Romans 34

Water, Blood and Spirit

Brian Kocourek

 

 

Romans  6:1-11  ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:  6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.  10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.  11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God (How?)  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  

 

Paul is speaking of a total change in the way we think which can only come by being born again. And this can only be done through Jesus Christ our Lord. He did not just stop and say, Jesus Christ, but one must acknowledge that this same Jesus Christ is both Lord and Saviour. Yes, Lord first and then saviour. For if He’s not Lord then He’s not your saviour. And if He’s not your saviour, then how can He be your Lord.

 

Now, these words spoken by the Apostle Paul are words of admonishment.  Paul is declaring to the people that we can not live unto God until we first die to ourself. For to live unto God without having first died out to self is to live a hypocritical life. Because by nature we are sinners, born in sin, shaped in iniquity and coming forth to the world speaking lies. That is the nature of this flesh. To sin is in our natural chemistry. Bacause the bodies of this death came forth from an act of the flesh, and therefore must gravitate toward acts in the flesh. And the spirit in our flesh that we were born with was only allowed of God but was not from God.

 

[John 3:1-7] Notice verse 5, unless a man is born of water and spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God. You must be born again. You must have not only a natural birth but a birth of the spirit as well.

 

[1 John 5:3-8] Notice that John tells us here the effect of the Love of God will have upon our lives. We will hold to Gods Word. And notice in this example John uses, he defines birth as being water, blood and life or spirit. Then when we are born again their must also be water, blood and Life. But the second man is the Lord from heaven.  [1 Corinthians 15:47-49] Now, the image of the earthly is water, blood and Spirit or life. The water breaks first, then the placenta bag comes forth with the bllod and when the baby comes forth the life.

 

398-Q-88 Q & COD  59-0628E   88. What difference is it between body, soul, and spirit?  The body is the flesh that you look at that must rot. It was born by sexual desire of father and mother. It must rot. It's no good. Therefore in the new birth, in the resurrection when you're brought forth again in a new body, it'll be God's creative power that'll speak like He did to Adam and you'll come forth.

 

  E-50  Be Certain of God  59-0708E    When a baby's born in natural birth, first thing comes from the mother is water, blood, spirit. When Jesus died at the cross, He gave what it constitutes to make the new birth: water, blood and Spirit. All things of the natural types the spiritual, or the spiritual types the natural, either way.

 

  945-Q-243  Q & A  COD  64-0823M   243. Dear, Brother Branham, will all the sons and daughters of true, borned again believers be saved?   No, brother; no, they sure won't. See, as I copied David duPlessis on this remark, "God don't have grandchildren (See?), just sons and daughters." See, they'll have to be born just exactly like their father and mother was born of the Spirit. See? That's what makes a man a new person, is because he's born again, reborn. His first birth brings him a natural man on earth; his second birth brings him a spiritual man of heaven. See? It changes him, his soul, not his outward conscience, his outward being, his senses; he still feels, and smell, taste, and hear; but his inward parts, his desires, what motivates him, has been changed to God. See?

 

[John 1: 12-13,   3: 21/   1 Peter 1:23/  1 John 3: 9/ 1 John 5:4, 18]

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 1164-Q-403 Q & A COD  64-0830E   When you use the expression that if we do not believe the Word, we will be eternally separated from Christ, do you mean the foolish virgin will live eternally, but they will be separated from the new Jerusalem where Christ will dwell with the Bride? Here are those who do not have the Holy Spirit, born again as the Scripture speaks of being born again. If the natural birth requires water, blood, and spirit, does not the spiritual birth require all three stages of grace before the person is truly born again?  Absolutely, I just explained that this morning--the same, on the same thing. You've got to have all stages. You're begotten of the Spirit, just like a baby's begotten into the womb of a mother, but not born until they receive the Holy Ghost. That's right. You're born then; you're not converted. You're in the procession of being converted until that time.  That's the reason that all these great mysteries could not be given to Luther, could not be given to Wesley, could not be given to the age that has just passed by us, the Pentecostal age. Why? It wasn't time. They were begotten. Now, the Person of Christ, Himself, the Son of man (You understand?) revealing Himself in human flesh, it could not have come till now. When the millennium starts, how will the unbelievers be taken off of the earth?  The unbelievers will go down in the tribulation period with the sleeping virgin, and all those others (unbelievers, and sleeping virgin), and the remnant of Israel that's to be taken out.   Brother Branham, when some of--someone gets on me or "steps on my toes (This might be a good one.)--steps on my toes," as the old saying is, my temper rises; how can I overcome this thing? I know the Lord will have to do it, but what can I do in my heart? I don't want this thing.   Sweeten your temper with prayer; then make up your mind. There... I don't guess there is too many people in this building ever had any more temper than I did to begin with. Oh, I had a mouth mashed all the time. And I'd taken a lot of my meals out of a straw.   My mother, as you know, was a half Indian, and my father was an Irishman, a Kentucky Irish at that. And every one, both of them had enough temper to fight a buzz saw. And all the time my mouth was mashed; I was little to begin with. And they'd just pick me up and knock me down. And I'd get up again; and they'd knock me down again till I just got too able--unable to get up anymore. That's always. And then when I got able to get up, I got up again; they knocked me down again. So that's just the way I had it.  I thought, "I can never be a Christian." But when the Holy Spirit came into my life, that done it. No more...  I had a woman one time; I went to have to cut the lights off. And that day I had hair on top of my head. She said, "You little, kinky-headed idiotic."   I told her, I said, "Woman, you oughtn't to curse like that. Oh, don't you fear God?"    She said, "You little, kinky-headed idiotic, if I wanted somebody to talk to me about things like that, I wouldn't get a half-wit like you."  "Whoo." Then she called me a blankety, blankety name. Oh, my, if that'd been a year farther. I always said, "A man that'd strike a woman wasn't man enough to strike a man," but I--I might've broke that at that time calling my mother a bad name like that. But you know what? It never even fazed me. I said, "I will pray for you." Never bothered... I knowed right then something had happened to me. Yes, sir. Oh, my.  You know the evils that I done when I was a kid fighting? Almost killed five men at one time. Took a rifle loaded with sixteen shots, and when them boys beat me because I was a Kentuckian, no other reason... I couldn't even hold my head up. One would hold me by hands like this, and the other one'd stand there with a rock in his hand and pound me in the face, till I just lifeless. Nothing in the world...  They called me a "Kentucky squab," because my mother, when she was young, she sure looked like an Indian (looking at her picture awhile ago), and they knowed she was a half Indian. And because I was Kentucky and her being a squaw, they called me a "squab, a Kentucky squab." And I had nothing in the world to do into it; I couldn't help because I was born in Kentucky.  I went down there to school, and I didn't have no clothes to wear, and my hair hanging down my neck. And pop--mom took pop's old coat that he was married in, and cut it up and made me a pair of pants to wear to school my first time. And I... And she dressed me with a pair of white stockings on and a pair of tennis shoes. And they said, "If you don't look like a windy Kentuckian." And--and all--and that--and then, that went on all my--all my school days.   And a couple of boys, because I walked down the road with some little girl and packed her books... They didn't want me to do that, and they met me down there and beat me till I was simply unconscious. I told them, if they'd just let me go, I promise that I would go right straight home. And so they took--let me loose, kicked me four or five times, knocked me down, and scrapped my face all over. And I went home, like this, up through the broomsage field.   I had a little .22 Winchester rifle laying up over the door. Reached up and got that rifle full of bullets, went right down through the locust thicket, and hid by the side of the road till these five or six boys come along there.  Just waited till they come, and when they was coming there, talking, said, "That Kentuckian will realize where he's at from this on," going on like that.  I stepped up with the hammer pulled back on the rifle.

 I said, "Now, which one of you wants to die first, so you won't watch the others?" They started squealing; I said, "Don't squeal, 'cause you're all going to die one by one." And I meant it. And just then they started squealing. And I pulled up and snap. The gun snapped. I throwed another shell in. Snap, it snapped; another shell, snap, it snapped. And I pumped sixteen shells on the ground. Every one of them snapped. And them boys running, and screaming, and diving over the hill, and everything.  And after they left, I stood there. When I'd get so angry, till I--I--I wouldn't cry; I would laugh like a idiot and tears run out of my eyes. Now, that's a temper. If it hadn't been for God, I'd been a murderer. And I picked up them shells and put them back in the rifle, and, "Pow, pow"; they'd shoot just as good as ever. Talk about grace.

 

 36  Diseases and Afflictions  50-0100  "There are three that bear record in heaven." Now, when we're... On our conversion... The elements came from Jesus Christ's body when He died; there was water, blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new birth: water, blood, and Spirit.  That make up the natural birth, when a baby's born... What's the first thing? Water, blood, life. All the natural things type the spiritual.

 

 E-14  God’s Provided Way  53-0613 God opened up the side of Christ and taken out water, Blood, and Spirit for a Bride, for Hisself, for Christ. How beautiful.  "And by one Spirit (not by one church membership)--By one Spirit are we all baptized (Amen)--are we all baptized into one Body and become members of that Body." And just as sure as God raised that Body in the literal (out from the grave) the spiritual Body will go in the rapture. Truly.

 

  E-18  Healing & what Cancer is   53-0904   For instance, when a baby's born in this world... A baby born a natural birth, what is the three elements that comes from the body? The first is water. Is that right? Blood. Is that right? Then life, spirit. Is that true? Water, blood, and spirit, that makes a complete birth.  When a man is born again of the Spirit of God, there was three elements came from the Body of Jesus Christ that we go through to be born again of the Spirit of God: water, blood, and spirit. Is that right? Pierced His side: water and Blood and Spirit. These three are one. That's the elements we come through: the justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, the three.   Now, if you see all the natural, that's what constitutes the natural birth. That's what constitutes the spiritual birth. Now, we see it's all the natural is like spiritual.

 

  E-30  Fellowship  60-0611B   Notice, we come to the water of separation, applied by the hyssop, the weed, the common faith. Then what does he do? They turn him then towards the door of the tabernacle.   Now, before--in there is where the Lord is on His--the holy place, on the inside. Now, we can even pick it up from the inside of there and go on to the holiest of holies and so forth.  But now, let's just take it this way: When he's coming to the door, over the door is seven stripes of Blood. Before he has entered into this fellowship, he must recognize that this Blood has cleansed him from his sins, which is sanctification, a separation. After the Word's been applied, we have received it, now we go under the Blood. "There are three that bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word, and Holy Ghost. These three are one. There are three that bear record in earth (I John 5:7), the water, the blood, and the Spirit. They are not one, but agree in one. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one, but water, blood, and Spirit agree in one, 'cause you can be justified without being sanctified.   You can't have the Father without having the Son. You can't have the Son without having the Holy Ghost. So they are one. But when you are justified by faith, you are not sanctified yet, and you cannot be sanctified... and when you're sanctified then you haven't got the Holy Ghost yet.

 

  376  Revelation Chapter One  60-1204M   When the natural birth takes place, what's the first thing happens when a woman's giving birth to baby? First thing is water; second thing is blood (That right?); next thing is spirit: the baby catches his breath and start breathing.  Water, blood, and spirit; that constitutes the natural birth, also the spiritual birth. Water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, justification by faith, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; water. What's the next? Blood; sanctification, cleaning up, getting around.

 

 11-4  The Token 63-0901M  Water, blood and spirit come when a mother gives birth to the baby. The first thing breaks in a normal birth is a water; the second thing is a blood; and the next thing is life. There come from the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, water, blood and life. And the whole church, the Bride, together has been made up through justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is the Token.