What the Holy Ghost was Given
for no 9
Our Feast of Passover
Brian Kocourek, pastor
This
evening, being communion and the last night of 2014, I would like to take a
short message taking Philippians
Philippians
Let us bow our heads and our hearts in prayer.
The reason for our text being taken tonight from Philippians chapter 2
is because brother Branham refers to it as the reason for God living in His
Bride in this hour. So with that in mind, let's examine the next paragraph that
brother Branham speaks in his Sermon, "What
the Holy Ghost was Given for."
11 "You know, in the same chapter
of John 14 Philip said,
"Lord, show us the
Father and it will satisfy us." Jesus said, "I've been so long with
you, Philip, and you don't know Me. When you have seen
Me, you have seen the Father. And why sayest thou unto Me, 'Show us the
Father'?"
Last Sunday without having gone this far into the
sermon of brother Branham's, we only read from paragraphs 9 and 10, but we went
into depth concerning the first part of John 14, beginning with Jesus
conversation with Philip. Now, I did not know what this next paragraph said,
because when I prepare a message for each time we meet, I only read as far as I
see a thought coming from brother Branham, and lest I get involved with too
much, and miss that thought of the prophet, I only read one sentence at a time,
and sometimes the entire paragraph or two.
Therefore, I had not beyond paragraph 10 in my
preparation for last weeks sermon, or I would have
used verse 11 in my sermon. But I stopped at brother Branham's thought
concerning 1 Timothy
However, if you recall, I wanted to show that
verse 14 was not something that stood out on it's own in the 14th chapter of
John, but rather it ties right together with Jesus' answer to Philip in their
conversation that began in verse 6 and I wanted to show how this conversation
with Philip ties directly into what Jesus said in John
14:12, and how brother Branham's text of John 14:14 was a direct tie
into verse 12 as well.
Therefore, this evening we will continue with Br.
Branham remarks concerning what Jesus told Philip, because it is what I believe
very crucial to where the bride should be at this time in this late hour.
Therefore, let's begin reading where we left off last Sunday and pick up our
reading at paragraph 11 of "What the holy
Ghost was Given for."
11 "You know, in the same chapter
of John 14 Philip said,
"Lord, show us the
Father and it will satisfy us." Jesus said, "I've been so long with
you, Philip, and you don't know Me. When you have seen
Me, you have seen the Father. And why sayest thou unto Me, 'Show us the
Father'?" "God
was made flesh. Now, here it is. The Father was God over you.
We're saying... We've been since Adam, God the Father was over Moses and the
children of Israel in a Pillar of Fire, then God with us in Christ,
walked with us, talked with us, eat with us, slept with us. God over us,
God with us, and now, it's God in
us. All God was, come into Christ; all Christ was, come into the church.
What is it? God working in you. Anywhere in the world, if He'd want to
call on you, you're right there: working in you to do His good
will. How we
ought to thank God for that. God the Holy Spirit is sent for the purpose of
God living in His church, moving through each age, working out His Divine will.
Notice how brother Branham is taking us from Philips
conversation with Christ to the Book of Philippians.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of his good pleasure.
Now, you can not understand John 14 without
understanding Philippians 2. There is
just no way. Because without understanding all of John 14, how Jesus entire conversation with Philip includes verses 12-14. And without
understanding that Jesus was showing Philip how that when you see Him you were
seeing the Father is because the very Life of the Father was living in him, and
Jesus went on to say, and those who believe in me, those who are filled with my
spirit, they will also do the same things I do, because it is the very same God working in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.
Now, instead of just going back to John 14 again so we
can see this is one conversation, and that John
John 13:1 "Now before the feast of the passover," Let me stop here and
explain this.
We know the Passover
was a Jewish feast and still is, and it represented the time of the first
Exodus when Moses told the children of
Exodus 12:1 And the
LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
Notice the two side
posts and the upper post that goes over the door. That is the sign of the
cross, showing where the blood would be offered on the cross of the Lamb of
God.
8 And they
shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with
water, but roast with fire; his head with his
legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let
nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until
the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
12 For I
will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of
13 And the
blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you,
when I smite the
Now, we know that in this hour it is no longer the
physical blood of an innocent lamb, but it is the life that was in the Lamb of
God. And every house where that Life is living in God's believers, that house
will be spared.
14 And this
day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the
LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for
ever.
That is why this feast
day is still kept with the Jewish believers, and the significance of this feast
is still very evident with God because even as we are witnessing the first and
third blood moons in this tetrad of blood moons we are in the midst of
witnessing, the first and third fall upon this very day God set apart to warn
them and to let them know their departure was soon at hand.
15 Seven days
shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven
out of your houses:
Now, leaven or yeast represented the false doctrines.
Jesus tells the parable of the leavened bread in Luke 13.
Luke
Notice that this leaven the woman which represents the
church, she hid it in three measures of meal until the whole meal became
infected with this leaven.
Again Jesus tells us this parable in Matthew
Now, I think it is significant that this parable is
spoken of twice in Scripture by Jesus. And since two is a witness, we then
should understand what this represents.
We know first of all a woman always represents the
church.
Presuming 62-0408 P:50
A woman, church. Woman represents church in the Bible.
What shall I do with Jesus 63-1124M P:67 Revelation 17, they saw
so we notice that it was
a woman, the church who hid leaven in three measures of meal. Now, meal
represents the bread of life, the staff of life.
Elijah and meal offering 60-0310 P:44 Now, she got the meal, which
represented Christ. And Christ is the Word. "In the beginning was the
Word; the Word was with God; and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us," Christ the Meal-offering. Then she went and
got the oil. And the oil represents the Spirit. So she put the Word and the
Spirit together and begin to mix It up. Oh,
something has to happen when that takes place.
But notice this woman Jesus is speaking of in the
parable which represents the end time church, she took the meal and instead of
mixing it with oil, she added leaven to it. And leaven is what we call yeast.
And it causes the bread to rise. She took three measures of mea, three measures
of the word, "justification, Sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy
Ghost" and instead of adding oil to it, she added leaven, and caused the
whole meal offering to be contaminated with this leaven.
So it will be important for us to understand what this
leaven is if we are to understand how this leaven affects the whole meal
offering.
Matthew 16:6 Then
Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they
reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because
we have taken no bread. 8 Which
when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little
faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? 9 Do ye not yet understand,
neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye
took up? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the
four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake
it not to you
concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of
the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how
that he bade them not beware of the leaven of
bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M P:66 "Seven days, eat unleavened
bread." No
leaven shall be found amongst the Bride, no word added, no nothing. Remember,
one word caused every death that's in the earth; every illegitimate child was
borned because Eve, the first church, the bride of the first Adam, doubted
God's Word and accepted a denominational, or a intellectual, or a school
exceptions of it; because It was reasoned out, that "Surely, God is a good
God." God is a good God, but He's also a just God. He must keep His Word.
School, she accepted it. There's where some of you seminary boys, no doubt a
call in your life, but you run off to some Bible school to have this
doctrine injected in you, and there's where you die. Stay with
God and His Word. They won't let you; or, you can't even
belong to their congregation, won't accept you on the platform. So let them
have it; let the dead bury the dead; let's follow Christ the Word.
So you see, this leaven is
the false doctrine that the church injected into the three measures of meal
until the whole thing became a pile of corruption and death. Now, let's go back to the first exodus
teaching of God through Moses.
15 Seven
days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away
leaven out of your houses: for
whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from
So we see where the Passover
feast got it's beginning, and the significance of no leaven being added to the
bread of life. for if they had to wait until it rose,
they would not have been ready to flee
18 In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even.
19 Seven days (representing to us
the seven church ages) shall there be no leaven
found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that
which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of
20 Ye shall
eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread. 21 Then
Moses called for all the elders of
Token
the 63-0901M P:58 Yes, the Token is applied. Only the Token's
recognized now. See? He did that so that the Token could come. The Token was God's Life,...
Token
the 63-0901M P:152 Like Jacob did. He said, told his wife and
all of them, said, "Wash your clothes and everything. Put away them gods." Amen. You know what Joshua said 'fore
crossing over? He said, "Wash your clothes, come not at your wives, and so
forth, and get ready. For within three days we'll cross
Oh, brother what a
blessed promise we have, apply it brother, appy it
sister, and watch your children respond to it.
22 And ye
shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in
the blood that is in the bason,
and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that
is in the bason; and none
of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Oh, don't leave that house that has the blood over it,
don't leave it,
23 For
the LORD will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
houses to
smite you.
24 And ye shall
observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which
the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And
it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye
by this service?
27 That
ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the
LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of
the children of
Now, we are coming to
this feast of the Passover again symbolically tonight as we take the communion,
and within a three months from now, as the one the first day of Nissan, which
is the first month in the Jewish calendar, which is when this took place, we
will see a great solar eclipse on this day, and the sun represent the gentiles.
The Gentiles use the solar calendar, the Jews use the moon for it's calendar. And on the first day of the jewish calendar, notice the sun
will darken in its fullness. Representing the Light of the Son of God will be
completely blotted out to the Gentiles.
Then 14 days later, on
the 14th day of Nissan, (in our calendar represented as
Finally, the last
blood moon will come on the Feast of Tabernacles
which brother Branham said a tabernacle is a tent,
and this feast will fall on
E. W. Bullinger in His book, Numbers in Scripture says this of
the number nine: The number nine is
a most remarkable number in may respects. It is the last of the digits,
and thus marks the end;
and is significant of the
conclusion of a matter. It is akin to six, six being the sum of it's factors, (3x3=9) and (3+3=6) and is thus significant of
the end of man, and the summation of all man's works. Nine is therefore the number of finality and
judgment. For judgment is committed to Jesus as the Son of
John 13:1 Now
before the "feast of the passover",
when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world
unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them
unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the
devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus
knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was
come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and
took a towel, and girded himself. 5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and
began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them
with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6 Then cometh he to Simon
Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said
unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt
know hereafter. 8 Peter saith unto him, Thou
shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash
thee not, thou hast no part with me. 9 Simon
Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head. 10 Jesus
saith to him, He that is washed needeth
not save to wash his
feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11 For
he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are
not all clean.
Ok, then he washes the feet of the apostles.
12 So after he had washed their feet, and had
taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash
one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an
example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater
than he that sent him. 17 If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye
do them. 18 I speak not of you all: I
know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it
come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. 20 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that receiveth whom soever I send receiveth
me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 21 When
Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 Then
the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. 23 Now
there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom
Jesus loved. 24 Simon
Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he
spake. 25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? 26 Jesus
answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I
have dipped it.
And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to
Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27 And after the sop Satan
entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. 28 Now
no man at the table knew for what intent he spake
this unto him. 29 For some of
them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him,
Buy those things that we have need of against the
feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 30 He
then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him,
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a
little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews,
Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I
have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. 36 Simon
Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou?
Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me
now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37 Peter
said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for
thy sake. 38 Jesus
answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock
shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
Notice now, the
communion and foot washing is completed, and Jesus is beginning to tell them
that he must leave them for a short while.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be
troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house
are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye
know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither
thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip
saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth
us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so
long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? the words that I speak unto you I
speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and
the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 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. 13 And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in
the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If ye love me, keep my
commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, (it
understands him not) neither knoweth him: (neither
have they experienced Him) but ye know him; (But
you have experienced Him) for he dwelleth with
you, (that's present tense, because God was in Jesus then, so he
was WITH them, but not yet in them.) and shall be
in you. (but in the future he will
come and live in you also) 18 I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the
world seeth (understands) me no more;
but ye see (understand) me: because I live, ye shall live
also. 20 At that day ye shall know (you shall have an experiential
knowledge) that I am in my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath (echos)
my commandments, and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas
saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest
thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we
will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Notice it is the
coming into us that he calls the manifesting Himself to us.
Then in getting back
to brother Branham's sermon, let's read paragraph 11 again so you can see how
this all tied together...
11 "You
know, in the same chapter of John 14 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and it will satisfy us." Jesus
said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me. When you have seen Me, you have
seen the Father. And why sayest thou unto Me, 'Show us the Father'?" "God was made flesh. Now,
here it is. The Father was God over you. We're saying... We've been
since Adam, God the Father was over Moses and the children of Israel in a
Pillar of Fire, then God with us in Christ, walked with us,
talked with us, eat with us, slept with us. God over us, God with us,
and now,
it's God in us. All God was,
come into Christ; all
Christ was, come into the church. What is it? God working in you. Anywhere in the world, if
He'd want to call on you, you're right there: working
in you to do His good will. How we ought to thank God for that. God the Holy Spirit is
sent for the purpose of God living in His church, moving through each
age, working out His
Divine will.
I think we will close here tonight, but you should be
able to see who that John 13 the celebrating of the feast of Passover, and then
Judas leaving early to betray Jesus, and this
led to John 14 where Philip asked
some questions, and Jesus showed them how that it was God working in Him to do
God's good pleasure, and then in verse 12 he spoke to us how that the same God
that worked in Him would work in you, both to will and to do God's good
pleasure, and we see this talk as they are ready to depart for his final time
of great testing in the garden of Gethsemane, where as brother Branham put it,
he had his greatest victory, because Jesus had to die to self first, (in
Spirit) before he could physically die on the cross. And You
and I have must die first to self first, before we can actually be crucified
afresh with him.
And that takes us to where brother Branham says in the
next paragraph 12 When men makes fun of you,
they're not making fun of you; they're making fun of Him that sent you.
So Jesus said, "Blessed are ye when men
shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for My Name sake. Blessed
are you." And again, "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." For when God made Himself known in Christ,
they hated Him. Who
hated Him worse? The church. The church hated Him worse.
They hated Him worse than the drunkard. They hated Him worse than all the
other people. It
was the church that hated Him. So therefore, when you see Kosmos, the world order... "The world knowed Him not"
means the "church (so-called) knew Him not." "He came to His
own and His own received Him not. But as many as did receive Him, to them gave
He the power to become sons of God, to them that believed on His Name." Oh, how we should love Him and worship Him. The
purpose of God, wanting to become in fellowship...
Let us pray...