Unveiling of God no 45

The Character of Christ part 1

August 19, 2018

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

When we left off Sunday morning we were speaking of what brother Branham said in his sermon Believe From The Heart 57-0623 E-46 "Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very expression. A man's work declares his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.

Now, that is a very wonderful and true statement br. Branham just made here and one that is worth thinking about very much. Because if we are from the same seed source as the original seed which was the first born son, then the Spirit of God in us will have to do the same thing in our life that it did in his first born son or God is a respecter of persons, and his word in Genesis 1:11 is wrong.

Now, in Genesis 1:11 he said "every seed will bring forth after its kind or nature". Now, that is the law of Life. And the Law of Life in Christ Jesus is the same law of Life only it concerns the law of Life (Holy Ghost Life) which was in Christ Jesus and is now in us.

And if "by One Spirit we are all baptized into One Body", then that Same Spirit that acted a certain way in Christ Jesus will have to act the same way in you and me or it isn't the same Holy Spirit.

Paul said in Romans 8:11 But if The Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Now, this morning I am going to try to teach you about the character of Christ, and I want you to see if you have His Spirit then you will express the same Character he expressed, or you don't have the same character.

And until you understand that God changes not, and that he is the same in every way yesterday, today and forever, you will never understand the nature nor the character of Christ. And therefore you will never possess the character of Christ, because you will be flipping back and forth depending on the circumstances, and therefore and James said, "a double minded man is unstable in all his ways."

So first of all understand this, God's Spirit in any vessel will make that vessel act the same way it did in any other vessel He dwelt in.

That is why I cannot buy into that false doctrine that teaches the John 14:12 was only expressed in brother Branham and not in the rest of the body of Christ. It was not brother Branham we are to look at, but the Spirit of Christ in Him that was doing the works. Right?

And did not God say in Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Therefore know one thing, if it is God that works in you both to will and to do, then he is not going to will and do differently in one person from the other or He is a respecter of persons.

Therefore to say John 14:12 was God working in Jesus and then only in William Branham but the same God in you will not do the same works he did in Jesus, then you are making God a big fat liar. And He is not the same yesterday, today and forever, and he is not the same and he changes depending on the person.

So first of all to understand the character of Christ, you have to understand the nature of God. Because Jesus was filled with the Spirit of God so as we read from brother Branham's quote earlier this morning, he said, "Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very expression. A man's work declares his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ."

And the Law of Life in Genesis 1:11 tells us "every seed must bring forth after its kind."

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of Quotes where brother Branham tells us the if we had the spirit of Dillinger we would carry guns and rob banks. If we had the spirit of Beethoven we would compose music, and if we had the Spirit of Christ we would do the works of Christ. So please do not tell me you understand God's nature and the nature of His Spirit and then try to tell me that God Life acts differently from one vessel to the other. I can't buy that for one minute.

Malachi 3:6 tells us "I am God and I change not."

Hebrews 13:8 tells us "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

Christ outside the door 58-0330E P:55How many believes that He's the High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of your infirmity? Well, if He's the same High Priest, He will have to act the same way. Now, remember this; take me on record, that when a situation arises... Don't forget this now, you ministering brethren. When a situation arises, and God acts on that situation, the way He acts the first time, He must act every time when that same situation arises, or He acted wrong when He acted in the first place.

So really what these brothers are saying is that they have a different spirit in them than what was in Brother Branham and in Jesus. and that is the only thing they could be saying if they understood God cannot change and neither then can his nature change no matter what vessel He chooses to inhabit.

Brother Branham said in his sermon Identified Christ of all ages 64-0401 P:6 But when you find Christian people, and where the Holy Spirit is, no matter what nation, how far in the jungle, or whatever it is, they do the same thing you do when you receive the Holy Ghost; they do just the same thing. They have the same liberty; they believe the same way and act the same way that any Christian does when he receives Christ.

Let me read another, from his sermon Once more 63-1117 P:11 And everywhere I go, around and around the world, I find the saints of God are in every nation, everywhere. And the strange thing is...I might say this to some of you, just drop it in. As a missionary, I find that I go into a nation that doesn't even know which is right or left hand, they do not know what any words, how to spell anything, only thing they know is just kill and eat. But let those people receive the Holy Spirit, and they do the same thing you do, and act the same way you act, not even knowing one word about it.

And again from his sermon Uncertain sound 61-0315 P:63 But we know where we're standing. We know what we're talking about. It's a real sound. Just the same kind of sound that come in the Bible, makes us act the same way. It'll make the black man, yellow man, brown man, all act the same, because it's a same sound. Amen. A certain sound.

That is why I have been bringing the brothers from Africa over here for you brethren to meet. And many of you have been surprised to see that in every way, they believe the same, they talk the same, they preach the same, they act the same, and there is such a kindred spirit between you because we are brothers in a vast family of brethren, and "By One Spirit you have all been baptized into the same Body of Christ." And we all have the same eldest brother in this vast family of brothers, and we are all being conformed to the same image.

Now, how are you going to be conformed to the same image of the first born son if God's Spirit, God-Life acts differently in him than it does in you. If God-Life acts differently from one son to the next son? But that is what these people are teaching by saying the Spirit of God will act in Jesus and William Branham the same but oh no, not in you. That's hogwash. That is just confusion to believe that way.

Again brother Branham said in his sermon Uncertain sound 61-0315 P:8 I noticed down in Africa and the other countries where I've been, some of those people wouldn't even which is right and left hand, but you know what happens when they get the Holy Ghost, what they do? The same thing you do when you get the Holy Ghost, act the same way.

And again from Expectation 61-0205M P:5 And being a missionary and traveling much, about seven times around the world, I find that the Holy Spirit... You go into like Thailand, Japan, South Africa, back up in the Hottentots, and those places there, that men and women come to the church with not one bit of clothes on, because they know no different. Tens of thousands of them lay together. If you could speak their language, say, "Which is right hand and left?" they wouldn't know what you was talking about. All they know is to kill what they can to eat, they can't... any way to get something to eat to survive, just like an animal would do.But there's one thing that makes them us. You stand in a congregation like that and let the Holy Spirit fall on them, they do the same thing you do when you receive the Holy Spirit, act the same way. It goes to show that God is no respect of person or nation.

I've preached to the aborigines in Australia, and to the Pigmies from Eastern Congo, people who came from tribes where no one wore clothes, but when the Holy Ghost come on these people they clothed up in modesty. There are about 200 pigmies that believe the message in Eastern Congo, the only people among there tribes that wear clothes. Why? Because they received the Holy Ghost.

Brother Branham said in his sermon Jesus Christ the same 61-0118 P:66 And if God is the same (and He is the same), He will do the same and act the same to each one of His children; and to every generation He has to be the same.

And again from his sermon Hear ye Him 60-0806 P:42 Now, medicine will make one person act one way, and one another, but when the Holy Ghost medicine comes, it makes them everyone act the same. I've been in Thailand, and one of those great places, South Africa and around, where the people didn't even know which was right and left hand. Let them receive the Holy Ghost, you know what they do? Do the same thing you do. So it works on everyone the same. There comes something down from heaven and fills their hearts, like a rushing mighty wind, and they act the same thing and do the same thing you do. Yet, they couldn't speak a word of English and don't know right and left hand, but when the Holy Ghost hits them, and they take this prescription, then he gets the same thing you do, act the same way.

Let's just read another while we are at it to nail down the point. from his sermon What it takes to overcome all unbelief 60-0729 P:5 Brother Branham said, "And I've seen people, that come into the meeting, like in... Our largest crowd that we ever had was five hundred thousand in Bombay, and then I guess, my greatest altar call, we ever numbered was at Durban, South Africa, thirty thousand, one afternoon of heathens, gave their hearts to the Lord Jesus, when they seen something take place at the platform. Ten thousand Mohammedans followed that. Now, but I've noticed, take the bushman, and the tribesman, that come in that doesn't even know which is right and left hand. They'll wear no clothes. They don't know one word of English. They don't know any, but just their tribal language, but when they receive the Holy Spirit, they act and do just the same things you do, when you get the Holy Spirit, just act the same way, just exactly the same. It shows that God is universal. God is omnipresent, omniscient, infinite, and He works the same with all these people.

Investments 63-0803B P:28 The world is wanting to see Christ. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And the branch bears record of the Vine, because it draws its energy and Life from the Vine. Well, the first Vine, first branch that came from this Vine, they wrote a Book of Acts behind that branch. We see the way the Holy Spirit acted in that first church, that church of Pentecost. And then when we believe that if this original Vine ever puts forth another branch, they'll write another Book of Acts behind it, because it's the same Life that's in the Vine. And if the first branch put forth a bunch of grapes, and then we find a bunch out here that's got watermelons growing on it, or pumpkins, or cucumbers, we know that it isn't the life that's in the vine. Therefore, I think, even where we would call ourselves Pentecostals, has failed to represent the real thing that Christ has set forth for us to represent, the Holy Spirit and the Life of the Spirit. See, we represent sometimes sensations, and we represent joy, but, and that's good, but there's more to it than that. There's a fruit that goes with it, that the hungry man is a looking for this fruit of the Spirit, and this is the quality that was in Jesus.

And from the Church Age Book Chapter 2 - The Patmos Vision P:32 brother Branham said, "That's the way the church is. The vine has been split and limbs have been grafted in. They have grafted in Baptist limbs, Methodist limbs, Presbyterian limbs, and Pentecostal limbs. And those limbs are bearing Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian fruit. (Denominational seeds from which they produce their fruit.) 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."

So you see unless you understand the nature of God and how it cannot change, then you will never understand the character that was in Christ which Expressed God-Life is supposed to do the same in the body of Christ.

Therefore as brother Branham said if "Christ declared God's character, then every son that is born of the Spirit of God must also declare the character of the Father, for Genesis 1:11 tells us that "every seed must come forth after its kind."

And in Christ Jesus we see that he was "the very expression of God" as we just read from brother Branham. And according to Acts 17:28 we read, "For in him we live, and we move, and we have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For "we are also his offspring."

So then if we live, and if we move and if we have our being in Him, then as Jesus expressed the very character of the Father by his life, and by his movements, and by His total surrender of His being to God's Spirit, then so shall we, or God is a respecter of persons and His Word is not the same yesterday, today and forever.

I love the way the Weymouth Translation reads of Romans 8:29 For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;

Now, let’s see how these Scriptures all tie together with what we've been looking at concerning the sons of God and the way in which we are to manifest our son-ship in this hour.

From his sermon Identification 63-0123 P:21 brother Branham said, But when He seen that His creation had fallen, now His own loving character molded Himself into the Person of Christ. God's own character of love projected Himself in the man, Christ. As Paul, speaking here, "Thinking it not robbery, but making himself equal, equal to God," rather. See, His own character molded that kind of a Person. Oh, no one could ever do that but God.

Again brother Branham said from, Sirs We would See Jesus 57-1211 021 Now, Jesus was born for one purpose, that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all mankind, He expressed it through Christ. Christ seemed to be a dual personality. He would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus was the man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." See? God will not share His glory with no one.

We read in 1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3  That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

So the Life, which is God Life, that He’s talking about, came forth from the Father into His Son to become expressed in a visible being. Thus the invisible God could become visible through the body of His Son. For God is the source of Eternal Life, God-Life.

John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have (to echo the) life in himself; So if Jesus is echoing the life, it is because it was first echoed in God. Remember, every echo has a first sound, then the second and third and all the rest are all echoing off the original.

But what is life without an expression of that Life? And if God expressed His very own Life through the body of His first born son, then what about all other sons? And why is it so important to be the right kind of a son. And why is it that only the right kind of a son will receive inheritance? Because God wants God-Life expressed in His sons and daughters. That is why "Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God." So that is why "God is working iin us both to will and to do". He is leading by example. He does and then His son did.

Then what about us? We are also sons born by the same Spirit into the same family, and given the same name as our Father. The same name given to the first born is given to the other sons as well, for the whole family of God is named Jesus.

Ephesians 3:14  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15  Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

And furthermore, look what Paul said in Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, (to bear the likeness of His Son) that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers)

Now, let’s see how these tie together with what we've been looking at concerning the sons of God and the way in which we are to manifest our son-ship and His Character in this hour.

Christ is identified the same 64-0415 P:26 He was the manifestation of God. He was God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was expressing what the Father was in Himself. He said, "I do always that which pleases the Father. And I and the Father are One. The Father dwells in Me. When you see Me, you've seen the Father." In other words, He expressed God, the Spirit so much in Him, that He and the Father, it wasn't robbery for Him to be the same Person.

Investments 63-0126 P:84 Jesus Christ was the expressed Image of God. He was what God through His power projected: a body which was called Son because He was a man, and He come from God. And He was so committed to God, till He didn't think it robbery that Him and God being the same Person. And they were, because God was the Word, and He was the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And there's where God could take His Word without anything, any interruption. He was constantly doing that what the Father wanted done. And there the Word could work through Him there, till...?... Him and Father was One. That's what...And then He took that perfect Life and all of our sins, and placed it upon that perfect Life and He died that we renegades could die to ourselves and be born of above, and His Word could work through us the works of God.

The Son of God was so much like God, that in all His attributes, in His Nature and full expression, He was the very representation, the very effulgence, or expression of God. And Paul says, He was in the FORM, the EN MORPHE of God. Therefore, God had a form, and the Son of God was identical to God in that form in every detail, in every characteristic, and in every attribute, except that He was not God. Now, most people do not believe that God has a form. But if Jesus came forth in the exact expression of the Father, then the Father had to have a form to express although God’s form is invisible Spirit, yet the expression cannot be anything other than what God’s form is, or else it is not in the exact representation or likeness. Therefore, God is not some floating cloud-like spirit. He is not just an eternal Mind although He has an eternal mind, but God has a form.

That is why brother Branham could say from his sermon 25 HEBREWS Chapter 7, Part 1HEB 292-25 -- 57-0915 2E “Now, the reason that there's a difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning, God had no beginning; Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made liken unto Him.

Now, here's the thing I want to bring out in this message. Brother Branham is telling us here that the very fact that Jesus had a beginning and God did not have a beginning shows that there is a difference between the two of them right there. Now, we are told that Jesus had the same in nature, and the same expression in every detail as the Father, but notice that brother Branham says here that One was God, (the One that is the Father), and the other one (the one that is not God) was the Son of God, and the Son of God is not God, but He is the Son of God. And if you make Him “God … the Son”, then you have Two God's.  Now, he quotes the Scripture that tells us He was made like unto Him, but that does not make Him 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 in Son, whom He (God) hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He (God) made the worlds; 3 Who (The Son of God) being the brightness of His (God’s) glory, and the express image of his (God’s) person, and upholding all things by the word of His (God’s) power, when He (The Son of God) had by himself purged our sins, (He, the Son of God) sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (That’s God) 4 ¶ Being made so much better than the angels, as he (the Son of God) hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Therefore if He obtained His name by inheritance, He did not have it to begin with, but was given that name, by His Father.) 5 For unto which of the angels said He (God) at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I (God) will be to him (The Son of God) a Father, and he (the Son of God) shall be to me a Son? 6 And again, when he (God) bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he (God) saith, And let all the angels of God worship him (The Son of God). 7 And of the angels he (God) saith, Who maketh his (God’s) angels spirits, and his (God’s) ministers a flame of fire. 8 But unto the Son he (the Son of God) saith, Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God,(whose God? The Son of God’s God) hath anointed thee (the Son of God) with the oil of gladness above thy(the Son of God’s ) fellows.

In the NIV translation we read Hebrews 1:3 as follows: “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”

We also find in the Amplified version of Hebrews 1: 3 “He is the sole expression of the glory of God, - the Light Being, - the out raying of the Divine. And He is the perfect imprint and very image of God's Nature, upholding, and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His Mighty Word of Power.”

And I would like to add, "This one, Who in every way resembles and reflected the nature and will of God, laid it all down, to become like you and I, in the form of man, En Morphe, he changed His form to die the worst death a man could die.

Philippians 2:6 Who, (speaking of the Son of God) being in the form of God: So God has a form. 6 Who, being in the form of God, the En Morphe of God, He struck the vision of God. Brother Branham said, "He changed from what He was to what He is. He never changes His nature."

From the MASTERPIECE 64-0705 79 William Branham said, "The perfect image of the God-man, God En morphe had changed from Supernatural to the vision. And the vision was projected into the Image. And the Image was smitten so that the Supernatural could taste the feeling of death, God's perfect Masterpiece.

Look at his wording here. How outstanding can this be? God had changed, He enmorphed from supernatural to the vision, and the vision was projected into the image.

From his sermon Shalom 64-011 7 Jesus. "No Man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him." See? In other words, God was identified. The Person of God was identified in the Body, the Lord Jesus Christ, so He was the expressed image of God. Or, God expressing Himself through an image, see, through an image, Man. God expressed Himself to us, and He was God. Not a third person or second person; He was the Person, God. He was God Himself, identifying Himself, so we could feel Him.

Notice he said, He was God Himself, identifying Himself through the body of his son.

Now, this word Identified" means "to cause to be, or become identical. to conceive as united in spirit, outlook, or principle): to be or become the same.

Notice to become the same...wow, That is why he thought it not robbery to become the same person. He was so identified with His Father than what the father did he did. What the Father said he said. What doctrine the Father taught, He taught. The Father was the Word and so Jesus became the expression of the Word.

That is why Brother Branham could say in his sermon, Show us the Father It'll Satisfy 56-0422  E-36 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, you see the Father express Hisself 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 Hisself 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 As I Was With Moses 51-0503 E-15  When Jesus of Nazareth... I believe that the Father was in Him, that all the great things that was the Father's was given unto His Son, all the great blessings and gifts; for He was just expressed image of the Father. And in Him dwelled all the richness of God dwelling in Him here, looking up. And I... He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." Just as Jehovah... Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was. He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works."

And God not only was identified in the body of His first born son, but in this hour he was identified in another son, William Branham, and God was so expressed through his body that many thought he was God manifested in Flesh.

Remember we read for you Sunday morning where brother Branham said in his sermon Total Deliverance 59-0712 pp. 55-56  "Jesus was completely, totally man. He could cry like a man, He could eat like a man; He could become like a man. He was completely, totally man in His physical being. And in His Spirit, He was completely, totally God, so He made His flesh submissive to the Spirit that was IN Him. You see, He was tempted in all manners like we are. He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He had desires and temptations just like we do. The Bible said He did. He was a man, not an Angel above temptation. Hebrews 1 said that He was... Hebrews 1:4 said He was made lower than the Angels. He was man, completely man, that God took a complete man to bring total deliverance; and He filled Him with His Spirit; the Holy Ghost was in Him without measure. And He was tempted like we were. And He was completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead, when He stopped nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to the trees, and so forth, they obeyed Him. He was God inside. And He could've been man, for He was Man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself as a Man into the hands of God for the service of God. And He is our example. 56   We are men and women. We're also Christians. If He's our example, let us completely deliver ourselves into the hands of the Holy Ghost, that we might be subjects of the Kingdom of God. He was totally man; He was totally God, but He surrendered His natural parts and His physical parts, and His Own thinking, and His Own doing, and His Own cares, and "I do only that which pleases the Father." There you are. Totally delivered from human beings...

Jesus was so committed to his Father, that he did nothing, but what God showed him to do., he spoke nothing but what God commanded him to speak, he taught no doctrine but what doctrine God gave him to teach and he did not do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him.

And that is what God wants to do in the body of Christ as well. That is why we cannot receive our body change until we have the very mind of our father in us first.

From his sermon Hear ye Him 56-1215 P:39 brother Branham said, "Notice. Now, when this child become at a certain age, if it'd a been a correct child, had been zealous of the father's works, had been stable, always abounding in the works of the Lord, not tossed about with every wind and care, not one day a Presbyterian, the next day a Methodist, and the next day a Nazarene, the next day a Pilgrim Holiness, tossed about like a leaf on a troubled sea. If it was stable, its mind, no matter where it was at, set on Christ, his affections, working with one single heart, zealous of getting souls saved and not the church's fusses...Then in the Old Testament there come a day that this father brought his son out into the public as a witness, put a robe on him, and set him up upon a great place where all the city could see him. And they had the law of adoption. This father to his own son, who had been born in his own family, and now was of age, and was a child worthy to take his place, he adopted, or placed his own son into position. Any Bible reader knows that: the placing of a son. Then after that ceremony, that son had a right, his name was just as good on the--the check as his father's was. There's where the church should be today. "The things that I do shall you also; more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."

He said, "That’s where the church should be today", but they’re not. And why is that? Because of petty indifferences, and jealousies, just like in the days of Joseph and in the days of Paul, because of petty indifferences, they wouldn’t get behind what Paul was doing. Shame on them!

From his sermon Hear ye Him 56-0611 P:27-28 Now, this child was obedient, then there come a certain day when this child become matured. That's the day the Pentecostal church ought to be now. You Presbyterians ought to been that way a long time ago, Baptist and Methodists, but what's the matter? Then there's a certain day come, that when that father draw all the people around the regions that had come into the city, or some great place. And he took and set this son on a high place, and he put him on a beautiful robe. And they had a ceremony, and that father adopted that same son that had been born, he adopted it into his family. Or in other words, he placed him, positionally what he was in the family, and then he become an heir of everything the father had. In other words, his name on a checkbook was just as good as his daddy's. And that's where the church should be today; it should be to a place... And I say this to myself and to you: oh, what a pity it is when I walk around and see the sin, and the afflictions, and the sickness of the people and so forth. We ought to be to a place in faith in God, so separated that what we ask the Father in the Name of His Son, He'd grant it to us. That's right. 28 He took him into a place, and there he adopted him into his family, or as a special time when he set him apart. The church ought to be that way tonight, an Angel come to you, set you apart and tell you your position, where you're at. Not a bunch of men to lay hands on you, that's earthly. I mean God; God sets you apart in a place where you belong. God does it; your Tutor does it. He's present when it takes place. Now, notice, God was doing here just exactly like He asked man to do. His Son had been obedient, he had minded the father. He hadn't be gadding about in places and say, "You see who I am? My campaign's the biggest there is in the country. Yes, sir."He'd been obedient. He'd been obedient to the father. He hadn't been gadding around the things of the world, associating with them; he'd been obedient. And God took witnesses of the earth, Peter, James, and John, brought down Elijah and a Moses from heaven, and stood them there, and adopted His own Son. He was glorified in the presence of these witnesses. And God came down and overshadowed Him. And the Bible said "His garments glistened like the sun." You see the robe, the glorification of Him? He put Him on a robe before the witness of heaven, 'fore the witnesses of earth.

Hear ye Him 58-0301E P:48 Now, the son that was his son... In other words, he adopted him, by this may, he placed his son positionally. How did he do it? Then that son's name on the check was just as good as the father's, because he was in position. The father had vindicated, had placed that son in position. And I hope you're getting this. And then that son was an heir of what the father had. And we are, what God has, we're joint heirs with Christ, if we are sons of God, positionally placed in the Kingdom, holding our places. Now, God has many places He could place you. Some are apostles, some prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, so forth. God positionally places this son.

From his sermon Believe from the Heart 57-0623 E-46 Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very expression. A man's work declares his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.

Therefore, we see that He was the very expression of God. The first light God brought forth was the Logos which was a part of God coming forth into an expression which God called His Son, and then through this expression, or expressed Word, or Manifested Word, God brought forth all of creation.

Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

From his sermon Sirs We Would See Jesus 57-1211 021 Now, Jesus was born for one purpose, that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all mankind, He expressed it through Christ. Christ seemed to be a dual personality. He would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus was the man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." See? God will not share His glory with no one.

Harvest Time 641212 87   034 Jesus said, "That they might be one, Father, as You and I are one." Not for some man to be over something, it never will work; one denomination wants to take over the other, and one man over the other. But that you might be one with God, like Christ and God was one; that's what the prayer is. That... He was the Word, and Jesus prayed that we might be the Word, reflecting Him. That's His prayer to be answered. See how Satan scruples it up in the carnal mind? But that wasn't Jesus' prayer, at all, that we might all congregate together and all have a certain creed and so forth. Every time they do it, they go further and further from God. He wants us to be one with God, and God is the Word. Each individual in his heart must be that one with God

That is why I have hit so hard on John 14:12 because if what he did we are to do, and what he did was an expression of the fathers character, then our doing the same thing he did should also express the same character of God as well. Therefore, John 14:12 is the expression of the character of God. And that is certainly what brother Branham taught.

From his sermon God identifying Himself 64-0320 P:33 Brother Branham said, "The pouring out of the Holy Ghost in the last days upon the common people has identified God's characteristic with the people. He promised it. It's the Word. He said He'd do it. Nobody can take it back. He said He would do it. So all these things that He's promised, that's what He does. It identifies His characteristic. Yes, sir. "Don't believe it, don't believe My claims, if My characteristic isn't that of God." Now, notice in John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me," He said, "has My identification, My characteristic. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." That identifies that the character of Christ is in him, displaying the characteristics of Him. Amen.

So what did he just say? He said if you have John 14:12 in your life it is because you are expressing or displaying the very character of God in your life.

That is why he said in his sermon 62-1014M - The Stature Of A Perfect Man 138 And that’s what we’re supposed to do, reflect the Son of God. And now we’re supposed to do His work. He said, “He that believeth on Me…” Saint John 14:12, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also.” You’re beginning to reflect the works of Christ. 139 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 heap of ministers, of Christians, piled along the road, is because they didn’t go into it right. 140 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.

And so you see, it is all in our approach, how we approach God's Word. But you first of all have to believe that promise is for you, that means you recognize it, and then you must step into it.

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. 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.

Let us pray...