Spoken Word no. 202
“The Mind, the Womb of the Spirit”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
November 10th, 2010
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.6 Wherein
ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations:7 That the trial of
your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen,
ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end
of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10 Of
which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching
what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did
signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory
that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed,
that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are
now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for
the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Let
us pray,
Dear father we are a thankful people that we have the
right understanding of Your word, and can have confidence in our understand
that it is right, because we are aware that You Yourself came down to reveal
Your Word to us in this Hour, and You vindicated Your prophet William Branham
to teach us the Truth of Thus Saith the Lord. Therefore, we can come boldly to
Thy Throne of Mercy knowing that we are truly walking in the light as You are
in the Light, and knowing that this brings us into Fellowship with you and with
one another, and the blood of Jesus is actively cleansing us from all our sins,
past, present and future.
Help us Dear Lord, to take inventory this night and to
become better prepared for our going home, for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s
name, Thy beloved and obedient son, amen!
Now, tonight we will continue in our study of The
Spoken word is the Original Seed, and we will begin reading from paragraph.
78 Oh, my, now
we're going to hit something real rich, full of vitamins from Genesis to Revelation. Notice, and she and her daughters has a whore's womb. Only death can come
from them. If you want to join the
organization, think you're all right, you see where you're landing. You're
landing right in the midst of death. Just exactly. If you can't see that now,
you're spiritually blind. See?
Now, in recalling what we spoke on in this last
paragraph on Sunday we saw how that this whore womb is the spirit of
organization, and we showed you how it can be right in among us in this Message
among the churches, and because they think they are ok because they believe God
sent his prophet that they are rich in wisdom and have need of nothing, yet
because they refuse the Doctrine that God’s prophet taught, they don’t realize
how miserable, poor, blind and naked they are. And so they build up great works
it seems, and realize that they have not receive the Genuine Truth, but they
have accepted the spirit of organization instead of the Word of God for this
hour. And that spirit of organization is
what brother Branham termed the whores womb which can not bring forth anything
but death.
Now, remember for our text
we read from St. Peter 1:13 where he spoke of the womb of the mind, when he
said, 13 Wherefore
gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ;
Now, we know when the Scriptures speaks of the loins in the natural it
speaks of the productive part of the body. I do not thinking it takes a rocket
scientist to understand this.
Acts 2:
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Hebrews 7:
5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office
of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to
the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of
Abraham: Hebrews 7: 10 For
he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Luke 12:34 For where
your treasure is, there will your
heart (there your understanding, your mind) be also. And
then notice he immediately after speaking of the heart or mind, says, 35 Let your loins be
girded about, and your lights burning; Let the loins of your
heart be girded about with what? Paul tells us in Ephesians 6: 14 Stand therefore,
having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and we see that
Peter also told us that we would have to gird up the loins of our mind and be ready to move out
at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now, this evening we are going to continue reading at p 79 and
we are going to sink our teethe into the meet Brother Branham has for us here.
We are going to learn just how the mind is the womb of our spirit and what role
it has in our body. “Now, let's go back
now and pick up again and come down for something. You remember what last
Sunday's service was? The Gate to the
Soul. You remember? Now, there is a womb of the physical; there is a womb for the spirit. Did
you believe that? There is a spiritual womb and a physical womb. And the mind
is the womb to the spirit. Why? Now, remember, I told you last Sunday and drew
it out here for you. There's five senses that enters this seed from the
outside: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear; five on the inside: conscience,
and--and so forth, from the inside five. Now, on the life side there's only
one. That's you're on the basis of free moral agency to accept, take in, or let
out. See?”
Now, what brother Branham is referring to here is that
we have five senses on the outer realm... and those he called inlets to the
spirit. These are the five senses of the body. And there's only one way you can
get into the body, that's by those five senses: See, taste, feel, smell, and
hear; there's no other way to contact the--the body. Then On the inside of man is our spirit. And
we have five senses in the spirit that make contact to our soul. Thought,
memory, conscience,
reasoning and affection.
Brother Branham said in the message Super Sense pp. 53 "God gave those senses, but they're given
to you as a gift. And it depends on how you, what you yield these senses to,
will be the way that your life is controlled: the way you yield those five
senses, you're... What you see, what you hear, what you taste, smell, or feel,
whatever those senses are yielded to, they will dominate you. And we are
grateful to God that we have the five senses, but by no means was these five
senses given to you to guide you. They were given to you for earthly contact.
But there was given you the sixth sense, and that sixth sense is--belongs only
to the Christian. And you cannot have this sixth sense until you become a
Christian, is the only way that you can ever have any more than the five
natural senses for the natural person. The sixth sense is better known, to the
Christian, as faith. It's the one that governs and guides you, and it is
superior to all the other senses. It's a superior to all of the senses, the
other five senses.
Perfect
Strength 127
We're controlled by five senses, and those five senses: see, taste, feel,
smell, and hear is very fine until they interrupt the sense of faith. Then when
they come against faith... And how do you know which one's right? Because faith
will always agree with the Word. And then if your faith is contrary to the
Word, or you think it is, then you haven't got faith. You've got a make-belief.
You've got a boast in your senses of some scholarship that you've learned
about, or something. But when you get away from that and depend completely upon
faith, and faith can only be built upon the Word of God: correct faith.
Super
Sense 58 The
five senses does not control the sixth sense, but the sixth sense controls the
five senses. The super sense controls the natural senses. And the--the five
senses is see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the super sense is something
that'll make you believe God's Word, for that's the only thing it'll speak
about. And it'll make you believe for things that you can't see, taste, feel,
smell, or hear, 'cause it'll take God's Word. And it will deliver that Word to
you, and make you walk contrary to any other thing there is but God's Word. By
faith, faith does it.
So then we as Believers have something in
us, a sixth sense called Faith which is more powerful than the other five
senses put together. Wednesday night we began examining these five outer senses
and the five inner senses and the relationship between these two pairs of five
senses. He said the inner senses are the ones that we do our thinking and
reasoning, but the outer ones govern and control the inner ones.
Our being then is made up of three regions, The Body, the Spirit,
and the Soul. And in each region of the body we have certain senses that we
are born with.
In the body which is our outer region we
have five outer senses that are given to contact our earthly home.
Then in our spirit we have been given five inner
senses to take in the stimuli from our
outer senses and to evaluate and move it through these five filters into the
soul. But it is during the process of going through these five senses or
filters that will determine what your soul will evaluate.
Finally we have in our soul just one sense or filter
and that is the ability of choice.
Now, I do not think I need to go into too
much detail as to what see, taste feel, smell and hear is do I?
But let’s turn our thoughts
to our middle senses or the senses of the spirit.
1)
Memory = the ability to retain or revive in the mind past
thoughts, images, ideas, etc.
2) Imagination
= the power to form( conceive or picture ) mental images of what is not
actually present.
3) Reasoning
= The ability to draw conclusions or inference from assumed facts.
4) Conscience
= The moral sense. Knowledge from within. Inner thoughts and feelings.
5) Affection
= The emotional state of being, disposition. The prevailing aspects of our true
nature.
Now, I want to
show you how these 5 outer are tied to the 5 inner senses. And I want you to
know how the outer will actually govern the inner.
1). We have Physical sight which is
visual and one of the five outer senses.
2). We also possess Intuitive sight which
we call Insight because it has to do with the inner senses which come from the
spirit and which is a mental sight. This Insight is a mental awareness of the
inner nature of things. 1 Corinthians 2:
11a
3). We have Spiritual Sight which is
Revelatory and is possessed only within the soul of the Believer who alone has
this Spiritual sight which is also called Faith. This Comes only from God . [ Matt 16:17]
& [1 Cor 2:
10-13]
We examined the Scriptures to see how
Physical Sight ( which is an outer sense) affected the inner senses.
8
In Genesis 3:
6-7 We see that something physical happened to them and they knew
they were naked. Something physical happened to them that caused them to see
things in a different perspective than they had seen those things before.
Deut 6: 6-96And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up. 8And thou shalt
bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes. 9And
thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
7 NIV Impress them on your children. Talk of them when you sit in
your home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get
up. 7
Amplified
And these words
which I am commanding you this day shall be first in your mind heart; then you
shall whet and sharpen them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress
them diligently upon the minds and hearts of your children, and shall talk of
them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down and when you rise up." And so we see that to do so they
were to place pictures and Scriptures and all sorts of things that the children
will actually see with their eyes and when they see with their eyes it will
have an influence in their minds and in their hearts.
So here we see
a positive picture of using and controlling the five senses in a way which will
control and guide the minds of the children and actually bring about an inner
desire in them for the things of God. We see how then that sight can control
the inner senses of...
1) Memory
= the ability to retain or revive in the mind past thoughts, images, ideas,
etc.
2)
Imagination = the power to form( conceive or picture ) mental images of
what is not actually present.
3) Reasoning
= The ability to draw conclusions or inference from assumed facts.
4) Conscience
= The moral sense. Knowledge from within. Inner thoughts and feelings.
5) Affection
= The emotional state of being, disposition. The prevailing aspects of our true
nature.
Now let's look
to the scripture for some other illustrations of how sight will control these
five inner senses. Numbers 15: 38-40 38Speak unto the
children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of
their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe
of the borders a ribband of blue: 39And it shall be
unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the
commandments of the LORD, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own
heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 40That
ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Here we see that the sight is used to control our
memory so that we do not prostitute ourselves to other things. NIV "You
will have the tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of
the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after
the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. Then you will remember to obey all my
commands and will be consecrated to your God. "
Here we see God employing the use of
sight to control the heart and minds by charging our memories with stimulus
that in turn causes us to reflect within ourselves what our journey is all
about.
Proverbs 17: 24 NIV A discerning man
keeps wisdom in view, but a fools eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Now so far we
have established that there is a connection between what we see with our eyes
and what we see with our inner man. And we have seen the importance of
controlling our environment in order to place things in our memory so that a
visual stimulus will bring a recall of what those things are all about. That is
why I believe with all my heart that our homes should be filled with reminders
of what this Message is all about, and reminders of why we are here. If your
heart is so filled with Gods Word you can't help but see these reminders in
every newspaper you read and every magazine you pick up. We are constantly
reminded that this is the end-time and we are supposed to be ordering ourselves
in a manner which will be consecrating ourselves to this end-time Message.
Nehemiah 8:8 8So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and
gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. The word
here for sense is insight. They received insight
for the day and hour by their reading from the Word of God. That's how our
insight is built up on nothing less than Jesus Christ and righteousness.
Psalm
111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise
endureth for ever. Therefore a good understanding means a good
insight
Now thus far we have seen that God wants
us to control what we see so that because what we see stimulates the inner
senses of memory and memory stimulates imagination which brings to mind images
we have already seen and this stimulation of imagination then sets the right
course for our reasoning and once reasoning is governed, it then will control
our conscience which is our moral sense and thus governing finally our
affections which is the disposition of our true nature.
We also examined
this in light of receiving wrong or perverted stimulus and the effect it has
upon the being as well. We read from the book of Proverbs about the young man
who becomes trapped by the evil woman who lures him into a trap of adultery by
her speech and good looks.
Job 31: 1 1I made a covenant
with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? and so we see that Job made a covenant with
his own eyes.
Now what I am trying to help you to
understand is that you control your spirit by what you see, taste, feel, smell
and hear. But you control your five outer senses by the sixth sense which is
Faith. You create the right atmosphere for your sight, and hearing and all the
other senses.
Hebrews 5: 14 Strong meat belongs
only to those who are able to exercise their senses. we should learn
to exercise our senses in order to properly utilize them in knowing and
understanding the day and hour that we live in.
Matt 16: 1-4 1The Pharisees also with the
Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from
heaven. 2He answered and said unto them, When it is
evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3And
in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and
lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not
discern the signs of the times? 4A wicked and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given
unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Luke 12:54-56 54And he said also
to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There
cometh a shower; and so it is. 55And when ye see the
south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 56Ye hypocrites, ye
can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not
discern this time?
2 Corinthians 4: 18 We look not to the
things which are seen but the things which are not seen. It then is
a matter of Focus. What are we focused into?
Phil 4:8 8Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be
any praise, think on these things. Think on these things? Eternal
things.
John 7:24 24Judge
not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. In
other words, we should not just go by what we see physical but we must use that
sixth sense to control our inner sight and be able to discern from the outer
sight. Because after all we can see but does that really mean we understand?
Mark 8: 17-18 17And when Jesus knew it, he saith
unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet,
neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? 18Having
eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Here
Jesus asks the question. "Is there no connection between your eyes and
your heart(understanding)?"
Matt 13: 10-17 10And the disciples came, and said
unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11He
answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12For
whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but
whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand. 14And in them is
fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15For
this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them. 16But blessed are
your eyes,for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17For
verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see
those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things
which ye hear, and have not heard them.
These people see with their eyes but since they do not
have that sixth sense they do not perceive what is going on. Then in
conclusion, what we are looking at here tonight is that what you see with your
eyes can have an influence upon your other senses as well whether those senses
are outer or the inner. So we should do what we can to create the right
influences in our life. And if we happen to come upon the wrong influences we
should allow the Sixth sense to over-ride the affect that those wrong influences
might have upon us. If you will remember, a few years ago we took a series on
the Message Look that Brother Branham preached right after he preached the
Seven Seals. In this Message he said the following,....
LOOK 63-0428 12
Now, we are going to try this morning to take just four letters in
a word, "Look," for a subject, and to deal with it a little while as
the Lord will lead us to do.. Look, l-double o-k, look, the word, really, ...
When you hear the word it's usually somebody trying to get you to see what they
are looking at. They say to you, "Look." Like going down the road
you--someone might see a certain scene and they'd say, "Look," and
then express what it is. It's at the mountain, at the--at the--the cactus, or
whatever they're looking at. But the first thing to get your attention is,
"Look." Now, everybody is looking today. Everybody is looking for
something, and looking for something to happen. We know that the world is
constantly watching the skies, the radar and the screens that we have up around
the world. Everything is looking. The church, is looking for more members. But the
Bride is looking for the coming of her Lord. We're all looking. It depends on
what the voice is trying to tell you to look for. Some of us are saying,
"Look for this." And if it's a church, we're saying we want so many
more this year, members. That's all right. But the voice that I'm trying to say
to you this morning is like the writer of this epistle, we believe to be Paul,
which is saying, "looking for the coming of Jesus Christ the second
time," looking for Him. In order to do it, you've got to see something
before you can tell somebody else to look at what you're seeing. Noah had an
experience of this. By faith he saw the coming of a flood, a great rain that
was going to cover the earth and wash off the earth, the rededication again to
God, the filth of the world that the people had got in, in that day. And it had
to all be washed off to start again. I just finished a series of services on
the last seven seals, and finding that in this sixth seal that there is a great
interruption in nature. The moon, the stars, the earth belches forth. The
church is purged;
And so this is
what I am trying to get across to us by focusing in on these things that
Brother Branham brought to our attention. we see with our eyes but do we really
see what is happening. We know by these studies that our body has sight through
the eyes, and our spirit has sight threw what is called insight, and we saw
many scriptures in this mini series so far that show that insight comes in the
Spiritual realm from the things we see in the natural realm. But we also know
that our Soul has a Spiritual sight also called Faith. We do not get that from
what we see with our eyes but what we see by Faith. By what we see in the Word
of God and then as we receive this Spiritual Sight it actually takes control of
our insight and our physical sight and begins to focus all our sight on one
thing and one thing only and that is what God has promised for us in this hour.
[John 9:10-11] How were his eyes opened? He washed first!
Heb 9:28b "And unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second
time without sin unto salvation." And so we see that we must be
looking for Him if He is to appear to us and bring with it salvation. Brother
Branham said before the second Coming can take place there must be a purging
take place first. We find this in 2 John 3: 1-3 1Behold, 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. 2Beloved,
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. 3And every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
We see Him in the Appearing which is not a visible
Coming, but a Spiritual one, and we begin to purge ourselves.
And how do we do this?
Ps
119:9 9Wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Num
19:20 20But the man that shall be unclean,
and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of
separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
Eph
5:26 26That he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word,
Heb
10:22 22Let us draw near with a true heart
in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.