Spoken Word #26
“Your
Words are Seeds”
Brian Kocourek
June 1st, 2008
This morning we will read again from paragraph 21
where Brother Branham sermon “The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed.” And we will focus our thoughts on what
Brother Branham had to say about the Word being a seed, and I would like to
take the thought that words are seeds.
21 Now,
I want to begin this morning with my text to use this: "The Spoken Word Is the Original Seed."
Now, that's what I wish to lay the text on, "The Spoken Word Is the Original Seed." Now, if you'll notice,
God said, "Let it bring forth of its, in
his kind." Whatever it was it
must be brought forth of its kind. Now, this Word of God is eternal. God,
being infinite, cannot speak one thing and then later on change it to something
else, to a better decision, because every decision of God is perfect. He cannot...
Once His Word is once spoken, It can
never die. It lives on, on, on, and
can never die, because It is God. His Word can no more die than He can die.
That's the reason we read in
Now, last night we spoke on how God placed the Word
seed upon the earth before there ever was a seed natural to manifest itself out
of this earth. And the Spoken Word of God is the original Seed.
But notice we read from Genesis 1:11
that said, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herbs... and seed, and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so. and then we read Genesis
2:5 that said, And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before
it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground. And yet the Lord had already brought forth man
in His image as spirit man in Genesis 1:26 and 27.
But notice in 1:11 it said the seed was upon the earth, and in 2:5 it
says before it was in the earth. So we see the seed was spirit, For the Word of
God is Spirit and Life, That is what Jesus said in John 6:63.
Now you know from many
times having heard the words from this pulpit that the Word is a seed. And not
only the Word of God is a Seed but all words are seeds. The Word of God happens
to be an incorruptible seed, but there is also a corruptible seed. That’s what
we are told by the Apostle Peter.
1 Peter 1: 23 23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth for ever.
Now, if there is a
corruptible seed it has to be something other than the True Word of God that is
incorruptible. Every seed planted will bring forth children of that seed. In
other words every seed will produce a product of the seed nature or life that
is in that seed.
We saw this “Law of Reproduction” in Genesis 1:11 and we also see it in John 8: 44 Where
Jesus said to the Pharisees, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his
own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And again in Matthew 23: 28 where Jesus tells these Christ
rejecting Pharisees to fill up the measure or pattern of their own fathers who
were prophet killers. Even so ye also
outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and
iniquity. 29 Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the
prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had
been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in
the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore
ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed
the prophets. 32 Fill
ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents,
ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?
Again we see Jesus
speak of the Law of reproduction in Matthew 13:37-42 He answered and said unto them, He that
soweth the good seed is the Son of man;38 The
field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the
tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the
tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this
world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Notice how each seed
had to be sown before it could produce.
In the Message "Christ Revealed
in His Own Word" brother Branham said, there are three
things we must not do. We must not misinterpret the Word, we must not
misplace the Word, and we must not mislocate the Word. Now to understand
what it means to misinterpret we must first understand what the word interpret
means: According to Webster’s dictionary, interpret means: To have or show one's own
understanding; to construe; to give one's
own conception of, and the word conception comes from the word to
conceive which begins the process of life. So to misinterpret is to misconstrue,
and to misconstrue is to give a misconception. Now, if it is a misconception,
then it is not a true conception. And we know conception has to do with bringing
forth life. Therefore wrong seed produces wrong life. A lie is a truth mis-told. But when you speak
the lie as though it is truth, then you are giving life to that lie to those
who hear it and believe it. And the most effective lie is one that is 99% true.
Because when it is checked out, if the 99% are checked out and the other 1% is
not checked out, then for every % that is checked out to be as the lie stated,
it only reinforces the lie. So then the 99% that is truth reinforces the 1%
that is a lie. But the life of the lie is a perversion. It is not the same life
as though it were 100% true. Do you follow what I'm saying. Your words are
seeds bringing to life the things you speak. Whether true or false, a seed is
sown every time you speak. And brother Branham told us that we, our minds are
only a battle ground for God and Satan. So the life that comes forth from our
mouth is either God Life or satanic perverted life. Jesus said, "As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he. And out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
In fact brother
Branham said that words are seeds in his sermon JESUS CHRIST THE SAME 62-0718 42 I believe that the
Bible is a seed. Those words are seeds.
Jesus said a sower went forth sowing seeds. This is it. The Word of God is a Seed. Jesus said it was. Then, if it is God in
print form, and you receive It into your heart, and then the Holy Spirit waters
that Seed, it brings forth what it's promised. Any kind of a seed you sow, it'll bring forth that kind of a crop.
Exactly right. We've sowed in this great
revival going by a lot of intellectual seed. We've got a intellectual crop. That's right. If we would sow Gospel
Seed, we'd have a Gospel crop. And we need to get back to the principles, and
the Bible teachings, back to the Bible, back to the Holy Spirit upon the Word
of God that makes the Word of God live. That's exactly what it was.
So whatever form of
word that you are sowing, that is the form of life that will result from your
sowing. And I am afraid that people just don’t understand the way God thinks.
And that can only be because they do not have the mind of God in them.
Isaiah
55: 8 For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as
the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto
I sent it.
And that is why the people of
Paul tells us that in
order to understand the Spirit of God we must have the Spirit of God in us.
1
Corinthians 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God knoweth. 12 Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself
is judged of no man. 16 For
who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ.
So you see the mind is where the Word Seeds are and where they will bring
forth after the image of the original source.
Matthew 13:24-3024 Another parable put he forth unto them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which
sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,
didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He
said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou
then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also
the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
From
paragraph 77 of his sermon Christ Revealed in His Own Word brother
Branham said, [77] See, down through the age we started off from the foundation, from the first
church age when the Seed went in the
ground, the complete Seed. Then it come out through the feet, Luther,
come back out then through Wesley, then into Pentecostals, the tongues and the
lips. See? Now, it's in the eyes, prophetic, of Malachi 4 and so forth. And
now, there's nothing else left for it to come, but Him Himself to step into that, 'cause that's the
last thing there is. The next is the
intelligence, and we have no
intelligence of our own; it's His. See? We have no sight of our own.(Now,
notice here that he is not referring to physical sight because he goes on to
say,) How can a
man foresee those things? He can't do it; It's God Himself. See, it's becoming
to a place... And He's governed the body all the way through. Then the complete Body of Christ is
revealed in the form of a Bride that was taken out of His side, like
Adam did at the beginning--like Adam's was, rather, at the beginning.
Now,
I want you to see a couple of things Brother Branham is telling us here that
are important to us in this hour.
#1) He is speaking of a Seed (or carrier of Life) that went into the
Ground, and he clarifies and
Characterizes this Seed as being (The
Complete Seed).
#2) He further describes this Seed as the Foundation Seed, which means it
is the original Seed, and other seeds that come from this Seed, will bear the
same life.
#3)
This Complete Seed will come forth in a Complete body , and that this Body will
manifest, the same Life, and you will know when this Body is fully Complete in
it’s growth when it comes to it’s last stage of Life which is the Intelligence,
the same Intelligence that was in the original Seed.
Now,
point #1, The Complete Seed. We
know by definition that a seed is a carrier of life. And since He is speaking
about how Christ is Revealed in His Own Word, we must then understand
that this Complete Seed that he is speaking about, is Christ, or the Life that
was in Christ.
In
John 1:1-4
We are told that in Him was Life, and that is why all things were made by Him.
Because It takes Life to bring forth Life. And He is the Word. So this Life is
in the Word.
And
in Luke 8:4-15
we notice that the seed that was sown is the Word of God, and yet we see that
unless this Word Seed is sown in the proper place it will not produce Life.
In
1 Peter 1:23
we see that the Word is again called a seed, and yet we see here that there are
two types of seed, or word which is sown. An Incorruptible word seed and a
corruptible word. And the evidence that we have received the Incorruptible Word
in the right kind of soil, is that we shall live and abide forever.
Point #2, We find that this Seed that was sown into the ground
is the foundation Seed, or the original Seed. Now, brother Branham is speaking
about Christ here because we find Jesus Himself telling us that it was
necessary for Him to die and be buried and He typed His own death and burial
with that of a Seed.
John 12:24 24 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but
if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Now,
we often hear brother Branham mentioning how this life came forth in Luther’s
Message and then up through Wesley’s, then up through the Pentecostal message
and on up until it finally comes to a rest in the intelligence, which is the
very mind of God, back in the people.
Now
in looking at these three thoughts here we see that:
#1) The Complete Seed is a carrier
of Complete Life, (That’s 2 Peter 1:3-4 3 According as his
divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.)
#2) The same Life that was sown in the Original Seed, which is the very
Life that was in Christ Jesus, shall manifest
in us. John 16:7 Nevertheless I
tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you.
#3) This original Seed Life shall return in this hour, not only among the
people, but It shall enter into the people as well. (That’s Collosians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
Brother Branham said “The
Complete Seed,” comes forth in It’s Complete Body (which is the
complete Life that was in the Seed has got to come back into human flesh in a
Bride) in this hour. So we are speaking of the Original Seed, the original
Word-Life back in human flesh again. And that is why we are told our New Birth
comes by a seed which is the incorruptible Word of God. In fact Jesus said in John 6:63 “My Words are
Spirit and they are Life.”
And,
so we see that the Word is a Seed carrier of Eternal Life. Now, this evening I
would like to look at this thought of the Word as a Seed in a little different
way. Since we are talking about the Word as a Seed, I would like to break this
down to our own personal level for a few minutes.
Now,
we know that the Word is a Seed, and then the Word being a Seed, then what is
the Life that is in that seed? Every Seed is a carrier of Life. We know this by
definition of seed. But what is in a Word? The answer is thoughts. Before there
were any words there were thoughts. Then the word is an expression of the
thoughts. So in essence the thoughts within the word are the life of the Word,
right?
So
you can see that a word is not just a guttural sound, but it really has some
significance. Words in a language other than the language you know and speak
means absolutely nothing to you, and could be quite humorous to your hearing
when in actuality to those who understand the language they could be very
serious words. Paul said in 1 Corinthians
14:6-11 that every sound has some
significance in some language. And just to speak words which have no
meaning does not do anything for any one. But when we speak in words which can
be understood, then those words can and will bring forth fruit. In Jeremiah 6:19
we are told that our thoughts actually produce fruit.
And
we know that man is likened to a tree, as we see in Psalm 1:1-3 1 Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is
in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.3 And
he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper..
Here
we see that a righteous man is likened to a tree that is planted by the rivers
of water. And we are told that his fruit will be in the proper season and his
leaf shall never wither. Now what does
God mean by this analogy? Well, we know that God likens His Word to Water and Eternal Life to the
Next
we see that this man, is planted. That means he will not move, but that he is
fixed in this place which means that he is rooted in, and his roots are reaching out for the waters
of Life, and he is living off of the waters of Eternal Life. And of course we
know what that water of Life is. It is the Word, for we are told by Paul in Ephesian 5:26
that we are washed by the washing of water by the word. And since this tree, or
righteous man has a good water supply, his leaf will never wither, as Peter
said, we are born again of a Seed, the Word of God
that Liveth and abideth forever. And so we see that this speaks
of Eternal Life, for the Life in this Tree will never wither. But I want you to
also see that the greatest thing this
tree is that it is constant, and It will always bring forth it’s fruit in the
proper season. And so we see that the fruit is tied to a season. It is a
seasonal fruit.
Now
we hear Jesus speak of knowing a man by
his fruit, in the book of Matthew 7:15-20. Now in a closer examination of this
scripture, we see Jesus telling us that you will be able to tell what a man is by his fruit.
Now remember, he begins by warning us about false prophets. And he calls them wolves in sheep’s clothing,
but then talks about fruit. He is using metaphors to get a point across. But
what are these fruits that he is speaking about? Some would have you to think
these fruits are the fruits of the spirit of the fruits of the flesh, but
brother Branham told us the fruit is the
teaching of the season. And what is God’s teaching but His very
thoughts made known through Words. Therefore if we break down this thought of
what a man’s fruit is we find that it is his thoughts, what he is thinking. And
we find a righteous man will have the correct thoughts for the right season.
Those
who were Elect in Moses day did not look to Noah’s Message for their day. But
they received Moses Message in Moses day. And in Jesus day, those who were
looking back to Moses actually missed Jesus when He came. And so we see that
the Righteous Man is like a tree that is planted and rooted in the Waters or
Word of Eternal Life, and their thoughts will be in season for their day and
therefore they shall never wither.
Now
to further understand how our mind is like a garden, we shall look further to
the book of Proverbs 23:7 Here we read, “For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”
And so we see that a man is what he thinks in our heart. And we have already
shown that our thoughts are likened to the life that is in a seed. Therefore, a
man can be said, that a man is literally what he thinks, and therefore his
character is the sum of all of his thoughts. as every plant springs forth from a seed that was
hidden in the earth, and could not have began without a seed, so to every
action that we do, springs forth from a seed that was planted in our minds as a
thought. Therefore our actions are the manifestation of what thoughts lay in
our heart.
In
Luke 6:45
Jesus tells us that our words we speak all come forth from the abundance of the
heart. And the word heart as we know means the understanding which is the
compilation of all of our thoughts. Therefore our actions and speech are only
the fruitage which comes forth to manifest the seed within,
In
Genesis 1:11
We see the law of reproduction that every seed must bring forth after it’s own
kind or nature. Therefore, the life that is in the seed must become manifest.
And therefore, whatsoever life is in the seed will come forth in an outward
manifestation in due season. Our thoughts then are the seeds of our
actions. And therefore if a man is
righteous, it is because he has righteous thoughts. In Proverbs 12:5 we read, The thoughts of the
righteous are right: but
the counsels of the wicked are deceit And
so what distinguishes a righteous man from a wicked man? His thoughts first and
then his actions. In Psalms 10:4 we read, The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is
not in all his thoughts.
Brother
Branham has taught us the simple principle that before you can actually do the
sinful act in your flesh, you must first have to think of it in your mind.
Therefore the Greatest battle ever fought is in the mind, where the seeds of
righteousness and unrighteousness are sown.
Now since we know that God created man in his own image, then we must
also consider that just as God brings forth into manifestation His thoughts and
desires of His heart, so does man do the same. That’s Jerermiah 23:20
Your
mind then is likened to a garden which will grow forth fruit, whether good or
bad depending on what we do with it. In a natural garden we plant the seeds
that we want to bring to harvest. We cultivate our garden so that no weeds will
grow in it. It takes work, but if we sow we shall also reap. The problem is
that there is another who also wishes to sow in our minds as well. Jesus tells
the parable of the two sowers who went forth sowing seeds. The First was the
Son of Man and the other one was the devil. The Son of Man sowed forth good
seed which was the Word of God. But the devil sowed his own word seed which
brought forth tares or weeds. Now we are likened as to husbandmen who are
responsible for this garden. We are supposed to act a good stewards of the Good
seed which is the Word of God. But if we are not really interested in what kind
of harvest we shall reap, then we do not cultivate the good seed. We just let
whatever grows to grow. And this will result in the weeds overtaking the seeds
every time.
Weeds
will always outgrow the True planting of the Lord because after all they are
wild. And we know that “many more are the
children of the harlot than she which has a husband.” All you have to do is to look at our
nations welfare rolls today and see that most of the welfare today is do to
illegitimate births. 69% of the Blacks born today are illegitimate at birth and
I imagine the welfare rolls reflect the same numbers. And so we see that every
deed is first committed in the heart, or mind. Matthew 12:35 A
good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and
an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. This is
also seen in
Matthew 15:19 & Mark 7:21
The
Bible tells us, “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Therefore we are the product of our thoughts just as any fruit is product of
the seed that was planted in the ground.
That
is why we are told to cast down any thought that would exalt itself against the
Word of God. 2 Corinthians 10:5
Notice
that we are told to bring every thought into obedience to the Word of God. Matthew 12:33, 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree
corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Luke 3:8-9 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of
repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of
these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 9 And
now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
If
we are righteous it is because we think righteous thought. And if you have your
source from God then you will not be able to help but to think God’s thoughts.
Remember the parable of the two sowers. They both sowed seed, but the Seed from
the Son of Man was called he good seed. And we see that a good plant will only
produce a good fruit. Matthew 7:17-19 17 Even so every good
tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. & Luke 6:43-45 43 For a good tree bringeth
not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of
thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45 A good man out of the good
treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of
the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the
abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
That is why if the
original Seed was willing to let his thinking go in favor of his Father’s
thinking, then you and I must do the same if we are to be conformed to the
image of the first born in a vast family of brethren as Paul said in Romans 8.
But most people think for some stupid reason that they should be admired for
thinking their own thoughts and holding to their own stupid opinions, but not
so with God. Every person that ever amounted to a hill of beans in this world
let go of their own mind, when they met God and understood His mind.
That is why brother
Branham could make the following statement in his sermon WHEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED 56-0420 16 Now, you Bible
scholars, you who have been looking for a superman to come, that does things
just at random, he will go out and whatever he wants to do, he does it. That
never was in the Bible. And it never will be done by mortal beings in the will
of God. If Jesus Christ, No man will ever live a life above His. And no prophet
at any time ever did do anything without first God telling him to do it. Search
the Scriptures and see if that's right, always. It's not the will of man; it's
the will of God being shown to man.
Let’s bow our heads in
prayer.