The Doctrine of Christ no 37
“Mortal or Immortal”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
December 7th, 2011
Tonight
I would like to cover several differences between Father and Son. These are
differences that show the difference between mortal and immortal.
No. 19) Jesus died, God can not
die.
Mark 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto
them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men,
and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third
day.
Mark 10:34 And
they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall
kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
John
11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not died.
John
11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
John 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let
her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus,
and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
John 19:40 Then
took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as
the manner of the Jews is to bury.
I Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures;
2 Corinthians 4:10 Always
bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
him.
1 Timothy 6:15 Which
in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man
can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17 Now
unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
I will
restore 54-0620A P:33 What did that lamb speak of? It spoke of
some nineteen hundred years later, when the Lamb of God was led away to the
rock of ages, and there with spit hanging off of His beard, and His crown over
His brow, the Blood trinkling down His shoulders, His bloody lock dripping around,
crying, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Remember, Abel died on
the altar with his lamb. And every man that comes to Christ must die on the
same altar Jesus Christ did, on the altar of self sacrifice, forgetting your
own ways, forgetting your own reasons, and taking God's Word, and saying,
"It's Your Word, Lord; I believe it," and there die, as Abel did on
the rock with his same lamb that he died with, that died for him, rather. We
die out to Christ on the altars of God's sacrifice. Oh, my. That makes me feel
kind of religious, to think, God providing a way. In that I could not save
myself, God making a way through Christ, not by works lest any man should
boast, but by faith accepting it, and Jehovah God sending down the Holy Spirit,
stamping a seal on it of a confirmation. Sealed how long? "Until the day
of your redemption," Ephesians 4:30. Amen.
Message
of grace 61-0827 P:47 Like someone said, "Pilate was
justified; he washed his hands." You can't wash the Blood of Jesus Christ
off your hands. You'll never leave this building this morning and go to heaven,
if you die in your sins. It's on your hands. So it isn't right. There was only
one just way. There's only one way that could be, God's great law demands could
be met. He had to meet it Himself. He had to do it. God's a Spirit and He can't
die. So God had to be made man, and He died in human flesh in the form of a Man
called Jesus Christ, and that was the promised Messiah that bought the grace.
There where you see that God and Christ is the same Person, God dwelling in
Christ. "I and My Father are One; My Father dwells in Me. It's not Me that
speaketh the Word, but My Father that dwelleth in Me." God in Christ,
certainly...
Unveiling
of God 64-0614M P:49 God veiled in Jesus to do the work of redemption
at the cross... God could not die as a Spirit; He's the Eternal. But He had to
put on a mask and act the part of death. He did die, but He couldn't do it in
His God form. He had to do it in Son form, as Son of man on earth. See? He had
to be Son form. Then when He returned on Pentecost, He was Son of God again.
You see what I mean? Get the idea? He was...
Rising
of the sun 65-0418M P:88 Now, notice this Quickening Power,
"Zoe," bringing the Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you
then. I'm trying to show you, that you, when you raised--when God raised Jesus
from the dead, He raised up you also, and also quickened to Life with Him (You
are now quickened to Life.), although then you were but an attribute in His
thoughts, but God had saw all in Him at the finish. See? When God looked down
upon the body... (The Spirit left Him in the
No. 20) Jesus
hungered, thirsted Weary, God Is
spirit, he never tires, hungers or thirsts.
Isaiah
40:28 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.
Matthew 4:2 And
when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
Mark 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom
of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Psalm 121: 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he
that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psalm 121: 4 Behold, he that keepeth
No. 21) Jesus was Tempted, God can not be tempted
James
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when
he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Matthew 4:1 Then
was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Mark 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty
days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered
unto him.
Luke 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And
in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward
hungered.
Expectation
54-0220 P:59 Took Him up on the pinnacle of the temple,
said, "Now, dash your foot down, just... or jump off of here, right there.
It's written in the Scriptures. I'll give you Scripture for it." Jesus
said, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Get away from me,
Satan." Is that right? He never clowned for Satan. He only did the
Father's will. Now, look. He didn't claim to be a healer, did He? He said,
"I can do nothing in Myself." When He passed all them crippled people
and so forth, never healed a one of them, He healed a man had a disease,
something like prostate or something like that; he'd had it for a long time. He
said, "Will thou be made whole?" Never healed any of the crippled.
And the Jews questioned Him. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you. The
Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Is that
right? "The Father shows Me what to do and I go do it." Now, if He's
the same yesterday, today, and forever, died, rose from the dead, He said,
"The things that I do, shall you do also." Is that right? That's a
promise.
God in
His Word 57-0323 P:14 Now, God doesn't tempt men, but God tries
men, tests them. God cannot tempt you, but God can test you. And every son that
cometh to God must be tested or child-trained before he can be a son. And if we
can't stand chastisement, the Bible said we become illegitimate children and
not the children of God, 'cause a child of God is borned of God, and he will
stand the test anywhere, any time, on any condition (That's right.), a child
that's borned of God. He that's borned of God, does not commit sin. Notice.
Now, Job was going through a testing time. And Satan had told God, "I'll
make him curse you to your face." See that old accuser? God said,
"You just can't do it." I like that. God had confidence in Job. And
notice, Satan came to him, and he done everything but take his life. And when
all the troubles had happened to Job... I like to see him when that great hour
of testing, when his members of his church came and accused him of a secret
sinner. And Job still held the...?... He knowed he was standing firm on God's
provided sacrifice, a burnt offering; and he knowed God required that so he
stood firm. Oh, I like to see him when he was setting on the ash heap, scraping
his boils, his children gone, and all of his riches gone. And there he was
setting scraping his boils. And his wife even said, "Job, why don't you
curse God and die?"
Three
kinds of believers 63-1124E P:36 Job, another believer... Sometimes
believers put to the test, not sometimes, every time: For every son that cometh
to God must be chastened, tried, child-trained. Remember the trials, the dusty
roads, the hot sun of persecution, but the loyalty of your heart beats that
material to she's ready to go into the mold. God's children is made up
correctly on His Word, for they are living examples, and the Word of God living
through them. See? The trial comes to shake you, to put you to the very bottom,
to see where you'll stand. See? Tested, tried, every son that cometh to
God...Job went through the trials and the tests: his children taken, and
everything else taken. The church members come, accusing him being a secret sinner,
and tried to say everything against him, but yet he wouldn't listen to any of
it. He knowed he had met God's requirements. He knowed there's no need of Satan
trying to tempt him. He knowed it was the devil. And as long as Satan can make
him believe that his sickness was his God doing it, he had Job whipped. But
when Job once struck that revelation that it was not God, he was only going
through his trials to make him something. It wasn't God doing it; it was Satan
doing it.
No. 22) Jesus
Suffered, God can not suffer
Luke 24:26 Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Luke 24:46 And said unto them, Thus
it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead
the third day:
Acts 3:18 But those things, which God before had
shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
fulfilled.
Acts 17: 2-3 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto
them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3Opening
and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the
dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Acts 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from
the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
1 Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1 Peter 2:21 For
even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us
an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Peter 4:13 But
rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his
glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1 Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you
I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and
also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
From Br. Branham’s sermon, Hear ye Him
56-1215 P:68 he said, Now, according to the Scriptures, Jesus suffered once for sin, putting away
all sin, sickness, and death, under the curse. He taken the curse upon Him
and was made a curse for us. "He was wounded for our transgressions; He
was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and
with His stripes we were healed." He was here on earth. He lived
thirty-three and a half years among men. He did not claim to be a healer. He
said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in
Me." He was questioned one day when He passed through a great bunch of
people and did not heal them, healed a man laying on a pallet. And He was
questioned, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do
nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son
likewise." He said, "The same... A little while and the world--the
world will see Me no more (That's the unbeliever. The world from this till He
comes), will see Me no more."
In Closing I would like to read about the suffering and rejection that
God’s servants must go through.
Evening
messenger 63-0116 P:113 Notice
when the Message is rejected and the messenger seems to be defeated, that's when God steps on the scene, his Message is over. Noah preached in
the door of his ark for a hundred and twenty years, till, when finally they
laughed him to scorn, Noah stepped in the ark thinking that it would just be
all right. God closed the door. And the people hung around to see what was
going to happen. Seven days he set there and sweated it out, and on the seventh
day the rain come. Uh-huh. Moses, what was he in? The very line of duty,
leading the people. The
115 "All right," said
the king, "walk up the steps; you're going to be burned." Great husky
men, on the end of this spear, here they come up the steps, step by step,
hotter and hotter.I can see an Angel standing on the--on the side of the
throne, grabbed a sword and pulled it out, said, "Father, look down there,
what's going on. Let me go down; I'm Gabriel, I'll change the scene."
"Put your sword back in the sheath, Gabriel. I've watched it." Here
comes another up, said, "Father, I'm Wormwood; I'm the destroyer with the
water. In the antediluvian time, man sinned and mistreated Your people, and I turned
the whole world into a globe of water. I'll wash
116 Jacob, on his road
home, inspired to go back home, his brother was meeting him. Oh, but one night
he wrestled with God. He was scared to meet his brother, but the next morning
he was a fearless, limping prince. "I don't need Esau nor his army,
neither one," God stepped on the scene. See, He does in peculiar way.
117 Jesus, rejected,
after being the vindicated Son of God, said, "If I do not the works of My
Father, don't believe Me." He was the Light of the day (He's still the
Light.), stepped on the scene. And the people, as long as He could... Bread and
fishes and loaves, they followed Him. But when He begin to tell them the truth
of the Word, that separated them; they had their own traditions they held onto.
It was contrary, yet you know He was exactly with the Scripture. But the
blinded eyes of the world couldn't see It; neither do they now, neither have
they in any age, I mean, as a whole. What happened? It looked like He was
defeated.
118
You notice, from that very time, His popularity left Him. When? When He begin
to tell them the Word. When He could go and have--and have healing services and
campaigns, everybody wanted Him, "O Rabbi, come over here." and,
"Rabbi, come here." But when His doctrine got started; "Oh, your
teaching disturbs our people." Oh, goodness. "Oh, I can't have you in
my church no more, Rabbi, because, why, you confuse our people, you're teaching
is so contrary to what we believe." It hasn't changed. See? It's not. No.
"Can't have You, Rabbi." Yet Him being a-vindicated, proven by the
Scriptures Who He was, yet they couldn't believe it. Finally He went on till
the last moment, when Satan thought "I've got Him," he crucified Him
on the cross. Down, down, down, down, until finally they thought that they had
Him, put Him in the grave. But that's when God stepped on the scene. Up from
the grave He arose. Why?
119 The same thing, Paul, he
said, "All... Demas has forsaken me." All men forsaken him for the
Word. I don't believe Demas went to night clubs and things. But Demas wanted to
go... Demas was a rich man, and he wanted to go with the popular group; and so
he went off there where all the rest of them did. And then Paul said, "All
men has forsaken me." Why? His ministry, he was coming to the capstone of
it, coming down to the end.His desire was to be a martyr because he killed
Stephen; he witnessed his death and sanctioned it. He wanted to die. When
the... Agabus, that noted prophet, stood by him and told him not to go up to