Spoken Word #15
“Binding
our Hearts Together”
Brian Kocourek
April 6th, 2008
9 And one by one we
go down the lane. We just got through burying one from our midst. Our Sister
Bell, going quickly (according to her request), so quick we couldn't get to her
to pray with her, but it was her request to go. To see how good that You are to
provide all the things that we desire in our hearts, You leave none of them.
You promised it. Now, we pray that
You'll bring hearts to understand You today, those who do not understand
You. Bring sinners to repentance; bring sick people to the healing knowledge of
God. O God, bless Your saints and bind
their hearts together. And as these tapes goes out to the cities and the
churches all out through the nations around the world, may ministering brethren
who has maybe once misunderstood understand now that Thy church might be
prepared.
10
And now, O Lord, Who separated me from my mother, Who's fed me all the days of
my life and has brought me to this hour, by Thy grace, feeling it was Thy will
that I should explain to the people why that I have acted and did the way I
have done; may it be in such a way that people will have a better
understanding, Lord, of the peculiarity of Thy servants. Grant these things,
Father, these Scriptures and a text and words that we have written here through
the week, praying and studying. May they fall on good ground everywhere they
are heard, a ground that can hold them and nourish them, and then all praise
shall be given to Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, this morning I
would like to take our thoughts from brother Branham’s words… “Now, we pray that You'll bring hearts to
understand You today, those who do not understand You. Bring sinners to
repentance; bring sick people to the healing knowledge of God. O God, bless
Your saints and bind their hearts
together.”
What I would like to
show you is that this request that he is asking God to perform is a Scriptural
promise that has been given to us for this hour.
Now, a few weeks ago I
showed you how that just coming together and being One is not God’s desire, but
to come together to become one with Him is His desire. In Genesis 11: 6 we read, “And the LORD said,
Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin
to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined
to do.”
And yet we saw Jesus
pray to His Father in
So you see, being one
is not the issue, but how we are made one is the issue. And we find here in John 17 that
Jesus is praying to His Father that we might be one, as He and the Father are
one. So unless we know and understand how that God and His Son are one, we will
never be one in the same way. And all our efforts to be one with one another is
in vain unless we are one as He and the Father are one. That is evident as we
saw in Genesis chapter 11. The people there tried to be one but all their
oneness produced was more darkness upon the earth, and a distancing themselves
from the Oneness with God.
Now, remember, Jesus prayed in John 17:11
that we would be one, even as He and the Father were one. Now, later in this
prayer he tells us how that we become One even as, or in the same manner, as He
and the Father are one. John 17: 21 “That
they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Now, I want you to understand what Jesus is praying here because, let’s
face it, the majority of mankind haven’t got a clue to what Jesus is saying
here. But we have a vindicated prophet in this hour who told us how that Jesus
and His Father were one, so if we look at what he taught us concerning the
oneness between God and His Son, then we will understand the words that Jesus
is saying in, John 17: 21 “That
they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Now, first let’s look at
what William Branham said concerning the oneness between God and His Son. From Jesus own words, and from William
Branham’s own words, I want to show you
from this simple prayer how that Jesus defined his own Oneness with His Father,
and also how William Branham taught the very same thing as did the Son of God.
We are referencing JOHN
17:11 first, where Jesus
makes the statement concerning our being one with God in the same way that he
and His Father were one. ¶ And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they
may be one, as we are. And how is it that we might be one “even as”
which means in the
same manner as Jesus and His Father were one? Jesus said in, JOHN 17:14 I have given
them thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world. So we see here that
Jesus gives us a clue as to how we are to be one with God even as He and the
Father are one. Jesus tells us we become one with God through the same Word
that He became one with God.
Notice in JOHN 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on me through their Word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent
me.
Now, here is the key that Jesus is defining how that
we might be one with God even as or in the same manner as He is one with the
Father. He says, “That they all may be one; as
thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:”
Now, notice he said, That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me,… That is the first thing that makes us one
with God right there.
So
number One: we must know how that “The
Father was IN Christ”…
Number Two:
he said, “That they all may be one; as I am IN
thee,” So we must know how Jesus was IN His Father…
And
Number Three: he said, “That they all may be one IN us:”
Now, notice he did not say, that they may be
one with us… Nor did he say, that they may be one of us… But He said that they
may be one IN us. Now, listen!!! There is that nasty little word again, that
word IN that so many people do not know how to read.
Paul never said, God was Christ, in no way shape
or form did he say that. He said, God was IN Christ. The Bible never said God was manifested
flesh. It never said that. It said, God was manifested IN the flesh.
Therefore in order to
understand how that Jesus could pray the words, That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and as I said earlier, we must know how God
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ was IN His Son.
Now, John tells us in John 1:1,
that God is the Word. Then how was “God IN Christ?” Well, God is the Word. Genesis 1:1,
tells us “in the beginning God”… and John 1:1 says
“In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, because the Word was God”.. And then we find in verse 14 “and the Word was made Flesh”…So we must know how
the Word was made flesh.
Now, let’s go to John chapter 1 and
begin reading at verse 14 to get a clue as to How the Word (God) was made
flesh. What does this mean, “was made flesh”. That is the part everyone seems to
misunderstand. Now, remember, this is the same John that wrote what Jesus
prayed in John chapter 17. So therefore he is not going to say one thing in
chapter one and then a completely different thing in chapter 17. So let’s look
at John’s own testimony to see how he lays out this “God the Word” being “made” flesh. 14 And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (Now, I want to stop here
for a moment to look deeper at this thought because the word “made” that is being used here to describe what
is taking place is translated from the Greek word, Ginomai,
and this word Ginomai comes from the root word
that we also use in English called genes.
Now, we know genes speaks of genealogy. The genes are the little codes in the
strands of flesh that give the characteristic and attributes to that strand of
flesh.
So we read, “The Word was made
flesh” “The Word was Ginomai flesh”. Now, this particular word Ginomai speaks of coming into being… so we
read it as “The Word come into being”…So
the logical question would be, if “the Word come into Being,” then Whose Being
did it come into? This word Ginomai
also means “to be assembled”… So we can
read this as “the
Word was assembled into a Being”…I believe then what we have here refers
to God placing His DNA into this flesh called the Son of God. Now, concerning DNA,
we see little strands of code that is assembled together into what looks like
twisted pair wire with little balls attached here and there. And it looks like
it has been “assembled together”… What
has been assembled in a DNA strand?
It is many different attributes and characteristics,
which makes the strands complete, and a perfect reflector of the very nature of
the being.
This word Ginomai
also means “to be divided”, which we
know that all cells must divide as they are multiplied in order to increase
from one cell to two, from two to four, from four to eight, from eight to
sixteen, from sixteen to thirty-two, from thirty-two to sixty-four, from
sixty-four to one hundred twenty eight, etc. The cells divide in order to
multiply. And it’s interesting that in Math, in order to check any
multiplication equation you must use division to take it back to it’s root.
Hallelujah!!! See how perfect God is. And one day at the white throne God will
take your genes, and by rightly dividing them, will trace all your
characteristics back to their source which will either be Himself or the beast
in the garden.)
Now, this word Ginomai
also means “to be fulfilled”. Therefore,
we can also then read this verse of Scripture as, “The Word was to fulfilled
IN flesh”…
Now. lest anyone think that this was simply God
putting on a mask of simple flesh, as though he was just putting together some
clay, let me tell you something. John is not finished here describing what is
going on with the Word. And when brother Branham speaks of you and I being just
a little clay, he is only talking about the vessel in the simplest of ways as
to help you understand a greater and more complex thing than most people can
imagine. For DNA is not simply substance but a reflector of LIFE. Those little
twisted pairs have little balls all over them that are the codes for attributes
and characteristics of the very nature of the being.
Therefore notice John’s very next thoughts here, (“and we beheld his
glory”,(Whose Glory John? Whose Glory did we behold? And he tells
us…) “the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
Now, notice that this word
“made” or “Ginomai”
was speaking of the very genes of God coming into manifestation of God-life and
was made visible, in order to bring into fulfillment the very same life that
was in God who is the Word.
That is what this same
man, John who wrote this report in the Gospel of John said in the 1st Epistle of John… 1 John 1: “That which was from
the beginning”, (and what was in the beginning? The Word…) “which we have heard”,
(and what do you hear? WORDS!!!) “which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon,
and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;” (so John is telling us that the very God-Life that was
in the Father was manifested in and through His Son Jesus Christ) 2 “For The life was manifested, and we have
seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that
Eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;”
So here we must understand how this God-Life, this
Eternal-Life that was with the Father was manifested unto us, and John tells us
it was manifested in His Son. 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we
unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
In John 5:26
we are told that the Life that was in the Father was given to the Son…26 For as the Father
hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
And how else would any son get his life except it come from His Father… God
hiding in simplicity…
So we go back to the
Gospel of John to pick up on this testimony of how that God was manifested or
declared through to man through the body of His own Son.
John 1:15 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 fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For
the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; and in fact the Scripture tells us that no man can see
God and live.
John that wrote John 1:18 “No
man hath seen God at any time”, also wrote 1 John 4: 12 that said, “No
man hath seen God at any time”. And
he also wrote John 6: 46
Not
that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the
Father.
So if we believe
John’s testimony then we must say as he said. So let’s look at verse 18 again.
John 1:
18 No man hath seen God at any
time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Now, why did John say
this? Because he was telling us that God the Word was made or Ginomai was
manifested in flesh. It was through His son, that ‘s how. God expressed His God
– Life through His own genes, when he brought forth a son in His own image to
manifest God-Life to mankind.
John said, the only begotten
Son, (This word begotten was translated from the Greek Word, monogenes which means “the only
genes”, or “the single genes”) which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him. So where did these genes
come from? From “the bosom of the Father”,
that’s where.
John 1:19 And
this is the record of John, and so we see this record in verse 32…So let’s go down to verse 32 And John bare
record, saying, I saw The Spirit (not a spirit, but THE SPIRIT, and
there is only one “THE SPIRIT”, and that is God
Himself.) And John
bare record, saying, I saw “The Spirit”
descending from heaven like a dove, and IT abode upon him. (And IT abode upon Whom?) 33 And I knew him not:
but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
So we see the John’s
testimony is that when the Word “God Himself” came into flesh, and manifested
His God-Life in that flesh, it was IN
and through the genes of God that were manifested in the Body of His own
Son. You know this Bible is so accurate
that it is a wonder that more that nearly 7 billion people on earth do not know
how to read it right.
And the Word coming into
the Son and manifesting through the Son made the Word flesh. Therefore when we
read Jesus’ prayer to the Father in John 17, it is very apparent that we become one with God in the same was as
Jesus become one with God, and that is by
receiving the same Word that He received, which brings us into the same same mind as was
in the Father.
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. That is why Jesus
continued in his prayer, saying, …”22: the glory which
thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:”
Notice
Jesus tells us what it is that makes us one with Him and the Father… he says, the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: So what is
this glory? This word was translated from the Greek word Doxa which means the
opinion, values, and judgment. So we see Jesus is saying, the opinion, values, and judgment which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: Now, how
could that read any easier? It is receiving the very mind of God, how He
thinks, what He thinks that makes us one with Him. And that is why Jesus
continues in verse, 23 I
in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; (that they may be made complete or finished off in
their character in this one mind, the Father’s mind) and that the world may know that thou hast
sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Now, this is exactly what
William Branham vindicated prophet of God said in his sermon… HARVEST
TIME 641212 87 034 Jesus said, "That they might be one, Father, as You and I
are one." Not for
some man to be over something, it never will work; one denomination wants to
take over the other, and one man over the other. But that you might be
one with God, like Christ and God was one; that's what the prayer is. He
was the Word, and Jesus prayed that we might be the Word, reflecting Him.
That's His prayer to be answered. See how Satan scruples it up in the carnal
mind? But that wasn't Jesus' prayer, at all, that we might all congregate
together and all have a certain creed and so forth. Every time they do it, they
go further and further from God. He wants us to be one with God, and God is the Word. Each individual in his heart must be that one with God.
SHOW US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY
56-0422 E-36 Now,
it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible
said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was
very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you
don't know Me?" Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the
Father express Himself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the
sense that His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a
Son, Himself, the immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then IN Him was dwelling the God the
Father, expressing Himself to the world, His attitude towards the people. See?
Well, that's how Christ and God were one.
God was IN Christ reconciling
the world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do you say,
'Show us the Father?”
JEHOVAJIREH 56-0429 053 "That's the reason
people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking... or was the
Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual Person.
He was one Man, the Son. God was in, which was tabernacling in Him. But
what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the Healer." Very
contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said, "It
isn't Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." And in Saint John 5:19 when He was questioned for passing a whole bunch of
crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed one man laying on a
pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal. Walked away and left the
rest of them laying there, they questioned Him. A man packing his bed on the sabbath.
Listen to what He said.
John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be
made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and
hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”
So you see Jesus was
praying that the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of God would
come into the church making them one in Mind and Spirit even as Jesus was one
in Mind and Spirit with God. And remember the Word is Spirit and Life. Jesus
said so in John 6:63. He said, “The Words which I
speak they are spirit an dthey are life.
Now, Peter looked for
this great time when the revelation of Jesus Christ would come into the church
to bring it to its completion in character.
1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore
gird up the loins of your mind, (notice he is talking about the condition of your
mind here. He says,) be sober,(what’s that? Be watchful) and hope (what’s
that? Be earnestly expecting) to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ;
So we are speaking of
a special grace that is to be brought to us at the time of the Revelation of
Jesus Christ., then he says it all next…) 14 As obedient children,(and
that is what it is all about. God will not adopt a son that is not obedient and
that does not have his own mind… So Peter says this special grace that will
come to us at the time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is to bring us to the
place where the every mind of the Father is in His children so they may be obedient children. Why? because you won’t be
adopted if you are not 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.
In other words, He is
saying to us, “be what I am”. I am holy be
ye also holy…So we are to come into the image of the very Father of Glory, the Father
of Doxa, the Father of His Opinion, values and judgments, the Father who wants
us to have His own mind…
And Paul said the same
thing as Peter in 1 Corinthians 1.
I 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; 5 That in every thing ye are enriched (that means like fertilizer, we enrich the soil to
produce a finished harvest from just a seed.) That in every thing ye are enriched by him,(notice
it is He that is doing it. He said in the Book of Acts). ACTS 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish:
for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
though a man declare it unto you.
Notice, he says, I
will do the work but a man shall declare it unto you. Then who is that man, and
what does He represent? A ministry of Grace to the people, though God will be
the one doing it, yet the man will be declaring it. “That in every thing ye are enriched by him in
all utterance” (that word utterance is translated from the Greek
word logos), and in all knowledge (in all “ginosko” which speaks of an experiential
knowledge. And remember, Jesus Himself in explaining the parables said, “it is given for you
to know the mysteries of the
Now in getting back to 1 Corinthians 1 and
picking up at verse: 6 Paul says, “Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7 So
that ye come behind in no gift;”
Now, the word gift in the Greek is the word charisma and it means endowment. In other
words when we speak of a child being gifted, it does not mean they are
athletic, but they are mentally endowed to be able to understand what others among
their peers just don't seem to be able to understand. Thus this grace is to
endow us to be able to understand the unveiling of Christ.) Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed (that
means the testimony of witness of Christ was established in you) in you: 7 So
that ye come behind in no gift (no lack of understanding); waiting for the coming (the
apokolupsis or unveiling or revealing) of our Lord Jesus Christ (that is exactly what
Peter told us would take place. He said this grace would get us ready for the
unveiling of Christ. And he told us to gird up the loins of
our mind, which means to get ready to move out because it will
come fast and furious just like a race. As it says, in 2 corinthians 3:18 it will
come from image
to image and from glory to glory (from doxa to doxa, opinion to
opinion, judgment to judgment, assessment to assessment)
1 Corinthians 1:8
Who shall also confirm (that means to
establish you, for he which began the good work in you will perform it. And He
is here to do it.
He that gave the word
is here to confirm it, PRESENCE OF GOD UNRECOGNIZED 64-0618 1 Working for this one
purpose, for you to recognize the Presence of Jesus Christ. See? If He is
present, then, why, everything is settled. He made the Word. He is here to
confirm It. He proves that He'll confirm It. "He is just the same
yesterday, today, and forever.")
And so we see that He
Himself has come in this hour to confirm His own Word to us, and to confirm ) you 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. 10 ¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing,(and
how can you all speak the same thing unless you think 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 that is how you can all speak the same thing, is
because you all have the same mind, and thus the same judgment)
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But now we come to the head, the capstone. "Grace. Grace." the
capstone cried. The headstone crying what? "Grace. Grace." Passed
from death and creed into a living Word of the living God. God's only provided
plan for His age, His sons in the Word
age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that's lit off of something to make it
alive; and seated now in heavenly places in present tense, already alive
and subject to every promise in the Word. Then what does that do? You being a part of God's gene, a part of
the Word, other men a part of God's Word, seated together, manifest the entire
Body of Christ, because there's no leaven among you. (See what He's talking
about, Brother Brown?) No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in
heavenly places in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus. (And I would like to add, remember the parable of the
leaven, that is false doctrine, and here he says there is no leaven or false
doctrine among this group that has the Grace, Grace headstone, capstone
ministry. ) 264
No leaven among you,(No false doctrine among you) that brings the entire Fullness of the Godhead bodily
among you. Couldn't do it in Luther's age, couldn't do it in Wesley's age, couldn't
do it in the Pentecostal age; but in the
day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the church
together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing
the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when
He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet God (Oh, Glory.) promised by
Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The
house of God, seated, in present tense.
And that brings us back to our thoughts from brother
Branham’s opening prayer in The Spoken Word is the Original Seed paragraph 9, where
brother Branham said, “Now, we pray that
You'll bring hearts to understand You today, those who do not understand
You. Bring sinners to repentance; bring sick people to the healing knowledge of
God. O God, bless Your saints and bind
their hearts together.”
And how does God bind our hearts or understandings
together? By having the same mind that was in Christ. Let us bow our heads and
our hearts in a Word of Prayer.
Dear Father,
we see how that you have come down in this Hour with a Great Message declaring
Yourself to be among Your people, and we see how that you have come with the
Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Yourself, that we might be
One even as you and Your Son Jesus were one. Help us Father to learn to let go
and just trust you to finish that work which you have began in us, for we ask
it in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen…