Token
no 45
Identifiable
Characteristics of the Token
December 23,
2015
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
Sunday we read from paragraph 160 but I had to hold off on going into what
brother Branham said here because we ran out of time. Therefore, as promised we will look at paragraph 160 tonight.
Now, Branham says in paragraph 160 Know that it is the Presence of the living God. Proves that
God has raised Him up according to His promised Word. "A
little while and the world won't see Me no more
(Jericho, Egypt), they won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I ('I' the
personal pronoun is always referred to. See?), I'll be
with you. I am
the Token. My resurrection is the Token.
The works that I do
will identify you--will identify Me in you."
Now, this of course speaks of John 14:12, and I do not know how anyone could
think that John
14:12 is only for William Branham after a statement like this.
Notice that William Branham just got done telling us that the Token is
Christ, and it is the resurrected Life of Christ, and now he states, that the
identification of that resurrected Life of Christ living in you will be
identified by "the works that I do," which we know is
what Jesus said in John 14:12.
Now, what brother Branham is peaking of here is identification of Seed,
and Seed Life. And John 14:12 is just the identification that the
very seed Life that was in the original Seed will be present in anyone who
possesses that same seed life in them. And
if you do not understand seed life then it is about time that you go bak and read Genesis 1:11, which tells us that "Every seed will produce according to it's
kind or nature."
I do not understand why is so difficult to see this. We know that
brother Branham quotes John 14:12 many hundreds and hundreds of times and
he identifies it with the believer. We know that he taught us that you are not
a believer unless you are born again of the Spirit of God. That is what makes
you a believer. Up until you are born again, and filled with the Spirit of God,
you are believing unto, but you are not yet a believer.
Now, we know that every seed is known by it's
identifiable characteristics. That is why Jesus could speak to the Pharisees,
many of whom were serpent seed.
John 8:38 I speak that which I
have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. (Notice they
were claiming Abraham as their Father, but Jesus rebukes them and says,) Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But
now ye seek to kill me, a man that
hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Now,
notice, he says, now ye seek to kill
me,... this did not Abraham....
So
Jesus is pointing out that their testimony does not measure up to their actions,
nor their life. because your life is an indicator of what seed you are.
Now, notice this next interchange of
words. Jesus says, 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. In other words, just look at what your
life is producing and that will tell you whose seed you are. Then they caught
his drift and they replied, Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; (we
are not serpent seed, because after all Eve committed fornication with the
serpent before she consummated her marriage with Adam. So they knew Jessu was saying they were of their Father the devil. And
they continue...)
"we have one Father, even God."
But
Jesus disagreed with them, based on their life, and their actions to hearing
the truth.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father,
ye would love me: for I proceeded
forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand
my speech? even
because ye cannot hear my word.
Now, here Jesus mentions what looks like
two things that give away who their real father is, but they are actually one
thing expressed two ways.
1) They cannot understand the Word of God
that He was telling them.
2) They cannot even hear the Words he is telling
them.
And we find in Matthew 13 more precision
of what it means to hear.
Matthew 13:13 Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias,
which saith, By
hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Now, Jesus is quoting the prophet Isaiah
without mentioning his name here. But if you know your Bible like you ought to
know it, then you would recognize where Jesus is quoting from Isaiah 6:9-10 "And he
said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see
ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this
people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
Now, let's get back to Jesus discourse
with the Pharisees. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. (Notice, there
is your Genesis 1:11 argument, every seed after its kind.) He was a
murderer from the beginning, (Notice who was the first murderer? Cain...) and abode not in the truth, ...
Notice,
Jesus gives them a second attribute to identify their source, when he says, ,
Their lineage "abode not in truth", because there is no
truth is in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for
he is a liar, and the father of it. And we know that Satan, called the devil, was cast
out of heaven for telling the big Lie there, and was sent to earth, and indwelt
the serpent who was the father of Cain, who lied to eve by inserting one word
to change the meaning of what God had said to Adam. He added, "not" thou shalt
"not" surely
die.
Revelation 12
tells us the story of Satan being cast out of heaven for telling the lie that
took one third of the angels with him.
Revelations 12:3 And
there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be
delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
So we see that it was by his tail that
he drew the third part of the angels in a rebellion against God the Word. and a
Word prophet told us it was not the tail like he had a long tail, but actually
it was the tale that he told, in other words, a lie.
Isaiah
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the
head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. So
Satan was a lying prophet up there in heaven. And of course a prophet is a
preacher. So then we see in Revelation 12 he is cast down to earth for the lie
that he told. and he comes to earth, indwells the serpent who was a creature
closest to man, and used his lying tongue to persuade the woman to lay with
him.
Genesis
3:1 Now
the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the
field which the LORD God had made. (that
means he was smarter, wiser, and more cunning) And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (Notice he begins quoting what God told Adam, so he
goes right to the word of God to pervert it, and that is what all false
prophets and preachers do, they use God's own word and then they throw the
curve ball.) 2 And the woman said
unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither
shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Notice
now, he gets her to quote the scripture first, and then he takes the Word that
she quotes and begins to add a twist to it. So far they are discussing the Word
of God, and it seems very harmless at this point, but watch what the
characteristics of Satan that is in him does... because these characteristics
is important to know and earmark because you will see them all throughout
Scripture...) 4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Notice, he
quotes her back but adds his own thought to it, and then he adds his reasoning
why he added to what God had said, as if that reasoning changes what was said.
Now, notice his reasoning...
5 For God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
Now, watch the
woman's response to Satan's reasoning, for the woman types the church, and as a
type of the church, she always tries to go to the Word first, but then ends up
falling away from the true meaning of the Word because they fall for the
reasoning given them by false preachers that takes away from the true meaning
of the Word.
6 And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired
to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Now, let me help
you to understand what took place here because we all believe in the serpent
seed doctrine, but why then did God use symbolism in the writing of this by
Moses who Wrote the first five books of the Bible.
Notice first
let's see what the woman said concerning the word as she quoted it. 3 But of
the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither
shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
The symbolism of a tree
throughout Scriptures speaks of man. Look Psalm 1: The righteous are likened unto trees.
Israel is likened to an Olive tree. Jesus is the main vine we are
branches. When Jesus healed the blind man he took mud and dabbed it into the mans eyes and he saw men like trees... on and on we could
go with this.
The word eat also is a euphemism, which speaks of taking
into oneself and becoming one with, Ie: The prophet ate the scroll and became
one with it. "Taste (Eat) and see that the Lord is good".
Jesus said "He that eateth
my body and drinketh my blood", etc. It is used throughout the new and
old testament showing an act of taking into oneself that thing presented and
the two becoming one. Ie: the scroll and the prophet,
Jesus the Word and us.
But there is an even
more telling understanding from the word "touch" that the woman used in telling the
serpent what she must not do. Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of
the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
The word touch was
translated from the Hebrew Word Naga' a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon
(for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman);
Notice the euphemism
is to lie with a woman. It gets no simpler than that. God said do not lay with her
and do not know
her, do not intimately
experience her.
And so we see
the results of this carnal act in the very next verse.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons.
As brother
Branham said, if they knew they were naked from eating some fruit or apple,
then let's pass the apples because Laodicea is blind and naked and doesn't even
know it.
8 And they heard the voice of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto
him, Where art thou?10 And
he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 And
he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of
the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest
not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled
me, and I did eat.
Just for your
information but the Hebrew word here for beguiled is nasha'
and it means to seduce. And the word seduce means to to persuade or induce to have sexual intercourse.
14 And the LORD God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Notice that the
curse was upon the seed of the serpent. His lineage or offspring.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband,
and he shall rule over thee.
Now, if it was just an apple she ate why
the curse upon her conception and the curse upon her seed and the serpents
seed.
Now, let's get back to what Jesus is
telling the Pharisees in John 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe
me not. 46 Which of you convinceth
me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are
not of God.
From his
sermon, Why cry speak 59-1004E P:31 brother
Branham said, The
Bible said also that "God
anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost, that He went about doing good,
healing the sick."
That was the sign that He was what He claimed to be.
That's the way God sends it. That's the way it's supposed to come in the last
day. And the Holy Spirit that comes in the last days isn't to draw us to a
creed, isn't to draw us to a church; It's
to draw us to God; and supernatural
signs is to follow that Holy Spirit.
Man that can turn on light
63-1229M P:116 Oh,
it takes Christ's Eternal Life to bring
the Word of Life to vindication, made flesh. Oh, my goodness. Takes the
Word, takes the Holy Ghost to operate the Word of God. When Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature..."
Now look, Mark
16, His last commission
"all the world--all the
world..." It never
has got there yet. See? "... all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that
believeth
(in all the world) and is
baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe. (They'll shake hands with the... No. They'll be good church
members? No.) In My
Name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall
take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it won't harm them. If they lay their
hands on the sick, they shall recover." Oh, my. How far?
Every creature. How much? All the world till He comes again. These
signs shall...
"He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also. Even greater then this will he do, for I
go to My Father."
Oh, how we can walk away from that is more than I can say.
Five identifications
60-0911E P:70 The
last commission, "Go
into all the world, preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized..." Let me quote it the way it
should be, the way it's broke down. "Go ye into all the world and
to every nation and demonstrate
the power of the Holy Ghost. He
that believeth on this and is baptized shall be saved; he that denies it
will be damned. These signs will follow them that believe: they'll
lay hands on the sick, they shall recover; they'll cast out devils; they'll
speak with new tongues. This will be the signs that follows." The last verse said, "And they returned. The Lord working with
them, confirming His Word with signs
following."
That's the way the first church was.
Super sign 62-0708 P:58 What did Jesus say? "Go ye into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature."
How far? All
the world.
How many?
Every creature,
"He that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned, and (a conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe," in all the world, and every creation,
every creature. I can show you where God put gifts and power in the church.
I want somebody to put your finger on a Scripture and show me where He
took it out, where He took it back from the church. It's a super
sign to the believer, that we've passed from death unto Life, because we feel
the Holy Ghost, and see It working on our lives, and changing us from what we
were to what we are now. Amen. He arose from the dead. Thanks be to God.
Confirmation of the
commission 62-0122 P:29 Now,
and if the Holy Spirit, which is God's Word, or the power of
God's Word, comes in with God's Word, it'll make God's Word display Itself.
"Go ye into all the
world and demonstrate the Gospel to every creature. (See?) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that
believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe." What a beautiful setting that
is. If we would just go deep now and listen, that was the
credentials that was to hang onto every man
that went forth preaching the Gospel. And no man has a right
to preach the Gospel without the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus would
not let Peter, James, John, any of the rest of them, preach the Gospel until
they waited in the city of Jerusalem until
the Holy Ghost had filled them, because it's the Holy Ghost that makes the Word of God go into action. See?
What Holy Ghost was given
for 59-1217 P:87 You
cannot go to judgment. "He
that heareth My words and believeth (No man can believe until he's
got the Holy Ghost.)--and
believeth on Him that sent Me (when the Holy Ghost has testified of His
resurrection) hath
Eternal Life, and shall never come into judgment, but has passed from death
unto Life."
Now, the
trouble is that when people read John 14:12
which speaks of the believer doing the same works Jesus did, they do not
understand that unless you have the same Spirit in you that Jesus did, you are
not even a believer yet. And if you do have the same Spirit then you have to
have the same nature. And if his nature was supernatural then your nature will
be that as well.
Why cry speak 59-1004E
P:29 Jesus said, "The works that I do, he that believeth on
Me..." Saint John 14:12, "He
that believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also. He that believeth on
Me..." No man can believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God
until he's received the Holy Ghost. You're only taking it by
faith and accepting it. You can't say that it is. You can say, "I believe
it is." But no man can call Jesus the Christ until
the Holy Ghost is in him.
The Bible said so. The Holy Spirit has to come in
first, then It gives a witness. You know
yourself that Jesus is the Christ because He lives in you.
Return and Jubilee 62-1122 P:39 Before I could act as a human,
before I could walk like a human, before I could talk like a human, I have to be born a human. How would a
knot on a tree know how I acted? How could he ever say, "I don't act like
that." The only way he could be that would be to be born like me. That's
the way organization is dead, drawed people away,
because it went after a creed. But in order to be a son of God you've got to be borned of the Spirit of God, then you become Christ-like
and do the works of Christ;
Questions and answers COD
59-0628E P:27 Now,
the Scripture says that no man can say Jesus is the Christ only by
the Holy Ghost.
So you cannot believe that Jesus is the Christ until you
have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You're only testifying
or saying what the Scripture says, saying what the pastor says, saying what
mother says, or some good preacher says. But you don't know it
yourself until He has witnessed His resurrection to you. And no man can call Jesus the Christ until by
the Holy Ghost.
Jesus Christ the same
63-0604 P:66 That's
how He identified himself with the Jews. That's how He identified Himself with
the Samaritans. Now, that was the end of their time. Now, the Gentiles has had
two thousand years of teaching, like they had thousands of years of teaching.
But if the Gentiles don't get the same thing that they got, then He's a respect
of persons. So how would we know Him today? When He stood with us, and in us, and worked through us, and proved
that this Spirit, that we call the baptism of the
Holy Ghost, is Jesus Christ inpersifying Himself in
the form of Spirit in the human being, doing the same... He said
in St. John the 14th chapter and the 12th verse, "He that believeth (not make-believeth), but he that believeth on Me, the works
that I do shall he do also."
Isn't that true?
Resurrection the 53-1205
P:103 I'm not responsible
for nothing else but to say what God says. Now, you don't receive the Holy Ghost when you believe. You
receive the Holy Ghost after you believe. You receive It after you believe. And
It's a gift of God. No faith, no nothing else would give It to you. You can't just imagine you got It; you
can't just accept It by faith. It's absolutely a work of God
that comes down into the heart and makes known the Presence of Jesus Christ.
And when you receive the Holy Ghost, then you believe in all kinds
of miracles and signs. And not only do you believe it, but you practice them.
"These
signs shall follow them that believe. Repent, every one of you and be baptized.
Go unto all the world; preach the Gospel. He that believes and is baptized
shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall
follow them that believe: In My Name they'll cast out devils, speak with new
tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things, lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover."
That is a sign of the believer.
From his sermon, God
identified by His Characteristics p:31 "John 14:12, "He that believeth,"
Jesus said, "on Me, the works that I do
shall he do also." Now, look, "He that believeth on Me (a true believer),
the works that I do shall he do also." Notice. In other words, like this, "He that believeth on
Me, shall be identified by My characteristic, the works." Now, that's what He did. He said, "If I don't do the Father's works, then don't believe Me." And the Father spoke to the prophets, and that was
their characteristic, identification. So was it with Jesus. And promised it "to him that believeth,
My characteristics shall do in
him just as it did in Me."
God identified by characteristics 64-0311 P:22 John 14:12,
"He that believeth," Jesus said, "on Me, the works that I do shall he do
also." Now, look,
"He that believeth on Me
(a true believer), the works that I
do shall he do also."
Notice. In other words, like this, "He that believeth on Me, shall
be identified by My characteristic, the works."
Letting off the pressure 62-0609E P:64 If I tell you the Spirit of Christ is in me, then I should do the works
of Christ, live the kind of Life that He lived, a sacrificed Life for the
people. That is right.
God's gifts always find place 63-1222
P:36 Notice
now, we find that if He identified...
The works
that He did
identified that He was Deity, showed that He was. For He said,
"If I do
not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." And could not the
Christian say today, "If
I do not the works of my Saviour, believe me not"? See? "As the Father sent Me, so send I
you."
And if you did the works, creation works of the Father that sent Him, then it's
a creation... The Christ the Creator that sends us, does the works of Christ
the Creator. See? "As the Father sent Me, so send I you. And if I do not the works of My
Father, believe me not." Then the Christian today has got to do the Life that Christ
did or we have a right to say, "It's not so."
Unchangeable God 62-0120
P:85 If we're baptized
by the Holy Ghost into the body, then we become the body of Christ.
Then we're resurrected with Him.
When He raised up, we raised up also in the resurrection with Him; because He is the Head, and the Head and
the body's together. Then today Christ is in the church in you. And His works that He once did (St. John 14:12), "He that believeth on Me, the works that I
do shall he do also."
That's right. Hebrews
13:8: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and
forever." See there? People don't expect it to be that way.
They expect us to be a bunch of illiterate people, don't even know what they're
talking about. They believe it to be some bunch of dummies. But we might be, in
the sense that they're talking about. But we
accepted the Holy Ghost the way God poured It out, and got the same results
that they had back there, so it
proves that it. He's the unchangeable God. We get the same results. Amen.
In Br. Branham's sermon, Spiritual Amnesia-64-0411
he said, "You can't forget it and be a
Christian. You must be identified with it. You must be identified with St. John the 14th
chapter, the 12th verse, "He that believeth with Me, the works that
I do shall he do also." Don't forget it. If you do, then you've got
spiritual amnesia. You've forgotten who you are. You've forgotten what your testimony
means.
Notice he said you must be identified with it or you have
spiritual amnesia, and the word "Identified" means "to cause to be", or "become identical".
B: "to conceive as united in spirit, outlook, or principle)":
"to be or
become the same".
Therefore it means more than to just agree
with John14:12, it means you must
become John 14:12 in your own life.
Brother Branham makes it clear that John 14:12 is for every believer as we see
in 59-0628E - "Questions And Answers" 172
88b. Brother Branham,... Can any man do the works of
Christ unless he was Christ? That's what it is, "Unless he
was Christ?" Sure.
Let's take Saint John, just a minute. Saint
John the 14th chapter and I want you to
look at this, now, if you can catch it right quick, Saint John 14:12, I believe it
is. We'll get it right quick, and look what Jesus said about this. All
right, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He," "whoever it is", "He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Any
man, The man himself can't be Christ, but the works of Christ will follow every
believer. See? He'll do the works of Christ in any man.
"He that believeth in Me, the works that I do, he shall do." Not, "I shall do," "he shall do, he shall,"
not, "I." "But he believes in Me and has confessed his faith in
Me and died out to
himself and My
Spirit dwells in him and he becomes a part of Me." Now that
don't make him Christ. It makes him part of Christ with the rest of the
Church. All right. He is not Christ, because that would be anti-Christ, you
see. He would be taking away from Christ. But he can be, do the works of Christ, any believer. All
right.
Also from his sermon, Mark
of the beast 61-0217 P:38 William Branham said, When God sends
something and you fail to walk in it, then you're out; that's all. You either do or you don't. That's the way it was. All that
didn't get in the ark, drowned, and that was all there was to it, no matter who
they was. That's the same thing, all that's not in Christ today will perish
without Christ. It's true. So you can't say, "I'm a Methodist, or Baptist,
or Pentecostal, or anything else; you've got to be of Christ. And if you're of Christ, you do the
works of Christ. That bears record and proves that it is. It's just as clear
as the Scripture, I know how to say it. That's just as plain as the nose on this
big face, or big nose on this face of mine, rather. That's right.
In his sermon Christ
is the Mystery of God Revealed William Branham speaks of John 14:12 more than 7 times. He uses terms like "every person", and "anybody"
to define the word "he"
in John 14:12.
Christ is the Mystery - 63-0728-138 "They said, "We
received the Holy Ghost when we believed." The Bible said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost
since you believed?" There's the difference. See? That's
right. See? And they say, "We're the Catholic church. We started early; we
did this." The Methodist say, "We are based upon the Bible."
Jesus said, "These
signs shall follow them that believe." Now, where's it at?
Uh-huh, see, right. "The works that I do shall you do also," every creature, every person that believes in Him. Now, where's it at? That's His Words. "Heavens and earths will pass away,
but My Word shall never fail." Now, where's it at? See? Oh, it just shows... What is it? It's a
hybrid condition.
Notice again he says "every
person" and after he mentions John 14:12 he then asks the question, "where's it at". It supposed to be in the church, so "where is it at?" Therefore, it is
supposed to be in the church, so where is it at, and what has prevented it from
manifesting openly as he longed to see it.
Christ is the Mystery - 63-0728 -
68 St. John
14:12, He
said, "He (he,
anybody)--he that believeth on me, the works that I
do shall he do also." "Well, that was for another age." There you got your
picture wrong again. Notice his explanation for the word "he" in "he that believeth." is anybody.
1963-0728 Christ is the Mystery (86-1)
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? 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...
From His
sermon, We would see Jesus 57-0226 P:21 William
Branham tells us the reason why John 14:12
is for all, and what purpose it is for. "But now, while He's here working with His Church in the form of the Spirit... Then
if His Spirit is with us, He will act just exactly like He act when He was here
on earth. It'll make you act the same
way, because it's not your spirit anymore; it's His
Spirit in you, Christ's Spirit in you. "The
things that I do... He that believeth on Me (Saint John 14:12.), the works that
I do, shall ye do also."
See? We'll do the same works, think
the same thoughts, live the same type of life. If the Spirit of God is in you, it makes you live like
Christ, Christ-like. Then you become a written epistle, read of all men, Christ in you, reflecting
His Light out of you, as God was in Christ reconciling the world to
Himself, and reflecting God from His own
body.
Church Age Book Chapter 2 - The Patmos Vision P:32 But if the vine ever brings forth
another branch of itself, that branch will be exactly like the vine itself.
It will be the same
kind of a branch that was brought forth at Pentecost. It will speak
in tongues, prophesy, and have the power and signs of the resurrected Jesus Christ
in it. Why? Because it's thriving on the natural resources of the
vine itself. You see, it
wasn't grafted into the vine; it was BORN in the vine. When those
other branches were grafted in, all they could do was bear their own fruit for
they were not born of that vine. They don't know about that original life and original
fruit. They
cannot know for they were not born of it. But if they had been born of it, that same
life that was in the original stem (Jesus) would have come through THEM and
manifested through THEM John 14:12, "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 shall he do; because I go unto My Father."
Identification 63-0123 P:51 We've got to take the entire full Gospel.
We must, and now, being that we have identified ourselves as full Gospel people, let's mold our character. We're invited to be molded in His Image, that we might reflect His Presence. "And the works that I do,
shall you do also. The Life that I
live, so shall you." We're invited by God to take Him as an Example, and let our character be molded like His. What a thing.
My. Then when we let His character be in us, then we have become sons by having the mind of
Christ: mind, which is His character. Your mind makes your character. "Let the mind," Paul said, "of Christ, this mind that
was in Christ be in you." Let that mind of Christ be in you. It molds the character of a son of
God.
Abraham 56-1208 P:47 Now, healing belongs alone to God. It's
the finished work of
Christ at Calvary. Don't forget that, church, whatever you do.
It is I be not afraid 59-0811 P:48 If the spirit of a gangster was in us,
we'd do the work of a gangster. If the spirit of a singer was in us, we'd sing.
If the Spirit of Christ
was in us, we'll do the works of Christ.
Adoption or placing 60-0522E P:23 The
church has got to be so perfectly like Christ, until Christ and the church can
unite together, the same Spirit. And if the Spirit of Christ is in
you, It makes you live the
life of Christ, act
the life of Christ, do
the works of Christ. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I
do shall he do also." Jesus said that.
Stature of a perfect man 62-1014M
P:60 And now, we're supposed to do His work. He said, "He
that believeth on Me..." (St. John 14:7)
"He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
You're beginning to reflect the works of Christ. But so many of us
try to do the works of Christ before the reflection of Christ is in us. Now, there's the
trouble. We find those things happening. You know it. I know it. We see these
stumbles along the road. We find the scrap heaps of ministers, of Christians,
piled along the road. Is because they didn't go into it right. And
that's why I'm here this morning, is to try to teach this little church, and
myself, how that we can become the dwelling place of the living God. How many'd like to be that? The dwelling place of the living
God...
In his sermon,
The Countdown 62-1125E
pp. 54 he said, "His first
decision is a perfect decision, and has to ever remain the same, and we know
it, Father. Now, He said, "He that
believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." He cannot change that decision. He said,
"These signs shall follow them that
believe." If the Life of Christ be in you,
if the mind of
Christ, then we're concerned and do the things of
Christ. He said these signs that He
done will follow every believer
that believes in Him."
About Jesus - 55-0612 p64 "Now, look. When Jesus left the
earth, here's what He said. "These things that I do shall you do also. Even
more than this shall you do." "Greater," which really
is "more." He couldn't do anything greater. But you could do more
of it. "More than
this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." He said, "A little while and the world (that's the unbeliever) will see Me no more. That'll be finished for the
world when I leave here in this physical form. I'll be gone, and that's all
they'll ever see Me. But yet, ye, ye shall see Me." Now, watch what He
promised. He said, "I'll be with you even to the end of the
world."
65. Now, who is
the "ye"? And Who's the unbeliever? There's unbelievers in
every generation. And there's "ye's" in
every generation. "Yet, ye, shall see Me." He promised to return into His
Church and do the same things that He did when He was here on earth. And
the Bible said that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And hasn't He done all things
well this week? Has He? The blind, seen. The cripples walked. The spastics
raised up. Sin has been rebuked. The visions has come. Everything that's been
said had been perfect, just exactly. Is that right? Sinners has been saved. People
received the Holy Spirit, been born again, bore witness of the Spirit; signs
and wonders has happened everywhere. What is it? It's Jesus Christ the
Son of God, not with
just Brother Branham, but with His Church, everywhere. You're just
as much into it, or more into it than I am. This just happens to be a gift.
That don't mean it makes me any more than you, probably not as much.
See?
Notice William Branham himself said, "not just with brother
Branham but with His Church, everywhere.
You're just as much into it, or more into it than I am."
60-0911E Five Identifications of the True Church of the
Living God pp.
90 "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 shall he do; 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.
Let me emphasize again he said, If the church isn't
teaching That, it's teaching some false theology.
So what did a vindicated prophet say John 14:12 was? From his sermon Take
on the whole armor of God 62-0701 P:82 William Branham
said, John
14:12, Jesus said, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do
also."
What is it? It's God in the church in these five predestinated offices, backing up every Word that He said with the Holy Spirit
Himself in there, which is the Word made manifest, proving His resurrection,
proving that He lives. All other religions
are dead. Their forms are dead. There's only one that's right, and that's
Christianity, because Christ is a living in the church of Christ (Amen.),
making His word manifest, for He is the same. If it's the same Word, It'll do the same thing,
and show the same works, and the same signs. Matthew 28 says so. Be
with His army, in them, securing them... Think of it. The great Word General
triumph in us.
Show me a Five-Fold minister today who
has these signs following his ministry and I will show you a ministry that fits the pattern of the early church.
That is the ministry God is backing up with signs and wonders like he backed up
the Apostles in the book of Acts.
So he says, John 14:12... What
is it? It's God in the
church in these five predestinated offices, backing up every Word
that He said with the Holy Spirit Himself in there, which is the Word made
manifest, proving His resurrection, proving that He lives....
Christ is a living in the church of Christ (Amen.), making His word manifest,
for He is the same. If
it's the same Word, It'll do the same thing, and show the same works, and the
same signs.
Now, why isn't
this being taught in the Message churches? Because it's not manifesting in
their own ministries or in their own church circles, and camps. If it was, they
would most certainly be teaching it.
In The Messiah 61-0117 P:62 Wm
Branham says, “They
look like him. They act like
him. They are his flesh, his blood, his spirit. Amen. That's the way God's church is, His
Eaglets, His Messiahettes. They look like
Him; they act like Him; they preach like Him; they do the works that He did.
"The things that I do shall he also. More
than this shall he do, 'cause I go to the Father." Amen. "These signs shall
follow My eaglets." Amen "They'll do just as I do. If My
Spirit's in them, then they'll do the works that I do. If they
don't do the works I do, it's
because that My Spirit's not in them."
Now, look, we
began looking at what identified Serpent seed, and we found that there are
certain identifiable characteristics of the nature of the serpent, that he will
do because that is his nature to do.
And now we are
finding many quotes that earmark the nature of the Spirit of Christ.
Be certain of God 59-0708E P:49 If I had the Spirit of Christ,
I'll do the works of Christ. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father,
then believe Me not." And
if the church does not do the works of Christ, then don't believe that church.
Jesus said, "These
signs shall follow them that believe." And we've perverted it by works of man, doctrines of man.
Discerning body of Lord 59-0812 P:35 Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do
also. Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the world," and if our spirit pulls back from
that, we haven't got the Holy Ghost. For the Holy Spirit will say
"Amen" to every word He wrote. Now,
intellectual knowledge will pull you away from it, but the Holy Spirit will
say "Amen" to
His Own Word.
Position in Christ 60-0522M P:83 Now, after you're adopted, all
right, after you're adopted, you're placed; then you understand, after the
ceremony's said and you've been put into the Body correctly. You're a son, sure, a daughter;
when you're borned again you're... That's your birth.
But now you're positionally placed. We've not received the spirit of
fear...; but we have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. (Which
means, "my God." All right.) The Spirit itself bears witness with our
spirit, that we're children of God: How
does it do it? ...Then he says, The Spirit of God will do the works of God.
Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the
works that I do shall he do also." See,
see?
See, that is how The
Spirit will bear witness with our spirit, because he will use our spirit and do
the works through us.
let us pray...