Spoken Word #102
All God’s Seeds must come the same way
Brian Kocourek
June 17th, 2009
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.
Now, this evening we will look at paragraphs 79
through 83 of the Spoken Word is the original Seed, and I believe we will find
brother Branham beginning to turn a corner here in this sermon, from the
pattern Christ to sons who must come into the image of the first born Son who
was that Original Spoken Word Seed.
79
Now, yes, sir. He is... That's why God could work through Him. And what did He
say when He was here on earth? "I
do nothing until the Father shows Me," perfectly. And anything He done always was vindicated by
the Scriptures. He said, "Search
ye the Scriptures, for They are They that testify of Me, and if I don't do the
things that they said they did, then I'm not that original Seed. But if I do do the things, then why don't you
believe Me? (That's right.) If you
can't even believe Me, the way I stand, then believe the Word that I say,
believe the works that I do, because My Seed can only bear forth what I am."
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. (Now,
that’s really the issue we seem to be dealing with in these last few years.
People question your motives, because they do not know the Father. If they knew
who my father is, then they would know why I am about my Father’s business.
Isn’t that why Jesus, had to deal with the same problem? Because if he is the
original Seed, then he is the pattern. And if he is the pattern then we must
have to go through the same trials to be molded into the same image. He said) “if you had known my
father you would know me, because my father sent me.” And that is
the issue Jesus had as we see in) John 8: 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father?
Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor
my Father: if ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also.
And again in John 14: 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my
Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have
seen him.
You see, as we’ve been
studying this sermon of Brother Branham’s, he said, “When God has a Word for a
certain hour, then the vessel or vessels that God chooses to manifest that Word
for that hour are the manifested Word of God for the day in which they live.
Then when you see what is being done, and you enter into that portion of the
Word of God for that Hour, you then become the manifested Word for that age in
which you are living.
And John is saying, 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be: (he is saying here, Look, we are seed of God, but it
doesn’t really look like it at the moment. Then he says, ) but we
know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him;(look,
John is telling us that there is coming an hour when we will become like the
One we are seeing manifesting Himself. But that knowing and being known, can
only come at His appearing. That word is “phaneroo”. And he is talking about
the hour when God comes to manifest Himself in his true character. And at that
hour) we shall
see him as he is.(And so in seeing him as He “phanreoo’s” Himself as
he really is, we begin to come into that same image, and we begin to manifest
ourselves as to who we really are as well,
Sons and Daughters of the living God.) 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Now, what does that mean. In other words as Brother
Branham said, if you have that gene seed in you, then when He manifests as He
truly is, we must also manifest what we truly are by seed. And when we really
see that, we begin to live like it, talk like it, act like it and we say only
what He says, we act only what we see Him do, we have no doctrine but the
Doctrine of Christ, and we have let go of our own will in order to do His Will.
John 8:
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of
man, then shall ye know that I am he,
and that I do nothing of myself; but as
my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
Now, in paragraph 80 of
the Spoken Word is the original Seed brother Branham said, The cocklebur can only be a cocklebur.
You could hybreed it with anything else but it's still a cocklebur. That's
right. It'll express it. That's the reason that a dual is a hypocrite. That's a hybrid. (Now, he is not
talking about the duality in Christ, because if Christ had two different
natures, then he too would have been a hypocrite. But Christ was born with
God-Life. The Spirit of God, the life of God was given to the Son and He was
born from One Spirit, the Spirit of God. That is why when we are born again,
the outer man is to perish and the inner man is to be renewed by the Word of
God. But if you are born again and do not die to the flesh, you too become a
hypocrite. Because you have two natures. The nature of the spirit and the
nature of God.) Brother Branham continued, A man that claims to be a man of God and deny the Word, he's a
hypocrite. A mule that claims to be the horse, he's not a horse. He said,
"I'm a donkey," and neither one; you're a hypocrite, bastard born,
just exactly. That's flat, but that's what it is. He didn't aim to do that. Man
done that with his wisdom. That's where he gets. That's where all man's wisdom
winds up: to be bastard born. All right.
Now, a man that claims to
be born of above and lives like a devil is a hypocrite. Jesus said, Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. In James 3: 11 we read, Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my
brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can
no fountain both yield salt water and
fresh.
You see, you can not
have two natures and not be a hypocrite. So what do we do? We must die to our
first nature, and live by our second. That is what the new birth is supposed to
do for us. But we must die to self and rot out before God can bring forth His
own God-Life into us and manifest His own life in our mortal bodies.
81 Now,
that's why Jesus so perfectly manifested God, or God was so perfectly manifested in Jesus, because He was the Word
of God. He was God's Word. That's the
reason He couldn't produce nothing but just exactly God. And if God is in you, what more can you
be? Now, that is what I am trying
to drive home here. Look, if you and I have the same Holy Spirit, then you are
not going to be questioning my motives for what I am doing overseas in teaching
our brothers there relationship with the Father and how that Jesus is our
pattern as the first born son. No, instead, you will want to do whatever you
can to see your younger brothers and sisters in the Lord are brought up to
speed as to their relationship with the Father and with His Firstborn son, so
that the resurrection can proceed.
Didn't
Jesus say of the prophets who the Word of God came to... Who did the Word of
God come to? Prophets. Didn't Jesus call them gods? Why? God was manifested in them. What was it? the spoken Word manifested.
See? That's it. Said, "How can you deny, say... If you had any wisdom, you'd understand."
He said, "How can you say you... We called them... God
Himself called them gods." And said, "How
can you then say you believe them and deny Me when I say I'm a Son of God?"
Why didn't they see this then?
Brother Branham doesn’t answer that, but I will tell
you why. Because they were not focused on the Word for the Hour. They were
focused on the man. That is why when Paul came along, the apostle’s all missed
what God was doing through Paul, because Paul got it. He was not focused on the
man Jesus, He was focused on the Jesus that met him in the form of the pillar
of Fire on the road to
That is why those other apostle’s missed the Glory of
what was happening in Paul’s ministry and it was not happening in their own.
Because Paul was focused on God, but they were focused on the man Jesus. And so
too in this hour the brethren have been so focused on the man William Branham
they have missed the One He was sent to introduce to them. And so when brother Vayle came along, they
questioned his motives. They said he had his own Message. Why? Because they
looked for the return of the man, while he spoke of the return of the Pillar of
Fire being right here among us leading us to the millennium.
Now, don’t you think that same thing isn’t happening
again to those who for years followed br. Vayle’s ministry? They have their
eyes so much on the man they missed what he saw. Oh they can quote it and talk
about it, but they sit back in their own little kingdom’s and won’t step forward
to help the last Son of God to come in and help child train him so we can all
go home.
But that is what set Paul so far apart from the
others. Not what he knew, they Knew Jesus first hand in the flesh. They ate
with him, and slept with him, and they knew him first hand, but Paul had his
mind, and they didn’t. Paul told them, Let the mind that was in Christ be in
you. Who was he talking to in his day, the heathen? No, to the other sons of
God in that hour. Just as Christ did more than all the other prophets combined,
so too Paul did more in his ministry than all the other disciples did combined
because he had the mind that was in Christ, and they were still looking
backwards and looking forwards and they failed to see what God wanted done in
the body of this flesh.
God wants your body, he wants my body, he wants to
manifest Himself, His Life is us, through us, and he wants to use your body and
your life circumstances to do it.
82 Same thing
today: "I'm that Seed that was to come (the woman's seed)." "I'll
give you a seed," to the serpent. The serpent had
already defiled her. He said, "But Thy seed that I'll give
you shall bruise his head." It'll take that thing back again.
Amen. I just wish everybody could see that. "I've come to conquer and
correct what Eve done." And the only way I can do it is through a woman
that believed the Seed where a woman didn't believe the Seed. Woman believe the
Word where one didn't believe It... "I'm that overcomer. I'm the One
that's come to give Life that through My death to pay the penalty of what she
done, through My life will be given to you to flow over you, and you'll be sons of God and daughters of God"
(See?), as long as the Seed's in
there. You hybreed it and you ain't got nothing but a denominational
bastard child, That's all. Anything deny the Word... Excuse me, sisters. I want
you to... I've just got to say it just the way it says it here. See? And that's
the way it is.
83
All of God's sons must be the same.
Yes, sir. To be born of the Word and
Spirit brings us back to the spoken Word again like in John 3. See? To be born of the Water
and the Spirit, what does it do? Then it
brings you right back again unto the place of where you should've been at the
beginning. See? That's the reason of Christ's death: brings us right back
again to where? Sons of God. If Eve
would've brought forth that child... She would've finally done it. Did not God
tell her, "Multiply and replenish the earth?" But she had to walk
over here play the part of a whore.
Ok, now there are two things I
want to focus on here until the end.
One he said, All of God's sons must be the same.
Galatians
4:1 Now I say, That the heir,
as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. (You see, no man knows
the day or hour except the Father.) 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in
bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem
them that were under the law, that we
might receive the adoption of sons.(so you see the whole plan of redemption lays in adoption. The placing
of sons.) 6 And
because ye are sons, (now, listen because this is the key, because ye are sons,) God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but
a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Two, he said, Then it brings you
right back again unto the place of where you should've been at the beginning. Now,
that’s Ephesians
3:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According
as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy (That’s our state) and without
blame (that’s our status) before him (or in his presence). 5 In love
having already past tense predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, (Now,
you have to be one of His Children to be considered for adoption, then you have
to have the mind of the father in order to be adopted.) according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in
the beloved. (Who did it? He did it. You can’t make yourself
accepted. That’s what He has already done.) 7 In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all
wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That
in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are
in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 11 In
whom also we have obtained an
inheritance,(How did we get inheritance? Through Christ Jesus.
Look, the law of inheritance is that when the oldest son is of age, and has the
mind of his father, he is taken up into a high place and dressed in a fine
clothing, and then in front of many witnesses, his father bestows upon Him, the
adoption, and then that first born son receives 50% of his fathers kingdom.
Then upon the death of the father, the other 50% is distributed among the other
sons. But what if the father never dies? Then there is no inheritance for the
other sons. So Jesus Christ, your eldest brother in a vast family of brothers
laid down his life in order for you and I to receive our inheritance. That is
why we are joint heir with Christ.) being predestinated according to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That
we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also
after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Romans
8:1 There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That
the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because
the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
In other words if you
do not have the life of your father you are not a son. 10 And
if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live.(here’s the key. If we
are sons of God then God wants to see in us that which would please him for a
son to act. So our character is very important concerning the time of adoption.
For when the Elect knows who she is, and are ready to be placed as sons, then
we will go to our eternal inheritance, and not until. ) 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. (not your spirit
bearing witness with God’s Spirit, but His Spirit bearing witness that indeed
you are His son or daughter. So it is what he sees in you, not what you see in
Him.) 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be
also glorified together. (now this word glorified together is a Greek word
“sundoxa” which means united in the same doxa which is the same opinion,
assessment and judgment.)
18 For
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory (Doxa) which shall be revealed
in us. (not to us but in us, the revelation in us, living
and abiding in our mortal beings.) 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the
sons of God. (in other words, all creation is waiting for you to
manifest what you were ordained to be before the foundations of the world. So
if you are sons, then act like sons. Be sons, take your position in the body.) 20 For the creature was
made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because
the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God. 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 firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And
he that searcheth the hearts knoweth
what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh
intercession for the saints according to the will of
God. 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, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
There you go, it’s all
about our being adopted but we can not become adopted until we are like the
first born son who also was taken up and adopted. But we are predestined for
this, so just let go and let God. God has a plan, so step into his plan and let
your own plans go. Brother Branham said, Jesus greatest victory was in
Gethsemane, not
From his message
Position in
Christ 60-0522M P:88 83 For ye haven't received
the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption. Now, after you're adopted, all right, after you're adopted, you're
placed; then you understand, after the ceremony's said and you've been put into
the Body correctly. You're a son, sure, a daughter; when you're born again
you're... that's your birth. But now you're positionally placed. We've not
received the spirit of fear...; but we have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Which means, "my God." All right.) The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we're children of God: How does it do it? You say,
"Glory to God. Hallelujah. It don't bother me; I'm a child of God,"
and go out and do the things you do? The Spirit of God will do the works of
God. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do
also." See, see? Now, let's read,
then well have to stop, 'cause our time's getting away. All right, in the 9th :.
Having made known to us the mystery of his will... (to adopt us),... according
to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself: He purposed this Himself before the foundation of the
world. How many understands it? See? That in the dispensation... (Oh, my, here
we come again. See? Oh, let's just pass it. See?)... dispensation of the fullness of time... 89 You believe in
dispensations? Bible said so, "In the
dispensation of the fullness of time..."
What is the fullness of time? There's been a dispensation of the Mosaic law.
There was a dispensation of John the Baptist. There was a dispensation of
Christ. There's a dispensation of church organization. There's dispensation of
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now's
the dispensation of adoption, what the world's waiting, groaning.
"And when the fullness of time comes, when
the dispensation of the fullness of time..."
What is that fullness of time? When the dead rises, when sickness ceases, when
all the earth ceases to groan. "The
fullness of the dispensation of time..."
Watch this. When in the dispensation of the
fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ,... Aren't you glad? How is He going to do it? Gather together all things in Who? [Congregation says, "Christ"--Ed.] How do you get
in Christ? By one Spirit we're all baptized into
one Body. And that Body is Who's Body?
["Christ's"--Ed.] Already judged, He took our judgment. Then what are
we? "When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you." Every time He looks
at the Body, there It is setting there, bloody. I'm in there by how? The Holy
Ghost. He passes over. Oh, my. And when the fullness of the dispensation of
time, that he might gather together... all
things in Christ, both which are in heaven...
Total
deliverance 59-0712 pp. 55-56 Jesus was completely, totally man. He
could cry like a man, He could eat like a man; He could become like a man. He
was completely, totally man in His physical being. And in His Spirit, He was
completely, totally God, so He made His
flesh submissive to the Spirit that was IN Him. You see, He was
tempted in all manners like we are. He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He
had desires and temptations just like we do. The
Bible said He did. He was a man, not an
Angel above temptation. Hebrews 1
said that He was... Hebrews 1:4 said He was made lower than the Angels. He was man, completely man, that God
took a complete man to bring total deliverance; and He filled Him with His Spirit; the Holy Ghost was in Him without
measure. And He was tempted like we were. And He was completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead,
when He stopped nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to
the trees, and so forth, they obeyed Him. He
was God inside. And He could've been man, for He was Man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself as a Man
into the hands of God for the service of God. And He is our example. 56 We
are men and women. We're also Christians. If
He's our example, let us completely deliver ourselves into the hands of the
Holy Ghost, that we might be subjects of the