Satans
Eden no 35
Manifested
Reality (Tangible God life)
March 13, 2022
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
This morning we will take our thoughts from brother
Branham’s sermon Satan’s Eden and we
will read for our text from paragraph 14 through
paragraph 16, and then we will
take what he says to the book of Revelations chapter 3.
As
you know the past few weeks we have taken our thought from the Book of Revelation chapter
3 and:14 though 20 where we have spoken on the condition of the
people at the end time.
14 Now,
we read also in Revelations
3:14, (the Laodicean Church Age), that how the church
would be in this last day. And it would be... It said it (the
church) would
set as a
widow and have need of nothing. It was rich, and increased
in goods, and know it not that they were poor, miserable, wretched, blind, and
naked, and didn't know it.
15 Now,
remember, He's speaking to the church of this age:
wretched, blind, naked, and don't know it.
That last phrase, that last word is what
makes it so striking. They think
that they are well filled with the Spirit. They're all ready... The Laodicean Church Age is the Pentecostal church age,
'cause it is the last church age.
16 Luther had his message. Wesley had his message, and
Pentecost had their message. Also,
it said, "That because you are lukewarm, neither hot or cold," the emotions of the outside, the mental
conception of the Gospel... "Because" He said,
"you're that way, I will spew you out of My mouth." In other words, it made Him sick to see the church in that condition.
And remember, they spew Him out, and He was on
the outside of the church trying to get back on the inside in that awful
Laodicean Church Age.
lets read it for ourselves.
Revelations 3:14 And unto
the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen,
the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold
nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth.
17 Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and I am increased with goods, and I have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame
of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint
thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at
the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come
in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Now,
there are two things he said that struck me as something we need to go into a
little more and catch what he is talking about here.
He
said they will be in a condition where they are actually poor, miserable and naked,
and yet they will be in such a mental state that they are blind to their own
condition, ‘and know it not.’
Now, from his sermon Paul a prisoner of
Christ 63-0717 P:13 And now... Then
I want to try... I believe the Lord has, somehow give me a little insight on the
reasons why there's some people are not healed. And I believe its lack of understanding;
and I believe, maybe, we'll speak on that Sunday morning, the Lord willing.
Now, Wednesday
night prayer meeting is just a short meeting where we get together and pray, as
we have, and associate together; and sometimes I believe one of the great
things that I find in this day is the lack of sincerity of what we believe. See,
see?
Notice he tells us that one of the
great things about this age is the lack of sincerity and he tells us that is
because of a lack of understanding. Now we can also look at the fact there is a
lack of understanding because there is a lack of sincerity. Either way the
sincerity is lacking and so is there also a lack of understanding.
Now, whether the lack of sincerity
causes the lack of understanding and I could argue that case, or whether the
lack of understanding is the root cause of the lack of sincerity, and we could
also argue that case. But the fact still remains there is a lack of both
sincerity and a lack of understanding that causes people to miss their
healing.
So we are looking at a lack of two
things here that cause us to not receive a tangible manifestation of Divine
Healing and that is a lack sincerity and a lack of understanding.
Now, this word tangible is an adjective meaning 1. capable of being touched;
2.
discernible by the touch; material
or substantial.
3. real or actual, rather than
imaginary or visionary: the tangible benefits of sunshine.
4. definite; not vague,
not elusive:
So we are looking at
the tangible results of Faith vs the intangible lack of results from lacking
faith.
Remember Faith is a revelation,
and the word revelation means “manifestation of divine truth.” And this word
manifestation is what makes the Faith or revelation tangible. Something that
can be grasped.
Now, I know this talk is not setting too well in
your minds right now, so I will try to break it down in a way that will make it
more accessible to your mind and thus our heart.
What I wish to speak on is the fact that most people have not a tangible
experience with God in their lives, so God remains a god of their imagination.
Something imagined. Something in their mind only, instead of something they
have experienced in such a reality that know mental beating could ever remove
that expression or manifestation of Divine Life from you.
Now, remember brother Branham here in Satans Eden pps 14-16 speaks to us
of a people whose minds see one thing while in reality they are completely the
opposite of what their perception is.
Remember in the Unveiling of God, brother Branham told us that the Word
must be preached in such a way as to cause some to leave, and some to wonder
etc.
Unveiling
of God 64-0614M P:13 Now, my subject
this morning, I trust that God will reveal this. And each time, if
you who take the tapes and listen, and I hope and trust that you have had a
spiritual understanding of what that God has been in trying to get
over to the church without saying it right out. See? It's a thing
sometime... We have to say things in such a way, that it might thin down,
it might bring some to go out, some to leave, and some to ponder
over. But that's done purposely. It must be done that way.
And you may wonder why, but Jesus tells us very pointedly that he had to
do the same as we read in
Matthew
13:10-17 “And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Now,
notice the wording of the question from the disciples. “Why speakest thou unto THEM in parables.”
Notice this word them does not speak of the disciples who are asking the
question but rather others who are not among the disciples. So it is
directional. Not us but them, others who do not belong to us.
And
this word them speak of others and does
not include the ones who are asking the question.
Now, watch the wording of Jesus uses in
replying to their question. 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you
to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Now, this speaks of two groups of people
who both hear the same words preached by
Jesus, and the same parables that he told. He says it is
given unto you to know… but to them
it is not given to know.
So we see that because some are to know
and others are not to know the word had to be spoken in a certain way. Now,
hold onto that thought there because this may concern which group you find yourself
in.
Again this same story is told in the
Book of Mark, and from the pages of the Book of Mark when this same parable is
mentioned we see a more specific wording that truly points out this gulf that
lays between those who are disciples of Christ and all others.
Mark 4:11
And he
said unto them, Unto you it is given to
know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in
parables:
Now, in this rendition he does not call
the others them, but is more definitive and says to them
that are without.
Now, the Greek word Jesus used here is “exo” and it means out(-side, of
doors), literally or figuratively:--away, (with-) out (strange.)
So you have those that are considered
within, and then those who are considered strangers and are outside the door
which are the messes of hearers who came but did not understand what they
heard.
And this is my main concern for those of
you who are listening to my ministry, Because God came down with a Message, and
He spoke that Message through His Prophet William Branham. And many who heard
that message never understood it and as a result never
came to a knowledge of the truth.
Then God sent a teaching ministry to
hone in on what this prophet had been teaching us, and most people missed out
altogether because they were so tied to the vessel that they missed His Word
moving on when the vessel went off the scene.
And so there became a further gulf
between the true disciples of this message and them on the outside. And God continued
to move those on the inside even deeper into this personal understanding of the
relationship between Him and His Son and then sons.
And now in this present stage of His ministry,
there is coming a further honing in. And as we are further honed into Him, by
the breaking of the Word, the gulf between those on the inside and those on the
outside grows further and further.
And that gulf is becoming larger and
larger as time goes on. Until the ones on the inside have become so in the
minority that those on the outside have taken over the proclamation of what
they believe to be the Message. When in fact they are only looking back at the
vessel that God used to declare himself, and refuse the God who was doing the
declaring.
They have never moved into the reality
of the living Logos or God-Life expressing himself in our midst.
From the Church Age
Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean Church
Age P:140 Brother Branham said, “In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why 1) the light 2)comes through
some God-given messenger 3) in a certain area, and then from that messenger there
spreads the light through 4) the ministry of others who have been
faithfully taught.
Just like we saw when Jesus was here,
his disciples 1) heard the Word, 2) they recognized that Word and from
whence it came, and then 3) they acted
upon that Word. While all others on the outside heard only,
but never came to a recognition and knowledge
of the truth. They never came to the manifestation of that word in themselves.
But because they saw the acts of God but
never understood the ways of God, they fell short and remained on the outside,
and never did enter into the manifested promise for that age.
David tells us of this same phenomenon that took
place in the first Exodus in Psalms 103:7 where
he said, “He (God) made known his ways
unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.”
Notice
the people saw the actions of God, but because they did not understand the ways
of God, it showed they did not know God, nor His reason for doing what He
did. Therefore they had no clue as to
what was actually taking place. And what was the result? They did not enter
into the promise. They never became a part of the fulfillment of the promise.
And Jesus is telling us in Matthew 13
and Mark 4 that
just because people hear what he said, it does not mean that they understood
what he was telling them. And brother Branham told us the same thing in the
Unveiling of God.
Unveiling of God 64-0614M P:13 “I hope and trust that you have had a
spiritual understanding of what that God has been in trying to get
over to the church without
saying it right out. See? It's a thing sometime... We have to
say things in such a way, that it might thin down, it might bring
some to go out, some to leave, and some to ponder over. But that's
done purposely. It must be done that way.
And so those on the outside never really
understood what Jesus ministry, nor Paul’s ministry, nor John’s Ministry, nor
William Branham’s ministry, nor Lee Vayle’s ministry was all about. Now, what the
Gospel message is really bringing forth.
So we see after Jesus came and went,
then the Apostle Paul came forth teaching Jesus Message and many who followed
the lonely Nazarene drifted off, as did many of the 3,000 who were baptized on
the day of Pentecost, until we find that the apostle Paul stood as the light to
his age with only 12 people in his church who were moving on with the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
Then the apostle Paul went off the scene
and the apostle John took those same 12 people further into the relationship of
Father and son, and sons showing them
their own relationship as sons of the father is what this Gospel is all about. And
that crowd drifted down to 8. God honing, honing, honing his church.
In 1 John 1:1 we hear John tell us of
this relationship with the Father. “That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked
upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested,
and we have seen it,
and we bear witness, and we
shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was manifested unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and we have heard declare we unto you, that ye
also may have fellowship with us: and truly our
fellowship is with the Father, and with
his Son Jesus Christ.
Look at how the ministry of john honed
more and more into this beautiful relationship between father and sons. 1 John 3:1 “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew him not.
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 then in 1 John 5:10-12 John brings us into
this expression of God-Life and shows us how we come to express that same God-
Life.
1John 5:10-12 He
that believeth on the Son of God echo the witness in himself: he that believeth
not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave
of his Son.
11 And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in
his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he
that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that ye echo
eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidence that we are echoing him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he
heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we echo the petitions that we desired of
him.
And how do you echo the petitions that
you ask of him? By reflecting it in your life. The Logos, the Word, the God
Life for Jesus said, “my Words are Spirit
and they are life”. And
that Spirit Word Life becomes tangible to you and in you and through you.
Therefore, God Who is the same
yesterday, today and forever continues to hone down an elect people in each
Exodus. He has honed down the people from hearing the message of William
Branham.
And that Message then honed down further
by giving us a better understanding through the teaching ministry of Br. Lee
Vayle, and now God continues to hone down his elect as we move further and
further into the reality of the logos of God, His Word – Spirit- Life not only among
us but also a it manifests itself in us. And that
is what I want to focus on down this morning.
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Logos (the Substance that we hope for, the
Tangible God-Life) and the Logos (the Substance that we hope for, the Tangible God-Life) was with God, and the Logos (the Substance that we hope for, the Tangible God-Life) was God.
From his sermon Identification
64-0216 P:23 brother Branham said, “Then, see, God came down. And the Character
of God was Christ. He was the Reflection. He was God made visible:
notice, God made visible. In the beginning was God. He wasn't even God
then. No, a God's an object of worship. Only thing He was, was the eternal, and
in Him was attributes.
And those attributes were thoughts. And those
thoughts was expressed to words, and word was made manifest. What is
it? It's all God
becoming tangible. And you are part of God. And Jesus
come to redeem those that was put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the
foundation of the world. It was in God's thoughts. And that's what He come to
redeem.
And them, as soon as it strikes to them, they see
it, because the life is in there. But if the life isn't in there, then
what can they do? See? They don't see it. They'll never see it. See? And
the whole thing is, Jesus said, "At that day you'll know I'm in the Father,
the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." The whole thing is God
becoming material, like a husband and wife becoming one together: God and
His church becoming one.
So as we have studied on what Faith is and
found that Faith is actually a Divine
Revelation, and that Divine revelation is actually “the
substance of thing hoped for,
and the evidence of things not seen.”
And in our series on Faith we found
that, that substance Paul spoke of is the very person of God Himself. He is the
one we hope for and he is the evidence of things not seen.
That is why we see in Hebrews 11:1 and Hebrews
1:3 use the same Word Hupostasis which not only speaks of the
substance we hope for, but also speaks of the very person of God Himself. God is the substance of thing hoped for, and He is the very evidence of things not seen. And He is the Tangible God. And His God-Life
in us is the tangible evidence of His Life in us.
Listen to Jesus words in Matthew 13: as
we pick up at verse 12 “For whosoever echo, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
abundance: but whosoever echo not, from him shall be taken away even that he tries
to echo. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
not; and hearing they hear not,
neither do they understand.
14 And in
them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For
this people's heart (understanding)
is waxed gross,
and their ears are dull of hearing, (understanding) and their
eyes (the prophets) they have closed; lest at any time
they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But
blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have
not seen them; and to hear those
things which ye hear, and
have not heard them.
So what we are looking at is God who is honing, honing, honing on down
until he is sifting out His very elect seed, and making ready a prepared people
for the rapture.
In his sermon Paul a prisoner of Christ
63-0717 P:38 Brother Branham said, “So after comparing it and seeing, knowing that
he could write the book of Hebrews in a type...
See, three
years and a half down there laying in the Word and finding out that the
very God that called him was taking him back and changing all of his
intellect, changing all that he ever thought, all that he trained to be, all of
his ambitions, just wiped it away from him, and he became a prisoner.
The
love of God had been so tremendous and such a revelation that he could not get
away from it. That's the true experience of
every real believer who meets God. You come in contact with
something that's so great that you become a prisoner to everything else. See,
you get away from everything to imprison yourself to this.
Notice he said, The love of God had
been so tremendous and such a revelation that he could not get away from it. That's the true experience of
every real believer who meets God.
And so I ask you
this morning, is that your experience? Are you so enraptured by your
relationship with the Revelation of Jesus Christ in you that nothing else means
anything to you in this world?
Brother Branham
preached to get us time and time again that we had to die to self and be born
anew by the revelation of Jesus Christ personally in us, or nothing else would
matter with God.
In his sermon 65-3 Christ is the Mystery 63-0728] he said, “We're not suppose to make converts to
Christianity by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in
you as God was in Christ.
And from his
sermon E-28 Earnestly Contending for the Faith 55-0123E “The
intellectual faith is not enough. That's all right, but it only brings you to
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a personal experience of the birth,
the new birth, regeneration, making a new creature in Christ.
So my brethren,
have you truly been born again? Are you truly a new creature in Christ Jesus?
Or do you have some of the same old habits you had before surrendering your
life to him?
Again in his
sermon 36-4 Christ is the Mystery 63-0728 Brother Branham said, “Look, Christ in you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation.
See? Christ's Life in you makes Him the center of the
revelation. Christ in the Bible, makes the Bible a complete
revelation of Christ. Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing. See, what God's trying to do? What
is the new birth then? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, what is
the new birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus
Christ personally to you. Amen. See? Not you
joined a church, you shook a hand; you
done something different; you said a creed; you promised to live by a
code of rules; but Christ, the Bible...
He is the Word that was revealed to you. And no matter what anybody says,
what takes place, it's Christ.
Pastor, priest, whatever it might be... It's Christ in you. That is a--the
revelation that the Church was built upon.
Now, remember
the word revelation means a manifestation of divine truth. So when we hear
brother Branham say these next words it ought to take on a completely different
meaning to us.
Because he says
in [37-4
Christ is the Mystery
63-0728] The new birth
is Christ, is a revelation.
That ought to tell you that he new birth is a manifestation
of Divine truth not only to you but in you.
And then he says, “God has revealed to you
this great mystery, and that's the new birth. So what does that mean? Look, it
is not an intellectual thing God has done, but a God-Life imparting thing that
God has done in you. God has revealed to you meaning God
has manifested His Divine truth to you of this great mystery, and that is the
new birth.
“Now, what are you going to do when
you get all that group together, where
the revelation (the
manifestation of divine truth) is perfectly in
harmony, and God expressing it through His Word by the same actions, the same things that He did,
making the Word
manifest? Oh, if the
Church only knew its position. It will one day. Then, the rapture will go when
it knows what it is.
[45-1
Christ is the Mystery 63-0728] God is not known by education; He's
not known by how to explain it. God is
known by simplicity and of revelation of Jesus Christ in the most illiterate
person. See?
Not
your theology; it's a revelation of Jesus Christ. "Upon this rock, I'll build My Church." No other rock's accepted; no
other thing's accepted; no other Roman rock; no other Protestant rock; no other
school; no other nothing; but on exactly
the revelation of Jesus Christ in a new birth.
He born in there and injects His own
Life, and your life is gone, and the Life of Christ is projecting Itself
through you
with the pre-eminences to the people that they see the very Life, and works,
and signs and wonders that He did is doing the same thing through you. Outside
of that, the rest of it's not even called to at all.
The invisible
God becoming visible tangible in you.
The apostle
Paul said, “I
am, crucified with Christ,” Not I was crucified with Christ, but I am,
crucified with
Christ, present tense, nevertheless I live, I am alive. Yet it is not
me that is alive, but Christ is alive in me.
For I am buried with
Christ, and Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life
is hid with Christ in God. 4 When
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, (shall
phaneroo, shall manifest in his true nature) then shall ye also appear (phaneroo or manifest in our true nature) with him in glory. With him in doxa, in
his opinions, values, and judgments. There’s the Word becoming flesh. There’s
the tangible God Life expressed.
Questions and answers COD
64-0823E P:120 And then God became material in a Man called
Jesus Christ which was His Son. This Son gave His Life that He might bring
other sons, that God might become tangible, working in all in
all.
"In that day you'll know that I'm in the
Father, the Father in Me, I in you and you in Me."Oh,
brother, that'll be a real day. You won't have to join--drive over from
Birmingham to hear the Message; the Message will be right with us then,
won't it? Oh, it'll be a wonderful, wonderful time. We're looking for that day;
God hasten it to come.
Future home 64-0802 P:119 See, God in the
beginning, when He thought of you, and thought of others, like that, thought
of Himself of being tangible. That was His thoughts (See?), so He
expressed His thoughts by Word. He said, "Let there be.
Let there be"; and there was. "Let there be"; and
there was.
Identified Christ of all ages
64-0401 P:16 Salvation, Divine healing, or whatever you have need
of, is to by faith know that you're in the presence of Christ, and by
faith you reach and get it. For that's the only way you'll ever get it, is by
faith we are saved. By faith we're healed. See? Nothing that God has
to come down and do again, He's already done it.
So you see, the whole thing is, is God
becoming tangible. Then on the great day that's to come, when Christ sets
upon the throne of David and reigns in the millennium, it's God tangible in
the earth. He is now in you. You are His attributes. If you've
got Eternal Life, your life always was.
And you was God's thinking: the color of
hair or whatever you are, you was God's thinking and you're just
materialized. And that's what God was when He was materialized in Christ:
God displayed, manifested in flesh. In Christ He became material, God
that we could touch: First
Timothy 3:16: "Without controversy great is the mystery
of godliness: for God was manifested in the flesh." See,
see? It was God being manifested, getting ready.
Sirs we would see Jesus
64-0304 P:9 This, just the display, now it shows what's being
done. Like God becoming God when He created Angels. He become Son
when He created Christ Jesus. He become Saviour when Jesus died. He
becomes Healer when "He was
wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed." See?
All these things are attributes of God, just so that
in the end, the Bible said, Jesus said, "You will know that I am in the Father, the
Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me. It's God becoming tangible.
Your own wife, you and your husband, is
just a shadow, a negative of God and His Wife, the Church. See, it's
just God's attribute being displayed in shadows and types, like the Old
Testament was to the New. See? Then in the end, it's all winds up, God
tangible. God in Christ, tangible, made flesh, dwelled among us.
God is his own interpreter
64-0205 P:5 What I mean, "attributes" was His
thoughts. And a--a word is a thought expressed. And then that was in His
thinking. And when He said, "Let there be," and there was..."Let
there be," and there was. And now, remember, you Christians were His
thoughts before there was a world.
And you are the manifestation of His
thinking. Before there even was a world, you were in Christ (amen), in
God in the beginning. That makes you, then (You see?) His subjects. And the
whole thing is God
Himself, materializing Himself tangible so He could be handled,
seen, and so forth. And that's what God is, the whole thing.
Hebrews Chapter 5 and 6
57-0908M P:29 God's motive was to make man in His image to
fellowship with Him. And He made him a tangible being. Now, sin brought
us into a place of corruption, but that never stops the program of God. And
sinner friend today, if you're not borned again of the Spirit of God, you have
an end somewhere. And your end is chaos, in ruin, and suffering, and misery.
But to you who have believed on the Lord
Jesus and accepted the same as your personal Saviour, it's just as eternal as
God is eternal. You have no end, "I give unto them eternal Zoe (God's own
Life), and they will never perish or come into the judgment even, but's passed
from death unto Life." That's what He was. That's what He come for.
Be not afraid 61-0311 P:26 he Said,
"I know there's God, life in them lilies because the lily couldn't live
without life." He said, "But tangible enough to perform an
operation on those eyes?"I said, "Who made the eyes in the
first place? See? Where they'd come from?"And he said,
"Well..."
Behold a greater than Solomon
is here 62-0721 P:14 And he said, "Just a minute. Mr. Branham, what
happened to that boy? Is Jesus Christ tangible enough to uncross them eyes?"I
said, "You'll have to take my word. He was standing right there. I haven't
even touched him. The faith of that father and mother out there, and this
child... His eyes are straight."He pushed everybody back, and
walked up to the platform,
held up his hands and said, "Then
I accept Christ as my personal Saviour."And when I was leaving--about
twenty-five or thirty thousand out at the airplane waving good-bye, this little
fellow jumped over their lines that was there, and run out there, hugged me
around the neck, and begin to speak in tongues. And he said, Now, I'm going to
be a medical missionary to the natives back in there under the Pentecostal
setup."
Believest thou this 60-0402
P:1And before we pray, I would like to say this, that last evening, I
believe it was, I said to a lady, "If you'll just do as we're instructed
to do, that it would--the baby with a waterhead, it would shrink. And the
baby's head shrunk, last night, one-half a inch by measure of a string. So the
lady brought it here now.
Now, the reason I did that, sister, is
for a purpose. See? If you can see something tangible happen, that'll
make your faith increase to keep believing it. Sometimes I do that just to,
maybe, like ask the person to get up and make a step or two, move your hand,
wiggle your finger, just something that they can do different, just to let them
see that it's all, all right. They just get nervous and think it isn't going to
happen, but it's happening all the time. See?? It has to.
Speak to this mountain
57-1215 P:11 If someone... If I was standing miles away from the
city, hungering, and a loaf of bread would save my life, and I asked you for a
loaf of bread, and you gave me twenty-five cents, the purchase power of the
loaf of bread, now, I could be just as happy with that twenty-five cents as I
would be if I was standing right by the counter, ready to buy the bread. For
I've got the purchase power.
Now, the Bible said that faith is the
substance of things hoped for. Now, too many people in our meeting (and this is
for your good), too many people in the meeting are looking for some tangible
evidence. That isn't faith. That isn't faith. Faith believes it even though
it's contrary; it believes it. Moses endured as seeing Him Who was invisible.
God gave father Abraham a promise of a
child by Sarah, his wife, when he was seventy-five years old and she was
sixty-five. And Abraham endured twenty-five years, resting on that promise. For he counted
that He Who made the promise was able to keep the promise. And he staggered not
at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving glory to God.
And we are supposed to be the children of
Abraham. God didn't give him the child for twenty-five years, but he endured as seeing Him Who made the
promise, and knowed that His Word could not fail.
Now, I would like to stop for a
moment this morning and just look at the power of Faith, which is revelation, and
show that the purpose of God in Revelation which is Faith is to bring forth from
the invisible to the tangible. That is creation, brothers and sisters, to bring
into this dimension that which is still in Word –thought form. And to do so let’s examine Hebrews 11
in closing which is the Faith Chapter and read each verse and see how power was
displayed in each of the examples that are shown to us of how Faith produced
something by its intrinsic and the innate power of faith which is the revelation
of Christ.
Hebrews 11:1
Here we see that
Faith is not a philosophy, but is actually a substance and an evidence.
Hebrews 11:2
By it the elders
obtained something. A good report.
Hebrews 11:3
God even created
the worlds using the power of Faith. So if God had to use it, what about us? What
is the Third pull is not creative power by faith, by revelation, by a manifestation
of Divine Truth.
Hebrews 11:4
It makes us
rightly wise and gives us an understanding which goes beyond mere mortal
reasoning.
I John 2:20 & 27 But ye have an unction (anointing) from the Holy One, and as
a result of this anointing, ye know all
things.
Now let’s read verse 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide in him.
Hebrews 11:5 If it brought forth a translation/ a Rapture for Enoch, then
it must do same for us
Hebrews 11:6 Without it we cannot please God, so in a positive sense it
tells us that Faith not only pleases
God,
but the Power of Faith also allows us to believe and not the other way around.
Hebrews 11:7 It has power to warn us of things in the future.
Hebrews 11:8 It calls us and directs us to our inheritance
Hebrews 11:9
The power of
Faith keeps and preserves you and it keeps alive the hope that it gives you.
Hebrews 11:10
By the power of
Faith we are able to see the works of God and the things which He has
done
for us. He knew what to look for.
Hebrews 11:11
It gives us
strength and ability to receive New Life and a new birth even when our flesh
does not look like it wants to cooperate or is too weak to cooperate.
Hebrews 11:12 Through the power of Faith it brings forth a multiplication
of the blessings
Hebrews 11:13 It keeps us going and persuades and brings forth a confession
which is an ability to say the same thing. And you could never say the same
thing unless you had an understanding of
the thing you were talking about.
Hebrews 11:14 It keeps you focused.
Hebrews 11:15 If they had taken their eyes from Faith, the power would have
left.
Hebrews 11:16 It brings being ashamed and God wanting to identify and lay claim
to them.
Hebrews 11:17 It carries you through the trials and testings.
Hebrews 11:18 And brings a purpose and focus to our tests.
Hebrews 11:19 And doesn’t even look at the test but at the promise showing
the strength of the power.
Hebrews 11:20 It allows us to see things to come - to accept the blessings
of those things not yet seen
Hebrews 11:21 Allows us to bless and worship.
Hebrews 11:22 It directs us for our future. Why did He want His bones sent
back to the Promised land?
Hebrews 11:23 Notice again how they just knew and foresaw things to come.
Direction and insight.
Hebrews 11:24 It brings forth a true identity, and helps us to manifest in
our true identity.
Hebrews 11:25 Again we see how it gives us power to look past the tests
Hebrews 11:26 It brings us respect for God’s plans
Hebrews 11:27 It brings us to the place of having no fear.
Hebrews 11:28 It gives us power to keep the commands of God.
Hebrews 11:29 It conquers the laws of physics and of nature, and allows us
to walk contrary to those laws in
keeping God’s Word.
Hebrews 11:31 It gives you peace which could not be had otherwise in your
situation or circumstances.
Hebrews 11:32 Gedeon the strength and courage to fight a fight no one
wanted to help in. Barak was given strength for deliverance of his people.
Sampson, to have strength and ability to stand alone against the enemy.
Jephthae was given the power to perseverance and restoration of his right
position after being rejected he came back as their king. David a rejected king, yet loved and given great
power to slay the enemy Samuel walked alone and yet never wavered in his
commitment toward God
Hebrews 11:33 through
faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths
of lions,
Hebrews 11:34 Quenched
the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made
strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens
Hebrews 11:35 Raises the dead, endures hardships, and keeps you focused.
Hebrews 11:36 keeps you focused
Hebrews 11:37 keeps you focused
Hebrews 11:38 Energy to keep moving forward
Hebrews 11:39 Energy to keep moving forward regardless of the present
result.
Hebrews 11:40 It provides
Hebrews 12:1 helps us
to run with patience the race that is set before
us,
Hebrews 12:2 Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Let us pray…