Spoken Word no. 182
Your Motives and Objectives
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
August 22nd, 2010
1
Corinthians 14: 1 Follow
after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto
men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he
speaketh mysteries. 3 But
he that prophesieth (that means he
that preaches) speaketh
unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue
edifieth only himself; but he that prophesieth (preaches) edifieth the church. 5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but
rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that
speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. 6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking
with tongues, what shall I profit you,
except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by
prophesying (preaching), or by doctrine? 7 And even things
without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction
in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself
to the battle? 9 So
likewise ye, except ye utter by the
tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for
ye shall speak into the air. 10 There are,
it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that
speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 12 Even
so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13 Wherefore
let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in an
unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will
pray with the understanding also: I
will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16 Else
when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of
the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not
what thou sayest? 17 For thou verily givest thanks
well, but the other is not edified. 18 I
thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19 Yet
in the church I had rather speak five
words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten
thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children,
but in understanding be men.
21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues
and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they
not hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them
that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying (preaching)
serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 23 If therefore the
whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and
there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that
ye are mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and there come
in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is
judged of all: 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on
his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. 26 How is it
then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a
doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all
things be done unto edifying. 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be
by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let
him speak to himself, and to God. 29 Let the prophets (preachers) speak two or three,
and let the other judge. 30 If any thing be
revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace
(while the other is speaking). 31 For ye may all prophesy (preach) one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets
(preachers) are subject to the prophets (preachers). 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of
peace, as in all churches of the saints. 34 Let your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to
be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35 And
if they will learn any thing, let them
ask their husbands at home: for it
is a shame for women to speak in the church. 36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet (a
preacher), or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38 But if
any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to
prophesy (preach), and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Notice, Paul is
saying here, it is not that I am against tongues, or psalms, or revelations, or
you wanting to share something on the order of doctrine, but here is the
conclusion to what Paul is saying here, in verse 40 he says, “ Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Now before we go to prayer let me first say that the apostle Paul is setting the church in order here. He says, when you come together it seems everyone wants to be heard. He said, “when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.” So the question he leaves us with is this: let all things be done unto edification of Who? Well, he already told us that when people speak in tongues it is only edifying themselves. In verse 4 he said, “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth only himself; but he that prophesieth (preaches) edifieth the church.” So it is the church that is to be edified which means to be lifted up or built up. It comes from Two Greek words “oikos” which literally means a dwelling or house or home, and by implication means a family, and another Greek word “doma” which literally means an edifice or roof. So together it means to bring the building to the place where it can become capped off, finished, sealed. And since it figuratively speaks of family, it means to bring the family to the place of full maturity, finished off.
Now, it is not that we do not believe in you bringing
s special to sing, as he said a psalm, but he concludes that everything must be
done decently and in order. 40 he says, “ Let all
things be done decently and in order.”
Now, with this text as our basis for our thoughts this
morning, let us bow our heads and our hearts in a word of prayer.
Dear Gracious Father we come reverently and humbly
this morning knowing that you are the sovereign King, and we are the subjects
of your kingdom. Then we ask this morning that you might direct us into your
kingdom in such a way that all that we do and say, all our specials and all our
preaching be done for the building up of you family, and with one purpose and
one goal and that is to love your family and to stand by them in time of need,
and we ask this in Jesus Christ’s name, Your eldest Son who you have birth to
in a unique way, as the Spoken Word, the Original Seed, and we ask that as His
life was spent on behalf of us, that we also might spend our Lives on behalf of
your children as well. Let His life be our example we ask in Jesus Christ’s name.
Now, this morning, we will continue in our study of
the Spoken Word is the original Seed, and we will pick up at paragraph 34 of
the afternoon service where brother Branham broke this sermon into two sermons,
the morning and afternoon. This is the afternoon one we are looking at this
morning, and this is sermon 182 in our series.
“34
Now, notice, what happened to Eve's children? The first one that was born...
Now if God said, "Multiply (to his bride, to Adam's
bride) and replenish the earth," that was God's
commission; and she would've done it, and he would mixing themselves together.
But what happened? When Adam got ready
to come to her, she was already a mother. See what I mean? Now, the same thing has happened to Christ's
church, Christ's bride. Now,
we're going back farther than that in a minute. Notice, in this bride, what did she do then? Her first child come forth; it was a bastard child, and he was full of death and caused death.
And everyone since then is death. Now, you see it had to be sex. Why do you die
if it wasn't sex? When God give a commission which cannot perish... God's
Word's Eternal. It cannot fail. When He said, "Multiply
and replenish the earth," that was God's eternal purpose. To carry it out you cannot die, because
it's His Word. You have to live.
And if that child would've been
brought forth right, there'd have been no death; but she couldn't wait.
35
That's what's the matter today.
You want some kind of a phony makeup with screaming, jumping, speaking in
tongues, or something, instead of
waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest to the Bride. Them kind that takes the Word is God's true
Bride, bringing forth children. They can't die. A child the Bride brings forth on the Word can't die, because It's the
Word. Amen. Did you get it? She can't die 'cause she's... That child can't die because he's a Word child;
he's a seed child; he's an eternal child. Hallelujah. That's exactly what Jesus Christ was, a spoken eternal Child.
Didn't have to die, but He did it in order to pay the debt. That's the only way
it could be paid. Nobody else could do it; they was all sexual born after the
devil, his plan. You got it now? See?
You know, after
traveling around the world nearly 40 times, I think I’ve pretty much seen it
all. And what brother Branham is telling us here is exactly what I am seeing
everywhere I go. Others went before I did, and what they brought was a bunch of
what brother Branham describes here as a kind of a phony
makeup with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of
waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest to the Bride.
I do not mean to do my
fighting in the front yard, but where did you see the jumping and screaming and
speaking in tongues in brother Branham’s services? The ones who jumped up to
scream and shout and speak in tongues are those he told to shut up and sit
down.
Since when does God
condone such acts of the flesh and call it a spiritual thing. Now, I am not
against speaking in tongues but the Apostle Paul said all things must be done
decently and in order. There is a proper place for the gifts of God and tongues
Paul said is the least of the gifts. That’s what Brother Branham said in his
sermon,
Hear ye Him 57-0310E P:32 The
gifts are here. But, as I said the other morning, we hold so much on speaking
in tongues and interpretation. Now,
watch it. That's the last and the least
of the gifts. The first gift was
wisdom; the second gift was
knowledge. And what good is it going
to do to have knowledge if you haven't got wisdom to know how to take care of
your knowledge? What good does it do to speak with tongues if you haven't
got wisdom to know when and how to place
it? Same thing with healing, with any of the other gifts...And that's the
reason we won't listen; it's just... I ain't laying it onto the laity so much;
I'm laying it onto the preachers. It's just so confused with their
organizations. …
So you see, we have a
lot of trouble yet in this Message because everyone is trying to outdo the next
guy and every church thinks it is the only one, and all of that is such
nonsense.
I got an email letter
this week from a brother in the
Just picking away at
little statements of Billy Paul where he said we should consider how privileged
we are to have the Word of God in this day, and then to try to find fault with
that is just like animals do with another animal that just isn’t like them. The
chickens will peck to death another chicken if you place a red dot on it, and I
have watched videos of hyenas that attacked a lion, and when the lion drew blood
from one the hyenas, they smelled it and went after their own and mauled that
hyena and killed him, and ate him just because he was wounded and unable to
defend himself.
Now, that is the nature of animals but that is
not the nature of sons of God. But these men claim that they understand the
Scriptures better than Br. Branham did, they wouldn’t dare come out and say
that directly but indirectly in their doctrine they teach it because they teach
many things contrary to what God’s vindicated prophet taught.
But I was troubled by
their attitude, it was so vicious and lacking of respect like that guy down in
the islands of the
From his message, Uncertain
Sound 62-0714 E-53 Brother Branham said, In
one way, you feel like you want to scold them, yet you're sorry for them,
because they've been listening to something else that's contrary.
You ask yourself, why
would they be so critical of those people who lift up br. Branham and show the
proper respect to him, and what is causing these people to believe such error?
Then the truth comes home and you realize they are that way because someone
taught them to be that way. But there seems to be a spirit that has come into
this Message that has become very critical of Br. Branham and very critical of
those who would consider this Message an absolute and on par with the Scripture.
What they do not understand is that William Branham did not preach another
Gospel. He did not preach another Jesus? So if he said what Paul said, and He
claims that he did, then why would the things he said not be the same as what
Paul said. How is it any different? They seem to think it is Word in the Bible
but if someone says the same thing it is no longer the Word of God, oh, unless
they say it.
You see, people are
pretty twisted up these days. These same men who claim that you do no t have to
believe everything brother Branham taught sent me an email telling me that I
must read what they wrote because my life would depend on reading what they had
to write, so I didn’t read it, and I just placed it into the trash where you
put all the filthy rags and hogwash.
Such blasphemers are
they and yet when you try to help them, and give them Scripture for their
error, they write back and say you have no Scripture proof they are off the
Word.
No Scripture? 300 plus
Scriptures and this is no Scripture? So I am glad to be home, and I am glad you
people not only have the Holy Spirit and that sweet spirit brother Branham said
would come into the church one day before we are to go home, but you also are
blessed with common sense which seems so lacking today among people everywhere,
even among those who claim to believe the Message.
Now, I am not against
any of the gifts of the spirit, I believe there is a need for everyone of them
or else why would God give them? But as Paul and William Branham taught, all
the gifts must be in their place, so we need wisdom to know how to use them.
Now, the greatest Gift
we have from God was the gift of His Son, How many believes that?
From his Message Queen of Sheba 60-0401E P:20 Brother Branham
said Now anyone knows, that any time that God sends a gift to the
earth, and the people turns that gift down, it's always chaos to that nation
and that people, that turns down the gift of God. Jesus was the greatest Gift God ever give to the world. And
the Jewish people turned it down, and is scattered throughout the world from
that time since. And when God sends a gift, and the people refuses to see it,
and refuses to take it, then it's scattered, the people is, and they, like
sheep having no shepherd.
And from his Message called Love 56-0726 P:7 Brother Branham said, Yes.
See, Christ was God's love gift to
the world. You believe that? Greatest
gift that God ever give was His only begotten Son. Is that right? That was God's greatest gift. Now, God
had His gift in His Son, and could use
It any way He wanted to. Now, when
God showed Him something to do, that was God doing it.
And of course the
greatest gift Jesus could give back to His father was His obedience to what the
father showed him to do.
Another gift we have
from God is the Gift of the Holy Ghost to lead us and to guide us.
God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:79 May
the Holy Spirit come to you and bring you ministering
gifts and things from God, a gift that you might live a better life. That's
what I want. I would rather have the
Life of Christ in me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts of
healing, the gifts of prophecies, all them other gifts; just give me Jesus.
Let me live the Life. The Life is what I want to live. I want to live so others
will know. That's my desire at
Christmas, and I pray that's your desire. And I pray that God will give us His
desire.
So a life that is so full of God-Life, which was exemplified by the Son
of God who was so full of Love for His Father that he was always about his Father’s
business, even denying his own will in favor of doing the Father’s will as we
see in John 10: 17 Therefore
doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
And in John 14: 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.
And again in 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.
John 16:
27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me,
and have believed that I came out from God.
So I want you to notice how brother Branham said, I would rather have the Life of Christ in
me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts… and so that is my desire too. I hope it is yours as
well.
Now, then if that is
the desire of all our hearts, then what gift of the Holy Ghost would be able to
place that desire into the hearts of the children of God? Would tongues? Would
healing? Would discernment? Would miracles? So then we need to be careful about
these things. Not that any gift is wrong, but a genuine gift in the wrong hands
or with a wrong motive can become destructive.
All those gifts are
wonderful in their place, but what is it that could change our hearts to want
to live for Christ every heart beat that we have and every breath that we
take? Can any one here tell me what
other gift of the Holy Ghost could bring that desire into the hearts of God’s
children to want so to be like Him that they would die to self? Brother Branham told us what Gift of the Holy
Ghost will do this in his sermon called Why We Are Not A Denomination. 58-0927 P:43 He said, Now, we've got gifts of healing working. Oh, it's
going good. Well, brother, there's other gifts. That's just one of them. That's
just a little minor thing. Why, here's a far greater gift right here. Which would be the best, the gift of the Holy Ghost of wisdom to
put the Word of God together and to show the church where we're standing,
than just to get somebody healed? We all want to be well; but I'd rather have my soul well, than my body
well anytime. Oh, my.
So we are looking at the
Spirit of Wisdom in a person that could take the Word of God and place
it into the hearts of men in such a way as to make the Bible become live again
and become a reality to them and cause them also to come alive to the Word of
God.
Audio
letter to Lee Vayle 64-0500 P:2 Would it be you think, advisable in here to
say that God then, in order to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to
inject this, make this real again, show the people the hour we're living in?
Because if they only see it in the hour
past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends His prophet to manifest, present
tense of it. You see? And then, after it's over, then history is. Now, you
might inject that, Brother Lee. I don't know whether that's any good or not,
but it's just--just a thought right here. Thanks a lot.
That is why brother Branham
could say in his message, Discernment of spirit 60-0308 P:35
It isn't to make William Branham something great. But what is it to do? It isn't to make Oral Roberts something great, Billy Graham something great. But it's the hearts, we're trying to achieve something for the
So in reflecting back
upon what the apostle Paul told us, it is not the gift itself, it is the Giver
of the gift and the desire to build up the body of Christ with those gifts. You
have got to come back to the motive to see where the gift is leading you,
because remember, in Psalm 68 tells us that God gave gifts unto men and to the rebellious
also. And we also know that The rain falls on the just and the unjust. And
we know according to Deuteronomy 32 is the doctrine. So don’t think just
because you have the doctrine right mentally that makes you somebody. It’s what
you doing with it that counts. What is your motive for having it?
From his message Court Trial
64-0412 E-77 brother Branham said, Remember, it's not me; it's Him. It's not me. I'm
nobody but just one of you all. It's
Him. He has to get somebody. Nobody's
worthy of it, but somebody has to do it. Remember, it's not a easy job. But it's
a glorious job to know that your Lord is here, and you can tell your brethren the truth. But it's hard when
they won't believe it. But that, we all have to confront that.
Now, I know what he is talking about, because I have
experienced some of those great supernatural manifestations of God’s presence
in our meetings as well. Yet I could never compare what I have seen to what God
did in Brother Branham’s meetings. Yet that doesn’t take away from what He has
done any more than what God did in His own son does not take away from what God
did through His Prophet William Branham in this hour.
I’ve been privileged to witness His supernatural Presence
in the form of those Three rainbows coming together over that church in Congo just
like he did for His prophet, and I was privileged to witness Him stopping that
horrendous storm in Uganda, and turn that darkened sky into daylight within minutes,
and I’ve bee privileged to witness Him along with many of you who saw Him change
the temperature by more than 30 degrees within an hour after we simply asked
Him to help his children. And I’ve been privileged to witness Him as again many
of you also did when He replaced the cut off part of that brother’s foot in
Kentucky, and been privileged to witness the lame to walk and the deaf to hear,
and I’ve also been witnessed His judgment upon people that have turned down
this light in various times and places tasking some of them from the scene, and
sending judgment over an entire land for many weeks darkening the skies and
preventing air travel for weeks.
You think it is a coincidence that the volcanic cloud
that hung over England and Europe finally left the skies on May 17th
when that is also the date that the Cloud over Flagstaff, Arizona Appeared to
the world on that same date in Life Magazine in 1963?
Brother Branham said that was the same day that Noah
entered the ark. Now, you might say those things are just coincidences, but I
do not believe in coincidences. And I have seen many other such tremendous
manifestations of His presence with us, but as brother Branham said, it doesn’t
make me anything more than just your brother just because I have seen them.
Many have seen the same things I have and many of you have been witnesses to
these things as well. But what is wonderful is that we can say that we are one
of His children. But it does give us comfort to know that he said He would
never leave us nor forsake us. And that
ought to give my family some comfort when I am traveling overseas.
So when brother Branham says, But it's
a glorious job to know that your Lord is here, and you can tell your brethren the truth. But it's hard when
they won't believe it. But that, we all
have to confront that. Then I know what he is talking about. And yes, the hard part is the
rejection especially from those you know, but the glorious part is when god
comes to your defence with a visible manifestation of His presence showing that
he has not forgotten all our labours of love.
So what am I trying to say this morning? Well let me
say it with a quote from br. Branham:
God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M P:49 Your sincerity and all that you want to
confess, you just can't take it to the Methodist altar, to a Baptist altar, to
a Pentecostal altar. But there is a
altar somewhere that He chose that He put His Name in it, and He would meet you at that place. Now,
if you get everything running just right, it's going to run; everything's set
in order. If there's a short in that wire, that light won't come on, because
it's been grounded. And when you'll take
one of God's Words or one of His places, and in your own heart have selfish
objectives, it'll ground the power of God right there. If you do it because
you want to be smart, you want to be different from somebody else, or
something, right there it's grounded;
it'll blow the fuse. You're wrong. You've
got to come with sincerity, with all your heart. Your motives and your objectives, placed right on God. Then search
for His place, find where He said, and bring it there. See?
From his message, Testimony 63-1128M P:14 brother
Branham said, This church was put here for a purpose.
There's a spirit behind this church.
Certainly. Spirit behind your home,
behind every building, behind everything
there is a spirit, motive, and objective. This church comes here to greatly
exalt some human system or something, then its motives is not right; but if it's put here to try to achieve
something for the Kingdom of God, then the motive and objective both is right,
if the motives is directed that way.
So we need to be ever
so careful in the way we approach everything. Just because you might be right
in your doctrine does not mean that you are right in your heart. And I have
seen too many men who have the doctrine right but in their hearts they are self
centered and wouldn’t cross the street to help someone in need. But there are
some who do love the doctrine and have right hearts as well.
The testimonies I
heard were from both saint’s and non saints, were the same.
From his sermon, Be not afraid it is I
61-0123 P:38 I
had another call said, from a group that said, "If you let another group
set on the platform with you, we'll have nothing to do with it." That's
worse off then ever. What's the matter? Gone off without Him. The love of God
in our heart constrains us to reach to every denomination in every place. When it gets to a spot that you can't have
a tender love for every human being, something's happened to you. God so
loved you when you was a sinner, an alien, away from God, a enemy of the
commonwealth of God, He so loved you that He gave His life for you, sure. If you get a spirit in you, you're better
than someone else, then you're worse than anybody else that I know of. I don't care if you're ever so correct
in your theology; your motives and objectives is wrong. I'd rather be wrong in my theology, than
be wrong in my heart. That's right. Spirit of God dwells in your heart. In the garden of Eden man took
his... He compromised. Now, in the garden of Eden there was a choice made by
the man. The devil took his head; God took his heart. Then he sends him off to
a seminary, freezes him up with some good theology and dehydrates him in there,
and he comes back out, his head all puffed up, too big to wear an ordinary hat.
Then he comes out with bitterness in his
heart against the fellow citizen of the Kingdom, that ain't God. That's
right.
Spoken
word original seed 62-0318M P:173 This
has been my motive, and my objective, is God's Word. My motive is to please
Him. And I can't listen to everything and believe God's Word; neither can I
listen to everything and please God. My motive is to know His Word and to
please God by serving Him by His Word. …Then check it with the Word. See, if it
isn't the Word, then it is deceiving. See? Now, if your theology's different
from the Word, then it isn't right. See?
Jesus
Christ the same 61-0205E P:16 See, you've got to know positionally,
first, Christ, where you stand. You are heir to this. It's your personal
property; it belongs to you. It's God's gift to you. Nobody can take it away
from you; it's yours. "What you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll
do." Who can deny anything there? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if
you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart but believe
that what you've said shall come to pass, you can have whatever you said."
What promises, not limited just to healing, but to whatsoever. Now, you've got to find your objective, and your
motive, and then the will of God. And if
it is the will of God, and your motive's right, and your objective is right,
then the mountain will fall. But outside of that, you could scream till you
got hoarse and died, and never would move. See? Your... First thing, it's got to be the will of God; the next thing, it's your
objective in going and do it; and then the motive you have. You want to be
some big person...
that will get you no
where.
Queen of
And that is exactly what I have been trying to get across for the past three
years. Get the mind of Christ and all these things shall be added unto thee.
Queen of
Godhead
explained 61-0425B P:33 And
you must test your motive and objective
first. First, find the will of God, and then find your objective, and then test
your motive and see if your motive is right. Then as Jesus said in Mark 11:24,
"If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in
your heart..." But as long as you got doubt in a heart whether it's the will of God, or
your motive or objective is wrong, how is it going to move? But when you know that your motive is right,
and it's the will of God, and your objective is right, it's got to move.
That's all, or God told something wrong.
Blind
Bartimaeus 61-0124 P:79 Get
love in your heart, and be true and honest, and have the right kind of a
motive, and the right kind of objective, and God will take care of the rest. If
your motive is right, and your objective is right... If your objective's right, and your motive's wrong, it won't work.
But when you get your... If you know
it's the will of God, then your motive right, and your objective right...
Jesus
Christ the same 58-0323 P:37 Here
He told them, mortal man, "Say to the mountain and believe that it's being
done." Only Deity can move a mountain. Only God can do it. Then if He told
a man could do it, it would have to be
God speaking through the man. And the only way a man could know it was God,
would be the right objective, or, and
the right motive. If your objective
is right and your motive is right, then it's not you speaking anymore. It's the
Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what ye shall
say in that hour; for it's not ye that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in
you. He doeth the speaking."
Expectations
61-0308 P:29 But "expectancy," that's a great
thing, to expect something. You usually get what you expect. Some people come
to the meeting and say, "Well, I didn't--didn't expect to get anything out
of it." Well, they won't. But those who expect to get something, God will
give them their expectations, if their doing it reverently and in the fear of
God. Now, always to find out something
first is to find whether it's the will of God or not. And then if it's the will
of God, then your objective to it, and then your motive in doing it. If it's the will of God, and your objective
is right, and your motive is right, it's got to happen. There's just no way
to keep it from happening. So first find the will, if it's God's will. And
then, what's your objective in doing it? If it's selfish, you'll never get it
done, that's all. It's got to be real
clean and clear before God or it just won't happen. That's all. You got to always keep that on your mind,
that it's got to be clean and clear. Your cups must be clean and clear before
God or God cannot work with you.
Hear ye
Him 58-0209A P:46 It's
your attitude; it's your objective and your motive again. That's where the
church stands today on that. If your objective and motives is right towards
God, the love of God will stream down
like a fountain. That's right. But not because, "It's my church. I
want to see it my town, I want to see it my..." That isn't it. "Oh, love of God, come into my heart."
There's when He comes.
Have
faith in God 58-0105 P:13 That's what it takes to overcome. And if
you notice, Jesus didn't say,
"Quickly, this mountain will be throwed into the sea." But,
"If thou will ask for this mountain to be raised up and
throwed into the sea, and will believe in your heart that it's being done, you
shall have what you say." Oh, my. When you go to the mountain
and say, "Mountain, be cast up, throwed into the sea."
Look, say, "Oh, it never happened. I guess I haven't got faith." When
you say, "Mountain, be raised up and thrown into the
sea," and your
objective is right, and your motive is right, you may not see one bit of
difference in that mountain. Maybe just one little grain of sand moved when you
said that, but it's being moved.
No matter how small it is, it's
taking place.
I have
heard but now I see 65-1127E P:29 See, we don't use the gift of
God for commercial. No, no. He could tell me where it was at, but I don't have
any need of it. I wouldn't even have faith enough to ask Him. See? If I had a
need of it, I believe if I'd ask Him, He'd tell me. But first (You see?), your motives and objectives has to be
right. You have to have reasons for
this. God don't give you those things just because you ask. And you cannot ask in faith unless there's a
real objective to that, to be in the will of God. See? If you want to be
well, what do you want to be well for?
See? If you want to be healed, what's
the reason you want to be healed? What are you telling God? What do you want to do with you life when
you get healed? See? There's got to be... You've got to have a motive and objective, and they have to be right
according to the will of God. And then is when the faith is revealed to
you, and God by His sovereign grace places that faith in there, then it's over.
See? Now. See?
Thy
house 61-0808 P:40 If
you're sincere and know that it's right, then you can ask God with a clean heart, knowing it's no selfish
motive, and your objective and motive is exactly right, then ask God. And
like a child, believe you get it and you get it. I know that. Now, I've come to
Christ when I was about the age of one of these boys here, I guess. I was about
twenty years old. And I served Him all this time, and I'm fifty-two, will be
fifty-three my birthday. And I can sincerely say that I have never asked Christ
sincerely for anything, that is it's, now, that really sincerely asked Him,
anything that was for right, but what He
gave it to me or told me why He couldn't do it. And then later on, I found
out it was a good thing I didn't get it. See?
Jesus
Christ the same 58-0323 P:36 Now,
do not listen with any selfish motive. Let your objective be right. Let your
motive be right. For anything outside of
the right motive and the right objection, God can't use it.
Now, Let us bow our
heads and our hearts in a word of prayer. And I want you to pray after me, the
words I pray. But I want you to insert your own desire into this prayer, that
you are praying for, that you want for your life, but have not seen any
manifestation of it yet, and I want you to insert your own desire into your
prayer to God now, that God will know it
is what you desire. Now, let us pray together in closing.
Repeat after me, and
then when we get to the part for our desire, I want you to insert your desire…
Dear Gracious Father, I
have heard Thy Word this morning, and now father, I bow my head and my heart to
Thee in Prayer. You said in Your Word Father, and by your prophet whom you have
vindicated, that if our objective is right, and I can see you have promised
this to me in your Word, therefore I know my objective is right, because I see it in Thy Word as a promise for
me, and knowing that it is a promise for me, I am now going to check my motive, and knowing that my motive is pure and right
for this I ask, I do not ask this request Father for a selfish reason, but I come
this morning as your child, and I have a need Father, a need for fulfillment in
this area of my life, now Father I have come the way your prophet has told me
to come, and I have come the way your Son Jesus told me to come, and now I ask
for this desire to be given to me in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
Now, I want you to be
looking for the little pebble of sand in that mountain that just moved. Watch
for it, and you will see your desire is beginning to come into view. Remember
the whole mountain doesn’t move overnight, but before you ask God, He already
has your answer on its way. You believe that, ok?
Now let’s be dismissed
with the chorus “Lord I believe, Lord I believe, All things are Possible, lord I
believe.”… as our musicians come forth to play.