Romans 121

The Hope of Glory

June 8, 2003

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 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit (or, that is to say), the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope (Now, notice this phrase the apostle uses. He tells us we are saved by hope. We are saved by this earnest expectation. Why? Because it means so much to us that we are drawn to it, and we live for it, and we are cleansed and sanctified by it, and we are set apart because of it, and thus are saved by earnestly expecting it.): but hope (reanest expectation ) that is seen is not hope (earnest expectation): for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope (earnestly expect it?) 25 But if we hope (or earnestly expect)  that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 ¶  Likewise (in other words, not only do we have this earnest expectation working in us, but we have) the Spirit also helping our infirmities (weaknesses): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but The Spirit Itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, and who is this that searches the heart? We know the Word of God is a discerner of the thought s and intents of the Heart.  

 

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 5:19 & 5:30. And Jesus could only speak what the Father gave Him to say. And Jesus did not come to do his own will, but the will of the Father. And He did not come to manifest Himself or His own thinking about it, but He came to do the will of the Father that sent Him. And that is our pattern, and in so entering into that pattern we would all then be guided by the same mind, and thus become likeminded, and of One mind, which is the Mind of God. For the Apostle said,  be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus. According to Jesus Christ, and therefore we have our pattern. )

 

 

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.

 

UNVEILING OF GOD_  JEFF.IN  V-9 N-1  SUNDAY_  64-0614M  257    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.):

SHOW US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY  56-0422  E-36 Now, 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!