Spoken Word no. 187
One Mediator
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
September 8th, 2010
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Now, Jehovah had a bride that He loved, but she went whoring. What did she do? After the other powers of the
world. And what did He do with this godly, old, anointed prophet (which the
Word of the Lord comes to the prophet)? He carried that old prophet... Samuel
walked up to him; he said, "Children, gather around me a minute; I want to
talk to you, all of you. What do you want a king for? Jehovah is your King.
What do you want a creed for? The Bible's your creed. The Bible is the Truth.
The creeds are lies. You're dead, manmade." Apostles' Creed, show me that
in the Bible. Who ever heard of such a thing? "I believe in the communion
of saints." Anybody that believes
in the communion of saints is a spiritualist. communion with the dead.
Now you see what brother Branham is driving at here is
that Catholicism teaches it’s people to commune with the dead saints, because
they are the one church who panders to praying to the dread saints.
Then Brother Branham says, There is
only one Intercessor between God and man and that's Christ; and He's not dead, but He's alive forevermore, raised from the
dead.
And then he goes on to say that the Protestants swallow
that down with a round collar and I don't know what else, with all the
catechisms of the churches, swallow it right down just the same. They love it,
sure, like the rest of the world.
But what I really want to focus on this evening is
this one thought that is an essential thought concerning the only intercessor
or mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ.
Now, let me read this statement again. He says, There is only one Intercessor between God and man and that's
Christ; and He's not dead,
but He's alive forevermore, raised from
the dead.
Notice for those who do not believe the Scripture,.
And that have no clue as to what Brother Branham taught concerning the man
Jesus. He said, There is only one Intercessor between God and
man and that's Christ; and He's not dead,
but He's alive forevermore, raised from
the dead.
Now, that is purely Biblical. The Apostle Paul said in
1 Timothy 2:5 There is on God and One mediator between God and man,
the man Jesus.
And again he said in Galatians 3:20 A mediator is not of One, but God is One. And
why does he say this? Because a mediator is a 3rd party in dispute between 2
others. The dictionary definition defines mediator as: 1. One that mediates,
especially one that reconciles differences between disputants.
Hebrews
12:24 And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh
better things than that of Abel. Notice he said, The Mediator, not two of them, but one
of them and it is Jesus the one who was dead and liveth evermore to make intercession
for our confession. The one who died was not God, it was the son of God, and I
can give you 18 scriptures that show that God raised up Jesus from the dead.
And risen, he became our High Priest.
Now, there is a certain preacher out west or at least that is what he claims to be, who
does not believe that the body of Jesus is up in heaven sitting on the throne
of His Father.
But that is not what the Apostle Paul taught us, he said in ROMANS 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the
right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
And William Branham said, STAND STILL 57-0518 E-48
Now, notice. Christ
the Son of God died, and rose again, and ascended on high, and tonight is a
High Priest of our confession, setting at the right hand of the Majesty of
God, making intercession on our confession. Is that right? Everyone
knows that.
And again William Branham taught is in his message, FAITH 56-0815 E-38 Christ the Son of God with His bloody garment stands before God the Father tonight to make intercession upon any confession, that you make in His redemptive blessings and claim them.
And from his message, AT
THY WORD LORD 54-1207 E-51 We
look to heaven, where Jesus setting at the right hand of God
making intercession with His Own Blood for our confession.
Hebrews 7:
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him, seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them.
Romans 8:
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us.
Now, you may not believe that anyone could profess to
be a preacher of the Gospel and even claim to believe the Message of the Hour
that would deny the son of God is ever living to make intercession for our
confession, but I am here tonight to tell you they do exist out there. I am
telling you there are those who are right among us and are feasting at the same
table and yet are totally blind concerning the Scriptures and teaching of the
mediator who is Jesus the son of God who was a man born in a unique way, but
none the less, a man.
Listen to what this preacher teaches concerning the
physical body of Jesus. He says: The physical body of Jesus Christ, had a
specific purpose in the plan of redemption. It provided the human kinsmen
relationship to man, (kinsman redeemer) and the channel for the Holy Spirit
Father, to taste death for every man. Jesus the man,
was a special creation for a set time. He was not born to fulfill the normal
course of life as with normal mankind. Jesus body was created to be
sacrificed. Anything that is sacrificed is not kept, but totally consumed in its present
state. Thus the lamb of God
designation. The man, was consumed in his entirety, with it's human nature, and substance of flesh that was subject
to death.
Notice that this man teaches that the man, the body of Jesus, was
totally consumed, therefore there was nothing of it left. Now, show me that in
scripture. In other words the one making intercession for our confession is not
the man Jesus as the Apostle Paul states. So by what authority can this man
speak anything contrary to what Paul taught?
Paul warned us in Galatians 1:6-9
not to teach anything but
what he had already taught. 6 I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another;
but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now
again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received,
let him be accursed.
Therefore to teach otherwise denies the one who paid the price,
just as the apostle Peter warned us of men who would come into the message and
bring into it alongside of true doctrine destructive heresies
even denying he one who purchased them.
II PETER 2:1 ¶ But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
This
preacher went on to say, “This dead flesh body, laid in a tomb for 3 days, during which time the
Spirit of God that had inhabited the flesh, descended into paradise. The
invisible Spirit of God took on the Melchisedec Word
Body form to accomplish this. When this purpose was completed, the Theophany
body swept up to the tomb and picked up the physical body ,
changing the elements to its Theophany form.
In this CHANGED state, Jesus could
appear and disappear. He could pass through walls and travel from place to
place instantly.
Then
he said, The body that Jesus Christ died in is
no longer a separate entity from God, but in fact went back to BEING GOD.
Now, what this preacher teaches and so many like him totally denies the Scriptures and teaching of the prophets.
Hebrews 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, (now, remember, the body was not deity but deity dwelt
in that body. That’s what brother Branham taught us, and it was the blood of
that body. The blood of the testator that works on our behalf.) who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
So who offered Himself to God? The son of God did. God
did not offer Himself to Himself. That is ludicrous thinking. But Jesus the Son
of God became the offering that God required.
The Bible tells us “that God so loved the World He gave his only begotten son”.
15 And
for this cause he (the son of God) is the mediator of
the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Now, listen, we’ve
already said it, but this demands repeating, The Apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 2:5 There is on God and One mediator between God and man,
the man Jesus. Now,
if this one mediator is between then he can not be mankind and he can not be
God, but He must be someone who is in between God and men, and that is the man
Jesus Paul says.
And again Paul said in
Galatians 3:20 A mediator is not
of One, but God is One. Why? Because a mediator is a 3rd party in
dispute between 2 others. The dictionary definition defines mediator as: 1. One that mediates, especially one that reconciles differences between
disputants.
Now, the next few verse we read the other day, but
bear reading again. 16 For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force
after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood. 19 For
when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he
took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and
hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood
of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover
he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law
purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It
was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be
purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices
than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the
holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor
yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the
holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now
once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once
to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.15 And for this cause he is the
mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called
might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews
8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We
have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man
have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on
earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern showed to thee in the mount. 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is
the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better
promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For
finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the
land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them
not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I
will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be
to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is
ready to vanish away.
Galatians
1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which
is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach
any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither
received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ.
Now, from Paragraph 33
of the second half of Brother Branham’s sermon, the
Spoken Word is the Original Seed he said, Now, she mingled her seed
illegally, illegal to the Word. What was she trying to find? (Now, listen
close.) What was she after? Wisdom,
wisdom. And that's what she's done today. She's sent her preachers away to
schools, incubatored them out on a machine, psychology, all kinds of stuff that
should not even in the Bible. And she's incubatored her eggs. And when she's
done, she's brought out a product of a bunch of people that will compromise
anything and refuse the very message of God, not knowing what she's doing.
She's ignorant of it. She don't believe, she don't think she's wrong. Neither
did Eve think she was wrong. Eve thought she was right. And if that was a type,
and this is the antitype, it'll have to work the same way the type did. Now,
that's just... To me that's just two times two equal four.
Now, let me read it from a new
translation called THE MESSAGE 6-9I
can't believe your fickleness—how easily you have turned traitor to him who
called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message! (that’s a modified Message, one that has been tampered
with.) Then Paul says, It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely another
Message, a different Message, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God.
Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of
Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us, even if an angel from
heaven!, were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let
him be cursed. I said it once; I'll say it again: If anyone, regardless of
reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received
originally, let him be cursed.
10-12Do you think I speak this
strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or get popular
applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn't bother being Christ's slave.
Know this—I am most emphatic here, friends—this great Message I delivered to
you is not mere human optimism. I didn't receive it through the traditions, and
I wasn't taught it in some school. I got it straight from God, received the
Message directly from Jesus Christ.
So they do not realize that they have turned down life
in favor of the curse. And all who teach such are under the curse of God. But
the problem is that they do not even fear God anymore, that is how mentally
disturbed they have become.
In Luke 6: 39 Jesus
said, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not
both fall into the ditch?
Now that’s an excellent question. But I think if you
look around today you will find the great majority of Message churches where
the people are blind and they are following blind leaders of the blind. As I have said before I will say for the
record tonight, I doubt that 90% of Message preachers are even born again.