Preparation
#55 Confession and the Logos
Brian Kocourek
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.
The week before last
we examined paragraph 92 from the Message Preparation in which Brother Branham
said the following.
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.( In other words, he is saying that although you had no
tangible evidence of your salvation, you went ahead and confessed it any how).
Then he says,… You stayed with it; you confessed it;
you believed it.
You stayed with
it, Paul said, when we have done all we
can do to stand, then we simply must stand… Notice, Brother Branham said, You
stayed with it; you confessed it; you believed it.
Now, why did they stay
with it and then confess it? Because he says, they believed it. They stayed with it and confessed it because
they believed it…. That is quite a mouthful, but that is absolutely right. And that is the only thing that could make
sense. They stayed with it because they believed it, and they confessed it
because they believed it, then if you don’t believe it you will not be able to
stay with it, and neither will you confess it.
So the confession is only an outward expression of the inward
revelation.
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.
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
But how can you
confess Him if you don't know Him. Confess means to say the same thing.
CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH 55-0220E E-66 Jesus said, "Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the Kingdom." You can't understand it. It's a
mystic, mythical thing until you're born again. There the very Life of
God comes in you. Everlasting, Eternal Life, Zoe, God's own Life comes in you,
and then you're a part of God. You're a Son of God or a daughter of God. And
then you see as God sees. You believe as God believes.
Matthew 13: 10-17 *
Mark 4: MARK 4:11 And he said unto
them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto
them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables: 12
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins
should be forgiven them.
MARK
I would like to
comment upon this for just a minute. Now He said this group received the same
word as the others but the soil was stony ground. (See, there is no moisture
which means they do not have the holy Spirit) They rejoice for a season, but
when the Word puts them on the spot, because there is no root, no gene seed in
them, they fall away. Root: rhiza
{hrid'-zah} that which like a root springs from a root, a
sprout, shoot; metaph. offspring, progeny… In other words, as I said, they
have no seed life or gene seed life. And notice also that they do endure for a time
which is a word that means a season.
Then after this season is through, they wither up and die. Then when the
affliction comes, and that word is
thlipsis {thlip'-sis} and it means to be pressed upon, to be
squeezed, then they can not help but to
fall away. Immediately they are offended
which means they stumble and fall away. Now, let's read the AMPLIFIED version
and notice how they fall away.
AMPLIFIED: MARK 4:
16-17 "And in the same way
the ones sown on stony ground are those who, when they hear the word, at once
receive, and accept and welcome it with joy; and because they have no real root
in themselves, and so they endure for a little while, then when trouble or
persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended -
become displeased, indignant, resentful; and they stumble and fall away.
MATTHEW 11:6 And
blessed is [he], whosoever shall not be offended in me. NIV Blessed is the man who does not fall
away on account of me.
In getting back to
Mark chapter 4 we read on … 18 And these are they which are sown among
thorns; such as hear the word, 19 And the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke
the word, and it becometh unfruitful. 20
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word,
and receive [it], and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some
an hundred. 21 ¶
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or
under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? 22
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any
thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. 23
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 24
And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be
given. 25 For he that hath, to him shall be given:
and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
II JOHN 1:8 ¶ Look to yourselves, that we lose not those
things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth,( that means to go beyond the limits) and abideth (and abides means to stay put)
So those who do not stay put in the
doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,(
He that remains in and makes his home 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.
Look how important
it is to remain in the correct doctrine of Christ. Jesus said, "Unless you
believe that I am HE, you will die in your sin." You will die in your
unbelief.
ATTITUDE AND WHO IS
GOD? 50-0815 E-35 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. …. confess
it, and God will make your body obey your confession, for He's the High
Priest of your confession;
MANIFESTATION OF
THE SPIRIT 51-0717 E-19
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.
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...
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.
33 But whosoever shall deny me ( How? ) before men, him will I also deny before my
Father which is in heaven.
Whosoever shall
deny me before men.
And what does it mean to deny him before men? The word deny here is a Greek
word, can anyone tell me what that Greek word is? It is ARNIE OH MY, To deny
Him is to "Arnie Oh My" Him. And it means to refuse Him, and Who is
He? He's The Word! Deny means to refuse something that is offered. And
if He is the Word, it means to refuse or turn down what He has to offer.
In John 8:24
Jesus said, "if ye believe not that I am [he], ye shall die in your
sins". But Jesus knew that
they could not believe and therefore they were ordained to die in their sin
which is their unbelief.
JOHN
JOHN
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.
What a tremendous
declaration this scripture tells us. Many believed on Him, but because of
others they were afraid to confess Him and
they will therefore die in their sin or unbelief. Why? For the praise of
man.
FAITH IS THE
SUBSTANCE 47-0412 E-60 people tell me they got faith and say they
can't believe in Divine healing? Friends, if you don't believe in Divine
healings, you're lost. That's right. How you going to, if you can't have faith
enough for God to patch up this body to glorify Him in, how much more you going
to have faith to believe that God will take this old mortal and make
immortality out of it to take it up. That's a direct Divine healing. Oh, my,
there's going to be some awful disappointments at the day of judgment, at the
resurrection. That's right.
RESURRECTION OF
LAZARUS 51-0729A E-97 And we are redeemed through the Blood of
Christ. And God Almighty is a Spirit. And He overshadowed the virgin Mary and
created... God the Creator, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that woman,
knowing no man by sexual desire. You believe it? And that Blood cell developed
into the Man which was the Son of God. And through that unadulterated Blood of
the Son of God, creative Blood by Jehovah, without sexual desire; through the
shedding of that Blood on
GOD'S COVENANT WITH
ABRAHAM 56-0223 E-29
And the blood cell comes from the male, and the male produced the
blood cell. And the Male this time was a supernatural Being which could not
have sexual desire. And God, the Creator, created a Blood cell in the womb of
Mary that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. You believe it? Outside of that
you're lost if you don't believe that. There's not a way in the world for you
to be saved.
GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE
WORSHIP 65-0220 49 never put His Name in any church. He put It
in His Son Christ Jesus, when He and His Son became One. That's the genuine
place of worship. No other foundations is laid, no other Rock, "On Christ,
the solid Rock I stand, all other grounds is sinking sand." Denominations
will crumble and fall; nations will pass away, but He will remain forever. No
other place that a man can find to worship God that God will speak back to him,
no place but in Christ Jesus. That's the only place, the only place that God
chose to put His Name, and the only place that He meets men to worship. You're
lost to believe anything else.
ANOINTED ONES AT
END TIME 65-0725M 54 I was talking to a--a gentleman not long
ago, a Christian scholar and gentleman. He said, "Mr. Branham, we refuse
all revelations."I said, "Then you have to refuse Jesus Christ, for
He is the revelation of God, God revealed in human flesh." Unless you see
it, you're lost.Jesus said, "Except you believe that I am He, you'll die
in your sins." He is the revelation of God, the Spirit of God revealed in
human form. If you can't believe that, you're lost. If you put Him a third
person, second person, or any other person besides God, you're lost.
"Except you believe that I'm He, you'll die in your sins." A
revelation.
A TRIAL 64-0427 E-75 Now, look, as Son of David, He was with the
Jew. But the Son of God... Now, look, Son of man, prophet (See?), Son of David,
king. They recognized Him, not a prophet. They wanted to make Him king. They
wanted to be delivered out from under the
Your focus is
wrong. People keep focusing on the vessel that God used. Don't focus on the
vessel, because if you do you will focus on the wrong thing and eventually you
will have to believe two or three Gods like the Trinitarian believe.
ONENESS 62-0211 But it just takes one word; that breaks the fellowship
right there. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. The more your
weakness is on disbelieving God's Word; there's where you want to put a new
link, strong with the rest of it. If you believe Jesus Christ saves; then you
must put a link in there that believes He heals. If you believe He was, you
must believe He is. Hallelujah. If you believe He was, and wondering whether He
is, that link will break, then you're lost. See what I mean? It's stern it's
hard, but it's the Truth. You must believe Him, every Word, everything that He
said.
I said therefore
unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am [he],
ye shall die in your sins. 25
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even
[the same] that I said unto you from the beginning.(what Beginning? Let's go back to the beginning of
this conversation
So let's look at the
beginning.
Notice that brother Branham points out to us that it
was a part of God which came forth in a birth process and brought forth a SON.
In John 1: 1 we read, In the beginning was the Word. Now if we read
this thought by thought, we would picture in our mind something that would
remind us of a Bible.
In the Beginning was the
Word. 
and so we view in our mind the word standing
all alone by itself.
Then John goes on to make this thought a little more
complex when he says,
And the Word was With God… +
And so we then conceptual there being two
alongside of each other, God and the Word. And brother Branham told us when we
do this we are misinterpreting this scripture.
74 CHRIST REVEALED IN
HS OWN WORD 65-0822.1M To misinterpret
Jesus Christ being the Word, you'd make Him one god out of three. Or you'd make
Him the second person in a godhead.
And to do that, you'd mess the whole Scripture up. You'd never get nowhere. So
It must not be misinterpreted.
Now, if we are not careful we will picture this Bible
or Word as being alongside of God as though it is another being altogether. The
word "with" does not mean along side of. If it did, then it would be
possible to see this as God and the word cohabiting together. But the word
"with" means a living union. And that is exactly what John comes back
with in his next thought when he says, "And the
Word was God". Therefore the picture in our minds should be of this
bible inside of God as a living part of God.
From
the Message, DO YOU NOW BELIEVE
54-0725 E-12 Jesus plainly
said that He did nothing except His Father showed Him first what to do. We all
believe He was full of mercy and compassion, do we, all of us? We believe that
the very heart of God was in Him.
So we see then, that when God gave birth to Himself a
Son, it was a part of God coming forth, the very Life of God coming into his
Son.
PROVERBS 8: 22- 36 NIV
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."
As Brother Branham continued in Q & A
on Genesis, in pp. 32 he goes on to say, "Now,
in St. John 1 He said, "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was
God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." God unfolding
Himself down to a human being, now, watch how He did it. Now, back
there, then, when this little halo comes... Now, we can't see nothing yet, but
just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now, that's
the Son of God, the Logos, Now, I can see Him playing around like a little
child before the Father's door, with all eternity. See? And now, then in
His imaginary make-up He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear
Him say, "Let there be light." And when He did, an atom bursted and
the sun came into existence.
Therefore, we can see that this first Light in Genesis 1:3 is the Son of God.
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 8:12 ¶ Then spake Jesus again unto
them, saying, I am the light of the world:
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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 e-56 "After His death, burial, and
resurrection, Saul of Tarsus, on his road down to Damascus, was stricken down
by a light that put his eyes out. For a season he was blind. That same Light was Jesus Christ, which is the Light of the
world," Notice Brother Branham was talking about
this same Pillar of Fire.
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 see in JOHN 1:1
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.'
PARADOX 61-1210 253 Jesus did the works of His Father because the Father was in
Him. That's why the works was done, because that the Father was in the Son. Do
you believe that? That in Him, He was the incarnate God. Do you believe
that? That God the Father, which is the Father of Jesus Christ, the Great
Spirit dwelt in the fullness of His power in Jesus Christ, which was the
Tabernacle of God, made flesh and dwelt on earth, representing the Word.
PARADOX 61-1210
315 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
the living God, borned of a virgin, conceived, God in a womb, a Tabernacle in
which He would dwell in. I believe that, in Christ, He is the incarnate God.
He is God made flesh. When the Father God came into Jesus Christ, He was
the Fullness of the Godhead bodily; in Him dwells all the Fullness. God the
Father spoke the Words. Jesus said, "It's not Me that speaketh, but My
Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the speaking." Therefore upon
that basis, Him being made flesh so He could die, God paying the penalty for
the human race to redeem and bring up, and--and come, bring together the things
that His Own creation had lost in the fall, He redeemed it back with His Own
life.
Both David and John saw two main characteristics in
God.
#1) they both saw this
great fountain of Life,
21-129 Hebrews
Chapter 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.
#2) This Life was
represented as 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 147 "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.
Notice, brother
Branham told us it was only a part of God
that went out of God. And we know as with any child born, it is a part of the
father in him. Brother Branham said from the Message, GO TELL MY
DISCIPLES 53-0405S 170, he is a part
of God, (if) he's an offspring of
God.
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."
BELIEVE FROM
THE HEART 57-0623 E-46
Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God
was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very
expression. A man's work declares
his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character,
His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave
His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.
Therefore, we see that He was the very expression of
God. This first light that God brought forth was the Logos which was a 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.
But, remember, it was not the Son creating, but God
was in the Son doing the work.
Jesus as His Son said, JOHN
5:19
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, 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.
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? 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. The
only way that God could make Himself known, was to live in His Son, Christ
Jesus, suffer death and temptation for all human race. And He had all the
qualities of the Father was in Him.
II
CORINTHIANS 5:19
"To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world to Himself". So all the great qualities of the
Father was in Christ Jesus the Son when He was here on earth. All the Father
has was His.
Now, Jesus was not just a mask like the oneness want
to believe. He was a man, just like you and I with his own body, soul and
spirit. But then God came into that man which made him the God-man, and this
made him a dual person.
HIDDEN
LIFE 55-1006A When God was here on earth, He occupied a three room House, the Soul, Body, and Spirit
of Jesus Christ.
JEHOVAJIREH 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 passing 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 doeth 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 131 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."
Now, this duality of being did not begin when He was
in the flesh. We see in the very beginning God birthed Himself a Son as we have
already established and then God worked in that Son to create all things.
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.
Now, this in no way makes it two Gods. There is One
God and he has a Son. The Scripture calls Him the "Son of God", never
does it say he is "God the Son".
QA ON GENESIS13-13 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
Then brother Branham
asks those who have faith for healing to raise their hands as a means of
publicly confessing their belief.
PREPARATION E-94 All you got faith--have got faith, raise
your hands. Say, "I've got faith, Brother Branham. I believe."
Now, I believe that is exactly what we did last week,
we confessed our confession.
Then he goes on to say, "You believe it's the
preparation time? Don't notice your age. Don't notice the circumstances. Faith
knows no age limit or circumstance. Faith knows one thing: "God said so,
and that settles it." You believe it?"
E-95 Where's our sister that plays the piano?
Let us bow our heads a minute. "The Great Physician," sister. Something
come on my heart then. Our heavenly Father, I thank Thee tonight because
that we're living in the hour of preparation. We're living when You're
preparing the people to believe all things. We believe that's the message of
the day, the preparation time: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and
forever. And You're calling a people, have give them the Holy Ghost, and now,
You're trying to call out of that group of sons to adopt them. We realize that
the old law was that a son was born into the home, he was a son, but the tutor
raised him. And then when he was of age, if he'd been the right kind of a son,
he was taken out, put a purple robe on in a ceremony and adopted. And that's
what You're trying to do to these Full Gospel people now: To get them out to
themselves somewhere, alone with You in faith, to adopt them into the Kingdom,
and give them the right to go forth, and to do the things that You did. I pray,
God, that You'll take these few examples and here the great St. Paul said after
writing Hebrews 11, said, "Seeing that we're compassed about with such a
great crowd of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight." Now, Father,
many are weighted down; they'd like to run but they're sick. And, Father, I
pray tonight as I have brought them the plain simple truth of how that You heal
the sick, You raise the dead. You commissioned Your disciples to go preach the
Gospel, said, "These signs would follow them that believe." Back in the Old Testament from Genesis on to
Revelation You constantly was a miracle working God when people were ready to
step out and believe You. When Moses prayed and then stepped toward the Red
Sea, it opened. When the priests stepped into the water of Jordan, it peeled
back from one side to the other. We've got to make a step. We've got to try.
We've got to put forth our effort to show You that we're sincere. For it's
written in the Bible that faith without works is dead, just as the body without
the spirit. And I pray, Father, in Jesus Name, that You'll give faith here
tonight to these sick people. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it.
E-96 With your heads bowed. God put something
on my heart just now. He said, "You preached like an evangelist,
bring the people up and ask them to accept Christ as Saviour, why don't you
bring them up and let them accept Christ as Healer?" How many in here is sick and wants to
accept Christ as their Healer now? I'm giving the invitation to walk
right up here the side of this platform. God bless you, young lady. God
bless you, sir. That's right. All right, everyone now: The great Physician now
is here, The sympathizing Jesus, He
speaks the drooping hearts to cheer, Oh,
hear the voice of Jesus.
Sweetest... ... on mortal
tongue, O sweetest carol ever sung, Jesus, blessed Jesus.