Unveiling of God no 40
God's Frequency part 4
The Frequency of His Word
August 5, 2018
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
Now, from
his sermon Man That Can Turn On The
Light - 63-1229 1M Now,
the seed was already upon the earth. I believe God had planted
the seed, and just as long as the sun could get to that seed, it begin to
grow. And that's the reason it only taken days to bring forth these things,
because the seed was already in the earth. All it needed was light.
Now, let's just take a look at what Br. Branham said here and take it
back to the Scriptures. If we turn in Genesis 1:1 we will see that God placed His Seed by His Word in the earth. So when
the Logos went forth, it was not a physical seed at this point but a Spoken
Word seed. In other words, when God said let there be horse, there was spirit
horse. When God said let there be apple tree, that was spirit apple tree, or
Logos apple tree. That is what Brother Branham meant when we said every seed
was in the earth, because God placed it there by His Spoken word as we see in
Genesis chapter 1.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. Now, as
brother Branham taught us there could have been a million billion years from
When God created the heaven and the earth to when it actually came forth in its
physical form. Why? Because God created
all things by His Word. And before it was His Word it was first in His mind
as a thought, then when that thought was expressed it became Word, Spoken Word.
Now, most men are ignorant of this
fact that God created all things by his Word. He Thought it first, then He
spoke it and then later on He clothed it with the physical elements that make
up the earth.
That is exactly what the Apostle
Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and
in the water:
We read in the book of Isaiah Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by
number: he calleth them all by names
by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one
faileth.
And then in the book of Revelation
4:11we read, "Thou
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
And again in Colossians
1:16 The apostle Paul says, "For by him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible
and invisible,
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things
were created by him, and for him:
And finally we see that God used His first born
Son, Jesus Christ to create all things.
God is the creator but he used His Son to bring forth. Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by
Jesus Christ:
So let's get back to the beginning to
watch how the creation unfolded.
2 And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep.
Now, remember, we already read in
verse 1
that God created the heavens and earth, yet here we are told "And
the earth was without
form," and if
it was without form as the Scriptures declare, then it
was still in Spirit form, or thought form, in the mind of God
it was created at this point. But it had not yet at this point taken on a
physical form to make it a visible entity.
Let's read that again. "And
the earth was without form,
and void" and the Hebrew Word for form is tohuw
and it means "an
empty place",
"without form", "nothing."
That is what the Hebrew dictionary
tells us, "the earth was an empty place", or "the earth was yet at this point nothing".
And then Moses adds, the earth
was without form, and void. And this word void was translated from the Hebrew word bohuw which means a "vacuity" or "emptiness."
And this word vacuity means "the state of being vacuous" or "without contents;" "vacancy;" "emptiness":
So we see when "God made the Heavens and earth" it was at this point still in the
mind of God. There was no substance at this point, it was empty and without any
shape or form.
And then God begin to move upon what
he had spoken as we read in the second half of verse 2, "And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And
God said, Let there be light: and there
was light. 4 And
God saw the light, that it
was good: and God divided the
light from
the darkness. 5 And
God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Now, at this point God has not yet
brought forth anything into a created form as yet. And I want you to notice in
verse 3 this is the first time we see that God speaks. And when He speaks this
light comes forth. And He calls it Day.
Now I believe according to a
vindicated prophet that this Light which resulted from the very first time God
speaks, I believe it is the Spoken Word Logos that went out of GOd, which is
the Son of God.
From his
sermon QA on Genesis COD 53-0729 P:13 brother
Branham said, "Now, notice. Then after while I begin to see a little
sacred Light begin to form, like a little halo or something; you
could only see it by spiritual eyes to look now, while we're looking,
the whole church now. We're standing on a great big banister, watching what
God's doing. And we'll get right down to this question here and you'll see how
He brings it in. Now, no one has seen God. And now, the next thing we begin to
see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming
out there. What is that? That was called, by Bible
readers, "Logos," or "the
anointed," or "the anointing," or
as I was going to say, the part of God begin to develop into
something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It was: it was a
little, a little Light moving. That was the Word of God. Now, God
gave Himself birth to this Son which was before there was even an atom
in the--or air to make an atom. That was... See, Jesus said, "Glorify Me, Father, with the glory that We had before the
foundation of the world." See, way
back in yonder...
In continuing with Q & A on Genesis COD 53-0729 in pp. 26, brother Branham went on to say, "Now, "No man has seen the Father at anytime." No man can see God in the bodily form,
because God is not in body form; God is a Spirit. See? All right. "No man has seen the Father, but the only
begotten of the Father hath declared Him," I John... See? Now, but notice now, there's nothing; there's just space. There's no light; there's no dark; there's no
nothing; it's just seems nothing. But in there is a great supernatural Being, Jehovah
God, PP. 28 Now, notice. Then after while I begin to see a little sacred Light begin to form, like
a little halo or something; you could only see it by spiritual eyes to look
now, while we're looking, the whole church now. We're standing on a great big
banister, watching what God's doing. And we'll get right down to this question
here and you'll see how He brings it in. Now, no one has seen God. And now, the
next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming out
there. What is that? That was called, by Bible readers, "Logos," or "the anointed," or "the
anointing," or as I was
going to say, the part of God begin to develop into
something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It was: it was a
little, a little Light moving. He... That was the Word of God. Now, God gave Himself birth to this Son which was before there was even an atom in the--or
air to make an atom. That was... See, Jesus said, "Glorify Me, Father,
with the glory that We had before the foundation of the world." See, way
back in yonder...
Before we go any further, let me say
that most people read this wrong. They are reading what brother Branham is
saying here with a pre-filter that reads,
God gave birth to
Himself, but that is not what William Branham
prophet of God said. He said, God
gave Himself … And
we should ask, “what did He give to Himself?” And the
answer is, “birth to
this Son”.
That is
totally different than giving Himself birth. To read it as God giving Himself
birth does not even make sense, seeing He already existed. But to give Himself a son by birthing that son
forth into existence is altogether different. Now there becomes two
involved. One who is God and One who is His Son.
Now, brother
Branham basically says the same thing in several other sermons, So I will just
read a few for you.
So we see then, that when God gave
birth to Himself a Son, it was a part of God coming forth, the very Life of God
coming into his Son.
And we see this very plainly written in the Book of Proverbs 8: 22- 36 NIV 22 "The LORD brought me forth as the first of his
works, before his deeds of old;
23 I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world
began. 24 When there
were no oceans, I
was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with
water; 25 before the mountains were
settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, 26 before he
made the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world. 27
I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he
marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, 28 when he established the clouds above and
fixed securely the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not
overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. 30 Then I was the
craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole
world and delighting in mankind. 32
"Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Listen to my instruction and be
wise; do not ignore it. 34 Blessed is the man who listens to me,
watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. 35 For whoever finds me finds life and receives
favor from the LORD. 36 But whoever
fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."
And didn't
Jesus say, "I am the way the truth and the Life"? And
doesn't john tells us "he that hath the son hath life"?
Again brother
Branham says in his sermon Seed shall not be heir
65-0429B P:35 When He begin to brood upon
the earth, and brought forth marine life... When the Spirit of
God, the Logos, the Word, which God said, "let
there be," and there went the
Logos, which is the Word. And the Word begin to... 'Cause all this was
in the Logos: the whole Word of God, the whole Bible, for every age. And as
the Logos begin to breathe upon the earth, there come marine life, and
building up to bird life, on up to animal life. And finally there come
something in the representation, or looked like the thing that was
brewing--brooding over it: God, a man in the very image of God.
Attitude and who is God?
50-0815 P:16 So He first was God, Jehovah. And out of Him...
Let's just picture now as a little drama so you can get it. Let's see coming
out of space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like a
mystic Light, like a Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of
God in the beginning. That was the Son of God that came out of the bosom of the Father.
That was what was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. In the beginning was God. And then
out of God came the Logos, a part of God that went out of God.
QA Hebrews part 2 COD 57-1002
P:35 In the first place, when God, the Logos that went out of God...Or,
as I have went through it, the Catholic call It, "the eternal sonship
of God."... Which as I have said before, the word doesn't even make
sense. See, there cannot be an eternal son, because a
son had to have a beginning. And so Jesus had a beginning;
God had no beginning. See? But the Son was the... Not eternal sonship, but the
Son that was with the Father in the beginning was the Logos that went out of
God. And it was the Theophany of God that went out, the
human form that didn't have eyes like you see: a better eye. It didn't have
ears like you hear, but a far more hearing. See? It was a Theophany,
that all this rainbow condescended into a Theophany. Moses saw It when
It passed through the rock like that. He saw the back parts, said, "It
looked like a man."
I get goose
bumps when I hear brother Branham speak of the Rainbow essence of God
condescending into a form called the theophany that was the son of God. Because
that Rainbow came in three distinct shapes and forms and it was a horizontal
form and when the first joined with the second it made a bowl shape and when
the two joined with the third it made a complete circle, and the circle speaks
of eternity revealed, no beginning and no ending. And that was God that sat
over that church while I preached, and God was observing one of his sons, and
just to think of that. He took time from his busy day running the world to come
and watch one of his kids preach about him. And he left over 150 witnesses to
what he did.
Again from Hebrews Chapter 4 57-0901E P:49 brother Branham
said, "As
we had it the other night, God in the beginning was Spirit. And then
from God went out the Logos, or the Theophany which was a form of a man called
the Son of God (prefigured). He came in earth in a body of flesh,
even before He came in Jesus Christ. Now, swallow that one once, brother.
I'll prove it to you. When Moses saw Him, he said, "Let me see Your form, Lord."
And God hid him in a rock. And when He passed by, he said it was the back
part of a man. That was that Theophany. That's exactly.
Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821
P:48 Now, here's what happened. Oh... Excuse me; I just get on this... This
just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this
great Fountain; this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no
end, this great Spirit begin to form in the creation; and the Logos
that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible
form that this Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means
a body, and the body was like a man. Moses saw It when It passed through the
rock. And he looked at It, said, "It looked like the hind part of a man." It's
the same type of body that we receive when we die here, "If this earthly
tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." That
was it. And that was the Theophany which was the Son of God. That
Son, that Logos became flesh because we were put in flesh. And the
Theophany, the Logos, became flesh here among us, and It was nothing
else but the dwelling place; for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do
you see it? There it is. That was the One that in...
Now the good
news is that "as he is so are we in this world." From
his sermon Curtain of time 55-0302 P:18 God, which was a
part of God. God seen what the end would be, from the beginning, and the
Logos come to the earth, which was Christ the Word, spoken Word of God,
part of God,
and was made flesh and dwelled among us. And then, we come out of Christ,
which makes the same life that was in God, in Christ, in you. And just
as sure as God raised this up, we've got to come with the same thing, if the
same Spirit's in us. Because it's the Spirit of God making us sons and
daughters of God. Oh isn't it marvelous? How do we get it? By believing on
the Lord Jesus Christ, that's what. And accepting it, and then God in return,
give us the Holy Spirit, crying in our hearts, "Abba Father, my God, my God."
And then we are resurrected in the last days to be caught up. And
He said, "That day you shall know that I am
in Father, the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me."
So we see that the light that came
forth when God spoke the first time was the logos of God, the theophany of God which was that part of God which was the son
of God. Not an
eternal son, Because we see God speak and then that Light came forth as the son
of God, because "all sons have beginnings".
Notice also that This light God
called "Day", and we find Peter call Jesus
the Day star in
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts:
And we are also told that "he is the light of the world." So I hope the next time you read Genesis
1:1-3 you will
understand how the world was created and you will be able to see that the son
of God came forth the first time God spoke.
6 And
God said, "Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were
above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And
God called the firmament Heaven. And
the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God said,
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God
called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God
said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed is in itself, upon the earth": and it was
so. 12 And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And
the evening and the morning were the third day.
Notice now that God is still speaking
and creating, and bringing into the earth all the spoken word seeds that will
ever be in the earth, but God has not yet clothed the earth with dust, with the
elements that make up the earth. We are going to get to that in a short while
so bear with me. But the next thing I want you to notice is that God speaks
again and then the sun, moon and stars are all brought forth.
14 And God
said, Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days,
and years: 15 And
let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God
made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And
God set them in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And
the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
So you see these lights are not the
same light that we saw in Genesis 1:3, that was the son of God, and then
after he was birthed, God used him as his little helper in the creation of the
sun, moon and stars etc.
And so we see brother Branham finish
up this thought he spoke on in Q
& A on Genesis, in pp. 32 where he goes on to say,
"Now, in St. John 1 He said, "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word
was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." God unfolding Himself down to a human being,
now, watch how He did it. Now, back there, then, when this little halo comes... Now, we can't see nothing
yet, but just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there.
Now, that's the Son of
God, the Logos, Now, I can see Him playing around like a little child before
the Father's door, with all eternity. See? And now, then in His imaginary
make-up He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear Him say,
"Let there be light." And when He did, an atom bursted and the sun came into existence.
Therefore this sun
that comes into existence in verse 13-14 comes much after the birth of the son of God
in verse 3.
Now, let's pick up at verse 20 "And
God said, Let the waters
bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. 21 And
God created great whales, and
every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." 23 And
the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Now, hold onto your thought here
because we have not yet at this time seen anything manifested. It is still in
the form of Spoken Word as peter brought out in 2 Peter 3.
24 And
God said, Let
the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Now, God is seen here creating all
life forms from those in the water to those that fly in the air to those who
walk, crawl or slide upon the earth. But none of them to this point is a
physical being. They are all to this point in creation still Spoken Word.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth. 27 So
God created man in his own image, in
the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Now, notice And God said, Let
us make man in our image,
after our likeness... And of course God is a Spirit, so
in His image would have to be Spirit man, in the form of Spoken Word Spirit
being. And also notice he said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness, And
therefore he was talking to someone who also was in His image, for he said,
"in Our Image".
Now, men have speculated for ages
that He was talking to angels, but how could He be talking to angels. Angels
are not in the image of God. There was only one at this point who was in the
image of God and that was the son of God.
In the Book of Hebrews the apostle
Paul tells us that it was Jesus Christ who came in the exact image of His
Father who is God.
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 by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by
whom also he made the worlds; (there's your clue, if you go back to Genesis
1:3)
3 Who
being the brightness of his glory, (oh, this is rich, the word brightness was translated from
the Greek word apaugasma and the exact meaning is an off-flash
of God's Glory,
God's Doxa, His opinions, values, and judgments. Therefore if He is an Off flash then
he had to be that Light that flashed forth from God who is the Logos. And then
Paul continues, "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, as
he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 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? 6 And again, when he bringeth in the
firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship
him.
Now back to Genesis
1:29 And
God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now, let's continue our reading into Genesis
chapter 2 and begin reading at verse 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them. 2 And
on the seventh day God ended his work
which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made. 3 And
God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all
his work which God created and made.
So when you honor the Sabbath day you
are honoring God and his creation. And when you choose to work on the Sabbath
you dishonor God and all He created. And Jesus is our Sabbath, He is our rest,
and we should echo that rest with him by coming to church and worshipping
him.
4 These
are the generations of
the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD
God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And
every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it
grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Did you catch that? He was talking
about the lineage, the generations, the seed before God placed that seed in the
earth. And before it grew. God placed it all as Seed life, in spirit form in
the earth before it ever became a living entity filled with the elements and
dust of the earth. And this is all before God even made a way to water the
seeds. The life was planted in the earth by the spoken word, therefore it is
logos seed form. But there was not yet any way to water it to make it come
forth, so God brings forth a mist from the earth to water it.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground.
Now, notice in verse 7 we see that God now puts dust to his
creation. "And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Many people look at this and without
understanding they think, why is there another creation. But this does not say
God created man, It says God formed man, God took dust and clothed man with a
physical body.
8 And the
LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed. 9 And out
of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of
the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So I hope you can see what brother Branham was saying in Man That Can Turn On The Light - 63-1229 1M Now, the seed was already upon the
earth. I believe God had planted the seed, and just as long as
the sun could get to that seed, it begin to grow. And that's the reason it only
taken days to bring forth these things, because the seed was already in the
earth. All it needed was light.
And now let's continue with what he is saying here. And that's the way God
has today. His
Seed is already here, His Word. The only thing It needs is Light on It; and He is that Light, for He is
the Word. The Word and the Light is the same thing. The Life in there
is the Light of the Word
(see?) is the Life.
The germ of life lays within the grain, and the grain is - the
life is what breaks forth and brings forth the life out of the grain.
That's the way that Christ
in the Word makes the Word do what It's supposed to do.
Remember, the scripture plainly teaches us that "it is God which worketh in us both to will
and to do His good pleasure."
"Light brings life. Plant the wheat out here,
it'll ... You put it in a basement, cover it all over, and it'll never bring
forth anything, because it can't; there's no light there. But as
soon as light strikes
it, then
it'll bring forth life if it's a germitized seed. That's the
same thing it is in the Word. See, the Word is God, and when
the Light strikes It, it brings the Word to life again. Every age has always
been that.
So that
Word (God the Logos, the Light) has been circling the earth for ages, and the
seed Life is already planted in the earth, (you and me) these bodies we live in
are just a combination of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, but within
that form was a predestined seed that the
carbon, hydrogen,
nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur,
just attached itself to when
we were born to bring us into the three dimensions where we live, but God's
Word as long as it just stayed in that higher dimension it remained in seed
form. But as we were born to this earth first, we did not know of a higher calling
as sons and daughters of God, but wen we were born of His Spirit, we were
quickened with His life and it is His Spirit that has anointed that seed of God
that has laid dormant in our vessel to anoint us to that Word that has been
circling the earth that ordained sons and daughter to adoption, to
manifestation as sons, to the place of being conformed to the image of the
first born son.
For When
God's Parousia Presence came down and the Light of His glorious presence struck
your Gene Seed like the crystal strikes the frequency traveling in the 4th
dimension, it brings us into manifestation, and when that takes place that Word
becomes our clothing, and we are clothed by that Word, or that Word becomes
reflected through our gene seed just as the crystal projects the frequency onto
the television screen, so too God's Word becomes projected into our flesh.
And that
Word that was spoken before the foundations of the world that said He would
have children ready for adoption at the end time, that Word is still circling,
and as we listen to it day and night, day and night, day and night, we get a
glimpse of that Life through the portal of the tapes, and when the Spirit
strikes that Word it becomes manifested. That is why I say we need to be
constantly in those tapes. That is your portal my brothers and sisters into the
presence of God.
That is why the Apostle John wrote, John 3:19 "And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather (in a greater way ) than they loved light,because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that
doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
are wrought in God."
Now, for
the rest of this morning I want to look at how God brings that Light into our
lives to bring forth a projection of His life in us.
From the Patmos Vision - 60-1204 2E Brother
Branham said, “And a true minister of God don't reflect
some flashlight, some match stem, some shuck a-burning; he reflects
the golden rays of Christ to the Church, that "He's the same, and
He's alive, and He shine on me." Amen! That's the Light he reflects.
The star reflects the light of the sun, see, so we're reflecting the
Light of the Son of God. Doing the same thing He did, giving Light.
From his
sermon Patmos Vision - 60-1204 2E 29.
brother Branham said, "Christ is alive! He's in us, not some nail or piece of cloth or
piece of bone, or something. He's the living God, living in us now, manifesting Himself. We only
have one article of a memorial, that's the Lord's Supper, commemoration of His
death. But as far as Christ Himself, He is with us and in us. And
that's the thing that we want to wave (the glory of the Holy Spirit) to
the world. Wave It until the Light goes out. All right. The ministers
that kept and brought the Light, and held It back like the original at the
beginning, and brought the Light through.
And, remember, the seven stars was in His right hand. Just think, they were drawing their current,
their Light from Him. They were completely under His control,
in His right hand. Oh! Every
true servant of God is the same way.
In Revelations
21:23,
if you want to put it down. In the New Jerusalem, 21:23, He is the Lamb
that's in the City that's the Light thereof, shining; for they needed no
light in the City, the sun shall not rise in it, because the Lamb which is in
the midst of the City shall be the Light thereof. And the nations
that's saved shall walk in the Light of the Lamb! Amen! He is the Lamb's Light. Would you like to have His Life
living in you, reflecting His Presence? Christ standing in the midst of
His people, them seven golden candlesticks reflecting His
radiance like the sun in the middle of its heat.
Now, I don't believe he asked that
question just so we could say he is the one. He asked that question because he genuinely
believed it is for every son and daughter of God to reflect that Light of God's
presence in our lives.
And how can a five-fold minister reflect
this light so perfectly? He can only do this as he aligns himself to that Light
coming forth from the Prophet of His Age. For God truly shall do nothing unless
he reveals it first to and then through the Prophets.
From the Church Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean Church Age P:140 he
gives us the way God has chosen for this to happen. He says, "In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why the light comes through some God-given messenger in a
certain area, and then from that messenger there
spreads the light through
the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught.
And br. Vayle said "to be faithfully taught takes two
things. One who is faithful to teach and others who are faithful to shut up and
listen."
But the problem is that not everyone
who hears that prophet echoes what he said. Many take what they want and let go
of that which they don't want, but refuse to say all that was said and how he
said it. Therefore they are not truly reflecting what was said.
And brother Branham
goes on to say, "But of course all those who go out don't always learn how
necessary it is to speak ONLY what
the messenger has spoken. (Remember, Paul warned the people to say only
what he said, I Corinthians 14:37,
"If any man think himself to be a prophet
or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD. What? came the Word of God out from you? or came it
unto you only?") They add here, or take away there, and soon the message is no longer
pure, and the revival dies down. How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God. Paul warned them to say what he said, even as Peter did likewise. He warned them that EVEN HE (PAUL) could not change one word of what he had given
by revelation. Oh, how important it is to hear
the voice of God by way of His messengers, and then say
what has been given them to say to the churches.
I think we will leave off here and continue
on next Sunday. Remember, we also have Communion Service next Sunday evening as
well at 5 pm so let's spend our time this week getting ready. And let's begin now
by bowing our heads in prayer.