Spoken Word no. 204
“Wrong Word wrong Seed no. 2”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
November 17th, 2010
Exodus 12:1 And
the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of
months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak
ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of their fathers, a
lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be
too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it
according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall
make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And
ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth
day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door
post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. Notice the way they
were directed to paint the blood on each side jamb and the cross head board was
to show how the Lamb of God will one day die, for it represents the cross.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs
they shall eat it.
Now, when I first went to visit br. Vayle
in 1979, he showed me how brother Branham showed him to make the communion
bread. We were in his kitchen and he showed me the following:
Number 1) The only ingredients is water
and wheat flour. Not that bleached stuff, but the genuine real whole wheat
flour.
You place a handful of flour in a small
bowl and then add a little water. Then using your fingers, you make a little
ball of wheat. Sprinkle some flour on the table and then place your ball of
wheat on top. Roll it out flat and add a little more wheat to the table as you
go if the ball begins to stick. Once you have a rolled flat piece of dough,
then lay it on a cookie sheet or tin foil and place in the oven. Cook until
done.
Do not add any oil, it is essential to do
it exactly the way I have told you since this is what God commanded the
children of
Some people in error have added yeast but yeast is a “no-no” because in the scripture, it is called leaven and leaven stands for something that false and inflated as when Jesus told them to beware the leaven of the Pharisees.
Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto
them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Now, notice that in this parable we have
three things here.
#1) It is speaking of
leaven. It is speaking of this leaven which the
#2) This leaven was hid
in three measures of meal. So we have thus far the leaven and the meal, and
finally we have the third which is...
#3) The woman and she is
the one who did it. She is the one who hid the leaven in the meal.
Now, we know that woman always represents
the church. So we are looking at what this church is doing. And we know what
kind of a church it is when we look at the character of the woman. We can tell
whether she is a true bride or a false bride which is a whore.
The word meal is associated with bread,
and we know that the Word of God is our bread. Jesus said, man shall not live
by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And
meal represents the Bread of Life being broken down. That's meal see. The bread of Life, broken down for the
people. Now, notice this woman had three
measures of meal, but she hid something in these three measures of
meal, and it was leaven, to make it appear more than what it really is.
She hid it.
GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP
65-1128M 186 The meal offering was a type of Christ. Let's just take that
one. 190 And the meal offering that was Christ, He was the Meal offering, and the meal offering must be
ground with a certain burr that made every little chunk of meal the same, shows
that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.. Christ is the Word. All the types of everything: the
tabernacle, the showbread, everything, the broken kosher under the plate was
His broken body, that the Jews can't explain yet why they do it (See?), and all
these other things typed Him.
193 Now, then, Him in view,
we see now all denominations and creeds left behind; for He is the pure,
unchangeable Word of God, which is the unleavened
bread:
And we have all heard
brother Branham tell us the story of Elisha and how he went to the school of
the prophets and someone wanted to impress him and so they went out and
gathered what they thought were wild peas but they turned out to the wild
gourds, and when they put them in the pot and began to boil them, someone cried
out, there's death in the Pot, and so Elisha took a meal offering and put
it into the pot and made it so that they could eat.
And we can see that in the pulpits
everywhere around the world there is still death in the pot today. The woman
who represents the church mixed something in with the three measures of meal to
make it appear bigger than it really was. She mixed in leaven, and that’s
what’s killing the people spiritually
today, just like what they are doing in the natural with all this gene splicing
and hybridizing of corn and wheat. Hybrid wheat and hybrid corn produces hybrid
meal, and if you eat it, what does it do to you? And look how in the
natural they have polluted the corn and are genetically engineering it to be
something that it was not meant to be. And why do they do it? To make it look
better. And why do you add leaven to meal?, to make the loaf appear bigger and
nicer looking. Yet the
Notice the words of
warning from the Apostle Paul to the GALATIANS 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (Now that word another is not from the Greek word allos
which means a different one altogether, but it was taken from the Greek word heteros which means of another nature. So in
essence he is saying, I marvel that you are so soon removed from the Gospel of
Christ unto one that has a different nature from the original One you received.)
And then he says, 7 Which is not another; (he says, here, which is not an
allos, which is not a totally different one altogether, but it is the same one that has been perverted.)
but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. (And this word pervert came from a Greek word
that means to change or to turn. So we see here that they were swerving away
from the truth unto a false truth. ) And then he warns
them, 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.
So we see that to take
this other meal is to take the curse which is death, and in this case spiritual
death. SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON 65-0718E 124 Notice, there was
meal in the barrel. Every time she went after meal, there was meal in the
barrel. There was oil in the cruse, every time she went for it. Why? Meal
represented Christ in the meal-offering. The burrs had to be set just right to
grind every one of them. Every burr of this meal exactly the same, showing that
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That was the Word, the Bread of
Life following the message, to vindicate the Word. So is it today, friends. So
is it today, that the Bread of Life that the children eat on, follows the
Message of God, to sustain them during the time of the drought. What if He
stood in our presence today? What if He stood in our presence right now? He
would act and do just exactly like He done the days when He was in flesh here
on the earth.
GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE WORSHIP 65-0220 76 The Meal Offering was Christ. The, every
burr had to be set the same, and every little piece of meal had to be ground the
same for the meal offering, showing that He is the Healer, and He substitutes
and takes away death and puts Life by the two laws. Hallelujah. Where death is
one place, when Christ comes in, Life comes in. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. And where there was death, there became Life, because that Christ
was bought in, the Meal Offering.
Notice that the meal
represents life, and the woman took three measures of this meal which
represents three measures of life and yet she mixed in with life something to
try to make that life more beautiful, to make it bigger than it is supposed to
be, and to make it better looking than what it was meant to be, and by doing so
she perverted it and caused death in the pot.
Now, we have shown you how that women
represents the church, and yet we have also said if you look at the nature of
the woman it will tell you if she represents a Bride or a false bride. In this
parable Jesus tells us what kind of woman this church is. She is a false church
because of her very nature declares what type of a woman she really is. Jesus
says, the woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was
leavened. Notice that she hid it. she was sneaky about what she was doing. The
word hid mean to 1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete. 2. To prevent the disclosure
or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts. 3. To cut off from sight;
cover up: Clouds hid the stars. 4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in shame
or grief. v. intr. 1. To keep oneself out of sight.
And notice if this
woman reflected Christ as her husband she would not be trying to conceal but
reveal. So we see this woman is a bad church. She is a whore. She has tried to
hide and get away with this deed so no one would notice. And Jesus said what
she did leavened the whole lump. She leavened the entire lump. And what is to
be made from the lump? It is to be baked and the bread is the result. And so
she leavened the entire bread of Life until there was not Life left in it, only
death in the pot. And remember, the same Word that is our blessing becomes our
curse if we do not handle it the way it was ordained to handle it. Thus all
three measures of meal were thus polluted, until Jesus said the entire lump was
polluted. All tables become full of vomit.
What the canker worm didn't eat the locust did, and what the locust left
the palmerworm ate, and what the palmer worm didn't eat the caterpillar ate and
so on until the whole thing was destroyed. And that is why God had to come
Himself in this last day to restore all that had been eaten right down to the
very roots.
Now, what are those
three measures of meal? Justification, sanctification and the Baptism of the
Holy Ghost, and notice how she perverted the teaching of these three Scriptural
doctrines. And what did she pervert them with? False Doctrine! She took false
doctrine to pervert the True meal or true doctrine. We find our answer to this
from the very words of Jesus in Matthew 16.
MATTHEW 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned
among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of
little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five
loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 10 Neither the
seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is
it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that
ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then
understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of
the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
So we see that the
leaven represents false doctrine that is added to the right portions of word.
And remember the burrs had to be ground to the same in every detail. Therefore,
the meal represents a rightly divided Word, and yet the leaven represents a
false doctrine that was added to the three measures of Justification,
sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that just perverted the whole
understanding. And without these
three rightly divided measures of meal you can not have communion and
fellowship in the Presence of God without breaking the bread of Life with Him.
God wants to have fellowship and communion with us, around His Word. And
Abraham, the Father of our Faith showed us how it is to be done.
GENESIS 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto
him in the plains of Mamre: (Notice this is speaking of the Appearing of the Lord
Himself. This is speaking of the presence of the Lord.) and he (Abraham) sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift
up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I
pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5 And I will fetch a morsel
of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for
therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly (she did not have
time to add anything to it, she had to hurry and quickly do it. when we make
the communion bread, it is to be done in haste just like when they were to make
the bread at the first Exodus. Just as Abraham had Sarah do it in haste,
quickly, not time to let it rise. You take only pure whole grain flower and
water only, and ad nothing else. No oil, no leaven, just pure grain wheat and
pure water and knead it and roll it and then bake it quickly. Notice Abraham
said, ) Make ready quickly three measures of fine
meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
You've got to be able
to rightly divide the three measures of meal,
justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and then you
are ready to break the bread of Life with the Author of Life Himself in His
Very presence. And He is here this morning to do so.
THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 136 Justification made a way for
sanctification. Sanctification made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come
right down in perfection, back to the Word again to manifest Itself.
Last Sunday we spoke on how the Wong Word will produce
a wrong spirit, and there we left off sharing a quote from the Token Message of
Brother Branham’s. So tonight to get right into it, we will pick up where we
left off Sunday.
As you may recall in The Token Message preached, 63-0901M 34-9 we heard brother Branham say, “You should love one another. Believers should separate themselves from
the world. Don't just take it
now, lightly. And then, you
people that's listening to this on tape, (that’s us he’s talking to) you women, you men,
you listen a minute. If you ever believed me, you believe it now. It's time to quit fussing with one another.
Believe the message of the Bible. Believe Jesus Christ; and love, and honor, and respect one another. Men respect your wives; you respect your home. Bring your home
together, because, you remember, this
Lamb was for the home, not just one. The
whole home too had to be brought; everything had to be brought in. We should love each other, and
believers should separate themselves from the world.
35-3 Notice, they were not
just yet come together to talk about the message. They come together to apply
the blood, to apply the token. That's what you must do. Pastor
Neville, and to this congregation, trustees, deacons, to you brethren, it's time that we laid aside all the
foolishness of the world, time we laid aside everything else. We've seen enough now, that we're positive,
sure, and the Token must be applied. Without it, you're going to perish; you must perish. That is the
only thing. Oh, don't come together,
say, "I believe it." Get beneath it. Get into it. How to do it?
By one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ. Everybody believe
with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for any out from beneath it.”
Notice how strong brother Branham is
speaking here. He says, “Just don’t get
together to talk the Word, you had better get into it, and apply what you have
been given. Because if you don’t you are going to miss it”.
That’s essentially what he’s saying here. There’s just too much emphasis on
stalking the word, but what good does it do to talk it if you don’t apply it
and live it. If Noah would have just spent that 120 years talking about the
coming judgment and not getting ready for it, he would have perished just like
the rest of mankind. And the same thing with the believers in
We find this same parable in Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will
liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And we
know in scripture the rock stands for revelation. So this man built on
revelation, 25
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon
that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Now, he said the rain would descend, and we know
according to Deuteronomy
32: 2 God said “My Doctrine shall
fall as the rain. So we see that the rain must come before the
floods, and in Scripture a flood represents judgment by the Word, as it was in
the days of Noah so shall it be when the Son of Man is Revealed. And as the
doctrine begins to pour forth upon the face of the earth, then the judgments
that the doctrine brings with it begins to take apart every house that is not
founded on the rock of revelation. You see the flood is the waters of
separation, and we know the waters of separation is the Word itself. Notice the
rains come first, then the flood which is the waters of separation which will
take away any house that has not been build upon a rock which Is Revelation.
And not just any revelation will do for Christ is that Rock. And therefore
there is one Faith or one Revelation and that is the revelation of Jesus
Christ. And building your house upon that rock which is Christ will weather any
storms that will come.
So he says the rains will come, that's the doctrine,
and then the floods will rise which is the waters of separation that will come
as a result of that Word, and always remember, in John 17 Jesus said, “Father I have given
them Thy Word and the world hateth them”.
So the world hating you will bring on the waters of
separation, and in the parables we saw that flood or waters of separation come
up, and the winds did blow, which speaks of every wind of doctrine, and cunning craftiness whereby they
lie in wait to deceive. And will beat upon that
house, and if it was not founded upon the Rock of the Revelation
of Jesus Christ, then it will not last.
If you just come to church because you
know you should, watch out? The rain is falling, and the next thing will come
is the waters of separation! Then you will find out where your home was built
upon. As I pointed out Wednesday night, that If you have receive the revelation
of Jesus Christ you will be tested to see whether you have it or not. That's
the trial of your faith, which is the trial of your revelation.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them
not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. 28 And it came to
pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his
doctrine: 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the
scribes.
Now the King James version uses the word
astonished here but the word astonished is not a good translation of the word ekplesso that Jesus used here, because it
gives you a wrong idea of what was taking place. The Greek word used here is ekplesso
and it means to strike out, to expel by a blow, to drive out or away; to cast
off by a blow, or to drive out. In others words, they didn't want His doctrine.
They wanted to expel him to get him to go away, for his doctrine was too hard
for them to hear. And they didn't want it. Why? Because they all liked to talk
about the Lord and to talk about the Word but he said with their mouth they
draw near but in actuality their hearts were far from God.
Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord
said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their
lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear
toward me is taught by the precept of men:
And that is what Jesus quoted to them in Mathhew 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well
did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people draweth nigh unto me with
their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from
me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments
of men.
Jehovah Jireh pt 1 62-0705 23 See, you can't go by
emotions. See, your life that you live testifies what you are. See? No matter
what kind of a sensation, you cannot base Christianity on any sensation. It's a
life. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." Not by their
profession, not by what they say. And Jesus also said, "You draw nigh unto
Me with your lips, but your heart is far from Me." That's their
profession. See, your life tells what. And if a man says that he believes God,
and denies one Word of this Bible, or changes It in any way, why it's got to be
wrong.
LUKE 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my
sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a
man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock:
and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could
not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth
not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth;
against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the
ruin of that house was great.
Luke 21: 34-36 NIV 34 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with
(1) dissipation, (2)drunkenness and (3) the anxieties of life, and that day
will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all those
who live on the face of the whole earth.36 Be always on the watch, and pray
that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be
able to stand before the Son of Man."
Now, let's stop here for a moment to see
just exactly what this means. He told us to be careful about three things that
could weigh and close in on us like a trap.
1) Dissipation: which means Wasteful
expenditure or consumption. 2.
Dissolute
indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance. That means no constraint. 3.
An amusement; a diversion. So we are warned to be
careful not to become too weighed down by these things which are
rampant in our society today. That's
Anxieties of this Life: And we are told by jest to be anxious for nothing.
You see, God is not pushy, and he does not want us to get pushy about anything.
He said we need to lay in the presence of the Son to ripen. Not run, run, run,
but lay in His presence until we get mellow in our spirit and ripe in our soul.
Now, this scripture tells us that if we
are not focused on Christ when that day comes, we are going to miss Him, and
yet these three things are what the entire world are focused on and they have
missed Him altogether. Notice he said, if you are caught up in these things,
that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon
all those who live on the face of the whole earth.36 Be always on the watch,
and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that
you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."
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Now, we know what Paul said in Romans 10, and we know what he said
in 2 Corinthians
11, and again in Galatians 1, that if they receive a wrong word,
then they will receive a wrong spirit. How then can we think that
anyone who sits under a wrong ministry and has a wrong conception of the
message has the right spirit, which is the Holy Spirit? A wrong conception is a wrong
quickening to life. Conception means to quicken to life.
We know Peter said, in 1 Peter 1:23 that "we are born again, not by a corruptible seed,
but by an incorruptible seed, by the Word of God which Lives and Abides
forever." Jesus told us that the Sower sowed a seed which is
the Word of God. And that seed will produce a life according to the law of
reproduction, which states, "Every seed must bring forth after it's own nature."
To receive a wrong word will and must produce a wrong
spirit or a wrong life. How can it be any other way. Did you know that brother
Branham said we must have a right teaching in order to receive the baptism of
the Holy Spirit? To receive the Seal of God? And if you don't receive the seal
of God there is only one seal left and that is the seal of satan, which is the
mark of the beast.
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Now, we know what Paul said in Romans 10, and we know what he said
in 2 Corinthians
11, and again in the book of Galatians, that if they receive a wrong
word, then they will receive a wrong spirit. How then can we think that anyone
who sits under a wrong ministry and has a wrong conception of the message has
the right spirit, which is the Holy Spirit? A wrong conception is a wrong
quickening to life. Conception means to quicken to life. We know Peter said, in
1 Peter 1:23
that "we are
born again, not by a corruptible seed, but by an incorruptible seed, by the
Word of God which Lives and Abides forever." Jesus told us that
the Sower sowed a seed which is the Word of God. And that seed will produce a
life according to the law of reproduction, which states, "Ever seed must
bring forth after it's own nature."
Therefore to receive a wrong Word must
produce a wrong spirit or a wrong life. How can it be any other way. Did you
know that brother Branham said we must have a right teaching in order to
receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? To receive the Seal of God? And if you
don't receive the seal of God there is only one seal left and that is the seal
of satan, which is the mark of the beast.
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Now remember, Jesus said, "My Words
are Spirit and they are Life"....and we also see in 2 Peter 1: 3-4 that
every thing we need pertaining to Life comes forth from the Word and in fact
the very Divine Nature or God Nature that we so long for comes forth as well
from the Word which we know is the Seed that the Sower went forth sowing. So
then, if in fact we receive a Word which has been altered by even something as
seemingly insignificant as a wrong punctuation mark, then if the Word of God is
a carrier of God's Spirit and His Life and His Nature, then a wrong word will
bring forth a wrong spirit and therefore a wrong life and a wrong nature. So if
we willingly receive a false word, then we are willingly receiving a wrong
spirit, or a false spirit or shall we say a false anointing. Now, let me repeat
this so you will understand more clearly. Correct Word, God's Word, contains
God's Spirit, God-Life and God-Nature. Then altered word contains altered
understanding which brings forth altered anointing, which is altered Spirit
which is altered Life which brings forth altered Nature. Now there you have it
in a nutshell. This is how people pick up a false spirit and they do not even
know it.
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Weymouth
3:13 But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse,
misleading and being misled. 3:14 But you must cling to the things which you
have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were,
3:16 Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for
convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing; 3:17
so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped
for every good work.
Now, why are we telling you it is so important to know
of whom you are taught. Because if the wrong person teaches you, you will
receive a wrong teaching, and if you receive a wrong teaching, you will receive
a wrong spirit. And if you receive a wrong spirit, you receive a wrong life.
And if you receive a wrong life, it is not eternal life, then it is temporal
which means it will have an end, and therefore it is a spirit of death…
Let us pray.