Spoken Word no 77
Each
generation has it’s own revival
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Matthew
3:7 But
when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said
unto them, O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring
forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9 And think not to say within
yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I
say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root
of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire. (and what is the fruit
God is looking for? Brother Branham taught us in the Anointed Ones at the End
Time that The fruit is the teaching of the season. And what is the teaching? It
is the Doctrine for that season. That’s the fruit God is looking for in each
person.)
11 I
indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12 Whose
fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the
garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Now, the wheat
that is gathered is the seeds. You do not gather the shaft of the wheat and
bring it into the garner. The word garner means granary, and that is where the
seeds are deposited for storage. You bring in the seeds into the granary.
Psalm
145 : 15 - 16 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou
givest them their meat in due season.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
So we see God tells us here that the meat must come in
due season.
Let’s bow our heads in prayer.
Dear Father we come to Thee this morning once again
with an open and honest heart before Thee to know and understand what it is
that you have for us in this hour. Help us o God to know Thee in the power of
the resurrection, in that Great Harvesting power where you will bring all your
Seed into Your Garner for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen!
This morning as we study from Brother Branham’s sermon
The Spoken Word is the original Seed paragraphs 58 through 63 I want you to
notice how brother Branham focuses his thoughts on each generation and how God
gives each generation a Revival around a portion of His Word that he has
allotted for that generation. When the prophets message goes forth there are
only so many seed that are ordained for that generation and then a mixe3d
multitude follow that Message as well. And I want you to also notice how that
when that Prophet goes off the scene that mixed multitude of people who came
into that Message are the very ones who then pervert that message after he has
gone. It happened in Luther’s day, and
Wesley’s Day and Paul’s day etc.
Since this Sermon of Brother Branham’s is called “The
Spoken Word is the Original Seed”, I want to focus our thoughts on how there is
a Seed ordained to hear that Word in every Season, or there is a Seed for Every
Season.
58 Now, therefore, true
life can only come or reproduce itself by its original breeding. See, life...
Now, keep... Now, study that, now, when you're studying the tapes and study it
now. Life--L-I-F-E--can only be
reproduced by its original breeding, the way it started at the beginning;
then it reproduces itself. See? If it doesn't, it's a hybrid; it runs out. Some
of them run out in the first generation (See?) it's gone right then. It'll soon
find itself back. It can't bring correct life because it's hybrid.
59 Genesis
1:11 the Bible said (God said), "Let
every seed bring forth of its kind." Now, when God said
that, that settles it. It's always settled. "Let every seed bring forth of
its kind." To mix it brings a super crop. It's a super crop of what?
Listen now. Let's coast. To mix it... (I'm trying to hold; them's such text, I
could preach on it. But I'm trying to keep from doing that.) To mix it will
bring forth a super crop as it's proven. But what kind of a crop? A crop of
falsehood, death. Hybreed your corn; it brings forth a big crop, better crop, better looking; but it's dead. Plant it
back, can't reproduce itself again. It's done; it's finished. Like Eve. See?
She brought forth a hybrid crop. Look at us today, and you can look around and
see that's true. Sure did. It wasn't God's purpose, no, sir. Just have to hold
back for something I'm thinking right now. See?
Now before the Seed was
sown and planted, the ground had to be made ready. Notice brother Branham is
reading from genesis Chapter 1, so let’s go back and look at the setting here. Genesis 1: 1 - 11, notice, Light first, Water next then life. Now
in Scripture we know that light represents the Word as we have already seen,
and so does water. 1 - 10 In the beginning God created the heaven and the 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 the light from the darkness. 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. 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 firmament Heaven. And
the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters
under the heaven 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 called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
(So notice here that
the seed, all seeds were already at this time placed into the earth by God and
just waiting for the light to bring up the seed in its ordained season.)
12 And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.13 And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
Turn on the light 64-0125 P:10 And
we know that in the beginning it must've been foggy and dismal and dark, as the
world was turning, and when God knew that He had a need of light. Now, His seed was already in the earth,
because He'd planted it there. Now He needed light to bring forth that seed, to
make that seed live, because the seed was already there. Just like it is in
each age, God has foretold us what would take place in each age. The only thing
He needs is the manifestation of the Light of God upon that Scripture to make
it live for that age. Just a... And it will do it as long as the Light can get
to the Word. If the Word's germitized, It'll make it live if it's a promise for
that day.You might plant wheat at one time, or grain at another time. Some come
slower than other, because it depends on the season. God's Word comes in
season, the law and the grace, and so forth, as we've went on down through the
ages. And each time it's lit up by the manifestation of the Light spreading
forth the--the Life that's in the Seed.
60
To mix it brings forth a hybrid crop; and a
hybrid crop is a dead crop--far as rebreeding. It won't rebreed itself; it can't, 'cause God said so. It has to
bring forth of its kind, and you've mixed it. Now, you can see the church right
there, where we're going to wind up. It dies there, for it cannot bring forth
of its kind. Why? It's mixed. You can't
do nothing with it. It's dead; it's finished. All right. That's why each generation has its own revival, a
chance at the Word. Oh, the sovereign God at the judgment... John Wesley's
group will raise up, and these "starched-washed" Methodists of today
will answer for it. Luther will raise up. The Catholics will raise up. And back
behind Irenaeus, Martin, Polycarp, and those, and will have to stand the
judgment for hybreeding the Word of God to dogmas. This group of Lutherans that
followed Lutherans' revival will answer the same thing. The group of Baptists
that followed John Smith's revival will do the same thing. Alexander Campbell's
will do the same thing. And the Pentecostals will do the same thing. That
original revival, when the Holy Ghost fell, called out a people, and God trying
to get His Word to it, and they organized it, and set over here, and denominated,
and died right there. You say, "But look what they're doing." We'll
get to that a little later on today. We're coming right down to all the... I'm
just putting the seed in now. Then we're going to show you after while what
happened.
61
Now, that's why each revival has its own revival--each generation has its revival. God raises Him up a man, sets him with His Word, and starts him out for
the message for that age. And as
soon as that man's taken off the scene somebody else catches it and hybreeds it.
It all falls back to a perfect... everything... may...I could stop here for a
minute. We ain't in no hurry. See? Go back; that's exactly what it started way
in the beginning in Genesis. God set forth His crop of human race, and Eve
hybreeded it. See what happened? So there's a judgment for Eve.
62
Luther set forth--all the rest--Christ set forth. The apostles set forth. The
prophets set forth. Didn't Jesus say, "Which one of you hath not your
fathers persecuted the prophets that God sent?" Didn't He teach that a
King one time sent his servant, and then sent
another servant, and sent another servant, and so forth, then finally sent his
son. See? Each generation receiving...
'Cause it's repeating right back Adam and Eve again, the first crop in the
garden of Eden. Half of them lost--wise virgin, sleeping virgin. Half of
them... One kept the Word; other one
hybreeded It. Right back and forth just as hard as it can go, right like
that, it's been right down through the
age. We'll prove it by God's Word and by the history here. That's right:
hybreeding.
63
Hybreeding first started in Eden, started in Genesis. It's the beginning.
That's where... And it ends up over here in Revelations at the second coming of
Christ. Now, remember. Correctly: that's
why each generation has its own revival; it gets a chance at the Word. Then
they hybreed it; instead of taking on, they go somewhere else.
From his sermon Sirs we would see Jesus 64-0304 P:17 brother
Branham said, God, knowing the end from the
beginning; therefore, He lotted to the
world a certain part of Word for each generation as they come along. He
sent prophets in the Old Testament. We are taught in Hebrews 1, "God, in sundry times and divers manners spake
to the fathers through the prophets, in this last day through His Son, Christ
Jesus."
And from his sermon, Looking unto Jesus 64-0122 P:7 brother Branham said, That's
the very reason that Jesus was not understood when He came to the earth. If
they would've only looked into the Word of God, instead of their tradition of
that day, they would've known He was the Son of God. Because the Bible plainly
declared His full coming, and He come in full revelation of the Word. And each
generation reveals Him in the full revelation that which is alotted for that
time. This generation must reveal Jesus Christ. That's the revelation of Him
that's promised in the Word, must be
revealed to this generation. If the churches won't receive it, somebody
will rise up and do it.' Cause John said, "God is able of these stones to
rise children unto Abraham. Don't think to say within yourself, 'We have
Abraham to our father,' for God is able of these stones to rise children to
Abraham."
Matthew
21: 33 - 43 Hear another parable: There was a certain
householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a
winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants
to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen
took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again,
he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. (notice
that God kept sending servants in every age but they did the same to all of
them) But last of
all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let
us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast
[him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him]. When the lord therefore of the
vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He
will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto
other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus
saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the
Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The
And again from his sermon, Shalom 64-0119 P:29 brother Branham said, Each
generation was 'alotted so much, happened in their days. We all know that. The
prophets come on the scene. The Word of the Lord came to them, understood It. A "seer" in
the Old Testament means that, "one that the Word is revealed to." And
how they know it, because he foreknows things that'll come. Then the Word of the Lord came to them,
each age. Jesus said to John, about John, "He was the bright and
shining light for a while." Why? Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years
before he was born, said, "There's a voice of one crying in the
wilderness." Malachi the 3rd chapter, said, "Behold, I send My
messenger before My face to prepare the way before Me." See, He was that
Word being vindicated, the Word that was promised for that day. He was the light, because He was making
come to pass the very Word that God had spoke about him. And when Jesus
came, John said, "I must fade out now; He must come in view." And He was the Light. All down through the
ages, how God spoke of that hour coming...
And from his sermon, Greater than Solomon is here 62-0628 P:12 brother
Branham said, Just when the revival's going, and the
Spirit of God is moving, God is moving with the people, then when He gets that
crop out, weeded out, that's it. That's
for that generation. Remember, He said, "As it was in the days of
Noah, wherein eight souls were saved, so shall it be in the coming of the Son
of man." See? Each generation will
just produce so many. And that's the way you see it today. Everywhere it's
just a dying away, a falling away. Sin is collapsing in everything.
And from his sermon, End time sign seed 62-0319 P:14 brother
Branham said, But
each generation, what does it get? Its opportunity at the fresh Word of God
each time, like Luther under justification; like Wesley under
sanctification; the Pentecostal move under the baptism of the Holy Spirit. See?
Each one gets its chance. Then what does the men do that follows those
great reformers? Denominate it, organize it, mix in creeds with it, a little
bit here and a little bit there. A new bunch of school scholars comes along
with a bunch of psychology, just the same as Eve was trying to find some new
light, mix it up with the Word of God: Death. Away went the organization, and
died spiritually. That's exactly right. That's the way it's always been.
Ecclesiastes
3: 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven:
So if
everything has a season, we must ask ourselves this question? What season are
we in? What is my season? Why am I here? What is my end?
1 Peter 1: 3 - 7 Blessed [be] the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly
rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto
praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Now
notice verse 5.
I would like to read it from the WUEST translation which says, "You who are
constantly being kept guarded by the power of God through Faith, for a
salvation that is ready to be revealed in a last season which is epochal and
strategic in it's significance. " again notice verse 6 & 7,
the trials will produce in you a seed
that is in the image of the Life of the Original seed.
And from his sermon, End time sign seed 62-0319 P:13 brother
Branham said, But in the face of all that, there is a
real Bride that God's bringing forth, and has a little bit out of each... Each
time there's been a reformation, there's been so much of the Word spread forth.
And each generation gets its time.
Did you ever notice? There'll be a man of God come along that'll strike fire
with God, and there'll be a great revival sweep the land. And what happens? Immediately after that they take that man's
idea, and denominate it, and bring in creeds, and mix with it. There she
dies and never rises again (That's right.), always has been, always will be,
every time.
Hebrews 6: 4 -
8 For it is impossible for those who have been once for
enlightened, those who have tasted of the Heavenly gift and have been made
companions of the Holy Ghost Himself being brought longside and made aware of
His presence, by tasting the goodness of God's Vindicated Word and have been
exposed to the Powers of the coming age, having fallen away and deviated from
the truth, it is impossible for them to ever come to a change of the mind
again, seeing that they have crucified themselves along with the Son of God,
and have subjected Him to public disgrace.
Now catch carefully what Paul says right after this...
For the land that drinks in the rain (doctrine) that often falls upon it and
that produces a crop that is useful to those who have sewn it. And who did the
sowing? The Son of Man did the sowing. It is this land which produces the crop
which receives the blessings from God. But the land that produces thorns and
thistles is worthless to the one who sewed the land and is in danger of being
cursed. In the end it will be burned.
Psalm 1: 1 - 3 Blessed [is] the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight [is] in the
law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. So we see
here that there is a fruit that is to be brought forth in it's season.
Galatians 6: 7 - 9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Man that
can turn on light 63-1229M P:38 And spiritual Life, Eternal Life, can only
come by God's spoken Word of Life. Life was the S-o-n this time. In Him is Light,
and in Him is no darkness; and He is God's spoken Light (Is that right?), God's
spoken Word; for In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And It's forever God. See? And it takes the Light of God to
strike the Word to make It live. Here's what He spoke, now let the Light shine
(Amen.); let the Light shine. And the
Light will bring every Word to Its right position in its season. Amen. No.
You see, when it comes time, sometimes that little grain lays in the earth dormant
all through the winter, like seed of winter wheat, sowed in the ground. But
when that sun gets just right, oh, it's got to live. See? And it can't live
without the sun. And God's made promises
for every age and every day, and when the Light gets right and shines upon
that, it'll produce just exactly what the Word said; because He is the Light
and the Life.
End time
sign seed 62-0319 P:48 Now, He spoke the Word, and the Word was a
Seed, and it matured in its season. Every seed of God correctly placed will
mature.
What do we mean, "a seed for every season?"
Well first we must ask ourselves what we mean by the word seed. What is a seed?
Webster says it is the "source, origin, or beginning of anything. A
carrier of Life.
"There is a Seed for every season"
What is a seed? A Seed is a carrier of Life. And it speaks of predestination,
because everything that seed will ever manifest in it's life cycle it already
has in it. Every attribute, every characteristic, every expression. That is why
a seed is the purest form of predestination.
God's
only provided place of worship 65-1128M P:96 Now, the Lutherans wanted to
get in one way, by joining the Lutheran church. The Methodists wanted to get in
by shouting. The Pentecostals wanted to get in by speaking in tongues. That
still ain't it. See? No, that's gifts, so forth. But I Corinthians 12
says, "By one Spirit..." Spirit of God,
which is the Life-giver to the Word, the Seed, to vindicate that Seed for that
season. See? Here's the Methodist age seed laying there; it taken the Holy
Spirit to make that seed come to life and pure--purify the church by
sanctification; Luther didn't preach that, 'cause he didn't know it. The
Pentecostals wanted to speak in tongues for the restoration of the gifts. Each
one declares, "That's it. That's it." See?
The Seed of God must come to a place where they have
no contrary thought from what was vindicated and revealed to us. We won't go
back to previous thought that were in error, but we immediately go to God
thoughts for this hour."
Luke
1: 19 - 20 And the angel answering said unto him, I am
Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and
to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able
to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest
not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Mark 4: 14 The Sower soweth the
Word. & Luke 8: 11 The Word of God is a seed. And notice as a seed
it contains life.
John 1: 1 - 4, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life;
and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
Notice in verse 5, darkness does not
comprehend the light. ( katalambano = to take eagerly, to seize upon and
possess, to apprehend and comprehend. Here we are talking about Life and it
says, that darkness will not seize upon it, they won't apprehend it.
John 6: 63 - 66 It is the spirit
that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life. Notice how that just after He
informed them Eternal Life is in His Word, they left.
1 Corinthians
15: 37 - 44 But some man will say, How are the dead raised
up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance
of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but
there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes,
and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised
in incorruption: It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Notice
here that the scripture tells us the seed must be sewn and the form it
eventually takes is not what is sewn.
Matthew 13: 36 - 43
Then Jesus sent
the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him,
saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and
said unto them, He that soweth the good
seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are
the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world;
and the reapers are the angels. As
therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the
end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing
of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
But do not forget that when there is this gathering of
the tares there is also a gathering into the granary the Seed that came to life
with the same life as the original Seed. Again we see a seed being sown at a
specific season in which case this is marked out as being the end of the world.
So we must have a season. There must be a sowing season, and there must also be
a reaping or harvest season.
2 John 8 - 9 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those
things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that
abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Do not loose that which we have sown for,
you must abide in the doctrine to reap.