“Moving on
with the Word of God or dying in organization”
September
26th, 2009
Brian
Kocourek,
Hebrews 6:1-20 1 Therefore leaving the
principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; (let’s go on to
the finishing off) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,
and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of
laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once for all
enlightened, (and there has only been one once for all enlightening,
and that is under the seventh Angels Message, the last Message.) and have tasted of
the heavenly gift, (The heavenly Gift is Christ) and were made partakers of the
Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 If they shall fall
away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves
the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Let us
pray… Dear Father, we come into Thy Presence this morning, knowing that we have
come this far in this race, and we ask that you Who began the work in us will
finish it. We know that in each of the Three Exoduses where You have come down
in the form of the Pillar of Fire, showing Your presence among man, there were
those who began following Your Great Presence and they came out of
organization, only to go back into it. And we saw how in each age that those
who came out, but did not move on with the Word of God as it unfolded itself,
eventually went back into that same organizational spirit that they had left.
Father, we know that Alpha must repeat in Omega and therefore we ask You to
watch over us and take an active participation in our lives and help us to
continue walking in the Light while You remain in the Light, until Your great
Presence leaves this earth, and we with it, for we ask this in Jesus Christ’s
name.
Good
evening, friends, it is good to be back here this evening with you again.
You know
there is an old expression that says, “there’s no place like home” and I want
you to know that I am glad to be here even though our meetings went very well
in
The first
night I spoke on the Spirit of Adoption, and the reception was very warm and
wonderful. Then Br. Erling Ericksen spoke Saturday morning working into his
sermon his testimony and we enjoyed it very much, but he never finished his
sermon, so I am looking forward to hearing from him again, and perhaps we will
get to hear the rest of it. That after noon, Br. Marcus Janckheere from
Belgium, presented a warning to the people to not let their understanding of election
and predestination side track them, because as he put it, Br. Branham said, “I am Calvinist as
Long as it stays with the Word,” and sometimes in talking to him
later we both agreed that some who see the Presence and Godhead are so content
that they are in, that they have basically excommunicated themselves from
fellowship outside their little circles. The thought that we have made it, or
we have made it”, is what Brother Branham pointed out where he said, that is
where Pentecost went wrong, because they thought as long as I am born again and
a child of God I’ve made it, but they failed to recognize that you must be the
right kind of Son in that family in order to be adopted”.
Sunday we
had one long service which I took three sermons I preached here on the “trail
of Adoption” and put them together into a 3-1/2 to 4 hour sermon, which was
also received very well.
Now, this
evening I would like to speak on the next paragraph from The Spoken Word is the Original Seed
and we will pick up at paragraph 90.
The Spoken Word is the Original Seed, 90 What is it? Same seed. 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. You've got to say it. It isn't neither 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 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.
Now, let’s
just stop here for to examine several things that Br. Branham is saying here.
Number one: he says if you try to take the
Word which is Life, and breed it to anything else, it dies right there, you
can’t mix it.
In fact in
His Sermon, Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M
P:168, he said, Now, you go back and try to live again... What if that life
took back down... You think that Life would ever go back after that old shuck's
dried up, ever go back and live in it again? It never does. "For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened
and didn't move on with the Word as it come to pass..." They're
dead, gone. "And the thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection,
whose end is to be burned..." Is that right?...
Now, what
he is saying here is that the Word of God keeps moving on. And when you stop
and think you have it all, then you die right there. That is what went wrong
with every movement of God in every age and in every Exodus. The people got
tired of walking in the Light and wanted to settle down. And in order to do
that they end up organizing along camps or lines of fellowship that they are
comfortable with they shut off to all others and the pillar of Fire just keeps
moving on. It happens that way every time. They organize around familiarity
whether it be friendships, groups of people, or nationality and they begin to
slow down and finally they stop moving forward altogether, and when they do,
the Pillar of Fire just keeps moving on, and they are fail to move on with the
light as it continues to move on. Then darkness sets in where the light used to
be becomes dark.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what
is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For
the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in
the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect
man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From
whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in
love.17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
mind,18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness
of their heart:
Don’t ever
forget the warning brother Branham gave us in The Anointed ones at the End- Time.
He said, You
think that Life would ever go back after that old shuck's dried up, ever go
back and live in it again? It never does. "For
it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with
the Word as it come to pass..." They're dead, gone. "And the thorns and thistles which is nigh unto
rejection, whose end is to be burned..."
But yet
that is exactly what happens every time there is an Exodus or the Pillar of
Fire comes on the scene. In the first Exodus they longed for the garlic and
leaks of
And so we
see the same trail continue on and on.
Yes, there is a trail to adoption, and there is a trail to eternal
separation, and sometime people do not know what trail they are on.
Hebrews 6
tells the story though. It tells us those who once for all enlightened, and
that do not move on with the Word of God as it comes to pass, they dry up and
are fit only for the burning. That’s people who saw the light, and walked in
its light for a season, but for whatever their motive was, it matters not what
their motive is, the fact is they stopped walking in the light and the light
just keeps moving on without them.
Hebrews 6:1-20 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Let us not stop at the principles of the doctrine, but let
us go on to full maturity.
Notice these are people who are not able to continue on past
the principals of the Doctrine of Christ, the rudimentary or elementary
understanding concerning the doctrine of Christ.
“not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and
of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on
of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit”.
Hebrews 6:1 Amplified Bible Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary
stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ, advancing steadily toward the
completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again
be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works and of the
faith by which you turned to God, 2 With teachings about purifying, the laying
on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and
punishment. These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware
long, long ago. 3 If indeed God permits, we will now proceed to advanced
teaching. But God did not permit at that time,
as we see in Ephesians 1: 17-19 where Paul said he was praying for one last
thing to get the people ready for adoption, and that was the Spirit of Wisdom
and Revelation in the knowledge of the Father that was to come to bring the
people to completion and maturity.
Then Paul says, 4 For it is impossible to restore and bring again to a change
of the mind those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously
tasted the heavenly gift and have walked alongside the Personal Presence of the
Holy Spirit, 5. And have felt how good the Word of God is and
the mighty powers of the age and age to come, And we know that the
age to come is the Millennium, so these are people who have been eye witnesses
to the Pillar of Fire in their midst and saw the power of the age to come when
a man can command bees to turn and raging bulls to go sit down. We saw a
millennial man in William Branham, and we saw the power of the age to come, and
we have been partakers of the Presence of the Holy Spirit, so those who would
turn on it or just stop walking are without excuse. So we see that this can only be those who
have followed the Pillar of Fire at the end time, who came out of organization
under the mighty hand of God using the ministry of a prophet like unto Moses,
and having come out, and having walked in the Light of the Glorious presence
they wear out, and go back to organization. 6. If they then deviate from the faith and turn
away from their allegiance (their faithfulness)--it is impossible to
bring them back to repentance, (which is a change of the mind) for they nail upon
the cross the Son of God afresh as far as they are concerned and are holding
Him up to contempt and shame and public disgrace by doing so.
So you see, once you turn away from the Doctrine of Christ
and go off after works, and clothesline religion, and diet, you head down that
slippery slope of organization from which you cannot return to the Living Word
again.
Now, when
the Scripture says that they deviate from The Faith, and there is only One
Faith and that is The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which is the Doctrine of
Christ. And when you deviate from that into other things, there is no coming
back.
The KJV
says, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put
him to an open shame. And the word fall
away was translated from the Greek word, “parapipto’, which means fall aside or
literally to fall down, or deviate from the path. It literally means to come down or settle
down, as after a flight: a sparrow alighting on a branch. 2. To
set down, as from a vehicle; dismount: which simply means to get off the train,
because you’re tired of the journey. You are wore out, so you get off.
And how do
they get off the trail? They deviate from it. They take another trail, but not
the trail that the doctrine of Christ leads to which is the trail of adoption.
And if they do this, then they are not fit for finishing the journey, they
perish in the journey just like Israel did and Jesus said “they are everyone dead” and brother
Branham said that means “they are eternally separated from God.”
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that cometh
oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
receives blessing from God: In
other words, those who when they receive the washing of the water by the Word
grow up into a fully mature planting of the Lord, ready for the harvest, these
are the ones who receive the blessings from God. But then he says,
8 But that which
bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be
burned. (now it is interesting that the Greek word that this word
“nigh” was translated from is “Eggus” and means to squeeze or throttle down, so
it appears that they are to be squeezed down to the curse. Until they are fit
only for the burning.)
But then Paul says, 9 But,
beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany
salvation, though we thus speak. In other words, if You are a part of what God is doing in
this hour, then God expects better things from you than from those who just
hear the Word without the doing thereof. For Paul continues in verse 10, “For God
is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shown
toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do
minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same
diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That
ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
And that is the key, that ye be not slothful, but diligent
to the full assurance of earnestly expecting unto the end.
My fear
for the believers is that, as it was in the first Exodus wherein 2 million
children of
Now, this
word attrition means to wear away or to wear down, until there is hardly none
left.
at·tri·tion ( …-tr¹sh“…n) n. 1. A rubbing away or
wearing down by friction. 2. A
gradual diminution in number or strength because of constant stress. 3. A gradual, natural
reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or
death.
Brother
Vayle said in his sermon, Right Hand and Left Hand
of God P:91 And so Father, we know as the life has gone out of the
previous messages, and the life is now in this and even the chaff is burned up
and we see so many things even in nature where it's in a state of complete
attrition. They tell me, Lord, I just don't know how it can be but I've heard
that upwards of hundreds of species per day, which I don't understand, are
either in danger or have died off already or are dying off. That shows a state
of attrition right there. Nothing more coming forth. Then Lord, how much seed
is there to come forth? I don't know.
And from
paragraph 63 of the same sermon he said, Hey, it's over. Attrition. Attrition has set in. There it
is. Now it says, fallen away, they'll never come back. (6) They
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, put him to an open shame. Shame Him. Literally shame Him. The One their waiting for.
"Oh, that's not the One, that's the devil doing that. That's not the days
of the Son of man. That's not this, that's not the other thing, it's what we
say." Shame Him. And ashamed of Him, who was the revealed Word.
The
attrition comes because they do not understand. So they go along guessing until
one day their guesses become so far off the beaten path of the Word that there
is no longer anything in common. Yet they still sit there thinking that they
are fully aware of what is going on and they don't realize that they are blind
miserable, wretched and don't even know it.
Now, what
I want you to see this evening is that there are 2 groups of people ordained to
hear the same Message at the end-time. But One Group has faith and through that
Faith they are quickened to the Message of their hour while the other Group has
not received the same Message by Revelation. It is not revealed to them and
thus they cannot put it together in a way that will do them any good. It is not
life to them, it is theology. And because god is long suffering not willing
that any should perish, a long period of time is given to bring in the last
seed and get them child trained. But during this prolonged time, the one kind
of believer who received the Doctrine through an intellectual understanding,
and not by a life giving revelation, end up losing what hope they did have and
through attrition they begin to wear away. Because it was not their life, but
mere intellectual conception, they depart from the faith by deviating from it
into other things that have nothing to do with salvation, and redemption.
Now this
attrition we speak of is a wearing away or weakening to the point of
exhaustion, a wearing or grinding down by affliction. And these either walk
away altogether or they revert to trying to "do" the message by works
of some sort of works.
2 Thessalonians 1: 7 - 2: 3 (7 And to you who are troubled rest with
us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed)
in that day. 11 Wherefore also we pray always for
you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the
good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with
power: 12 That the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to
the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2: 1 Now
we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that
the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;)
Notice
here we are looking at two groups of people. Those who are being gathered to
Him and those who are being separated from Him. And as we read further I want
you to recognize what the difference is between these two groups. You'll find
it is faith. Now in verse 3 we see a falling away that must come first. This
falling away comes via attrition. It is actually a divorcement but comes
through attrition. Now notice in every exodus there is two groups. Both come
out but what makes them different is that one group goes in while the other
either stops or goes back where they came out from.
Remember
what Brother Branham said in the Message ...
ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME 65-0725 1M 129 Now, just a minute. I want to look up something here. I think I wrote this down right. I'm not sure, but I want to say it, and look it up before I--I say it. Now, just one minute. Reprobates concerning the Truth, concerning the faith, the faith. There's only one faith, that's right. Concerning the faith, reprobates.
But One
Group has faith and through that Faith they are quickened to the Message of
their hour while the other Group has not received the same Message by
Revelation. It is not revealed to them and thus they can not put it together in
a way that will do them any good. And they thus lose what hope they have and
through attrition they wear away. They are reprobate concerning the faith. They
are they who depart from the faith. Now this attrition we speak of is a wearing
away or weakening to the point of exhaustion, a wearing or grinding down by
affliction.
I TIMOTHY 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils;
Notice,
there must come a season of testing, and what better way to test them than to
give them the Word test or to allow false doctrine to enter in among them to
see if they are faithful or not. And during this time or season, attrition sets
in. Those not ordained to it, are worn down and fall away.