Spoken Word no. 225
“Galatians
5:9”
“A LittleLeaven”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
February 6thth, 2011
This morning we will continue in our series from the
Spoken word is the Original Seed, and this will be number 225 in our series. For our reading let us turn in our
Bibles to the Book of Galatians chapter 5 and begin reading from verse 1 through
verse 9.
Galatians 5: 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be
not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold,
I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is
circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of
righteousness by faith. 6 For
in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision;
but faith which worketh by love. 7 Ye did run well;
who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8 This persuasion cometh not
of him that calleth you. 9 A
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Now, we need to know what Paul means by this
statement, “A
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”
Exodus
12:14-29 And this day shall
be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout
your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread; even the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
Now, what des the Scripture mean to put away the
leaven from the first until the seventh. What is this Leaven that it is so
damnable that having it mixed into our wheat and baked in the bread would cause
us to be put away from the Lord and the Congregation of the righteous.
Brother Branham typed
16 And in the first
day there shall be an holy
convocation, (that means a
gathering, or ingathering) and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you;
Notice we are to have another gathering that is called
a holy convocation or Holy Ingathering once again as it were at the first. This
let's us know that what was in the Alpha must repeat in the Omega. There was a
gathering together unto Him at the first and there will be another gathering together
unto Him at the last.
Now, let's read on to see the tenor of that holy
convocation, or that holy gathering unto Him. In other words, we want to know
the setting for this holy convocation, the atmosphere in which it will come
about. And Notice God says, here, "no manner of work shall be done in
them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. (Notice
what kind of activity is to take place during the time of this holy
convocation, this holy ingathering. We are to be eating and resting, just like
we are told in the Book of Malachi the 4th chapter concerning the time of the
prophet of Malachi
4.)
Malachi 4:1 For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings;
Those are healing campaigns just like he did in alpha
He is to repeat again in the Omega. And as a result of this presence among you
which is evidenced by the great healing campaign it is to have an effect upon
us) and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Now the question is what is a calf of the stall? It is
a calf in the stall and all he can do is eat and rest, eat and rest, for he is
there for the purpose of fattening up. Notice the Scripture says, and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. So it is all about growing up.
Coming to full maturity. That is what this ministry of the Son of righteousness
is all about, bringing the elect to a full maturity.
Now, in getting back to Exodus 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought
your armies out of the
Now this is the
verse of Scripture that brother Branham used when speaking on the Token, and
the blood was taken here and was wiped onto the two door posts, and on the
lintel which is the span just above the door opening. That formed the sign of
the cross, and it was the blood of the lamb that was represented on the door
which represents the Word. Jesus said, I am the door to the sheepfold. And He
is the Word. And so the blood of the lamb was wiped on the door in the sign of
the cross, foreshadowing what was to come when the Lamb of God would be slain
on a cross.
Now, notice they were to take a lamb for a house, each
house was to have their own lamb. Each house was to have their own relationship
with the Lamb of God. And so is it today. So I ask you the question. Does your
family have a lamb for the entire house?
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD
will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to
thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to
the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye
shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the
sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of
The Lord did
not spare anything that was outside of the blood. And brother Branham told us
that the last plague then was death and that the last plague today is spiritual
death.
Now, I want to say this without hurting
feelings, but if you will notice at this first Exodus, death took out the first
born son of all who did not have the Token properly displayed in their home.
And if the type holds, then is what we are seeing today the fulfillment of the
spiritual death striking this nation and every home, and every first born son,
in whose home the Token has not been properly displayed? I don't have the
answer, but when I see the falling away from this Message of so many young men,
I have to ask the question, and the parents must ask the question, did I have
the Token properly displayed? And you know in your heart if you have done all
you can to display the Token. But when I see so many television sets in so many
homes of believers in the message, and I hear brother Branham tell us in order
to display the token we must clean up the house and get rid of the television
sets, and filthy news papers, etc, then have we properly displayed the token if
we still have television sets in the home?
Matt 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, we have
several Scriptures here this morning that would appear to the carnal mind that
they are completely in contrast. For in the Old Testament we read that for
seven days there shall be no leaven to be found amongst you. For seven days,
there will be no leaven in your home, or in anything with what you have to do.
No leaven period.
And by the way, Matthew 13 is the Rapture chapter and chapter 24 of Matthew, and in this Matthew
chapter 13
we find many parables that speak of the end time and in particular the time of
the setting froth of the
And we find the same parable in the Book of Luke, Luke 13:20-21 20: And again he said,
Whereunto shall I liken the
Now, if we are
not careful we can look at this parable and come to just the opposite meaning
than what Jesus is laying out for us to know. You could say, the
Now, if we turn
to Luke the
17th chapter
and verse 20
through 22,
we read, And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
Now, the Pharisees had a leaven of their own, and it
was externalism. Everything to them was an outward show. That's like what we
call the social Christian today, or the social Message Believer. You can't get
them to come to church but when there is a social event they all show up for
everyone to see that they are Believers.
Everything was done in a way that you could see who
was who, and who was doing what. Jesus told them, you wash the outside of the
pots and make them clean, so everyone could see you do it, but on the inside
you are full of dead men's bones. And so we find Jesus telling these Pharisees,
that the
You know, people are looking for the coming of the
Lord and for the clouds to part and for angels to descend and for everyone one
earth to be able to see when it comes, but that is not the way it will come. It
is a secret coming, for He has Appeared already and they don't even know it,
nor are they in their “churchianity” even aware what has
taken place.
And Jesus continues
talking to the Pharisees saying, 21 Neither shall they
say, Lo (or look) here! or, lo (look) there! for, behold, the
The
Isaiah
53:2 tells us, For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: and what is a root out of dry ground? It's all shriveled
up and there is nothing beautiful about it. It says, he hath no form nor
comeliness (no splendor, no majesty) and the description Isaiah
gives us continues, and when we shall see him,…
there is no beauty that we should desire him. THEREFORE 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
Now, you say,
that was the man Jesus? And I tell you, NO, that is God Himself in the man
Jesus. God was in the prophet's and no prophet was received among his own
people. God in those prophets was never received and never will be received
because he changes not.
And so it is
Christ in us that is despised and rejected, because he is the coach of this
team, and He is the One who assigns who is to carry the ball, and it does not
matter what person He assigns to do it, it is still His purpose and His plan,
and He calls the plays.
Can you imagine
a team getting upset because the coach uses different players to move the ball
downfield? Oh, no, we have our man to do it, and yet the man they want might be
injured and not even on the field any longer. Well, let me just say this. If a
team will not do as the coach assigns them to do, He will just get rid of those
players and get Himself others that will do as He tells them to do. 22 And he said unto
the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days
of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. and why won't they be able to see
one of those days?
Because they are so busy looking backward or forward,
and failing to see that God is the same and changes not. Now, Jesus was telling
those Pharisees that the
Water From the
Rock 55-0224 24 When Martin Luther built the first camp,
he organized it so tight he just
couldn't be nothing else but a Lutheran. God come right along, moved the Pillar of Fire out, the children
followed it. Wesley brought the message. And the first thing you know,
Wesley organized so tight, till he couldn't move. Then the first thing, the
Pillar of Fire moved out, and here come the Pentecostals going right on with
it. The Pentecostals organized so tight till they're fussing whether they're
oneness, twoness, threeness, or one hump camel, two hump camel, three hump
camel, this way, that way, that way, God's moving right on out, leaving them.
That's right. The Holy Spirit's moving on, children's a following It.
Deceived Church
By The World 59-0628M 83 But as Israel was bound by their kings, that they could not follow their real King,
and their real King, when He came, they
didn't recognize Him, so is it
today, O Lord, the King of glory has
appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost, and, Lord, they don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so tight, that they do
not understand it, because it's not in their organization. Lord, this is a
work of the Devil that's done this to the people. May the Samson of God, may
the true in heart, those who are longing and crying, and pleading and holding
on, may they stay with it, Lord, until this new crop grows out, until there
comes forth again a joy in Zion, and there comes forth a group that can
recognize and understand, that can see the Messiah and the hidden powers that's
hid from the world, that they will not understand now. Grant, Lord, that
they'll see this. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
What
Does Thou Here 59-0301E 54 Why can't this
Now, look, in Luke 17
when Jesus is having this discourse with the Pharisees, he is telling them that
although the King is in their very midst, yet they can not see what is taking
place, and he tells them so will it be when the Son of Man is manifesting
Himself to the world. He who made the world will come to the world and the
world will receive him not. That's
John
1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Now, in getting
back to Matthew
Chapter 13 we see in this parable three things here. 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, if we
approach this Scripture here and keep it in continuity with the rest of the
Scriptures from Genesis to Revelations, 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.
Now, we are
dealing with the
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. It is 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 more than what it really is. She HID it.
God's Only Provided
lace 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 he told 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 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 notice, how there is death in the pot today. The woman, the
church mixed in with the three measures of meal leaven, and it's killing the
people spiritually today, just like what they are doing in the natural with all
this DNA altering and gene splicing and hybridizing the 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 allots which means a different one
altogether, but it was taken from the Greek word haters 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 Only Provided
lace Of Worship 65-0220 76 The
Meal Offering was Christ. 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
represent 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. 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 16:6 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 fine 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. 43
Let us pray
Let us bow our heads in
prayer.
Restoration
of bride tree 62-0422 P:122 Now, this little fellow started to
destroying: destroying what? The cankerworm got into the bark. Watch what it
did; it begin to destroy the bark. What did it do? It made a natural church for
a spiritual church. Yes, sir. It took away the true and give it a false. Now,
remember, the leaf--the fruit, the palmerworm eat. The leaf, the locust eat.
Now, the bark, the covering, the religion, the doctrine, the doctrine, the
cankerworm got.