Spoken Word #94
The
Seed Life
Brian Kocourek
May 10th, 2009
Now, don’t get lazy on
me here. I want you to really focus on what he is saying here, Because unless
you receive the Life that is in The Word, you are still dead in your sins. Notice what he says here, “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.
72 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.
Now, there are a few
thoughts here that are so important for us to understand, so we want to be real
careful and taken them one at a time so we don’t miss them…
Number 1, Jesus is the
Word. We must understand what He means by this because if we do not understand
how that Jesus is the Word, then we will misunderstand what he means by saying
the others statements concerning the life in the seed.
So number One, Jesus is
the Word. But be real careful now, because this is why so many believe that John 1:1
is Jesus the Son of God. But John 1:1 does not tell us that The Word is Jesus
the Son of God. It tells us that the Word is God. John specifically tells us the Word of God is
God, not Jesus the Son of God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, (not word, but The Word. There is the article The
which makes this a proper Noun which speaks of a person.) and the
Word (The Person) was with God, and the
Word (The Person) was God. So John is talking about God here. 2 The same (the
same what? The Same Person) was in the beginning with God.(because He was and Is God) 3 All things were made
by him;(Now, there is only One Creator, and that is God…period. )
The Scripture is very
emphatic about who the creator is and who created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 In
the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth. In the beginning Who created? He said God created. That’s all you need to know about
that, and there is only one Creator, and God is the Creator period.
In Amos 4: 13 we read, For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and
createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the
morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The
God of hosts, is his name.
And again in Isaiah 40: 28 we also read, Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
And in the New testament we
hear peter teach us in 1 Peter 4: 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to
the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto
a faithful Creator.
In the Book of Revelation 4: 11 we read, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory
and honour and power: for thou hast
created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
The Apostle Paul taught us in the book of Ephesians 3: 9 And to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from
the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by
Jesus Christ:
The
NIV Translation of Ephesians 3:9 says, and to make plain to everyone the
administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who
created all things.
Weymouth Translation 3:9 and to show all men in a clear light what my stewardship is. It is the stewardship of
the truth which from all the Ages lay concealed in the mind of God, the Creator of all things—
Now, if you take
this Scripture to the Greek it does not say, God Who created all things by Jesus Christ. It
says having been
hid from the ages in the God, The One, The All Creating.
So God is the Creator period, and we can not find
Scripture that speaks of two that create. The Son of God no more created the
Worlds than William Branham created Squirrels. God asked William Branham, “where do you want the squirrels, and no
sooner had he pointed to where he wanted them, than poof!!! God created them
where we wanted them.
Now, Scripture does not
fight Scripture, and if we have many places in Scripture where we are told that
God created all things, therefore The Apostle Paul is not going to turn around
and say, “well, actually God didn’t
create all things, Jesus His Son did”. No way, shape or form did he do
that. Then what does it mean that God created all things by Jesus? Well, it
means just that. God created all things period. Then you say, well, what does
it mean by Jesus? It is not said that way in the original
Greek text. That was added by the translators.
So God is the creator. We
could go into Colossians 1 also, and show you that it is the God Who Indwelt
Christ that created all things, and brought forth this Only Begotten Son before
all things were created, because all things were in Him to begin with, the One
Who was in Christ Jesus.
Finally we see the very
words of Jesus himself, who said that God is the creator in Mark 13: 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the
beginning of the creation which God
created unto this time, neither shall be.
So The God who is the
Word, is the creator of all things, and as we continue in John 1:3 we read, and without him was
not any thing made that was made. Now, when we get to verse 4 we see that 4 In him was life; and
the life was the light of men.
Now, here is the key… In Him was Life, for He is Life. So we are
looking at this thought here that in God the Word is Life. Now, that is
important for us to know and understand because Life reproduces itself. And God
who is the great fountain of Life, gave birth to a Son, and in so doing
transferred God-Life into the Son.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so
hath he given to the Son to have
life in himself;
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came
for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He
was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness
of that Light. 9 That was the
true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Now, let’s stop for a moment because we have something
being said here that if we do not understand what it is, then we will most
certainly go off in our thinking. Notice that John began speaking of God, and
then he begin speaking of this Light as being a person.
John 1:5 the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Now, what is there to comprehend about light as though
it is something to be comprehended. John is not speaking of light as in that
which illuminates, but he is speaking of the One Who is Light. Just like we was
not speaking on the Word as though it is a copliation of the alphabetical
string of letters formed into a word, but He is speaking of the Person of God
Who is the Word. So to then, when he is speaking of this Light that came
intothe world he is speaking of a person.
So we need to understand who this person is that came
into the world. Now, in verse 6 he tells us that there was a man who was not
the Light but it was his ministry to bear witness to the Light. And remember,
the Light is a person. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. Now, we could read that for this
hour, saying, There
was a man sent from God, whose name was William
Branham. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men
through him might believe. All men through him who might believe?
Not that all men through John might believe, but that all men through Him who
is this Light might believe. 8 He (John)
was not that Light, (he William Branham was not that Light) but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
So again we must know something about this Light which
is a person that John bore witness to, and we begin to find out in the very
next verse when the apostle John says, 10 He (who is He? That Light that John the
Baptist came to bear witness of) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not. (now, notice. This Light is now a Him, that John is
speaking of here. He is the One who is the True light, the one who made the
worlds, The One Who created all things, He is the One who made the world, and
yet when He came to the world, the world knew Him not. The Creator came to His
creation and His own creation knew Him not. Just think of that.)
11 He came unto his own, and his own received
him not. 12 But
as many as received him, (or let’s say it this way, but as many as were made in
such a way as t be able to receive Him) to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
So we see that those who were on a nature that was
different from the world, who were of such a nature as t be able to recognize
Him when he came into the world, these are the ones who are sons of God. And
these are the ones that he gave an ability to make a right decision, to accept
their son-ship.
And then John tells us a little more about those who
are sons. He says, 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.So these are God’s children. God’s sons that he is
talking about that could receive Him when He came into the world. Now,
remember, the rest of the world knew Him not, even though he created the world. 14 And the Word (Now, who is the Word?
John 1:1 we just read it a little while ago. The Word is God. So God the Word,
who is Invisible and Who is Spirit) was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and how did
he become flesh and dwell among us? In the veil of His Sons flesh.) (and we beheld his
glory, (whose glory?) the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth. Notice
that up to this time John is talking about God who is the Word. God who is the
Light. God who is the creator. And then he tells us that God took on flesh, the
flesh of His only begotten Son.
Now, let’s continue with our reading. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying,
This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me:
for he was before me. (So the Son of God did not just come into existence
when he was born into the world because John said He was before him, and yet
Jesus the man was born 6 months after John. So this along with Colossians 1 let
us know that Christ was before all things.)
Now, verse 16 And of His fulness have all we received, and
grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
So John makes it pretty clear that God the Word, Who
is the creator of all things, and Who is the Light that came into the world,
and John told us that John the Baptist bore witness of that Light that came
down and indwelt the Son of God, that, that Light was the Logos of God, Who is
God. And
John says, 18 No
man hath seen Deity at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom
of the Father, he hath declared (He
hath expressed) God’s
Deity to us.
This same apostle who wrote the Gospel of John and
begins it by speaking of God who is the Word, and how that God manifested His
Deity – Life through His Uniquely born Son also began his first Epistle the
same way. 1 John
1:1 That
which was from the beginning, (In his Gospel he tells us what was
from the beginning, God the Word ) 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, (So, not only
did the invisible Life become visible in the person of the Son of God, but we
heard God through the lips of His Son, and we saw God through the vessel of His
Son, and so we bore witness to the God-Life, the Deity that was manifested in our
presence, and therefore we can) shew unto you that eternal life,
(now, the word shew was translated from the Greek word apaggello which means to
declare using words. So John says, let me tell you by words, what this) same Life that was with the Father, and the same Life
that was manifested unto us; What we did see and hear so that you
also might have fellowship with us who were eye witnesses.
Now, to bring home what I am trying to get across is
that God is the Word. God is the Light. God is the Life. And it was this Word,
this Light this Life that indwelt the Son of God in its fullness. And when it
did the Son of God became the original Seed. And on
Now we are still focusing on what brother Branham was
saying in The Spoken Word is the Original Seed. Remember, he said 72 Jesus is the Word of God, And how was Jesus the Word of God? From
br. Branham’s sermon, SHOW
US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 he said,
Now, it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the
Bible said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip,
here was very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said,
"I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?" Said,
"When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the Father express Himself
through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the sense that His Father was
dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself, the
immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God the
Father, expressing Himself to the world, His attitude towards the people. See?
Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in Christ reconciling the
world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father, and
why do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
I want to show you the
hypocritical nature of those who preach against what we stand for in one simple
prayer that Jesus preached. 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
brings us into the same Glory or 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: This
glory (doxa) of God was given
to Jesus Christ, that he might have the mind of the Father, and this is the
same way in which we are to receive Oneness with God even as Jesus and God are
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.
So in getting back to what brother Branham was
saying from paragraph 72 of
the spoken Word is the original Seed, he said, “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.
And that is Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear (phaneroo), then shall ye also
appear (phaneroo) with him in glory (doxa). So when Christ Who is our Lfe shall manifest
in His true Character, then shall we also manifest in our true character with
him in the same opinion, values, and judgments.
Then when brother Branham tells us that it is
necessary for the life that was in Jesus had to be broken free from that Body
that we might also be watered by His Spirit to bring forth the Life in the seed
that was planted in Christ before the foundations of the world. That is why
Paul said, Romans 8: 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.