Rising
of the son no 6
Seed
for Every Season no 5
Attributes
of God Seed pt 2
October 5, 2016
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
This evening I
would like to continue with the Rising of the Son and especially the minis
series which developed out of paragraph 20 where brother Branham spoke
concerning the seeds of God that were planted in the earth, and had to come
forth in the season they were appointed to come forth. This will be no 5 in our
mini-series concerning that thought of "A Seed for every Season". This
will be no 2 concerning the Attributes of that God seed.
The attribute we
wish to speak on tonight is that every seed of God is Born of of the Word of
God, therefore it is born of an
Incorruptible Seed which is "the Revealed
& vindicated Word of God."
And we find the
Scripture speaks just that in 1Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God, which lives and abides for ever.
Now,
concerning this incorruptible seed, brother Branham said in his sermon,
Law having a shadow 54-1203
P:69 For a grain of corn cannot produce a cockleburs; neither can cockleburs
produce corn. And if
you're sowed with the incorruptible Seed of God, born again of the Spirit of
God you're whole motive, everything in your whole life goes towards God.
Identification 63-0123
P:51 We've got to take the entire full Gospel. We must, And now, being that we have identified
ourselves as full Gospel people, let's mold our character. We're invited to be molded in His Image, that we might reflect His Presence. "And the
works that I do, shall you do also. The Life that I live, so shall you." We're invited by God to take Him as an Example,
and let our character be molded like His. What
a thing. My. Then when we let His
character be in us, then we have become sons by having the mind of Christ:
mind, which is His character. Your
mind makes your character. "Let the mind," Paul said, "of
Christ, this mind that was in Christ be in you." Let that mind of Christ be in you. It molds the character of a son of
God.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Abraham 55-0608 P:61 If a seed goes
in the ground, a grain of wheat, it cannot produce anything else but a grain of
wheat. So if you go around, say, "Well, praise the Lord, I've been saved.
I've got the Holy Ghost." And living any kind of a life, you better get back to the altar
of God again, 'cause the incorruptible Seed of God cannot be one thing, You cannot
be a wheat and a cocklebur at the same time. You've got to either be a
wheat or a cocklebur. You all got cockleburs down here? All right, greenbriar
then, ever what you want to call it, some other weed. You see? You can't be
a weed and a wheat at the same time. If you got the spirit in you of the
life of wheat, you'll produce wheat. If you've got the spirit in you of the
life of a cocklebur, it'll be a cocklebur. And if the Holy Ghost is in you, you'll believe God,
love God, and act like a Christian. That's right. If it
isn't, you'll know them by the fruits they bear. Oh, what we need today is
a good old time Holy Ghost revival. What we need today is an old time shaking again
of the power of God, a moving of the mulberry bushes to go forward to battle
again. God's giving the moving, if people will just listen to it and believe
it.
In Romans 8, Ephesians 1, Galatians 4 and Hebrews 1, 3,7, we are shown not only the
pattern of behavior is predetermined by the seed we receive.
But if we truly are
born of God by the same Spirit that was in Jesus, then we must do the same
things that he did. William Branham said
in “The
Spoken Word is the Original Seed”, “if Son of God seed
is in us, we will produce Son of God” for
brother Branham said in that same sermon, that “Jesus
was the “example seed” or "the pattern seed”. And since he
was the Original Seed and the law of reproduction
says “every seed must come forth
after its kind, nature, or life in the seed,”
then if Son of God Seed
produced
an obedient Son
in the original seed it will also produce obedient sons in other seeds that came forth from the original
seed
or the law of reproduction in Genesis 1:11 means absolutely nothing.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides
for ever.
Abraham 55-0608 P:60 We don't have
nothing to worry about, if God called us into His loving grace. Brother, I'm
telling you, if you've ever been born again of the Spirit of God, you ought
to be the happiest person in the world, 'cause you have Eternal Life,
Everlasting Life, cannot perish. Amen. Your sowed with the incorruptible
Seed of God.
John 3:15 That “whosoever believeth”
(ὁ
πιστεύων) in him should
not perish, but have eternal life.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
I will restore 54-0809A P:35 Esau and Jacob,
why, Esau was more of gentlemen looking than Jacob was, but Jacob had
recompense to the reward. He believed in that birthright, and he held on to
it regardless. There you are. We can take Israel. When Israel was coming
up... Look at these two vines now. I'm bringing them from Genesis, and as they
go up. Now, Christians here, there's many a Lutheran setting here, Baptist,
don't condemn them people, they lived in their age. Jesus said, "Every
Word of God is a Seed." Is that right? A sower went forth sowing seed. He
said, "I, the
Son of man, has sowed the Seed, and the seed's the Word of God." And
every time you see this Bible say anything, it's a Seed, and it's absolutely...
And we're sowed with
the incorruptible Seed of God. And if a man will take any Divine
promise of God in his heart and water it with faith, it'll produce just exactly what it said it would
do. Amen. Don't care what it is. Just take God's
promise in your heart and there...
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: “he that believeth” (ὁ πιστευων) in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Seal of God 54-0514 P:70 When a grain of
wheat falls into the earth, no matter... If that grain of wheat dies to
itself, it can't produce a cocklebur, to save its soul. A grain of wheat
will bring forth a grain of wheat, just as sure as anything. And if we are sowed with the
incorruptible Seed of God, how can It produce anything but a life of Christ's
Life? The Holy Spirit leading the Church, leads It in the power of
the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and you're sealed until the day of the
redemption. That's the Bible. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby
you're sealed until the day of your redemption." Ephesians 4:30.
John
14:12 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, “He that believeth” (ὁ
πιστευων) on me, the works
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Expectations and what love is
54-0228A P:54 Just like a grain of corn, when it goes into the
ground, it cannot be a creeper, cocklebur, jimsonweed, or a cactus stalk. It's
got the life in it of corn; it'll produce corn. And if a man's ever borned of the Spirit of God, he
becomes a new creature and can't produce nothing else, but godly fear, and
godly love, and the fruits of the Spirit. For it is Life. We are
sowed with the incorruptible seed of God, the imperishable seed of God. It's got
to produce just exactly of its kind. Amen. I hope I'm not too loud. Notice,
it's got its life in it. When a grain of corn goes into the ground, if
it's a yellow grain, it'll produce a yellow stalk of corn, yellow grain of
corn. If it goes in a wheat, it'll produce a wheat. A barley will a barley.
Whatever it is will produce just exactly what it says.
1 John
5:5 Who is he that overcometh
the world, but “he that believeth” (ὁ πιστεύων) that Jesus is the
Son of God?
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
What think ye of Christ
53-1213M P:7 Then you trans-set it out into the yard, and it just
keeps growing. But you can praise God just as soon as you get the acorn. Is
that right? Because you've got the tree already. Is that right? Now, when God
said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." Just
start praising. You got it; you got it right then. You say, "Well, I don't
see any results, but that don't make any difference, you got it anyhow.
See? 'Cause
the Word of God is a Seed. Is that right? And we are sowed with the
incorruptible Seed of God. See? It can't perish; it's
incorruptible. And I... Here's a statement that I usually make in
the healing services, "The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring
it to pass." See? 'Cause it's a seed. It has to.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Faith once delivered to
saints 53-1129A P:29 And that's the way Jesus Christ is. He keeps us. We
don't keep Him. He keeps us. It's not whether I can hold on; it's
whether He held on or not. That's the main thing. It's what He done. What God
did for me in Christ is what I am today. That's what you are by sovereign grace
of God. Now, in order... If you went out here and looked at your field, or a
big field was all plowed up and fixed up real nice, and there's something
planted in there. The only way that you're going to know what's planted in
there, is go back and raise up the clods and look under there, and see what the
seed is. You'll find out what kind of crop you'll have by the kind of seed
you got planted. Is that right? When our Bible said that we
are sown with the incorruptible Seed of God, imperishable. It cannot perish; God's Word can't perish.
Now, every
seed will bring forth of its kind.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that “whosoever believeth” (ὁ
πιστεύων) in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
1Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Faith in the Son of God
52-0715 P:20 The Devil won't judge by the good things; he will
judge by the worst things. He throws it all over on the Word. The same thing he
will do by Christians. He will say, "Look at there. Look at that guy,
supposed to be a Christian, out there living with this other man's wife,
drinking liquor, doing these things there. Well, I'm as good as he
is."Sure, you're better than he is. But brother, that guy has nothing
to do with the man who's really living a real Christian life and loves Christ.
If he loves Christ, he won't do those things. For he's born of the Spirit
of God, and the seed of God reminds in him and he will have no desire to do
that. The Bible said, "The
worshipper once purged has no
more conscience, or no more desire of sin."And if
you still have the desire, you haven't been purged yet. That's just one
thing sure. See? If you still have a desire in your heart to go out and lust
and sin, just remember, my friend, you need to come back to God, back to the
altar. For we are sowed with the incorruptible seed of God. An ordinary,
say, grain of wheat won't perish if it's in the right kind of a ground. How
about the seed of God which is incorruptible? It's got to produce just exactly
what it says it will.
John 3:36 “He that believeth” (ὁ
πιστεύων) on the Son hath everlasting life: and he
that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
him.
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, “He that believeth” (ὁ πιστευων) on me hath
everlasting life.
Questions and answers COD
59-1223 P:27 But the wicked shall be punished for their sins
according to the deeds that's done in the body, and then will become completely
and totally annihilated. Now, just remember that. You that's taking down
notes, remember that. You put me on record of that, that there's only one form of Eternal
Life, and we're seeking for that; and God alone has Eternal Life.
There's no two types of Eternal Life: one, Eternal Life, and that's all
that lives. And remember, put this on your note too: Everything that has been
made, that had a beginning, has an end. Everything that had a beginning has
an end, and only that that had no beginning has no end. And there's only one thing that
never had a beginning, and that was God. And that's the only way you could
rise in the resurrection, is to have that Eternal Life within you.
See? That's the only way that you ever come back, is something that had no
beginning. And when
you have received the Holy Spirit, in you dwells a Life that never did start
and never can end; and you possess that Life in you, then you've got Eternal
Life and are sons and daughters of God. See? And you can no more
die than God can die, because you are a part of God.
Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, “Whosoever
believeth” (ὁ
πιστεύων) on him shall not be ashamed.
1 Peter 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the
scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and “he that believeth” (ὁ
πιστεύων) on him shall not be confounded.
1Peter 1:3:4 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, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you,
Things that are to be 65-1205
P:23 Now, the only way that you can be a son or daughter of God... Because
you have to have Eternal Life... And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's
Life. Only one form of Eternal Life, that was God. Therefore
to be a son of God, you had to be in Him always. The gene of your life,
spiritual life tonight, was in God the Father before there was even a molecule.
See? And you are nothing but the manifestation of the gene of Life that was in
God as a son of God. Now, you're expressed, after His Word has come in you to
light up this age. You are expressing God's Life in you, because you are
a son or a daughter of God. Therefore... You get what I mean? See? You are
in--you are now made... You're setting in this church tonight, because your
duty is to express God to this nation, and this people, and this neighborhood
where you associate. Wherever you are, God knew that you would be here, because
you have to be one of His genes or His attributes. You had to be. If you ever--if you've got Eternal Life, then
it always was Eternal Life. And God before there was a foundation of
the world knew that you would be here. And when the Word--or the water, the
washing of the water of the Word fell upon you, you--it was expressed in a
being. Now, you have fellowship with your Father, God, just as you have with
you earthly father. See? You are citizens of the King, not citizens, but you
are children, sons and daughters of the living God if it be that the Eternal
Life dwells in you.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory
of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Modern events made clear by
prophecy 65-1206 P:34 For you're a gene of your father, and you were in
your father, yet your father had no fellowship with you, because he... You was
in there, but you knew it not and he knew it not, but you was manifested that
he might fellowship with you. And you being born again, you're born of Eternal
Life. And that's the only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's Life,
Zoe, the Greek word is "Zoe," only one form of Eternal Life. Then if
you are a son of God or a daughter of God, you were in God all the time. but He
knew what bed and time that you'd be planted. So now you're made a creature, a
son of God, manifested son or a daughter of God to meet the challenge of this
hour to vindicate the true and living God of this hour, the Message
that's coming forth in this time. Right. It was done there before the foundation of the world.
If it wasn't... If you wasn't chose that way, no matter how much you try to
impersonate it, you'll never make it. How can you get blood from a turnip when
there's no blood in there?
Identified masterpiece of God
64-1205 P:29 Remember, there's only one form of Eternal Life, and
our--even our names and our thoughts were with God before there was a
foundation of the world. Because now we possess Eternal Life, and to be that we have to be
a part of God. So we'd have to be as much as in His thoughts, 'cause we
have Eternal Life and was predestined to this life. And our names were put on the Lamb's
Book of Life before the foundation of the world, according to
Revelations. Now, that God had us in His thinking, then we have Eternal Life,
'cause then He spoke us, and we come into existence. And a word is just a
thought manifested. God had us in the beginning in His thoughts.
God's power to transform
65-0911 P:107 Sons and daughters was in God at the beginning. Now,
look. You've got Eternal Life, you say. We believe it, that we got Eternal
Life. Well, there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. That's the
only thing that is eternal, is God. Then if you've got Eternal Life, that Life
that's in you always was, and you were in the loins of God before there even was a world.
And when the Word Itself... Jesus Himself is called the Word, and in St. John
1, said, "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." Then
you were in the loins of Jesus, and went to Calvary with Him. You died with
Him, and you raised with Him. And today we're setting in heavenly places in
Him, filled with His Spirit, sons and daughters of God. Die with Him, raised
with Him. Sure.
John 3:3-8 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see (he cannot
understand) the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus
saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second
time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel
not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every
one that is born of the Spirit. 15-6 That whosoever (ὁ
πιστεύων) believeth
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever (ὁ
πιστεύων) believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
1Corinthians 15:53-54 For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption, and
this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up
in victory.
Serpent's seed 58-0928E P:130
We
believe in the second coming of Christ, the visible corporal body of the Lord,
not spirit, but the corporal body of the Lord Jesus coming again in glory. We
believe in the physical resurrection of the dead to receive a body, not old
and wrinkled as we go into the grave, but a new one in the very bliss of youth
to live forever. We believe in the immortality of the soul, absolutely. We believe there's only one form
of Eternal Life and that's the Life that you get from Christ Jesus.
That's exactly right. Therefore, we do not believe in eternal punishment.
We believe in a hell-fire, brimstone burning, but we don't believe it burns
forever. If it does, you got Eternal Life. There's only one Eternal Life; that comes from God.
That's right. You'll be burnt maybe for a million years, ten million years, I
don't know; but you can't have Eternal Life. You can't burn forever... You can
burn forever, but not eternal. There's a difference between "eternal" and "forever." "Forever" is
forever and forever (conjunction) means "a space of time." But
eternal... You do not have eternal punishment. You have Eternal Life, 'cause there's only one form of
Eternal Life, and he that has Eternal Life lives and is blessed of God forever.
But the soul that sinneth,
that soul shall what? Die. Then it hasn't Eternal Life. Certainly it
has. It has its punishment, but not Eternal Life. So you see there's many
things yet to be taught; we'll get later on. The Lord bless you.
Look, Jesus
speaking of our eternal nature said in Luke 21:18 But
there shall not an hair of your head
perish.
And if not one
hair on our head will perish, then what about our entire being?
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the
will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Luke 13:3-5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in
Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that
dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.
And it all comes down
to this, either God predestined you to Life or He did not. And if He did, then
you have in your the ability to repent, but if he did not you do not have that
ability to repent.
Hebrews
12:14 Follow peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking
diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 16 Lest
there be any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For
ye know how that afterward, when he
would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
For ye
know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully
with tears.
Look, Esau tried
to repent, and how many church goers do the same today. They try to repent of
their wicked ways, but because they are not born again they are unable to fully
do so, which means to change the mind, and thus change their way of Life.
Romans
9:8 That
is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are
not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 9 For this is the
word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.10 And
not only this; but when Rebecca also had
conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 (For the children
being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him that calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, The
elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
What shall we do with Jesus
64-0126 P:64 Now, as an individual, I'm going to ask you. What
will you do with this anointed Word which is the Christ, the Word that was
promised for this day? You, as an individual? Pilate never got It off his
hands. You know that. He screamed, cried, and every scheme he could do. He
failed to do it. There's a legend up in Switzerland there, where blue water
washes up where he committed suicide. You know the history of it. He finally run
him crazy, and he committed suicide. Why didn't he repent? He couldn't repent, no more than Esau could repent.
He had done it. Don't you let that happen to you. Let us pray...