Spoken Word #34
“Every
Seed After It’s Kind”
Brian Kocourek
July 26th, 2008
This evening I would like to speak from paragraphs 20
and 21 of brother Branham’s sermon “The
Spoken Word is the Original Seed”.
Let us now stand as we begin to read, since we will
also be reading from the Scriptures as well. So open with me your Bibles to
genesis chapter 1 for the next few minutes as we take for our text and brother
Branham’s text as well, Genesis chapter 1 and verses 1 through 11.
20
Now, I want to open... (Pardon. Right in here. He's showing me the different
mikes to use. There's such a bunch of them here this morning, and I don't know
which one to start on.) Now, let us turn to the Scriptural... I'm going to
start in Genesis, and I wind up tonight in Revelations. I believe the Word.
Genesis, beginning with the 1st chapter, I wish to read a portion of the Word.
And now, if somebody would want someone to take the... got your pencils and
papers and so forth, 'cause I've got many Scriptures. I want to keep reading
all the time on these Scriptures.
Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and... earth. And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided... light from the darkness.
Now, I would just like to add here that the first time
God spoke a division took place. Now, keep that in mind. Because Life is
manifested by division upon division upon Division. You can not multiply cells
without dividing them first. Now, let’s continue.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God
said, Let there be a... firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Now, I want you to notice here that the second time
God spoke a division took place again. And the waters from above were separated
from the waters from below. Now, there is a principle that is showing itself
here. Every time God speaks, division is a natural outcome. So division or
separation is not a bad thing. Each time God turns a corner, some keep going
straight ahead while others who take the corner are separated from the masses
who continue going straight ahead.
So each time the path splits we must make sure we are
following the Pillar of Fire, for as a roman candle the light goes forth, and
then out of one flare comes and other, and then out of that one comes another,
and then out of that one comes another. And notice this is the way brother
Branham explained the process of the Word to us.
Church
Age Book Chapter 1 - Introduction - The
Revelation of Jesus Christ P:2
INTRODUCTION Though this volume will
concern itself with various major doctrines (such as the Godhead, Water
Baptism, etc.) found in Revelation, chapters One through Three, its main theme
is the setting forth of a detailed study of the
So you see than as we pointed out last week that God
has not left us. The pillar of Fire is still on the scene. And I realize many
who follow Br. Branham’s Message are claiming that Pillar of Fire to be in
their camp. So I will be careful on how we make our statements about following
that Pillar of Fire. But let me say, that anyone outside of the doctrine of
Christ does not have God, so that in itself eliminates all those camps who
claim to be following the Pillar of Fire and yet deny the doctrine that William
Branham taught. Now, then what about all who claim to believe the doctrine?
Well, I can’t speak for all who claim to believe the doctrine, I can only speak
for how I see it.
I believe that we must see Jesus Christ the same in
every detail except the corporal body in this hour, and we must see that Alpha
repeats itself in the Omega. Now, I know that many who have followed Br. Vayle’s
ministry also believe that Alpha has repeated itself in the Omega because that
is what he taught as a Bible principle for us in this hour.
But what I want us to be very careful is that we do
not miss the corner as God continues to unfold for us further light upon those
Truths and principles, Because as we pointed out last week, brother Branham
said, “the
church must see it in the present tense or it is lost.”
And so the light comes out of light until further
light helps us to see more clearly than we could initially see under the first
light or second light of that Roman candle. Now, let me further elucidate so as
to be more clear, what I am saying.
Out of Luther’s Message came Wesley’s Message, and in
fact Wesley could not get off ground zero until at Alders Gate he was
introduced to Luther’s Message. Then from that light went forth further light,
and in 1906 the Pentecostal light of the Word being manifested in the flesh led
way for the Holy Spirit to come down and manifest Himself to man again using
the flesh of one man William Branham. But
then God took his prophet off the scene but the Pillar of Fire remained on the
scene in a teaching ministry. Now, that ministry did not end when brother Vayle
took himself out of the pulpit. The Holy Spirit is the teacher, and as brother
Vayle told me, he said, “Brian, people are saying that when my ministry is over, that
there will be no more teaching. But they are wrong, the Holy Spirit is the
teacher.” So the light continues to
go out one from the other to the other to the other until the Holy Spirit will
leave the midst of humanity.
So we are looking then at this division that comes via
the Word of God being spoken.
And
God made the firmament, and divided
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmaments heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day. God said, Let the waters under the heavens
be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the
waters he called he the Sea: and God saw that it was good.
Now, to this point we see that God has spoken twice
and division has taken place both times that God spoke. Yet to god that
division he called a gathering together of like unto like. So in essence the
division comes from the light as one light goes forth from the first light, and
other lights come out of it. This in a way is like the seed of God going forth
first into Adam, and then out of Adam came forth Seth and out of Seth came forth Enos, and
then out of Enos came forth Cainan, etc….
So this division that comes forth each time God spoke
is an expression of the life that is in the Word. For in order for Life to
multiply, the cells first must divide themselves and thus by dividing, they are
actually multiplying. In fact that is how you check any division problem in
mathematics, is by multiplying the answer against the divisor.
And the same in life. Take the life that is being
produces, and look at the characteristics of that divisor and by multiplying
that divisor against the product, you come back to the beginning. In other
words you can trace the Life back to it’s origin through a right division of its
attributes and characteristics.
Now, let’s see if this is not correct. And don’t
forget we are still reading from Br. Branham’s text here.
Genesis
1;11 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 the earth brought forth grass,
and herbs and yielded seed after his
kind, and the trees yielded fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was
good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Now, how did the seed bring forth after it’s kind or
nature? By splitting the cells, and thus multiplying the life from one to two,
then two to four, then four to eight, etc.
Notice that
Peter tells us the same thing in 2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, Now, notice then that peter is talking about Grace and
Peace being multiplied through the Knowledge of God and (which is a conjunction
and wee know a conjunction links or conjuncts or co-joins two things. So he is
talking about the knowledge of God and His Son. And he tells us that is how
Grace and peace are multiplied. Then he says, )3 According
as his divine power (That’s His Word,
because Romans 1:18 tells us the Word of God is the Power of God. So we see
here that His Divine Power, or God power is what) hath given unto us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness,(That’s
God-Like-ness, and notice Life and God-like-ness comes) through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: (So what is this glory? That word is doxa, and it
speaks of the opinion, values, and judgments of God. And what is this word
virtue? It is translated as the word praise. So it speaks of what we say. Then
how do we add to God’s opinion, God’s values, and God’s judgments? By saying the same thing He said. Add to your
glory, praise. Then notice the next verse.) 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises (now what are promises? It’s word. When I give you
my word I am making a promise. So he tells us that we are given exceeding great
and precious Word,) that by these (these what? These promises, this
word) ye might be partakers of the divine nature,(and
what is the divine nature, but God’s own nature. Every Seed after it’s own
Kind. You receive His Word, and His Word is a Seed that the Son of Man came
sowing. And receiving the very eternal Life that is in His Own word we then) having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust. (Then notice it is by receiving God’s very own Doxa,
His very own Word that we receive the very nature of God Himself. Oh, how I
love this.) 5 And beside this,
giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue (Notice he says, add to your
revelation praise…Now, I know we usually speak of this word virtue as meaning
strength, for the word means manly, but it also means praise and the only other
time that it is translated in Scripture besides translated as virtue is in 1
Peter 2:9 where it is translated as praise. Therefore we see in Hebrews 13:15 says, By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of our
lips giving thanks to his name.
Now in getting back to
brother Branham sermon, we pick up at paragraph 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, I want to stop here because, I want to focus more
on what he is saying here, that every seed must bring forth after it’s kind. After it’s likeness, after it’s
nature.
Brother Branham said that Jesus had gotten himself out of the way so much
until all you saw was God’s reflection in Him.
Isaiah 42:
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I
sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
Rising
of the sun 65-0418M P:117 We don't try to be some big person. We
don't care what the people say about us. Our
name ain't nothing; it's His Name. Our
life is nothing; it's His Life. It's His power, not our power. And there's only one thing that we love to do, is
see Him glorified. And how can it be? When He's glorified in us by His
resurrection that's in us. We see Him represented again as He was, today. Did
you get that? See? Our desire is not to be glorified. Our desire is not some
big name. Our desire is not boost some church, or make more in the Sunday
school, or try to bring in, hogtie, push in, offer picnic party, or bring
stars, buttons, or something else like that. That's not our desire. Our desire
is to see Him glorified. Glorify what? Not with self-pride, but in us, our
lives, to prove that He is alive and living in us. If I can get myself out of the way, so when William Branham not even
thought of, and you not even thought of, till we can see Jesus glorified among
us, see Him, that's our desire. That's gives us the Quickening Power. And
it gives us joy to know that we are with Him, both flesh and bone of Him, being
the Bride of Him, and seeing His same vindicated methods proving in us that He
is now risen from the dead. See? No wonder He said, "Fear not."
Broken cisterns 65-0123 P:64 You
don't use the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit uses you. See, see? You're not to
use the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit got you. A gift is not something you take
like a knife, and sharpen a pencil with it. It's yielding yourself to God and getting yourself out of the way so
the Holy Spirit can use you.
Lean not unto thy own understanding 65-0120
P:76 It's like I said: a gift is not something
that's like you take a knife, and if you want to cut this with it, you can cut
it; or you cut this, you can cut it, or whatever you want to. That's not a gift
of God. See? No. A gift of God is some
way you have of getting yourself out of the way. And gifts and callings are
the predestination of God. "Gifts and callings are even without
repentance." You're born with it, a little gear that you pull yourself
over in, but you cannot step on the
pedal. See? God has to operate it. You
have to get yourself out of the way. Your faith can operate it, not mine;
yours. Mine just takes it out of the way. You believe with all your heart that
Jesus Christ lives today.
Paradox a 65-0117 P:65 A
gift of faith is not something you take and do something with. A gift of faith is you just get yourself
out of the way. The gift is getting your ownself out of the way.
Proving His Word 64-0816 P:133 Now,
to heal, I cannot; you know that. "What is a gift, Brother Branham,
something that you take and..." No. It's
something you know how to get yourself out of the way. See? As long as
you're there, it'll never work. William
Branham is the greatest enemy I got. See? But when I get him out of the way (See?), then Jesus Christ can use the
body. See?
Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:193 Now,
I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this tape, you might
have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was
packing this Message. I have no more to do with it than nothing, no more than
just a voice. And my voice, even against my better judgment... I wanted to be a
trapper. But it's the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to
do. I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there
when He appeared. I'm not the One that performs these things and foretells
these things that happens as perfect as they are; I'm only one that's near when
He does it. I was only a voice that He used to say it. It wasn't what I knew;
it's what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me. It
wasn't the seventh angel, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man. It
wasn't the angel, his Message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a
man; it's God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was a messenger from the
Son of man. The Son of man is Christ. He's the One that you're feeding on.
You're not feeding on a man. A man, his words will fail, but you're feeding on
the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. If you haven't fed fully on every
Word to give yourself strength to fly above all these denominations and things
of the world, will you at this time do it, while we pray?
True Easter
Seal 61-0402 P:121 I'm a stranger to you? I don't know you?
All right. You just see if He's still the High Priest that can be touched by
the feeling of your infirmity. I never seen you in my life. You're a stranger
to me. I know nothing about you. God does know you. And if He can reveal to me
by His Holy Spirit, the resurrected Christ Who come here, and give me a
temporarily resurrection by my spirit, that my spirit goes away now and His
Spirit comes in, then to let you know whether He's alive or not. Now, I don't
know you. That's me, me and my spirit; we don't know you. But He knows you. But
He wants to borrow my body to prove that
He's the resurrected Christ. I'm so happy to loan it to Him, give it to Him,
anything He can get out of it.
On the
wings of a dove 65-1128E P:30 Now, what God is showing him here is this:
on these sacrifices is speaking of Christ; that how God took Jesus to the
Calvary and tore Him apart, and received the body up into heaven, and sent the
Spirit down upon us, that the same Spirit was on Him has to be on you to
dovetail with the Body, to be the Bride at the end time. See, see? That's
right. See? Won't be a denomination now, It'll be the Word, what He was. See? But
like that Word has to come to Word,
like cell in a human being. You know, when your body's being built, it isn't
one cell of a human, next of a dog, and next of a pig. Oh, no, no. It's all
human cell. That's the way the Body of Christ is, all the Word of God, not just part of It, some tradition added to
It; no, It's all the Body of Christ.
Hebrews
Chapter 3 57-0901M P:25 As Isaiah said in the 28th chapter, "It
must be line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. Hold
fast to that what's good." See, there's the way It comes: line
upon line upon line, Word upon Word, Scripture upon Scripture.
It must all compile together. That's why, I think in these lessons like we're
having now, it's a great thing to the church, because it brings them to a place
that all of the Scriptures tie together. And our experience must tie with that
Scripture (Oh, here it is.), if it doesn't, then it's wrong."
Identification
63-0123 P:21 But when He seen that His creation had--had
fallen, now His own loving character molded Himself into the Person of Christ. God's own character of love projected
Himself in the man, Christ. As Paul, speaking here, "Thinking it not
robbery, but making himself equal, equal
to God," rather. See, His own
character molded that kind of a Person. Oh, no one could ever do that but
God.
Christ
is identified the same 64-0415 P:26 He was the manifestation of
God. He was God in Christ,
reconciling the world to Himself. He was
expressing what the Father was in Himself. He said, "I do always that
which pleases the Father. And I and the Father are One. The Father dwells in Me. When you see Me, you've seen the
Father." In other words, He
expressed God, the Spirit so much in Him, that He and the Father, it wasn't
robbery for Him to be the same Person.
Investments 63-0126 P:84 Jesus
Christ was the expressed Image of God. He was the what God through His power
projected: a body which was called Son
because He was a man, and He come from God. And He was so committed to God, till He didn't think it robbery that Him
and God being the same Person. And they were, because God was the Word, and
He was the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And there's where God could take His Word
without anything, any interruption. He
was constantly doing that what the Father wanted done. And there the Word could
work through Him there, till...?... Him
and Father was One. That's what...And then He took that perfect Life and
all of our sins, and placed it upon that perfect Life and He died that we
renegades could die to ourselves and
be born of above, and His Word could work through us the works of God.
SHALOM 64-011 7
Jesus. "No Man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the
Father has declared Him." See? In other words, God was identified. The Person of God was identified in the
Body, the Lord Jesus Christ, so He was the expressed image of God. Or, God
expressing Himself through an image, see, through an image,
AS I WAS WITH MOSES 51-0503 E-15 When Jesus of
AMPLIFIED Hebrews 1:1-5, In Many separate revelations, - each of which set
forth a portion of the truth, - and in different ways God spoke of old to our
forefathers in and by the prophets. But in the last of these days, He has
spoken to us in the person of a Son, Whom he appointed heir and lawful Owner of
all things, also by, and through Whom, He created the worlds, and the reaches
of space, and the ages of time, - that is, He made, produced, built, operated,
and arranged them in order. He is the sole
expression of the Glory of God, - the
Light-being, the out-raying of the Divine, - and He is the perfect imprint and very image of God's
nature, upholding,
maintaining, guiding, and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power.
When He had, by offering Himself, accomplished our cleansing of sins and
riddance of guilt, he sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High.
Taking a place and rank by which He, Himself, became as much superior to angels
as the glorious Name which He has inherited is different from and more
excellent than theirs. For which of the angels did God ever say, "You are
My Son, today I have begotten you, And Again, I will be to Him a Father, and he
will be to Me a Son."
BELIEVE
FROM THE HEART 57-0623 E-46
Jesus was a
witness of God. He become so full of
God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to
Himself, the very expression. A
man's work declares his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ
declared God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving
of souls, till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was
declared in Christ.
Therefore, we
see that He was the very expression of God. This first light that God brought
forth was the Logos which was a part of God coming forth into an expression which God called His
Son, and then through this expression, or expressed Word, or
Manifested Word, God brought forth all of creation. ROMANS 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom
[be] glory for ever. Amen.
SIRS
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 57-1211 021 Now, Jesus was born for one purpose,
that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made
physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to
the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all mankind, He
expressed it through Christ. Christ seemed to be a dual personality. He
would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't
understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else
another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking.
Jesus was the man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that
doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work."
See? God will not share His glory with no one.
HARVEST
TIME 641212 87 034
Jesus said, "That they might be one, Father, as You and I
are one." Not for
some man to be over something, it never will work; one denomination wants to
take over the other, and one man over the other. But that you might be
one with God, like Christ and God was one; that's what the prayer is.
That... He was the Word, and Jesus prayed that we might be the Word,
reflecting Him. That's His prayer to be answered. See how Satan
scruples it up in the carnal mind? But that wasn't Jesus' prayer, at all, that
we might all congregate together and all have a certain creed and so forth.
Every time they do it, they go further and further from God. He wants us to be one with God,
and God is the Word.
Each individual in his heart must be that one with God
In JOHN 17:11 ¶ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the
world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom
thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. And how is
it that we might be One even as which means in the same manner as Jesus and His
Father were One? Jesus said, JOHN 17:14 I have given them thy word; and
the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not
of the world. Jesus tells us we become One with God through the
same Word that He became One With God. JOHN 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these
alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they
all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one:
Therefore it
is very apparent that we are one by receiving the same Word which bring us into
the same Glory or same mind as the Father. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: