the
WATER FROM THE ROCK 55-0224 E-24 When Martin Luther built
the first camp, he organized it so tight he just couldn't be nothing else but a
Lutheran. God come right along, moved the Pillar of Fire out, the children
followed it. Wesley brought the message. And the first thing you know, Wesley
organized so tight, till he couldn't move. Then the first thing, the Pillar of
Fire moved out, and here come the Pentecostals going right on with it. The Pentecostals
organized so tight till they're fussing whether they're oneness, two ness, three
ness, or one hump camel, two hump camel, three hump camel, this way, that way,
that way, God's moving right on out, leaving them. That's right. The Holy
Spirit's moving on, children's a following It.
WHAT DOES THOU HERE 59-0301E E-54 Why can't this America see it, Lord? Has her
senses so dull, is the church so organized so tight... And they won't
cooperate. They won't do nothing but criticize.
DECEIVED CHURCH BY THE WORLD 59-0628M
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But as Israel was bound by--by their kings, that they could not follow
their real King, and their real King, when He came, they didn't recognize Him,
so is it today, O Lord, the King of
glory has appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost, and, Lord, they don't know it.
They don't recognize it. They're so
organized so tight, that they do not understand it, because it's not in
their organization. Lord, this is a work of the Devil that's done this to the
people. May the Samson of God, may
the true in heart, those who are longing and crying, and pleading and holding
on, may they stay with it, Lord, until
this new crop grows out, until there comes forth again a joy in Zion, and there comes forth a group that can
recognize and understand, that can see the Messiah and the hidden powers
that’s hid from the world, that they will not understand now. Grant, Lord, that
they’ll see this. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Now, look, in Luke 17 when Jesus is having this
discourse with the Pharisees, he is telling them that although the King is in their very midst, yet they can not see
what is taking place, and he tells them so will it be when the Son of Man is
manifesting Himself to the world. He who made the world will come to the world
and the world will receive him not. That’s
JOHN
Now,
in getting back to Matthew Chapter 13 we see in this parable three
things here. Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Now, if we approach this Scripture here and keep it
in continuity with the rest of the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelations, we
have three things here.
#1) It is speaking of leaven. It is speaking of this
leaven which the
#2) This leaven was hid in three measures of meal. So
we have thus far the leaven and the meal, and finally we have the third which
is…
#3) The woman and she is the one who did it. She is
the one who hid the leaven in the meal.
Now, we know that woman always represents the church.
So we are looking at what this church is doing. And we know what kind of a
church it is when we look at the character of the woman. We can tell whether
she is a true bride or a false bride which is a whore.
Now, we are dealing with the
The word meal is associated with bread, and we know
that the Word of God is our bread. Jesus said, man shall not live by bread
alone but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And meal
represents the Bread of Life being broken down. That’s meal see. The bread of
Life, broken down for the people.
Now, notice this
woman had three measures of meal, but she hid something in these three
measures of meal, and it was leaven, to make it more than what it really is. She
HID it.
GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF
WORSHIP 65-1128M 186 The meal offering was a type of Christ. Let's just take that one.
190
And the meal offering that was Christ, He was the Meal offering, and the meal
offering must be ground with a certain burr that made every little chunk of
meal the same, shows that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever..
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(cont’d) Christ is the Word. All the types of everything: the tabernacle, the showbread,
everything, the broken kosher under the plate was His broken body, that the
Jews can't explain yet why they do it (See?), and all these other things typed
Him.
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Now, then, Him in view, we see now all denominations and creeds left
behind; for He is the pure, unchangeable Word of God, which is the unleavened
bread:
And he told the story of Elisha and how he went to the
school of the prophets and someone wanted to impress him and so they went out
and gathered what they thought were wild peas but turned out to the wild
gourds, and when they put them in the pot and began to boil them, someone cried
out, there’s death in the Pot, and so Elisha took a meal offering and put it
into the pot and made it so that they could eat. And notice, how there is death in the pot
today. The woman, the church mixed in with the three measures of meal leaven,
and it’s killing the people spiritually today,
just like what they are doing in the natural with all this dna altering and
gene splicing and hybridizing the corn and wheat. Hybrid wheat and hybrid corn
produces hybrid meal, and if you eat it, what does it do to you?
And look how in
the natural they have polluted the corn and are genetically engineering it to
be something that it was not meant to be. And why do they do it? To make it
look better. And why do you add leaven to meal? To make the loaf appear bigger
and nicer looking. Yet the
Notice the words of warning from the Apostle Paul to
the GALATIANS
1:6 ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (Now that word another is not from the
Greek word allots which means a different one altogether, but it was taken from
the Greek word haters which means of another nature. So in essence he is
saying, I marvel that you are so soon removed from the Gospel of Christ unto
one that has a different nature from the original One you received.) And then
he says, 7 Which is not another; (he
says, here, which is not an allos, which
is not a totally different one altogether, but it is the same one that has been
perverted. ) but
there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (And
this word pervert came from a Greek word that means to change or to turn. So we
see here that they were swerving away from the truth unto a false truth. ) And
then he warns them, 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If
any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him
be accursed.
So we see that to take this other meal is to take the
curse which is death, and in this case spiritual death.
SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON 65-0718E 124 Notice, there was meal in the barrel. Every
time she went after meal, there was meal in the barrel. There was oil in the
cruse, every time she went for it. Why? Meal
represented Christ in the meal-offering. The burrs had to be set just right
to grind every one of them. Every burr of this meal exactly the same, showing
that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That was the Word, the Bread of Life following the message, to
vindicate the Word. So is it today, friends. So
is it today, that the Bread of Life that the children eat on, follows the
Message of God, to sustain them during the time of the drought. What if He
stood in our presence today? What if He stood in our presence right now? He would
act and do just exactly like He done the days when He was in flesh here on the
earth.
GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE
WORSHIP 65-0220 76 The Meal Offering was Christ. The--every burr had to be set the same,
and every little piece of meal had to be ground the same for the meal offering,
showing that He is the Healer, and He substitutes and takes away death and puts
Life by the two laws. Hallelujah. Where death is one place, when Christ comes
in, Life comes in. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And where there
was death, there became Life, because that Christ was bought in, the Meal
Offering.
Notice that the meal represents life, and the woman
took three measures of this meal which represents three measures of life and
yet she mixed in with life something to try to make that life more beautiful,
to make it bigger than it is supposed to be, and to make it better looking than
what it was meant to be, and by doing so she perverted it and caused death in
the pot.
Now, we have shown you how that women represent the
church, and yet we have also said if you look at the nature of the woman it
will tell you if she represents a Bride or a false bride. In this parable Jesus
tells us what kind of woman this church is. She is a false church because of
her very nature declares what type of a woman she really is. Jesus says, the woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Notice that she hid it. she was sneaky about what she was doing. The word
hid mean to 1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete. 2. To prevent the disclosure or
recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts. 3. To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars. 4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in
shame or grief. v. intr. 1. To
keep oneself out of sight.
And notice if this woman reflected Christ as her
husband she would not be trying to conceal but reveal. So we see this woman is
a bad church. She is a whore. She has tried to hide and get away with this deed
so no one would notice. And Jesus said what she did leavened the whole lump. Leavened
the entire lump. And what is to be made from the lump? It is to be baked and
the bread is the result. And so she leavened the entire bread of Life until
there was not Life left in it, only death in the Pot. And remember, the same
Word that is our blessing becomes our curse if we do not handle it the way it was ordained to handle it.
Thus all three measures of meal were
thus polluted, until Jesus said the entire lump was polluted. All tables become
full of vomit.
What the canker worm didn’t eat the locust did, and
what the locust left the palmerworm ate, and what the palmer worm didn’t eat
the caterpillar ate and so on until the whole thing was destroyed. And that is
why God had to come Himself in this last day to restore all that had been eaten
right down to the very roots.
Now, what are those three measures of meal?
Justification, sanctification and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and notice how
she perverted the teaching of these three Scriptural doctrines.
And what did she pervert them with? False Doctrine! She took false doctrine to
pervert the True meal or true doctrine. We find our answer to this from the very words
of Jesus in Matthew 16.
MATTHEW 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of
the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because
we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye
of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
9 Do ye not yet understand, neither
remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took
up? 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of
the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade
them not beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
So we see that the leaven represents false doctrine
that is added to the right portions of word. And remember the burrs had to be
ground to the same in every detail. Therefore, the meal represents a rightly
divided Word, and yet the leaven represents a false doctrine that was added to
the three measures of Justification, sanctification and the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, that just perverted the whole understanding.
And without these three rightly divided measures of
meal you can not have communion and fellowship in the Presence of God without
breaking the bread of Life with Him. God wants to have fellowship and communion
with us, around His Word. And Abraham,
the Father of our Faith showed us how it is to be done.
GENESIS 18:1 ¶ And
the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: (Notice this is speaking of the Appearing of the Lord
Himself. This is speaking of the presence of the Lord.) and he (Abraham) sat in the tent door
in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door,
and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a
little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.
And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly (she did not have time to add anything to it, she had
to hurry and quickly do it. when we make the communion bread, it is to be done
in haste just like when they were to make the bread at the first Exodus. Just
as Abraham had Sarah do it in haste, quickly, not time to let it rise. You take
only pure whole grain flower and water only, and ad nothing else. No oil, no
leaven, just pure grain wheat and pure water and knead it and roll it and then
bake it quickly. Notice Abraham said, ) Make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
You’ve got to be able to rightly divide the Three
measures of fine meal, justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the
Holy Ghost, and then you are ready to break the bread of Life with the Author
of Life Himself in His Very presence. And He is here this morning to do so.
THE MASTERPIECE
64-0705 136
Justification made a way for sanctification. Sanctification made a way
for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for
the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again
to manifest Itself.
Let us pray…