The Spoken word
no 112
The Trail of Adoption
Pastor brian Kocourek
August 29th, 2009
This evening I would like to speak on a subject that
has been burning in my heart. As you know we have looked often at the Spirit of
Adoption, and even the pattern of Adopted sons, which we saw in the Eldest son
Jesus, who Paul says in Romans 8 that
Jesus Christ is the eldest brother in a vast family of brothers,. But before we
go to Romans 8 again, let’s first read from where we left off last week in the
Spoken Word is the original Seed, and that is paragraph 89.
89
The works that Jesus did, if a man has the Seed of God in him with the Spirit
of God watering that Seed, the same works that Jesus, was manifested in Jesus,
Him being the original Seed of God, His death brings you back to the original
Seed of God, and if the same Spirit that
was within Him is in you, then the same works will be manifested. You don't
believe that? All right, let's turn over to
90 What is it? Same seed. Can't keep, How can you
plant wheat here and wheat here and say, "I'm going to get cucumbers here
and wheat here?" You can't do it. The only way you're going to get
cucumbers is plant cucumbers. If you hybreed it, then it won't be a cucumber.
It'll be a hypocrite. Is that right? It'll be a hypocrite, friends. This... You've
got to say it. It isn't either one. Isn't cucumber or what you bred it with.
It's a crossbreed, and it is a bad product, and it's dead in itself, and it
can't breed itself back no more. It's dead right there, back, won't go no
farther. That finishes it; that's all. But if you want a cucumber, start with a
cucumber. If you want a church, start with the Word of God. If you want a Life of God, start with the
Word of God. Accept the Word of
God in Its fullness, every measure of It. And then that's... And if that is
the fullness of God in you, then the
rain that's falling will produce exactly what's in your garden. See? Then
now, where's your Latter Rain coming up at? You see where that's going after
while, don't you? Going over with them wild gourds that Elijah got and thought
they were gourds or them school of prophets up there, that denomination they
had: gathered some wild gourds and thought they were, they were peas. Oh, well.
91 Then the works will be manifested in Him are the
same, for it is the same Seed Word of God. God's Son was His example Seed.
And what His Life was when the Spirit poured upon Him after His baptism and the
Holy Ghost come upon Him, the very Life that He produced will, that same
watering Spirit of the Holy Ghost will
bring forth the same kind of a Life, doing the same thing that He did; if
it's the same Seed. Son of God Seed will
bring forth a Son of God Seed. Now, shame on you women with bobbed hair.
Shame on you preachers denying that Truth. Say, "It's all right; hair has
nothing to do with it." But God said it did.
Daniel was an
administrator, Joseph was a financial advisor, David was a Shepherd, so you
see, it doesn’t matter what job you have to make your living by, what matters
is that you recognize your son-ship, and the role God, Your Father wants for
you to perform in the family.
Now, in Romans 8:1 Paul
said, There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (There is no
condemnation if you are in Christ and are walking in the role God Your father
has set before you to walk. Now, he didn’t say that no one would condemn you
for it. You will have your critics, and so forth, even as Joseph’s own brothers
criticized and condemned him, but His father didn’t condemn him.) 2 For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Notice the Law of the Spirit of Life, o how I
love that. The spirit of life has a law, and that is the law of reproduction,
which says every seed must come forth after it’s kind. That is why brother
Branham could say what we just heard him say about doing the same things as the
son of God did if you are a son of God. Same Son of God seed will bring forth
the same in all sons of God. The original Seed life will bring forth the same
crop each time it is planted in the earth and watered. ) 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. (Notice he is
saying that the right-wise-ness of the law of Life is to be fulfilled in us,) 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. (So if we mind the
things of the Spirit, then it is because it is His Spirit in us bearing witness
within us that we are sons.) 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Now if you are carnally minded you will not have a
life of peace, but if you are spiritually minded although the world will give
you no peace yet you will be at peace even through the hardest of times and the
stormiest of times in your life. Remember, Jesus slept right through the storm
until the Apostles awakened him from his sleep. I don’t care of the plain is on
fire and the engines have been blown out, you are at peace because you know
your role, and who called you to it)
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. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Now, we are going to
get where the Lord wants to take us this evening. 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.
I really do not thing
the children of God at this point yet are really perceiving what this is
telling us here. Look, when we get through with this sermon and the next one
tomorrow you will have a better understand of what I just read to 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. 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. (Abba is Greek for Father. ) 16 The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God: 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.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed
in us. 19 For
the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 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, (Greek: Huiothesia, huios or son, and tithemi meaning
to place or appoint) 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.
(notice, not just those that
Love God, but those who are The Called according to God's Purpose, and notice
further that those whom he called, or elected, he also ordains their path) 29 For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, (you
see He set the limit in advance) that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. (many brethren, that
means a vast family of brothers.)
Now, I want you to see
three things that will take place in order for this to become fulfilled. And I
want to call this the trail of Adoption. Because we have looked at the pattern of adoption which
is Jesus Christ the eldest brother who set the pattern for the younger brothers
to follow. And we have looked at the Spirit of Adoption, which is the Family
Seed must be in you, for if you do not have the Father’s Seed or Life or Spirit
in you, then you will never come to adoption of sons.
Therefore, then
tonight I want to look at this trail of the adopted, or the trail of adoption,
so we can see the pattern that each son must follow in the process of coming to
adoption or placement of sons.
Let’s look at verse 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, In other words, he is speaking of the ones that were
in Christ before the foundations of the world. Paul wrote this epistle to the
Romans and he is the same one that wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians and the
Epistle to the Hebrews.
So let’s see what he means here by 30 Moreover
whom he did predestinate,…
and we find our answer in Ephesians chapter one. So let’s see who these
predestined ones are…
In Ephesians 1:3 Paul writes, “Blessed
be The
God who is The Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ: So we see that the
blessing comes in the anointing, or in the anointed ones from the anointer
Himself. And to me that blessing has to be that we were in Him, as he says
here, and being in Him we thus have a part of Him in each of us. Thus he says, Blessed be The God
who is The Father who blesses us in
Christ. Now Christ means anointer, anointed or anointing. So we must understand
what this Christ means here as we read this verse of Scripture.
Paul says, Blessed be The God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lord Jesus The anointed One. Then he
adds that this Father who is blessed, also blesses us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, or in this anointing which comes from
the anointer himself.
1John 2: 20 But ye have an unction (that word is Chrisma, which means an anointing. So
John says our anointing comes from the Holy One. from the Holy One,Not three, Not
two, but the Holy One. That means your anointing comes from the Holy Spirit) and ye know all
things. So this anointing has to do with our being given an ability
to know and to understand all things.
We find in 1 Peter 1: 13 a prophecy that at the time of the
Revelation of Christ we are to receive a spiritual endowment that will allow us
to know and to understand our placement in the family. 13 Wherefore gird up
the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Now, this grace we are told is to come only to
obedient children as we see in thre next verse. 14 As obedient
children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:15 But as he which hath called you is holy,
so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because
it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
So this grace has to do with the revelation of Jesus
Christ, at the time of the revelation of Jesus Christ and it is to make us like
Him who is the Holy One.
Now, Paul speaks of this also in 1 Corinthians 1: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace,
from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; (Now,
notice Paul speaks of this grace which is translate from the Greek word Charis
which speaks of the divine influence upon
the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude. But I also want
you to notice that this word charis is the root for the word charisma which we
see is the point to this charis. Let me explain, because right now this
probably sounds Greek to you, which it is. What Paul is saying here is that God
has given us this Grace or Charis which is to come at the time of the
revelation of Jesus Christ for a specific purpose. That
in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; (now this word
enrich speaks of a building up like fertilizer is used to take the seed and
give t everything it needs to become a fully mature plant ready for the
harvest. And we see that the elements of this Charis are all utterance which is
logos, and all knowledge. So we must ask ourselves what knowledge and what
Word, because he isays in all logos and all knowledge.)
Now, notice that this
charis (Grace) is to be given to us, so it is a gift, and it is given to us to
build us up, so that we come behind in no gift. Now that word is Charis-ma…
and the word in the Greek means a spiritual endowment. Now the word
endowment speaks of an ability to know and to understand.
So we see that charis
is given to us that we come behind in no charisma, or spiritual
ability to know and to understand.
Then Paul says, 6 Even as the testimony of
Christ was confirmed in you: (So I ask you, what was
the testimony of Christ? Was not his testimony that he was the Son of God?, but
Paul does not stop there. He says, this charis, this spiritual anointing, is to
be given to you that you might know all things, even as the testimony of Christ
was confirmed in you. So if the testimony of Christ which is “I am the son of
God” is to be confirmed in you, that mean you will have the same testimony,
right? So Paul is saying here that this
charis or anointing is given to you that you might understand and know that the
testimony of Christ is also your testimony, and he says that you might
understand and know that His testimony is Confirmed
in you.)
Now, this word
confirmed means 1. Being firmly settled in habit;
inveterate. Persisting in an ingrained habit; In other words that the
very nature that was in Christ when He testified that He is the Son of God,
will also be the very nature that is established in your being and your
testimony. Then Paul says, 7 So that ye come behind in no
gift; (charisma. We are
given this charis this anointing that his testimony will be reproduced and
established in your very habits, and your habitual behaviour, so that you come
behind in no charisma, or spiritual understanding and knowledge., then he
adds,) waiting
for the coming the APOKOLUPSIS
or revealing or unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8 Who shall also confirm you (establish
who you are) unto
the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of
our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is
faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. (that’s
the fellowship of sons) 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the
same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.
So God want us to have the same testimony as his son, and
he therefore sends down a Spiritual Anointing that we may understand what this
message is all about. That this is the hour that we come to the place of the
adoption of sons, in which we come into the very image of the eldest son,
having the same testimony as the eldest son, because we have the same anointing
that was upon the eldest son.
And that is what John also told us in 1 John 2:27 that the anointing is for… he said, “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.
So the anointing is the
vehicle of our blessing.
That is what allows us
to receive the testimony of the Son, because we also are sons.
Look, john tells us this in John 1:12 But as many as received him, (As many as are of such
a nature as to receive him, that means those who were made in such a way as to
take a hold of, and make use of or to take for ones self…) to them gave he power (exousia, the
ability to make a right decision) to become (ginomai, from the root word dealing
with the genes, in other words to those who were of such a nature as to
recognize the son of God as their own brother, to them who are of the same
genetic makeup as He, God gave them an ability to make the right decision to
become what they already are, sons of God.) John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Now,
don’t think I am making this up, because this is exactly what John says in the
next verse. And he spells is out very plainly in the next verse 13 Which
were born, (so he is talking about sons of God, those who are born
ones) Which were born, not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Which were born of God
14 And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, (His Doxa, we beheld
his opinion, we beheld his values, we
beheld his judgments) the glory (doxa, opinions, values, and judgments) as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace
(charis, understanding and knowledge) and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and
cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is
preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness
have all we received, and grace (charis
understanding and knowledge) for grace (charis understanding and knowledge) 17 For the law was
given by Moses, but grace(charis, understanding and knowledge) and truth came by
Jesus Christ.
So what Paul is saying
here as well as the Apostle John is that we are as predestinated sons of God,
we are given a special anointing of God’s Spirit that we might understand the
things of God.
That is why Paul says
in 1 Corinthians
2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God
hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man,
but The Spirit of God knows. 12 Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but The Spirit
which is of God; that we might know
the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. 14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he
that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
It is the very same God
life, God Spirit that came from the Father into His uniquely born first born
son, that now comes into sons. With the
same anointing of His God-Life that he placed in His first born son, His eldest
son, he thus anoints all his sons that are predestined for the adoption of
sons.
Ephesians 1:4 According
as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, …
Now that we have gotten our back ground, I want you to
see where I am getting to here…notice what he says next… I want you to notice
there are three parts to our being predestinated unto the adoption of Children.
That is why I call it the trail of our adoption, or the trail of adoption. Therefore
getting back to Romans
8, we pick up at verse 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate,(remember
Ephesians 1) them
he also called: that’s #1 in
our journey) them he also called (so the
first part is the calling) and whom he called, them #2) he
also justified: (then once we have received that calling there
comes the justification which comes by Faith. Faith is a revelation, then once
called, God reveals to us what our role is. You see first we must understand we
are a son or daughter of God.
That is why Ephesians 1:13 and 14 which is the seal of God into
son-ship is all about. You can not be adopted as a son if you are not a son.
You can not then have a role in the family if you are not first born into the
family. That is the calling, we must hear that calling, and accept it. Then
comes the justification, which is the faith to become what we are, the
revelation which tells us what our calling is all about, what our position in
the family is, and then ) and whom he justified, them
3) he also glorified. (that’s doxazo, which means to express the
opinion, values and judgment given to us. In other words, you are called as a
son to a role in the family, and through revelation of that role and faith in
God’s calling, you step into your role, and become the expression of it. You become
that words manifested to this age. Then Paul says,) 31 What shall we then
say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He
that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?
Look, the same time
way back before the foundations of the world when God spoke of a Bleeding dying
lamb, before the foundations of the world, that’s Revelation
13:8, and it was at this time, even before God formed the
world, and spoke into existence the sun, the moon and stars, you were already
ordained to come forth as adopted sons and daughters of God. Then Paul says, 33 Who
shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is
God that justifieth. 34 Who is
he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us. So
the condemnation will come, but so what. The judgments of people who do not
understand what God has called you to will be there, but that’s their problem.
You are focused on what God has called you too. You are focused on what God has
revealed for you to do. You have stepped into your sonship, so 35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are
killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now, I think I am going to stop here tonight, but I am
so excited about what I am seeing here and tomorrow you are going to see how
this trail has been trod by all of God’s sons through the ages.
We are going to look at Moses and Joseph, and David,
and Jesus and Paul, and William Branham. What you are going to see is the same
pattern take place in the lives of each of these sons of God. You will see how
God called each of them, and they heard that calling, and perhaps did not understand
that calling for a season, but in due season, God revealed to them his plan for
their lives, which was their role to perform for their hour, and you will see how that their brothers did not
understand that role, and so they persecuted them and rejected them, because
they misunderstood them, but needless to say, they endured because they knew
who they were and they knew the role their father had called for them in this
vast family of brothers. And so they were mocked, made fun of, and their life was
filled with a lonely trail that they had to bear by themselves, but once God
their father saw that they were obedient to the heavenly vision, he crowned
their ministry, their sonship, their role by calling them up even higher. And
once God crowned their ministry, their obedience as sons, he then took them off
the scene, o hallelujah, he called them home to rest.
Let us pray…