Romans 121
The Hope of Glory
Brian Kocourek
This morning I would like to continue in our
study in the Book or Romans and this will be number 121 in our series. Let us
now turn in our Bibles to Romans 15 and we will read from verse 4 through 7 for
our text.
ROMANS 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime (that means beforehand, in other words the Sacred
Scriptures of the Old Testament) were written for our learning, (now the Greek word
here for learning is didaskalia which means teaching, doctrine, or precepts, so
we see that the Apostle Paul is telling us the Word of God is the source of our
doctrine and instruction. Then he continues,) that we through patience (So we see
that the Word of God is for our doctrine and thus our doctrine must bring forth
patience, for the Greek word for patience is hupomone, meaning a patient
enduring, or sustaining, to be perseverance. So we see then that the Word is to
bring forth doctrine that will bring our character into a position of maturity,
and bring forth in us a willingness to wait for our answers from God. The
Doctrine will either bring us to maturity and a patient character, or we do not
have the right doctrine. And further more, the Apostle continues, that it will
also bring forth comfort. Let’s continue reading.) and comfort (Now this word comfort
is the Greek word paraklesis which means consolation, comfort, solace; that
which affords comfort or refreshment. And this is to produce in us hope.)
So let’s read this now as one thought: For whatsoever
things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
Therefore we see the objective of the Scriptures
is to produce teaching or doctrine that will work into our character patience and comfort, with the end-view of
producing hope.
Now, if it (The word of God as brought forth in
doctrine) produced in us a patience that did not produce a comfort in us, we
would not have a true patience. For to be truly patient means you have a
certain comfort in being able to wait. Now, the comfort is not in the waiting,
nor is it in the patiently waiting. But the comfort truly is in the hope, for
hope maketh not ashamed.
ROMANS 5:1¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ (Now, remember
there is only One faith. That is what Paul taught us in Ephesians 4. One Faith,
One Lord, One Baptism. And if there is just one faith, and we know that Faith
is a revelation, then that one faith must be the Revelation of that One Lord,
our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore being justified by the revelation of Jesus
Christ, we have peace with God. How? Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Why?
Because it is the Revelation of Who He is and Why He has come down, that brings
us peace, knowing that He has come to vouchsafe His own Elect. And the Apostle
continues,) 2 By
whom also we have access by faith (by this revelation) into this grace
wherein we stand,
(Now, look, if you did not understand what you
understand by This Revelation of Christ, you’d all still be legalists trying to
gain your salvation by having more good things in your life than bad. Bu when
you realize Thought he Revelation of Jesus Christ your relationship to God the
Father and Jesus as your brother, You
not only receive a peace that surpasses all understanding, but you also
understand the Grace wherein you now are standing.) and rejoice in hope (Again we see
this word hope, and we know that the word hope means an earnest expectation. So
we see here that we rejoice in our earnestly expecting to receive ) of the glory of God.
And we know that word “glory” is the Greek word “doxa”
which means the opinion, judgment, or estimation. Now, if we share the same
opinion, and express the same judgment, and hold to the same estimation or
value that God holds, then we will have the same mind. In other words we rejoice
in the earnest expectation of receiving the mind of God.) 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations
also( Now, this word glory is not doxa, but rather the Greek wordf kauchaomai,
which means to rejoice, or boast, to
have great joy. Why?) knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (In
other words we know the tribulations or testing’s have a purpose in them. And
in them something is worked out in our being, He said the trials and testings
will produce patience, which we already know is a patient waiting for another
result.) 4 And
patience, produces experience (which
is a tried character); and (your) experience (or tried character produces ), hope (which
is a condition of the mid that earnestly expects something from the trials): 5 And hope (or
earnest expectation) maketh not ashamed (why? Because why would you be
ashamed of something to happen that God said would happen for your benefit. And
why would you be ashamed of waiting and longing for and living for that great
promise from God when you know that you will receive it as a result of His
great Love for you.); because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (In other words, God Who is the
Word, and Who is the Holy Spirit has shed abroad in our hearts His Love towards
us, and has promised that everything will work together for your good.)
ROMANS
because He (The Word) maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of
God. 28 And we know, (and
how do we know? By the doctrine which we have been taught from God’s Own Word,
we know by the things that were written before hand) that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (And
how do we know this? Because we have seen what God said in His Word, those
things which were afore written, those things which were written before hand of
how God took care of the needs of each and every one of His Elect throughout
the history of all times. And so we know, and we are not guessing, but with assurance we
know and do understand that everything, will always works out for the good of
those who love the Lord, those who are the Elect according to His Purpose,
because it always has in the past and he is a God that cannot change.) 29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate (that means he predetermined) to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified. 31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us?
And so we see our answer to what the apostle is
speaking to us in Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for
our learning (doctrine) that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might
have hope.
So we can see here the very purpose of God
teaching us His doctrine is to bring forth in us and earnest Expectation that could
never be ashamed of what God has in store for us.
Now, the Apostle continues by
saying, 5 ¶ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded
one toward another according to Christ Jesus: (now in verse 4 he spoke of our receiving
patience, and comfort, and now he tells us that God is the Author of this
patience and comfort. For the word comfort and consolation both have the same
Greek word. And the word comfort means consolation, to console, to bring
solace. And so we see that the Apostle is telling us that the God of Patience,
and consolation will grant or give to
you the ability to be like minded.
II CORINTHIANS 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God
our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 ¶ Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also
aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, which is
effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or
whether we be comforted, [it is] for
your consolation and salvation. 7 ¶ And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing,
that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.
Now it is not possible for everyone to be
likeminded. There has to be like experiences, and like characteristics and
natures etc. for two people to be likeminded. But here we see that God is to
gift us with the ability to be likeminded. And as I said, in order to be like
minded, you would have to experience the same things, and have the same nature
and same temperament, and same everything to be like minded. And so when God
gives us this ability to be likeminded, it is because He has given us His Own
Spirit and through the course of trials and testings He brings us to the same
place, and thus the same mind concerning His Word. Remember, The Apostle says, Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you
to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.
And notice our like-mindedness he tells us, is toward
one another according to Christ Jesus. In other Words, there must be a pattern
and Christ Jesus is the pattern for each of us to follow concerning how we
treat one another. Remember, Jesus could do nothing but what He saw the Father
do. John
6 That ye may with one
mind (and if One mind, then it
must be the Mind of God that we are given access to) and one mouth glorify God (and the
Mouth of God is His Word, thus we have the same Word.), even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
doesn’t that fit nicely? For who is the Word, but the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. And it is His Mind, that Jesus had surrendered His own mind to.
Look, it all comes down to this one thing. If we
are sons and are to be conformed to the image of God’s Only begotten Son, then
we must do and say and think as he did. And what did He do? Nothing, unless the
Father showed Him first. Therefore, if we are to have One mind, then whose mind
is it? Whose mind can produce in us what it did in Jesus Christ the Son of God?
There is but one mind that can do and will do that and it is the Mind of God,
the Father. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.
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Jesus once said, "When you see Me, you see the Father." See? God
and His Word is One. Now you understand? When the Word is manifested, what
is It? Right. See? 260 Jesus said, "Search the
Scriptures, you think you have... You believe in God, believe also in Me. If I
do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do do the works,
I and My Father are One. When you see Me, you have seen the Father." And when
you see the Word made manifest, you see the Father God, because the Word is the
Father; the Word is God. And the Word made manifest is God Himself taking
His Own Word and manifesting It among believers.
Then it was not Jesus doing it, but God doing it
through His Son. Then it was not William Branham doing it, but the same God
doing the same signs through His son William Branham. Then when you have
witnessed amputated body parts growing back, and the deaf hearing and cancer
vanishing, tumors drying up, and severe weather changing within minutes, and
ulcers vanishing, and emphysema vanishing, and the lame walking, it is because
the Same Mind that was in God the Father and came into His Son, has come into
sons. The same God who did the same things in His Only Begotten Son, has
returned into sons to do the same for he is the same. That is the Word made
flesh, because the same ONE mind is manifesting itself in the believer. And
that is true Oneness with God.
Jesus said in JOHN 17:3 And this
is life eternal,(what is life eternal?) that they might know thee (the word know is the Greek word ginosko which
means to not only know, perceive, and understand, but to do so as a result of
an experiential relationship.) that they might know
thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.(It sure sound like Jesus the Son
of God is saying, that eternal life is knowing the Father and that he had a son
and he sent that Son. Then Jesus says, ) 4 I have glorified
thee on the earth(and that Greek word is endoxa which means to
express the doxa. So Jesus is saying I have manifested your mind, you opinion,
judgment and estimation here on earth.) : I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. (So
we see then the work was to express the mind of God to the people by openly
manifesting it before the people.) 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self (and
now O Father, fill me not only with thine own mind, but with thy own self and) with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was. (Jesus so prayed that
God would so fill Him with his own thinking, that it would be like it was
before he came to earth to incarnate the body.) 6 ¶ I
have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world (Notice
he did not say, I have come to manifest my own name, but I have manifested Thy
Name. In other words, the name Jesus meaning Jehovah Savior, is the name of the
Father and Jesus came to act out the will and purpose of the Father and thus
express or manifest the very mind of the father to the people.):
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it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible
said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was
very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've
been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?" Said, "When
you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the Father
express Hisself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the sense that
His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself,
the mortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God the
Father, expressing Hisself to the world, His
attitude towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said,
"When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do you say, 'Show us the
Father?'
Now, let’s continue with Jesus own Prayer to the
Father in John 17 and verse 6…thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept
thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and
they have received them, and have
known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Now,
this alone ought to tell you that there is one that is God the Father and the
one praying is the Son of God, and not God the Son. And notice the Word God gave the son to
declare, he in turn has given to us to do the same. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from
thee, and they have believed that
thou didst send me 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them
which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and
thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. (Now, how was Jesus
Glorified in them or us? When we do the same as he did, and that is to let our
own mind go and receive the Word, the Doctrine, the instruction from the same
mind that he received it from. The mind of God. )11 ¶ And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. (Now
it was Jesus intent that we be one like He and His Father were one. Then if the
Oneness in this message are right, that Jesus and God are one like your finger
is one, then I am also One with My Father as your finger is one, and so are
you. Then what do you have? Everyone is God. And then you have chaos and new
age religion. But Jesus and God were one in that the son only manifested the
Word of the Father. And He is praying
that we too will be one with the Father by manifesting the mind or Word of the
Father.) 12 While
I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest
me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak
in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Now listen carefully to what Jesus now says, 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Now, you can
not tell me that you are like Jesus if the world loves you. Nor can you tell me
that if you are like Jesus that you will not suffer persecution and find
yourself not being rejected.) 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as (even as means in the same
manner) as I am not
of the world. 17 ¶ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word
is truth. And we know the word sanctify means to separate them
and set them aside for service, and how does he say that this shall be done? Sanctify and set them aside for service through thy truth: for
thy word is truth 18 As (in the same
manner) thou hast sent me into the world, even so (in
the same manner) have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. 20 ¶
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word; (Now, that is us he is speaking of here. Now
catch his prayer here.) 21 That hey all may be
one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,(And how is that?
God is the Word and when God’s word is received into the heart and mind of the
son to the place that the Son did only what His father showed Him to do, then
the Word becomes manifest.) that they also may be
one in us: (In otherwords, that the same Word that began in the
Father and was expressed through His Son, might also come alive in us, and
manifest itself through us.) that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them (and what
is the Glory? It’s the very mind of God.
As The Father gave it to His Son, so likewise
Jesus made it so plain through manifesting
it that He gave it to us to do the same. Christ in you the Hope, the
earnest expectation of Glory or the mindset.); that
they may be one, even as we are one: (Now, come on you oneness
out there. Jesus is praying that we would be One even as he and the Father are
one. And if you try to make Jesus His Own Father then you would have to make
all the sons their own Father and you can’t do it your way. We are one in that
we have the same Word in us and expressing itself through us.)
23 I in them, and thou in
me, that they may be made perfect in one;
(that they may be made perfect
in one what? In One mind? God’s mind. ) and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast
loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 ¶
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where
I am; that they may behold my glory,
(My Glory? But notice he clarifies that.) which
thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known
thee: but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And
I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in
them, and I in them.
I hope this has become very plain to you this
morning. Jesus is telling us that we are to be one with God by having the same
mind as the Father has given us to have and your life will manifest whether you
have that mind or not, and your words will be His words, for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Therefore if you are One with God
then you have the same Word, and thus the same will and same doctrine and same
actions and same speech.
Now, in closing let’s conclude with verse 7 of
Romans 15. 7 ¶
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the
glory of God. Therefore, receive ye one another as Christ also
received us to the Glory or to the opinion, judgment and estimation of God.
And what
does that mean? If God loved you so much that He gave His only begotten Son to
die in your stead, then we ought to receive one another with the same love.
Let us pray. Dear Father we have heard thy truth today in
such a way that there is no possible way for us to misunderstand your oneness
with your son and with your sons, unless it is not meant for us to understand
because we are not sons. But Father I know that thou hast hid these things from
the wise and prudent but hast revealed them to babes such as are willing to
learn, Grant to us Father a willing mind, one that is not self centric, and
selfish, but one that is self less and is more than willing to let our own
thinking go. May we receive your mind, and your will and your doctrine and your
words to speak and your actions to perform, for we do desire Father to enter
into your Glory, for we ask it in the name of your only begotten son, who has
already gone on ahead and prepared the way for us to come as well. Grant Father our Oneness with thee through
thy Word for we ask it in Jesus Name amen!