Unveiling of God no 18 pt. 2
The Attributes of God Expressed
May 6th, 2018
Brian Kocourek, pastor
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and
to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to
feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto you.
Now, this evening we will pick up where we left off
this morning concerning the attibutes of God expressed through the DNA in the germ
of God.
Here we have read a couple scriptures speaking of
the blood of God and we saw this morning that the life is in that blood. Therefore
we are not speaking of the chemistry of the blood but the life that governs the
attributes and characteristics of the life that is in that blood.
Brother
Branham taught us that Jesus was the blood of
God and that in that
Blood housed the very Life and nature of God's DNA. But way before that it was
housed in the very thoughts of God which brother Branham said the attributes of
God are his thought. The thoughts of God.
Now, this evening we are going to and show you
that the very Life that was in Christ Jesus the first born son of God which
came from God, the very attributes of God in his thoughts, or thinking, and
were expressed in His first born son are to come into sons, and that makes us
as brother Branham stated, by "being born again, you
become the Blood of God,".
Now, he is not talking about the chemistry of
the blood but the very life that the chemistry of the blood
contains. In other words, the very
expression of the attributes of God. As Paul said "we are written epistles read and known of
all men." That
means we become the expression of the
thoughts of God which are the attributes of God expressed in us.
From his sermon he called The Token 63-0901M
P:39 brother Branham said, "Now, the blood is the chemistry of the life,
but the life is something different from the blood. But the life is in the blood."
Therefore, as science has proven, that the
DNA is a musical chord, or a musical melody, and it
is a mathematical equation, and it is a language,
and thus it is a Message making the Messenger and the Message
one.
Then if we become the very blood of God by the
Spirit, we become the very Message of God to mankind just as the first born son
was God's Message to mankind, so too we saw that His Messenger became His Message
to mankind, and now the elect bride must become that last manifestation of the
Message of God itself, which is the expression of the attributes of God.
From his sermon Paradox 64-0418B P:60 brother Branham said, And God
could not take a human's place, being His Spirit. So God created a
blood cell which was His own Son, Jesus Christ. And God came
in and lived in there, and lived, identified Himself in Christ.
That was God Emmanuel. Jesus said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me," (See?), God in Christ reconciling the world. Jesus was the Body, the Tabernacle, God
was the Spirit that lived in Him.
And then from his sermon Show Us The Father It'll Satisfy 56-0422 E-36 Brother Branham said, Now, it's many times it's been said that no man
can see God at anytime, the Bible said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was very inquisitive; he wanted to
see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?" Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In
other words, (and I want you to notice that when brother Branham uses the word
"In other words" he is going to explain how this can be
that you could see the Father when you see him. ) you see the Father express
Himself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in
the sense that His
Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself, the
immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God, the
Father, expressing Himself to
the world, His attitude towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do you say, 'Show us
the Father?'
And from his sermon Sir we would see Jesus 62-0724 P:49 he said,
And Jesus said in Saint
John the 1st chapter, also in the 10th chapter and the 37th verse He said,
"If I do not the works of
My Father, then don't believe Me." In other words, what the Father had expressed that He was,
if He didn't do that, then don't believe Him. That's only sensible. See? And in
Saint John 5:39, said, "Search the Scriptures; for in Them you think you
have Eternal Life: and They are They that testify of me." In
other words, He was the living Word. He was God's Word
made manifest. Oh, how I like to get into that: God's Word made
manifest, in other words, made
known: God's Word made known. In other words, He was the One that God lived in to make His Word
known. Christ
expressed what the Word talked. Amen. There you are. Christ was the expression of the Word that was wrote. Christ expressed it. No wonder He said to
those Pharisees, religious leaders of His day, He said, "You hypocrites," said, "if the sun sets clear, you say it's going to be
pretty tomorrow. If it's red and lowering, you say it'd be foul weather." Said, "You can discern the face of the skies; but the
sign of the time you cannot discern. For if you had known Me, you would've
known My day." See? They had
religion, oh, my, plenty of it. But they failed to see Him as the Messiah,
because...
From Identification
63-0123 P:46 Br. Branham said, Look to Him, all the ends of the world, and live.
And the only way you can... His sinless nature expressed the Word of
God so much that He and the Word was One. He said so. "I and My Father are One. I do always that what
pleases the... I and My Father are just One." He was so perfect in the image of God until He and God was the expressed same thing. He was
the flesh, the Son, that expressed
the deity of God. So that made Him deity in a man, in order to
redeem a man. See? He and the Word
was One. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. And the Word
was made flesh..." So He
and the Word became one,
that the Word could express, and
could show to the world that Example of what man should be.
Token the 63-0901M P:93 "When I see the Blood," that's the
Token, and the Token here is not... 'cause what did... He had to see the actual
chemistry, because the life had gone, had gone from it. It was an animal.
But here it's His Own Life that was in the Blood, and the
chemistry was only a signal, or sign of sanctification. But the Life Itself is the Token. For
without the circumcision, without the Token, you're not even in the covenant.
The whole thing works together. If you say you're circumcised to the
Word, and It only, then you'll believe the Word. If you believe the Word, then the Token's got to come.
For He said, "Repent,
and be baptized everyone of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." There you are.
Sir we would see Jesus 62-0724 P:49 And Jesus said in Saint John the 1st chapter,
also in the 10th chapter and the 37th verse He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't
believe Me." In other words, what the Father had expressed that He was,
if He didn't do that, then don't believe Him. That's only sensible. See? And in
Saint John
5:39, said, "Search the Scriptures; for in Them you think you
have Eternal Life: and They are They that testify of me." In
other words, He was the living Word. He was God's Word
made manifest. Oh, how I like to get into that: God's Word made
manifest, in other words, made
known: God's Word made known. In other words, He was the One that God lived in to make His Word
known. Christ
expressed what the Word talked. Amen. There you are. Christ was the expression of the Word that was wrote. Christ expressed it. No wonder He said to
those Pharisees, religious leaders of His day, He said, "You hypocrites," said, "if the sun sets clear, you say it's going to be
pretty tomorrow. If it's red and lowering, you say it'd be foul weather." Said, "You can discern the face of the skies; but the
sign of the time you cannot discern. For if you had known Me, you would've
known My day." See? They had
religion, oh, my, plenty of it. But they failed to see Him as the Messiah,
because...
Notice how many times brother Branham says here,
"In
other words" because he is
trying to get across to us that God, being
the Invisible Word, the Message
of Life, the DNA Code,
and when the messenger says nothing or expresses nothing but what the Code says,
what the Message says, the Invisible Word says, then that messenger becomes one with the Message and thus he actually
becomes the expression of the Message.
Therefore that Message is engrafted into their
DNA or they never could be enjoined and become one with the Word of God and One with
Christ. And remember it was Jesus prayer that we be one with the Father and He
and the Father were one. And that can only come when we are enjoined by the
same DNA of God-Life that Enjoined Jesus the eldest brother.
Romans 8:29 For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed (the
Greek word here is summorphos). So we are predestined to
be summorphos to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them
he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified.
Now,
what do you suppose the word summorphos
means? we think of being conformed means "to be like unto or
similar to", but that is not what summorphos means. The definition of "summorphos" means to be "jointly
formed".
Jointly....formed....
or
"formed ... jointly"
Therefore to be "jointly formed"
is the be "formed jointly", which
means you are "formed together".
That means when
I was conceived, when my right hand come into formation, it was jointly formed to my body in the same way as
my left hand was jointly formed to my same body.
My body did not
form a right hand first and then a left hand, but both hands were joined to the
same body at the same time. And we were in His thoughts before the foundations
of the world no different and not at a different time than when God thought of
Jesus Christ as his firstborn son.
Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto
you. In
joined. And
if it is enjoined, it is a part of you, you are a part of it.
Now, notice, we
were before the foundations of the world jointly formed in the thoughts of God
with the first born son.
We see the time
frame involved in Ephesians 1:3-4 in addition to Revelations 13:8
is both the same, before the foundations of the world.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According
as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the
praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all
wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his
will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, (join
together in one) both which are in heaven, and
which are on earth; even in him: 11 In
whom also
we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose
of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Therefore, it is
not as though that you work out your differences with God and then you decide
to become like him. No, that would have nothing to do with the germ
of God in you, nor your DNA having the Message of God written into your
DNA that you might be Written Epistles known and read of all man.
But the word is "summorphos"
which means "jointly formed".
Therefore Ephesians 1:4 tells us that we were in God's
thoughts before the foundations of the world. And Revelations
13:8 tells us at the same time what God was ordaining for our eldest
brother. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are
not written in the book of life of
the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.
"He also glorified" doxazo, God already pre-placed within us, or
pre-destined in us His Doxa into our Zoe. He predestined us to be "Written epistles known and read of all men." The reason you could believe His Word and walk
in the light as He is in the same light, is because he placed His
own Message of God-Life into you Genes, your DNA. And it was always
there but it took the baptism of the Holy Spirit to quicken you to it, and to help
you to realize you have always been a son of The King.
Colossians 3:3 For
ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, (shall phaneroo, shall manifest in his true
Character) then shall ye also appear (phaneroo, shall manifest in your true
character) with him in glory. (with him, united in Him in the same glory, the same doxa, the
same opinions and values and judgments, the same Message). Making you the blood
of God through the same Spirit.
Token the 63-0901M P:49 What a hour that we're now living. Oh, a blood identified the believer, because that the life had
gone out, could not come back, so he had to have a chemistry. He had to
have it like a paint, a blood, a chemistry that showed that life went from it. Now, the very Spirit Itself is the Token. The Holy Spirit Itself is the Token,
not the Blood. The Blood was shed at Calvary, that is true, but the Blood, as
far as it is, went back into the elements from which it come, from the food
that He lived on. But you see, inside
that Blood cell was a Life that started the blood cell to moving.
If it wasn't, the chemistry had no
Life in it itself; and therefore it could not move.
But when the Life come into the chemistry of the blood, it formed a cell. It formed its own cell,
then cell after cell. And it become a Man, and that Man was God Emmanuel in
flesh. But when that Life returned back the chemistry went to it. But the
Token is the Holy Ghost upon the church, that they see Christ.
Questions and answers COD 64-0830E P:35 When you're born again, you're not born of
physical, like the baby was; but what's happened, the spiritual birth has come to
you. And while
this spiritual birth is growing into your heart, of God, there is a physical or a celestial
body growing to receive that spirit. And when the life leaves this body, it goes to that body. Just
as when the body is presented to the earth, the spirit comes in, and when the
spirit goes out of the body, there is a body waiting. "For we know that after this earthly tabernacle be
dissolved, we have one already waiting." See? That's it, the spiritual body of the people.
That is why brother Branham said in Explaining healing and Jairus 54-0216 P:37 The devil's just trying to scare you out of
something. He's trying to put something off somewhere else, say, "Some of
these days you'll be this." You are now.
Now, we're sons of God. Now, we're seated together in heavenly places. Now, we
have all powers in heavens and the earth. See? Now, we have it. Not in the
millennium, we won't need it then. We got it now. We're... Right now we
are the sons of God. "It does not appear what we shall be, but we know we'll be like Him." What
you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified." Already
in the Presence of the Father, we have a glorified body. Whew!
Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have
one already waiting."
Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we are here, is a reflection of what we are
somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil, you know where
it comes from. You know where your other body's a waiting.
Identification 64-0216 P:28 a reflection. You've got to be identified. (and never forget the word
identified does not mean to be sympathetic towards, but the word identified
means to become the same as, to make, represent to be, or regard or treat as the same or identical:) And if you are, and you were in
God's thinking at the beginning (See?), and was His reflection here
on earth, you'll bear record
of the heavenly. And as He bore record of the heavenly also, and
when He raised up from the grave, and was given a body, we, when we
raise up, will have a body like His own glorious body. The resurrection is sure. It's a
guarantee. And we have the earnest of it now, as the Holy Spirit
comes in and identifies us as God's redeemed person. Amen. When you
receive the Holy Ghost you're sealed till the journey's over.
World is falling apart 63-1115 P:71 Oh, if we
are the sons and daughters of the King, the King of kings, let's conduct our character as
Christians. That's right. ...You're a daughter of God. You're a
son of God. Let's act like God.
We are the children of God; we know that we're sons and daughters of the
King. Let our character reflect His Presence, no matter how rough
it gets.
So when brother Branham says, you become the Blood of God, he is not talking about the chemistry, he
is talking about the Life that the chemistry formed around, and the Life that
is in you by the new birth has to form a Word body around that Life as well.
That is why brother Vayle always said, "get your eyes off the vessel, and get your eyes
on the God who is using that Vessel."
It's all about the God, and His God-Life,
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by
one Spirit (By One Word, One Life, "for my words are spirit and they are Life" Jesus said,) For by
one Spirit (One Word, One Spirit, One Life) are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
One body he said. I don't know what you believe,
but as for me, he said by
one Spirit I've been baptized into one body, and that one Body, the body of Christ has
already taken its punishment for sin on Calvary's cross, and I was there, and
now I am setting in heavenly places in Christ.
Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one
Spirit unto the Father.
Acts 17:28 For in
him we live,
and move, and
have (possess) our
being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
And if we are his offspring that means we have
sprung off from Him. Then he is our source of Life, and
Therefore this brings us to point number
2) That in that
Blood, in that chemistry
was the literal Life of God and the chemistry of that blood cell was
infused then with the very DNA of God, His
every attribute and characteristic that made God who He was. That Jesus
Christ the first born was so much an expression of God, that in Him he was the
essentiality and intrinsicality of all that God is.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us in Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the
angels, (showing it was not
angels God spoke to in Genesis
1:26) as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name
than they. (He said I
come in my Father's name,
showing he received his Father's name by inheritance) 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee? And again, I will be
to him a Father, and he
shall be to me a Son?
Possessing gate of the enemy 64-0322 P:19 Now, but when Jesus, the Son of God, virgin born,
shed His Blood, the Life that was in that Blood was God Itself. That Life was eternal Life and there is only one
form of eternal and that is God, therefore it had to be God's own Life in His
Son.
Token the 64-0308 P:16 He created both egg and Blood. That's
exactly what He was. "We handled God," the Bible said. I Timothy 3:16, "Without
controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh.
We handled Him with our hands." That body was
God. Certainly was. He
was God all over, in a form of a human being.
Now, we must balance this with the statement
also from brother Branham where he said,
God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:50 Now, notice. And after then the wise men
identifying Him what He would be, and we find through the Scripture that's
exactly what it was: Deity in service for death. What for? Deity in service to
God for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death to redeem the world. But
what did the world do to it? They refused it. They rejected it. Why? Some of
them, a big part of them, did that because this: because He did die. They said,
"He couldn't be Deity and die." The man, the body was not Deity,
but Deity was in the
body. This body has to perish. The very Christ that's in you
is the only thing that can raise you up. That's
Deity, God in you.
So the deity itself is the life, but the
chemistry or vessel is a created being and as a created being it has to perish,
for if it had a beginning it surely must have an end. So we are not looking at
the vessel, the body, the chemistry itself when we refer to the blood, but we
are looking at the Spirit, the Life, the very nature in Him and in you.
Let us pray