The
Doctrine of Christ no 66
He the Believeth no 20
The Life of Christ Part 6
“Your Heart”
Brian Kocourek
MATTHEW 15:10 ¶ And he called the
multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth
into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this
defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou
that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he
answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted,
shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 15 Then answered
Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. 16 And Jesus said, Are
ye also yet without understanding? 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever
entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the
draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the
heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These
are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not
a man.
MARK 7:14 And when he had called all the
people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and
understand:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can
defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile
the man. 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 17 And when he was
entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the
parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye
not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it
cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the
belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20 And he said, That
which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of
the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and
defile the man.
Notice here that Jesus tells us that
Defilement comes from within, from the heart. Defilement He says, is not a
condition of being infected from without, or affected by that which is without,
but defilement is a condition of the heart expressing itself outwardly.
Therefore if defilement does not come from that which is without, then there is
nothing that can defile you unless that defilement is already in you to begin
with.
Godhead explained 61-0425B
P:40 Now, I said to Brother Scism and Brother Ness, "To
answer your question," I said, "now, I do not take either sides with
you brethren, and I know, as long as you
fuss, you're both wrong (See?), because I would rather be wrong in my doctrine and right in my heart, than to
be right in my doctrine and wrong in my heart." See? I said,
"After all, it's your heart's
condition." And I made that a practice to know this, that if a man, no
matter what he does and how much he differs, and what he says about me, if in my heart, not from just a duty, but
from my heart I can't love that man as well as I love anyone else, then I know
there's something wrong in here. See? That's right, …
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.
Years ago I preached a message
concerning this called The Garden of Your Mind, and we found that every thought
we think is a seed, just like the thoughts that were in God to begin with were
seeds.
Brother Branham said, sin is not drinking
and smoking and chasing. Those are just attributes of unbelief'. The man
disbelieves and therefore manifests that disbelief by doing those things that
are contrary to the Word of God.
And we know that we are all born in sin
to begin with, we are born in sin, shaped in iniquity and come to the world
speaking lies", as the Scripture teaches.
Therefore, as the Scripture
tells us, There is none that is righteous, no not one, and all of our
righteousness is as filthy rags. That's ISAIAH 64:6 ¶ But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name) that
stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou have hid thy face from us,
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, 0 LORD, thou art
our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of
thy hand.
Now, Jesus links the heart of man with
his lips, or the tongue. He says, for out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh."
ROMANS 3:10 As it is written, There
is none righteous no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth there is
none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13
Their throat [ an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the
poison of asps [ under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness:
Now, point number 2, we find in Matthew 7
where Jesus tells us, A tree can not bring forth good and evil fruit and James
tells us, neither can a well bring forth bitter and sweet water.
MATTHEW 7:15 ¶ 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.
We also find James tell us
concerning sweet water and bitter water that any single fountain can not bring
forth both types of water.
JAMES 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even
the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of
God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren,
these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same
place sweet [and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a vine, figs? so[no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.What do
Jesus and James mean by these parables? They are saying that out side things
are not that which defile a man, but those things that come forth from the
heart are the things that defile the man. Then he lists off a whole lot of
things that show defilement within the man. He says, That which cometh out of
the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the head of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries) fornications, murders, 22 Thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit) lasciviousness) an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride) foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the
man.
And in MATTHEW 12:33 we read, Either make the tree
good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt
for the tree is known by his fruit (and we know in the anointed Ones
at the end Time brother Branham said the fruit is the teaching of the season,
what they teach. Therefore you judge the tree or man by what comes forth from
his lips in terms of teaching, what they teach.) 34 0 generation of vipers, (notice
he is calling them serpent seed here. He says you generation of poisonous serpents)
how can ye, being
evil speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth
good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil
things. 36 (now we covered this thought here several weeks ago on
where your treasure is there will your heart be also. So lets read on, )But I say unto you,
That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in
the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy
words thou shalt be condemned.
And why is that? Because it is your
words, the things you say that declare where your heart is and what things you
hold dear within your heart. So we are looking at what is in there, deep within
the heart. For that is the real you and if that has not been born again, you
are in a lot of trouble.
Then your heart is what you
are, it is your understanding, it is what you think and thus what you express.
It is what you understand, and thus a reflection of the condition of your soul.
And out of the abundance or overflow of the heart the mouth will speak and the
body will act those things out.
EXPLAINING HEALING AND JAIRUS 54-0216 E-37 What you are here is a reflection of what
you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is
that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified" Already in the Presence of the Father, we
have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right We'll find out
whether it right or not "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have
one already waiting" Is that right? That's right So right now, and what we
are there, is a reflection. Here, what we are here, is a reflection of what we
arc somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil, you know where it comes from.
You know where your other body's a waiting.
Now, in the parable Jesus is telling us that the mouth is the means whereby we
know what is in the heart. And if our mouth is not true to what is in our
hearts, then we are hypocrites, which is the worse kind of sinner.
CONDEMNATION BY REPRESENTATION 60-1113 4-1
When a person is preaching a doctrine, then you've got to stay with your own
belief, If you don't, then you're a hypocrite. If you say something because someone
else says it, and in your heart you don't believe that, then you're a hypocrite
because you're saying something that you don't believe. I'd rather be
criticized a little upon things that I do believe than to be a hypocrite in the
sight of God trying to compromise with someone else.
I believe that is the reason
why I have had so much success around the world teaching the doctrine. It is
because I truly believe what I teach is the Whole Truth and nothing but the
Truth, and I have not only the Scriptures to prove what I teach is true, but I
have also a vindicated Prophet's own words to back it all up.
Now, there are a lot of people who claim
to believe this message but their mouth declares them to be hypocrites, because
on the one hand they say, "say only what the prophet says," and then
when you do, they criticize you for it. These are people who say one thing but
believe another, and Jesus called them hypocrites. And that is what brother
Branham is telling us here.
Now, let' s see some other
things brother Branham tells us about these kind of people.
UNCERTAIN SOUND 55-0731 64
As I was saying a few days ago, either here or somewhere, speaking on the lie
detector. Now, notice close now. I want you pay close attention. Put a lie
detector on you, and you try to impersonate that truth, and try to say that
it's truth, but down on the inside of you, in the subconscious, lays a place
called the soul. And this intellectual mind does not govern that vibration of
the system. The mind is only a director.
It will direct you, and it's very incapable of bringing you to God: your mind. You
cannot know God by your mind, intellectual It's one of the resources, or
the channels that would lead to it, but your soul is what governs you. You are
what you are, by your soul. Jesus said to the Pharisee, said, "Why, you
hypocrites. How can you speak good things?" When, they was calling Him,
"Good Master," and so forth. Said, "Out of the abundance of the
heart speaketh the lips. And in your heart you hate Me. And in your lips you
call Me, 'Good "' He said, "You hypocrites" See, your soul is
thinking one thing, and you're speaking with your lips another thing. What a
case. What a horrible thing. What a deceitful thing is a hypocrite. For out of
their mind they say one thing, when their soul says another thing. 68 Now, the
lie detector will not work on your mind. It'll work on your soul It'll not work
on your intellects. There ! some people can impersonate the truth. They
impersonate. Yet, it being a lie, and can impersonate it till they can deceive
like anything. And Satan is the best of that there is, for he has deceived Eve
by that way, saying them same things. And the biggest lie was ever told, had a
lot of truth in it. 70 Now, this person, what if you could ever get this soul
on the inside, so in harmony with God, that your soul and God would be one
together, then you could ask what you will, and it shall be given to you. Many
people come to me, many times in the prayer line, and stand there, and say,
"Oh, Brother Branham, I have plenty faith. I've got faith like to move
mountains." And, yet, they haven't any faith. They hardly have enough
faith to get to the platform. But they are conscious of one thing, that they do
believe. They are believing intellectually with their mind. And their mind will
never bring them to God. Your mind is reasoning's. And God has no reasoning's.
72 If you can reason it out, your mind will tell you, "Now, looky here,
the doctor says I can't get over that. It's impossible." Now, the doctor,
with his intellects, with His intelligence, with His knowledge of medical
science, he's told you the best of the travel of his mind. And you taking your
mind, and using the same thing the doctor has told you, you... God can never
touch that line, as long as you reason. But let's put down reasoning. God never
made us to live by our intellect. We live by the Holy Spirit that's in our
soul, that says "no" to any reasoning's that's contrary to God's
Word. When God's Word says its so, there's nothing in the world stands in Its
way. Then when you do that, you're getting down on the right side of God.
You're getting down, till you can ask what you want to, and it'll be given to
you, 'cause there's nothing between there. There's no reason. Let's cast away
those reasoning's. They stand in your way. Get your mind out of the way. And
don't you say what you reason, what you see, what you think; say what God says
to be the Truth. And that can only come from the inside, from the heart, not
from the intellects.
IMPERSONATION OF CHRISTIANITY 57-0120M E-29
And in this being the intellectual type of churches that we have today in
America, and all over the world, when we get to that type of school, then the
Christian, the believer, the church member, reading the Bible sees that he must
try to act humble. He must try to be this way. But in doing so he only makes a
carnal impersonation. Let that soak deep. A carnal comparison, he's trying to
act something that he really isn't in his heart. In his heart he's thinking one
thing, and trying to act another, which in real genuine language, that makes
him a hypocrite E-30 Jesus said, "You hypocrites, how can you speak good
things, for out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth." If you
don't speak according to what's in your heart, your heart thinks one thing and
you speak another, that makes you a hypocrite. The very word
"Pharisee" means, "actor" They acted out their religion for
they had a stony heart They come and said, "Good Master, we would see a
sign from Thee to prove that you are what You said." Said, 'How do you
call Me good, when there's none good but God?"
UNCERTAIN SOUND 55-0731 75 There's where so many people
today, is going to be so terribly disappointed at the day of judgment: to know
that they've lived in church, to know that they have done good deeds, to know
that they have treated their neighbor right, to know that they have been loyal
to the people, loyal to the church, and in their mind have believed that Jesus
Christ the Son of God and be condemned at the day of judgment. Jesus said,
"Many are called and few are chosen. Straight is the gate and narrow is
the way that leads to Life, and but few there will be that find it. "Now,
to you people here this morning, I want you to set up and take notice to this.
You're old enough now. You've heard enough Gospel preaching, till you ought to
be able to get off of milk and to come to a real solid Gospel diet: come to a
place where men and women ought to stand. Paul said, "When you ought to be
teachers, why, you have to be taught to, yet"
78 Now, in the soul where the man lives, you are what you are in your soul, not
in your mind, not in your reasoning. Not because you say, "I will have a
better standing. 1 can associate with better company ff1 become a
Christian." That's reasoning. See? You mustn't do that Don't do that Let
it become from a new experience, a new Birth, something that's happened, not in
the mind, but in the soul, that's taken all reasoning's away, and you become a
new creature. And you're in Christ Jesus.
GOD MAKING HIS PROMISE 56-1209A E-17 Now,
if you're trying just to impersonate it, then it, you're just making a
hypocrite out of yourself You see? 'Cause you can? do that. Christianity is
something that has to come from the heart. Jesus speaking to the Pharisees,
said, "Ye hypocrites, how can you say good things when out of the
abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth?" Then if the heart thought one
thing and the mouth spoke something else, it becomes hypocrisy. See? We must
from our heart express exactly how we feel. We must express it from our heart
And if we can't express the right thing, then keep still Don't say nothing
about it And now, if the church ever gets to practicing that, they might have
fewer members for a while, but they'll have better members while they're having
it. God grant the day that when every man or woman will be and express just
what they are.
EXHORTATION ON HEALING 51-0501 E-45 We learned this, friends,
that God knows what your heart is. See? And if you don't speak from your heart,
then you're a hypocrite.
Is that right? And I really
mean it.
WORD BECAME FLESH
Ezekiel 36:26-28 A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will / put within you: and I will take away the stony head out of your
flesh, and / will give you an head of flesh. And! will put my SpirIt within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do [ And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall
be my people, and / will be your God.
PP 37 inter veil 56-0121 Notice. There is an
intellectual faith. And there's a faith that comes from the heart. The old
unbeliever said years ago, "When the Bible said, 'As a man thinketh in his
heart... " Said, "That's crazy. There's no mental facilities in the
heart" Said, "You think with your mind. There's no mental facilities
in the heart." But last year they found that's wrong. God was right down
in the heart, in the center of the heart, there's a little compartment where
there's not even a blood cell in it, It's not in the animal heart, only in the
human heart. And they say, it's the occupation, or the occupant of the soul The
soul lives in the head. Then after all, God was right, when He said, "As a
man thinketh in his heart." And I'd like to add, So is he!
51 Hear ye Him 60-0712 Man ain't measured by
muscles; that's beast. Man's measured by character. I seen men that weighted
two hundred pounds and all muscle and didn't have an ounce of man in him. Throw
a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her, that ain't a man; that's a beast.
That's brute. Man is character. There never was a man like Jesus Christ But the
Bible said there was no beauty that we should desire Him. Probably a littIe,
bitty Fellow, stooped in the shoulder or something... We all hid as it was our
faces from Him. But He... There never was a character like that That's what
real man is. You don't measure a man muscles, but by the bags of the knees in
his pants where he's been praying. That's the way you measure a man, by
character It's true.
Impersonation of Christianity 57-0127A
Yes, watch the order of the Scripture. "I will take away the old stony
head, and I'll give you a new heart." That's the first order. Some of them
stop on that first order. Now, that's... You are--you're just getting started.
Then He said, "I'll give you a new spirit." There's where a lot of
you Pentecostals fail You had to have a new spirit Oh, you felt good and you
felt like that, "Oh, wel4 I just, oh, I feel fine. I couldn't have
it." Well, you just got started. You're just getting fixed up now to
just... You're just coming in line. He had to give you a new spirit. Why you
couldn't get along with yourself with the old spirit So how could you get along
with God's Spirit? So He had to give you a new spirit
Matt 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and
[ ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time
they should see with [ eyes, and hear with [ ears, and should understand with
their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
So we are dealing with the
heart as the receptacle of the Soul. Then the heart and its condition is very
important because of the influence it plays on the condition of the soul. You
raise up a child in the way they are to go and when they get old they will not
depart. Therefore, if you raise up that child in a condition or atmosphere of
unbelief, it will have a very strong influence on what they believe the Word of
God. A child raised up in a very irreverent home will have a much harder time
coming to grips with his need for salvation than one who is raised up in a home
where love, and respect for God are taught.
And the five fold ministry can not give you a revelation, but they can prepare
your mind to receive revelation from God. And you parents can prepare the minds
of your children to receive the Word of God as well. That is your duty before
God as a steward of your household.
Deauteronomy 6:4
Hear, 0
Blasphemous Names pg. 23,
as saying, Coming to your mental faith, right here, comes the Holy Spirit;
coming down into your mental faith making it a Spiritual Faith. Then the
Spiritual Faith only recognizes the Word."
And so, in looking at this condition of
the mind, we see that God has come down in this hour to bring about a change of
our mind that we might receive His mind. Let this mind be in you that was in
Christ Jesus." And we also know in Colossians 3:4 we are told, that "when Christ Who is
our Life shall appear, then we shall appear with Him in the same Glory or
mindset." So then, if it is a condition of the mind, then it
must first come to our mind, before it can move down into our heart and soul
and take over the very ambitions and desires of our heart. That's why the
scripture tells us, "where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also."
in Luke 6: 45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is evil; for of the abundance of his heart
the mouth speaketh.' And so here we find the Scripture telling us
that our hearts will only reflect the real treasure that lays inside of it, and
it will show what our treasures really are in the things that we talk about.
From the message IS YOUR LIFE
WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL PP 151, Brother Branham said, "the things that you think on,
the things that you do, (the actions), the things that you talk about creates
an atmosphere!'
What your mind is feeding upon is only a
reflection of your Spiritual condition which is only a reflection of your
Eternal destination. Gods Elect will hold His Word as their treasure, and it
will reflect in their thoughts and actions as well.
From Enticing Spirits brother Branham
said, "you
let me see what a man reads, let me see what he watches, listen to the music he
listens at, and I can tell what spiritual condition he is in." He said,
"because that's your appetite!'
From the message IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL PP 151,
Brother Branham said, "the things that you think on, the things that you do, (the
actions), the things that you talk about creates an atmosphere!'
What your mind is feeding upon is only a
reflection of your Spiritual condition which is only a reflection of your
Eternal destination. Gods Elect will hold His Word as their treasure, and it
will reflect in their thoughts and actions as well.
From Enticing Spirits brother Branham said, "you let me see what a man
reads, let me see what he watches, listen to the music he listens at, and I can
tell what spiritual condition he is in." He said, "because that's
your appetite!'
From What is the Holy Ghost PP 31, brother Branham
said, "You
let me talk to a man for two minutes; I can tell you whether he's received the
Holy Ghost or not So can you. It separates them; It's a mark, It's a sign. And
the Holy Spirit is a Sign. And it's... Any child that refused circumcision in
the Old Testament, which was a foreshadow of the Holy Ghost, was cut off from
amongst the people. He could not have fellowship with the rest of the
congregation if he refused to be circumcised. Now, pattern that to today. A
person that would refuse to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost can have no
fellowship among those that has the Holy Ghost You just can't do it You have to
be a nature. Like, it's... My mother there used to say, "Birds of a
feather flock together" Well) it's an old proverb, but it's a true one.
You don? see doves and crows fellowshipping. Their diets are different; their
habits are different; their desires are different And that's the way it is with
the world and with a Christian when you have been circumcised by the Holy
Spirit, which means to cut off a flesh.
And so we see that there is a certain
diet that we partake of. A crow can eat just anything, nothing hardly will
bother him, but a Dove can only eat certain kinds of food. That's his nature.
To eat like a Crow would kill it. And Ill tell you I believe that with all my
heart. I heard a tape other night of a certain preacher in this message, and
all he did was holler and scream and yet nothing was being said. I couldn't
stand it.
THIRST 65-0919
there is a control tower in your soul, that tells you the spiritual things that
you have need of, something in your spirit, and, and you by this can tell what
kind of a life is controlling you. When you-when you can see what your desires
are, then you can tell, by that, what kind of something that's in you, that's
creating this desire that you have. See, there is a certain thing that you
thirst for, and it--and it can tell you in your soul what this desire is, by
the nature of the thirst that you have. / hope that you can understand that.
INFLUENCE 63-0112 13 You know, there's so many of us, and most all of us influence somebody
by the things that we do, and the way we live, and the things we say. We
influence somebody. Somebody is watching your life. And then, when we profess
to be Christians, what type of life should we live if somebody is watching us?
And your life that you live will reflect an influence on somebody that might be
their eternal destination will rest upon the way that you live and the things
that you do, for they watch you. And in our text this morning, as
"influence," we find that this King Uzziah was a great influence to
Isaiah, the--the young prophet. Isaiah had been called to his side, and being a
noted, a-vindicated prophet of his day, and he had a... I believe the way that
Isaiah spoke it, he was a--had a great influence upon Isaiah. 14 Now, we find
that Uzziah was called to be king at the age of about sixteen years old after
his father's death. And his father was a great believer, and his mother also
was a very fine woman. And this young king had been crowned at a young age, and
quickly he taken the road that was right, because of the influence of a godly
father and a godly mother. And I think that's a very fine example for we parent
today, is to set an example before our children. Now, you'll live your best and
your worst at home. And I think that our lives... Though the children might not
just exactly act like they're noticing it, but they are noticing it. Don't you
never think that they are not, because they're watching. Not only the children
are watching, but the neighbors are watching. Not only the neighbors are
watching, but all that you are associated with watch you. The people at your
church watch you. The people that you do business with in the markets, they're
watching you, after your confession. And we should always try to reflect Christ
in everything that we do.