The Doctrine of Christ no 71
The Life of Christ no 11
“Fathers Life echoing in you”
Brian
Kocourek
Let us remain standing this morning and open our Bibles to the Book of
John and we will read verses 15 and 16 for our text.
John 3:15
That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have (echoes) everlasting life.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath
(echoes) everlasting life: and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath
(echoes)
life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have (echo) life in himself;
John 6:47
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath (echoes) everlasting
life.
Let us pray, Dear Father we come to you this morning in that wonderful
name you gave to your son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and we ask Father that if
there be one thing that you may do with us, and through us, we ask that you
would echo Your life in these frail bodies that we are at home in while here on
earth. We also ask you Father to help us to understand what your purpose and
plan for each of our lives is because without knowing why we came into this
world, we will waste the time here on frivolous things instead of living a life
that is pleasing to Thee. Help us to prepare our hearts for the going home.
Help us to come forth in the image of your dear son, our eldest brother Jesus.
Help us to reflect Your Life, Father, and may we have the same testimony as
your dear son, when you said, “This is my beloved son, IN Whom I am pleased to dwell.”
For we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name, amen.
Now, this morning I would like to speak about the Life of our Father,
(Eternal Life) as it is meant to be echoed by our very vessels. Now when we
think of the word echo we think in terms of what comes to us we give back, just
as an echo is the same sound not only in the precise tone and quality, but also
in the same word, same notes, or whatever is given forth is reflected back in
the very same way it went forth.
That is what Eternal Life, the Life of our Father in us is supposed to do
in us. Not just stay in us so that we can hoard it to ourselves. But it is
given to us, and we are made in such a way as to be able to echo it back so
that others may receive what we have received. And that is what John 14:12 is
all about. It is not about being able to work miracles, but it is the very life
of the Father living itself out in us just as it lived itself out in Jesus
Christ. And that is what brother Branham’s sermon on the Token is all about. It
is about the Life of God, (God-Life) echoing in you as it echoed in the son of
God.
From his sermon The Token 63-0901M P:138 brother
Branham said, “And it displays His power. John, 14:12,
says, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do
shall he do also." New Testament is new covenant, new
life. Shows Jesus has met every requirement for us that God required to make us
back truly sons and daughters of God,
under the Blood where there is no more condemnation. Romans 8:1,
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in
(not those who are believing it), those who are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit." And “My
Word is Spirit and life?." Oh, couldn't I take a text from
that, and stay about a couple more hours, but we'll hurry over it. You see? No
more condemnation; free from sin; free from the cares of the world. No condemn...
Why? To them that have been by one Spirit baptized into one Body, there the
Blood of the Lamb has been applied. The
God of heaven has accepted you. And His life is in you, and you are sons and
daughters of God. Your character is
God's character. What is it? A little pushover? No, sir. God's a God of
judgment. He's a God of correct. It must be on the line. Nothing else will do. That's the kind of character you are,
because you're the character of your Father. See? Watch.
Romans 8:11 But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he (that’s God’s Spirit he talking about) He (God) that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now, as I have said many times your mortal body is
this body that is capable of dying. And it is this body that he will quicken.
He’s not talking about here after you are dead, for that is a corpse, not a
mortal body. Too many people place this after the death, and they place it in
the resurrection. But he says, mortal body. Mortal means capable of dying. That
is why God is the Immortal King. Because God can not die.
So he is not speaking of after you are dead here, he
is speaking of God’s own spirit in you quickening you, or making this body come
to life through His Spirit Living and abiding 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.
Now, to mortify means to kill off. So God wants us to
kill the actions in your flesh that are flesh driven. He wants us to echo His
Life in these bodies, and you can not do that unless His Spirit is in you doing
it.
14 For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
(So
I ask you this morning, who is leading you? The Spirit of God or man?)
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.
And listen closely to verse 16 because it is very
important how you read this.
16.The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Now, who is The Spirit talking about? It is talking
about God’s spirit bearing witness
17. For The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God:
He’s not talking about our spirit bearing witness with
God’s spirit. The whole word of Christendom do that. But he is talking about
God bearing witness. So we must ask the question, how does God bear witness
with our spirit? We will get to that in
a moment but let’s first finish our reading here.
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.
Now, I asked the question, how does God bear witness to your spirit that
you are indeed one of His children? He would have to do it the same way he did
His own son, if he is the same yesterday today and forever, wouldn’t he? Or
else he is a respecter of persons, and we know that is one thing He is not.
YOU can talk all you want and say you bear witness to the truth, and to
God, but Jesus Himself said in John 5:31 If
I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
And then he said a few verses later in John 5:36
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which
the Father hath given me to finish, the
same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
And again in John 10:25 Jesus
answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Therefore if God’s Spirit is to bear witness to your spirit that you are
indeed a true son or daughter of God then God must do the same thing He did for
his son, or he is not the same yesterday, today and forever.
Notice Brother Branham said in the Token that when you are born again, God
has accepted you, and when He places His Spirit in you, your character is
transformed into his character. Your life is taken over by His life.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:54 Now,
God's secret mystery He had before the world began... Now, back in the back
part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to
achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed.
Because first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything; He
was God. But He exactly wasn't God at that time, because God is an object of
worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship Him. So in His great mind He wanted these attributes to be expressed.
And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was
to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that
we see already expressed, they were in God.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:58 Therefore, the entire Bible is the revelation of God's
mystery in Christ. Huh? The entire Bible is an expression of one goal that
God had, one purpose He wanted to achieve in the entire Bible, and all the acts of the believers in the Bible
has been in type and expressing what God's great goal is.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:59 What
was He doing?--identifying Himself to these apostles that all of the prophets, and all of the Psalms, and everything was Him expressed. See?
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:72 He was made to be the Judge of the sinner,
if he don't accept it. He
was made the Glory for the believer who does accept it.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:78 He wanted to express Himself.
That was His, one of His great threefold
purposes, was to express Himself, identify Himself with human beings, to reveal
Himself in Christ.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:80 He is a Saviour, and He had to express
that, and how could He do it? Only through Christ. How could He be a Son? Only
through Christ. How could He be a Healer? Only through Christ. See,
all things are wound up in that one
Person Jesus Christ. Oh, my.
Ephesians 3:1 For
this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 2 If ye have heard of
the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation
he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words.
Now, notice that Paul speaks of revelation here, but
it was not an intellectual thing Paul is talking about here. Let me ask you
this question. What caused Paul to know and thus change his mind concerning
Christ? Remember now, Paul was reeking havoc on the early Christians because in
his mind they were teaching heretical doctrine. But something happened to Paul
that changed his mind forever. Now a mystery is something that is not fully understood or that baffles or eludes the
understanding. And Paul says in verse 3 How that by revelation
he made known unto me the mystery, or how that by revelation he made known to me the
thing which had been unknown, which had baffled the minds and understandings of
men. He made known unto me the mystery of Christ.
Now, before I begin to explain what took place, let’s
read a few other places where the Apostle Paul speaks of the mystery of Christ.
Notice the very next verse.
Ephesians 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) So Paul is telling us
how that he has this knowledge of Christ.
And in Romans 16:25 Paul
tells us this mystery ha snot been known to man since the world began, but it
has the power to establish you. 25 Now to him that is of power to establish you
according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret
since the world began,
Then in Colossians 4:3 he says, withal praying also for us, that God would
open unto us a door of utterance, to
speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: Notice here again Paul
is telling us that he is in bonds to this mystery of Christ. He says the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds. In
bonds for and thus a prisoner to it.
Now, a little further in
Ephesians chapter three Paul tells us that this mystery that he received an
understanding of is supposed to do something to us, and he calls it the fellowship of
the mystery. Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by
Jesus Christ: Now, we must ask our self what is this fellowship of the
mystery he speaks of?
Well, fellowship is two fellows in a ship according to
br. Bosworth. Right? So what does that mean? It means that understanding
this mystery is not just for one person. And when we receive it, the results
are that it will bring us together in fellowship around this mystery which is made
known.
So individually this mystery he says will bind us like
a prisoner is bound, and although bound as a prisoner it also bring us together
in fellowship like a chain gang that is tied together. That’s what the
fellowship of the mystery is, it is like prisoners bound to one another held together by this mystery which we all
share in common.
And in Colossians 1:27 he tells us what this mystery of
Christ is? 27:
To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory(of the Doxa, of the values, of the
opinion, of the judgment) of this mystery among
the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Now, notice that the opinion, the values
and judgment of the mystery of Christ is that Christ in you is the hope or
earnest explanation of God’s Glory, or His opinion, His Values, His judgments
in you.
Now, in getting back to verse one, notice he tells us
he is forever a prisoner of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not unwillingly, but
willingly, nevertheless he describes himself as a prisoner. Now, the Greek
definition of the word prisoner means a
band, or ligament of the body or shackle of a prisoner; that binds us as a
chain or string together. In other words, he is letting us know that he is
no longer his own man to come and go as he wishes. But rather he is tied to
this mystery along with others and there is no way we can remain in this
mystery and be separate one from another. We are tied together like the
ligaments of the body is the definition we just read.
Now, usually we think of being a prisoner as something
that is against our own will. But to be this kind of prisoner we must willfully
give over our own will to something greater than our own will, and that is
God’s will.
In verse 3 he tells us how that his own knowledge changed
when this mystery was revealed to him. He says, How that by
“revelation” he made known unto me the mystery.
Now, we know usually think of the word revelation as
something that has to do with the mind. But the word revelation actually means (disclosure) in other words an (uncovering) The Greek word is apokalupsis and means (appearing) which means (To make
visible) and that means to make known
by manifestation.
So we see revelation is not simply a knowing as though it is some mental
activity which can come by a man’s intellect. But rather
revelation is the process of knowing by experiencing
manifestation. So it has nothing to
do with your education or how well you can explain something. But rather it
comes by observation and watching the thing in manifestation.
And that is what we see in Ephesians 1:17 where Paul says, That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, (the Father of Doxa, the father of values, opinion and
judgment) may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that
ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the
exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the
working of his mighty power,
Now, notice something is supposed to happen and it is
not a knowledge as though it is some intellectual thing that is supposed to
take place, but an experiential thing that we witness which brings
understanding and knowledge of Him.
Now, this wisdom is simply correct understanding, but
notice the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. So this
spirit comes or is given to us to bring not only wisdom which is understanding,
but revelation in the knowledge of Him. So revelation is not understanding as
though it is a mental or cognitive thing. Other wise you are using two words to
say the same thing. He did not say he will give us the spirit of understanding
and understanding in the knowledge of him. And the word knowledge here does not
mean understanding, or else it could be read, He will give you the spirit of
understanding and understanding in the understanding of him.
So let us not look at revelation as understanding nor
knowledge as understanding. Because this word knowledge is translated from the
Greek word epi-ginosko and in Luke 1:34 Mary said “How shall this be, seeing I know
(ginosko) not a man? 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.
Notice her words, How can I be pregnant with child
having ginosko’d no man. In other words it was not a mental activity that got
Mary pregnant. And she did not say, how could I be with child having not
mentally known any man. But the word Ginosko means an experiential knowledge.
Knowing based upon experience not based upon intuitive or intellectual
capacity. Now, I won’t go so far as to say this knowledge of her being with
child was with sensation, but it certainly was by an experience. Now, the
definition of knowledge is to become
fully acquainted with. And that doesn’t mean through talk either.
Mary said how can I be with child having known no man.
Having not had an intimate relationship or experience with any man.
So when Paul speaks of the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of Him, as I said he is not speaking of a mental
thing, but rather this Spirit is to bring an understanding by an intimate
relationship with is experiential.
So this revelation Paul speaks of which gives us this
understanding is not a mental thing but rather something that happens,
something we have experienced that gives us a knowledge based on relationship. How that by “revelation” he made known (he
made experientially) unto me the mystery.
Now, as I mentioned before, we know usually think of
the word revelation as something that has
to do with the mind. But the word revelation
actually means (disclosure or unveiling)
or (uncovering). And to uncover means
something has to happen. Something that was hidden has to be made known by
something that takes place, something manifested.
The Greek word apokalupsis
means (appearing) which means (To make visible) and that means to make known by manifestation.
So we see revelation is not simply a knowing as though it is some mental
activity which can come by a man’s intellect. But rather
revelation is the process of knowing by experiencing
manifestation.
Brother Branham said in Christ is the
mystery 63-0728 P:82 "A Prisoner of Jesus Christ, Paul, a
Prisoner..." See? When God gets you
to be His prisoner, then you can't do nothing but what the Spirit says do. Paul,
with all of his great intellects... He was taught by Gamaliel to be a great
priest or rabbi someday. And he had high ambitions. He was intellectually a great man: great authority, great man in
the nation. But he had to sacrifice every bit of it (See?) to become part of the Word, to express Jesus Christ. He
knew what it was to say... He had a notion to go to some place (some brethren
had called him), but he was forbidden by
the Spirit to do his own will. Oh, if
people half spiritual can pick that up... See? He was forbidden to do his own will. He only could do... "The
Spirit forbid me." See? He was a prisoner to Christ.
Now, I hope this sinks in today. Notice he is speaking of Paul, and how
it was not Paul’s intellect that meant anything to God. It was not his
intellect that brought on his change from Christ Persecutor to Christ
expression. It was something he experienced. It was Christ coming into him and
changing him.
Paul said in Galatians 2:20 I
am crucified with Christ (not I was
crucified with Christ, but I am, every day I am crucified with Christ, I am
present tense now crucified with Christ) nevertheless I am living; yet it is not I that am living,
but Christ Himself is living in me: and
the life which I am now living in the body of this flesh, I am living by the faith,
(by the revelation), (knowing by experiencing the manifestation of the
life) of the Son
of God in my flesh.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:150 Now,
lack of this, now... And Paul, this
great intellectual man, never tried to express his great theological terms upon
the people. He humbly accepted the Word of the Lord, and he lived the Word
so that it expressed It. He lived so godly until they seen Jesus
Christ in him so much, till they wanted his handkerchief to take it and lay
it upon the sick. There's the Life of
Christ.
Again from Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:85 brother
Branham said, Now, that's
when He can express the preeminences. You see? He's got the man or the person
so that he knows nothing but Christ. You get what I mean? All right. That's
secondly. First, to express Himself
completely: God in Christ. Second,
to have the preeminence’s by this in His Church (which is His Body, Bride)
to... He could have the preeminence to
express Himself through them. (now, brother sister, them is plural, it is not speaking of one person
here, them) All
right. And thirdly, to restore the
Kingdom to its rightly position that fell by sin by the first Adam, back to
where He walked in the cool of the evening with His people, talked with them,
fellowshipped with them. And now
sin and death had separated them from His Presence and His entire
expression.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:93 God
became from God and become me, to take my sin upon Him, that He might make me
Him (Amen.), back to His great purpose
of sons and daughters of God, for He is a eternal Father. That attribute
was in Him (See?), so that had to be displayed. Now, see the whole threefold
purpose? See? To express Himself. He
wants to become... Notice, God
wanting to express Himself in His sons and daughters, that’s you and me.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:115 He
said, "Who do you think that I am, now?”
Now, there's the church He's talking to. See? "What
does man think that I am?” Today: "He's
a philosopher” this social religion.
"He's a good man. We believe His teaching's right. It's a
subject to be lived by. I think it'd make us all better if we did. We ought to
have our churches, our so forth.” That's like a Santa Claus story. It's not
expression of some church that we should express something. It's a life that you don't live yourself,
but He comes in you and lives by Himself, and you become a prisoner to any
human intellectual being at all. You're led by the Spirit. And how do you
know?
Colossians
3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory, in doxa, in the same values, same opinions, and
same judgments.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:116 if you have the mind of Christ, Christ
expresses Himself through you. …But
a real man is to lose his own thoughts and his own thinking, not come up
blindly like that. No, sir. You come
up with your right senses and Christ takes you over and expresses Himself.
And now, to the world you're an insane person. Now, if you're insane, you're
actually insane, then there's nothing... The devil can't take you in complete
control. He will make you do everything contrary to this Word, but when Christ takes you over, He will express
that Word right through, because it's Him. He is the Word. See? And then you can see the expression of Christ,
not some illusion of some sort, but a real genuine Christ, expressing Himself
right through you. How beautiful.
Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of
your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Philippians
2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
his good pleasure.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:121 You say, "Well, I'm a Lutheran";
"I'm a Baptist"; "I'm Presbyterian." That don't mean one
[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.
Now, notice br.
Branham’s words here. He said that when the Word is
revealed, It expresses Itself. So you
can’t have revelation apart from manifestation. So these people who say they
know they have the Holy Ghost because they believe, is like saying, since I
believe therefore I have been filled. But that’s placing the cart before the
horse. I have the cart therefore I have the horse too? Well, the devil believes
and he trembles. Does he have the Holy Ghost? Being able to parrot the doctrine
doesn’t mean you are born of God for one minute. I can show you a
denominational college and The CHURCH OF GOD that teaches there is one God and
he had a son and that the son is not God but he is the son of God. They use the
systematic theology of Alva Huffer and in it they state many of the same
arguments that brother Branham said concerning the God head. They have only one
difference that I could see, and it was when the son of God was birthed by God.
So to teach One God who had a son is no evidence they are filled with the Holy
Spirit? And the Jehovah’s witnesses teach the parousia, so that is no evidence
of being filled with the Holy Ghost. You say, well the evidence is to believe
the Message for the day in which you live. Ok, then what is your version of the
Message. Brother Branham said right before he took that final trip from
World
again falling apart 63-1127 P:86 That denominational system is the mark of
the beast.
God of
this evil age 65-0801M P:78 To wear the brand of a denomination is the
mark of the beast. We've done been through it on here to do it. Flee it,
children, flee it.
Brother Branham said, Christ is the
mystery 63-0728 P: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.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:147 God is not known by education; He's not known by how to explain it. God
is known by simplicity and of revelation
of Jesus Christ in the most illiterate person. See? Not your theology; it's a revelation of Jesus Christ. "Upon
this rock, I'll build My Church." No other rock's accepted; no other
thing's accepted; no other Roman rock; no other Protestant rock; no other
school; no other nothing; but on exactly the
revelation of Jesus Christ in a new birth. He born in there and injects His own Life, and your life is gone,
and the Life of Christ is projecting
Itself through you with the preeminences to the people that they see the very
Life, and works, and signs and wonders that He did is doing the same thing
through you. Outside of that, the rest of it's not even called to at all.
So outside of that what have you got my brothers and sisters? If he has
not injected you with His very Life, and if that Life is not projecting itself
in and through you, all you have is theology, and that and a big tithe check
might merit you something in some of the churches but it means nothing to God.
Brother Branham said in Christ is the
mystery 63-0728 P: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.
Notice his language here, he says it is not intellect, it is not how much
or how well you can teach it. He says 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?
Now notice brother Branham uses this word “express” 3 dozen times or more in this one sermon alone. And it
means “to convey a thought or feeling
by words or by gestures or conduct”. And brother Branham said, God expressing it through His Word
by the same actions, the same things that He did, making the
Word manifest?
Now, if that isn’t John 14:12 in
scripture you tell me what Scripture is it? Jesus said, “The things that I do the believer shall do also.” Is that not what Jesus said? Oh, you say no
he didn’t say that he said the works that I do shall you do also. Well, God’s
vindicated prophet quotes it as “the things that I do.” What things? Listen to what God’s prophet
says as I read a few quotes to you in closing.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:284 And then the Word moves on down into the
Body from the Head. What is it? This
same word. Nothing can be added or taken from It. So that same Word moves
from the Head as the day comes close, down into the Body, down into the Body vindicating that they are One. They're Husband
and Wife. They're flesh of His flesh, Word
of His Word, Life of His Life, Spirit of His Spirit. See? Amen. How do you know it? (now, that’s a very good question, because we got
people who think they know they got it, but haven’t got anything to base it on
except they think that they got it. Notice he said “how do
you know it?”) it Bears the same record, same
fruit, same Word
(See?), manifests Christ: same Life, same God, same
Spirit, same Word, same Book (Amen!), same signs, "Things that I do shall you also." Oh hallelujah. My...
Queen
of
Hear
ye Him 62-0711 P:68
That's the reason He could smile here. Jesus had carried out every
Word of it. That's it. He'd carried out
just exactly to the Word, now, because He was that perfect Son. And He is
the same, and He died to become the Vine, that we might become the branch, that
He can energize us with His Life to make
the same Life that He had, living in us. Then we'll do the same thing.
Jesus said in Saint John
14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the
works that I do shall he do also."
Jesus Christ the same
58-0312 P:31 If a Christian church is the vine, or the branch
that's in Christ, they'll do the works of Christ and bear the Life of Christ.
"By their fruits you shall know them." Now, then the way that
He is today, He's here in the form of the Holy Spirit, working through His
Church, performing the same things that He did there. That makes Him the same
yesterday, today, and forever. His Life, the Life that was in Christ, which
was God, produced the kind of a life that He lived then, that same Life
comes into His churches, His church members, since they have been purged by
His Blood and given the Holy Spirit access to work through them, bears the
same fruit that He bore. So therefore, the world can see then that
Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Darkest
hour Jesus comes
55-114 P:22 Now, God gave Him the Spirit without
measure. He gives it to you and I by
measure. He measured me out a spoonful.
But when He measured it out to His Son, He measured the whole oceans. See what
I mean? But notice, the same chemicals that's in this spoon is in the whole
ocean. And all the chemicals in the ocean is in the or a measure of them is in
this spoon. It's the same kind. See, it'll do the same thing. It'll do the same works. It'll produce the
same Life. Don't you believe that? That's what makes us Christians.
Faith
once delivered to the saints 57-0610 P:46 Now, if Jesus Christ, God's Son, said,
"These signs shall follow them that believe. The works that I do shall you also. These
things that I do, you'll do
it also. I'll be with you even in you
to the end of the world," then the disciples followed right behind Christ, doing the very same things that He did. That's
right. Exactly. When they found out that Peter and John were ignorant and
unlearned men... They wasn't educated, neither was they smart. But they had to
take notice that they had been with Jesus, because the Spirit that was in Jesus was in them doing the same things Jesus did, taking the same kind of a
motive. And everything that Jesus had,
that's what they had. You don't have to be smart, you don't have to
have an education. You just have to have
a willing heart. God sends His faith down, His power. Faith is power.
Five
identifications
60-0911E P:56 John 14:12, He gives the teaching what the church should do. In John
the 14th chapter, and the 12th verse,
we'll see what that says. John
14:12, so we read it, make it official. All
right, John 14 and the 12th
verse. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these do he, do,
shall; because I go to my Father. That's
the message of the church: "Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, today, and forever," living in the church, King of the
church, raised from the dead, same yesterday, today, and forever, performing the same works, doing the same
things that Jesus did. That's the message of the church. If the church isn't teaching That, it's
teaching some false theology. That's
what Jesus commanded them to preach.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:128 But
the only way that you're saved is by
know Him by revelation. I can take the Presbyterian doctrine and tie you
Pentecostals till you won't know... I can take the Baptist doctrine and show
you Pentecostals a million things that you know nothing of. That's right. But that's not it; that's not His Church. That's not His Church. His Church is Himself
revealed (Amen. Do you see it?) and expressed
by the Word Itself that He is God.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:130 And
Paul knew Him by revelation. That's how
we know Him today, is the only way you could know Him. Not say, "I'm
Methodist." That means nothing. "I'm Baptist." That means
nothing. "I'm Catholic." That means nothing. But by the revelation that God has revealed the
Word to you. He is the Word, and the Word, how you know It's revealed, It lives Itself and expresses Itself
through you.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:179 He's expressing Himself.
That's His purpose. That's why He died. That's the second fold of His threefold
manifestation. First, to express Himself
in Christ and then He expressed Himself
through the Church, and the same thing, Christ was the Word. And the
church becomes the Word when it lets
the Word go through them.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:220 When
I think of it makes me shiver. Oh, to live with Him: going home with Him to
live with Him, going home with Him to live with Him forever, having Eternal
Life...This is God's great mystery of
love expressed, that God and man became one. See? The whole thing is God and man one. God and man was one there, and
God and man is one here. See? What is it? Being
filled with His Spirit, Him having the preeminences. That was God's
achievement. That's God purpose to do
that, that He might be in Christ and Christ in us, and all of us together one.
The Holy Spirit, same thing that revealed it to Christ reveals it here, the
supernatural, creative power. Oh, my.
Christ
is the mystery
63-0728 P:226 His Presence in the individual with a
personal a-vindication of Himself expressing Himself, the living Word that's
promised for the day, expressing Itself through you, a vindication of the great
revelation of God... Look, only in an individual, never in a group: an
individual, not in a group, His identification is with an individual.
You get that? Not with the Methodists, not with the Baptists, not the
Presbyterian, not the Lutheran, not the Pentecostal, but as an individual. "I'll take one and leave one.
I'll separate them." That's right. "There'll
be two in the field; I'll take one and leave one. There'll
be two in bed, and I'll take one and leave one." It's not a group. It
is a personal vindication of a pregnated
child of God filled with the Holy Ghost, so surrendered to God that he don't care about anything else, and
the Holy Spirit living Its Life, pulsating
through him, showing the personal, personal vindication of the Word Itself
expressing Itself to the people and to the world.