Romans 124
With one mind and one mouth expressing the Father
Brian Kocourek
This morning I would like to continue in our study
in the Book or Romans and this will be number 122 in our series. I would like
to entitle this Father’s Day and the Role of Fatherhood, as taught by God our
Father Himself. And now, for our text let us now turn in our Bibles to Romans
15 and we will read from verse 5 through 6 for our text.
ROMANS 15:5 ¶ Now the God of patience and
consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ
Jesus: 6 That ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 ¶ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ
also received us to the glory of God.
This morning I would like to take for our text
verse 7. Let me read it again.
7 ¶ Wherefore receive ye one
another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Now, this verse speaks of a relationship between
two people that involves more than those two people. Notice, the apostle Paul
tells us, Wherefore, or therefore, receive ye (that’s
you he is speaking to, receive you, or you should receive) one
another (that’ you, and you and you and you, etc. Those that are
with you in this same mindset, because notice in verse 5-6 he said, ¶ Now the God of patience and consolation grant
you (Now, this word grant comes from the Greek Word “didomi” and it means to give, to give something to someone, of one's own
accord to give one something, to his advantage; to bestow a gift … And what
is this gift that God has granted us?) to be likeminded (and
the Greek word for likeminded is
“phroneo” which means “to be of
the same mind” It also means “to have
understanding, be wise”.
The word also means, to feel, to think: to have an opinion of one's self, think of one's
self, to be modest, not let one's opinion (though just) of himself exceed the
bounds of modesty; to think or judge what one's opinion is; to be of the same
mind i.e. agreed together, cherish the same views, be harmonious 3) to direct one's mind to a thing, to seek,
to strive for; to seek one's interest or advantage; to be of one's party, side
with him (in public affairs)).
Therefore let me read this again. Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another
according to Christ Jesus.
Notice The apostle Paul is telling us that God
has given us a gift, and that gift is to be of one mind. And in being of this
one mind, we will not become lofty in our thinking, but will consider that our
place is with those whom God has also called to receive the same mind. Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another, and
now we find the key is in the next few words he says, according to Christ Jesus.
Now what does Paul mean, According to Christ Jesus? The word according comes from the root word, ac·cord which is a verb, and means 1. To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony. 2. To grant, especially as being due or appropriate: 3. To bestow upon: To be in agreement, unity, or harmony.
So we see that this thing, this likeminded-ness that God is wanting to Grant or give us is a gift from God, and only those who receive this gift from God can have this likeminded-ness. And notice he said it is to be done in accordance with the way He did so with His Son Jesus.
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus:
And the word mind here has the same
Greek word Phroneo that is used for the word likeminded. Let this mind that was
in Christ be in you. That’s the key that Paul is bringing to us here, and it is
a gift from God that only those whom God chooses can receive that gift.
Notice Paul says, Now the God of patience and consolation grant
you to be likeminded one toward another according
to Christ Jesus: (And notice then that it is according to Christ
Jesus , the Anointed Jesus. So we see that God has given us a gift to be
likeminded, and not only to be likeminded, but likeminded towards one another
and notice he tells us, ACCORDING to Christ Jesus. Now, the only way we can be
likeminded is if we have the same mind. So he is telling us here the same thing
he is telling us in PHILIPPIANS 2:5 Let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
And we know this can only come as God has
ordained it to come.
JOHN 1:12 But as many as received him,(Now the word received here is the Greek word Lambano which means to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take
possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self
3e) catch at, reach after, strive to obtain) to them gave he power (Now
this word power is not the Greek word Dunamis that we associate so often with
miraculous power, but it is the Greek word exousia which means 1)
power of choice, So we see God gives us a gift, and that gift is the
power to make a right decision. And that decision is to become a son, or act
like a son ought to act.) ) to them gave he power
to
become the sons of God,(now this word becomes comes from the
Greek word ginomai, and it does not
mean that you were a hog, and now you have power to become a lamb. It does not
mean that you were a seed of the devil and now you have been given power to
become a or a seed of God. No, it means to
become fulfilled. In other words, God gives you the power to make the
right decision to become what you already are.
The Apostle John said in I JOHN 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath
this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure. And how do you purify yourself? You get yourself
out of the way, and let the Word of God abide in your heart.
PSALMS 119:9 ¶ Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto]
according to thy word. 10 ¶ With my
whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11 ¶
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12
¶ Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me
thy statutes. 13 ¶ With my lips have I
declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy
testimonies, as [much as] in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts,
and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I
will not forget thy word.
There are 150 verse in this Psalm that show us
how to cleanse our own selves, and get out of the way and every verse tells us
to let the Word of God abide richly in our hearts. That is how we become sons.
That is how we become fulfilled in our role as sons. By getting out of the way
as Jesus Himself got Himself out of the way,
to where he said, in John 5:19 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. And in John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear,
I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent
me. And again in St. John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? the words that I speak unto you I
speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works. And in St. JOHN 12:49 Jesus said, For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father
which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should
speak.
And in JOHN 7:16 Jesus answered them,
and said, My doctrine is not mine, but
his that sent me. 17 If any man
will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
[whether] I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own
glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him.
JOHN 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat (that which I live by and that which I live for) is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
In JOHN 6:38 we hear
Jesus again say, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he
hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last
day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him
up at the last day.
So we see that Jesus did do anything unless the
father showed him first, and he did not speak except what God gave him to
speak, and he did not have doctrine except the Doctrine God gave him, and he
came not to do his own will, but the will of the Father.
And that is what Paul is saying when he says let
this mind be in you that was in Christ
Jesus, and that is what he is saying when he said that God has given us the
gift to be like minded, or to have the same mind, and that is what John means
when he said that God has given us a gift to be able to make the right
decision, and the right decision is the become fulfilled as sons, and that
means that we have been given grace to get ourselves out of the way, to let go
of our own thoughts, and let go of our own actions, and let go of our own pet
doctrines, and let go of our own will, and we have been given the POWER to get
ourselves out of the way and do and say and think and speak as the Father so
wills for us to do and say and think and speak.
How does a young man cleanse himself? By taking
heed to the Word thereof. By taking
heed, by being careful to acknowledge God’s words have the preeminence. And how
do we learn to get ourselves out of the way?
JOHN 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save
he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
JOHN 1:12 But as many as
received him to them gave he power (The ability to make a right
choice) to
become (fulfilled) as the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Now
watch, how is this accomplished? He says, 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God. (You can’t do this, it comes
only by God, because God gives you the ability to be likeminded. God has to do
it, and when he does you just surrender your life to him, and live for him ,a
and by him and through him. In ACTS 17:28 we
read For in him we live, and move, and have our
being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or
silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. It’s not the
device of man, it’s not man’s thinking, it’s God’s thinking and God’s doing.
And what does that lead to?) JOHN 1:14 And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And let this mind
be in you. That is the Message, that is what Paul is telling us.
WORD BECAME FLESH INDIA
TRIP 54-1003M 175 When, Jesus, no wonder, when He
come off of the hill that night, and looked around that tree, for food, there
was no food on the tree. And He said, "No man eateth from thee." And He went on away. And the next day, coming
back, the tree had withered. God's mind;
the mind, that in the beginning, that was a thought before it was a Word, that
expressed Jesus Christ, the same One was
expressing that Word back again. See?
And every Word in the Bible is
God's thoughts laid in seed form, that
if received into the human being, and spoke by the same thought that
materialized the Bible, brings the thing to pass. See what I mean? How
powerful could the Church be? The Bible said, "Let this mind that was in Christ be in
you.” “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is
he." Now, your
thoughts, if they become expression...
Like, God said, "Let there be a world."
Before it could be a word, it had to be a thought. So God in the creation, created the world by His thought first,
then spoke it, and the thought, expressed became material. See what I mean?
178 Now, if that same Spirit that said, "Let there be Light," and there was Light, that
said, "Let there be
trees," and there
was trees; and if that same mind that
was in Christ be in you, how much could it say, "Let there be no cancer," and it would be gone; "Let the blind eyes be opened," and it would be so. See? It's
your thought. Jesus said, "Verily..."
You said, "That was
Jesus."
But wait a minute. He said, "Have faith in God. For verily, verily, I say unto you,
if you shall say to this mountain, Be moved, plucked up and cast into the sea,
and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass,
you'll have whatever things thou sayest." Is that right? "You shall have it, not me, you shall have it." What power has been given to
the Church, that...
180 Now, you can express it by mental
conception, but if it becomes a real
revelation of God, that you see it before it happened, and express it in word
form, that word takes a hold and becomes material: a thought expressed.
Oh, my, how God could... See? If your
heart and your mind is so, and infilled with God's Spirit, until your thoughts
become His thoughts... Amen. There you are. When your mind, and your leading, and your guiding, becomes a direct
place, or a direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit that's moving your mortal
being... Oh, my.
What kind of people should we be? If the very Holy Spirit has you so
embodied or empowered, that you don't
use your own thoughts, you
don't use your own mind, you
don't use your own opinion; but
the Holy Spirit has you so built, until your thoughts and your being is God's
Spirit expressing Itself through you, what kind of a church would we be?
What kind of a people would it be, this morning, if this Branham
Tabernacle, this morning, was so filled
with the Presence of God, why, when
you didn't even use your own mind, didn't even use your own thoughts, didn't even
have no alternative of your own, but just to be led by the Spirit...?
183 "And they that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of
God." Then when the human element goes out, and the
Spirit of God fills that vacancy, where you empty yourself (amen), then
will be when the Church in Its power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, will walk in His steps, in His Power, in
His thoughts, in His Being, in His moving... You see what I mean? Then your thoughts will become words,
and words will become material. That's when the Church in its power...
I believe it's on its road, that when
the Church will be so wrapped in Christ, the Holy Spirit, mankind so away from
theirselves, that they don't see themselves, they don't have no thoughts but to serve God. And their
thoughts move on. They refuse the things of the world. They just move in the
Spirit, live in the Spirit, move in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, so fulfill
the law of Christ. Then the love of Christ in the human heart, moving in the
Holy Ghost, that great wonderful Church will go forth with power and Deity;
because Deity will be revealed in human beings by the Holy Spirit bringing to
pass the thought of their mind.
185 Our thoughts run different. A lot of times
we walk up, say "How do you do, brother?" And you don't mean it in
your heart. A lot of times we say, "I am this and that. I will do
that." You don't mean it in your heart. See? I don't mean it in my heart.
But when you can become so dead to the
things of the world, that Christ is first, Christ is all, then your entire
makeup is of the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, He has full control. That's when your thoughts will
be clean. Your thoughts will be pure. 1 John 3:3And every man that has this hope in himself, purifies himself even as He is
Pure.
ROMANS 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby
we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Notice this is
not you saying, I bear witness to that, but this tells us that God is
now bearing witness to your spirit. 16 The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And
what will happen if God bears witness that we are His children? We will be
given power to become, to make a right decision, and that decision is to get
ourselves out of the way, that we might become fulfilled as His Children should
be fulfilled, and that is to do His Will. Jesus, our older brother said, My meat is to dot he
will of the Father that sent me. He said, I did not come to do my own will but the will
of My Father that sent me. That’s the image we are to be conformed
to. Paul said in , ROMANS 8:28 And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his]
purpose. 29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow,(that’s
those he knew beforehand, that means those that were in Him as children,) he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he (Who?
Jesus the only Begotten Son) might be the firstborn among many brethren. And if He is the firstborn, that tells us
there are others born ones.
And so we come back to where we began this
morning, where the Apostle Paul said, 6 That ye may with one
mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And
that word glorify that Paul speaks of is to doxazo God, which is from the root
word doxa which means to have the same opinion, judgment and estimation that
God has. And how do we do that? We think His thoughts and we say His thoughts,
and we express His thoughts and we manifest His thoughts, and in doing so, we
are sons in the image of the eldest brother in a vast family of brethren.
UNVEILING OF GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9
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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.
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?'
I would like to close in prayer, but may I pray
as Jesus Prayed? Would you allow me to do that? Because I want you to notice
His prayer, must become our prayer, because Paul said our like-mindedness was
to be toward one another according to Christ Jesus. So let’s read this with you
and me in mind here, not in my mind and your mind, but in Christ Jesus mind as
He prays to the Father. Please bow your heads now for the next few minutes, as
we pray his Prayer from John 17…
JOHN 17:1 ¶ These words spake Jesus, and
lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son,
that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power (exousia, the ability to make the right decision)
over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this
is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth(I have
expressed your opinion, judgment, and estimation on earth, thus) I have finished the
work which thou gavest me to do.(And what was the word he came to
do? To express the will of the Father to God’s other children.) 5 And now, O
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was. 6 ¶ I have manifested thy name (not my name, but I have manifested THY Name) unto the men which
thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and
they (also) 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;(I
did not give them my own words, I did not give them my own thoughts, nor my own
doctrine, nor my own actions, but I gave them your words which you gave to me
first to say unto them) 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. 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. And if Jesus and God
were one like your finger is one, then so am I, and so are you, because He
prayed that we might be one even as He and the Father were one. 12 While I
was with them in the world, I kept them (I preserved them) in thy name: those
that thou gavest me I have kept (preserved), 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. 14 (You talk about unselfish
motives. He wanted us to have what he had been given by the Father.) 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. 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 I am
not of the world. 17 ¶ Sanctify them (purify them,
by the same way you purified me, and that is to give them that gift to make the
right decision to get themselves out of the way, even as I was able to get
myself out of the way ) through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me
into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, (Even
for their sakes I have gotten myself out of the way,) that
they also might be sanctified (or get themselves out of the way) through the truth.
20 ¶
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word; 21 That they all
may be one;(that’s us) as thou, Father, art
in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory (your
opinion, judgment and estimation, your very thoughts and mind) which thou gavest
me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one: 23 I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect(complete and
fulfilled) in
one; 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;(Father I would that those that you
have given to me will always be in my presence even as I am always in your
presence) that
they may behold my glory (that they may behold how I have
surrendered my mind to your mind, the mind ), 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.
Amen,
May God bless you, keep you and fill you with His Will, and desire to do His will, in Jesus name. amen.