Spoken Word no. 215
“Hebrews 6”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
January 2nd, 2011 p.m. Communion
This morning I would like to pick up at paragraph 109 of
The Spoken Word is the original Seed 116
One day, I was up in Green's Mill; I'd been praying for a couple of days; been
many years ago. I went up here to
117 I had a
dollar and seventy-five cents, just enough to get me home. I put a nickel of it
in some old doughnuts or rolls (about two or three days old) went down and got
me a jug of water at the hydrant, and went out in a cornfield and took my seats
out of my old Ford and laid it down; pressed my britches for that night
(seersucker pants I had on) and a little old T-shirt. And the next morning I
went down again. I didn't want to eat with them. I was welcome, but I didn't
want to eat with them 'cause I had nothing to put in their offering. And so I
went to find out that day they would dance; and they was prance; and they would
sing in the Spirit. And I thought, "Oh, my, that sounds good. Um."
One man would raise up and speak in tongues, and this one give the
interpretation. And, brother, it was so. They called people back there in the
audience. I thought, "Oh, brother, that's wonderful."
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"Tell Miss Jones or So-and-so, Come right now; the Lord's calling
her." Here she come. That's right. Then, this one would speak in tongues,
and the other one interpret it. I thought, "Oh, my, my. The millennium's
fixing to start. This is it." And so I... "If I could just shake the
hands of them godly men," I thought. And I went over to one of them when I
was outside walking around. They didn't know me; I was a little old fellow out
there. And so I went walking around the church and after while when they had a
little recess, and I met a man out there, and I shook his hand and I said,
"How do you do, Brother?"
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Now, you know God's give me a little gift here to find out things when He wants
me to know it. See? I thought, "If I could ever get him to speak and just
let him say something, I'd find out whether it was really true or not." So
I seen that looked like to be the leaders of it, and I shook his hand.
"How do you do, brother?" said, "How do you do?" And I
talked to him a little bit, and he was a real Christian; he was, and I thought,
"Praise, God." After while I come around the corner, hit this other
man, and I said, "How do you do, Brother?" and I got to talking to
him. And if I ever talked to a hypocrite, there was one of them. He was a black
headed man, and he had a baby by a blonde headed woman, two babies by a blonde
headed woman. I saw it in the vision, right before me.
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Now, I thought, "Now, I'm really confused. Now, how could that same
Spirit, one be on a man, a godly man and the other on a devil, hypocrite?"
I thought, "God, I better leave the whole thing alone, I don't know."
I was only about nineteen, twenty years old, and I thought, "I just better
leave the thing alone. Well, I don't know. How can the world could that be? I
can't say nothing about it, I can't say nothing against it, but I know that
man's wrong." And that same Spirit, I watched It; It fall there and take
the same effect. I thought, "There's something wrong here somewhere.
That's all there was to it."
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I said to this man... He said, "Did you ever receive the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "I don't believe I've got what you fellows has." Said,
"Glory to God. Did you ever speak in tongues?" I said, "No,
sir." He said, "You ain't got her." I said, "Well, I don't
guess I have." See? I said, "This is something new. I never seen or heard
of it." I said, "Well..." He said, "Well, go in there and get
her... Sure, she's for you." I said, "Thank you, sir." I
thought, "Brother, I don't want what you got." So then I looked at it
a little bit, and I went on around a little while, went on out, and I went out in
the woods that night, and I thought, "God, have mercy, I'm going home."
And I went home. I couldn't say nothing for or against.
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One time, I was up here at Green's Mill (my little old cave where I always go
that you know about). I'd been in there on something else. Three or four days I
had been up there fasting and praying. It got musty in the cave, and I come out
one afternoon. It was pretty and sun was shining on the leaves... There was an
old log had fell down like this just below it (down towards the creek), and I
set down on there rubbing my eyes (been back in that dark cave for a while). I
laid the Bible down like that, and I thought, "Well, I believe I'll read
some out of the Bible now." I leaned back against this limb here and just
rest myself and leaning back; I was dusty all over.
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And I started to read, and when I picked up the Bible, it was Hebrews the 6th chapter. See? "For
it is impossible for those that once
enlightened, made partakers of
the Holy Ghost, seeing if they should fall away, to renew themselves again unto
repentance. Seeing if... The rain cometh upon the earth oft to dress it, and
prepare for that which... the briers, thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto
rejection... is to be burned." I thought, "Well, what's that?"
And I thought, "What was that?" "Oh," I said, "I guess
it's something." It went away. I was up there praying about something
else. And I laid my Bible down again. I said, "Well, I guess I'll turn
over and get me something to read," like that, and the wind come and blew
it right back. I was in the Old Testament; blew it right back to Hebrews the 6th chapter. I looked down
again, and there it was. So I looked; I picked it up; I read it again: same
thing. "Well," I thought, "My, are you getting superstitious,
Bill?"
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So I thought, "Well, I'll read here," and I couldn't. I started to
read, and I couldn't get interested in nothing. I thought, "Well, I
believe I'll just raise up my hands and praise the Lord." I laid the Bible
down like that, raised up my hands to praise the Lord. When I raised up my
hands, the wind went, "Whoosh," blew again, and when it did, I looked
down there: Hebrews
6. I read it again. I thought, "What
does that mean? I can't understand." I had done forgot about the
Pentecostal idea. Then I thought, "What does that mean?"
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And I was setting there and I thought, "Is there something in there,
Lord?" I thought, "Now, I believe in election, yeah. 'They which were
once enlightened, partakers of the Holy Ghost (See?), and has tasted of the Word of God...'" I said, "That's that borderline believers that'll come right up
almost to the real thing and then go back; just like them was in the times
of Joshua." (Joshua and Caleb went on over, but these just stayed
borderline, see, tasted and seen the
good works of God, then refused it.)
People set around the church all the time, saying, "I believe that, Brother Branham," but never make a move towards
it. See, said, it's impossible for them to ever go across. So then they
come to that place, and you preach to women with short hair; next year they got
short hair, just the same. Preach to men to do, they do just the same thing.
You see? Never, see, borderline believers. Just
say, "Oh, yes, I believe it's right."
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I said, "Of course I believe that." But when it come to that place,
"But thistles and thorns which is nigh unto rejection, whose
end is to be burned..." I thought, "What does that
mean? Can't get it." And I was set there a little bit; I thought,
"God, if this is something You want me to know, I'm up here seeking a
vision from You, Lord, to know just what to do about a ministry down there, and
I want You to tell me, Father." And I looked across the hollow going on up
towards (Well, I was way in above
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And many of you people here are too young to know this. You remember when we used
to broadcast seeds with our, put a great big bag on your side, and take your
hand and throw it? Mr. Wood, you'll remember that, broadcasting seeds like
that. Take them in your hands and spray them out like that. Let the wind blow
them into the dirt. And I seen a man dressed in white going across like that,
sowing seeds. And I watched him go plumb around the curvature of the earth. And
I thought, "Wonder what that means." And then I looked; just as soon
as he got his back turned, here come a real slicker, coming around, looking
like that. He had a sack full and he was sowing weeds behind him. He went
around the earth; still looking, sneaking you know, throwing them like this,
and he went on around the earth.
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Then I seen it come up, and up come wheat and up come weeds, stickers, thorns,
thistles. And they was both growing together. And there come a great drought,
and I seen that little wheat hold its little head over, panted just dying for
water. And I seen the little old cocklebur with his head hanging over panting
just dying for water. And everybody begin to pray for water; and all at once
the great rains come up in answer to prayer. And away went the rains across the
earth, and as soon as the water hit the earth, that little wheat jumped up and
said, "Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory."And up jumped the little cocklebur
and hollered, "Glory. Glory. Glory. glory." Well, I thought, "Now,
what's that?" And just then, "Well, that wheat was a-shouting, I can
see that; but what did that cocklebur meant?" Then He said, "Read Hebrews
6."
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The rain falls on the just and the unjust. That's what's the matter; that's
what we--why we didn't have a Bride ready for Christ now. We sowed denominational seeds and instead of the Word. What has it
done?, brought some more denominational children. That's right. But in among
there is some wheat has fallen. That's right. But look, the same Spirit that makes
the real true genuine believer speak with tongues, the real Spirit that makes the genuine believer a Christian (See?,
because It's irrigating a Word, a Seed),
that same Spirit makes something substitute to it, like Eve's hybrid, makes the
hybrid just as happy, just as much shouting, feel just as much joyful about it
as the rest of them. But what is the Truth of it? The seed's wrong to begin with.
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So all your fleshly demonstrations don't
mean nothing. "Though I speak with tongue of men and
Angels and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I can move mountains
and have not charity, it profit me nothing. Though I give all my goods to feed
the poor and have not charity, it profit me nothing. If I speak with tongues
like men and Angels, it becomes like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals."
See, it's nothing. Listen, church: Pentecostals. Nothing... Why? It's a hybrid seed. It can't come to the Word.
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Now, there you are. The body that gives birth to Christ's body again must be, come
from a virgin womb: the Word. That's
right. That's why... Listen to this. That's why she produced "a million
more in '44." (That was a Baptist slogan.) That's why the Pentecostal
denominations that, could not give spiritual birth to bring forth the
manifestations and the Christ, because it was only a sowing rain, and she's
brought forth a denominational church, and she's consolidated with the great
Evangelicals, and she's gone in with the
way of Korah. She's gone with the denominations; that's why.
Now, this evening I would like to take this thought on
Hebrews 6, and tire it with this thought that the Korah spirit is that
organizational denominational spirit that was right in the camp of
1
Timothy 4: 1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from The Faith,
According to Ephesians 4: 5 there is only One
Lord and One Faith,
Since Brother Branham
taught us that Faith is Revelation, and since there is Only One Lord, then this
One Revelation is the Revelation of
that One Lord, which is the only Revelation spoken of in Scripture, and
that is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ."
So 1 Timothy 4: 1
Continues by saying that those who will depart from this Revelation of Jesus
Christ do so by "giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils”:
In fact as we examine Hebrews 6
as Brother Branham is referring us to, we find that these people who fall away
or deviate from the Truth were among those who were Once for
all enlightened according to the Wuest translation. And we
know there is no other age where this could happen except at the end-time
according to Revelation
10, Malachi
4, Acts
3: 19- 23, 2 Thessalonians 1: 10, Joel 2:25 and as so many other
scriptures that point out that this restoration of the Word or Once for all
enlightenment will take place at the Revelation of Jesus Christ. .
Now we find here in Hebrews 6
it speaks of a people who have been once for all
enlightened, and there could be no other hour where God came
down with once for all enlightenment. For
there could not be a once for all
enlightenment until Revelations 10:1-7 takes place and the Seven Seals
were opened. For now the entire book is open and revealed.
Now notice further that this scripture
speaks of a people who have consciously tasted of the Heavenly
Gift, and therefore, having tasted it they do not continue in
it, but turn aside from it.. 4 For it is
impossible to restore and bring again to repentance those who have been once
for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift,and then
turn it aside.
In fact if you will notice, it says they
consciously have tasted of the heavenly gift and then it also says they have
shared in or have become companions of the Holy Ghost. Hebrews 6 : 4 who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift,
and have become sharers or (Companions) of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have felt how good
the Word of God is and the mighty powers of the age and world to come.
Yet we might ask ourselves how is it that they could be consciously aware of
His presence and still deny Him and even want to crucify Him all over again. Well,
our answer is in verse 6, where the scripture tells us that they deviate from
The Revelation of Jesus Christ. In other words, they heard the
Doctrine of Christ, they heard William BRanyham tell us he is not a oneness and
they heard him say that Jesus could not be his own Father, and they heard him
say the body was not deity but deity dwelt in the body, and they heard him say that
Jesus was a dual being, and they heard him say the way Jesus and God were one
is the same way we are to be one with God. Not one like your finger but One in
the same Word. Therefore
hearing it they reject it and hold to their denominational dogmas instead.
Let’s just read Hebrews 6:6 if they then deviate
from The Faith and turn away from
their allegiance; It is impossible to bring them back to repentance, for
(because) they
nail up on the cross the Son of God afresh, as far as they are concerned, and
are holding Him up to contempt and shame and public disgrace. In other words those that fall away are
cockleburs, they are briars, they are chaff that the wind driveth away. And
then Paul says,
Now, in the natural we see that it takes the sun to
dry out the plant so the seed can ejected by the wind and thus renew the cycle
of life. Therefore, this period of time where we have been laying in the
presence of the SON to ripen is also the time that the church is drying up and
the son of God seeds are being rejected and ready to be taken up by the
Whirlwind into a glorious rapture. We know His Presence and the acknowledging
of His Presence through the preaching of the good news, has caused a separation
between the chaff and the wheat. This too is essential, for without separation,
Life could never come forth in birth, and if the spiritual is typed by the
natural then there also must be a separation for the New Birth to become a
reality.
Therefore
He is here to separate the chaff from the Wheat. We see that in Hebrews 6 but we also see it in Matthew: 3:11-12,
and Matthew 7:
15-23, And Matthew 13: 24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-49,
Matthew 13:25:1-11,
2 Thessalonians
1: 7 - 12 , 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - 12, 1 Timothy 4: 1, 1 John 2: 19 - 21, 1 John 2:28,
So we see that there are two groups involved here as seen in Luke 17: 26 - 37,
2 Corinthians 4:
3-6, 2 Corinthians 11: 1-4, Galatians 1: 6, 2 Timothy 3: 1 - 9, 2 Timothy 4:
3-4, 1 Timothy 4: 8
In order for the dew that falls to be
raised up again it must first receive a change in its form or body from a solid
state of water, to a gaseous state that is lighter than air and thus can be
drawn up by the presence of the sun. In other words there must be a change of
the body. Therefore His Presence is Here is to bring forth a change of our Body
readying it for a catching away. Therefore, he is here to change the living. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, I Corinthians 15: all, 2 John 3: 1 - 3, 2 Corinthians 3: 18,
Roman 12: 1-3,
Colossians 3: 4, 1 Corinthians 13: 9 - 12, 2 Thessalonians 1:
7, 2
Thessalonians 1:10-12, Acts 3: 19-21, 1 Peter 1: 7 -9, 1 Peter 1: 13, 2 Peter 1: 1-4, 2 Peter 1:10-12, 1 Corinthians 1: 4
- 10, and finally Matthew 24: 30
Then once the body of that dew has been
changed it is drawn up into the presence of the SUN as we will be drawn into
the Presence of the Son of God in the Rapture. The dew drop had settled into
the ground, and before it could be raised up it had to be changed in it's form,
and thus He is here to raise the dead and to raise us into the presence of the
SON. 1 Thessalonians
4: 15 - 18, 1 Corinthians 15: all, Ephesians 1: 17 - 23, Galatians 2: 1,
Acts 1: 9-11,
Matthew 27:
51-53, Colossians 3: 4, Deuteronomy 30:3, Luke 20: 36
children of the resurrection, John 11: 24-25, Acts 24: 15, Acts 24:21, Romans 6: 5, Philippians 3: 10-11, 2 Timothy 2: 18,
Revelations 20:
5, 1
Thessalonians 4: 15-18,
Therefore we are told in Hebrews 10: 26 For if we sin (or disbelieve) willfully after that
we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice
for our unbelief.
And in 2 Peter 2: 1 we are told that all of
this must come to pass because as in Hebrews 6 we are told that many will taste
but will not surrender themselves completely to the Word of God, so too in 2 Peter 2: 1 we are told, But as there were
false prophets among the people, even so shall there be false teachers among
you, who will privately bring in damnable heresies, even such a Heresy as denying
the Lord that bought them, (The Son of God) and this will bring upon them swift
destruction…
Then we read in 2 Peter 2:15 concerning these false teachers who come in, “these have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; So they will do it for the money. 17 these are wells without water, That’s no Holy Ghost, claiming to be a well, which is where you go to draw water from. Pater also calls them, “clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollution's of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled therein, their latter end will be worse with them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they having come to know it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the True proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her own wallowing in the mire.
So you see we are warned here as in Hebrews 6 that
those who start out and come to this Message, then fall away from it, and cling
to their denominational organization ways will never be saved for they have
turned down the only way for them to receive God, and that is through receiving
the doctrine of Christ, “for he that hath the doctrine of Christ hath God. But he that
hath not the doctrine of Christ hath not God.”
Let us stand to our feet and bow our heads and our
hearts in a word of prayer, and then after we pray, let us remain standing
while our deacons bring the elements from the back room so that we may
consecrate them by the word of God and prayer.
Dear father we thank you for this wonderful insight
you have given to us from the lips of your vindicated prophet William Branham.
And we thank you Father for his obedience to the heavenly vision, and we see
such dedication and consecration in his life that we can know for certainty
that he was conformed to the Image of your Son Jesus. Therefore we ask you
Father to help us also to rededicate our live this evening that we might also
walk as he walked, in the footstep of your Son Jesus. Help us to walk in the
light as He is in the light, that the blood of Jesus Christ might cleanse us
from all our sins, for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen
Now, while we are waiting let us turn in our Bibles to
John Chapter 13.1Just before the
Passover Feast, Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to
the Father. Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right
to the end. 2. It was suppertime. The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the
Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. 3 Jesus knew that the
Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back
to God. 4 So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an
apron. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the
disciples, drying them with his apron. 6 When he got to Simon Peter, Peter
said, "Master, you wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered, "You don't
understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later."
8 Peter persisted, "You're not going to wash my
feet—ever!" Jesus said, "If I don't wash you, you can't be part of
what I'm doing." 9 "Master!" said Peter. "Not only my feet,
then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!" 10 Jesus said, "If you've had a
bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you're clean from
head to toe. 11 My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now
you're clean. 12 But not every one of you." (He knew who was betraying
him. That's why he said, "Not every one of you.") After he had
finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to
his place at the table. 13 Then he said,
"Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as 'Teacher'
and 'Master,' and rightly so. 14 That is what I am. So if I, the Master and
Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. 15 I've laid
down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the
obvious. 16 A servant is not ranked
above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. 17 If you
understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life. 18 "I'm
not including all of you in this. 19 I know precisely whom I've selected, so as
not to interfere with the fulfillment of this Scripture: 20 The one who ate
bread at my table Turned on his heel
against me.
"I'm telling you all this ahead of time so that when it happens you will
believe that I am who I say I am. Make sure you get this right: Receiving
someone I send is the same as receiving me, just as receiving me is the same as
receiving the One who sent me." 21 After he said these
things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why. "One of you
is going to betray me." 22 The disciples looked around at one
another, wondering who on earth he was talking about. 23 One of the disciples,
the one Jesus loved dearly, was reclining against him, his head on his
shoulder. 24 Peter motioned to him to ask who Jesus might be talking about. 25 So,
being the closest, he said, "Master, who?" 26 Jesus said,
"The one to whom I give this crust of bread after I've dipped it." 27
Then he dipped the crust and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. As
soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him. "What
you must do," said Jesus, "do. Do it and get it over with." 28 No one around the supper table knew
why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer,
Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the Feast, or that he should
give something to the poor. 30 Judas, with the piece of bread,
left. It was night. 31 When he had left, Jesus said, "Now the Son
of Man is seen for who he is, and God seen for who he is in him. 32 The moment
God is seen in him, God's glory will be on display. In glorifying him, he
himself is glorified—glory all around! 33
"Children, I am with you for only a short time longer. You are going
to look high and low for me. But just as I told the Jews, I'm telling you:
'Where I go, you are not able to come.' 34 "Let me give you a new
command: Love one another. 35 In the same way I loved you, you love one
another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when
they see the love you have for each other." 36 Simon Peter asked,
"Master, just where are you going?" Jesus answered, "You can't
now follow me where I'm going. You will follow later." 37 "Master," said
Peter, "why can't I follow now? I'll lay down my life for you!" 38
"Really? You'll lay down your life for me? The truth is that before
the rooster crows, you'll deny me three times."
What a rebuke to such a hard headed man. But may we
stay humble always as we approach the table of the Lord tonight. Let us now bow
our heads as our brothers shall ask God to bless the elements we are about to
partake in that represent to us the broken body of our Eldest Brother and the
shedding of His blood for the remission of our sins and unbelief.