Unveiling of God no 77

The Solitary God and His Solitary Nature

January 27, 2019

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

Last Sunday we spoke of God's Sovereignty and how that He is the Great Elohim which means He is the self existing one. Therefore we saw that God is Solitary in His essentiality and in His Nature. We also saw how that God in order to be Sovereign must be omniscient and omnipotent. That means He is all knowing and all Powerful to back up His Word.

We explored the title God uses in Scripture (Elohim) which means the Self Existing One. Not the self existing two, nor the self existing three. This is where men have fallen short in their understanding of Godhead and the Godhood of God.

We took our thoughts from P:39 The Unveiling of God 64-0614M where William Branham said, "God, in man, has emptied Himself. Joel 2:28, we find out He said, "I will pour out in the last days My Spirit." Now, if you notice the word there, Greek word... I may have this wrong, but the one I could find... You have to watch the words. The English sometime means double meanings. Just like the word, we say, "god." God created the heavens and earth, Genesis 1. But now, in the Bible It said, "In the beginning Elohim." Now, Elohim, the English calls "god," but it really wasn't. "Elohim". Anything could be god to, the word "god"; you could make an idol a god; you could make that piano a god; you could make anything a god. But it isn't so in the word "Elohim"; It means "the self-existing One." See? That piano cannot be self-existent; nothing else can be self-existent. So the Word "Elohim" means "He that always existed." "God" can mean anything. See the difference in the word?

So we explored the meaning of the title "The Self Existing One" and we showed you the importance in having the revelation of this state of being, that God is not only Sovereign, But He is solitary in his existence, in His essentiality, and in His nature. And we showed you that to worship correctly it must be done in Spirit and in Truth. Not in your Spirit but in His Spirit, not in your truths but in His One Truth. He is that He is. When Moses asked God how He could describe Him to the people, God said, Tell them that "I Am, that I Am."

In other Words I AM, and that means He is solitary. No one created Him, no one birthed Him, He just exists and has always existed. "I AM that I AM. That's what that means.

We also found to worship God we have to know what it means to WORSHIP and we found that the word WORSHIP is defined by the Webster's dictionary as being made up of two words. WORTH and SHIP. The word Worth means "the value expressed" and the word ship means "the condition of or state of being".

Therefore to worship means we must first of all consider the worth or the value of the one we wish to worship, and then consider Its "condition or state of being".

Therefore in order to worship correctly we must understand the value of the one we worship and the condition or state of His being.

Therefore without understanding the One we worship, His Godhood, which is the attributes and characteristics which make him God, we would be worshipping in vain.

There are approximately 7 plus billion people in the world and only those with a true revelation of God, Who and what He is are capable of correctly Worth-shipping Him. All others worth-ship the god of their imagination.

This is why If you were not able to get a good connection to the sermon last week because of technical problems I would implore you to go back and listen to the audio which came out very crisp and easy to hear.

We had updated the computer and did not reboot it before the service began and it seemed to upload three connections at once. I think it was the devil myself seeing how he did everything in his power to keep you from church due to the severe weather, and then he did everything he could to interrupt the streaming video.

But our ability to correctly worship God and praying to God all lays in our understanding that God is Sovereign, and that He is Solitary.

Now, this morning I wish to take this one step further and show you that knowing God is sovereign, and as we read from brother Branham this morning, "God, in man, has emptied Himself. Joel 2:28, we find out He said, "I will pour out in the last days My Spirit. And then brother Branham went on to explain the Word Elohim which speaks of God as being Self Existing, which also means that He is a solitary God, and the He is Sovereign.

Therefore taking these two thoughts together we see that the Solitary Self Existing and Solitary God promised to place His Spirit into His children at the end time where He promised to pour out His Spirit upon His Children.

Now, the Scripture is repetitious when it speaks of God being the same and changes not. we see it in Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. As well as in Malachi 3:6 For I am God and I change not.

Therefore if this unchanging God promised to place His Sovereign Spirit which changes not into His sons and daughters, then that Spirit of God in them will still remain Sovereign and unchanging.

Now, the implications of this are staggering to the mind. For when a person is born again, the Spirit of God takes over his being and that Spirit of God still remains sovereign. Therefore what is now leading the sons of God is the unchanging Sovereign and Solitary God whose Spirit now inhabits his sons and daughters.

That is why that son or daughter of God is independent of all men and all organizations. No man, no organization, no church, no preacher, can control a Spirit filled child of God, because "sons of God are led by the Spirit of God" period.

Therefore, the Spirit filled son or daughter of God, with their New Spirit (God's Spirit living in them) is truly God's Spirit and God's own Life which now controls each son or daughter of God by His indwelling Spirit.

Therefore as Jesus said, "No man therefore can pluck them out of God's hand. "

And therefore as the apostle Paul said in Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33  Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day-long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore no man can control sons of God that are led by the Spirit of God. Because God's Spirit in him is his control tower. And it is the same Spirit that controlled the first born son of God which is in you controlling you. It is God's Sovereign and solitary Holy Spirit. And every Son of God is controlled by the same Holy Spirit that controlled the first born son of God. It is the same Spirit that dwelt alone for an eternity in the past that now lives within the sons of God, and that same Holy Spirit is called the Word of God.

You cannot separate God's Holy Spirit from His Holy Word, for "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Therefore the Word of God is what controls every son and daughter of God. And the Word of God is God, and It is sovereign.

And when you can come to the place where you not only acknowledge this but understand who it is that you have invited into your heart to live His life out in you, then you will begin to understand that the world was framed by the Word of God and that all things are possible to His Spirit that lives in you.

Brother Branham taught us of this relationship with the eternal sovereign and solitary God in his sermon Spoken word original seed 62-0318E P:175 where he said, "Notice, what harmony. Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father showed Him first: (Harmony between God and Christ. See? John 5:19) So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life (He shows Her), and she receives It. She never doubts it. Nothing can harm Her, not even death;"

(I would like to add, that is what we read earlier from Romans 8:31 and on)

Brother Branham continues "for if the Seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Amen. (Now, I got a great big "Hallelujah.") Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its purpose. They do only His will. (Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still. Then they will do the works of God. For it is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His day. All things when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.

Notice he tells us it is the same God working in them.

As the Apostle Paul said in Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

So who is working in you to will and to do? The same Sovereign and solitary God who existed alone for an eternity in the past. Answering to no one, and under obedience to no one. and when your body begins to come into that harmony with His Sovereign and Solitary Spirit working in you to will and to do, you watch worlds come into existence.

From his sermon Five junctions of time 56-0122 P:46 Brother Branham said, "Now, it's been in all ages. When God first made creation in the phenomenal way, when He spoke the world into existence and [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] blowed the stars and moon off His hands, as they say... Expressed the Word, and it come into existence. The very earth that you're sitting on today was the created Word of God. If He didn't speak the world into existence, where did He get the material to make it out of? Where did it come from? Sure He did. He spoke it into existence. It's the Word of God. The very dirt and things that you're setting on today, is the creative Word of God. You're here because you come into creation by the speaking of the Word of God, everyone one of you.

And from his sermon Paradox a 63-0801 P:26 He said, "God speaks His Word; His children believes it. And God... The science cannot prove how it can be done; they know nothing about it. But the children believe it anyhow, and then God performs a paradox, makes it so. Makes it so, because His Word that spoke the world into existence, can bring, can make every word that He ever promised, come to pass. That's why Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was fully persuaded that He was able to perform and to keep what He said He would do. He staggered not at the promise of God, being a hundred years old, and Sarah ninety to have this baby. Because that he knowed that God could perform and would make, have a paradox to happen on something, a miracle to take place, and He did it.

And then he takes this one step further in his sermon Ever present water 61-0723M P:72 And when we die, our souls will go under the altar of God, where I was privileged to see a few mornings ago, as you know, in the vision, where the Bible speaks of. Our spirits will go to God Who give it, and our bodies shall return to the dust of the earth. But someday where the Scripture is fulfilled, our spirits will be released from God, will pick up the soul, and the soul to the body. And the power that'll raise us up, is right in us now. We are now in heavenly places. We are now in the power of the resurrection. If there wasn't a law to that, sons and daughters of God would create them a world out here and go live a private life on it. You have the power in you to do it. If you've got a shadow of the power of God in you, you got power to do it. God is omnipotent. See what I mean? The power that's in you will make... You could speak a world into existence and go live on it. Hallelujah. There you are. That's what power is in the Church now, but it is controlled by a law. And that law is not keeping a bunch of commandments. It's a law of faith. Jesus said, "All things are possible to them that believe." And if you can believe it, whatever God will lead your soul to believe, that is yours. Every place the soles of your foot can set upon by faith, God gives it to you. Amen. It's yours; you possess it, if you can find the key to this law of faith that opens it to you. You see what I mean? That power is controlled by... If you are a son of God, you are a daughter of God, that never leaves you. It's with you all the time. But your faith gets away from It, but It's still there. Hallelujah.

From his sermon Law or grace 54-1006 P:20 brother Branham said, "And we have faith in our heart, the faith of God in our heart, and can see it clear. It becomes a faith, and then we speak it, and it comes into existence, the same thing, 'cause the mind of Christ is in the man. That's what makes healings and so forth. When you get that perfect revelation, just what you're doing, then you know how to walk. That's it, 'cause that's the Christian walk."

Now, catch what brother Branham tells us as we read from What it takes to overcome all unbelief - 60-0729 pp 4 I've had the privilege of traveling many nations, seen many people. Altogether I guess, many times it's put around the world. I've been pretty near every nation in the world, missionary-ing. And I notice, when I strike a nation, the strange thing is that that nation has a certain spirit. That spirit of that nation seems to dominate the nation. We go to Germany, and it isn't like the spirit that's in Finland. We go to Finland; it isn't like the spirit that's in Australia. And you go to Australia, it's not like the spirit that's in Japan. Then come back to America, it's got the American spirit. Everywhere you go, you find a different spirit. The people live different, act different, but one great thing I have noticed, if you take a German and send him to the United States, he will soon take the spirit of the United States. Take an American and send him to Germany, he takes the spirit of Germany. But wherever and whatever nation you go to, when you find borned again Christians, they're all the same no matter where it's at.  5. 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, go--just exactly the same. It shows that God is universal. God is omnipresent, omniscient, infinite, and He works the same with all these people.  6. And every human being, regardless of color, or what he is, how little, how big, what his color is, they're all of one blood. God made of all nations, one blood. German, Swiss, African, everyone can give each other a blood transfusion. The color of our skin, and the size of us has nothing to do with it. 

Now, this quote is very striking because it shows that it is the same God who worketh in you to will and to do of His Good pleasure. Therefore the vessel is not the thing. The vessel does not control the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God controls the vessel. Therefore the vessel matters not. But the same Spirit that dwelt alone for an eternity in the past when that same Spirit now lives in you, no matter what your vessel did at one time, when God's Eternal Solitary and Sovereign Spirit comes into you to dwell, It will begin working in you to will and to do His Good pleasure.

Then as Jesus said that makes you a believer, and as Brother Branham said you are not a believer until God's Spirit comes into you, then you are a believer, and as Jesus said, He, Whoever Believes in Me the works that I do shall you do also, because it is the same Solitary Spirit that worked in me that will work in you.

So let's just face it, if God dwelt alone for an eternity in the past, before He created any angels to worship Him, before he brought forth His Firstborn son or any sons, before He made the heavens and the earth. Before He created the Universe. If God dwelt alone for an eternity in the past, then He was content to do so, because there was no one to force him, nor could they if they tried, and if it was not His will to dwell alone, then He would have brought those things forth an eternity ago, but he didn’t.

and we know that God so enjoyed His own Spirit and power that He wanted to see that same Spirit and power living in others reflecting the same Love and Life that was in Him. Therefore, as Irenaeus said, "God being a Savior, it was necessary to predestinate a sinner who'd require salvation in order to give Himself a reason and purpose of being."

God being a Healer, it was necessary to predestinate someone who needed healing in order to give Himself a reason and purpose of being

God being a Provided, it was necessary to predestinate someone who needed provisions in order to give Himself a reason and purpose of being

Irenaeus also said Jesus Christ our Lord, the Son of the Most High God, ...that He would become the Son of man for this purpose, that man also might become the son of God?

There you are, God in Christ, now God in His church. In other words it is all about God wanting to express what was in Himself.

Notice in P:39 Unveiling of God 64-0614M brother Branham tells us, "God, in man, has emptied Himself. Joel 2:28, we find out He said, "I will pour out in the last days My Spirit."

And from his sermon Who is this Melchisedec 65-0221E P:26 And remember, you, your eyes, your statue, whatever you was, you were in His thinking at the beginning. And the only thing that you are is the expression word. After He thought it, He spoke it, and here you are. If it isn't, if you wasn't in His thinking, there's no way at all for you ever to be there, for He's the One that gives Eternal Life. You remember how we read the Scriptures, "Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God..." And that His predestination might stand true, He could choose before anytime who... God's sovereign in His choosing, did you know that? God's sovereign. Who was back yonder to tell Him a better way to make the world? Who would dare to tell Him He was running His business wrong? Even the very Word Itself, very sovereign... Even the revelation is sovereign. He reveals to whom He will reveal. The very revelation itself is sovereign in God. That's how people pound at things, and jump at things, and hit at things, and not knowing what they're doing. God is sovereign in His works.

And from his sermon Manifested sons of God 60-0518 P:23 Inside of that was attributes, which meant that He was a... Inside of this great El, Elah, Elohim was an attribute or a... You know what an attribute is, or let me say it like this, was a nature. That's so the little fellow will get it. And I'm one of the little fellows that has to get it that way. Inside of Him was the nature to be a Father. But He's self-existent, there ain't nothing for Him to be a Father by. And now, down inside of that was something else, that He was God; and a god is an object of worship; but He was self-existent: El, Elohim, Elah, Elohim, so there was nothing to worship Him. Inside of that, He was a Saviour. There's nothing lost to be saved. See? Inside of that He was a Healer (See?), but there was nothing sick to be healed, or nothing to be sick. Now, do you get the picture? So His attributes, His nature produced what is today.

And again from his sermon Adoption or placing 60-0522E P:32 he said, "Notice, this Melchisedec, as soon as He met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings... The mystery of God now being made known, Who was He? Nobody... They can't find any history of Him, because He didn't have any father; He didn't have any mother; He never had any time He began; He never had any time He'd ever die; so ever Who He was is still alive. He never did have a beginning, so He couldn't have been nobody else but El, Elah, Elohim; self-existent, self-abiding, Almighty God. Jesus had a Father; Jesus had a Mother; Jesus had a beginning of days; Jesus had an ending of earthly life. But this Man had neither father nor mother (Amen.), no father nor mother. Jesus had both Father and Mother. This Man had neither father nor mother. Amen. And what did He do? After the battle was over, after Abraham had took his position...After the church takes its position, we're called to the adoption of sons by the Holy Spirit. And when each man takes his position, what God has called him to do, and stand to the end of the road, going after the lost...

And from Identified Christ of all ages 64-0401 P:14 he said, "Now, God is a great, like a great Being: "In the beginning God..." See? We, He wasn't even God to begin with: God is an object of worship and He was called... There wasn't nothing to worship. He was self existent: Elohim. And there wasn't nothing to worship Him. When He created angels, then there was something to worship Him. But in this great God, Elohim, was attributes. There was attributes in there to be God; attributes to be Father; attributes to be Son; attributes to be Saviour; attributes to be Healer. All these attributes was in God. And if you've ever got Eternal Life, you were in God's attributes, because you got Eternal Life. Jesus came as Redeemer, and "redeem" means "bring it back to where it started from." Right. You were in God's thinking.

Now catch this next thought Br. Branham tells us here which is really rich. He said, "He might have to breed this with that, and down here, and down here, like a man making chimes for the church: puts in so much brass and so much iron and gets it just to the right pitch. The molder knows how to put it in. If he doesn't, he doesn't get the right ring. And God knows just exactly where you belong, what age you belong in."

I remember very well a conversation I had with brother Vayle back in 1979 where we spoke about this very thing. we talked about God predestinating us and how he knew exactly what we would look like and how we would act and everything about us. So he would have to make sure your parents met in order for you to look like you do with the correct combination of DNA to make you look like he saw you in His mind. Then in order for you to get the right combination of DNA from your parents he had to make sure your parents met, and your parents parent's all the way back to the garden of Eden.

And as Brother Branham said in his sermon Rapture the 65-1204 P:50 In the literal discharge of the male there's somewhat a million germs comes forth from the male at each time. And somewhat a million eggs comes from the female at a same time. But did you know in all them little germs moving around, a million of them, there's only one of them ordained to life, and there's only one egg fertile? And that little germ will crawl right up through everyone of them other little germs, right over the top of every little germ looking just like him, and come over the top of that and come over here and find that fertile egg and crawl into it. And then all the rest of them die. Why, talk about the virgin birth, why, it's not half as mysterious as a physical birth, how it's foreordained, predestinated by God. Now, in the beginning, way back, way years ago before there was a time begin, you, if you are a borned again Christian tonight, you were in God then, your Father. And that's why when you come into this life here and profess Christianity, everything going wrong, you've wondered why this is and all of this. You wondered at it. But one day something struck you. What was it? That life that was down in there from the beginning. And if...?...

And then once you came into this world he had to make sure the light struck that predestined seed in you so you would receive a new heart and then a new spirit and then his Spirit that you might be conformed to the image of the first born son. It's all in God's great plan and "God is working in you right now to will and then to do His good pleasure."

From his sermon Position in Christ 60-0522M P:54 brother Branham said, "Then we could go back to the same, Elah, Elah, Elohim, Elohim (See?), where He's self-existent. And then come back through Jehovah Who made something; He gave man dominion over the earth. What are we waiting for? The manifestations. The earth is groaning. Let's get down to it and read it. All right... predestinated... to the adoption of children by... himself, according to His good pleasure of his will, To the praise--to the praise of the glory of his grace,...What is His grace? Back before, when He wasn't a Father. His grace, His love, made Himself a child, that we might be predestinated unto the adoption of children, to the praise of His grace. See?... wherein he has made us acceptable by the (the Person)... beloved, which is Christ. Made us accepted how? By Him. How we get into Him? By one Spirit, all baptized into Him. Listen. In whom we have redemption, we have redemption through (the) his blood, the forgiveness of... (s-i-n-s...)

And from his sermon Manifested sons of God 60-0518 P:72 There you are, entering into this promised land. How do we get into it? We are predestinated to it, the church, by the foreknowledge of God. Has been predestinated to what? To His honor, by His grace, to the glory and worship and glory of God. Papa, setting back there in the beginning, self-existent, nothing around Him, wanted something to worship, so He foreordained and predestinated a church, and before the foundation of the world, and put their names in the Lamb's Book of Life when they was slain before the foundation of the world, that they might appear to His glory and to His praises at the end of time, when will gather all things in that one Man, Christ Jesus. Whew. Glory. That's it. That's just... And that's it right there, my brother, sister. Don't you never move from that.

Notice he said, put their names in the Lamb's Book of Life when they was slain before the foundation of the world, that they might appear to His glory. And we know God's Glory is His doxa which is His opinions, values, and judgments. That is why Jesus prayed that we migth become one with the Father as He was one with the Father and that was by giving us the same Doxa He received of the father. That was Jesus prayer as we see in John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Let us pray...