What the Holy Ghost was Given
for no 26
Ten Attributes of a Kingdom Citizen no. 2
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Wednesday night we spoke on the "ten attributes of a Kingdom Citizen",
and we got as far as about 5 of them, so this morning I would like to take a
few minutes to review the first 5 before we go on to the second five. But let's
read again from Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, (That's revelation) not
having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, (in the
future) and were persuaded of them, (certain
of them) they thus embraced them, and confessed that
they were strangers (aliens)
and they confessed that they were pilgrims (resident aliens) on the earth. 14 For they that say such
things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country
from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they
desire a better country, that is, an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath
prepared for them a city.
The Apostle Paul wrote in Hebrews that we are aliens
and resident aliens as we pass through this place called earth, and then he
said, 15 And truly,
if they had been
mindful of that country from whence they came
out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Therefore, we see the importance of keeping our focus
on the promises of God.
For we are warned, "if they had been mindful
of that country from whence they came out, they
might have had opportunity to have returned."
This morning we will again read
from paragraph 76 of brother Branham's
sermon, "What the Holy Ghost was Given for", and this will be number 25
in our series.
pp. 76 then what are you to the
world? An
alien. (I know it's late, but it's never too late for this.) An alien.
Oh, We're pilgrims
and we're strangers
here, We're seeking a city to come. The
lifeboat soon is coming To gather His Jewels home.
78 You're
an alien, and you're a stranger. You do strange things, different from what you used to do. You don't act like you used
to. The people... The Holy Ghost, when It comes upon you, and you
become filled with the Holy Ghost, you ignore the things of the world.
You ignore the things that would beset you; you ignore it. Then you
become a odd acting creature, the ugly duckling to
them, the little eagle that was hatched under the hen's nest, that I preached:
"And When the Eagle
Stirs Its Nest."
You're a funny looking creature to them. But, oh, my, walking up the King's
highway. Amen. Oh, it's a highway to heaven. I'm walking up the King's
highway. Say, "Look at that holy-roller, that ugly duckling. That's that
holy-roller preacher."
80 When
I went over to
81 A Roman comes over here and he scratches
his head; and a German comes over here; a American
goes there. Why? You got the spirits of them countries you come from. That's
what makes us so much different to the world. You're from above. You're born;
you're a citizen of another Kingdom. You believe it? That's what the
Holy Ghost is, is to make you a citizen of the Kingdom of God. Then if
you are a citizen of the
Notice brother Branham
gave us 10 things here and that the number ten in Scripture means the end of a
cycle, and beginning of a new. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and then the cycle ends and begins to repeat itself. 10, 11,
etc.
As I mentioned Wednesday night,
The number ten is used throughout scripture to depict
the end of a cycle, such as God completing the cycle of man in the antediluvian
age with Noah. Noah was the tenth Generation from Adam bringing in a new
covenant from God, and Abraham, was the tenth generation from Noah bringing in
a new unconditional covenant from God.
There are the ten
commandments, Ten spies Moses sent to spy out the land. Ten rows of ten
silver talents making up the base for the tabernacle in the Wilderness. Tithes
is a tenth, that represents the whole which is due God, Ten plagues upon
Jesus also spoke several
parables where ten was the key number. Ten virgins
representing the end of the cycle of virgins. Ten Talents, Ten pieces of
silver in the woman's head dress, which silver represents redemption,
and thus the ten pieces of silver in the woman's crown represented full
redemption. etc.
But this morning we will again examine another
set of ten, and that is the ten attributes of the Citizen of the
81. That's
what the Holy Ghost is, is to make you a citizen of
the
So let's begin looking at these
attributes of a citizen of the
(1) holiness, The first attribute mentioned here is
Holiness for the Scripture teaches us
Now, the first of these attributes that God expresses
in His Kingdom, according to brother Branham is Holiness. And thus when we
receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, we receive a Spirit of Holiness.
and the reason that Holiness is listed as number one
is that without it, you can not even see or understand God.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see
the Lord:
And notice that is exactly what the Apostle Paul tells
u in Hebrews
God wants us to be partakers with Him of His Holiness.
So it is not our holiness, for we have none. but that
is by He gives us of His Spirit which is called the Holy Spirit, so that we can
become partakers of His Holiness.
Holiness is birthed into you when you receive the HOLY
Spirit, but through trials and suffering, God shows us how to overcome the
nature of our flesh so that we might attain to a higher form of holiness, which
Paul calls Perfecting Holiness in 2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
You can not perfect holiness without having the mind
of God, and therefore the thoughts of God living your life for you. as we see in 2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting
down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ;
Holiness actually comes forth from righteousness,
which is "right"-"wise-ness", or
having a "wise-ness" based on a
"right" thinking.
Luke 1:75 In holiness and righteousness
before him, all the days of our life. Therefore
you can not separate holiness from righteousness.
And Righteousness was number 2 on Br. Branham's list.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteous-nesses (our
right-wise-nesses, our thoughts which we think are right) are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
So God says in 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
but unto holiness.
1 Thessalonians
Romans
Next we examined (2) righteousness, for
brother Branham said, " if
you are a citizen of the
Righteousness is lining up your thoughts with God's
thoughts, for His thoughts alone are righteous.
The Apostle Paul said in Romans
Again let me read from Isaiah
55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
That is why The Apostle Paul says in Ephesians
You see, you can not separate truth and righteousness
for how could you have a right-wise-ness that is not
first of all truth. And the reason that the Lord lives in truth and
righteousness is because he is The Truth.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And God will not accept those who call on his name
without doing do with truth and righteousness. That is why you without being
born again and inheriting the very nature of God you can not show evidence of
your citizenship from heaven without living in True Holiness which can come
forth only from His Truth and His Righteousness, and thus you will never liven
in his Holy City.
Psalms 15:1-2 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? (He's talking about the City built upon the Holy Hill, So Who can live there and thus be a citizen of that
Kingdom?) He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh
the truth in his heart.
And that brings us to attribute
or characteristic number (3) which William Branham said was purity of thought.
And we can not have purity of thought unless we have God's thoughts.
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
So we are looking at God's Wisdom, the wisdom that is
from above that is first of all pure.
That is why the Apostle John tells us that if we are
to purify ourselves it must be as God is pure, and He is the Word. 1 John 3:3 And every
man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
And so the Apostle Paul admonishes us in Philippians 4:8 Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
In other words Paul admonishes us to think only
thoughts that have their source in the pure Word of God. And Notice how closely
tied together are attributes number 3 and number 4 that brother Branham lays
out for us.
First purity of thought and then a
purity of mind. So attribute
number (4) is purity of mind,
Titus
Jesus aid in Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. And having received a pure mind by the washing
of water by the Word, we are commanded by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:1 This
second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure
minds by way of remembrance:
And Paul tells us with our pure mind we are able to
hold onto the Mystery of Faith.
1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure
conscience.
But our mid are only pure as they
are filled with God's Word. Any
admixture brings with it guile and deceit.
Proverbs
1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is love out from
a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
And that leads us to the next attribute of our
Citizenship and that is (5) power,
Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from
the dead:
Notice that Jesus power was according to the Spirit of
Holiness. And power apart from having the right character is satanic. In fact
that is what brother Branham taught us in the Seven Church Age Book.
Church Age Book 4 - The
Now, I want you to notice how these ten characteristics
of having a citizenship from Heaven flow out one from the other. First holiness
because without it you can not see God, and that holiness can only come from
having God's Holy Spirit living itself out in your life. Then we see how that
righteousness or having a right-wise-ness is
essential to living a holy life. And how that only having God's right-wise-ness can produce a true holiness. And then out of that true
holiness which is based up
God's right right-wise-ness produces pure thoughts that come forth from a
purified mind. And only until these four
attributes have entered into your nature and presented themselves in your
character, are you fit to manifest the power of an endless Life, which is
eternal life, and thus the power of an eternal Life which there is only one
eternal and that is God life, and that all comes from God's Word for He is the
Word..
Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal
commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of
fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
And you need the power of Christ in our life to
fulfill the faith of Christ. 2 Thessalonians
And this power is called the power of His resurrection
as we see in Philippians
Guide a 62-1014E P:47But when it comes to know the holiness
and righteousness and the power of God, and how the Holy Spirit operates
and what It does, you
better stay right behind the Word, the Guide. See? ... Jesus said, "Those that passed this way, these signs will
follow them. My Name, they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues; or
take up serpents or drink deadly things, it won't harm. If they lay their hands
on the sick, they shall recover." Most of them refuse It, deny It, say
It's not even inspired. They're not following the Guide. They're following a
manmade creed. You better stay right behind the Word, because you haven't
passed this way, you know.
And so we see that John
I do not know about you, but I see John 14:12 as a genuine turning point that God used
to shake off those who are content with having a mental understanding or theology of the Godhead and presence, but for
them who are moving along and who are actually walking in the light as God
Himself is walking in the light, We have entered into the power of an endless
Life, the power of eternal Life, the power of the resurrection.
In Isaiah 29:13 we
read, "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as
this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their
fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
The Voice translation says, These people think they can draw near to Me by saying the right
things, by honoring Me with their lips, but their hearts are far away
from Me. Their worship of Me consists of
man-made traditions based upon their creeds and teachings, which they learned
by repetition, but this is only a meaningless pretending.
You see, Ephesians 4 tells
us that we are all to come to a unity in the
revelation of Jesus Christ and an experiential knowledge of the son of God,
and then we will grow up INTO Him.
And Paul tells us also in Romans
Notice, same Spirit same power. same Spirit that raised up
Jesus from the dead will raise you up from living amongst the dead, and will
quicken you by His Life giving power to Live by His life giving power.
Up to this point we have seen brother Branham mention
Holiness, then righteousness then purity of though and mind, and now he
mentions power, because what good would all this do for you if God did not also
Give you the power that goes with it to live it. It's nice to know it, but that
just makes us sick to our stomach knowing that he wants us to live holy, live
according to His Right-wise-ness and be pure in our
thoughts and in our mind, but if we are not Give power to do all this that we
know, we become more miserable than if we did not know. And that is where we
are today.
But This morning I want you
to know that we are also given the power of and endless life. Power to over come even as He overcome. And Paul told us in Romans
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: So we have been given this power already.
And then John
tells us in the next verse 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
So we are talking about a power given to us that we do
not work ourselves up into, nor do we will ourselves to it, but simply it is
given us by being born of God. Therefore a believer without John
Now, the thing of it is, is knowing
what to do with this power. Because we already read from the Church Age book in
this study "that power apart from character is
satanic". And since there is only one character that proved
worthy of using this power 100% in compliance with the will of the Father, then
it is God's plan that every Child of God be filled with the very character of
the first born son in order to use this power of an endless life according to
the fathers will.
And that is why William Branham then lists in
succession, the last five attributes of God and that which the Kingdom Citizen
will also manifest. after
having given us the first five, 81. That's what the Holy Ghost is,
is to make you a citizen of the
Now, brother Branham adds the following... and (6)love,
(7) going to the lost, (8) healing
the sick, (9) performing miracles, (10)
doing great things. Then to the
world you look crazy; they say, "Them guys are off at their head."
See? But you are a
citizen of the Kingdom.
So the world might would never understand why you will
take money that you could use for self and your family and help others with it.
That is just contrary to their thinking, but they know nothing of storing up
treasure in heaven.
Jesus warned us in
Matthew 6:19, Luke 12:21, Mark 10:21 where
he said, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:"
Oh, so you say, no problem, I will keep mine in the bank and no one
can get it then.
Don't you know the biggest thieves are your
governments? Don't you know that the G20 summit this past year the governments
of this world have already agreed to a universal plan that the next bank bail
outs will not be done with Government money but by the depositors
money? Don't you know that according to
the financial laws you as a depositor are considered an unsecured
creditor? And that means that you
are not secured. Your money you deposit is the banks to use at their discretion,
and if they default they must pay back first of all secured creditors, but the
depositor is an unsecured, which means if your money is in the bank you might
as well kiss it goodbye.
You see, first they needed a scheme to make sure you
do not keep your money at home so they created a war against terror. Then
anyone who is found with funds exceeding $10,000 USD at home, that money can be
stolen by Governments, local, state or federal in the name of Money laundering, Drug dealing, or suspicion
of aiding terrorism.
When Lehman brothers which was an
investment bank, when they failed all the depositors which were unsecured
creditors only got eight cents on the dollar.
So when Jesus warned us that Thieves would break in
and steal, he's talking about Governments at the end time. Used to be people
hid their in their mattresses, and walls of their houses, but now every bill
has RFID chips in them and they can come in with devices to read what is in the
walls and floors and mattresses. They can find it like they could find coins
with a metal detector.
... Bank of America's holding company
which began as The Bank of Italy and changed it's name to Bank of America is
said to be Vatican owned, ... last year it held almost $75 trillion of
derivatives at the end of June...2014 That compares with JPMorgan's
deposit-taking entity, JPMorgan Chase Bank
That's $75
trillion and $79 trillion in derivatives! These two mega-banks alone hold more
in derivatives each than the
entire global
So there's your Vatican manipulating the banks to hold
all these derivatives which is nothing more than gambling debts with the
depositors moneys, and they have run up the debt so much that they will just
take all the depositors moneys and they are backed by law in doing so.
No wonder the Bile says in, Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon (satan)
which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped
the beast, (that's To me see Revelations chapter 17) saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Look, it's all over, you had better get ready for
going home to Your fathers Kingdom, because you may have no other home to go
home to. You have mortgage? The bank owns your home. Who is the Bank? The Beast. You don't have a mortgage? Well you pay
outlandish property taxes. Who owns the government debt? The
Beast. And the debtor is servant to the lender, so who does your
government serve? The Beast.
Now, let's get back to our subject, we're talking
about the power
to live an endless life. The Power of God the
Gospel of Christ, Romans
Romans 8:12-16 12 Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to self, to live for self. 13 For if ye
live for self, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye
have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the
Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God:
So we see we have been given power 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not
given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of
a sound mind.
Notice then when God gave us His Spirit, he promised
His Spirit would bear witness with our spirit, and His Spirit gives us power
and ability to Love and a sound mind.
Now, the last 5 attributes of a Kingdom Citizen brother
Branham said are: (6)love, (7) going
to the lost, (8) healing the sick, (9) performing miracles, (10)
doing great things.
So we want to look at Love for moment. So let me begin
by going back to John
After all brother Branham said in his sermon, Faith once delivered to the saints 57-0610 P:38 Jesus said, "If I do not
the works of God, then don't believe Me."
But He did the works of God. And He said, "I
do not do nothing in Myself, till I see the Father do
it first. Whatever I see the Father doing, then the
Son does likewise." He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works
that I do shall he do also." That was the
Church. Christ left this that His Church would have His Spirit.
And the Spirit of Christ
will perform, and act, and live like Christ. Amen. How can we
segregate ourselves, when Christ taught brotherly love, "By this all men will know you're My Church," when you've got love one for another.
Now, this ties us to the power to show love as brother
Branham suggested to us the next attribute of a Kingdom Citizen is Love.
Concerning what The Apostle Paul said in Roans
That's what we read in 2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need to
experience life and to reflect God’s true nature through the knowledge of the
One who called us by His glory and virtue. 4 Through these things, we have received God’s great
and valuable promises, so we might escape the corruption of worldly desires and
share in the divine nature.
And I like
what the The Voice
Translation has a foot note that reads, God took the first step to rescue us from
this corrupt world. He has granted us His power, revealed to us true knowledge,
and spoken to us great promises. He has done all this for a reason: that we
might participate in His own nature and reflect His own life. But we are not
passive observers of God’s saving actions. We must receive His grace, grow in
knowledge, and join Him in this work of redemption.
We would see Jesus
57-0226 P:21 But now, while He's here working with His Church in the
form of the Spirit... Then if His Spirit is with us, He will act just exactly like He act when He was here on earth. It'll make you act the same way, because it's not your spirit any more; it's His Spirit in you,
Christ's Spirit in you. "The
things that I do... He that believeth on Me (
You see it is not enough to understand the theology of
Father and Son. It is not enough to understand how God was in His son working. What
we need to understand is how the son responded to the will of the father,
because that concerns us as well. we don't see the
spirit but we see the flesh responding to the Spirit. Sons of God are led by
the Spirit of God. We do not see the Spirit who is leading, but we see the
person who is following. That's you and me. People did not see God who is
Spirit working in Brother Branham but they saw the flesh of a son responding to
God working in Him to will and to do. And that is what the world see, they see sons, they don't see God. But they can
understand God by seeing you.
So William Branham says the Power leads to Love and
love leads to an unselfish giving of self and so he adds as the next
attributes,
He said, (6)love,
and what is Love? It is always expressed in giving, and giving
of self is the greatest blessing God can express through his sons. John 3:16 for God so
loved that he gave, and what did he give? His own life in the
form of His first born son. And what does God give through You? Well, would it not be the same as He did in His first
born son? Is not eternal Life, God-Life living for others? and so brother
Branham expresses this power of love when he says the seventh attribute of a
Kingdom Citizen is (7) going to the lost,
and (8) healing the sick,
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds;
I Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of
faith, and labour of love, and patience
of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Now, remember the word OF
is an acronym which means belonging to
or more specifically, OUT FROM. Therefore
we should read this verse as remembering without
ceasing your work out from your faith, and labour out from your love, and
patience out from your hope in our Lord
Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father. And to be more
exact, we should read it as thus, Remembering
without ceasing your work produced and characterized by the faith which is
yours, and your labor which is shaped and characterized by the Love you
embrace, and evidently manifested through the patience you possess due to the
hope you have in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of God our Father.
So you see how your love shapes and molds the very
nature of the expression that comes forth from your being and is an evident
token that you have been made alive, and your love expresses itself in self
sacrificial acts of charity towards others, with no regard to self, and this
then brings upon you a peace which is characterized by the patience you show
forth which is an evident token of your earnest expectation in our Lord Jesus
Christ.
And so we see that expression is given in the form of
your is (7) going to the lost,
and (8) healing the sick, because we have so many Scriptural
proofs that God wishes for us to lay hands on the sick and minister to the
needs of the needy, both spiritually and those in poor health. In fact
brother Branham said in his sermon, Countdown
the 62-1125E P:54 Now, He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." He cannot change that decision. He said, "These signs shall follow them
that believe." If the Life of Christ be in you, if the mind of Christ, then we're
concerned and do the things of Christ. He said these signs that He done
will follow every believer that
believes in Him.
Brother Branham makes it clear
that John
And finally that takes us to the last two attributes
of a Kingdom Citizen and we hear William Branham add (9) performing miracles, (10)
doing great things. Now, I am not going to go into those
because we just don't have time, but he called those attributes and
characteristics of the kingdom Citizen, so we should say what the tapes say and
not add to or take away.