The Nature of God Seed
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
November 31, 2009
The last
time I spoke before brother Paul came to visit was from paragraph 96 of The Spoken Word
is the original Seed where brother Branham said, “I'm a Branham
because I was born of Charlie and Ella Branham. That makes me a Branham because
I'm their seed. Their two agreements
with their sperm together made a seed, and that made me.
Now, what
does that mean? It means you are who you are by birth and not by your own
doing. What you are and the nature you have and the characteristics that are
displayed in your body came by your birth, and you cannot get away from that. “I'm a Branham
because I was born of Charlie and Ella Branham. That makes me a Branham because
I'm their seed.
So you
can’t change who you are even though you might try. But for the child of God
there can be a change to your nature and to your character because to the child
of God he has received new birth and therefore the very life of your Father
comes in and takes over the nature you were born with.
In John
3:6 Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is
born of the spirit is spirit." Therefore the child of God has
two natures to deal with, the first which was born of the flesh and is earthy,
and tends to the things of this world. The other is that nature of The Spirit
which was born from God.
Here, we see the Lord Jesus teaching a fundamental
doctrine. But the natural man will not receive it.
I CORINTHIANS 2:14 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.
Here we see three characteristics of the natural
man, or the man who has not been born again. These three characteristics are
found in every man that is not born again. And they are…
1) Because he cannot understand the things of God,
2) Therefore he cannot receive the things of God
3) And therefore the things of God appear to be
foolishness to him.
Now, this is a sad condition to find anyone in. Not
being able to understand the things of God and therefore those things of God
seem foolish and because they seem foolish they do not want anything to do with
them. Therefore, the final conclusion is that in the end, they will reject the
things of God.
Now, that is what the natural man has to look
forward to. But let's take the time now
to review the characteristics of the natural man, the man who has not been born
again before we contrast them with the man who has been born again.
In John 3:6
this natural man is called the flesh.
Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh
is flesh." And concerning this Flesh, Jesus said in…
JOHN 6:63 It is the spirit
that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit, and they are life.
In ROMANS 7:18, Paul
said, For I know that in me. that is, in my
flesh, dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to
perform that which is good, I find not.
Again in Ephesians 4:22
Paul tells us the "The Old Man is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts"
In 2 Corinthians 4:16
Paul calls it "The Outward Man"
which he says, “perishes
day by day”.
In Jeremiah 17:9
it is called “the natural heart, which is "deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked”, so deceitful that it constantly
betrays us and deceives us, and so deceitful that only God can really know it.
Jesus said, in Matthew 15:19. "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies."
In Romans 8:7
we read, 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.
10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness.
The "mind" is the source of our thoughts and
our actions. Therefore, it is that part of the flesh which thinks, and its
thoughts are always contrary to God, and have "the nature of sin".
In Galatians 6:8 Paul said, “He That Sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption but he that sows to The Spirit shall of The Spirit reap life
everlasting.” All efforts to
improve the flesh, all provisions made for the flesh, all laws connected with
the flesh, all end in corruption and death: all “perish with the using”.
Paul also said in Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye
shall die:
And that is the result of walking in the flesh and
living in the flesh, for there is but only “one promise” to those who live in and walk after the flesh and that
is death. That is your “one expectation”
that you know you will surely receive. DEATH
Now, fortunately brother Branham did not stop there with his
comments in paragraph 96, but he went on to say, When God and His Word becomes one (Hallelujah.) that's when God's Spirit waters
the Seed of God, the Word of God, It
produces God; and it's not the
individual; it's God. For you are dead; you're not yourself no more.
You reckon yourself dead, hollowed out, waiting for the Seed germ.
Now, that
is exactly what Paul said to the Colossians in 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, then
shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Now, in
getting back to what brother Branham is telling us, he then says, “Then what is it? It isn't you no more; isn't the man; it's
God IN the man. It's a Seed germ like the beginning spoken Word. God's Word made manifest IN the man;
then it isn't the man; it's
the man that's died. He can't be a (hybrid
and a son) at the same time. He's either a son of death or a son of Life. So if he's a son of
death, give it over to the devil and let him kill it. Give over to God a minute
and let Him kill the devil that's in you, run him out: hollows you out. Then let
God plant His Own Life IN you, then
it's not you no more; it's God's Life,
because it's God's Word, watered by
the Holy Spirit will produce the same
thing. You see it? I'd just love to preach on that a few minutes…
Now, let's read again what Jesus said in
In other words, that which is born of the flesh
remains flesh, period. But that which is born of THE Spirit is Spirit and will
remain Spiritual.
In 1 John 3:9 we
read, Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; (does not disbelieve); for His seed, (God’s Seed which is
God’s own Life)
remains in him: and he cannot sin, (he cannot disbelieve) because he is born
of God.
And in 1 John 5: 4 we
read, For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the
victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
And again in 1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sins
not; (disbelieves not) but he that is
begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Now, in recapping our thoughts on the
characteristics which define and identify the man who has been born again (reborn)
in his spirit, let's look at several scriptures which refer to this new man.
First of all He is called "Spirit".
This is in contrast with, and opposition to, the "flesh", as the
title of the old nature: and it is called this because it is begotten of the
Holy Spirit (John
3:6).
Now we are looking at The Spirit in contrast to
flesh. This is something that happens to the spirit which is within the man.
Then it is within the man that this new creation comes to life within the man. Then
the body is only the housing of the Spirit of God that has come alive in the
man.
Now, we know the new birth speaks of “He that is born of THE SPIRIT (which is the
Holy Spirit, which is God’s own Spirit), for “every seed must bring forth after its kind”,
and therefore its nature must be the very nature that gave it birth, for the
Life of the Life-giver has been planted into the vessel, and must come alive
with the very nature or the Life Giver.
Then if you have been born again by the Spirit of the Living God, you
will receive the very nature of the Living God in your being. And if your Father is Holy, for He is called
the Holy Spirit, then if you have received His Holy Seed Life in you, and
therefore His Holy Nature in your mortal being will produce Holiness in your
flesh. Then you can no more help being Holy than God is Holy, for it is His
Life living itself out in your mortal flesh
Then
this New Spirit within you must reflect the very nature of the Holy Spirit, if
You have His Seed Life in you. 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates?
This new nature, is then the Divine Nature of God
for it is God’s own nature birthed into you by His very Spirit giving you birth.
In 2 Pet. 1:3-4 we read, According as his Divine Power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and Godlikeness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might
be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust.
This is why it is said to be "perfect", and not able to initiate sin.
In I John 3:9
we read, "Every one that is begotten of God
does not initiate sin” which is unbelief, because His seed, God’s seed, therefore the nature
of God, abides in him: and he (the new
you) cannot sin because God has placed His God-Life,
His God-Nature in you."
So it is called the New Man. And Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:24; And that ye put on the new
man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. And again in Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, (shall
phaneroo, shall manifest Himself in His true nature) then shall ye also appear (then
shall you also manifest yourself in your true nature) with him in glory (with
Him in Doxa, with Him in the same opinion, the same values and the same
judgment.) Colossians 3:10 And
have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him
that created him:
Our new Life is called "The new creation"
as we see in 2
Corinthians 5:17; Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us
the ministry of reconciliation;19 To wit, that God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead,
be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And Paul said in Rom. 7:22 For
I delight in the law of God after the inward man:23 But
I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death? 25 I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So
then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of
sin.
2
Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we
faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but
for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Ephesians
3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches
of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May
be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all
the fulness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ
Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Notice the contrast between "the
outward man" which perishes day by day, while the "inward man
is renewed day by day". One is the seed of death while the other is the
seed of life. So it is the inward man that we are dealing with and not the
outward man. Notice what brother Branham said in paragraph 96, “He's
either a son of death or a son of Life.
So if he's a son of death, give it over to the devil and let him kill it. Give
over to God a minute and let Him kill the devil that's in you, run him out:
hollows you out.
Notice in Ephesians 3:16 Paul told us "the inner man"
instead of perishing, is constantly being nourished and replenished day by day
with grace and strength by the Holy Spirit; so that Christ thus dwells in our
heart by faith.
And I want you to also
notice that it is the inner or inward man that delights in the law of God according to what Paul told
us in Romans
7:22. But the other as Paul
says in Romans 8 “is not subject to the law of God”
Romans 8:5
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. 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. 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: 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.
Therefore I hope you can
see this conflict between your flesh and your Spirit, which must go on till
death ends this struggle. That is what caused the Apostle Paul, (and all those who are of like
precious faith) to cry out, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body
of death". But our victorious answer is in Romans 7:25 where Paul says, "I thank God
[For He will
deliver me] through Jesus Christ our Lord"
Finally in
paragraph 96 brother Branham says, “Then let God plant
His Own Life IN you, then it's not you no more; it's God's Life, because it's God's
Word, watered by the Holy Spirit will
produce the same thing. You see it? I'd just love to preach on that a few
minutes…”
There is
no other Spirit of Christ. God doesn’t
have two spirits. The Scripture teaches us in, “1
Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether
we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit. And in
Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one
Spirit unto the Father.
So we are dealing with One Spirit, and that is the
same Spirit that indwelt Jesus Christ the Son of God and raised Him from the
dead.
Romans 8:11 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. Notice he says, if The Spirit of Him that
raised up Jesus from the dead. The Spirit not spirits, but The Spirit of Him
that raised up Jesus. So who raised up Jesus from the dead? God Did, then it is
His Spirit, His Life that comes into you to live itself out in you.
Romans 8: 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
if so be that The Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not The
Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. So
there you are. If God’s Spirit doesn’t dwell in you, then you are nothing but a
dead man on your way to the second death.
And it is God’s own Life in us that gives us this new
nature and makes us "sons of God" as Jesus Christ was "The first-born Son
of God".
When we studied the Spirit of Adoption we saw how
that in Galatians
4 we received instructions about Paul’s teaching in Romans 8
concerning our son-ship. Thus we see in Galatians
4:6 that we have the explanation of Romans 8: "because ye are sons,
God hath sent
forth the pneuma of His Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, i.e., my Father". This Greek
word Pneuma-Christou is therefore another name for the “son-ship spirit” which we have in Romans 8:15.
Thus, the new creation within us is called pneuma-Christou,
because Romans
8:16 and 17 tell us "The Holy Spirit Himself beareth witness with
our spirit (or new nature) that we are children of God; and, if children,
then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ .
Therefore Paul could say in Romans 8:9: “Now if any man have
not pneurna-Christou
(pneuma meaning the rational soul or mental disposition and Christo meaning
Christ, then it is apparent that unless you have God-Life living in your
rational soul, and expressing the mental disposition of Christ) you are none of his” (you don’t have His nature, therefore your
seed is not his seed, for every seed must bring forth after its nature.)
For Christ the Son of God, and all sons of God
possess the precious gift or a "son-ship spirit". That is why
it is called pneuma-Christou, or Christ-Spirit. Being sons of God: with
Christ, we are then "heirs also; not only God's heirs, but Christ's
joint-heirs; if so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified
together also" (Rom. 8:17). It is called pneuma-Christou;
because it is the sign and token that it is Christ’s Spirit, and therefore a
son-ship spirit; because Paul taught us in Romans 8:29 "whom he foreknew he
predestinated also to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be
Firstborn among many brethren".
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: 13 Which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1
John 3:1-3 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.
Philippians
3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness
which is of God by faith: His perfect righteousness, His holiness
1
Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of
God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption:
Therefore we will have his peace in our minds and
our hearts Philippians 4:7 And
the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and
minds through Christ Jesus.
And it will be our Father's very purpose that
motivates our being as well. Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself:
And in conclusion it will be our Fathers perfect
Love that will motivate our actions and our reactions. 1 John 3:1-3 Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God:
John 8:4 Jesus said unto them, If God were your
Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came
I of myself, but he sent me
John 14: 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 23 Jesus answered and said unto
him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and
we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 31 But that the world may know
that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
Arise, let us go hence.
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved
you: continue ye in my love.
John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because
ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
All this is because God has created within us a new
nature, which He calls pneuma-Christou. But, meanwhile, here on earth,
it is our privilege to share His rejection. "The world knoweth us not because it knew Him
not"
But He has placed his God-Life, God-Spirit in us
that we might reflect His God nature to this World that we are living in. Paul
said, in Romans
8:18 "For I reckon that not worthy are the sufferings of this
present time [to be compared with] the glory about-to-be-revealed unto us"
The fact of our rejection by a religious world, and by a worldly church, must
be to us the blessed Token that we are God's sons, and therefore partakers of
his Christ-Spirit, or the new nature, which is God's gift.
There as Paul said, GALATIANS 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.
Galations 2:20, “I was crucified with Christ; Nevertheless I am living, [and
yet] no longer is it I that am living, but Christou-Pneumou that is living in
me,.”
It's not a matter of feeling it, but of believing
it, or Faith. If we are guided by our feelings we shall never enjoy a new
birth. He never said do you feel it, He said, Do you believe it". “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”
(Rom. 10:17). God has declared this great
fact in His Word (or we could have never known it); we hear that Word; faith
believes it and rejoices in what it hears; and believes God, apart from
feelings. Therefore our first responsibility concerning the old nature is to
accept God's estimate of it, and to reckon it (as He does) as having died with
Christ when He was crucified.
Then what must we do when
we have received the Spirit of Christ into our hearts? Our responsibility is to
reckon that this flesh is dead to sin and unbelief. For what good is this flesh to us? For Paul
said, in the body of this death, there is "no good thing".
He expects us to believe it is dead, because
He says it is.
He looks for us to consider it as buried. In the natural man there may be found
natural religious and likeable characteristics: and he may cultivate these. But
the child of God doesn't need that! And will not cultivate these. For, by
walking according to the new nature, and led by that, what need will there be
for cultivating the flesh? Led by that, we have Christ in the place of
"religion"; and, we have "the mind of Christ". This infinitely
exceeds anything that we could ever produce by any attempted cultivation of the
old nature.
That is what brother Branham is
telling us in paragraph 96, that we must recon this body dead…When God and
His Word becomes one
(Hallelujah.) that's when God's Spirit waters the Seed of God, the Word of God,
It produces God; and it's not the individual; it's God. For you are dead; you're not yourself no more. You reckon yourself dead,
hollowed out, waiting for the Seed germ.
Then
if our body is dead, and our Life is hid with Christ in God, then as Paul says
we must show it by making no provision for this flesh. Romans 13:14 to Make No Provision For The Flesh. Then always
remember "the flesh profiteth nothing, it is
the Word that gives Life," The flesh can be made very religious.
Religion has to do solely with the flesh. All its ordinances are connected
with, the flesh. They are things that the flesh can perform. But always
remember that kind of righteousness according to God in Isaiah 64:6 is nothing but filthy menstrual
rags.
Don’t ever forget, it was the religious people that
crucified the Lord Jesus. That is what religion will do, when it is perverted
and misused by the un born again person. That is why God said in 1 Sam. 15:22,
"Hath the
Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice
of the Lord? Behold; to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the
fat of rams".
In James 1:27 we are told, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the
Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows, in their affliction and to
keep himself unspotted from the world" In other words, if you
want to do something religious, then do acts of mercy and kindness because they
are purer and better than all outward religious acts of service and services;
bowing and kneeling; crossing and counting beads; drawing near with the lips,
and observing days.
Colossians 2: 20-23 "If ye died with Christ from the religious ordinances of the
world, why, as living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances
('Touch not, taste not, handle not'; which all are to perish with the using);
after the commandments and doctrines of men?"
Colossians 3:1-3 "If ye then were raised with Christ, seek the things that are
above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the
things above, not on the things which are upon the earth. For ye died, and your
life is hid with Christ in God".
Thus we are taught as possessors of the new nature,
not to make provision for the old nature; not to feed it nourishment which it
loves;
The old nature is full of pride. That is why the
congregations are crowded where they teach what is called "practical
Christianity";
and the people are told to "do" this or that (not that they
will necessarily do it); but still it gratifies the old nature of the religious
man that loves to hear "precept upon
precept, precept upon precept", rule upon rule, rule upon rule." But to honor God's Word above all else? To magnify His Word and abase man? That's not what the old nature wants to hear.
Where the worship is based on Spirit and Truth, the churches are deserted.
Because they hate the light, neither will they come to it, lest their deeds may
be made manifest. But where provision is made for the flesh; where there is
plenty of music in the choir, and "things to do for God" in the
pulpit, there you will find multitudes. There is more danger for the child of
God in the things that pertain to "religion" and in the refined
desires of the carnal mind, than there is in the coarse and vulgar "lusts
of the flesh". No, the child of God will not readily, or so easily
make such provision for the flesh.
Our final responsibility
to the flesh we find in Colossians 3:5 "Mortify,
Therefore Your Members Which Are Upon the Earth This sounds
very strange at first, after being told repeatedly that we "died with Christ". It sounds practical also.
But for a thing to be practical, it must be practicable. It must be something
which we are able to do. The word "mortify" means to make dead;
therefore we are to treat it as having become dead. It is
because of the fact that we died with Christ, and hence, have put off the old
man, and have put on the new, that we are therefore on that account to
"reckon" the "members" of our body "as good as
dead", and to account them as being impotent, and unable to produce any
"living", or "good works".
All so-called "good" works done by
the old nature are "dead works". They are wrought
by our flesh, which are in God's estimation, "as good as dead". The
only "good works" are those which God Himself has “prepared
for us to walk in” and which are done in the spiritual strength of the
new nature. Oh! that God's values may be our values, and that his opinion would
be our opinion, and that his judgments would be our judgments: So that we like
Abraham may not be “weak in faith” in this important matter; but
strong, believing what God has said to us in this hour, and thus, be set free
to center our affections on the things which are above, where Christ sitteth at
the right hand of God; and to wait for our manifestation with Him in glory.
Let us bow our heads in prayer.