The
Doctrine of Christ no 39
“The Life of Christ no. 2 ‘
Seed Life’ ”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
December 25th,
2011
This morning I would like to do something a little
different seeing this is Christmas morning. I would like to take a Christmas
message, and tie it into our study on the Doctrine of Christ, and look at the
significance of that day 2000 years ago when the First born son of God came
into this world.
We see the story told to us in the first chapter of
the Book of Luke. And as we read this story, I want you to notice how many
people were filled with the Holy Ghost even before the day of Pentecost some
thirty three years later. And I want you to notice the actions of these
believers, concerning how they acted when filled with the Holy Ghost.
Luke
1:1 Forasmuch
as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things
which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as
they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed good to me
also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to
write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That
thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast
been instructed. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of
26 And
in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee,
named Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And the angel
came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And
the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found
favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy
womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32 He
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God
shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And
he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his
kingdom there shall be no end. 34 Then said Mary unto the angel,
How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Now, right here I wish
to stop to compare what Zacharias said with what Mary said, and yet one of them
was told that his question was in unbelief while the other was said with belief
in her heart.
He said, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife
well stricken in years. And
she said, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Now, both of them said
almost identical statements and both of them had legitimate questions, but one
was told his question was out of unbelief and the other was confirmed in
belief.
What made the
difference in this judgment? I believe it was in the way they expressed their
questions. I have told you before, that an echo means to say the same thing in
the same way. Not just to same the same thing, but to say it with the same
inflexion, and same manner and tone.
You could say “Jesus Christ is the
Son of God!” and the way you say it with an exclamation point behind
it shows you really mean it in your heart, or you could say the same words with
a question mark at the end, “Jesus Christ is the Son of God?” and it shows you
don’t believe it at all.
And so I believe the
tone and demeanor showed skepticism on the part of Zacharias even though he was
a genuine believer, yet his attitude was not right, and we see the same thing
today.
Brother Branham said
we could have our doctrine right but if our heart is not right with it, then we
would be better off with wrong doctrine and a right heart. Let me read you the
quote so you won’t go away misquoting me on this.
Getting in the spirit 61-0428 P:47 I don't care if the man's wrong. If he's
wrong and sincere in his heart and you're right in your belief and you're wrong
in acting the way you're acting. I'd
rather be in his place than be in yours. That's right. I'd rather be wrong in my doctrine and right in my heart. God will
respect it more. So if a man is wrong, what of it? Help him. He needs help.
Love him. If you can't love your enemy the same as you love those who love you,
you're no better off than the publicans. That's right. That's what the Church
has failed to get. I hope you get it tonight. I hope you see what I'm talking
about.
That’s right and don’t think
that is just some obscure out of the norm quote from Brother Branham, he said
I’d rather be in his shoes than yours. And that quote goes right along with another
from his sermon, Way to have fellowship 55-1009
P:18 where he said, “I'd rather have a church... Listen, just a moment. I would rather have a church that knows
nothing about any spiritual gift, and just be so in love with each other and
with Christ, I'd rather have that than every spiritual gift operating in the
church. Now, that might sound hard in a Pentecostal group, but I would
rather have it. Where there is gifts, they'll fail. Where there is gifts,
they'll bring confusion. Where there is gifts, they can be questioned. But
where there is love, it is perfect. That's right. And if you had perfect love
you'd have perfect gifts. That's right. So work first with love. That brings
fellowship, and fellowship brings gifts. Now, the reason... Why is it that
people perhaps like different things, like fellowship? Is because, first, man
was made to fellowship. Now, just think of tonight... As much as I long to go
hunting and fishing in the outdoors, yet, my heart is more hungry to get on top
of that mountain and talk to God than anything I know of. See, I want to be
alone; I want to know there's nobody a hundred miles from me. And I love
people, but the only way I can minister to people is to first get the message
from God.
Now, listen friends,
this is Christmas, and the Christmas Message is John 3:16 right? “for God so loved the
world he gave His only begotten son.”
In his sermon, God's Gifts always find Place 63-1222 P:79 brother Branham said “I want to wish each one of you a very merry
Christmas: May the great Christmas Present, the first one and the only and the
original and the only one there is, Jesus Christ, be afresh in your heart
tonight. May the Holy Spirit come to you
and bring you ministering gifts and things from God, a gift that you might live a better life. That's what I
want. I would rather have the Life of
Christ in me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts of
healing, the gifts of prophecies, all them other gifts; just give me Jesus. Let me live the Life. The Life is what I want to live. I want
to live so others will know. That's my desire at Christmas, and I pray that's
your desire. And I pray that God will give us His desire.
So we are looking at
the life of the Holy Ghost church thi9s morning, because we know that the Holy
Ghost is the same yesterday, today and forever. God changes not, and if His
Life lives out in one vessel a certain way , it must live itself out in other
vessels the same way. For God-Life is God-Life. And as Brother Vayle always
taught me, “get
your eyes off the vessel and focus on the God who is using that vessel.”
And so that is what we are here to do this morning, to look at the different
vessels in Whom the Holy Spirit of God indwelt.
Now, in getting back to
our Christmas Message, let’s pick up at verse 35 And
the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and
the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. 36 And,
behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she
hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said,
Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. 39 And Mary arose in
those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of
50 And his mercy is
on them that fear him from generation to generation. 51 He
hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He hath put down
the mighty from their seats, and
exalted them of low degree. 53 He hath filled the hungry with
good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. 54 He
hath holpen his servant
Luke
Chapter 2:1 And
it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar
Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And
this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of
Then in Chapter 3 we hear the rest of the story. The
young cousins have grown up, John and Jesus, and the Life of the Holy Ghost
that was in each at birth comes into it’s full manifestation in there adult
years. Now, it is interesting that each did not come into his full
manifestation until he was 30 years old. So I guess there is still some home for
the young men in this message who haven’t reached that age yet. That goes for
you young guys in here as well.
So we are looking at the Life of the Holy Ghost in
action in various people when we read this record of the birth of Christ. And
never forget the law of life which is the law of reproduction which we read in Genesis 1:11 tells us that “every seed must bring forth after it’s kind.”
Because after all Jesus said “by their fruits you shall know them”. Let’s read
it. Matthew 7:15 Jesus said, 15 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.
And from brother Branham’s sermon, Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:146 If I put a life of a pumpkin into the life
of a pear tree, it would bear pumpkins. "By their fruits you shall know them."
It's exactly right. And if first you put a tree (a grape vine), and it put out
a bunch of grapes (the first shoot it put out brought grapes), the next one
brought out lemons, the next one brought out pears, the next one brought out
apples, there's some kind of a grafted affair in there that's bearing its own
life. Every denomination will bear a
life of itself. But if that original
vine ever puts out another shoot, it'll bear grapes like it did the first
time. And if the Life of Jesus
Christ ever puts out another body of believers, it'll bear the fruit that the
first one did; they'll write a Book of Acts behind it, 'cause it'll be the
same Life. See, what I mean? You just can't get away from it. It's the Life of
Christ in you, been injected in you by the Holy Spirit Itself, living Its Life through you. Blind
leaders of the blind...
Now, we read a little bit this morning about that
first body of believers, which brother Branham called the little bitty
Reproach for the word 62-1223 P:75 There's old blind Anna setting in the temple
praying. The Lord revealed to her "Simeon
is right." Amen! She couldn't see daylight from dark, but she could see
farther than many people today that has got good eyes. She saw in the Spirit
the coming Messiah was at hand, the Spirit moving in her heart. See what a
little bitty church there was? Zacharias,
Elisabeth, Mary, John, Anna
and Simeon, six out of the
millions. Like in the days of Noah; six of them. God dealt with everyone of
them. They was all in harmony. They all
got together. Amen.
Now, why is it that we do not have that same harmony
today? I am just asking the question. These people all filled with the same
Holy Ghost all acted the same when they heard the good news of the birth of the
first born son. And we know that we are to be conformed to the image of the
first born son, so I ask the question when? Are you expecting it to happen on
the other side? Are you waiting for God to give you a body change before you
start acting like the first born son? If you are that is why you are not being
conformed to His image? You don’t have faith for it because it is not revealed
to you for faith is a revelation. And if you are not expecting it, you won’t be
looking for it either.
Now, I have been criticized by some for what I
preach, and that is fine, I don’t hide what I preach, but I will not back down
either for expecting the Life of the Holy Ghost to do in me what was done in
others who also received the Holy Ghost. I not only am looking for it, but I
expect it to take place in my mortal body before I receive a body change.
Why? Because every seed must bring forth after the
nature of the original seed. That is why in the Spoken word is the original
seed, brother Branham said, “Son of God seed will produce son of God”. And that
is why Br. Billy Paul said to me that His daddy told him that his message on
the spoken Word is the original Seed, is His Message all combined into that one
sermon. He said if there was one sermon that contained all the Message it was
that one.” Something on that order. I don’t remember the exact words but I
believe that is the essence of what br. Billy Paul told me his daddy said.
Now, if the Pillar of fire is to lead us into the
Millennium, then I believe we can walk in that Light as he is in that Light and
our walking in it, not talking it, but our walking in that Light as he is in
that Light brings us into fellowship with our Father and with each other.
And if that is so, then listen to what brother
Branham said in his sermon, “It is I be not afraid
62-0726 P:89” Now,
if that Light doesn't do the same works
that It did when It was in the Son of God, then It isn't the same one. It
isn't. But if It does do the same works... Just like I said, if you could take
all the life out of a apple tree, every bit of the life, and transfer the life
of a pear tree in an apple tree, it would bring forth pears (See?), because the life's in it. That's what
it bears. The fruit is in the life,
of course. And that's the same thing here. If you put the Life of Christ, and
take the life of a sinner out, he has to
die first. And then when the Life of
Christ comes into him, then he will produce the Life of Christ because that's
what's living in him. See? If... "He
that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also," 'cause His
Life is in him.
Notice brother Branham said, if that light you are
following is not producing the same works that it did when it was IN Jesus then
it is not the same Light that was in Him. Now, either we believe that God
changes not or we believe that God does change. You can’t have it both ways.
And to say I believe Alpha must repeat in Omega and to teach that God only did
mighty works with Moses and Joshua who lead the people after Moses, but God will not do them today after our Moses
has left the scene, shows me that you do not understand the alpha and Omega
principle.
Notice what brother Branham said here, he said, “if that Light doesn't do the same works
that It did when It was in the Son of God, then It isn't the same one.”
Notice it was IN Jesus but then when it appeared to
Paul, and Peter, and John, it did the
same works with Paul and with Peter and with John as it did when it was in
Christ Jesus. That same light led Peter out of Prison, and healed the sick,
gave sight to the blind, healed the lame, changed nature, raised the dead, all
these works of Christ in the early church, in the alpha church and The Holy
Ghost is still confirming His church with signs and wonders today, nearly fifty
years after William Branham has left the scene.
Brother Branham said in his sermon, Jesus Christ the same 61-0519 P:25 Now,
Jesus said, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My
Name, there I will be in the midst." Now, then that has to
bring Him in our presence now. Then if He is here, the invisible Christ, then
why can we not see Him like those Greeks wanted to see Him? For He is the same
in every way except the corporal body. He's the same Christ. Well, how would we know that He was here? How
would we understand that He was here? Now, He made these kind of promises.
"A little while, and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall
see Me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world."
Now, He promised to be in His Church,
working with them, "And the works that I do shall you do also;
more than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father."
That's
Now, this quote does not do away with the fact that
God did more in the ministry of William Branham than He did in the ministry of
His first born son. But it also does not do away with the fact the God is
working in His church universal. We have to be open minded or the Spirit of God
will move on and leave us behind.
Meanest man I know 62-0127 P:68 So she run around in front of
Him and she looked. Then she was close. That's what you want to get, just a
little closer look at Him. Maybe you're looking at Him too far away. You're looking at Him way back yonder two
thousand years ago. What about Him this morning? He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever: same power, same signs. "The
works that I do shall you also." Brother Demas awhile ago quoted it
in King James, "Greater than this shall you do."
But the right translation, and anyone knows, is "More
than this shall you do," not greater. No one could do any greater,
but more of the same great works. He
raised the dead and stopped nature.
Nothing else could be done any greater, but more. Why? He's in His
church universal, the great holy Apostolic Pentecostal catholic church,
around the world: Jesus in every member.
He was only in one Man, God was then.
Now, God's in His whole church. Right this hour people's being healed.
Right this very minute people's receiving the Holy Ghost. If He was just
standing here alone in a man form as He was then, He could only be talking to
this audience. But now He talks the
world over in the Holy Ghost.
And from his sermon, Queen
of
Listen, brothers and sisters, I am expecting to see
more and more of the works of the Christ around the world. Not because I want
to be different from others. I’m not trying to press into this. I’ve already
seen it. He said the works of Christ were healing, and I’ve seen plenty of it, I’ve
seen eyes that were blind able to see, I’ve seen ears that were deaf now able
to hear, I’ve seen the lame and paralyzed able to walk home from the hospital
bed, I’ve seen Xray’s of Cance rand the same patient with new Xray’s where
there was no more cancer. I’ve seen God grown back body parts that had been
sawed off by the surgeons knife, and there is plenty more, when you consider
diseased people made whole and we could go on and on with what God has allowed
me to see over the years on the field. And that’s only the healing aspect of
the works of Christ. But he also said the works of Christ was in that He stopped
nature, we saw in it William Branham’s ministry as well, and I’ve seen it in
mine. Over in
Therefore, I am speaking first hand. I know what I
am talking about. If you have the spirit of Christ in you, you will live the
life Christ lived, you will do the works Christ did, and the fruits of His
Spirit will be in you. I am now waiting to see the dead raised. You say that is
quite a boast. Brothers, and sisters, I am not boasting in man, I am boasting
in Christ and the power of His resurrection. I have seen the healing, I have
seen nature stopped at command, and now I wait on God to raise the dead,
somewhere, some place, to show that He is the same yesterday, today, and
forever. And I believe it because he said I will not leave you nor forsake you,
and it will happen. You watch and see. If it doesn’t I would be satisfied to
know that he has allowed me to see Him heal the sick and stop nature, but I
will be more pleased to see all three manifestations of His Life by also seeing
the dead raised back to life.
He did it at least 7 times in William Branham’s
ministry, once in Paul’s ministry, Twice in Martin of Tours ministry, several
times in the ministry of Columba, and did you know there are over 400 recorded
raising of the dead in the history of the Church? There was a young child died
suddenly that brother Branham talks about where the brothers got together
quickly and prayed that child back to life. Now, you might be a skeptic and say
it didn’t happen but a vindicated prophet of God said it did.
Now, I know some are thinking, “where are you going
with this preacher? What is your motive.
Well, let me tell you what my motive is. I see the
church of the living God dying on the vine. Yes, attached to the vine but dying
because they have been choked off from the life of the vine by the cares of
this life. I see a people loosing their faith, loosing their vision, loosing
hope, and I tell you, God has not changed. Yet the people hardly have faith to
heal a cold or flu, much less Faith to move a mountain. But the mountains will
move, when your motive and objective is right with God.
Paradox 64-0206B P:56 If the world's a turning,
then you say, "He stopped the world." Well, if He stopped the world,
then the science says, that gravitation, in turning, holds it up there, then
the world would've dropped itself. But it went right on moving, at the hand of
God. A paradox. Why? Oh, you say, "That was a long time ago." That is
today, the same God. Jesus said in Matthew, not Matthew, it's St. Mark 11:22, "If
you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but
believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you've said."
That's defy nature, but you have to have a motive and objective to
that, that's connected with it. Find out in the Word if it's supposed to be
done, and then God's calling you to do
it, and it'll do it. When you know that it's spoken in the Word to do it,
and then God's called you to do it, then it'll happen; if your motive and objective is right to God. That's why visions
take place, why things are going the way... You have to know, and know God promised it this hour." As
it was in the days of
Blind Bartimaeus 61-0124 P:80 Like now. Here's a group of
people. I've been talking about Him being Messiah that you can still touch. I'm not talking about it because I think
so; I'm talking about it 'cause the Bible said so. Now, the reason...You
say, "Brother Branham, aren't you
afraid He'll...?""No, sir. Now, if I wanted to say, "Look
here. I could do this. See what a big guy I am?" I'd better shut up, and
walk away from the platform right there, 'cause
it'll never work. See? What's my
motive? To melt these people together, as God's people. Say, "I tell
you, all you people, I belong to the Baptist. You all come over, join the
Baptist." "I'm a Oneness." "I'm a Trinitarian."
"I'm a Threeness," or "Twoness,"
or whatever you have, I don't know. All the... "I belong to that
one." No, sir. I'm your brother. I
belong to Christ. We belong to one another. So that makes my motive, my objective right. My motive's right. So
therefore, He said, "Say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't
doubt..." And it's the will of God
for me to do it, or He'd have never sent me. There you are. You get
everything working right, and your
motive and objective right, you can say to anything... As long as it's the will
of God, it'll do it.
Why do you think that storm stopped all around us in
But let me tell you some thing. Don’t think for one
minute the devil wasn’t there also those last few steps. O, brother, with each
of those last few steps he said, what are you going to do when you command the
storm to stop and it doesn’t happen? You are going to look really look like a
fool to these ministers here. But I thought at least I’ll be a fool for Christ.
But I also knew the same inner voice that spoke me to get under Br. Vayle’s
ministry way back in 1976 was the same inner Voice that had spoken to me many
times before, and because my motive was right and my objective was to teach the
relationship that God had with His son, and the obedient nature of God’s first
born son is the pattern for all sons, and that this what he told me to do was
always right in line with the Word of God. Therefore, I stepped confidently to
that pulpit and so the rest is history. Therefore there is no one that can tell me the
works of Christ were only for one man, because I know better, I have seen the
works of Christ with my own eyes.
Why? 59-0813 P:7 Jesus
said in Saint Mark 11:24, "If
you say to this mountain, Be moved; and don't doubt in your heart, but believe
that what you have said will come to pass, you can have what you said."
Not what I said, what you said.
See, if you don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you have said will
come to pass, you can have what you have said. But now, before you can have
that... And the way I always try to think of that, there has to be the right kind of a motive and the right objective.
And if your motive is right, your
objective is right, and your faith is right, because that you feel that it's
the will of God, nothing can keep it from happening. Just think of that.
Jesus Christ the same 58-0323 P:38 So you see, God's not very
far away. He's right here. It's our own
selves in the way; it's our unbelief. It's our superstitions. It's those things that blinds the eyes. It
isn't God. A man walk out and say, "I'll show you I can move the mountain.
'Mountain be moved.'" It doesn't happen. Certainly not. Your motive's not right, and your
objective's not right. So we've got to come to this one place. Is our
motive and our objective being right with God? Then it isn't you that speak
anymore.
Warning then judgment 63-0724 P:28 When you plead anything to
God, you got to be a reason for it.
It's just like this Scripture that I so often refer to, "If
you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, but believe that what
you've said will come to pass, you can have what you said."
Now, that's altogether controlled on motive
and objective (See?) or it won't happen. See? You just can't go out here...
That's where many of us makes a many mistakes, is going out and say, "Now,
I'll show you I got faith to do this." Now, you're wrong to begin with. God don't give you gifts just to play with
it. As I was saying awhile ago, He don't show you visions just to play
with. That's nothing to play with; that's sacred. Just use it as the Lord will let you. Be a prisoner to Him. No matter how much you want to tell
that guy he's wrong, and what this, that, or the other, you hold still till God says so. Then when God says so, then you
can come with THUS SAITH THE LORD. Until that, just forget about him.
Time tested faith 58-0530 P:14 In our Scripture tonight, the
previous chapters, Jesus had said to a tree, "No
fruit grow on thee, or, no man eateth from thee." Then He said, after
this verse, "If you say to this mountain be moved..."
Not "If I say,"; "If you say to this mountain be
moved..."Now, we know
that man could not move a mountain just by speaking to it. The only thing could do that would be Deity.
So then, if the mountain is before us,
and our objective is right, and our motive is right, then it isn't us speaking
any more; it's Deity speaking. Then it has to move. I truly believe that the church is on the brink of one of the greatest
outpourings that it's ever had in this age. I believe it. I can't say the
Lord has told me, but it's just something inside me, just catching a hold of
something, that I haven't seen all my life till just now. And how glorious it
is to know, just before the coming of the Lord, that these things are
happening.
Godhead explained 61-0425B P:33 And you must test your motive and objective first. First, find the will of God, and then find your objective, and then
test your motive and see if your motive is right. Then as Jesus said in Mark 11:24,
"If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in
your heart..." But as long as you got doubt in a heart whether it's the will of God, or
your motive or objective is wrong, how is it going to move? But when you know that your motive is right,
and it's the will of God, and your objective is right, it's got to move.
That's all, or God told something wrong.
Jesus Christ the same 61-0205E P:16 See, you've got to know positionally, first, Christ, where you stand.
You are heir to this. It's your personal property; it belongs to you. It's
God's gift to you. Nobody can take it away from you; it's yours. "What
you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll do.” Who can deny anything there?
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, if you say to this mountain,
'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you've said shall
come to pass, you can have whatever you said." What promises, not limited just to healing, but
to whatsoever. Now, you've got to find your objective, and your
motive, and then the will of God. And if
it is the will of God, and your motive's right, and your objective is right,
then the mountain will fall. But outside of that, you could scream till you
got hoarse and died, and never would move. See? Your... First thing, it's got to be the will of God; the next
thing, it's your objective in going and do it; and then the motive you have.
You want to be some big person...
You
want to be some great person, it will never happen. Christ Jesus was not a show
off, he was not a showman, he was so humble until he did only what the Father
showed him first what to do, and he simply went and did it.
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Believest thou this 60-0402
P:7 Jesus said, "If
you say to this mountain, be moved, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe
that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said.
Isn't that lovely? Who'd that come from? The
Son of God, Whose Words... Heavens and earth will pass away,-but His Word's
won't. Now, the only way that you can do that, you've got to have the right objective and the right motive. Now,
if I went out here and said, "I'll show you I can move this mountain, 'Be
moved, mountain.'" It would never move. Certainly not. No matter what I
had. It's got to be... First you've got
to find the will of God. That's the reason, usually in the prayer lines, I
get the very hardest, is because it's something that's went through lines and
so forth, and that's where you get it back. But see, if you've got unconfessed
sin... Did you ever notice on a case, before I ask the evil spirit to leave, I
watch that case real sure to be certain that there's nothing in that life that
would hinder anything (See?), because remember, on these gifts, you could get
in trouble with them.
P:9 But
if you'll just speak the word, say, "Lord,
I believe it," don't doubt, mean it in your heart...Now, say for
instance, I was in the valley, and I'm preaching to a millions of people, but
just across the mountain there is a group of people of one hundred, and they're
dying without knowing Christ. Well, I've got a million here to preach to, but
yet, something in my heart's telling me, "Get across to those people. Get
to them. They're perishing." I
don't want to go myself, but yet there's something in me. See, that's God then, moving. See what
the objective is, see what the motive is of going, not for self... Now, if I say, "Well..." If my objective
is right to get over there, but then I get up there and here's a big mountain.
I say, "You know, if I get over that mountain and save all those hundred
people, someday they'll have a statue there: Brother Branham, the great missionary. Now, my motive's not right.
The mountain won't fall. No, sir.
P:10 But
when my motive and objective is right,
and God in my heart is leading me, and I can't get over the mountain,
around the mountain, under the mountain, I'd say, "Mountain, move."
Maybe it... When I say that, and no more
than I say it with that kind of a right spirit, led of the Holy Spirit, in the
will of God, there might not be but one little spoonful of that mountain drop
down, but it's on its road. The next day there may be a two pounds fall.
The next day a quarter of a ton. And maybe in a month, five ton drops in. What
of it? May not even see it yet, but she's moving, on its road. I'll stay right there and watch the thing
be done, because God said so and that just settles it. Can you think that
about your mother there tonight? All right, if you'll think it, she'll get
well. All right. That's if you just believe it: just speak the word and stay
with it. See? Just believe it; hang onto it. It's Eternal Life.
Escape hither come quickly 58-0202 P:54 Now,
if your life tallies up to the life of Jesus Christ, that is, He said in His
Word there: "If you say to this mountain, Be moved, and don't doubt, but
believe that it's coming to pass; you can have what you say," what you
say. The only way you could move that
mountain would have to be Deity speaking. When you're a son of God you receive
God, which is Zoe, God's own life, and you, become a part of God. Then if your
objective is right, and your motive is right...
Jesus Christ the same 58-0214 P:47 You have to know it by the
Spirit. Flesh cannot do those things. What is it? The vine, the branches, the
same life that was in the vine comes through His branches. He feeds the branch through His vine. That's how He declares
Himself to be the same yesterday, and forever,
for He said, "I'm the Vine." The Holy Spirit now, Christ in Spirit form in you, energizing
you with His Spirit to believe God, and He's everything that He does, He
manifests Himself just like He did in the Bible times. "The
works that I do, shall you also. A little while, and the world won't see
Me no more (How many knows He said that? That's
the unbeliever.), yet ye shall Me (the believer), for I ('I,' personal
pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The
works that I do, shall you do also." Now, the word there in
King James says, "Greater works than this will you do." But if you'll
run that back to the Greek Lexicon, you'll find out that it doesn't mean,
"greater," it means "more." You couldn't do greater. He
stopped nature; He--He healed the sick; He raised the dead; He done things.
Well, there could be no more done. But you could do more of it, because He
would be in His church as the branch--as
the vine in His branches, or whole world around...?... the same thing.
Adoption or placing 60-0522E P:23 Now, notice, then the coming of the Lord
Jesus is so close at hand, until the Spirit from way down in here, just barely
justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, and now right into
the time of the coming of the Headstone... The
church has got to be so perfectly like Christ, until Christ and the church can
unite together, the same Spirit. And if
the Spirit of Christ is in you, It makes you live the life of Christ, act the life
of Christ, do the works of Christ. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
Jesus said that. See? Now,
we're going to have... We got a ministry
coming that's just exactly like the life of Christ. What does that ministry
identify? The coming of the Lord. Look
at it in the world today, and watch what Khrushchev's saying, all these other
great things, and great worldwide conflicts right at hand at anytime, could go
to powder at any second. That's right. And if that, we know that that's close.
Any sensible person can read in the newspaper or listen to a radio, will know
that that is close. Well, remember, Christ
comes for His church before that happens. So how close is the coming of the
Lord Jesus? Maybe before this meeting ends tonight. We are at the end time.
Certainly true.
Life 58-0512 P:8 Now, the Christian church should have real
character then. And if the Life of
Christ is in the
Investments 63-1116B P:28 And
that Word in you produces the Life of
Christ. If I could take the life out of a peach tree and put it in a pear,
it wouldn't bear peaches no more; it would have pears on it because the life in the tree would produce what it
is. The life that's in you shows
what you are. Your life testifies so loud in you, until your testimony's
not heard. They know what you are by the
life you live and the things that you do. If the Life of Christ is in you then, therefore, the works and Life of
Christ you live; because that's His
Life living through you. You're just
in a vessel to carry on the work of God.
Sir we would see Jesus
62-0724 P:21 If you could take the sap, the life out of
a apple tree and put it in a grapevine, that grapevine would bear apples
(See?), because the life that was--bears apples, the germ is in the life, and it would bear apples on a grapevine. Depends on what kind of a life is on the
inside of it. See? That's right. Now, if you could take a peach tree and a
pear tree, and take the life out of the peach tree, just take out all the life,
and put it over into the pear tree, every bit of the life (no more pear tree
life in it, but peach tree life), it would bear peach leaves. It'd have, it'd
have peach leaves, and bear peaches, because it's got peach tree life in it. And
no matter how bad the sinner is, how wicked, how bad they are, how much of an
unbeliever, if you can just take all that old unbelieving life out of him
(See?), put the Life of Christ in Him,
he will be a different person. That's right. He sure will. He will sure be
a different person.
We would see Jesus 62-0704
P:71 What? "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
What kind of a Person would you look for. The same kind of Person that was.
Now, you don't go down a street here and look for a man with some kind of a
robe on, and nail sears across his head, or whatever it is. Any hypocrite can
do that. That's right. Anybody can impersonate that. But it'd be the Life that was in Christ will be in His Church. That's
it, the Life. If you took the life
out of a pumpkin vine, and put it over in a grapevine, it would bear pumpkins,
if it could live like that. Sure, the
life in it...And that's where the Life is now. The Life of Christ in the Church, produces Christ over again.
That's how they see Christ. The... In John 14:12 He said, "He
that believeth in Me, not make-believeth; but he that believeth in Me, the
works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go to My
Father." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Perseverant 62-0623 P:115 Now,
if I told you tonight... Let me show
you about the weakness of the church condition. We claim to be Christians. If I said the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, I'd have guns and I'd be an
outlaw, 'cause that's being a nature. If I said the spirit... If you put
the life of a pumpkin vine in a grape vine, it'll bear pumpkins. Sure. It's the
life that's in it produces it. Put the life out of an apple tree into a pear
tree, it'll bear apples, 'cause the life of the apple tree's in it. Put the life of Christ in an individual,
it'll bear the fruits of Christ, and the life of Christ. That's the reason
He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do
shall he do also." Now, look. Did He ever organize a
school, a seminary? "Works
that I do..." He said, "If
you don't believe Me, believe the works that I do. They testify of Me."
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