Preparation
#50 Logos Father and logos
Son)
Brian Kocourek
John 1: 1 1 ¶ In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. 2 The same was in the beginning with
God. 3 All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life
was the light of men.
Logos denotes the
expression of thought, not the mere name of an object. A) as embodying a
conception of an idea. Notice verse 4 speaks of Life being in Him and we find
in 1 John 1: 1 that this Word which is God is also called the Word of
Life. Therefore, the Word must bring
life. God's Life if you are or ever was
in His thinking.
1 Peter 1: 22-23 I
PETER
JOHN 3:3 Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the
JOHN 1:1 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: 13
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.
I THESSALONIANS
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,
I JOHN 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he
that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He
that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin;
for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest,
and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother.
I JOHN 5:4 For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and
this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even]
our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but
he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
I JOHN
JOHN 10:1 ¶
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth
not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up
some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2
But he that entereth in by the door is the
shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth;
and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own
sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he
goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they
know not the voice of strangers.
JOHN
I JOHN
DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST THE 49-1225
83 People
around here saying that they--they are of Christ, their church's of Christ they
go to, and what happened last night? Opened up their Christmas presents. Let's
see about daddy; in there was a--was under the Christmas tree of a many a man
last night, set a big box of beer somewhere. No room for Jesus; all for beer.
Opened up mama's present, a deck of cards. No room for Christ; the cards.
That's right. Instead of a little Bible or something to the children, it's a
little G-man book, or a little something like that. No room for Jesus. Instead
of going to church, they go to shows, dances, everything, and call themself Christians. Brother, when the Deity of God, by the
Holy Ghost, comes into the human heart, It culls out everything that Christ
hasn't created. You know that's the Truth.
GREATEST.GIFT.IN.BIBLE_ EDMONTON.ALBERTA SUNDAY_
57-0811A
E-41
You say, "Now, I know the Bible better than you do, Brother
Branham." You don't have life by knowing the Bible. You don't have life by
joining church. You don't have life by being baptized. You don't have life by
knowing your catechism. You don't have your life by being a minister. To know
Him is Life, not to know the catechism or your church rules, but to know Him is
Life.
And
that thirst that God give you, isn't to be spent on a church either. The devil
if he can't make you go to dances, and drink, and live immoral, and those
things, he's perverted it to make you join church. And that's still perverted,
because joining church doesn't give you life.
GREATEST GIFT IN BIBLE 57-0811A E-42 But the only way you can have Life is to
take that thirst and satisfy it by the drinking at the Fountain that never runs
dry, that beautiful Holy Spirit that rains from God out of heaven. That's the
way you find Life is to know Him; not know His Book, but to know Him; not to
know your church, but to know Him; not to thirst to satisfy the pastor, but to
satisfy the Lord. That's that holy thirst. That's what it's in you for. And
would you quench that with things of the world. It's death. It's perverted. Did
not the Bible say, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's
because of the love of God's not even in you."? That great holy thirst.
You can't satisfy it by joining the church. There's no satisfaction in joining
the church. You're trying to sear your conscience and fill your heart with
lust. Come out in the open; confess your sins, and thirst for God's righteousness.
"Because Thy lovekindness is better to me than
life, my lips shall praise Thee." Think of it. David also wrote in, I believe the 47th
Psalm, being a woodsman, he said, "As the hart thirsts for the water
brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God." As the hart, the deer, panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee.
Deuteronomy
6: 4 Hear, O
Deuteronomy
6: 4- 9 AMPLIFIED
Hear,
o
PROVERBS
22 "The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works,
before his deeds of old;
23 I was appointed from eternity, from the
beginning, before the world began.
24 When there were no oceans, I was given
birth, when there were no springs abounding with water;
25 before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was given birth,
26 before he made the earth or its fields or any
of the dust of the world.
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,
when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above and fixed
securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea its boundary so the
waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations
of the earth.
30 Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was
filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in
mankind.
32 "Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed
are those who keep my ways.
33 Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not
ignore it.
34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching
daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
35 For whoever finds me finds life and receives
favor from the LORD.
36 But whoever fails to find me harms himself;
all who hate me love death."
From the Message "QA ON GENESIS 53-0729 010 he said, "Out
of God came the Logos, which was the Son of God;
He went on to say in pp. 12, Now,
"No man has seen the Father at anytime." No man can see God in the
bodily form, because God is not in body form; God is a Spirit. See? All
right. "No man has seen the Father, but the only begotten of the Father
hath declared Him," I John... See? Now, but notice now, there's
nothing; there's just space. There's no light; there's no dark; there's no
nothing; it's just seems nothing. But in there is a great supernatural Being,
Jehovah God, 15-28 013 Now, notice. Then after while I begin to see
a little sacred Light begin to form, like a little halo or something;… by eyes
of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light
forming out there. What is that? That was called, by Bible readers,
"Logos," or "the anointed," or "the
anointing," as I was going to say, the part
of God begin to develop into something so human beings could have some type of
an idea what It was: it was a little Light moving. That was the
Word of God. Now, God gave Himself birth to this Son which was before
there was even an atom in the, or air to make an atom. That was... See,
Jesus said, "Glorify Me, Father, with the glory that We had before the
foundation of the world." See, way back in yonder...
In pp. 014 he goes on to say,
"Now, in
Paul spoke of this light in II CORINTHIANS 4:6, where he said, 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.
We also find in the book of
Revelations that The Son of God is the Light of the world.
REVELATION
21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the
moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.
And in the Book of Peter, He is
called the day star. II PETER 1:19
¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take
heed, as unto a light that shineth
in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts:
In fact Jesus Himself spoke of
being this light in JOHN
Now, for those of you who might
think I am taking this out of context, brother Branham said in his sermon DOOR TO THE HEART 60-0312 "After His
death, burial, and resurrection, Saul of
Again we see Paul speak of this in II TIMOTHY 1:9, "Who hath saved us,
and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in
Christ Jesus before the world began, 10 But
is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light, through the
gospel:
MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M 80 God's Word comes only by
the Bible. God's Bible is the printed form of the Son of God, because the Bible
said that it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's God revealing Himself
through Christ, and Christ is the Word. And it takes the Light of God to shine
upon that Word to vindicate It, to prove that God still speaks Life--Eternal
Life, He speaks... The natural light brings the life. Life only comes by the
Light, the Word made manifest--or made flesh...
MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M 74 All life... So life is
only by the Word of God made manifest. Life comes only by the Word of God made
manifest. As long as it is just in the Book like this, it still can be
questioned; but when it's made manifest, then you see the product of what It
spoke of being manifested; then that is Light on the Word. See? That's what
brings... The Word said so, and then when it comes to pass, that is Life in Light, Light bringing Life. Light brings
life. Plant the wheat out here, it'll... You put it in a basement,
cover it all over, and it'll never bring forth anything, because it can't;
there's no light there. But as soon as light strikes it, then it'll bring forth
life if it's a germitized seed. That's the same thing
it is in the Word. See, the Word is God, and when
the Light strikes It, it brings the Word to life again. Every age
has always been that.
We also examined JOHN 1:1 which deals also with the beginning,
and we saw that God is the word, and out of God came also the Word which was a
carrier of Life, and this life was also the first light. ¶ In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was
in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was
not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light
of men. Now, before this scene takes place we find that God dwelt alone.
The Scripture tells us here that in the beginning God existed alone, and we
find that the Scripture refers to him as Elohim, (the self existent
one). GENESIS 1:1 ¶ In the beginning
God, Elohim, the self existent One.
God was alone and in Him was
Life. And as He began to bring forth this Life, it first went into His Son,
which is His Offspring, and the word offspring means to spring off from. So we
see, God, the great Fountain of Life, began to bring forth His great plan to
fulfill Himself, and He began this fulfillment by bringing forth first a Son.
We find in JOHN 5:26 "For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;"
Therefore we can see what David
meant when He described God as the Great Fountain of Life. PSALMS 36:9 "For with thee [is] the
fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.' Both David and John
saw two main characteristics in God. #1) they
both saw this great fountain of Life, and #2)
that this Life was a great Light. And when we see the first expression of this
fountain come forth, it is when God begins to speak. What do we see first?
Light is spoken, and what does that Light bring forth? It brings forth the Life
that was in it. The Father giving birth to His Son.
Now, we must not confuse God with
His Son. John tells us that God is the Word. Some men would tell you that
Jesus, the Son of God is the Word, but that is not entirely accurate. God is
the Word. God is the Logos, and out of this great fountain of Logos or Word
came forth a Little Logos, or Word expressed, and that was the Son. Brother
Branham called Him Little Jehovah. Smyrnaean Church Age 60-1206 075 "Now, if there's only one
form of Eternal Life, and you get it and we're seeking for it through Jesus
Christ; that's God's Life, then when that blood cell was broke on the
Son of God, and that little Jehovah that was bottled up on the inside of this
man called Jesus…This is why brother Branham taught us the only difference
between God the Father and His son is the Son had a beginning, for all sons
have beginnings.
From the Message ATTITUDE AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815 015 brother
Branham said, " And we're taught in the beginning, that the Logos, or
the Son of God went out of God. Now, I do not believe in eternal sonship. That's even radical to even mention such a thing,
eternal sonship. How could He had an eternal sonship...?... He had to have a beginning. See? 016 So He
first was God, Jehovah. And out of Him... Let's just picture now as a little
drama so you can get it. Let's see coming out of space where there's nothing,
let's make it a little white Light, like a mystic Light, like a Halo. And that
was the Logos that went out of God in the beginning. That was the Son of God
that came out of the bosom of the Father. That was what was in the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And
the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. In the beginning was God. And then out of God came the Logos, a part of God that went
out of God.
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Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821 "This Great Fountain of
Spirit which had no beginning or no end. This Great Spirit began to form in
the creation, and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It
was the only visible form that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany,
which means a body, and the body was like a man.
Hebrews
1: 1-5 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake
in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2) Hath in these last days spoken
unto us in [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also
he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express
image of his person, (The expressed image... or the out-raying or etching
of God.) and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4)
¶ Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent name than they. 5) For unto which of the angels said he at any
time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to
him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
AMPLIFIED = Hebrews 1:1-5, In Many separate revelations, - each of which set forth a
portion of the truth, - and in different ways God spoke of old to our
forefathers in and by the prophets. But in the last of these days, He has
spoken to us in the person of a Son, Whom he appointed heir and lawful Owner of
all things, also by, and through Whom, He created the worlds, and the reaches
of space, and the ages of time, - that is, He made, produced, built, operated,
and arranged them in order. He is the sole expression of the Glory of God, -
the Light-being, the
out-raying of the Divine, - and He is
the perfect imprint and very image of God's nature, upholding, maintaining, guiding, and propelling the universe by
His mighty word of power. When He had, by offering Himself, accomplished our
cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, he sat down at the right hand of the
Divine Majesty on High. Taking a place and rank by which He, Himself, became as
much superior to angels as the glorious Name which He has inherited is
different from and more excellent than theirs. For which of the angels did God
ever say, "You are My Son, today I have begotten you, And Again, I will be
to Him a Father, and he will be to Me a Son."
Nowe have
looked at this first light that God brought forth and as we see, it was the
Logos which was part of God coming forth into an expression which God called
His Son, and then through this expression, or expressed Word, or Manifested
Word, God brought forth all of creation. ROMANS
11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all
things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.
EPHESIANS
3:9 And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the
mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who
created all things by Jesus Christ:
COLOSSIANS
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and
for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Now, how was it that God in-dwelt
his Son? Well, the scripture tells us it was a mystery how that God was in
Christ. I TIMOTHY 3:16 And
without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness (God-like-ness): God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
II CORINTHIANS
5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed
unto us the word of reconciliation.
HIDDEN
LIFE 55-1006A When God was here on
earth, He occupied a three room House, the Soul, Body,
and Spirit of Jesus Christ.
JEHOVAH
JIREH 56-0429
053 "That's the reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it
was Christ speaking... or was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father
speaking. He was a dual Person. He was
one Man, the Son. God was in, which was tabernacling in Him. But what
did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the Healer." Very contrary,
He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said, "It isn't Me that doth
the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." And in Saint John the 19th
chapter when He was questioned for pasting a whole bunch of crippled, lame,
withered, halt, blind people, healed one man laying on a pallet, the Father
showed Him to go there and heal. Walked away and left the rest of them laying
there, they questioned Him. A man packing his bed on the sabbath.
Listen to what He said. Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily, I say unto you: The
Son can do nothing in Himself, but what he sees the Father doing, that doth the
Son likewise." Is that what He said? "I do nothing till the
Father shows Me a vision first what to do."
LET
US SEE GOD 59-1129 …I said,
"He was more than... God was in Him. He was a man, but He was a dual Person. One, He was a man; the Spirit
in Him was God." I said, "God was in Christ." She said,
"Aw, no." I said, "Look, lady, I'll take your own Scripture. He
was a man, but He was a God-man. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He
did weep like a man. That's true. But when He stood there, straightened His
little stooped shoulders up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a dead man,
that'd been dead four days come to life again, that was more than a man. Man
couldn't do that. That was God in His Son."
ATTITUDE
AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815 018
There He puts the first Bible. Oh, back in the days of--ancient days, they
looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible wrote here. But He wrote It
in the heavens, that man would look up and realize that Jehovah the Creator
lived above. And then I can see Him, He looked at that...I can see Him speak to
this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever it was, way away. And He moved
it over here. I can see this little Light go out. Now,
WE GOT TWO NOW. The Father, and out of the Father came the Light,
the Son. And I can see that Light moving over here and pulled the earth
over near the sun to dry it off. And begin to...?... raise the water up,
separating the land, earth from the water, and so forth.
QA
ON GENESIS 53-0729 007 Well
now, if you'll notice close now, in Genesis 1:26,
let's get the first part first. God said, "Let us..." Now, "let
us," us is a... "Let us make man in our own image." Our,
'course, we realize He's talking to someone; He was
speaking to another being. "Let us make man in our own image
after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the cattles
of the field." If you notice in creation, the first thing that was
created, of course, was light. You come on down through the creation; the last
thing was created was what? A man. And woman was made after man. All right, the
first... Last thing that was created of God's creation is mankind.
SIRS
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 57-1211 021 Now,
Jesus was born for one purpose, that was for God to manifest Himself through
that body. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a
body that was made physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and
His expressions to the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all
mankind, He expressed it through Christ. Christ
seemed to be a dual personality. He would speak sometimes and they'd
scratch their heads; and they didn't understand Him. He'd speak one thing one
time, look like, and something else another time. What it was, was Jesus
speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus was the man. Christ was the God that
was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth
in Me, He doeth the work." See? God will not share His glory with no
one.
BALM
IN GILEAD 61-0218 080 You
know, Jesus right at the end of His ministry, His disciples couldn't understand
Him. No one understood Him. How that... How many know that they couldn't
understand Him? Sure. Why? They thought He had a dual
personality. No. Sometime it was Jesus talking, sometime it was
the Father in Him talking. See, see? That was it, the man...
THY
SEED SHALL POSSESS GATE 62-0121M 086 Why did David say,
"I will not see My Holy--let My Holy One see corruption (My Holy One see
corruption.), neither will I leave His soul in hell?" David said that.
See, both soul, body, and spirit was created of God
by Him. The woman was not a mother; it was a woman. I believe she was a
good holy woman. Absolutely, she'd never been a incubator. God would've never
chose no dirty incubator (Lord willing, I'm preaching on that tonight) but an
old dirty incubator to bring His--to bring His Son to the earth in. He chose a
virgin, knowing not a man, neither did she have any sperm discharge or anything
else when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her, because God in His immaculate,
infinite way created in her: soul, body, and Spirit of Jesus Christ. That's
right. He was a virgin born Son of God. What did that do? It broke the gate of
the enemy. Hallelujah. Whew. This is getting good to me.
MATTHEW
3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out
of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit
of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from
heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Brother Branham taught us that God
did not indwell Jesus Christ in the flesh until He was baptized in the
Notice, Jesus was anointed with the
Holy Ghost. ACTS 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
IT
BECOMETH US TO FULFILL 61-1001M 039 See, Aaron, the high priest, before he
could ever be anointed, he had to be washed with water. Therefore, when Jesus,
before He could be anointed our High Priest, He was washed with water. And then
not anointing oil poured upon Him to anoint Him, like Aaron was anointed with
oil; He was anointed with the Holy Ghost. "For John bare record,
seeing the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and going upon Him, and a
Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.'"
So the Bible said that, "Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost,
went about doing good things." See, He was anointed.
Queen
of Sheba 60-0110 075 Then after He
was baptized in water, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and
going on Him, a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son (correctly like
this) in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth these
things; it's My Father. The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the
Father doing."
GODHEAD
EXPLAINED 61-0119A 056 The Spirit
of God, like a dove, descended and a voice from heaven (which was above Him)
saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell."
(Really, the right translation... They got the verb before the adverb, like all
the foreigner is... "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to
dwell in." Or, "Whom I am pleased to dwell." "In Whom I am
pleased to dwell." ) That was God coming into Jesus, and in Him was the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. And there's your Father, Son and Holy
Ghost: in the name of Jesus Christ.
PARADOX 64-0206B 074
"When Jesus was standing there, and upon the shores of Galilee, John
looked up and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending, and a voice
saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in."
"In Whom I'm pleased to dwell," the same thing: verb before the
adverb is all. See, see? "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to
dwell in." God and man becoming One, uniting together for redemption.
How God, that covered all space and time, could come down and bottle Himself
into a Man, so He could taste death for all the human race, the Creator,
dying, to save His creation. Heavens and earth kissed each other, man and God
became one (How can a man...) there, that He might dwell in man and fellowship.
It's nothing but God condescending, trying to get to His man.
And when Jesus was in
RISING OF
THE SUN 65-0418M 34-5 088 Now,
notice this Quickening Power, "Zoe,"
bringing the Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you then. I'm trying to
show you, that you, when you raised--when God raised Jesus from the dead, He
raised up you also, and also quickened to Life with Him (You are now quickened
to Life.), although then you were but an attribute in His thoughts, but God had
saw all in Him at the finish. See? When God looked down upon the body... (The
Spirit left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember
friends, He didn't have to do that.
That was God. God anointed
that flesh, which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up
there as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God.
But... He didn't have to do it, but remember, He went there with you in Him.
See? God had never separated the Bride from the Groom yet. So when God
looked down upon the Body of Christ, He saw both male and female. It was all
redeemed in that one Body. See? They are one, the same, same Word. the same
Word spoke of the Groom speaks of the Bride.
SPIRIT
OF TRUTH 63-0118 012 And one
of the great problems for God down through the years, as the history of the
church goes, is to find somebody that He can completely get in His control. He
only needs one man. He's always used one man at a time. We studied that last
few nights: one man, not a group, He just wants one. That's all He needs,
'cause two men would have two different ideas. He just makes one man,
represents Himself through that one person. Never did He do it otherwise than
that. See? Now, He's got one person today, and that Person is the One we just
read after: the Holy Spirit. He is the Person that God has sent forth, the
Spirit of Jesus Christ into the earth, the Spirit of God, to manifest and
declare Christ through His church (See?) just to continue the Life of Christ
through the church.
In closing now,
I would like to conclude this study of
"Life", of this "God-Life" and "this stream of
Life" that has come forth into His Sons by reading from the Amplified version: in COLLOSIANS 2: 1 - 3: 25 "I
want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. My
purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that
they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in Whom are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ( The comprehensive insight into the ways
and purposes of God.) (Now, remember, Paul said in Ephesians Chapter 1 that He was still
waiting for the Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation to come to the People and here he is telling us that this is the
same spirit that was hid in Jesus Christ.)
So he begins here by cluing us into the relationship that Jesus had with
the Father, and that this relationship will be passed down to other sons.
"I say this in order that no one may
mislead and delude you by plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments and
beguiling speeches (sermons). For though I am away from you in body, yet I am
with you in Spirit, delighted at the sight of your standing shoulder to
shoulder in such orderly array and firmness and the solidness and steadfastness
of your Revelation in Christ so that your entire human personality is leaning,
and resting on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His Power, Wisdom and
goodness. As you have therefore received Christ, so walk and regulate your
lives and conduct yourselves in union with and conformity to Him. ( Now catch how Paul is turning his
thoughts from Christ's relationship with thee Father to our relationship with
the Father.) Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in Him, fixed and
founded in Him, being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more
confirmed and established in this Revelation of Christ, just as you were
taught, abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
See to it
that no one carries you off as spoil, or makes you yourselves captives by his
so-called philosophy and intellectualism, and vain deceit. His idle fancies and
plain nonsense, following human traditions, which are only mens
ideas rather than true spiritual teachings,- just crude notions which disregard
and do not point to Christ. For in Him
the whole fullness of Deified Life ( that is Godhood) continues to dwell in
bodily form - giving complete expression of the Divine nature. (Now watch
Paul again turn the focus from God-Life in Christ to God-Life in you.) And you are in Him, made full and have come
to fullness of Life - in Christ you too are filled with the same Life that is
in the Godhood, which same life came forth from the Father and is
passed down into His Son and now into Sons, That same Life which is His Divine
Holy Spirit and which encompasses and holds His Divine nature shall bring forth
in you this full spiritual stature. ( Now we might ask ourselves, how does
this happen. How does this God Life come forth into us and abound. This is the
purpose of this study). For in Him you
were circumcized with a circumcision not made with
hands, but a spiritual circumcision performed by Christ by stripping off the
body of the flesh, your, carnal nature with it's passions and lusts. Thus you
were circumcized when you were buried with Him in
your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him to a new Life, through
Revelation in the working of God as displayed when He raised Him up from the
dead. And you who were dead in trespasses and sin
And how does this happen? II
PETER 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power (That's His Word of power) hath given unto us all things that [pertain]
unto life and godlike-ness, through
the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Through the knowledge of him that we receive from His
Vindicated Word, it infuses the divine Nature into us, bringing forth in us a
new birth and a new nature which is not a fleshly nature, but is the very
nature that God anointed his Only begotten Son with. God, through the instrument of His Own
divinely vindicated Word, quickens our Soul, quickens our Spirit, and will
quicken our flesh bringing us into the very likeness of His dear Son, our
Brother, the first born. That is why the doctrine of the godhead is so very
important to us. Because our
transformation is dependent upon knowing
our Father, and the proper relationship that we are to have with Him.
Jesus said in John
5:19 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth
the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these
also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For
the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth
him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew
him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth
whom he will.
John 5: 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I
hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but
the will of the Father which hath sent me.
31 ¶ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is
not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he
witnesseth of me is true.
HEBREWS
5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he
became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Let's just bow our hearts in prayer. Dear gracious Father, we know now what you
are doing here among us in this hour. We know now why you came and did the same
things in your servant William Branham as you did in your own Son Jesus. We
know that Alpha has become Omega and we know what you expect from us as Sons.
Please Father, anoint us as you anointed your own Son, and place in us a mind
that wants only to please you, for we
ask these things in the name which you have exalted above every other name,
that of your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the anointed Son, amen.