What the Holy Ghost was Given
for no 20
Life manifested Life projected no 2
Brian Kocourek, pastor
1 Corinthians 2: 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God knows. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (In other words you must have the Spirit of God to rightly discern them). 15 But he that is spiritual (he that is Spirit filled) judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Let us pray...
Now, brother Branham said in
his sermon, 54-1003M - The Word Became Flesh (India
Trip Report) What kind of a people would
it be, this morning, if this Branham Tabernacle, this morning, was so filled
with the Presence of God, why, when you didn't even use your own mind, didn't
even use your own thoughts, didn't even have no alternative of your
own, but just to be led by the Spirit…? 183 "And they that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God." Then when the human element goes out, and the Spirit of God fills that
vacancy, where you empty yourself (amen), then will be when the Church in Its power of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus, will walk in His steps, in His Power,
in His thoughts, in His Being, in His moving… You see what I
mean? Then your
thoughts will become words, and words will become material.
That's when the Church in its power…
I believe it's on its road, that when the Church will be so wrapped in
Christ, the Holy Spirit, mankind so away from their selves, that they
don't see themselves, they don't have no thoughts but to serve God. And
their thoughts move on. They refuse the things of the world. They just move in the Spirit,
live in the Spirit, move in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, so fulfill the law
of Christ. Then the love of Christ in the human heart, moving in the
Holy Ghost, that great wonderful Church will go forth with power and Deity;
because Deity will be revealed in human beings by the Holy Spirit bringing to
pass the thought of their mind.
Last Sunday we took our subject
from Genesis 1:11, “every Seed After Its Kind”, and we spoke on the
Life manifested, the life projected. Tonight I would like to continue on this
same thought, as we see we are living in the hour when the sons of God will
manifest in their true identity, character and nature. This is the hour that
the world will see the Phaneroo of God because they
have already seen it in William Branham and will see it in God's elect before
she goes to meet him.
Look
63-0428 P:56 Pharaoh did not have this
potential. He was offered it, but refused it. And when he refused it then he couldn't focus.
No man, after he's
turned down the Word of God, can ever focus himself into it, because you
refused the Word that brings you into relationship with Christ.
That's right. But Moses looked out of this window. He believed it. Why? Moses
looked by faith. That's how Moses looked. Now, listen real close to this
remark. Faith... Now, don't forget to get this now. Faith is designed
to see what God wills and wants. There is no knowledge that can do
that. Faith alone is designed and give to the human race to find out what the will of God is. And you
take your faith that you've got and it don't focus with the Word, then leave it
alone, you got the wrong faith. But when your
God given faith focus you with the Word of God, you're directly in line and
zeroed. Oh, my. God help us this hour, great hour that we live in. Faith,
designed to see what God wants. How do you see it? Through
the camera of His Word, His promise.
This is a full revelation of Jesus Christ.
Why cry speak
63-0714M P:65 Now,
watch what takes place now. Moses saw this by a vision and Pharaoh said that,
"This is great." God said, "It's an abomination." So Moses chose what God said. Now, notice,
faith sees what God wants you to see. See? Faith sees what
God sees, and reasoning and senses see what the world wants you
to see. Notice, reasoning. "Why, it's only
human sense; it's only reason it's this. This is... Well, ain't this just as good." See? That's just exactly when you use those senses which is contrary to the Word (See?), then
that's what the world wants you to see. But faith don't
look at that; faith looks at what God said. See, see?
You cast down reasons.
Jesus Christ was so submissive
to the Will of God that Isaiah called him the blind servant who was deaf to
anything but the Voice of God, and blind to all but what God willed for him to
see. And that made him the perfect servant.
Isaiah
42: 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who
is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
The NIV says, Who is blind like my
servant, and deaf like the Messenger I send? Who is blind like the one that is committed to me, blind like the
servant of the Lord? You have seen many things but have paid no attention, your
ears are open, but you hear nothing. You Pleased the Lord for the sake or
righteousness, to make His law great and glorious.
Br.
Branham said in, A Total deliverance 59-0712 pp. 55-56 55
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
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.
John 5: 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he
seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
John
John 14: 24 the word which ye hear is not mine,
but the Father's which sent me.
John 14: 31 But that the world may know that I love the
Father; and as the Father gave me
commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
John 12: 49 I have not spoken of myself;
but the Father which sent me, he gave me
a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 4: 34 Jesus saith unto them, My
meat (My
nourishment, my life energy) is to do the will of him that sent me, and
to finish his work. Can you say the same?
Now, let’s get
back to Hebrews 10:8 Above
when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest
not, neither hadst pleasure therein;
which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second.
You see, what I believe to be
taking place in this hour is that God is coming more and more into His church,
and sons are becoming more and more in the image of their elder brother, which
means they are coming more and more into the image of the Source of Life which
is their Father. Now, if Jesus, our elder brother in a vast family of brethren came
forth in the exact image of His father, which is Hebrews
1:3, then if we are to be conformed to the image of the eldest son
in a vast family of brethren, then we are to become the very image of our
Father also.
Hebrews 1:1-5, Amplified
Version In Many separate revelations, - each of
which set forth a portion of the truth, - and in different ways God spoke of
old to our forefathers in and by the prophets. But in the last of these days,
He has spoken to us in the person of a Son, Whom he appointed heir and lawful
Owner of all things, also by, and through Whom, He created the worlds, and the
reaches of space, and the ages of time, - that is, He made, produced, built,
operated, and arranged them in order. 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, maintaining, guiding, and propelling the universe
by His mighty word of power. When He had, by offering Himself, accomplished our
cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, he sat down at the right hand of the
Divine Majesty on High. Taking a place and rank by which He, Himself, became as
much superior to angels as the glorious Name which He has inherited is
different from and more excellent than theirs. For which of the angels did God
ever say, "You are My Son, today I have begotten you, And
Again, I will be to Him a Father, and he will be to Me a Son."
Now, brother Branham said, 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. This first light that God brought forth was the Logos which was a part of
God coming forth as 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
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.
You see, that is exactly what
the Apostle John said 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.
John
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
I love the way the Weymouth Translation
reads 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 tie
together with what we have been looking at concerning the sons of God and the
way in which we are to manifest our son-ship in this hour.
Palmerworm locust caterpillar 59-0823 P:57 And if Christ is in that Vine, and the Life of Christ is in that
person, it'll be like Jesus, it'll bear the fruits of Him. It's His
Spirit. It can't do nothing else but do it. It's got to produce that Life,
'cause it's the same
Life. You just can't produce anything else. It'll act like Him;
It'll talk like Him; It'll walk like Him; It'll heal like Him;
It'll see visions like Him; It'll produce exactly His Life, perfectly,
every time, because It's His Life. You're just a shell. A man's just like a water
pipe; he's not the water; he's just the pipe. Take the water out of him, he'll
rust. Well, that's what's the matter today, and
there's too many of us rusting, that once had an experience. Keep the water
flowing, that's what keeps the lifeline going.
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.
Now, listen carefully.
Brother Branham said, Jesus expressed so much the
Father that was in him, that he thought it not robbery to be the same
person.
That is not Oneness teaching, that is God so expressing himself in His son,
because His son made the choice to die to self, that when you saw the Son you
saw the Father Himself.
So what about you and me?
Elisha the prophet 56-1002E P:33 Now, the only
way people will see Jesus when they see Him in you. You are written epistles. If
Christ's Spirit dwells in you and brings your conduct into subjection to His
Spirit, and makes you act like Him, and talk like Him, walk
like Him, live like Him. See? People see Jesus in you.
Identification 63-0123 P:21
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.
William Branham made a
conscious decision to so die to William Branham that we saw God
in this hour standing before groups of men.
He said in his sermon, The Rapture 65-12-04 pp. 83 When you see God
come from the heaven, stand before groups of men, and stand there,
declare Himself just as He ever did... And that's the Truth, and this Bible
open. See? That's right. We're here.
Now, all men saw was
William Branham, but no man could do the things that we saw coming forth from
that man's ministry, so what we did see was God standing there using the body
of another son.
Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:193 Now, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this
tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to say that about
myself, being that I was packing this Message. I have no more to do with it
than nothing, no more than just a voice. And my voice,
even against my better judgment... I wanted to be a trapper. But it's the will of my Father that
I declare to do, and determined to do. I wasn't the One that
appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I'm
not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens
as perfect as they are; I'm only one that's near when He does it. I was
only a voice that He used to say it. It wasn't what I knew; it's what I just surrendered
myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me.
It wasn't the seventh angel, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man.
It wasn't the angel, his Message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a man; it's God.
The angel was not the Son of man; he was a messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ. He's
the One that you're feeding on. You're not feeding on a man. A man, his words
will fail, but you're feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man.
If you haven't fed fully on every Word to give yourself strength to fly above
all these denominations and things of the world, will you at this time do it,
while we pray?
Now, to me William Branham so entered into Colossians
3 that he became Colossians 3.
Colossians
3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, (It's impossible for you to do it alone, you must rise
with Him for it is Him that has risen in you by the new birth.)
Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I am living; yet it
is not I, but Christ that is living in me: and the life which I now live in
this flesh I am living by the revelation of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me.
Letting off the pressure 62-0513E P:52 How many Christians in here still love the world? If you do, you're not
a Christian. You are a professor of Christianity and not a possessor. For when
a man once tastes of Christ, he's dead to the things of the world and by no
means he has any desire to go back into that. What
does it do? "The life," Paul said, "that I
once lived, I live no more. Yet I live; not me, but Christ in me." Why? He raised him from this low level of worldly sin up to a
place that we ourselves can look back and see where we come from (Glory.), look
back and see where we once lived. Now we live different, What
is it? It's the assurance that we are dead and our lives are hid in Christ
through God, and are sealed by the Holy Ghost, and raised above those things.
Then we are alive with the same evidence that He come
back with to prove to us.
Why are people so tossed about 56-0101 P:56 Paul said, "For me to live is Christ, and to
die is gain. Not me that liveth anymore, but Christ that liveth in me." Christ living in the individual soul, surrendered. Christ
speaks through the lips, and thinks through mind, sees through
the eye, acts through the temperament. Hallelujah. Then the things of the world has passed away. How can it be anything
but sweet and pleasant all the time? Christ has got control. Amen. You
see it? That's what it is. It's Christ in you:..."
Therefore in getting back to Colossians 3:1 If ye
then be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above, (and only those who are born again
will seek those things which are above) where Christ
sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead,
(and you can not be born again unless you have died the first death,
to yourself) and your life is hid with Christ
(with Christ, the anointing
hides your life) in God. (and he is the Word, so the
anointing hides our life by living out the Word). 4 When Christ,
(when the Anointer) who is our life, shall appear, (Notice he says Christ is our
Life, so we have no other life but His living in us, And when he shall appear,
when he shall phaneroo, or manifest in His true
character) then shall ye also appear (then
shall you also manifest in your true character) with
him in glory. (with him in glory, in doxa, with Him in the same values in
the same opinions, and in the same judgments. Then if His Life is expressing
itself out through our vessels, he says,) 5 Mortify therefore
your members (kill off therefore self)
which are tied to the earth;
Now, remember, and never
forget, that Jesus is the pattern for every son of God.
Souls in prison now 63-1110M P:18 When
He said, "We are dead," the Scripture plainly tells us that we are dead, and our lives are hid in God through Christ, sealed there by the Holy Spirit. Now, it wasn't that your body
died. It wasn't your spirit died. It was the nature of your spirit died.
See? The nature, which is the soul. The nature of your soul is God,
if you're born again. If it's not, it's of the world.
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.
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,
As I Was With Moses 51-0503 E-15 Jesus of
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. And he was. He was so one with God
that some thought it not robbery for him to be the same person as God.
And that is what God wants to
do in your body and mine as well. That is why we can not receive our body
change until we have the very mind of our Father in us first.
Hear ye Him
56-1215 P:39 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
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."
That’s where the church should be today, but they’re not. And why? 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!
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.
In John
Therefore it is very apparent that we are one by
receiving the same Word which bring us into the same
Glory or same mind as the Father. And the glory (the doxa, the same opinion, the same values, the
same judgments) which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Hear ye Him 62-0711 P:69 Are you borned again? Do you know Christ as your Saviour? Has He
become a real reality in you? Are you living in Christ? Is Christ living
in you? "That day you'll know that I'm in
the Father, the Father in Me, you--and I in you." That's it. God living among His people, that's the way.
Queen of
It wasn't so from the beginning 61-0411 P:36 Salvation does not come by denomination or by education. It's comes by an experience of
being borned again of the Spirit of God with the Spirit of Christ living in
your body. Now, that is true.
Zacchaeus the businessman 63-0121 P:46 When a man sees Christ living in you it'll make him thirst to be like you. It'll
make him see Jesus in you, make him see God.
Let us pray