Spoken Word no. 250
“Missing The True Move of God”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
May 15th, 2011
1
Kings 21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab
king of
1 Kings 22:1 And they continued three years without war
between
Now, why do you suppose Jehoshaphat was a bit hesitant
to run with the 400 prophets of Ahab had said? Don’t you think the man had a
little on the ball, and knew that if the majority of ministers believed a
certain thing, the odds were that they were wrong? God doesn’t use nor need a
majority, God has a one man system, and He uses one man at a time.
8 And the king of
9 Then the king of
11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians,
until thou have consumed them. Now, since when did God ever do anything using
man-made equipment. When Saul wanted David to use his own armor, he refused it,
because all he needed was five smooth stones that Missing tGod had created to
kill Goliath. God never use man-made programs to fulfill His Word.
12 And all
the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the
LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand.
13 And the messenger that was gone to call
Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare
good unto the king with one mouth: let
thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is
good. Oh how ridiculous that sounds. Just say it like the rest of them are saying it
and you will be accepted. Just say nice things, just say pleasant things, and you will be accepted among the rest. Isn’t
that the way with man? Isn’t that the way with preachers even to this day? And
I am not just talking about denominational preachers, I’m talking about
preachers right here in this message. Just say it like we say it and you will
be accepted. And how can a man call himself a servant of God and be swayed by
men like that?
God wants His servants to say only what He wants them
to say. And unless you are willing to stand alone and say it like he said it,
you are not worthy to be called a servant of God.
So we see what Micaiah said about the offer they made
him. 14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak. And that’s the same answer every True servant of God
will say.
15 So he came to the king. And the king said
unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we
forbear? And he answered him, Go, and
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. Now, I like this because it shows that Micaiah must have sounded facetious to the
king, mocking the words of the other 400 prophets. He must have said it in
sarcastic manner, because it certainly
did not come off as sincere with the King.
16 And the king said unto him, How many times
shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the
name of the LORD? 17 And he said, I saw all
29 So the king of
Let us bow our heads and our hearts in a word of
Prayer. Dear Gracious Father we have read
from Thy Word this morning a very wonderful story in which we see how a
righteous servant of Thee will stay true to Thy word regardless if he must be
the only one to do so. Help us o Lord, to be like Micaiah that faithful prophet
who stood with the prophecy of Elijah that spoke of the ill-fate of King Ahab,
and said only what was said by the prophet of the hour. Help us to stay true to
The Shout which you gave to your modern day Elijah for we ask it in Jesus
Christ’s name. Amen. You may be seated.
Whew, seems like we already had our sermon for this
morning, that was good reading, don’t you think so? We could all go home now,
and know that we have heard this day from God. But I would be neglectful if we
left right now, because we have some things that our dear prophet William
Branham taught us in his sermon, “The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed, and you will see why I chose this reading of
the Scripture to prepare our minds for what he has to say.
Therefore, this morning we will read five paragraphs
from brother Branham’s sermon, the Spoken Word is
the original Seed, and we will begin with paragraph
189. In our reading I want you to focus on just one thing this
morning, and that is how God’s true
ministers, His True prophets,
are always zeroed in on the Word for their hour. We will hear brother Branham
tells us that many ministers will not understand the True
Prophet because they are too focused on what the false ones are
doing or have done. And by not being focused on the Word they will be led off
the chosen path.
189
Remember Moses, born for the work, had
to wait on God for the extra gift for the job. (He had to go back and wait.)
And for the time appointed by God a
certain Pharaoh had to be on the throne. And the people had to be wanting the Bread of Life before God would send
him back. Now, with thousands of sign-workers in this last day has created a generation of sign-seekers that knows no more, nothing about the true move of God in His Word in these last days.
Now, I want you to think deeply on what he is saying
here. He is telling us that somehow the people are missing the truth of the
Word because they are focused on the wrong thing.
From his sermon, QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P:101 Brother Branham said, Today
I'm misunderstood in my ministry,
that He sent me to the people. They
misunderstand. Every one of them
said, "We believe Brother Branham..." I talked to a preacher
awhile ago, said, "Brother Branham, we all know that you was sent to the
church, but, the idea is, how do you come baptizing in Jesus' Name?" They misunderstand the Scriptures. They misunderstand it. That's what He
sent me for; that's my purpose of being here. "Why do you teach the
serpent's seed, and things like that that's contrary to what we teach?" Well, brother, that's why I'm here. They
just misunderstand it. Amen. But God is bearing record by His Word and the
signs of the Holy Ghost in...?... No
matter how much they may misunderstand it, God's confirming the Word. Amen.
God's always been misunderstood. And those who live with God are misunderstood
with God, because it's God working
in them. Amen.
They are focused on signs instead of the Word and by
doing so they will miss the true move of God in His
word he tells us. And he’s speaking about people right in this
Message.
He continues, “As I have said, "Give them blood and oil and fleshly
demonstrations on the platform, and
they'll support it whether it's God's Word or not, whether it's Scriptural or
not." Jesus had warned us of
such things at the end time. As I've said, in Matthew 24, two spirits very close alike, deceive the very elected if
possible. How can you tell them? Give them the Word test. How can
you know it? Speak the Word; see
what they say about it.
O, if that isn’t 100% the truth I don’t know what is.
Give them the Word test. And how do you do that? He says, preach to them the
Truth of the Word, the Doctrine of the Word, and see what they do with it. And their response will tell you what seed they are.
Now, don’t get on my case about it, this is Thus Saith the Lord by a Vindicated
Prophet. You want to get angry with them words, then get angry with God because
He told this prophet what to say, and spoke Mouth to Mouth when he spoke them.
That’s Deuteronomy 18, I will speak mouth to mouth with my Prophet.
Deuteronomy
18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their
brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come
to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in
my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, which shall
presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And
if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken,
but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he
behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
So we hear brother Branham tell us, How can you tell
them? Give them the Word test.
How can you know it? Speak the Word;
see what they say about it. If
they don't believe the Word, they have no Seed-germ in them. They are of
the evil one and deceive you. As the first bride was deceived, then the
second bride was deceived, they are deceivers of the third bride by hybreeding
the Word, or trying to.
O brother, I’ll bet they
gnashed at their teethe when they heard these words on tape. And I’ve seen them
gnash their teethe in hatred when I I’ve stood before them in different places
around the world, telling them the same things brother Branham said.
Don’t think just because they claim to believe brother Branham that they
actually do. I’ve met nearly 3,000 ministers face to face and I’m here to tell
you the majority no more believe what he taught than the Pentecostals did when
he was preaching to them face to face. Most of the ministers in this Message or
who claim to believe it are in it for one thing. They are too lazy to get their
LLD or DD whatever out in the denominational schools, so they come into this
Message, read a few books and presto chango they are now full fledged ministers
of the Message. And Who says so? By your fruits you are known. So how can you
tell me you are a Message minister if you are not teaching the Message that
William Branham taught.
And how is it that you call yourself a servant of God
when you teach contrary to God’s teaching as given by his vindicated prophet?
When I was in
Brother Branham continued to say in paragraph 190 God never placed signs ahead of His Word.
(Amen. That's a scorcher.) God never
placed signs ahead of His Word. (notice he says it twice for
clarity, for emphasis),They (signs) were added for proof of the Word, but the Word is first.
Now, look, if you take the signs away from them what
are they going to have left? Nothing, because they have turned down the Word.
And why do you supposed judgment is on it’s way? God brings them a Message of
Grace and they turn it down for filthy lucre, for popularity, for women… And so
there is but one thing left and that is judgment.
To
prove it, Elijah said to the woman, "Bake me a cake first." Then
watch the miracle happen. Come to the
Word first and then watch the miracle.
But that is the problem we have even in this Message,
sign seekers. But notice he said preach the Word, Teach the Word, give them the
Word test by preaching it to them and then
You can see their reaction and how they take it. But
the Word comes first, then the signs will naturally follow because that is
God’s way. He said the signs will
follow. But they want signs first, and God never did give them the signs first,
he gives us His Word, and then vindicates that Word by His Supernatural Presence
doing things to show that it’s Him among us.
I’ve never pointed the people to signs, and I am not
so interested in Signs myself. That’s not to say, I haven’t been blessed when
God comes down in some supernatural way, but it has always been after or during
the preaching of the Truth of this Message.
When I came to this Message it was not because I had
heard about the miracles, because I hadn’t and even if I had it would not have
phased me in the least. I was raised Catholic and the Catholics are always seeking
after signs. I remember in 4th grade going to Saint Anne’s Basilica
in
So I didn’t want signs, I wanted the truth! I was
interested in William Branham’s Doctrine, I was attracted to what the Prophet
had to say, and Br, Vayle has known me since 1976 and he will tell you that I
have always been that way. But you know
what? Because I have stayed true to the teachings of this Message, it’s
Doctrine, and because I have faithfully taught it, God has backed up my
ministry with signs. I never asked for them, but He’s performed them, and no
person that has ever been in my meetings can deny it. Yet, I’m not focused on
them, because I know satan can duplicated them, so there’s only one place I can
place my trust and focus on and that is in “Thus Saith the Lord” a vindicated
Revelation.
Brother Branham said back in paragraph 173 of The Spoken word
original seed 62-0318M P:173 Now,
it's rough, friends. It's very rough. I don't mean to be that myself. Yeah, I
hope you understand that. See? But today I'm giving the expression of why I
have did the things that I have done. Now, for just a little analysis before we
dismiss for lunch is this: I want you to know that I have... This has been my motive, and my objective, is
God's Word. My motive is to please Him. And I can't listen to everything and believe God's Word; neither can I listen to everything and
please God. My motive is to know His
Word and to please God by serving Him by His Word. Not that I have
anything against... Now, every person in here that's born of the Spirit of God,
that's in the elected group was perhaps once a Methodist, Baptist,
Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or something or other somewhere. Now, you know that. You know that. So
then you see, when you say, "Go out to them," that's what you have to
do. There's somebody in there, if
you'll sow the seed, there'll be a harvest someday. It'll fall... Some
of it'll go by and say, "Ah, he's nothing but a... he's a deceiver."
Didn't they say the same thing about our Lord? "There's nothing to
that." Well then, why don't you
check it with me? See, see, see? "He's nothing but a deceiver."
See? Then check it with the Word.
See, if it isn't the Word, then it is
deceiving. See? Now, if your
theology's different from the Word, then it isn't right. See?
Notice
brother Branham said they called Jesus was a deceiver, but he said, check it with the Word, then he said they say
that about me, but just check it with the Word,
and if it isn’t in the Word then it’s nothing but a deceiver,
and then he also said if your theology is
different from what the Word of God says, then it isn’t right. Now,
that’s the thing they keep saying, Lee Vayle and Brian Kocourek, they have
their own Message, but when you show them what brother Branham said and take it
to the Word of God and show hundreds of Scriptures to show that brother Branham
said it the way we are preaching it, and it is right with the Word, they just
can’t take it and so they revert to name calling.
This
last little book, just 20 pages on The Relationship Between God and His son,
just 20 pages, but it contains 365 Scriptures, and several dozen quotes from
God’s prophet. Now, brother Branham taught us that we must take everything back
to the Word of God. He said he even had to take every vision God gave him to
the Word to make sure it was from God. And if you can not take this Message
back to the Word of God, then you do not know it, brother, that’s all there is too it.
So
“what’s
the matter?” with those preachers out there, “What’s the matter”, if
you think we are wrong in what we’re teaching, then show me in the Word where
we’re wrong. Because “if you think we are wrong you are duty bound to God to
come and show us”.
I
had one guy write a whole book trying to prove me wrong, but he couldn’t do it
by the Word of God nor by the Message of the hour, so he reverted to calling me
a pig, and just about every nasty word you can think of. I will be the first to
admit that I might be bit over weight,
but I’m certainly no pig. But that’s all they can do, is resort to trying to
kill your influence, because they certainly do not know the Bible, and they
certainly can not say it like the prophet taught it, nor the way Paul taught
it, nor the way John taught it, nor the way Peter taught it. Why? because it’s not for them. It wasn’t meant for
them.
But
it’s one thing to just misunderstand the Word, And I have no qualms with any
who misunderstand what we are teaching,
but it’s another thing altogether to attack what you don’t even know
what you’re talking about.
Brother Branham said in his sermon, QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P:70 You
know, misunderstanding gets us in a lot of trouble. Many times that people say
things that they repeat after somebody else, where they misunderstood them.
That gets a person in trouble. I believe it would be good for us if we just,
well, wait till we understood what we was talking about. Don't you think so? I
know it would be for me, a very good for me to find out first and then say it.
But
when they outright deny the Son of God, they make him out to be some badger
skin, or some mask, or some tent that God dwelt in and then went back to gases
after it was sacrificed.
One
preacher who claims to believe this Message, he said, the body of Jesus, like
all sacrifices after it was made was consumed and went back to gases.
So
now we have a mediator making intercession for our confession that is a gas
bag. What a joke. No wonder brother
Branham called them deceivers. No wonder he said they can not be seed. And
don’t tell me that I’m mean spirited. They are “mean spirited”, because
they deny the son of God. Not only mean spirited but evil spirited, evil
inspired.
God's chosen place worship
65-0220 P:31 Church, wherever you are, what you belong
to, makes me no difference. But there's one thing you must know. You've got to
be in Christ or you're dead. You can't live outside of Him. Your church might
be all right as a building; your fellowship might be all right as men; but when you deny the Body, the Blood, the Word
of Jesus Christ, you're dead the minute you do it. It's God's chosen place of worship. There's where His Name is
exactly. There's where He chose to put His Name, not in the church, but in the Son Jesus Christ. Notice,
safety lies only in the place of His choosing, in His Lamb, and in the Name of
the Lamb. Notice, it was a male lamb, a he, not a her: not a church (she), but His Name, not her name. Where He was
going to meet the people was not in her name, but in His Name: Him, the Lamb.
And
we know the lamb of God is the son of God, period.
And you know what? These so called preachers who
deny that Jesus is the Son of God are nothing but liars. O, hurt your feelings
did I? You think I’m being too rough? How can you be any rougher than the Word
of God. How can you say it any different than God said it in His Word. You
think that way because you don’t know God’s Word. And you have not His Spirit
abiding in you.
Read, 1 John 2:22 he
said, Who is a liar
but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? In fact, John doesn’t
just cal them liars, he calls them antichrist. Come on open your Bibles to 1 John 2:22 he says, Who is a
liar but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
And in the next verse, he says, 1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father: (the same
echoes not the Father) (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath (echoes) the Father also. So
you can’t even say the same thing God the Father says if you deny the Son of
God his son-ship.
When
I was in Uganda we had 230 ministers at a three day meeting in Kampala and many
just could not get past their Oneness theology, So I challenged them to come up
with their Bibles open and prove what I was saying was wrong. Not a man, not a
minister moved a muscle to stand up. They were scared stiff. Why? Because they
had just heard me bring the doctrine from the Bible, hundreds if not thousands
of Scriptures, and from God’s Vindicated Prophet, hundreds of quotes, and they
heard the teaching for two and a half days, before we opened up with questions,
and when they brought up 15 questions which they had saved back to lay on me
with no time to prepare, the Holy Spirit took a hold of my tongue and within 15
minutes I answered each question with two or three Scriptures, and it sounded
to me like a machine gun firing off words just as fast as I could say them and
the translator could translate them.
And
when I was finished, I challenged them to bring up their Bible and stand next
to me and show me in the Scriptures where I was wrong in my understanding of
the godhead, and as I already said, they didn’t move a muscle. Why? because
they knew this was the same scene that took place with William Branham in
Now,
I am no prophet and certainly we have seen our Elijah, but there was a little
guy named Micaiah that we read for our text and he stood with Elijah and he
also took a stand against the priests or prophets of his day staying right with
what Elijah had said.
Now, as we read along, brother Branham says, The Seed Word Itself is what the Holy Spirit energizes. How can a
messenger sent from God just believe some of the Scriptures and not all the
Word? deny part of It...
191
The true prophet of God will proclaim
the Word in the last days; denominations will hate him. He will not pull
any punches on them. He will be like he was when he come at the first coming of
Christ. "You generation of vipers..."
But the predestinated will hear and will
make ready for the countdown. The Royal Seed of Abraham's faith (like him) holding to the Word of God regardless, for
he was predestinated... The messenger of Malachi 4 will appear at God's appointed time. We
are all looking for him. We believe he will come. That is according to His
Word; it will be at the end time, which it is time now for to see it.
192
He will be correctly dedicated to the
Word as they have always been; indicated
by God's Word--and a-vindicated. God
will vindicate what he preaches to be the Truth as He did Elijah; for it is
Elijah coming, making ready for the
The Wuest Translation says: 2 Peter 2: 1 But as there arose false prophets also among
the people, even as also among you there shall be false teachers who will be of
such as to bring alongside of true doctrine destructive heresies even denying
the Lord who purchased them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their licentious
conduct to its consumation; on account of whom the way of truth will be
reviled. These men will come into the Message and give a wrong understanding
of the Word of God and the people will be caught up into what these men say as
evil interpreters of the Word of Truth. 3 And in the sphere of
covetousness with fabricated words they will exploit you, from whom: for whom
from ancient times their judgment has not been idle.
So the confusion will be brought right into this
Message. From his sermon, Godhead Explained 61-0119A P:74 brother
Branham said, Many of you people listening to this would say, "Brother
Branham is a Oneness."
I am not. I think you're both wrong, both oneness and trinity. Not to be
different, but it's always the middle of the road.
So
you see, He’s talking about many who listen to him, that would have to be tape
listeners, people who follow his ministry. Because he said, “many of you
listening to this”, tape listeners.
In his sermon, A
Greater than Solomon is here 62-0628 P:74 Brother Branham was speaking
of the Queen of Sheba and how “she was reading these scrolls what Jehovah
had promised. She wanted to be sure that she read the Word and seen that this
gift compared with the Word. There's the
thing to do. Check it. Check these
things that's going around today, and see if it is of the Lord. Check it with
the Word.” So notice how we are
told to check everything out by the Word, even the Things that we saw in our
own day with the vindication of God in the midst of the people and to check out
the Message by the Word.
Ashamed of Him 65-0711 P:17 But
my point was this, when you know that you're trying to do what's right, the first
thing is, if you feel led to do
anything, then check it with the Word and see if it's right with the Word, and then let nothing stop you. I don't care how many wheels the Devil
throws in the way, just move right over the top of them. I told my wife and I
told Brother Wood, when I got here, and some friends that I met yesterday, I
have had about five years here that I hardly knew what to do. It's been a
nervous... See, the revival itself
amongst the churches has died. Everyone knows that. You feel it in this Tabernacle. You feel it everywhere. There is a
thump, dead feeling. There's just something isn't right. It's because the
revival enthusiasm has gone away from the people. Go into the churches; you'll
see them setting there. And the pastor stumbling around for a message and
something another. And the first thing you know, he turned it off on some kind
of a party they're going to have, or something. It seems to be a dead thump
everywhere. Billy Graham notices it; Oral Roberts. Mr. Allen had some trouble,
as you know. Oral Roberts has got that fifty-million-dollar buildings, and so
forth, in there. He's got a school. And, well, there's nobody on the field now.
When their eyes were opened 64-0212 P:11 And you take anything that's really way out
in the phenomena like that, always check
it with the Word. And if the Word
promised it, then it's only God rising on the scene again. That's the way
every promise is. … See, it was a promise, and it was a phenomena, very
unusual. And many who loved Him could
not understand it, because it was staggering to the whole world.
Jesus Christ the same 58-0207
P:13 And while I was there on the platform, and
just having prayer, I thought that a plane was coming over. And I looked around
to Dr. Vayle here, and he thought the woman had--had reversed the--the air
through the pipe organ or something. And it sound like a thundering coming
somewhere, like a thunder roaring, coming at a distance. Billy jumped up. And I
looked over to Brother Mercier here (which is the tape boy, and he and Brother
Goad, and my son, and them give out the prayer cards.), he thought he'd done
something. And he'd seen me look at him. He said his heart was about to fail.
He didn't know what it was. Then all of a sudden coming right through the
building, come like a wind, only it wasn't a wind, it was a rumble like a wind,
and just shook down, and went out over the audience, and you see them turning
white as it just waved over the audience, just a repeat like Pentecost, like a
rushing mighty wind.
Now,
I’ve talked to brother Vayle about this because he was there and my Father in
Law and my mother in law were in the auditorium when it happened and they said
it sounded like a train roaring through the building and brother Branham’s coat
and tie were flapping as though a very strong wind came through the auditorium.
So brother Branham continues,
So...But it wasn't a wind, it was
just like an influence that went out like that. And I noticed the Bible said,
"There came from heaven a sound
as a rushing mighty wind." See? And I begin to check, because I know
the Holy Spirit never misbehaves Itself. It's always right. So then I begin to check it with the Word. And
then I turned over to
So notice that even brother Branham checked out this
supernatural phenomena himself.
From his sermon, Influence 63-0112 P:75 brother Branham said, You try to do something
that's a little contrary to your doctrine, and you say, "Aw,
nonsense." Check it with the Word.
If it's the Word, believe it. If it's not, leave it alone. God will vindicate His Word.
Right.
Perseverant 64-0619 P:22 There's all kinds of voices. Check it with the Word.
What shall I do with Jesus
63-1124M P:116 How
the church ought to be checking it again, and again, and again, and again.
We're waiting for His coming. We're waking--we're waiting for the takeoff. We better check it with the Word, not what somebody said. Be sure you know yourself, as a personal
experience with Christ. Check it
again, and again, and again.
Who is Jesus? 64-0620B P:31 So
we see they should have understood that, but they didn't. They had their
theology of living good and being fine people, and so forth, but they didn't
understand what really their Messiah was to be. Do you know that could be
again? That could so easily happen, that we would misunderstand it in some way. Now, there's only one way to be sure;
that's find out what He was, then the
Scripture says, "He is the same." Find out how He will manifest
Himself at the end time. It's written.
See, He never does anything unless He reveals it first. He said so in the Scripture, "He does nothing, except He
reveals to His servants the prophets." And He has revealed It. And This is
His prophet. This is a Book of prophecy, It's the complete revelation of Jesus
Christ, all the way through. Nothing to be added to or taken from It. And we
ought to search It and see what day we're living in, 'cause we might be caught
in the same trap.
'A
DECEIVED CHURCH' "But as
MY REDEEMER LIVETH 55-0410S 161 43 Don't you love Him? We sing
that little song because we believe that the Holy Ghost Gospel is still
dripping with blood. It's a way of persecution. It's a way of misunderstanding. That's right. The world don't know it. The world never knew it. The world will hate
you. "But be of a good cheer, I've overcome the world." They don't understand it. "The
preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish."
But there's something down in the believer's heart, says, "I
know my Redeemer liveth. I know it, beyond a doubt."