What the Holy Ghost was Given For no. 1
There is neither male or Female in Christ
Brian Kocourek, pastor
This morning we will begin examining brother Branham's
sermon, What the Holy Ghost was given for, which was preached on
I am just trusting for God's leadership, and perhaps
this will be a very short series until he directs us to another area where He
wishes for us to learn from. I just don't know, but I am trusting for His
Divine leadership in whatever sermon or Scriptural book He wishes to teach us
from.
Now, We began the last series Christ is the Mystery of
God Revealed on
But the sermon we are beginning this morning should
not take us that long because there is one central theme that runs through this
entire sermon of brother Branham's and I won't tell you what it is right away,
but if you go home and listen to it, you will hear brother Branham keep coming
back to a particular Scripture that lays out God's reasons for giving you the
Holy Ghost which is His Spirit, His life.
So let's begin this morning by reading from paragraph
number 1. And we are going to read the first paragraph through and then we will
go back and look at one or two things brother Branham says here and go more
thoroughly into the Scriptures on what he tells us.
What the Holy Ghost was Given For pp. 1 I see Brother Neville believes
in laying on of hands. I see I got a couple of
questions. Now, I'll get these tomorrow night, 'cause I don't have time to look
through them tonight for you, perhaps on last night's message. Now, if anyone
has a question on any of the messages, just lay them up one night, and I can
pick them up the next night. Now, tomorrow night I would like to find, or have,
rather, some ministers if possible; if not, some good, solid men or women that we
could call on in the time of need, that in the event... Tomorrow night we start after
the message to laying on hands for the Holy Spirit. And then,
they'll be a... You have your privilege of staying right here if you wish to
all through the holidays if it takes that long to die. And then, if not, if
you desire to go to your own home, why, we would be glad if you get in a place
where you... Just don't know where to go... We want to get some ministers,
their numbers if they're visitors, their numbers where they're staying, that
where we could get a-hold of them right away, and get one in one home, one in
another, and one in another, that they could give you instructions, you
who are going to seek for this great blessing that we're talking about, the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Now, I want you to notice that this sermon begins with
a comment by brother Branham telling the people that br. Neville believes in
the laying on of hands. Now, you might wonder what he's referring to here,
because there are various applications where the Scripture speaks of laying on
of the hands.
There are three applications where the Scripture
speaks of laying on of hands. Two applications are from God and one is from
Satan. The Two from God are as follows:
Number One:
We are commanded to lay hands on the sick for healing
Mark 16:18 They
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover.
Mark
Matthew 9:18 While
he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter
is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Acts 28:8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius
lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and
prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Number Two:
for imparting the Holy Ghost from One who has it to
one who does not
Hebrews 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, plural and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead,
and of eternal judgment.
Acts 8:18 And
when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was
given, he offered them money, 19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands,
he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Now, notice this man caught onto the fact that when
the Apostle laid hands on certain people, those people received the Holy Ghost.
He had an intellectual conception, and wanted to do the same. So he wanted this
power to impart Life but his motives and objectives were not pure, and Peter discerned
this and not willing to put up with a persons wrong motives told him where to
get off, so to speak.
20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift
of God may be purchased with money. 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in
this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if
perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. 23 For I
perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in
the bond of iniquity. 24 Then answered
Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye
have spoken come upon me. 25 And they, when they
had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and
preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
Notice it does not say that Peter prayed for this man.
Peter told him he needed to repent to God which is all he could tell him, just
like brother Branham told his own son, he said, "son, you did the sinning, now you'll have to do the praying".
Brother
Branham said in his sermon, Behold a greater than
all is here 62-0715 P:30 Let me ask you something. What if that disease is on that
person for a purpose? Do you know, you can get in a
lot of trouble to take something off of a person that God has put on there?
You know, a prophet stands in a dangerous position. You know, Moses kept himself
out of the promised land by doing exactly what God
told him not to do, listening to the people. Did you ever think of that?
Did you ever think it was the will of God when Elisha, that mighty prophet,
bald-headed, and those little children run down making fun of him being
bald-headed? Well, what of it? He ought to have just left it alone. But under
the anger, and that prophet turned around, and put a curse on those children,
and two she bears killed forty-two little children: an angered prophet. Is
that true? You have to be very, very careful. That's the reason gifts are
not handed out the way people think they are. See? True
gifts of God is sent from God, and you watch them. On the
platform watch and see.
Testimony of Jesus Christ 53-0829 P:50 If there was, no matter how much oil you'd
pour on them, that devil will stay right there. I could tell you stories that
would shock you on those things. But, see, the thing you want to do, you
have to be careful. If
God has put a curse on someone, and you'd come around and take that off without
repentance of that soul, you see, you've done like Moses did when he smote the
rock instead of speaking to it. See? Now, that's the reason... But
many times we just pray for the people, leave it up to
their faith. Whatever they believe, why, that's up to them. That's what we been
trying to do.
Third reason: Scripture speaks of the laying on of hands: It speaks of those who would try to seize a person,
or lay hold upon a person to do harm to them.
And
we are commanded by Scripture never to do that. 1
Timothy
Luke 20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands
on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken
this parable against them.
Matthew 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him,
they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and
persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being
brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Now, there is one more
Scripture that speaks of the laying on of hands outside these three reasons,
and that is for acknowledging a ministry. we find that
spoken by the Apostle Paul in:
1 Timothy
Now,
this does not speak of the person receiving the gift by the hands of one laid
upon them as though the presbyter has power to impart the gifts of the Holy
Spirit. It simply means here that the elder or presbyter is acknowledging that
the person has been given a gift or ministry by the Holy Ghost.
Led by the spirit 52-0727 P:35 Now, I was born by a gift. Those gifts
don't come by laying on of hands. Those gifts
come by the sovereignty of God. Gifts and calling are without repentance.
They was foreordained of God to be. Gifts are born.
Jesus Christ in the garden of Eden, He was the woman's
Seed that would bruise the serpent's head. Moses was borned a proper child.
John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, according to
Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. Before Jeremiah
when he come to the earth, that great prophet, Jeremiah, God said, "Before you was even
formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and called you, and sanctified you,
and ordained you a prophet over the nations." See? It ain't just what somebody
does; it's what God does, what God does. Amen. That is right. That is
right. Now, do you see it?
Indictment the 63-0707M P:11 When we ordain these ministers by laying on
of hands... Now, we realize that the Scriptural way of ordaining a minister
is laying on of hands. I think that's where our
Latter Rain brethren, or the Battleford people, and
so forth, got mixed up when they seen that laying on of hands to impart
spiritual gifts. Now, we do not believe that gifts comes by laying
on of hands. We believe that laying on of hands is a sanction to
what we've already seen. See? It's a "amen." See?
Door to the heart 59-1128 P:54 Gifts
are not given by laying on of hands, them kind of gifts. You're born with them. They're
gifts of God that's placed into the Church.
You know, I've been approached so many times by
ministers overseas, wanting me to lay hands on them in order to sanction their
ministries, but I've had to tell them, I just don't lay hands on just anyone. I
must know that person for years and see the Holy Ghost living in their life,
before I will sanction what they have as being genuine. I have been very, very
careful not to lay hands on just anyone unless I know that minister is a true genuine servant of
God who lives this word impeccably, and has a servants heart. Because too many
men want for someone who has been openly used by God to give sanction to them,
and that then they think that gives them a license to treat people as they
wish, and run roughshod over the people, and they would say, Brian Kocourek
laid hands on me, and so that makes me legitimate.
By God's grace I have laid hands on men of God who
have laid down their lives for the brethren, and I am thankful that I have
abstained from some, because I did not know them, and I've seen it where I
refused to lay hands on a minister and then a couple years later the man leaves
his own wife and runs off with someone else's wife and marries her. I've seen
where they lure women in their church and get them drunk and then commit
adultery with them. I've seen all sorts that call themselves ministers of
Christ, so I am very, very careful about who I lay
hands upon to sanction their ministry.
Now, I've had brother Vayle sanction my own ministry,
but he was very careful not to lay hands on just anyone. Each time I went
overseas while he was still living, he would lay hands upon my shoulders or
upon my head and he would pray to God to guide me and be with me and help me to
help the brethren everywhere I went.
And brother Branham said that is the right way to do
it. So we see the laying on of hands does not impart any gift of God, but only
acknowledges that there is a gift from God, and by laying our hands upon that
gift we are sanctioning that we believe that Gift is a genuine gift from God.
Now, I am going to read again the opening statement
because for the rest of this sermon today I wish to speak on what brother
Branham is referring to the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Ghost.
I see Brother Neville believes in laying
on of hands. This is the very
first thought out of his mouth in this sermon, and i
have already shown you Scriptural reasons for the laying on of hands. But more
specifically, I believe he is addressing the Scriptural doctrine of laying on of hands to receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.
And
that takes us to our Scriptural reference where the Apostle Paul says in Hebrews 6:2 Of the doctrine
of baptisms, plural and
of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Notice Paul speaks of baptisms, in the plural form
because there is water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost in which he
says, the doctrine of baptisms, plural and of laying
on of hands, which is how you may receive the Holy Ghost. Then we
find brother Branham speaking of how he wants to get some ministers to
volunteer to meet with people, and he clarifies that these are people who are
willing to die to themselves first, and then they would have hands laid upon
them to receive the Holy Ghost.
Now,
tomorrow night I would like to find, or have, rather, some ministers
if possible; if not, some good, solid men or women that we could call on in the
time of need, that in the event... Tomorrow night we start after the message to laying on
hands for the Holy Spirit. And then, they'll be a... You have
your privilege of staying right here if you wish to all through the holidays if
it takes that long to die.
And then, if not, if you desire to go to
your own home, why, we would be glad if you get in a place where you... Just
don't know where to go... We want to get some ministers, their numbers
if they're visitors, their numbers where they're staying, that where we could
get ahold of them right away, and get one in one
home, one in another, and one in another, that they could
give you instructions, you who are going to seek for this great blessing
that we're talking about, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Now, I want you to notice that brother Branham said if
there are not any ministers available, then "some good, solid men or women" to
do this instructing on how to receive the Holy Ghost and to lay hands on those
wanting to receive the Holy Ghost.
Now, let's read on through the next two paragraphs to
see how he clarifies this. Because there are men in this message who might as
well be Muslims, because they think that all women are the creatures there are,
and they even make totally unbiblical statements like "God would rather listen to the
lie of a man
than to hear a woman speak the truth."
I don't know what Bible they are reading from and what
prophet they are trying to quote, probably the propjet Mohammed who is a false
prophet. But my Bible says...
Psalms 66:18 If
I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, (dogs
are male prostitutes, which are preachers and politicians that sell themselves
for money) and sorcerers,(that's pharmecists) and whoremongers,
and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Revelation
Ephesian church age 60-1205 P:59 Now. I know thy works,... and thy patience,... how that thou can
not...Let's see now, I
got the...I know thy
works, and thy labour, and thy patience... how that
can not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say that they
are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: He found
them to be liars. How'd they know that? They wasn't quoting with the Word. Now,
if a man says that... If this Bible says in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and
forever," and the
man said, "Aw, the days of miracles is past," then that man's a liar.
If the Bible said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of your sins," and every place in the Bible says the same thing, and
everybody that was ever baptized in the Bible time was baptized in the Name of
Jesus Christ, and he commissions them to be baptized, sprinkled, or
something else like that, that man is a liar, found out a false prophet.
I hope I ain't hurting feelings, but I... Brother, you--you--you can't baby
this; it's time to take the gloves off and handle the Gospel. See? That's the truth.
Look,
iniquity can be purged, but it is by Truth and Mercy, not believing God will
accept a lie from a man. Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the
LORD men depart from evil.
God
said in James
Matthew 5:7 Blessed
are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Now, back to brother Branham's sermon, "2 Last night we were speaking what It was, "What
Was the Holy Spirit?" And we found It to be
just about everything that God promised to us. In It
we found just what God's church would need. We found It
to be a Seal, a Comforter, the Rest, and the Joy,
and the Peace, and the Resurrection. And all that God promised to His
church lays within the Holy Spirit. And
now, tonight we want to preach on, or talk on, teach on... I have about three
or four sheets of texts here, or Scriptures, on It.
And which last night I left my Cruden's
"Concordance" laying here, and I didn't get it. And I just had to go
through the best I could today with the Scriptures.
3 Now,
and tonight we're teaching on, What was the
purpose of God sending the Holy Spirit? What's It for? If It's such a great thing, then why did God send It? Then
tomorrow night we want to talk on, Is It for You; and How Do You Get It; and
How Do You Know When You've Got It? And then, after we get through that with
the Scriptures, explain it by the Scriptures, using the Scriptures for all
things, then those who are seeking the Holy Spirit will come forward then. And
then, I hope the revival's on from then on, to move on then with the Holy
Spirit. Now, being that tomorrow night many might stay quite awhile at the
rooms and in the church, I feel that if we could get as many ministers and
those people who are experienced in leading people to receive the Holy Spirit (to
encourage them, to go into the home with a woman and her husband, or--or with
someone that's seeking the Holy Spirit), that's well instructed on what to do,
if you would just give your phone number or address to the pastor tonight or
tomorrow night. Just give it to Brother Neville, then that'd save us gathering
in for a meeting. Just give your phone number where we could reach you. And
then say, "I'll be available, and if we--you want to place me into a
home..." If it's a
woman alone, then we could send a woman (See?) to this woman. And
then, if it's in a home where there's a man, his wife, why, we could send a
minister. And we'd be glad to have you to cooperate, because I know you're
every one interested in this, this most essential. And remember, "He that saves a soul from his error, has
covered a multitude of sin." See? And the Bride of Christ is hungering and thirsting.
She's in travail to give birth to the children of God.
Now, anyone who believes God doesn't use a Godly
sister as well as a Godly man doesn't know God, nor understand His ways. Now, i am not saying that a woman can preach because she is
forbidden to do so, not because she is incapable of doing it, but because of
the transgression in the garden. I know lots of sisters that have more on the
ball than their husbands do spiritually speaking.
But
God is not the author of confusion, and God is not a respecter of persons. The
Bible says in Galatians
So as long as you got the Holy Ghost God
doesn't look on you as male or female, you are one in Christ.
And I can show you 10 women in the Bible that God
spoke to them because their husbands wouldn't listen and the wife even saved the life of her husband from
being killed by God, because he was so busy with his ministry he neglected his
own kids.
Now, those men who think God cannot use a man's wife
to speak to the man are totally inept and clueless concerning what the
Scripture teaches.
So
let's look at Moses first, because brother Branham said he was perhaps the
greatest prophet that ever lived outside Jesus.
Perseverance 62-0608 P:30
Moses, he'd knowed
intellectually by his
godly mother, our beloved sister Jochebed...
He had heard her teaching in the intellectual manner, how that his life had
been spared from the crocodiles, and how that God had made him a proper child,
and he was born for a deliverer; and how that Miriam, his sister, the
prophetess, had followed him down to the bathing beach, where Pharaoh's
daughter was bathing; and how that God had brought him right up and nurtured
him right in the palace of Pharaoh; and how he was going to deliver the
children.
So, Moses mother prepared his understanding but it
wasn't until he met the Pillar of fire that he could go forward with the
Dynamics upon the mechanics he learned from his mother.
As I said there are men of God in the
Bible who were used by God in the ministry and yet God used their wife to keep
them from getting killed by God. Now, brother Branham called Moses the greatest
prophet in the Bible.
Redemption in completeness 54-0330 P:29 Moses... Oh, I'm going to let this sink
deep. I hope it goes way down. Moses, greatest prophet ever lived, outside of Jesus Christ.
Never was a man that God ever spoke to, like He did Moses, outside of Christ.
He said, "If there be one who's spiritual, or prophet, among you, I'll
show him visions and make myself known to him. But not My
servant Moses; I speak lip to ear with him." That's right.
So
let's look at this greatest prophet who ever lived outside Jesus Christ and see
how God used his wife to save his life.
Perfect strength 61-1119 P:67 Moses realized it, and he knowed enough
then... God took him back in the back in the wilderness to learn him some human weaknesses. He took him back to
learn him what it was all about. So well did he learn.
Oh, my, did he ever get a lesson. God must've had a time with him back there.
You know, Moses had a temper; and God give him the wife by name of Zipporah; she had one too. So I imagine everything wasn't so
pleasing back on the backside of the desert for a while when both of their
tempers got out of control at the same time. I suppose his
intellectual conception of how psychology ought to control a person didn't do
much good, because when he was on his road down to
Now,
what did the vindicated prophet of God just tell us? He said if it hadn't been
for Zipporrah, Moses wife, doing what he should have
done, God would have slain him. Wheewww!!!! brothers. The next time you get uppity and think your wife
has not thought coming, you had better be careful, it may be God using her to
get you back on track.
Ok,
sisters, today I'm sticking up for you, and your
getting your boquet of roses.
And what about the Apostle Paul? What did he have to say about Godly sisters. Now, I am not talking about gossipy sisters, I am
talking about Godly sisters.
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned
faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and
I am persuaded that
in thee also.
Notice,
Paul knew Timothy's mother and grandmother and he saw the same gift of
unfeigned faith in them that he now saw in Timothy.
Indictment the 63-0707M P:12 Now, when they laid hands upon Timothy and
upon those brethren, they had noticed in them men was the gift. Remember,
"stir up that gift, which was in you, come from
your grandmother Lois."
And they seen this in Timothy; and therefore, the elders laid hands upon him,
ordaining him, not put hands upon a man that nothing has ever been showed
forth. You see? And they just asked the blessings, and we all believe that. So
we don't impart spiritual gifts; we only recognize them and lay hands upon them
to sanction them, that we believe that God has done
such things for the people.
Ordination 62-1104E P:7
Now, in the Bible
times, like it says... They take the Scripture over there when Paul said to
Timothy that he had the gift ministered to him. Why, he said it come
from his grandmother, Lois. See? This gift that come from his grandmother, Lois, was
handed down to him. They noticed in him, being a staunch
Christian, also a gift of speaking, and they laid hands upon him as a recognition. The elders of the church laid hands
upon him, recognizing this man, and placing the apostolic ministry of
laying hands on him, that he would go preach the Gospel; sent out by a
witness of these brethren, that they believed that the gift of God was working
in him. That's the way they did also to the ministers by laying on hands
and giving the right hand of fellowship to work together, as an agreement
before God, that they seen the gift working in this brother; that he was called
for something, and we believed it. And they laid hands on him that God would
bless him. And it was a sanction. Just like, I could not be...
Thyatirean church age 60-1208 P:9
Now, this great saint
here was Columba. He was a great man of God. Now, I've got his history kinda written down here. First, the fourth church age,
"Thyatira," it means "to be laxed,
loose, or hazy." See, it was just a illegitimate
time from 606 to 1500. The star was Columba, from
Lifting Him out of history 58-1001 P:23 I think about John Wesley's mother,
Susanna. She was a mother of seventeen children. And she had time to spend,
I think it was either, two or three hours every day in prayer, and
raise, and mother seventeen children--which brought forth one of the
world's greatest preachers and one of the greatest song writers of the day,
Charles and John--because she took time to serve God and not dally in the
things of the world.
And
where would the Church Ages record of that age be if it had not been for that
Godly sister who raised up those boys to love God, to
study their Bible, and she taught them also how to pray.
Reproach for the word 62-1223 P:75 There's old blind Anna setting in the
temple praying. The
Lord revealed to her "Simeon is right." Amen! She couldn't
see daylight from dark, but she could see farther than many people today
that has got good eyes. She saw in the Spirit the
coming Messiah was at hand, the Spirit moving in her heart. See
what a little bitty
church there was? Zacharias, Elisabeth, Mary, John, Anna
and Simeon, six out of the millions.
Simeon and Anna 59-0211 P:23 And Simeon stopped. The Holy Spirit must've
said, "Stop, Simeon. I'm going to show you a sign." And he turns his
head. He runs, grabs the Baby, holds It in his arms, said, "Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your Word, for my
eyes see Your Salvation." Then way over in a corner was an old blind
prophetess. Her name was Anna. She couldn't see, eighty-four years
old. She fasted and prayed all the time. She too was Spirit filled. Just
then the Holy Ghost said, "Stand up, Anna." Here she comes, blind, walking through the audience, led
by the Spirit, led by the Spirit. Didn't matter where she was going,
couldn't see where she was going. But she was led by the Spirit. And the
same Holy Ghost that's leading us tonight. Don't make any difference where
you're going, as long as you're led by the Spirit. Here she comes. She comes
to Mary. She sees His face. She raised up her
hands. The Holy Ghost come on her and she begin to
prophesy. That same God is here tonight. Led by the Spirit, sons and
daughters of God, do you want Him to lead you to that same One tonight?
And what about Hannah? Resurrection
of Lazarus 50-0813A P:22 Hannah came to the temple past the age of
bearing, went to the temple that day to serve God. Probably the women all went
up to
Absolute the 62-1230M P:110 But that little old Shunammite
(not Shunammite woman but little... Yes, I believe
she was a Shunammite), when she come and seen that
that power was in Elijah, she said, "I perceive that he's a holy
man." And when that baby was laying dead, she
said, "Saddle that mule and don't you stop." She went up there... She
knowed... And I like that, the way she come; she got
to her absolute, her tie post.Elijah said, "Here
comes that Shunammite. She's grieving, but I don't
know what's wrong." See, God don't show His servants everything, just what
He wants them to know. So he said, "Her heart is grieved, but I don't
know." He said, "Run, find out, Gehazi, and
see what's wrong."He said, "Is all well
with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with thy son?" Look
at her. Oh, my. This is it. She said, "All is well." Why? She'd come
to her absolute. "All is well." And she knelt down. Fell first at his
feet, and Gehazi raised her up. That's not right
before his--his master, raised her up; and she begin
to tell him.
And what about the woman of Zarepath? She
represents the bride of the end time, whose barrel of flour never went empty
and her cruse of oil never went dry.
Spiritual food in due season 65-0718E P:50
Notice, there was meal
in the barrel. Every time she went after meal, there was meal in the barrel.
There was oil in the cruse, every time she went for it. Why? Meal represented
Christ in the meal-offering. The burrs had to be set just right to grind every
one of them. Every burr of this meal exactly the same, showing that He is the
same yesterday, today, and forever. That was the Word, the Bread of Life
following the message, to vindicate the Word. So is it today, friends.
So is it today, that the Bread of Life that the children eat on, follows the
Message of God, to sustain them during the time of the drought. What if He stood in our presence
today? What if He stood in our presence right now? He would act and
do just exactly like He done the days when He was in
flesh here on the earth. The Bride is part of the Husband; the church is the
same as Christ. "The works that I do shall you do also." And it is the Word that done it.
He told us that the things that He did that we would do also.
Let us pray...