Spoken Word no. 86
Watering
the Seed thoughts in Your Mind
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Let’s pray, Dear gracious and loving Father, you
gave us a principle to think about in these last days, which even your Son
Jesus, our brother spoke to us when He said, "Out
from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh". And You
also said in your Word, "As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he." Therefore, we realize Father, this speaks
of all men. And we know we are the product of what we sow in our mind, and we
believe the reason you came down in this
hour, is to change our minds, and renew our mind, that we might receive a
bodily transformation. For You told us in Your Word that "we are transformed by the renewing of our minds."
Therefore, Father, we approach Thy Word with reverence this morning as we seek
to have our own minds changed, and we ask that the mind
that was in Christ Jesus come into us. That is our desire this
morning Dear Father, and with these
thoughts in mind, we graciously ask Your transforming power to touch us in our
minds that our hearts might become regenerated with Thy Life, for we ask it in
Jesus Name Amen.
Now, last week we spoke from paragraphs 71 through 73 of
The Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and
we focused on brother Branham’s thought that the seed
is the Word of God. We went into the New Testament parables
where Jesus explained that the seed which the Son of Man sowed is the Word of
God.
Now, this morning I would like to look again at these
three paragraphs because not only does brother Branham speak to us concerning
the Word of God as a Seed, but he also expresses that the seed must be watered
if it is to produce or manifest the life that is in that seed.
So this morning we are going to examine the watering
process to show how the watering of the seed is necessary to bring the seed to
life, or rather to bring the life in the seed into manifestation.
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Now, the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. What is the Seed of Life? The Word of God.
Therefore, for Life, you can't come
through a creed; you can't come
through a denomination; you got to
come back to the Word. Now, the seed of Life. All right, His Word is His Seed, and His Spirit is the
Water. Now, right back to John
3:14 there, you get it again. You see? See? The Spirit is the Water. Now, look, John 3:14, we understand what it means
if you want to read it. “as Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the
wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up. See? Now, if Moses lifted up
the brass serpent, for the same cause Christ was lifted up, now what is it?
Moses lifted up the brass serpent so that the people that was perishing might
have water for life. And look, Jesus... (Oh, God.) Jesus is the Word of God. Now, we're going to hammer that down this
afternoon (See?), prove it.
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Jesus is the Word of God, and He was bursted open, that Life, the Life that's
inside the Seed, that this Life, which, is Spirit, Water flowing over, the Spirit over the Seed of God will bring
forth the Life of the Seed. And to
bring forth something else, there's some other kind of seed there then.
Amen. Do you understand? If the Spirit of God comes forth to water the Seed, if
it's the Seed it's watering, it'll
produce the Life of the Seed. That clear? Produce the Life of the Seed, for that's what It's give for.
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I believe the Bible is the Word, the whole Truth, and Jesus is the Word made manifest; He and His Word is One and the
same. What was He? Now, look. He was
that Seed. (Now, I've got to hold something back in order to get it in here
this evening. You see? It's hard.) He
was that Seed that Eve should've produced. Do you get it? He was the Seed
that Eve was to produce, but she hybrid it by disbelieving God's Word. So He
was that Seed, and the only way that Life could be, in the reproduction of
Life, Life had to come through that Seed,
and that Seed had to die in order to
spread out the Life. Can't you see it? That's
why the Water was given: to water the Seed.
Now, we know that the word of God is a seed. In fact
the Apostle Peter tells us that the Word of God is an incorruptible seed. And
if the Word of God is an incorruptible seed, then what is a corruptible seed?
You say, corruptible seed? Yes, that is what Peter said in 1 Peter 1:23. He said there is an incorruptible seed and a corruptible seed.
But he says, the incorruptible seed is the word of God which lives and abides
forever.
1
Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
ever. So according to the Word of God
there is a corruptible seed and an incorruptible seed, and the difference is in
the Life. One lives and abides forever, so it is an eternal life in that seed.
Therefore the other life would have to be other than incorruptible and eternal.
From his sermon, Jesus Christ the same
62-0718 P:42 brother Branham said, “I believe that this Bible,
this Word right here, the Bible, is God in print form. And I believe that the
Bible is a seed. Those words are seeds. Jesus said a sower went forth sowing
seeds. This is it. The Word of God is a
Seed. Jesus said it was. Then, if it is God in print form, and you receive
It into your heart, and then the Holy
Spirit waters that Seed, it brings forth what it's promised. (Then brother Branham says…) Any
kind of a seed you sow, it'll bring forth that kind of a crop. Exactly
right. We've sowed in this great revival going by a lot of intellectual seed. We've
got a intellectual crop. That's right. If
we would sow Gospel Seed, we'd have a Gospel crop. And we need to get back
to the principles, and the Bible teachings, back to the Bible, back to the Holy
Spirit upon the Word of God that makes the Word of God live. That's exactly
what it was.”
Now, I got a call yesterday from a minister who heard from another
minister about a sermon I preached years ago that I called “The Garden of your mind”. And I
thought, you know that sermon ties in so well with what brother Branham is
saying here, and I know it has been many, many years since I preached that
sermon, but I believe the Holy Spirit wants me to do bring those same points
out again. In fact that is the way we best learn is through rote teaching which
is over and over and over again until those principles become so ingrained in
our minds that we just can not forget them.
So we will again examine the principles we laid down for you concerning
the watering of the seeds that lay within our minds. Because the seeds we plant
in our heart and our mind have life in them, and it just takes a watering to
bring them into manifestation. And we know that every seed we plant in our mind
and heart will come into manifestation if we just water it.
And since we are studying this sermon “The Spoken Word is the original Seed”,
and we find brother Branham is speaking about the Word of God being a seed that
must be watered for it to come alive and manifest the Word of God in our Life.
Therefore, he is laying out for us the law of reproduction whereby whatever
seed is planted, the life that is in that seed can not come forth into
manifestation of the same nature of the seed that is planted until it I
watered.
Therefore I will ask the question, “How many of you in here would plant watermelon
seeds but in reality you are expecting grapefruits? None? I’m shocked!!! Of
course none. You know better than that. So then why do we sow certain kinds of seeds
in our life and then expect the results to be different than what
we have sown?
Let's
begin our Message this Morning by reading from the following scriptures
Matt 13:24-30 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while
men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the
tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,
didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt
thou then that we go and gather them up? 29
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the
wheat with them. 30 Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them:
but gather the wheat into my barn.
Mark 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by
the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
Genesis 1:11 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.
As we examine these scriptures tonight I want you to
see that there are three things we should notice.
#1) He is
speaking of a Seed that was sewn into the ground, and we know by definition
that a seed is Life.
#2) This life that is within the seed must come forth in a manifestation and bring forth an expression of
the Life that lays within it, and it can not express anything outside of
what life is within itself.
#3) By viewing that life expression you will know what Life it is,
which is identification.
Now,
let’s begin by looking at point #1). The Seed that is sewn is the Word.
Mark 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the
fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
We
read in John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. 2 The same was in the
beginning with God. 3 All things were
made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was
life; and the life was the light of men.
Notice
that in Him
was Life, and that is why all things were made by Him. Because It takes Life to bring forth Life. And He is the Word. So this
Life is in the Word.
Let’s read the parable that Br. Branham used in this
sermon, the Spoken Word is the original Seed.
Let’s turn in our Bibles to Luke 8:4-15 ¶ And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him
out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed:
and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the
fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some
fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it
lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with
it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare
fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear. 9And his disciples asked him, saying, What might
this parable be? 10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of
the
Now
notice that the seed that was sown is the Word of God,
and yet we see that unless this Word or Seed is sown in the proper place it
will not produce Life.
In 1 Peter 1:23 we
read this morning that the Word of God is not only a seed, but an incorruptible
seed. Therefore it is called a seed, and yet we
found in 1st Peter that there are two types of seed, or word which
are sown. A corruptible word and an incorruptible word. And the evidence that
we have received an incorruptible Word in the right kind of soil, is that we
shall live and abide forever. Now let’s take this thought one step further. If
Peter is telling us that there are 2 different types of seeds, one which is
corruptible and the other which is not corruptible, and if one is called the
Word of God, then the other must be the words of one who is not God. Therefore,
if a seed must manifest its life, then one life will manifest attributes which
are eternal while the other will manifest attributes which shall surely perish.
Further
more, we know that the Son of Man went forth sowing the Word Seed, and the man
in black was Satan who goes behind Him with his own version of the Word which
is another gospel or one of a different nature. So if he sows a different seed
it must have a different nature, for the law of reproduction says every seed
will bring forth after it kind.
From
the Message
Again in the message Demonology
2 Religious 41-78 53-0609 178 he said, I said, "Instead of baptizing your body, you need your
brains baptized." That's right. You don't stop to think of things. You
don't try to consider it."
And in the message Blasphemous
Names 62, 22-1 Brother Branham said, The biggest part of our faith is mental faith. By hearing the Word it brings us to a mental recognition
of God. But if this coming from above, oh, brother, if it ever strikes this,
there is a godly, spiritual faith. Then what does that faith do? That faith
recognizes only the Word. No matter what anything else says, it only recognizes
the Word, because "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. (And the Word's still God.) And the Word was made
flesh and dwelled among us." And when the word Itself is pouring into our
faith, our mental faith becomes a spiritual revelation. "And upon this
foundation I'll build My Church," (See?), not upon a mental conception of
church joining, a mental conception of that, but upon the revelation. When them
streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that you've got, then upon
this, a spiritual revelation, "I'll build My Church and the gates of hell
can't prevail against it." See?
Now, in studying the law of reproduction the next
principle I want to bring out is this…The life that is within the seed must come forth in a manifestation
and bring forth an expression of the Life that lies within it, and it
can not express anything outside of what life is within itself. Therefore,
every seed must bring forth after it’s kind or nature.
E-39 God Revealing Himself to His People 50-0813E. The right mental attitude towards any
promise of God will bring it to pass. Do you believe that? The Word is a Seed
(Is that right?) that a Sower sowed in the ground. And every Seed will bring
forth of its kind. If you need salvation, the Seed's here. If you need
healing, here's the Seed in the Word. The Word of God is a Seed. Put it in your
heart. Don't dig it up every morning to see if it's sprouted, put it in there
and leave it there. It's God's business to bring forth the harvest. You just
leave it there; water it by faith and praise every day thanking God for it.
All right.
E-50 At Thy Word 53-1204 I don't know how I'm going to do it, but
at Thy Word, Lord." That's it. Take God at His Word, and God's spoken
Word must--will materialize and produce just exactly what It says It will.
Listen. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring
it to pass. I don't care what it is. If you want corn, you plant corn, water
corn, leave corn alone. It'll produce corn. Is that right? Wheat will
produce wheat. The promise of salvation will produce a Christian. The promise of the Holy
Ghost will bring It to you. The promise of Divine healing will make you well.
Any Divine promise of God... And the Bible said that the Word of God is a
Seed. Is that right?
E-8 What Think Ye of Christ 53-1213M And if the right mental attitude, you just
take the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise, watch it
materialize. See? No matter how it looks, if it looks impossible, if God
said so He makes it possible.
175 Word Became Flesh
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but
if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
And in John 16:7 we read, ¶ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is
expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Now,
brother Branham spoke of the original seed being the Word of God and he
mentioned in the Rapture Message that this life has been coming forth since
Luther’s Message, and on up through Wesley’s, continuing up through the
Pentecostal message until it finally comes to a rest in the intelligence, which
is the very mind of God, back in the people.
Now
in looking at these three thoughts here we see that
#1) The seed contains
the Life of the original That’s 2
Peter 1:3-4 According
as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
#2) The same Life that was
sown in the Original Seed, which is the very Life that was in Christ Jesus,
shall That’s Genesis 1:11 The Law of
reproduction Every
seed after its kind.
#3) That Life shall return in
this hour, not only among the people, but It shall enter into the people as
well.
That’s
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
He
said "The Complete Seed,"
comes forth in It’s Complete Body (which is the complete Life that was in the
Seed has got to come back into human flesh in a Bride) in this hour. So we are
speaking of the Original Seed, the original Word-Life back in human flesh
again. And that is why we are told our New Birth comes by a seed which is the
incorruptible Word of God.
In
fact Jesus said in John 6:63 "My Words are Spirit and they are Life."
And,
so we see that the Word is a Seed carrier of Eternal Life. Now, this morning I
would like to look at this thought of the Word being a Seed in a little
different way than perhaps you have heard before. Since we are talking about
the Word as a Seed, I would like to break this down to our own personal level
for a few minutes. And we shall subtitle this Message "The Garden of your mind."
Now,
we know that the Word is a Seed, right? Then if the Word is a Seed, there is a
life that is in that seed. Every seed is a carrier of life. We know this by
definition. But what is in a Word? The answer is
thoughts. Before there were any words
there were thoughts. Then the word is an expression of the thoughts.
So in essence the thoughts within the word
are the life of the Word, right?
In
other words, if I said to you, Salge, you might not understand what I am
saying, because that word is Norwegian for
If
you are just a common ordinary person, you immediately think, sale of what? So
you can see that a word is not just a guttural sound, but it really has some
significance.
1 Cor 14:6-11 ¶ Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking
with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by
revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7 And even
things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a
distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For
if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the
battle? 9 So likewise ye, except ye
utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is
spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds
of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification. 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the
voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh
[shall be] a barbarian unto me.
What
Paul is saying here is that every sound has some significance in some language.
Just to speak words which have no meaning does not do anything for any one. But
when we speak in words which can be understood, then those words can and will
bring forth fruit.
In Jeremiah 6:19 we
read, Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. Here God tells us that our thoughts actually will produce
fruit.
And
we know that man is likened to a tree, as we see in 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. 2 But his delight is
in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 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.
Here
we see that a righteous man is likened to a tree that is planted by the rivers
of water. And we are told that his fruit will bring
forth in its proper season and
his leaf shall never wither. Now what does God
mean by this metaphor?
We
know that God likens His Word to Water and Eternal Life to the River of
Life that flows from the Throne of God as we see in Revelations 22:1
¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Next
we see that this man, is planted. That means he can not move, but he is fixed
in this place which means that he is rooted in, and his roots are
reaching out for the waters of Life, and he is living off of the waters of
Eternal Life. And of course we know what these Waters of Life are.
It
is the Word of God, for we are told by Paul in Ephesians
5:26 that we are washed by the washing of water by the word.
And since this tree, or righteous man has a good water supply, his leaf will
never wither, as Peter said, we are born again of
a Seedthat will not perish, the Word of God that Liveth and abideth forever.
And so we see this speaks of Eternal Life, for the Life in this Tree will
never wither. But I want you to also see that the greatest thing about this
tree is that it is constant, and It will always bring forth it’s fruit in the
proper season. And so we see that the fruit is
tied to a season. It is a seasonal fruit.
Now
we hear Jesus speak of knowing a man by his fruits, in the book of Matt 7:15-20 Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even
so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth
evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them.
Now, what does He mean by this? You will know Him by his fruits? A closer examination of this scripture, allows us to
see that you
will be able to tell who and what a man is by his fruit. Then it is the fruit that identifies and
declares the man.
Now
remember, he begins by warning us about false prophets. And he calls them
wolves in sheep’s clothing, but then talks about fruit. He is using metaphors
to get a point across. But what are these fruits that he is speaking about?
Some would have you to think these fruits are the fruits of the spirit or the
fruits of the flesh, but brother Branham told us in his sermon “Anointed Ones at the End-Time,” “the fruit is the teaching of the season.”
Therefore
we must ask ourselves “what is teaching but the very thoughts of
the person made known through words”. Therefore if we break down this
thought of what a man’s fruit is, we find that it is his thoughts, what
he is thinking. And we find a righteous man will have the right
thoughts for the right season. Or better said, A righteous man will have
thoughts that are a correct match for the season in which he is living.
Those
who were Elect in Moses day
did not look to Noah’s Message for the bread of life in their day. They
received Moses Message in Moses day.
In Jesus day, those
who were looking to Moses missed Him when He came. And so we see that the
righteous man is like a tree that is planted and rooted in the waters or Word
of Eternal Life, and their thoughts will be in season for their day and
therefore they shall never wither.