Token
no 49
Last
thing before the judgment comes
January 6, 2016
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
164
Oh, my. Apply the Token. That's what it means to
us. We expect the sacrifice to give us Life, and it does.
Then it gives us the Token, and we apply the Token,
which is the seal until...Being partakers of this.
Now, let me just for a moment, let's back up and we want to know what
it means to apply the token. He says we must apply it. So we know the Token is
the Holy Ghost, Christ in you. But notice he says he gives it to us to apply
it.
Token the 64-0308 P:70 He said in John 14:12, "He that
believeth (not he that maketh believe)--he that
believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Is that
right? Someone said, "'Greater shall ye do.'" That's right. Said, "Well, we preach the Gospel, that's greater."Just
do the things He done; that'll prove it to me (See?), then we'll
talk about the greater. I can show you the greater things He's doing now
than He did when He was on earth, and that's not just preaching the Gospel
either; that's in signs and miracles. It's not time for it. Just believe.
And may the God of heaven, Who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, and has
presented Him here alive to us after two thousand years, identify this
message that it's correct. The Token's got to be applied.
Now, if the
token is the Life of Christ in the individual, then it sounds here like brother
Branham is identifying John 14:12 with
applying the Token.
So what does it mean to apply it: we know the Token is the Holy Ghost,
but he let's us know that we must apply it.
The word apply or applied is a verb and it is used
to describe an action we take with something. Apply or applied means 1. to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: 2.
to put to use,
especially for a particular purpose: 3. to bring into action; to use; or to employ: 4. to assign
to a specific purpose: 5. to put into effect: 6.
to devote or employ diligently or with close attention:
So we see that God does not give us the Token just for us to have. It
is given for a purpose, and that purpose is to use it to bring about an effect.
Brother
Branham said in his sermon, Token the 64-0208 P:60 "We read in Ephesians
2nd chapter and 12th verse, about what God said about us when
we apply this Token. "Notice, serving the living God with living works, and with living
signs, with a living Token; not dead works, and carnal, not dead
works.
And then he
also takes us to Hebrews 9:11-14 tells us again the
same thing, not dead creeds, but a living Token. These creeds deny
that there is such a thing as a Token. They don't even believe there is such a
thing as a Token, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But we who believe the
Word know better, know it. And it's His living Presence for us in this day.
We separated from dead works, and the Holy Ghost comes in to confirm the
Word and make it so. Hebrews 13:8 proves that to
us, proves that God has raised Him up for us according to His promised
Word. Thousands of years has passed; two thousand years almost has passed. But
what is it? The Token still holds that God raised Him up on the third day.
If you just got the Word, that's all you got. But when the Token is applied,
then Christ is reality to you. And He does today like He did
then.
See that is John 14:12, what he did we will do
also.
So it throws it right back in their lap
again. They can't get around it. God promised it, and here it is that the
Token's got to be applied.
Now, look, you
don't have a say in it. he said thee Token has got to be applied.
Token the 64-0208 P:41 His great
powers and signs that He had done down there... And if they seen it and knowed,
why can't we have women and men today just as honest as that woman was when we
see what God promised to do, and see Him doing it? Then next thing comes
judgment.
Now, listen...
First the Token has to come, then it has to be applied, and then "the very next
thing is the judgment." That's what he said...
"They must believe... They were...
They believed... They must have believed they were safe in that great wall where
they were at, their great big family, their great big place. Many people
today... I say this through reverence and respect... Many people today say,
"I belong to the biggest church there is in the city. My mother belonged
to that church. It's one of the oldest churches." That don't have one
thing to do with it. The Token has got to be applied. They might've thought
that big thing they lived in, that big system, that was going to save them. But
we find out every thing that didn't show that token perished in the city.
So will it be at the
coming of the Son of man. He's done said so.
Now listen...
In Egypt, the Token was applied and then immediately after the applying of the
token, then came judgment.
Now, let's
take another example from the bible. We have another witness when Joshua came
to Jericho, and anyone who did not have the Token applied then, when that great
earthquake took down the walls of that great city they all perished.
The Token
applied, then judgment follows. Now, we heard brother Branham last Sunday
associate the Token being applied with John 14:12,
because the Token is the very Life of Christ and John
14: 12 is the display or the applying of that Life in your
life.
He said in
paragraph 160 of the Token, quoting
Jesus he says, ... "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."
So we see he
is identifying the works of Christ with the applying the Token.
Token the 63-0901M P:111 Remember,
there's a lot of them come by, them women, that night, and say, "Hey,
girlie, Lily, some of you, come on out; we're going to a party
tonight.""Huh uh, I'm under the Blood. I'm under the Token to stay
here. My love is to my Maker. Death is in the land tonight."And death
is in the land today. Judgment is waiting; she's pending.
Atomic, and hydrogens, and all kinds of disaster is waiting for the nations. And God is
moving His church and showing all... We been keeping the Lamb up now for
quite awhile, watching, seeing what He's doing, watching His nature
and everything, but now
the Token's got to be applied. It's got to be applied. It's the only thing.
"Except
a man be born of the Spirit and of water, He will in no wise enter in."
Token the 63-0901M P:85 Now, we
don't want to take any chance on it. You mustn't do it. The Message of
the hour is a sign to the churches. It's sign to the people.
Don't...Are you catching it? I hope on the tape, that they're doing the same
thing (See?), and other parts of the world. See? The hour sign is here. There's
a Token that's got to be applied, and no other time could it have come.
Notice, no
other time could it come like it has come, and yet we know that each example we
see of the token being applied in Scripture, it comes right before judgment,
adn then when the judgments come, only those who applied the token and had the
token applied for them are saved.
Token the 63-0901M P:68 Satan's throwed
all kinds of counterfeits of shaking hands and evidences and everything like
that. Forget it. The hour has arrived that the Token Itself, not some
counterfeit, make-believe substitutionary, anything; the hour is here
when the Token Himself is identifying Himself right among us and proving that
He's the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever, and He's right with the Word.
Now, look,
brother Branham is identifying the Presence of the Judge as the Token that must
be applied. And what does a judge do? He speaks judgment. So why did the judge
come? To bring judgment. Then how close are we tonight.
When we see
that John 14:12 is the applying of the
token, and we know that we have have received the Token, the very
life of Christ, and we have began to apply it that Life in our own Life, and we
have learned to apply that Life and present it with the Word of God when we ask
anything in His name.
And
that is exactly the pattern Jesus set before us, when he said, John
14:12 first and then the request in verses 13 and 14. Let's read...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. 13 And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it."
Notice,
if "you
believe" it is because "you have
my spirit in you" Jesus is saying, and then if "you have my spirit you will do the works
that I do" and then immediately after that
he says, "anything you ask the Father in my name I will do it
for you".
Therefore, as
brother Branham says, "It's got to be
applied. A man that says that he's got the Token, deny this Word, then
what about it? See, you can't do it. The Token's got to be there.
When I... "The Blood shall be a Token unto
you."Now, the Holy Spirit, the Life that was in the
Blood is a Token unto you. (Get to it in a moment. See?) The Holy
Ghost is the Token. The case is closed. Yes, sir.
And He said, "when I see My token
(My Life) displayed I will pass my judgments over you."
Token the 63-0901M P:65 What is sin?
Unbelief. You've disbelieved the message. You've disbelieved the Word. You've disbelieved
the witness of the Token Itself, when It's identified Itself in the midst
of us. And have you disbelieved that? No matter how much you disbelieve It, It's got to be applied.
You might say, "I believe it; I believe it. I believe It's the Truth. I
accept It as the Truth."Then that is all good, but yet, It's got to be applied.
Therefore, it won't do you any good to say you got it, God is looking
for that Life to be displayed, and when he sees that Life, you will pass
through the judgments.
Seed not heir with shuck
65-0218 P:30 There is no
judgment to the royal, spiritual, predestinated Seed of Abraham, for they
are predestinated to Eternal Life. They have accepted God's provided
Sacrifice, and that Sacrifice which is Christ, the Word. "And there is
therefore now no condemnation (St. John 5:24, if you want
the Scripture)... There is therefore now no condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus (Romans
8:1)... walk
not after the flesh, but the Spirit." And Romans 5:24, "He that heareth
My Word (the word there is 'understandeth.' Any drunkard anything else can hear
it and walk away.)... But he
that heareth My Word (understands My Word) and believeth on
Him that sent Me hath Everlasting Life and shall not come into the judgment,
but's passed from death unto Life." Yes, sir. He that this great mystery of
the God made known, understand, how that God was in Christ reconciling Himself
to the world, how that He and the Father were One, how that the great
mysteries of the fulfilling of God taking and bringing Hisself, manifested
in the age of human beings, and in the strain of human beings, and in the
company of human beings, to make His Word manifested in the day in the
eastern rising of the sun and to do the same thing as the sun sets in the west,
to make Hisself manifested
in a Bride church, the Word made manifest. See? It will to...
"He that understandeth (that is, to know), that's been revealed to him of Him that
sent Me, has Everlasting Life and will not come into the judgment, but's passed
from death unto Life."
Thou son of David have mercy
on me 61-0215 P:78 Our heavenly Father, Your Word cannot fail. It's
eternal. You said, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that
sent Me, has Everlasting Life." You said so, Lord. "And will not come
into the judgment (or condemnation at the judgment), but has passed
from death unto Life," because they have believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ, that He died in their stead, taking their sins.
Now, back to The Token, 164 What a great thing it is. Being partakers, baptized by this one
Spirit into that one mythical Body. Did I say that word right?
Mystical--mystic, mystic body. Mystic body of Jesus Christ.See, the Holy Spirit
said, "You're saying that wrong." A dummy, like me, but He said,
"You're saying that wrong." I caught mythical, which is mystic body
of Jesus Christ. See? The mystic body of Jesus Christ. I don't... We don't need
an education; we need the Holy Spirit. He's the one; He's the one. See? That
would might've stumbled somebody somewhere, some educator. And I hope he gets
it right. The mystic body... It'll be for something, 'cause He wouldn't have
said that. He's right here now. He's right here at the pulpit. He's right out
there. It's Him. See?
165
And in Him is no death; in Him is no sorrow; in Him is no weary; in Him is no
sin; in Him is no sickness; in Him is no death. We are in Him. If Satan tries
to hand you something like sickness, just take your Token and apply
it. Oh, my. Take your Token and apply it,
that you are a purchased product of Jesus Christ. The Token stands that your fare is paid. He says, "When you
die, you're lost." Say, "You're
wrong. I have the purchased product. I'm the purchased product. I have the
Token." What is the Token?
He knows what it is. Don't fool him, he knows what it is. Now, you might talk to some of these preachers,
and they'd argue with you. Not Satan, he knows better. Oh, yeah. He come
against it two or three times, you know, and made a mistake of temptation.
Satan knows what you're talking about. Just
show that Token; he'll fly. It's 'cause... What is it? It's a sealed
product. He can't break that open and
give something in there that's not right. Say, "Take your hands off,
I'm sealed."
166 Oh,
my. A sealed product. Yes, sir. You are purchased. Hold the Token over your unmovable faith in His promise. Watch him
go. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
See? Take that Token. That's what
it's for. Satan's there to tempt you.
He's in Egypt to tempt. Why, you know that they, when Rahab put that... That
harlot put that string down that I imagine some of them soldiers laughed and
made fun, and said, "That crazy old woman up there. She's off of her head.
Look, she's got it bad. Ha-ha-ha-ha--why, did you ever hear of such? Why, Dr.
Jones said down here, there's nothing to that." But there was, because the
messenger from God brought the message and told them.
167 Could
you imagine the Egyptians say, "Look...?... Look at that crazy bunch of
holy-rollers, putting blood... Ha, ha. Won't they have a mess to wash that off
now. Oh, my, them big fine homes, all covered over with blood. Oh, such a
stink. I'll bet you that'll be horrible in a few days. It don't mean a thing.
You know why? Holy father so-and-so, said so." But there was; there was;
it did mean something. It does mean something to us who believe it.Just
remember, your unmovable faith that you got in this word... Now, you're not Eve
no more. See? You're not one of these doubters, and well--compromising with
Satan; you hold every Word of God. See, Eve said, "Well, the Lord said
so." Satan said, "But, you know, the Lord
surely won't do a thing like that to a nice person like you. Oh, you're so
lovely." He... Oh, yes, He
will too. He said He'd do it. "Well, my father was a minister; I've
been a minister..."I can't help it. Without the Token,
you're lost. The wrath is upon
you (That's all.) without the Token. See? He said He'd do it, and He will do it. That just settles
it. He says He'd do it. "Oh, I believe
the days of miracles..." Yes, but He said it was. "I'm
the same yesterday, today, and forever." See? That's
just what He proves to be. Now, to us, we know it. To them, they don't believe
it. But we do believe it. We know it is the truth. See?
And it was just before
judgment that the Token was to be applied. O, I hope you can see by the
scriptures that God has opened our understanding to what it means to apply the
Token. To Apply the Life , His life in our Life.
From his sermon, An Absolute 63-0127 P:40 "And Jesus said in John 14:12, "He that believeth on
Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
It's an absolute fact that Christ promised
that. That's
His Word. And we've got to believe that. Said, In St. John the 5th chapter and
the 24th
verse, "He that heareth My Words--My Words
and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into
the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life."
That's absolute. That's it. Now, not him that maketh-believe, but
he that believeth. See? Now, we've got to have an absolute, and He
is that Absolute, and He and His Word are the same. We can't
separate them.
So how can you
say He is your absolute, when he is the Word and you deny what he said in John 14:12?
He said, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall
he do also."
And we have proved with so many hundreds of quotes from God's prophet
that the "he
that believes" is any believer, every believer, anyone who believes,
etc.
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.
Confirmation of the commission 62-0122 P:32 See, it's either whether you take what some organization
said, some manmade theory said... They'll preach the doctrine of that theory.
And then, that is their credentials to the deacon board or whatever it is, that
they stand in good fellowship with that organization. I have nothing against
that, understand, but I'm only defending what Jesus said. See? He
said, "These signs shall follow them that
believe." And Jesus said in St. John
14:12, "Verily, verily I say unto you (that's "absolutely, absolutely, I say unto you) he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do
also." And how can a man believe that he is
sent from God, and then turn around and deny the very commission that God said
would... that would be the identification of every person that He sent out?
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.
Now, if God is doing the works of Christ in His people, and that is
applying the Life or the token, then there has got to be a judgment right
around the corner.
And we have seen the signs that Judgment is just around the corner. We've
seen the four blood moons, we are witness that it has taken place. And that is
two 2's, and 2 is a witness, therefore we have seen a double witness that the
church which is represented by the Moon and was shown in the heavens to have completely
darkened out, and when it did it was blood reed which signifies death. We have
seen God's signs in the heavens that the church is dead.
We have seed the pope come out of the United States on the day of the
last Blood Moon. Now, when the Pope came to America in 1963 brother Branham
said when the moon went into a total eclipse then, it was a sign of
judgment.
And the last blood moon began the year of Jubilee. And we know during the
jubilee is when the people who had been in slavery are set free.
I believe we are
at the end time, and I do not believe we will be here too much longer. The
judgments are already sweeping across Europe and America. Our current
administration is doing everything they can to provoke a war with Russia and
China.
Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger (foreigner) that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and
thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt
not lend to him: he shall be the head,
and thou shalt be the tail.
Obama is a
foreigner, and he has risen up to be the head. And the Federal reserve bank is
not owned by the American government, it's owned by several international Banks
from England, Germany, France, Denmark and Italy.
Brother Branham
said in 1963, the judgments are now in the earth, and we are seeing them almost
daily in the form of severe weather, earthquakes, and tornadoes, and flooding,
and hurricanes, and volcanoes, and the economy, and the heathen invasions
across Europe and America, and nation is rising against nation, and every man
turning against his neighbors.
And one of these
days the Bible says that the earth will turn over, and the oceans shall raise
so high the islands shall flee away, and the mountains shall melt. And it is on
its way, because the token is now being
applied, and that had to happen before the judgments could come.
Malachi 4:1 For, behold,
the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all
that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Notice
this Scripture speaks of a day that is coming that is full of death and
destruction, and the next few verses tell us that God will send the Spirit of
Elijah to prepare a people to escape it.
And
that preparation is not a mental preparation, but condition of the heart that
will save them. And He promised that this ministry of Elijah will be to a
special people, those who actually fear His name, a people who are ordained to
receive a heart change.
2 But unto
you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down
the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day
that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which
I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with
the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the LORD: 6 And
he shall turn the heart of the
fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a
curse.
Now, Malachi was
not the only prophet to warn of what is coming at the end time. We see the
prophet Isaiah also speak of what is to take place as well.
Isaiah 2:10 Enter into
the rock, and hide thee in the dust,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The
lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be
upon every one that is proud and lofty, and
upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be
brought low: ...
To
save some time let me skip forward to verse 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of
men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the
idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall
cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles (that is the big tunnel machines) and to the bats; (to those making great caverns and caves for men to
hide in) 21 To
go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted
of?
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, (the Hebrew word for empty here
means literally to depopulate) and maketh it waste,
(annihilated) and turneth it upside
down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. (Now, the word scattereth abroad not only speaks of
disbursing the people, but also signifies a breaking apart of the people.) 2 And it shall be, as
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with
the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, (utterly
depopulated) and utterly spoiled: (plundered)
for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4 The
earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth (it becomes
feeble, weak) and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof;(it is not only polluted, but corrupted in a
moral and spiritual sense) because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth
are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all
the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets
ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The
city of confusion is broken down: every
house is shut up, (boarded up) that no
man may come in. 11 There
is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left
desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When
thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They
shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they
shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify
ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the
LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of
the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the
righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who
fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of
the earth do shake. (look, all this shaking
and destruction comes when the earth goes into a tilt because of the heavens
opening up and the earth goes into a global shift. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, (that means
to spoil by breaking in pieces) the earth is clean
dissolved, (completely broken up) the earth
is moved exceedingly. (totally off course) 20 The earth
shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed (tossed)
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy
upon it; and it shall fall, (cease
to be as it was, to die) and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as
prisoners are gathered in the pit,(down in their underground
cities) and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, (turn red) and the sun ashamed, (blackened out) when the LORD of
hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously.
Let us pray...