Preparation
#53 Confession
Brian
Kocourek
PREPARATION 53-1111
E-92 I'm telling you now; when
you walk to the altar one day and said, "I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour," raise up your hand and started praising,
thanking Him for your salvation. You couldn't show any physical results, but
you went ahead and you believed it. You stayed with it; you confessed it;
you believed it. And now, you... Everybody knows you got it. Do the same
thing by healing. Accept Him on the same basis. "I accept Him as my
Healer." Don't get that little old cowed down saying "Well, I don't
believe I can move this foot." Why not? You might not be able to walk
perfect for a month. But kick that crutch away and walk away anyhow. It's your
God given privilege. Amen.
HEBREWS 3:1
1
¶ Wherefore, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
profession, Christ Jesus;
2
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful]
in all his house.
3
For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as
he who hath builded the house hath more
honour than
the house.
4
For every house is builded by some [man]; but
he that built all things [is] God.
5
And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a
testimony of those things which were to be spoken
after;
6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end.
7
¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost
saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation
in the wilderness:
9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known
my ways.
11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter
into my rest.)
12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end;
15
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation.
16
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came
out of
17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that
had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness?
18
And to whom sware he that they should not
enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
HEBREWS
us hold fast [our] profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points
tempted like as [we are, yet]
without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
HEBREWS 10:19
19
¶ Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the
veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21
And [having] an high priest over the house of God;
22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water.
23 Let
us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is]
faithful that promised;)
24
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day
approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
ROMANS 10:8 But what
saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that
is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9
That if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10
For with
the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
11
For the
scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
homologeo {hom-ol-og-eh'-o}
--confess (17)
-- profess
MATTHEW 10:32 Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father
which is in heaven.
33
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my
Father which is in heaven.
JOHN 12:42 ¶ Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many
believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest
they should be put out of the synagogue:
43
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
JAMES 5:13 Is any
among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and
let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise
him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16
Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye
may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as
we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth
her fruit.
19
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20
Let him know, that he which converteth the
sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins.
I JOHN 1:7 But if we walk
in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin.
8
¶ If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is
not in us.
I JOHN 4:15 Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
II JOHN 1:7 ¶ For many deceivers are entered into the
world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to
yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we
receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth,
and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not
God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he
hath both the Father and the Son.
10 ¶ If there come
any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house,
neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
I TIMOTHY 6:11 But thou, O
man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, meekness.
12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou
art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
ATTITUDE AND WHO IS
GOD? 50-0815 E-35 And when the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is
here to inspire you, remember, God will make your body come into your
confession. If you say you're a drunkard, and want a drink. Don't worry, you'll
soon be one. If you say you're a sinner, and want to sin, you'll be right into
it. If you say you're a Christian and believe it all along, God will bring...
Your testimony will bring you right into it. If you believe in healing, and
believe that God has healed you, confess it, and God will make your body obey
your confession, for He's the High Priest of your confession; setting at the
right-hand of the Father now with His own Blood to make intercessions for any
confession upon anything that He died for. And He died to rid sin. And sickness
is the result of sin. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His
stripes we are healed." Remember that. Have faith. Don't waiver. Stand on
it.
MANIFESTATION OF
THE SPIRIT 51-0717 E-19
Now, remember, it isn't how much you cry; it isn't how much you repent;
it isn't how loud you can cry to God; it isn't how sincere you can be; it's how
much faith that you have when you come to Him. He doesn't save you on the
merits of your prayer. He doesn't save you upon the merits of your
righteousness. He saves you upon the merits of your faith. It's by faith are
you saved, and that through grace. Now, you come to the altar realizing that
you're a sinner and you are sorry for your sins. You repent of what you've
done. And you can stay there and cry for week in and out. And it would never
save you until you believe in your heart that you are saved. Is that right?
Then you confess it. Now, He can't do nothing for you until you confess it.
Is that right? For He is the High Priest of (conjunction)--of your confession.
He can do nothing... "You confess Me before men, I'll confess you before
the Father." Is that right? "What you say I done down here for you,
that's what I say the Father that you... that I have done for you." He's
the High Priest. You get that young man? The High Priest of your confessions.
Now, here He is setting here to make intercessions on my confession, and I have
a right to confess that He's done anything for me that's in the redemptive
blessings. There you are. What was the redemptive blessings? "He was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of
our peace was upon Him, with His stripes we're healed." Is that right?
That's every believer's possession. That's mine.
E-20 You know
what I find in traveling? I say this with humbleness. I find two classes of
people. One, the fundamental, the other one, the Full Gospel. They're both fine
classes of people. But here's the trouble. The fundamental knows what they are,
positionally, in Christ, but don't have much faith to
exercise it. The Full Gospel's got plenty of faith, but don't know what they
are. That's right. Just like a man's got
a lot of money in the bank, but he don't know how to write a check. And the
other man's got no money in the bank and he knows how to write a check. If I
could ever get them together. If you realize that you're a son and daughter of
God, and the deposit's made in Calvary, and you've got a checkbook in your
hand, write anything you want to on there, God's promised to take care of it.
It's in the bank. It was deposited at Calvary. Your salvation, the baptism of
the Holy Spirit, you're worries, and things gone. And everyone of you can be
perfectly made well, 'cause your redemption is already redeemed before God, and
He's setting at the right-hand of God to make intercessions upon your
confession.
E-21
I'm a Baptist, but that... Not... I'm a
Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost, so that changed my things a little
bit. But look, brother, that would almost make me shout, to think that I have a
right to anything that He died for. He put it in the deposit box at Calvary,
and give me a checkbook, said, "Write whatever you want to. I'll take care
of it. Just send it up to Me." Oh, my. That's wonderful. There He is to
make... Now, how do you get saved? Let's take it in a childlike form where
every believer, no matter if you're--what church you belong to. And your
pastor, if he's a right man, he will tell you that--that you can only be saved
through faith, not through works, through faith. Now, you believe that He saved
you. Now, first thing, that comes from the heart. You believe it. Then you walk
up and confess it. Say, "I accept Jesus as my personal Saviour.
I believe He saved me." There's not a physical thing in the world that you
could prove that you're saved. Your eyes are the same color, got the same shirt
on you had on. Go outside and the old gang says, "They ain't
nothing to that." But you believe there's something to it, don't you. Now,
how... What if you say, "Well I'm going to see how it works out."
It'll never work out until you keep your testimony going. You believe you're
saved. You act like you're saved. You say you're saved. And you associate with
those that are saved, and it works salvation. Is that right? And the same thing
will take place by Divine healing. You believe you're healed. You act like He
healed you. You say you're healed. And He's a High Priest of your confession to
make good anything that you confess that He's done before--fore the Father.
There it is.
E-22 I've seen sarcomas cancer... And brother,
the kings and rulers of the nations and earth won't call for fanaticism. You
know that. But it's the truth as I'm standing here. It's God's Eternal truth.
When you believe it, and act upon your faith, God will bring it to pass.
MATTHEW 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto
you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this [which is done]
to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed,
and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
22
And all
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
MARK 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall
not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever
ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have
[them].
25And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought
against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.
26
But if ye
do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your
trespasses.
JAMES 1:2
2
¶ My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations;
3
Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
4
But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
5 If
any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth
to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.
7
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A
double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
ONLY ONE TRUE
LIVING CHURCH 51-0727 E-45 Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who
forgives all of thine iniquity (Do you believe that?), Who heals all of thy
diseases." Now, you might come and confess your sins to me, and ask me to
pray for you, but I cannot forgive you. If you sinned against me, I can forgive
you. But if you sinned against God, He is the only one that can forgive. And He
has forgiven every person in the world, and ever will be in the world. They're
already forgiven, but it will never help them until they accept it by faith and
then confess it. And He's healed all the sick people, but it will never help
them, until they confess it by faith, and believe it, and act upon their
confession. "For as the body is dead without the Spirit," says James,
"so is faith without works." You've got to believe it and act like
it. When you accept Him as your Saviour, you've got
to believe it and act like Him.
AT THY WORD LORD 51-0928 E-59
For you would know that He's the High Priest of your confession, that
He's at the right-hand of Father to make intercession for anything that you
confess He's done; it's all yours. The checkbook's in your hand. Everything
that heaven owns is yours, you got a checkbook. The only thing you have to do
is say, "I believe it; I'll sign my name to it; it's mine." Go right
on out believing it, testifying of it, and you'll get well. See? Amen.
JESUS CHRIST THE
SAME YESTERDAY 53-0506
E-12 A man could come to the
altar; he could pray all night. He could cry, he could beg, he could plead,
walk up-and-down the floors, make restitutions. But until he believed and
accepted, he'd still be a sinner. For Hebrews 3 said, "Jesus Christ is the
High Priest of our confession," profession, the same translation is
confession. He's the High Priest of our confession, therefore, He can't do
nothing for us, until first, we confess that He has done it. And then He goes
to work as a high Priest, making good what we profess, that He has done.
What... And He will make good anything that He included in His atonement.
AT.THY.WORD.LORD_ JOHNSON.CITY.NY TUESDAY_
54-1207 E-47
For God can only save you as you testify. He can only heal you as you
testify. He is setting at the right hand of the Father tonight to make
intercession upon your profession. It isn't how loud you cry, how hard you beat
the altar, how many good deeds you do; it's your faith that saves you. And if
you'll confess it with your lips and coming from your heart, He goes to work as
a High Priest setting at the right hand of the Father to make intercessions
upon your confession. Hebrews 3:1, He cannot do one thing for you until first
you believe it and accept and confess it to be so. And the people today,
they'll go out, say, "Well, I felt better last night, but today I'm so bad
I just can't hardly stand it." That's just exactly when you lose your
confession and drop right down. No matter who you are, how saintly, how godly
you are, you're a minister, clergyman, or you're a deacon, or whatever you are,
or you been a Christian for fifty years, if you go out of here tomorrow and
lose faith that you're a Christian and start telling people you're not a Christian
anymore, you're backslid. You're gone.
AT THY WORD LORD
54-1207 E-48 Only by your confession can you be saved.
That's the most powerful weapon that God put in the hand of man, is a committal
and a confession. It'll do it every time, if you'll believe it, accept it on
those basis, and believe it and stay with it. Keep confessing it. When you
confess it...
JESUS CHRIST THE
SAME 55-0603 E-6
Now, I believe that healing is in the atonement, that it was included
when Isaiah said, "He was wounded for our transgressions with His stripes
we were healed." When Jesus died at Calvary, He saved every sinner that
ever was. But it will never do you no good, until you personally accept it as
your personal Saviour. And He healed every sick
person that would ever be sick. But it'll never do you no good until you accept
it as your own personal property. "He was wounded for our transgressions;
with His stripes we were healed." It's all past tense. All God can do for
you He's already did when He, Jesus died for--to reconcile sinners and back to
Christ at
LED BY THE
SPIRIT 59-0407 E-45 Now, do you believe that He
is the High Priest today according to the Book of Hebrews? The High Priest, He
is setting His body, that corporal body that God was manifested in, for God was
in Christ reconciling the world to Himself... Now, God's in His Church
reconciling the world to Himself. But then when Jesus died for--to make the
atonement. He rose on the third day, and God raised that body up and set It on
His right hand in glory. You believe that? He's setting on the throne of God,
the right hand of power and majesty in glory. And then, as we make confessions,
then that body stands there as a perpetual atonement. And when we confess that
He's did anything, He's a High Priest there to stand in our place, a sacrifice,
a sacrificed High Priest, that's standing in the Presence of God with His own
Blood to make intercessions upon our confession. E-46 Now, here's what you do then. Say,
"Lord Jesus, the great High Priest of the Covenant, I most humbly come to
Thee in confession of my sin." Now, sin is unbelief. Smoking's
not a sin. Drinking's not a sin. Committing adultery is not sin. That's the
attributes of unbelief. If you believed, you wouldn't do those thing. See?
There's only one sin, and that's unbelief: "He that believeth not is
condemned already." See? You smoke, lie, steal, drink, commit adultery,
because you're not a believer. A believer doesn't do that. He's passed from
death unto Life. "He that heareth My Words and
believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the
judgment, but's passed from death to life." John
5:24.
IT IS I BE NOT
AFRAID 60-0329 E-8 And now, it's
your faith in that finished work that does the work. That's the way it is. You
confess it, and He's the High Priest of our confession. He cannot do anything
to you, until first you profess that you accept--that you confess what He said,
"By His stripes I was healed." Then He's the High Priest to make intercessions
upon our confession. And if that ain't the Gospel, I
don't know it, and I've--I been wrong. But I've seen Him do it to much.
PROVING HIS WORD
65-0426 215 I want you
without the prayer cards now. The prayer cards will be called up. I want you to
pray.The Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. He says, He's a High Priest setting there making
intercessions upon our confession. We have to confess it first, before He can
be a High Priest, 'cause He only intercedes to our confession. Is that right,
minister brethren? See, He only intercedes upon our confession, what we confess
that He is, what He has done for us, not what He will do. He's already done it.
We have to confess that He's done it. "He was wounded for our
transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
WE WOULD SEE JESUS
58-0523 E-12 Now, if Mohammed's a living, let him speak.
If Jesus a living, let Him speak, and you decide. Don't never be afraid to put
any Divine promise of God to action. And remember, don't never forget this
quotation: "That the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise in
this Bible will bring it to pass." Just remember that. The right mental
attitude toward any Divine promise that's written in this Bible will bring it
to pass. So now, just keep that on your mind. If God made a promise, and you'll
take the right attitude towards that promise, God will fulfill everything that
He's promised. I know that to be true. And I've seen sarcomas cancer healed
with that, because people believe that it was the Truth.
WE WOULD SEE JESUS
SIRS 60-0109 E-10 And may I go
on record just now saying this: That I believe that the right mental attitude
toward any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. If you can take the
right attitude toward that promise... For the promise is a seed. A seed goes
into the ground, and if it's a germitized seed--got
life in it--it'll bring forth its kind, if it's put in the proper place. If a
seed is put into the ground... And Jesus said "The Word of God was a Seed
a man sowed." He was the Man that sowed it. And then, if the Word of God
is the Seed, and the Seed's put in proper condition, in a heart full of faith,
it'll make every promise live, bring forth what it promised.
GOD IN HIS WORD 57-0323
E-35 God in His Universe, now
God in His Word. You believe God is in His Word? The Bible said that the Word
of God is like a seed that a man sowed. Now, you people here in
TESTIMONY OF A TRUE
WITNESS 61-1105 254 Laying upon this pulpit this morning, lays handsful of handkerchiefs, coming from sick and afflicted.
God, let the God that--that give me this message yesterday, let the God that
spoke through Brother Higginbotham this morning and predicted It was coming,
let the God Who shows the visions, speak. I defy every devil and take this mountain
by faith. Who are you, great mountain of sickness, that would stand before the
Lord? Why, you'll become as a plain. Who are you, river or--or dead sea, that
would stand anything dead before God? Open up your way, we're coming over.
We're going to the promised land. Heal every one of these, Lord. Heal every one
that's setting present that's sick. Who are you, sickness, who do you think you
are? Satan, who do you claim to be? Every claim that you have was canceled at
Calvary. You're a bluff. You have no rights. We defy you, in the Name of Jesus
Christ as a Holy Ghost filled body. And let the God that has guided me through
my life, the God Who gives the visions and speaks His Words that comes to pass,
let Him, through the Name of Jesus Christ, drive every sickness away from this
people this morning. You said, "Speak, and don't doubt, but believe that
what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you said." Who did
that? The Witness of God said That. And I bear witness this morning that that
Word's true, Satan, so you have to leave.
JESUS CHRIST THE
SAME 63-0627 205
"If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your
heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what
you've said. When you pray, believe you receive what you asked for; it shall be
given unto you." O God, such promises. "If ye abide in Me, and My
Word abide in you, then ask what you will."
WHY 59-0813 E-8
I don't care what it is. If you say to the mountain, "Be
moved." And maybe, if you've got to go over the mountain for a purpose,
not to say... Somebody would say, "Oh, I'm a great man of faith. I move
that mountain." It'll never move. But if there's something over the
mountain that you've got to get over there for to do the will of God, and you
can't get over it, under it, around it, and yet something in your heart is
telling you to go, you speak the word. Don't you doubt. And maybe when you
speak the word, only one little grain of sand will fall. But it's on its road.
The next day, a spoonful may drop, the next day, a teacup full. You'll never
notice it. But if you'll just hold steady, knowing that it's being done, after
while, the whole thing'll fall in. That's the way it
is by Divine healing. When you see the working of the Holy Spirit, the Word
laid on, and the Holy Spirit anointing that Word, and proving it that He is
here in our midst to vindicate Himself and to give to you the promise, then you
accept your healing.