Spoken Word no. 264
“Waiting on the Lordr”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
July 10th, 2011 p.m.
LUKE 21:19 In
your patience possess ye your souls.
ROMANS 2:6 Who will render to every man according to
his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory
and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious,
and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Psalms 37:34
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the Parousia of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath
long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
This morning as we approach the end of brother
Branham’s six hour sermon which has taken us 264 sermons so far since we began
to study it on January 13th, 2008 I can with confidence say it has
taken us to a depth of the Word that we have never known before. Not in the
order of theology but of understanding the nature and character of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and his relationship with His Father. In spending this much time
we have come to the place where we are learning patience, and of course when
God is teaching you patience then there must come a testing of that patience.
So this morning we will read from paragraph 202 and
203 of this great sermon of William Branham’s as we begin to close down our
series that we’ve been studying for the past 3 and a half years. And you know
it seems to me that we have spent as much time studying this one sermon of Br.
Branham’s as Jesus had spent in his entire earthly ministry, 3-1/2 years. Maybe
there’s something significant here concerning the amount of time this has taken,
because we do not believe in coincidences, so there must be some significance
concerning the amount of time we’ve spent examining this sermon of Br.
Branham’s. But before I get myself into more trouble with certain brothers, let’s go ahead and begin reading
from paragraph 202.
Now, brother Branham is getting ready to leave for a
little more than a week, and he is speaking to the people here and says, The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed pp.202 I love
you. I appreciate you. Maybe I'll be back about Sunday a week. I'm going down
to
203 Now, I've been accused
of a lot of things, friends, and a lot of things I'm guilty of. I'm neglectful;
that's true. I don't know why it is. Somebody
has to push me in a corner and make me fight. I don't know; that's a
nature. I've done things that I should not have done, not willfully, but I
plundered in it. And that's, of course, what makes me so afraid, in seeing in
this day, the day that we're living at... And you see now what I believe. I want to hear from God if all possible before
I make a move (See?), 'cause I
don't want to fail Him. I want to
be with Him everywhere. And I want you to pray for me.
Now, I really feel
these two paragraphs are very personal to me, because I have been going through
the same thing myself for the past year. Last year we made plans for big
meetings in
Now, I am not trying to
compare my ministry to the Apostle Paul or William Branham as though I have
some great ministry. I have nothing to offer except a yielded vessel, willing
to go where my Father sends me and willing to say what He wants for me to say.
And that is all I have to offer Him. So I am not trying to compare myself with
no body, because there is no comparison, as far as I am concerned, except for
the fact that Paul set the pattern, and William Branham filled that pattern,
and I have tried to stay true to that pattern as any true five fold minister
would do. But the comparisons stop there.
But what I am catching
here is that brother Branham has been talking about the need to wait on The
Holy spirit in order to know exactly what next he was to do. It was important
for him to hear from God first before he did anything.
In fact from his
sermon,
So we are looking at the need to be patient, and we are examining what
patience is all about in our character development.
Proverbs
20:22B …but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
James 5 : 7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold,
the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long
patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
James 1 : 4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:3
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
From his sermon, Paul a prisoner of Christ
63-0717 P:47 brother Branham said, See,
he knew to wait on the Lord. And there's where so many people today bring
a reproach upon the Word. They go out with an ambition. How many
revivals have been left flat because of a thing like that, because the
evangelist doesn't wait to see what the Lord's got to say? Some of them said, "Come over here," and they go right now, because the association
says go. And the Holy Spirit would
say something different, yet the ambition of the man to become the state
presbyter or something another, or some elder, or some bishop, or something was
pulling, "You must go," and yet he knows better. The Holy
Spirit's saying, "Go here."
See, he's yoked to his organization. He's a prisoner to the organization. But if he's yoked to Christ, he's led by the
Holy Ghost. See, he's yoked, a prisoner. Don't make any difference what
anything else says, it's a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. He hears only the voice of God, and he
speaks only when It comes out. He says nothing.
Now, if I could travel like a thought it would be nice to be able to drop
in on my brothers in the
And I must find myself in His will by doing nothing until he says do. And
then going only to where he says go. For even Jesus went to heal just one man
and had to walk by about 300 to do so. And if He had to wait for the right
direction, then who am I to not wait?
From his sermon, Stature of a perfect man 62-1014M P:106 Brother
Branham said, When you've done exactly what
He says do: seems like it went wrong,
stand still. Be patient. Moses
said, "You know when I was laid on that foundation
there was patience laid on there, so I'll just wait and see what God will do. There
the old serpents was, crawling around, blowing and hissing at one another.
First thing you know Moses' serpent went, "Gulp, gulp, gulp," and
gulped them all down. He had patience.
They that wait upon the Lord, Shall renew their strength. They shall mount up
with wings like an eagle. (Is that right? See? That's...)They'll
run and not be weary, Walk and not faint...See, just wait on the Lord.
Have patience. See?
And from his sermon Hear ye Him 60-0712 P:22 he said, “If you ever take men that's
so zealous that they want to always be
doing something, God couldn't trust
that person. If you'll notice in the Bible, the man that God used, was the man was trying to get away from all of
it. That's the one that God used.
Take, for instance, Paul, Moses, and so forth, trying to run from the very cause.”
But waiting for the go ahead is sometimes the hardest thing to do, because
we have to be sure that God is sending us or we may find ourselves running
without a message.
The scripture says in James 5:10 Take, my brethren, the
prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction,
and of patience.
And Brother Branham said in his sermon, Events
made clear by prophecy 65-0801E P:37 Look at the age of Noah at
the climax before judgment. What happened? Noah, it was only his own family that believed the man. The rest of them
criticized him. And He destroyed the whole world. In the days of Abraham, only Abraham's group that believed...
When the angels went and preached to
Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.
Sign of
this time 63-1113 P:43 One
time, a prophet had to marry a prostitute, have children by her. One laid on his side for three hundred and
forty days, then turned over on the other side. One stripped his clothes.
And just everything did for signs. See? And Jonah had to do it for sign. Remember,
Abraham had to marry Hagar against his
own will, when Sarah give the handmaid, but he refused it. But God appeared
to him, said, "Listen to Sarah, because the freewoman will
not be heir with the bondswoman." She had to have the child be cast
out. What was it? A sign. All of it is signs. God does things for signs,
Hebrews 10:6
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of
God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but
followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
2
Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the
ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Uniting
time and sign 63-0818 P:23 That's what they always referred to the
prophets about, they said, "And he had understanding by visions from the
Lord. And the Word of the Lord came to the prophets of old." See, they had understanding through the Word of
the Lord, by the prophets. And then the prophets give a sign. Like one man
laid on his side for so long, then turned over and laid on the other side. One
man had to strip his clothes. And oh, there's many things that they did to show
the sign that they were living in. And now we know that the God that made the
heavens and earth, and so laid out His work that He would describe His time by
signs, that same God lives today. So we must be, something... As we see
the--the time that we're living in, there must be something that somebody's
overlooking somewhere. See? Because God would never let these things happen
without giving us a definite sign, that where that--that we'd understand.
Romans 15:4
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
That is the problem we have with the people today. They are not able to
wait on God for the moving of the waters, and so they try and work up
something. That’s never been God’s plan, He wants us to learn how to wait on
Him so that we might be led by His Spirit.
This sermon of Brother Branham’s is filled with
examples of people who could not wait, and so they went out from God’s perfect
plan.
In paragraph 27 brother Branham said, Now, Adam's
bride could not wait. God had told Adam and Eve, "Multiply and replenish the earth." It was an oncoming thing, a promise. She was not his
wife as yet, because he had never lived with her. The Bride of Christ is not
His Wife yet; the wedding supper is to take place. Get it? Notice, oh this is
rich. She got in a hurry, and what did
she do? She crossed her seed.
28b
That's exactly what Adam found. That's what Christ has found. Couldn't wait: that's what's the matter
with the people today. They can't wait for the real Holy Spirit to take the
church in position. They've got to
manufacture something, work up something: initial evidence, speaking in
tongues to get more members in the church, all these kind of tommyrot instead
of waiting upon the Lord for the real manifestation of the resurrection of
Christ making Himself known among the people. She can't wait.
Then again in paragraph 30, and again in paragraph 32
and 34, 35 and 46, and paragraph 50 he says, All right, what's she trying to do? Oh, she manufactures a little jumping on the
platform, not making fun of it; it's all right. She manufactures something else. Why? To get members in the
church. What's the matter? She
just can't wait. See? She
can't wait for God to do it. They got to get members in there
somewhere. So they tell them, "You have to do that," and away they
go.
And again in paragraph 53 he said, That's what's the
matter with Pentecostals today. They're manufacturing something. They can't
wait. Oh, God, they just can't wait, so
they commit adultery. Amen. Tries to manufacture something, and what does
it bring forth? Like it did the first time, the first bride. They couldn't
wait. She brought death through a bastard born child, which we all are children
of.
And also in paragraph 54, and then on up to And
again in Paragraph 177 Notice how God did not move
178
Like the mighty anointed prophet Moses knew God would use him, for He had
proved Moses to be His servant by his peculiar birth. At the right time that
if--deliverance for Abraham's seed was at time. (Are you getting it?) Moses never stayed in
And in paragraph 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.
And paragraph 200 I don't know where He's going to lead me. I don't know; I'm waiting. I been waiting for a year. I
may wait for two years; I may wait for three; I don't know. I don't know the
next move. I'm waiting for it. But I think according to the Scripture, the
Word's been sowed. The next thing
is the coming forth of the Spirit.
Rejected king 60-0610 P:51 But
then when Saul wouldn't wait on the Lord
no more, Samuel turned right away from him. Remember, and the first time,
not the second time, but the first time
that Saul took upon himself to take over the service of the Lord, Samuel turned
his back on him and walked away from him. And the first time that the church lets their leaders take over to lead the
people, the Holy Spirit gets right away from them. And the very first time that you go being led by man instead of God, the
Holy Spirit will get away from you too. Let the Holy Spirit lead. That's
what we need is leadership. And God gave us a Leader, and we don't hear It.
Time of decision 59-0611 P:5 Brother
Tommy Hicks, I hear, is in a heart attack, overworked. Oh, as I said the other
night? God's people needs a juniper tree--rest. Let's just wait on the Lord,
then we renew our strength as we wait on Him. Don't try to do it all. I remember staying in the prayer line for
seven days and nights, and eating my meal at the pulpit, determined I would
pray for every one that come before I set down. They was ten times more on the last night than there was when I
started. Then I almost died. I couldn't sleep, didn't know where I was at
hardly, I was so tired and weary. Doesn't
pay to do that. Jesus doesn't want
us to do that. Wants to take care of ourselves...
What hearest thou Elijah 59-0609 P:38 That's
what the churches try to do, try to pattern and mock, join something, run after this, that, or the other. Wait on the Lord. He will provide for you.
What do you hear? Can you hear the Voice? That bear hears the Voice of God. He
don't grow any snowshoes. But what does he do? Just go out and lay down, and lay there and sleep it off, all winter. Let the rest of them run around if they
want to, he just takes a good winter snooze. Why? God makes a way for him.
He listens. Nature speaks.
Hear His voice 58-1005M P:34 See,
we got too many things ahead of the Lord. You can't have the prayer meeting
because Mr. Godfrey's on tonight. You can't have the prayer meeting because
"We Love Sucy" is on tonight, or some kind of a foolish nonsense like
that, that takes up the time. And we don't have time to hear the voice of the
Lord. And those who do claim to be Christians, just kneel down of the little
prayer like this, kinda homemade. "Lord bless me, and my family, and take care of us. Good night."
And the next morning rise and say, "Just guide us through the day. Good day."...
We should wait on the Lord. You see,
we do all the talking. We don't give Him
a chance to talk back to us. That if we would pray and pray until our soul
comes into the Presence of God, and then just relax and listen to His voice...
By faith Moses 58-0720M P:3 And
my ministry, fixing to make the change, now... And I have no meetings scheduled, and that's the reason that I just
kinda come aside and thought... And now, for the next few weeks I would just
take a rest, complete rest, and wait on
the Lord.
Door to the heart 58-0316E P:12 I
just held a revival in a place that held twenty people. That's right. But you
see, I'm not out much expense. Now, the way I do it, I just wait on the Lord, and if He tells me to go to a place that's got
twenty people, I'm not under no obligations to the world, or to the radio,
or anything, so I couldn't go; and so I just go hold a revival.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait
for it.
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so,
but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, character; and character, hope: 5 And hope maketh not
ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us. dokime means
tried character
Let us pray…