Romans 54
Brian Kocourek
Romans 10:1 ¶ Brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3
For they being ignorant of God's
righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not
submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For
Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 5
For Moses describeth the
righteousness which is of the law, That the
man which doeth those things shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith
speaketh on this wise, Say not in
thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from
above]:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the
deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8
But what
saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart:
that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. 10
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.
Zeal not according to
knowledge
Ignorant of God's
righteousness
to establish their own
righteousness
confess with thy mouth
believe in thine heart
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness
the mouth confession is made
unto salvation
355-4, 4 Laodicean Church Age - "Be
zealous and repent." Now this false church has zeal; make no mistake about
that. Her zeal has literally been that of the Jews, John 2:17, "The zeal
of thine house hath eaten Me up." But it is a wrong zeal. It is for the
house of their own building. It is for their own creeds, dogmas, organizations,
their own righteousness. They have put the Word out for their own ideas. They
deposed the Holy Ghost and made men into leaders. They have put aside Eternal
Life as a Person, and make it good works, or even church conformity rather than
good works. But God is calling for
another zeal. It is the zeal to cry "I AM WRONG". Now who is going to
say that he is wrong? What is it that all these denominations are based
upon?--the claim to originality, and that of God,--the claim that they are
right. Now they ALL cannot be right. In fact NOT ONE of them is right. They are
whited sepulchres, full of dead men's bones. They have no life. They have no
vindication. God has never made Himself known in any organization. They say
they are right because they are the ones that are saying it, but saying it does
not make it so. They need the vindicated "Thus saith the Lord" of
God, and they don't have it.
380-1 Resume of The Ages - CA
Book Thus at this very moment we are in the complete fulfillment of
Matthew 24:24 "insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the
very elect." And who is it that shall attempt to deceive the very elect?
Why, the spirit of antichrist in the "false anointed ones" of this
last day. These false ones have already come in "Jesus' Name"
claiming that they have been anointed of God for the last day. They are the
false Messiahs (anointed ones). They claim that they are prophets. But are they
one with the Word? Never. They have added to it or taken from it. No one denies
that the Spirit of God manifesting in gifts is upon them. But like Balaam they
all have their programs, make their appeal for money, exercise gifts, but deny
the Word or by-pass it for fear that a controversy might diminish their chances
for greater gain. Yet they preach salvation and deliverance through the power
of God, just like Judas, with a ministry imparted by Christ. But because they are wrong seed,
consequently they have a wrong spirit motivating them. Religious? Oh my! They outshine the elect in effort and zeal,
but it is Laodicean, not of Christ, for
it looks for big crowds, big programs and startling signs amongst them.
They preach the second coming of Christ, but deny the advent of the
prophet-messenger, though in power and signs and true revelation he eclipses
them all. Ah yes, this false spirit that
in the last day is so close to the real, can be distinguished only by its
deviation from the Word, and whenever it is caught in being anti-Word, it
falls back on the one argument we have already shown to be false: "We get
results, don't we? We have to be of God."
CHURCH.AND.ITS.CONDITION.title
JEFF.IN CH 1-34 56-0805
92 060 Now, I'm not
talking to you strangers. I don't know what your pastor... I'm talking to the
Branham Tabernacle. I ain't talking to you people from other churches. I'm
talking to the Branham Tabernacle. That's what's the matter around here.
That's what makes the Dove take Its flight. Just let somebody just
start a little something around the church, and the first thing, "Oh, is
that so? Oh, did... You don't mean so?" Right then the Holy Ghost goes,
fly away. It just can't stand that kind of spirit. It... As long as that lamb
nature leaves you, then the Holy Ghost is gone. That's right. And that's what's
the matter today. That's the reason the people is in the condition they are, is
because they let the wrong spirit come into their heart, into their life. Now,
that's the reason we got...
The Bible said that's the reason there's so many sick and afflicted
among us, is because of such things. We must be gentle. We must be peaceful. We
must be a lamb, so that the Dove can abide with us.
WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS.title
PHOENIX.AZ 57-0226
E-33 033 Then when He
appeared on the earth in His ministry again, we find Him being baptized by John
the Baptist, and into the wilderness for forty days for temptation; out of the
wilderness He came, and immediately He begin praying for the sick.
Now, let's see if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and then
ask the question, "We would see Jesus." I'm going to give about ten
minutes here just of the Scripture, and you follow the Scripture; then see if
the Spirit follows the Scripture. If any spirit doesn't follow the Scripture,
it's a wrong spirit. That's right. If it goes beyond this Bible, it's a wrong
spirit. If it doesn't get to it, it's a wrong spirit.
See, if the devil can't keep you from seeing a truth, he will push you
overboard with it. You see? That's his business. See? If he will go off onto
some fantastic, or either he will keep you from seeing it at all. But to stay
right straight on Calvary, it'll always come right back to the Word every time.
It's the Word.
BAPTISM.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT.title
JEFF.IN V-5 N-2 58-0928M
113 069 All in the little
textbooks, manmade theories, they put them down; "That's what we
believe." And that's the reason we stay away from it. We have no textbook
but the Bible, no leading, no bishop but the Spirit. That's right. And then, if
there's a wrong spirit that comes in will try to twist something in there, the
Word will untwist it. That's wrong; stay away from it. See? Here come the
Spirit along and say, "That's wrong," bears record... For our spirit
bears record with His Spirit. Here'll come one along saying, "Oh, we
should... Well, I think it's all right for them to do this, that, and the
other."
But the Spirit said, "There's something wrong with that, goes
right back in the Bible and brings her right down the way we do. And it's
wrong, stay away from it. That's the reason the Bible said, "Here's to him
that has wisdom; here's to he that has knowledge; here's to him that has
this," the church there setting in order. Don't you see the great plan of
God?
WITHOUT.MONEY.OR.PRICE.title
JEFF.IN V-16 N-4 59-0802
And we won't receive it, is because we're dominated by the wrong
spirit. We're dominated by a spirit of a nation, the spirit of the world,
instead of being dominated by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, that leads us
and guides us to all truths, and makes the Bible so.
SUPER.SIGN.title JEFF.IN V-15 N-7
59-1227M
"Every spirit that does not confess this, is the wrong spirit, the
antichrist. Every spirit that doesn't witness this same thing, that Christ has
come in our flesh, is the antichrist spirit."
POSITION.IN.CHRIST.title
JEFF.IN AD.3 60-0522M
Don't you see here what He said? That every spirit that confesses that
Jesus is not come in the flesh right now, is of the wrong spirit. The Bible
said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He said then,
He is now; He's for always that way. Just listen.
UNCHANGEABLE.GOD.title
PHOENIX.AZ 62-0120-if you claim
you've had the Holy Spirit and had the experience, and then your life don't
tally up to God's Word, then you got the wrong spirit (See?),
CONFIRMATION.OF.THE.COMMISSION.title
TEMPE.AZ 62-0122
E-89 089 Now, that same Holy
Spirit, we find It right amongst the Pentecostal people today, the evening
Light, right down amongst the Pentecostal people. What? Preaching the same
Gospel, giving vindication of the same Gospel. The same signs that followed
there is the same signs that follow now. And if that Pillar of Fire, or Light,
that we have with us did not produce the same Spirit and the same evidence that
It did when it was in Jesus Christ, then it would be the wrong Pillar of Fire,
the wrong spirit, be the wrong thing.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS.title
JEFF.IN COD 62-0601
Then if you find out, look like something's moving up, oh, you just
going, and you find out it gets a little bit off the Word, then be careful. No
matter how good it looks, stop right there. A wrong spirit struck you, 'cause
the Message of this day is to the Word. See? Don't...
WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION.title
JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 62-1111EThen you say, "I had that kind
of experience, and I got a spirit on me." And if it denies the Word in any
way, you got the wrong spirit. You say, "I--I can't go for this stuff like
this, I know, but our church..." Oh, oh, there's a wrong spirit. There's
your mark of identification. Cain, you're marked. Yes, sir.
KNOWETH.IT.NOT.title
JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 65-0815
28-4 080 If that Holy Spirit
in you makes you speak with tongues, looks back there and doesn't agree with
the rest of the Word, then it's a wrong spirit. See? It's got to come from the
inside, which is the Word from the beginning. In the beginning of the creation
of God when God begin to create and bring you into existence... You see, you
started back there as a seed and worked down to where you are now. And then you
were all in Christ. Then when Christ died, He died to redeem all of you. And
you are part of this Word. And how can the Bible--all of it precept upon
precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little, not one jot or tittle
shall fail... How in the world can you, being part of that Word, disagree with
the rest of it, or any part of it?
348-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.9
Now God says they are naked as well as blind. I cannot imagine anything
as tragic as a man who is blind and naked and does not know it. There is only
one answer--he is out of his mind. He is already deep in oblivion. His
faculties are gone, spiritual amnesia has set in. What else can it mean? Can it
mean that the Holy Spirit has taken His leave of this last day church? Can it
mean that men have put God out of their minds to such an extent that it is
happening even as stated in Romans 1:28. "And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not convenient." It surely appears that something
like that has happened. Here is a people who say that they are of God and know
God and have His Holy Spirit, and yet they are naked and blind and don't know
it. They are ALREADY DECEIVED. THEY HAVE THE WRONG SPIRIT. THE ELECT CANNOT BE
DECEIVED, BUT IT IS EVIDENT THAT THESE OTHERS ARE. These are they who have
become blind because they refused the Word of God. These are they who have
stripped themselves naked by leaving God's care and protection and sought to
build their own way of salvation, their own tower of Babel by organization. Oh,
how lovely and beautiful dressed they appear in their own eyes as they formed
their general assembles, and their councils, etc. But now God is stripping it
all away and they are naked, for these organizations have but led them into the
camp of antichrist, into the field of tares, right up to their binding and
burning. Objects of pity indeed they are. Yes, pity them, warn them, beseech
them, and still they go their way headlong to destruction, wrathfully turning
away any and all attempts to save them as brands from the burning. Miserable
indeed they are, yet they know it not. Calloused and beyond hope, they glory in
what is actually their shame. Defiant against the Word, yet one day they shall
be judged by it and pay the price of its awful indictments.