The
Doctrine of Christ no 58
“He that believeth on Me no 12”
Is born of God
Brian Kocourek
This evening we will look at
the 12th promise of God for the believer and that we will read in 1 John 5:1.
Now, although we will use 1 John 5:1 as our text, we will not stop there for
the Scripture is replete with verse where Jesus and the Apostle speak of this
being Born of God or what is also termed Born again by Jesus Himself.
So let’s read our text from 1 John 5:1 “Whosoever believeth” (ὁ πιστεύων) and again we see the
Greek word for “whosoever”
is that same Greek word “ὁ” that looks like an “o” with an accent mark
above it. So we see that
God has assigned another promise to the Believer when he said, “Whosoever believeth”
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of him.
Now, tonight we will study
just what it means to be “born of God”, or “born again” as we usually term it.
Because there are too many people that have too many ideas of what it means to
be born of God and what they seem to believe about the new birth does not fit
with what a vindicated prophet taught us. So let’s go to the scripture to find
out just what the Word of God says of the ones who are “born of God”, or “born again”.
The first time in
Scripture we find the term used, “born again” we find Jesus himself talking to
Nicodemus in John
3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom
of God.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
Now, notice that Jesus
tells him that unless you are born again you can not see or understand the
From Brother Branham’s
sermon, You Must Be Born Again 61-1231M 43 he said, “And, remember, the first thing, until you're born again you'll never
understand. Twice He spoke it. "Except
a man be born again he cannot enter the Kingdom. Except a man be born again he
cannot even see the Kingdom." Now, that's
punctuated too. The word, in the making all those words, they tell me that they
had to write it out, they, and when they say, "Verily, verily," that's
a punctuation, like a capital. "Verily,
verily, I say unto you." And the word in
one place, or many places, it's translated "absolutely": "Absolutely, absolutely, I say unto you." Who said that, did a cardinal, priest, pastor,
evangelist, pope? God Himself. Now,
there's no excuses. He will in nowise, nowise at all, cannot in any other way,
no matter how great he is, what his name is, how big he is, or how popular he
is, he cannot even understand the
Kingdom of God until he's born again. It's a great subject. "Verily, verily, I say unto you."
Watch. Go get the Greek translation; you'll find: not see with your eyes, you
see with your heart. See, you can't see the
And again from his
sermon, Jehovah Jireh 55-0817 11 Now, you do not see in Bible terms with your eyes. You see with your
heart. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be
born again he cannot see the
Now, notice the impact
of what he is telling us here. He is saying that unless you are born again and
have received the very spirit of God in you, there is no way you can even
understand the
Now,
that is exactly what the apostle Paul taught as well as we see in 1 Corinthians
chapter 2.
1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of
God.2 For I determined not to know any thing among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I
was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit
we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world,
nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But
we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
(you
see, it’s kept a mystery to al except those who are born again) even the hidden wisdom, (see, it’s a hidden wisdom to
all except those who have the same spirit God has) which God ordained before the world unto our glory (So this Word of God which has been kept a mystery
and has been kept hidden from everyone except those who have the spirit of God,
notice he says it is for our Glory, our doxa, our values, our opinion. Why?
Because it is His opinion and His values, and by having His spirit we have
access to his opinion and values.)
Then notice what he tells us of this “doxa”, this
“Glory” which has been kept hidden. 8 Which none of the princes of this world
knew: (upui see they didn’t know it, and because they didn’t know it, what
did they do?) for
had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (You
see, because they do not have the spirit of God they do not understand what is
going on in God’s kingdom, and because they do not understand what is going on
in God’s kingdom, in their carnal natural being they try to kill off, they try
to deny that part of God’s kingdom from coming into being. The crucifixion is a
mortification, a killing off, and they do it out of ignorance of what God is
doing.) 9 But as it is
written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart
of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him. 10 But
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit (And there is
only One “The Spirit” and that is God’s Spirit) for the
Spirit (God’s Spirit) searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God
knows. (Therefore what the Apostle Paul is telling us is
that unless you have the Spirit fo God, you will have no clue as to what god is
truly doing.) 12 Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; (and why have we received the Spirit of
God? Notice what he says as the reason for us receiving the Spirit of God.) that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
In other words the very reason we receive the Spirit
of God is so that we might know and comprehend the things which are given to us
from God. God wants us to know,. That is why the evidence of being born again
is that we know the things of God, or are able to comprehend the things given
to us of God. But the evidence is not the experience. Those are two different
words. When Brother Vayle and Brother Branham were discussing the evidence of
the new birth and brother Vayle was thinking experience, and so he said to
brother Branham what about the two experiences you had, and brother Branham
said, “Br. Lee, we do not go by experience, we go by the Word of God”. Now, he
did not say we do not have an experience when we are born again, because he
continued to teach that the new birth is an experience. But the experience is
not the evidence of your new birth, it is the experience you receive when you
are born again, but the evidence that you are truly born of God is that you
believe the Word for the hour in which you live.
Christ
is the mystery 63-0728 P:120 Look, Christ
in you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation. See? Christ's Life in you makes Him the center
of the revelation. Christ in the Bible, makes the Bible a complete
revelation of Christ. Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the
whole thing. See, what God's trying to do? What
is the new birth then? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, what is the
new birth?" It is the revelation of
Jesus Christ personally to you. Amen. See? Not you joined a church, you
shook a hand; you done something different; you said a creed; you promised to
live by a code of rules; but Christ, the
Bible... He is the Word that was
revealed to you. And no matter what anybody says, what takes place, it's
Christ. Pastor, priest, whatever it might be... It's Christ in you. That is the
revelation that the Church was built upon. 121 You say, "Well,
I'm a Lutheran"; "I'm a Baptist"; "I'm Presbyterian."
That don't mean one--don't mean [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] that
to God, not a thing, not a snap of your finger. What is it? It's Christ being
revealed, and He is the Word. And when
the Word is revealed, It expresses
Itself. See? That's God's purpose for Jesus Christ, was to express Himself,
to take His own laws and live by His laws, and fulfill His law by death.
Christ, God died in flesh in order to condemn sin in the flesh that He might
bring to Himself a glorious Bride, redeemed back, that will believe only in the
Word of God and not swap It, like Eve did, for intellectual conceptions of men.
You see it? 122 That's Christ's idea. That's God's idea. The new birth reveals this. And if a
man says he's born again and try to
place these promises of Christ in this last day to some other age, making Him Christ yesterday, but not today,
then that man or that person has been in a delusion by Satan. And if that
man says that he believes that, and it
doesn't manifest itself through him... Jesus said in Mark 16, "These signs shall follow them that
believe... into all the world and to every age." Casting out devils,
and speaking with tongues, and--and all
of these great manifestations of gifts that would follow, that they shall, not
that they maybe, they ought to; they
will. And heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word won't.
123 So it's Christ expressing Himself in the
individual, whether he's intellectual, or whether he don't know his ABC's.
Half the apostles didn't know them. That's right. But they knew Christ. They
never taken heed to Peter and John, knowing that they had been out of some
seminary. They said they taken heed and noticed that they'd been with Christ
when they healed the lame man (See?) at the gate. They knew they had been with
Christ. 124 The new birth is Christ, is a revelation.
God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that's the new birth. Now, what are you going to do when you get
all that group together, where the revelation is perfectly in harmony, and God expressing it through His Word by the
same actions, the same things that He did, making the Word manifest? Oh, if
the Church only knew its position. It will one day. Then, the rapture will go
when it knows what it is. Now, notice. You say, "Brother Branham, but that
ain't..." Oh, yes, it is, too. It is the Truth.
Now, notice then that if Christ is the Word, and you
are born of that Word, then you as Christ Jesus before you will have to manifest
that Word or there isn’t any life in you to begin with. It’s only
intellectualism.
Notice what Paul says here, 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Notice the distinction Paul is making between the
carnal believer he calls the natural man, and the real genuine Holy Ghost
filled son or daughter of God. He says, the things of God are spiritually
discerned and the natural man can not in no way, shape or form is able to
understand the things of God. Then why would we wonder why all the noise when
God is showing us His Word and teaching us to let go so that God can express
Himself in you. Notice what brother Branham said about the new birth in the
last quote I just read. He said, The new birth is Christ, is a revelation. God has revealed
to you this great mystery, and that's
the new birth. Now, what are you going to do when you get all that group
together, where the revelation is perfectly in harmony, and God expressing it through His Word by the
same actions, the same things that He did, making the Word manifest? Oh, if
the Church only knew its position. It will one day. Then, the rapture will go
when it knows what it is.
And I believe that is what this fuss is all about
where God is showing us that we must learn to yield ourselves and let go of our
own thoughts and receive fully His thoughts, and then he will begin to express
His God-life in you.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
And the problem as I
see it today is that too many people think “because they believe the Message, they thus are
born again”. But that is not what he said. He said have you received the Holy
Ghost since you believed?
Revelation chapter one 60-1204M P:96 Acts 19, "Paul passed through the upper coast of
Then why do we have
preachers today who say, “when I heard the Word I received the Holy Ghost right
then.” It’s have you received the Holy Ghost since, since is not when.
Now, we know that the Word
of God is spirit and truth, and we know Peter said, 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 we know our new
birth comes by the Word of God, but Paul said since not when you believed.
And if you go to the Token tape preached by brother
Branham and listen from about minutes 45 through 60 you will hear him tell you
that the Holy Ghost is given as a Token by God that seals in your belief. In
other words he says it is a confirmation that God has accepted your faith.
Token the 64-0208 P:67 A minister said to me one time, said,
"Brother Branham, Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for
righteousness." And I said, "That's true." Said, "What more
can a man do but believe?" I said, "That's exactly right." "Then
where do you get this Holy Ghost outside of believing?" I said, "But
He give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his faith."
Amen. And if He's never give you the
baptism of the Holy Ghost yet, then He hasn't confirmed your faith that you say
you have. But the Token is a confirmation. I say, "I got the money. I
paid it in the office down there." But you've got to show the Token. That's right. 68 When I
show the Token, I got a right. And when I can show the Token of the Holy
Spirit, you've got the right to any purchased thing that Jesus Christ died for.
It's the Token. Watch, just a moment, as we close. Hold the Token over your
unwavering faith in the promised Word. I believe that Jesus said, "Ask the
Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Hold your Token over that
promised Word and walk right to it. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy
diseases. He was wounded for my transgressions; with His stripes I was
healed." Take my Token of the Holy Spirit that's in me, hold it over my
prayer, and say, "Lord God, You promised it."
"When I see the Token I will reward
you. I promised to do it."
He can't do nothing else. He looked right through the Blood of His own Son.
There's the Token applied. He has to do it, because He promised it.
69 He could not go
into a house, the death angel destroyer, and take one out. He couldn't do it,
because there was the blood of the lamb, the requirement of Jehovah. And the
requirement of Him today is the Blood of His own Son Jesus Christ, and the
Token of the Holy Ghost. If we haven't got it... We might be Baptist,
Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostals, whatever we might be. We might shout,
scream; we might be, oh, so educated. That has not one thing to do with it. You
must present the Token. Then you're a
subject for the resurrection, because the resurrecting power is already in
you. The Token is the resurrection power, showing that Jesus raised up from the
dead, and you are raised from the dead, the dead things of unbelief, and have
been a--made alive in the Word of Jesus Christ. You believe it, and the Word
lives through you.
70 "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, ask
what you will."
St. John 14:12, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I
do, he shall do also. Greater than this shall he do, because I go to the Father. A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet you shall see Me,
because I'll be with you, even in you." How did He? Not the body, He's setting at the right hand of
the majesty, but the Token that you have received it and He's give it back to
you. Take that Token and claim anything you wish to. God promised it.
71 I've always said
I met two classes of people: the
fundamentals and the Pentecostals. The
fundamentals positionally study the Scriptures and figure it out. They say,
"Well, we're sons of God." They believe that. Yes, sir. But they
don't have any faith with it. But the Pentecostals has a lot of faith,
and they don't know they're sons of God. Like a man got money in the bank can't
write a check; the other one can write a check and got no money in the bank. If
you could ever just get the thing together, till men and women could
realize...You that's been truly baptized into the Holy Spirit, and you have the
Token to display, you have a right to
every redemptive blessings that God promised. Everything that He promised
is yours. Hold your Token over your unwavering faith as you pray, and over His
Word, faith in His Word.
72 God once gave a
token to the people, and that was a rainbow. Looky, listen close. We're
closing. God ever remained true to that token. Way back in the days of Noah,
destruction of the antediluvian world, God gave this nation, or give the world
a rainbow sign for a token. And God ever displays His token. As the thousands
of years roll by, He never fails, because He watches His tokens. All these
thousands of years He's displayed it to us, showing us that He never fails to
honor the token. He never fails to honor it.
73 He expects us now to display the Token over
our faith, to Satan's group, the unbelievers, and cults, and so forth, that
don't believe in it, that we, believing what He has said of His promises, and
that Jesus Christ has raised up from the
dead, showing Himself alive... And that is the badge, the Token of
identification, because it's Christ's
own Life in you identifying the Word. It doesn't need anything else.
That's the Token. Without the
Token...Shows the fare is paid, shows that you're a subject for the
resurrection, that God, that same power that raised up Jesus from the grave,
you're holding within yourself as a Token. The
Holy Ghost in you is the Token that brings you from the grave, because the
Token is God, the Holy Spirit, which is Eternal Life, coming from the Greek
word "Zoe," which means "God's own Life," in you.
That's the only thing that paid the price. If that Token isn't there, how are
you going to raise?
74 Brother, sister,
tonight, with all fairness to God and to His Word, and to each other, and to
the time that we're now living in, if you're without the Token, if you don't
have the Token... Some of you might not even believe it. But it's here. The Token has been here since Christ died.
Why don't you identify yourself in death
to your own thinking tonight, and let the thoughts that's in Him be in you.
"Let the meditation of my heart be acceptable to Thee, O Lord. Let Thy
Word, 'If ye abide in Me and my Word
in you (That is Him.), then ask what you will, and it'll be given to you.'" Don't you believe that?
75 Let us bow our
heads a moment. How many people in here that know that the way you live, that
you really haven't got that Token applied? You know it isn't there. You believe
it. You absolutely believe it; but you haven't got it. You know you haven't.
Would you just raise your hand and say, "Pray for me, Brother
Branham." Let all heads be down. God bless you." I haven't got it. I
haven't, Brother Branham. I've tried to accept it. I believe it, but really, it
hasn't been applied to me yet. I look in the glass. I see I'm not there. I look
at the way I feel what's in my soul. I'm
full of temper, anger. I'm jealous. I've got all..." Oh, my, that'd grieve
the Holy Spirit from you right now. See, see?
"Now, I tell you. I do; I see the
Word and see it confirmed; but yet, I
just got a bunch of people that I go with to my church, or my society, my card
parties, something. I just can't give them up." That shows you haven't got the Token. "If you love the
world or the things of the world, the love of God's not... Come out from among
them," the Bible said. "Touch not their unclean things." Friends,
it can't be made more real that it is now. It can't be. The Token is here, if
we'll believe it. Do you believe it? Will you accept it?
76 Lord Jesus,
they're in Your hands now. May the Token, the Token that Jesus is not dead, the
Token that Jesus raised up from the dead, and is here tonight... He's the Token
of His resurrection. He Himself is the Word. He is here to confirm everything He said. He's here to confirm every promise that He made. If the people
could just only see it once, Lord, that it isn't something that we could guess
about; it's something we must know,
Lord. There's no try over. You can't
go back and try again. It must be done now. I pray, God, that every person
will receive Him tonight. And may the Token of the Blood be applied to every
heart. And then may there be a revival come through this country here that'll
be great. Father, we commit it into Your hands, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
77 Now,
while we're in prayer and everybody real quiet, don't no one move now. Just a
minute. Do you believe this is the truth, that the Token's got to be displayed? It had in every time, every age,
it had to be displayed. Now, what is... The
Token is a confirmation of His Word, that shows He is the Word. Now, the
Word said He raised up from the dead, and He's alive forevermore. He lives in His people, the same yesterday,
today, and forever. Do you believe that? If you believe that, then you have a right if you have that Token, the
Holy Spirit in you, you have a right to everything that His death purchased for
you. Won't you believe it? Now, look. So it...
Romans 8:11 says, It is God’s Spirit
that bears witness with your spirit, not your spirit bearing witness with
His Spirit. 10 And if Christ be
in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness.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. 12 Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.13 For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.14 For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.15 For
ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.16 The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together.18 For I
reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest
expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Now, in closing let me read
a few Scriptures that express some attributes that the born ones of God will
express.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit
sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born
of God. We have already taken a
study on this, and shown you that the word commit means to initiate or to
habitually do. So we can read this identification of the one who is born of God
as thus.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the
victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: Now, the question here is how do we overcome the world? You see he is
saying that everyone who is truly born again will overcome the world, so if we
wish to know whether we are born again we must look at whether we are over
comers or not. But the real question is whether we are truly born again or not.
Because there are dozens of millions in this country alone and much more
throughout the world that believe they are born again when they are not. And so
he tells us here how we know if we are or not. "and this is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our faith. Now, it is not our Faith as though
we have a faith that is different from the Faith of Jesus Christ the Son of
God, because Paul tells us that we are saved by the Faith of Him.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of
God keepeth himself, and that wicked
one touches him not.
I John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God
sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, ( or IT keepeth
him) and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that
ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Now
if you seal in what is in and seal out what is out, then you now have the right
chemistry to produce ONENESS. Because, as long as you can mix what is out with
what is inside, you can not have oneness. So you see how important it is to
have the Seal first. That is what keeps you. And how are you seal. By the Word
of Promise.
Ephesians 1:13 In
whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of
your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that
holy Spirit of promise,
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love
is of God; and every one that loveth
is born of God, and knoweth God.
Now, in getting back to verse one. Whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ (anointed one) is born of God, and every one that
loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Now, let me ask
you what is one who begets? It's a father. Right? Then who is the begotten? It
is the child or in this case the son. So what He is saying here is that
everyone that loveth the Father will love his son. Then if they do not even
belief God had a son, how can they love him? Impossible. So here we see John
speaking of one that begat and then another that was begotten. Therefore there
is one that is a Father and one that is a son. By this we know that we love the
children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. Now remember God
is the Word, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and
the Word was God", and so those who Love God are those who love His word,
for God is the Word.
1
John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the
children of the devil: whosoever doeth not right-wise-ness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his
brother. Now, what does he mean by
that? Was John just joking? Or is this Gods Word we are reading? He says here, whosoever doeth not that
which is right is not of God,. Then are we to avoid this because it
is too controversial? I think not. You can call a buzzard an eagle if you want
to but just because you say it doesn't make it so. And you can call yourself
born again if you wish, but your life will bear you out.
Jesus said, “By
their fruits you will know them”.
Listen to what brother Branham said from his sermon Why are we not a denomination? 58-0927 P:127 Now,
we can tell you why we take communion, tell you why we take feet-washing, why
we won't let the members take it if we know they're in sin. And that's why this
last two or three weeks I've been going from one member to the other one, where
you been having your little fusses
around too: going around, one wouldn't speak to the other, pass one another
on the road and turn your head, shame on
you, who's took the blessed cup of God across this, the altar here, and 'cause you brothers and sisters and them get
on the telephone and gad off about one another, you're not fit to be called
Christian when you're that way. Right. You
keep off them telephones, if you
can't talk good about somebody, don't you talk at all. Remember, God's going to hold you responsible. As
long as that kind of spirit's in you, you know you're not right with God. And
if you don't feel... 128 If a man's in the wrong, go to him and be reconciled.
If you can't be reconciled, take somebody with you. No wonder God can't
discipline His church, 'cause you're not doing it right. Instead of getting on
the phone and talking about this one, what taken place, and little cults and so
forth, around like that. Instead of doing that, why don't you do what the Bible
says? If some brother's been overtaken in a fault, go to him and see if you
can't get reconciled with him. "Well, now he did me..." I don't care
what he did, go to him anyhow. It didn't say for him to come to you. You go to
him if he's wrong. You say, "Well, he was in the wrong, he ought to come
to me." That's not what the Bible said. The Bible said for you go to him.
If he's wrong, you go to him. And then if he won't listen to you, then take
somebody with you as a witness. And then if he won't see that witness, then,
say, now I'll take your pastor. Then you tell him, say, "I'm going to tell
it to the church, and in thirty days from now, if you brethren haven't made
that up... This brother here's willing to be reconciled. You won't do it. And
if you won't make that up within thirty days, then what's going to happen,
you're no more one of us."
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The Bible said, "If he won't hear the church, then let him be unto you as
a heathen and a Publican." You see, as long as a brother is under that
protection of the church, the Blood of Christ is protecting him. That's the
reason we don't get the church rolling on the way it does. Now, I... This is
the doctrine of the Baptist--of the Baptist church, or the Branham Tabernacle
here, if you'll do it. See, why can't...
No
wonder we don’t see the Holy Spirit in action among you. Because your focus is
on we self with your little pity parties and gossip,. Instead of laying on your
face and asking God to make you more like his son, you would rather get on the
phone or today its FaceBook and tell the world your sad condition. Listen, the
devil is going to use your FaceBook to destroy you and what you write on their
you think you can erase it but you can’t, it’s stored forever and will be
played back at the white throne.
Let
us pray…