The Spoken Word no . 35
The Life was
Manifested
July 27th,
2008
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
Romans 8:19 For
the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the
sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject
to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because
the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For
we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not
only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is
seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But
if we hope for that we see not, then do we with
patience wait for it.
Let us pray… Dear father we come humbly and reverently
into Thy presence this morning knowing that we will be held accountable for
every idle word we speak, and wanting to know your mind, and your will O God,
we bow ourselves before Thy Great Presence as we approach Thy Word for this
hour, knowing that all creation is groaning and travailing because they are
waiting for your children to find their position in the Great family of God.
And all creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, and we
know that, that manifestation can not be any different than Your eldest son
Jesus was manifested, and taken up and adopted because he proved You Father
that His meat was to do Thy Will, and for that very purpose He came into this
world. Help us Father to also find our place in your family and we ask that you
would positionally place us in Jesus Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
Now, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2 that no man could
understand the things of God unless the spirit of God was in him. And so in
order to be about our fathers business, it is impossible unless according to
Ephesians 1:13 & 14 we have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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. 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.
Last night we spoke from paragraph number 20 of
brother Branham’s sermon, “The Spoken Word is the Original Seed” and we took
the subject from his reading of genesis 1:11, “every Seed After Its Kind”. Now,
keep in mind that he is speaking of the spoken word being the original seed,
and that each seed must bring forth after there own kind or nature.
Look 63-0428 P:56 Pharaoh
did not have this potential. He was offered it, but refused it. And when he
refused it then he couldn't focus. No man, after he's turned down the Word of
God, can ever focus himself into it, because you refused the Word that brings
you into relationship with Christ. That's right. So...But Moses looked out of
this window. He believed it. Why? Moses looked by faith. That's how Moses
looked. Now, listen real close to this remark. Faith... Now, don't forget to
get this now. Faith is designed to see
what God wills and wants. There is no knowledge that can do that. Faith alone is designed and give to the
human race to find out what the will of God is. And you take your faith
that you've got and it don't focus with the Word, then leave it alone, you got
the wrong faith. But when your God given
faith focus you with the Word of God, you're directly in line and zeroed.
Oh, my. God help us this hour, great hour that we live in. Faith, designed to
see what God wants. How do you see it? Through the camera of His Word, His
promise. This is a full revelation of Jesus Christ.
Why cry speak 63-0714M P:65 Now,
watch what takes place now. Moses saw this by a vision and Pharaoh said that,
"This is great." God said, "It's an abomination." So God...
Moses chose what God said. Now, notice, faith
sees what God wants you to see. See? Faith
sees what God sees, and reasoning and senses see what the world wants you
to see. Notice, reasoning. "Why, it's only human sense; it's only--only
reason it's this. This is... Well, ain't this just as good." See? That's
just exactly when you use those senses which is contrary to the Word (See?),
then that's what the world wants you to see. But faith don't look at that; faith looks what God said. See, see?
You cast down reasons.
We took this to Scripture and showed that Christ was
so submissive to the Will of God that Isaiah called him the blind servant who
was deaf to anything but the Voice of God, and blind to all but what God willed
for him to see. And that made him the perfect servant.
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?
The NIV says, Who is blind like my servant, and deaf like the Messenger I
send? Who is blind like the one that is
committed to me, blind like the servant of the Lord? You have seen many
things but have paid no attention, your ears are open, but you hear nothing. You
Pleased the Lord for the sake or righteousness, to make His law great and
glorious.
Total deliverance 59-0712 pp. 55-56 55
Jesus was completely, totally man. He could cry like a man, He could eat like a
man; He could become like a man. He was completely, totally man in His physical
being. And in His Spirit, He was completely, totally God, so He made His flesh submissive to the Spirit
that was IN Him. You see, He was tempted in all manners like we are.
He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He had desires and temptations just
like we do. The Bible said He did. He was a man, not an Angel above temptation.
Hebrews 1 said that He was...
Hebrews 1:4 said He was made lower than the Angels. He was man, completely man, that God took a complete man to bring
total deliverance; and He filled Him
with His Spirit; the Holy Ghost was in Him without measure. And He was
tempted like we were. And He was
completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead, when He stopped
nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to the trees, and
so forth, they obeyed Him. He was God
inside. And He could've been man, for He
was Man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself as a Man into the
hands of God for the service of God. And He is our example. 56
We are men and women. We're also Christians. If He's our example, let us completely deliver ourselves into the hands
of the Holy Ghost, that we might be subjects of the
Jesus was so committed
to his Father, that he did nothing, but what God showed him to do., he spoke
nothing but what God commanded him to speak, he taught no doctrine but what
doctrine God gave him to teach and he did not do his own will, but the will of Him
that sent him.
John 5:
19 Then answered Jesus and said
unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself,
but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also
doeth the Son likewise.
John
5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
John 14:
10 the words that I speak unto
you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works.
John 14:
24 the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
John 14:
31 But that the world may know
that I love the Father; and as the
Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
John 12:
49 I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should
say, and what I should speak.
John 7:16 Jesus
answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether I speak of myself.18 He that speaketh
of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him,
the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 4:
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat
is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Hebrews
chapter 10:5 Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come
(in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Now, this was taken
from the book of Psalms 40: 6 Sacrifice and
offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and
sin offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I,
Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I
delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is
within my heart. 9 I have preached righteousness in
the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 11 Withhold
not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy
truth continually preserve me.
Now, let’s get back to
Hebrews 10:8 Above
when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By
the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this
man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is
a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This
is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put
my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. 18 Now
where remission of these is, there is no more
offering for sin. 19 Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way,
which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And
having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins,
Now, how can you possibly forsake the assembling of
the saints when you see the Life of God openly manifesting in flesh today. The
problem is that the people have lost focus on what God is doing right now.
Brother Branham said they miss God by always looking back and always looking
forward but failing to recognize what God is doing now. And when it doesn’t
come to their little group then it doesn’t com eat all according to their
perception, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not happening right now.
You see, what I believe to be taking place in this
hour is that God is coming more and more into His church, and sons are becoming
more and more in the image of their elder brother, which means they are coming
more and more into the image of the Source of Life which is their Father. Now,
if Jesus, our elder brother in a vast family of brethren came forth in the
exact image o f His father, which is Hebrews 1:3, then if we are to be
conformed to the image of the eldest son in a vast family of brethren, then we
are to become the very image of our Father also.
Let me just read these two scriptures for you. First
of all let’s read Hebrews 1:3 Who being the
brightness of his glory, and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as
he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For
unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a
Son?
That’s Jesus Christ the Son of God who came forth as
the very image of the invisible God.
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."
Now, brother Branham said, 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 as 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.
Again brother Branham said
from, 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.
You see, that is exactly what the Apostle John said in
1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and
our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For
the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and
bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was manifested unto us;)3 That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our
fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ.
So the Life, which is God Life, that He’s talking
about, came forth from the Father into His Son to become expressed in a visible
being. Thus the invisible God could become visible through the body of His Son.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to
the Son to have life in himself; And what is life without an expression of that Life?
And if God expressed His very own Life through the body of His first born son,
then what about the other sons?
Then what about us? We are also sons born by the same
Spirit into the same family, and given the same name as our Father. The same
name given to the first born is given to the other sons as well, for the whole
family of God is named Jesus.
Ephesians
3:14 For
this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named,
And furthermore, look what Paul said in Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
I love the way the Weymouth Translation reads Romans 8;29 For those whom He
has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son,
that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;
Now, let’s see how these tie together with what we
have been looking at concerning the sons of God and the way in which we are to
manifest our son-ship in this hour.
Notice what we read last night from brother Branham’s
message concerning the perfect reflection of God in Christ.
Identification
63-0123 P:21 But when He seen that His creation 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 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
And God not only was identified in the body of His
first born son, but in this hour he was identified in another son William
Branham, and God was so expressed through his body that many thought he was God
manifested in Flesh. And he was. He was so one with God that he thought it not
robbery to be the same person as God.
And that is what God wants to do in your body and mine
as well. That is why we can not receive our body change until we have the very
mind of our father in us first.
Hear ye Him 56-1215 P:39 Notice.
Now, when this child become at a certain age, if it'd a been a correct child,
had been zealous of the father's works, had been stable, always abounding in
the works of the Lord, not tossed about with every wind and care, not one day a
Presbyterian, the next day a Methodist, and the next day a Nazarene, the next
day a Pilgrim Holiness, tossed about like a leaf on a troubled sea. If it was stable, its mind, no matter
where it was at, set on Christ, his
affections, working with one single heart, zealous of getting souls saved
and not the church's fusses...Then in the Old Testament there come a day that
this father brought his son out into the public as a witness, put a robe on
him, and set him up upon a great place where all the city could see him. And
they had the law of adoption. This father to his own son, who had been born in
his own family, and now was of age, and was a child worthy to take his place,
he adopted, or placed his own son into
position. Any Bible reader knows that: the placing of a son. Then after
that ceremony, that son had a right, his name was just as good on the--the
check as his father's was. There's where
the church should be today. "The things that I do shall you
also; more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."
That’s where the church should be today, but they’re not. Why? Because of
petty indifferences, and jealousies, just like in the days of Joseph and in the
days of Paul, because of petty indifferences, they wouldn’t get behind what
Paul was doing. Shame on them!
Hear ye Him 56-0611 P:27-28 Now, this child was obedient, then there come
a certain day when this child become matured. That's the day the Pentecostal church ought to be now. You
Presbyterians ought to been that way a long time ago, Baptist and Methodists,
but what's the matter? Then there's a certain day come, that when that father
draw all the people around the regions that had come into the city, or some
great place. And he took and set this
son on a high place, and he put him on a beautiful robe. And they had a
ceremony, and that father adopted that same son that had been born, he adopted
it into his family. Or in other words, he
placed him, positionally what he was in the family, and then he become an heir of everything the
father had. In other words, his name
on a checkbook was just as good as his daddy's. And that's where the church should be today; it should be to a place...
And I say this to myself and to you: oh, what a pity it is when I walk around
and see the sin, and the afflictions, and the sickness of the people and so
forth. We ought to be to a place in faith in God, so separated that what we ask
the Father in the Name of His Son, He'd grant it to us. That's right. 28 He
took him into a place, and there he adopted him into his family, or as a
special time when he set him apart. The church ought to be that way tonight,
an Angel come to you, set you apart and tell
you your position, where you're at.
Not a bunch of men to lay hands on you, that's earthly. I mean God; God sets you apart in a place where you belong. God does
it; your Tutor does it. He's present when it takes place. Now, notice, God
was doing here just exactly like He asked man to do. His Son had been obedient, he had minded the father. He hadn't be
gadding about in places and say, "You see who I am? My campaign's the
biggest there is in the country. Yes, sir.” He'd been obedient. He'd been
obedient to the father. He hadn't been gadding around the things of the
world, associating with them; he'd been obedient. And God took witnesses of the
earth, Peter, James, and John, brought down Elijah and a Moses from heaven, and
stood them there, and adopted His own Son. He was glorified in the presence of
these witnesses. And God came down and overshadowed Him. And the Bible said
"His garments glistened like the sun."
You see the robe, the glorification of Him? He put Him on a robe before the
witness of heaven, 'fore the witnesses of earth.
Hear ye Him 58-0301E P:48 Now,
the son that was his son... In other words, he adopted him, by this may, he
placed his son positionally. How did he do it? Then that son's name on the
check was just as good as the father's, because he was in position. The father
had vindicated, had placed that son in position. And I hope you're getting
this. And then that son was an heir of what the father had. And we are, what
God has, we're joint heirs with Christ, if we are sons of God, positionally
placed in the Kingdom, holding our places. Now, God has many places He could
place you. Some are apostles, some prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, so
forth. God positionally places this son.
And from his
sermon, Where I think Pentecost
failed 55-1111 P:56 Yeah, born again is a wonderful thing, but
that's not all of it, brother. Remember,
there was an adoption of that child. All of the Old Testament has to be
carried out in the New; we know its types and shadows. You couldn't see some
man, a figure with a hand hanging up like this, and then it wouldn't appear when
the negative was made positive. It's got to be everything. Notice, as they went
on then, this son... If the tutor kept bringing word that this son was a royal
boy... He was mindful of his father's business. He was a gallant man. He knew
how to handle business of his father. Oh, his father's heart swelled out 'cause
he loved him. 57 And then when he become of age, at a certain age,
he set a great day. And he called witnesses out into the street, and he took
this boy and put a special robe on him, a beautiful robe, and set him out in
the street, and had a ceremony of adoption. And the father, the very father of
this boy, adopted the boy into his own family (Now, you know that by the
Scripture, the placing of the son.), and adopted him into his own family. And
therefore, from that day on that boy had a legal right to write his daddy's
checks, or whatever the father had, he was heir to it. He was adopted. He was
just equal, had the authority over all of his father's goods. He was no longer
a tutor, but he was... or cared by a tutor, he was absolutely in possession. And
that's where the church has gone now. When you got back there and was born
again, you think that settles it. You went off at ease. Now, you're finding
yourself with cramps, not enough manna, backsliding from one meeting to
another. What it is, is God has watched
the conduct of His Church. 58
Look. God did the same thing to His own
Son. He taken three for a witness. The Bible said, "Three is a
witness." And He took Peter, James, and John (love, hope, and charity) and
taken them up on a high exceeding mountain, great high mountain. And there
Jesus was transfigured before them, and His garments shined like the sun. And a
voice spoke and said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." God adopting His Own Son, shined Him
out in a glorified, transfigured condition, and proved before witnesses,
"This is My beloved Son, hear ye Him." No wonder Jesus could say
"All the power in heavens and earth is given unto My hands."
59 Now, the reason the church is not progressing, brother, you
skipped about from place to place, here and there, and daddling in the world,
and around this way, and fussing about your organizations and your
denominations, whether you're this, that, or the others. Whether you're
oneness, twoness, threeness, or fiveness; or whether you been baptized face
forward, backwards; oh, and all kinds of things, and fussing, and drawing
barriers, and things, and that's the reason the church is not going on. It's
true.If you'd ever break down your walls, let this one be this, and that one be
that. Whatever you are that doesn't matter. But when you can put your hands in
your brother's hands and call him your brother... And we're working for one
cause, that's the
God's
power to transform 65-0911 P:104 Don't
stumble at that word, "predestination." I know you do. But, listen,
It's not my word. It's one of God's Words. You want to read it, read Ephesians
1:5, which, "He has predestinated
us to the adoptions of sons through Jesus Christ." See? Just let me
just break it just a minute, in just a minute to break this out of your mind.
Look. Just as you were in your father at the beginning, a germ seed... Did you
know that, every one of you? You were in your great-great-great-grandfather
also, did you know that? Read the Book of Hebrews, where that we find that Levi
paid tithes when he was in the loins of Abraham, four generations behind him.
When Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, it was accounted to his
great-great-grandson down below him, and he was then in the loins of Abraham.
There you are. See?
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:
Blasphemous
names 62-1104M pp. 57-65 57 Do you remember over in the
Book of Matthew the 17th chapter, the 1st to the 5th verse, Jesus on
Hidden
life 55-1006A P:22 Now,
after this child become of age... Now, he's still a child. But if the child was
reckless, and never paid any attention, and wasn't so interested in the
Father's work, that child never become adopted to that family. But if he was a
correct child, a good child, and loved the work of his father, and was
interested, and tried to do all he could to progress his father's work, then
the tutor brought that word to the father, and there was what's called the
placing of the son or as Paul gives it in--over in Galatians, "the
adoption." That we was predestinated into the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ, the adoption. Now, the same son that was born into a family could
be adopted into the same family, or placed in the same family, or give a
position in the family that he was born into. And I do believe that that is the
work of the Holy Spirit today among the church, is trying to place in the
church positionally apostles, teachers, prophets, and so forth, as... And we've
seen many false alarms and so forth moving amongst the people, which only
indicated that the real genuine adoption was at hand. I believe it. God has to
place into the church. That's the business of God, not of man. P:23 Now,
when this boy became of age, and when he was ready then for his adoption, and
he had proved by--the tutor had told the Father that this boy was eligible for
adoption, he was taken out into a public place, and there he was robed with
a--a robe (a honor robe, perhaps purple, or some color of royalty), and was set
up, and the whole city, all the people around about, seen the Father adopt his
own son into the family. And then when he was adopted into the family, already
a son, already a child, already a heir of grace, but placed in the family...
You get it. Now, when he was placed in the family and given his position, then
that boy's name on a check was just as good as his father's name on the check. Now,
I believe that that is the time that the church has arrived at today, that the
next great move in the church is for God, after we've seen the false alarms...
But now, God will place in His church correctly, apostles, prophets, teachers,
evangelists, not man-made seminary boughten, but God will place into the
church. Not theology run-overs and overnights, but God will place in the
church, as God has chosen, as the Holy Ghost has tutored this church and raised
it up. And in there God will adopt into His--into the position His sons.
They're already His sons, but whether they are worthy of the position that He
has for them.
Adoption
or placing 60-0522E P:32 Notice,
this Melchisedec, as soon as He met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the
kings... The mystery of God now being made known, Who was He? Nobody... They
can't find any history of Him, because He didn't have any father; He didn't
have any mother; He never had any time He began; He never had any time He'd
ever die; so ever Who He was is still alive. He never did have a beginning, so
He couldn't have been nobody else but El, Elah, Elohim; self-existent,
self-abiding, Almighty God. Jesus had a Father; Jesus had a Mother; Jesus had a beginning of days; Jesus had an
ending of earthly life. But this Man had neither father nor mother (Amen.), no
father nor mother. Jesus had both Father and Mother. This Man had neither
father nor mother. Amen. And what did He do? After the battle was over,
after Abraham had took his position...After the church takes its position, we're called to the adoption of sons by the
Holy Spirit. And when each man takes
his position, what God has called him to do, and stand to the end of the
road, going after the lost...
What Holy Ghost was given for 59-1217 P:26 And
then, when this boy got to a certain age (say he was matured), if that boy was
just a renegade, no good, didn't care for the father's business, all he thought
about was flirting and running with the women, or drinking, or gambling, or
horse racing, that boy would always be a
son, but he was never placed in position to have heir to all his father had.
But if he was a good boy, and he was
about the father's business, and he proved to be the right child, then they had
a ceremony. They took the boy out into the street and put a white robe on
him. And they set him up on a scaffold so all the city could see. They made a
feast and a jubilee. And the father then had the ceremony of adoption. He
adopted his own son into his own business, and then the son was coequal with his father. In other words, if it'd
been today, the son's name on the check was just as good as the daddy's.