Spoken
Word no. 71
A
Perverted Message
Brian Kocourek
Let’s open our Bibles this
evening to Deuteronomy 22: 9 Thou shalt not sow
thy vineyard with divers seeds lest the
fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
52 What
did Eve try to do? Hybreed it, mix it with something. You've got to take it the way God spoke it. It won't mix with
nothing. No, sir. Jesus one time said, "If you had the faith like a
mustard seed..." I'm told that mustard seed won't hybreed. You
can't mix it with nothing. You can mix other grains, but you can't mix mustard seed (See?),
'cause it won't hybreed. And if you've
got that kind of faith, that's one--taking
one Word of God...
Now, before we continue, Notice that brother Branham
is hammering at this idea of hybreeding. He is telling us that to cross breed
is not Scriptural and in nature it causes harm to the plants, and so too in the
spiritual it also causes a perversion of the truth.
Now, if hybreeding is so bad, then where did it come from? Well, in the
natural it was a catholic monk that invented cross pollenization of seeds. He
was an Austrian monk named was Gregor Johann Mendel and he lived between 1822-1884.
Between 1856 and 1863 he cultivated and tested
at least 28,000 pea plants in the monastery garden. He focused on single,
easily observed traits, then cross-pollinated the plants with great care and
noted the types and frequency of traits in their progeny. His results,
presented in 1865 before the local Natural Science Society, gave the first
scientific description of the mechanism of heredity, and his summarized
interpretations are today known as Mendel's Laws. These laws define the basic
behavior and relationships of genes (though Mendel used the word factors) in
the transmission of hereditary traits.
Now, had this monk known his Bible He would not have done so, for in doing so,
he has caused a great revolution in the natural sciences, and has perverted the
gene strains of almost every food substance in the food chain, weakening the
food chain by perverting it. Today the
food chain is so weak that the seeds must be chemically fertilized, and sprayed
in order to keep them pest free and bacteria resistant. They have no natural
God given immunity or natural protection left in them, and they are what
brother Branham refers to as hot house plants.
Brother Branham said from his sermon, Communion
62-0204 P:59 Like hothouse plants... You know, you take
a plant out of the hothouse, you have to baby it. It don't know the weather. It
doesn't know the sunshine and things; it's been covered over and babied. That's
what's the matter with too many so-called Christians; they're hothouse plants
(That's right.), subject to every bug comes along. You know, it's only it's
only the delicate plants that has to be sprayed, or, the hybrid plants.
God
Himself warned us not to mess with cross fertilization of seeds in Deuteronomy 22: 9 Thou shalt not sow thy
vineyard with divers seeds (that
means different kind of seeds) lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the
fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
So
we are told that to mix various seeds together, or to sow them in close proximity,
because in the pollenization process the plants will mix seeds, and the fruit
of the plants will become defiled. Notice the word, de·file means 1. To make filthy or dirty; to pollute: 2. To debase the pureness
or excellence of; In other words, to corrupt: And that is exactly what the
Apostle Paul said that these men who had entered in among the the church in His
day had done to the Gospel he had preached. By adding here and taking away
there they had polluted the Gospel thus introducing the people to another Jesus
and another spirit.
Deuteronomy
32:20 And he said, I will hide my
face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is
no faith.. And what is faith? Faith is a revelation. A people who
will not go by Revelation, and can’t receive it. So they have a form of
godliness but deny the power there of. The power of an endless life. The power
to change their life. Now this
word "froward " was translated
from a Hebrew word that means perverted. So it speaks of a perverted people. A
corrupt people. Where the life has left the stem. A people who can not receive
the Truth for what it is but receive a twisted Truth.
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. So you see this other seed that is being sown is being
mixed with the original seed, and is causing a perversion of the original life
that was in the seed. And so what Paul is saying here concerning His Message is
exactly what God told man not to do concerning seeds in the natural.
Galatians
1:6 The Message Translation: 6-9 I can't believe your fickleness, how easily
you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by
embracing a variant message! (Now, the
word variant means having or showing variations. And to vary from the truth is
to deviate from it. Therefore these people were giving ear to deviant forms of
the Message that Paul Preached. And in doing so they had deviated from the original
truth which means they went into error.)
Then Paul says, These variations are not minor variations either, you know;
it is completely another Gospel, a different Message than what I brought to
you. It has become an alien message, It might as well not be a message to you
because it is a lie about God. Those who are provoking this confrontation among
you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us,
even if an angel from heaven were to preach something other than what we
preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I'll say it again: If
anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than
what you received originally, let him be cursed. 10-12 Do you think I
speak this strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or
get popular applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn't bother being
Christ's slave. Know this, I am most emphatic here, friends, this great Message
I delivered to you is not mere human optimism. I didn't receive it through the
traditions, and I wasn't taught it in some school. I got it straight from God.
I received the Message directly from Jesus Christ.
Only one way provided by God 63-0731 P:11 I
want to take this for a text: "There Is Only One Way Provided By God For
Anything." One way God has provided to meet everything. Now, any other way besides this way would be a
perverted way to God. God can only have one way to do anything. His first
way is always the only way that He can ever do it. For, God, making a choice or
a decision, must forever remain with that decision. And if He changes that
decision for a better way, then it shows that God is not God, He's not
infinite; He found something better than He knew at the first place. He doesn't
change. He makes His ways perfect. His Words are perfect. And any way that takes away, or adds to, anything that God has
provided, is wrong. I believe in the last Book of the Bible, called
Revelation, it's written, "If
any man shall add one word, or take a Word from it, his same--or his part will
be taken from the Book of Life."
Now,. I want you to
notice that Both Brother Branham and the Apostle Paul said to deviate or add to
or take away from the way God did it or said it brings a perversion. Now, the
word per·vert means 1. To cause to turn away from what is right,
proper, or good; to corrupt. 2. To bring to a bad or worse condition; to
debase. 3. To put to a wrong or improper use; to misuse. See note
concerning corrupt which
means 1. To destroy or
subvert the honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; to pervert. 3.
To taint or contaminate. 4. To cause to become rotten; to spoil. 5. To change the
original form of.
And we know that when
something becomes rotten or corrupt the life haas gione out of it, and what
life it now has is in an altered state, not like the original.
Fourth seal the 63-0321 P:126 Those
that mixed turned pale and go to death. It is a perverting--per--perversion to
mix colors with white. You pervert the original color. Is that right? If the
original color, only color is white, and you mix something with it, you pervert
its real cause. Amen. Is that right? And when... If He is the white horse, and
He is the Word, then to mix anything with that, any kind of a creed, add one
word to it, take one word away from it, it's to pervert the whole thing. Oh,
my. Keep me with the Word, Lord. Truth and error... Oh, my. No matter how good,
that it... Truth and error cannot mix. It cannot mix. It's either the THUS
SAITH THE LORD, or it's wrong. No matter what "Holy Father" said it,
Saint Boniface, or--or the Archbishop of
Things
wasn't so from the beginning 61-0120 P:2 Now, we find out that when
Jesus came, He found teachers that had
taken the Word of God and had perverted It in to suit themselves. They had
taken the commandments of God and perverted it into a creed. Now, remember,
there's only one Creator, and all... Satan is not a creator. What is sin? Sin
is unrighteousness, and unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Maybe I'll
make it clearer. They're... You're a mixed congregation. You listen to your
doctor; I'm your brother. For a man to live with his wife is righteousness.
He's married to her. The same act with another woman is death. One brings life,
the other one is death. See? Unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. What
is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented. So that's what Jesus done. And what all
of us will get into, as long as we take and add, or take away from God's Word,
it's perverting God's Word. So when Jesus come, He found out that they had taken God's Word and perverted It,
and made a tradition of man.
And He said, "Why
do you change the Word of God? By taking their traditions, and changing the Word
of God, making It say something that It really did not say...
And so we hear brother Branham continue in the spoken
Word is the original seed say to us in paragraph 52, That's where so many evangelists crack up
(We'll get to it later), how they say, "Oh, we believe this," and they'll take that and they believe that
one word, and they can make that work, but what about the other one next to it?
"Blessed is he that does all his biddings. Amen. (See?) He will have the
right to enter into the Tree of Life for without are sorcerers, dogs, and
whoremongers," and so forth. Now, I got a mixed class but I got a lot of
context here that's just really flat, so I want you sisters to understand
(See?); be sure to understand.
Now, in getting back to what Paul was saying in Galatians chapter 1,
let’s read it again…GALATIANS 1:6 ¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Notice here that Paul is telling us that these people
had become removed from the Gospel as he had taught it unto another Gospel. Now
this word another was translated from the Greek word heteros, which means of a different nature. Now, to know the nature
of anything is very important because every seed will bring forth after its
nature. And what Paul is saying is that although you might be using my words to
say what you are saying, yet a very different nature is coming forth and it is
affecting the way you believe. Because, notice in the very next verse he says, 7 Which is not another; and the Greek word that
this word another was translated from is the Greek word allos, and not heteros.
The word allos means a totally different one altogether. And Paul says you have been removed to one of a different nature, yet not a
totally different one, and then he continues by saying, but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ
Now as we brought out last week, Paul
said the same thing in 2 Corinthians 11: 1-4 where
he speaks of the people receiving another spirit. That word is also heteros,
speaking of a spirit which has a different nature.
2 Corinthians 11: 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or
another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Now, in this case they
are preaching an allos Jesus and thus receiving a
heteros spirit because their Gospel has become
a heteros Gospel. In plain English they are
preaching a different Jesus, not just one of a different nature, but a totally
different one altogether, and because they are preaching this different Jesus
the spirit which they receive is of a different nature, and thus the Gospel
although they use the same terms becomes one of a different nature altogether.
What had taken place is the original seed word was mixed with another seed, and
perverted the Message by hybreeding it to a different Message, and thus the
life that was in the original was gone and replaced by another spirit of
another life. One of a different nature. Therefore if it is not the Holy
Spirit, it must be the unholy spirit that they were so willing to receive.
So we see that Paul
was warning the people that it was not a different message altogether they were
being removed to, but it was the same message, only it had a different nature
because it had been perverted from the message he had first presented to them.
And if Alpha has become Omega as Brother Branham warned us it would, then the
same thing has taken place in this hour. The message has become perverted, and
it no longer has the same pure nature as it was taught by William Branham, but
there is a perverted nature that has taken over the Message where most of the
people are Oneness in their thinking, and they think they can live just any
form of life, and still make it.
Now, you can't lay those
bad teachings on William Branham because he flatly denied he was oneness as
they are teaching it today, and he taught a message of Spearation from the
world and holiness in the presence of God.
So Paul said they were
already preaching a variant message back in the Alpha church age, then it is no
surprise when Brother Branham before he left the scene he told a brother I know
there are already 17 different versions of the Message being preached. And that
was in 1965 more than 40 years ago.
So in getting back to
what the Apostle Paul said, 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed. Then to make sure he was fully understood, he says again in verse 9, As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any
other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Notice here that the Apostle Paul is
making it pretty clear that any other gospel is a perverted gospel if it is not
presenting the same nature as what he already preached. And then he tells us
why in verse 10
¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Now,
that is a pretty important statement he is making here, because it flies in the
face of all those who would use the pulpit to make gain for themselves and try
to attract men to themselves rather than to God. He says, If I please men, then
I should not be the servant of Christ.
Now, he is not saying I should not be a
servant of Christ if I please men, as though it is up to him whether he should
be or not. No, that is a bad translation. Rather what Paul is saying is that If I please men
rather than God, then I would not be the servant of Christ, because
you can not serve both God and man. And since it is not our message to begin
with, then we would be found not saying what God said.. Therefore, It's either
God's message you are preaching and believing or its man's. Take your pick.
Because in verse 11 he says, But I certify you,
brethren, (that means I have made you fully aware brethren) that the gospel which was preached of me (or that
Gospel that came out from me) is not after man. 12 For I
neither received it of man, (out from man) neither
was I taught it, (by man) but by the
revelation (that word is apocalypses which is the appearing, or
the unveiling) of Jesus Christ.
So Paul tells us that
the Gospel he was preaching was NOT made known to Him by reading his Bible, nor
did it come from some man somewhere, but He got it directly from Jesus Christ who
appeared to Him. And the same with William Branham. He didn’t get it by great
efforts of study, but He got it by God Himself appearing to Him, and revealing
it to him.
Now, that brings us to
Romans 10. You know, the fundamentalist believes
all he has to do is make an oral confession that Jesus is the son of God and
he's in, saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. But notice that they will read Romans 10: 9 to 10 but
do not go back to Galatians 1:8 which speaks of the word which Paul preached that
has a curse placed upon it that whosoever deviates one iota from it and
produces another nature in the way they present it, there is a curse placed
upon him or her.
And so we pick up at ROMANS 10:9 That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. Ok, now, if we really want to understand what Paul is
saying here, we need to continue reading. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall
not be ashamed. 12 ¶ For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
You see this is where
the fundamentalist stops reading. Because he believes that the calling upon the
Lord is the confession that is being made. But Paul clarifies to us that just
not any calling will do. For in the next verse he says, 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed? (now, this is a good question, because he is telling us that
they could be calling and yet not really be believing.) and how shall they
believe in him of whom they have not heard?
Now, what if they have heard that other
Gospel that Paul was speaking about in the book of Galatians? If they believed
in that other Gospel of that different nature, then what nature do you suppose
they would be receiving? The correct nature which is the nature of God? I don't
think so. And so he asks the next question…
and how shall they hear without a preacher? Now, that is a very good question. How can they hear
if there be not a preacher to speak the Word with the right nature. But Paul is
not finished here, for he asks yet another question,
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring
glad tidings of good things!
So we see Paul ask the
question, And how shall they preach, except they be sent? and this is the most
important question of all, because what if they were not sent and they went
anyway? Then whose message are they
preaching? If it is not God that sent them, then who sent them? Because the
one who sends them it is that One’s message they will be preaching. And If they
were not sent by God and went on their own accord, then it will be their own
message they will be preaching.)
So you see how
important it is that God sends out somebody? Because if he does not send out a
man, then the man the people are listening to is preaching a message which is
not God's message, but a message which is his own understanding and if so, then
it is of another nature, and if so then, the people that will believe it, are
believing a perverted Gospel, and if so, then they will be calling out to a
false God, and thus believing in a false hope, and thus when they call upon God
to save them, He will not hear them.
16 But they have
not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our
report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the
earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
But the question still remains, did they
actually hear what was being said, or just the sounds that were made.
And so we see in this verse of scripture
that we have taken for our text this morning, that we must first look at this
word confession that is spoken of here, for in this Scripture we are told Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and in this is made a promise that
there is a certain benefit that we shall receive. And in this case it happens
to be that God will dwell in him, and he in God.
So we must examine what it means to
confess that Jesus is the Son of God, for in knowing what this confession is
all about, we will also understand why God will come into them that make this
confession, and we will also avoid the trap that has beset so many
fundamentalists into believing that the confession is merely some magical words
that are said by the believer.
Now, the word confess was translated from
the Greek word Homo-Logeo or Homo-logos, and just about all Christians know
the word Logos speaks of The Word of God.
We know that in the beginning was The Logos and The Logos
was God. So we see that this word for confession is made from
two Greek words, of which one is the word Logos which speaks of The Word.
Now, the first part of this two part
word, "Homo-Logeo" is the Greek
word "Homo", and it does not mean
homosexual. It simply means "the same".
We use it in the English language as a prefix with many words. We say homo-centric
which means having the same center, or homo-gamous which is used in botany
and means having one kind of flower on the same plant, or homo-genous which means
having a similar nature and comes from the two words homo meaning the same and
genous
which speaks of the genes. So it speaks of having the same genes.
So you see the word homo Logeo or logos
means "having the same Word". So if we are to read this verse of
Scripture correctly we must read it as follows: Whosoever shall have the same
words and say the same Words that Jesus is the Son of God, God will dwell in
him, and he in God.
Now, it says,
whosoever will say the same words, and we must know who first said those same
words, and then we have a clue as to the author of those words, and thus whose
Life is expressed through those words. For Jesus told us "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he, and out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh".
Then really what we are essentially and
intrinsically is what we think in our minds or our hearts. And what we do must
first come from what we think, and then when we do what we think it brings our
thoughts into some form of expression. So when we read the statement, Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, we are thus saying, Whosoever shall
think and thus say the same Word, and what is that Word we must think and thus
say? "that Jesus is the Son of God".
William Branham taught us that confession
means to say the same thing. And the reason he could tell us that is not
because he was a prophet, nor is it because he just arbitrarily decided to call
it that and we must believe it because he was vindicated. But the reason he
could say that is because that is what the Greek word homologeo means. It means
the "Same or Homo, Word or Logeo".
Now in the sermon Christ 55-0221 P:49 William Branham
said, You're not
using your own thoughts; you're using His thoughts. "Let the mind that was
in Christ be in you." See? Think His way of thinking; say what He says.
"Confession" means "to say the same thing." Confess is to
confess the same thing, say the same thing. Then don't confess your own mental
conception. Be born again and confess His Word, confess what He said. That's
confession. Say, "By His stripes, I was healed." By His stripes, I
have a right--by His wounds, right now, I have a right for salvation. I have a
right for the Holy Spirit. He promised it to me. Said, 'It's in you and your
children, and them that is far off, and as many as the Lord our God shall
call.'" I believe it. It's for any generation. "Lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the world." He died that He might raise again
and be with His church all the way to the end of the world, to confirm the Word
with signs following. How far was that to be? "Go ye..." Did it end
it with the apostles? Mark 16 said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach
the Gospel to every creature." It's never met there yet, just about one
third of it. God's depending on us.
And again from the sermon Be not afraid it
is I 62-0629 P:9 William Branham told us how to just say the same
Word. He said, "I just believe the Word and just stay right with the Word.
And any level thinker will know that that Word is right. It's just got to be
right. See? And I don't put any interpretation to it. I try to just read it the
way it reads, then say the same thing. That's confessing. "Confess"
means the same thing, like, "He's the High Priest of our..." Well,
King James puts it "profession." But "profess" and
"confess" is the same thing. See? So then "to confess,"
that means "to say the same thing He did." "By His stripes I am
healed." I'm confessing. See? I am confessing the same thing that He said.
See? I'm making a confession. That's what it is in court. You have to say the
same thing. Now, I am... To my great High Priest, for He sits at the right hand
of the Majesty to make intercessions upon my confession."
Let us pray…