Benefits of the Son of God
no. 29
Understand How to use the Power
of the Spoken Word
Sunday -
Rev. Brian Kocourek
The twenty eighth benefit or promise of God to us concerning our believing in
His Son is that we receive the same Power of the Spoken Word that He received, but
we will only use it when the Father shows us to use it as He also showed us by
example. For our text we can read from Luke chapter 4.
Luke 4: 1-4 ¶ And
Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from
Now, I want you to notice
here that although Jesus was hungry, and he had the ability to speak the Word
over creation and change the stones into Bread, he did not use it and would not
use it unless the Father showed Him to do so. We know sometime later he changed
the water into wine, so the Power of the spoken word was there,a nd he showed
that he knew how to use it, and satan knew that if this is the son of God he
therefore was given this power, so he tempted the son of God when he was hungry
to try to use this power for self, and the selfless one said no to this
temptation, and surrendered over his own will to the will of God, and he said, “man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word of God.”
Now, brother Branham said
that the Bride will have “Thus Saith the Lord or she will keep still”. Now,
among those among us in this message that left pentecost but pentecost never left
them, they think this means that the Bride is to go around saying, “Thus saith the Lord
this and Thus Saith the Lord that”. But that is just simple
stupidity and a lack of understanding the Scriptures, and the nature of God. If
we understand the Scripures correctly, that has never happened and I can
guarantee you by the very nature of God that, that
will never happen. Why can I make this guarantee? Because “Thus saith the Lord”, simply means,
“The Lord has Said Thus,” And in this way when Brother Branham said, “The Bride will have
Thus Saith the Lord or she will keep still”, what he is saying is
that she will know the Word of the Lord and she will have his Mind and
therefore she will know what he wants done with his own word, and therefore, she
will only say what God has already said, in the situation for which God wants
it said, or she will keep still. Let’s just look at this statement brother
Branham makes in the sermon, The Spoken word is the
original Seed.
Spoken word original seed
62-0318E P:175 Notice, what harmony. Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father showed
Him first: (Harmony between God and Christ. See? John 5:19) So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life (He shows
Her), and she receives It. She never
doubts it. Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for
if the Seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Amen. (Now, I got a
great big "Hallelujah.") Here
is the secret: the Word is in
the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word,
and She does it in His Name.
She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then
it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its
purpose. They do only His will.
(Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can
persuade them different. They
have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still. Then they will do the
works of God. For it
is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His
day. All things when He was here, He did not complete all when He
was here, for it was not time yet.
Now, that is exactly what I was saying in
the opening statement, and that is what the 28th benefit to us is
concerning our understanding the relationship between the Father and His Son.
I know that many teach that the Bride will have the third pull and
that when the time comes they will use it. Many focus on this tthird pull as if
it is some mysterious thing, when it is not mysterious at all. The simple matter is that the third pull was
evidenced on several occasions, and brother Branham always linked it with the Power
of the Spoken Word. Now, tI would like to read for you the last three times
that brother Branham spoke about the Third pull.
From the
sermon, What is the attraction on the Mountain? Preached on
Now, let’s stop
here because this Sword that appeared in his hand was told him that it is the
Sword of the King, which is the Word of God that was [;aced
in his hand. Now, in scripture we are told in Ephesians
And again in Hebrews 4: 12 we read, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
Now, the next to the last time that
brother Branham spoke about the third pull was in the morning of July 25th,
1965 in the sermon Anointed ones at end time
P:189. Notice
carefully in this sermon how he describes this Third Pull to the people. “Notice the very day
when this messenger, not when he starts on the, but when he begins to declare
his Message. See? The First Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the
mysteries revealed. There's no more higher order to reveal the Word than
prophets. But the only way the prophet
can be a-vindicated is by the Word. And remember the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals to reveal
the hidden Truth that's been sealed in the Word. Do you see it? It is then,
in that day when this thing is to take place that Jannes and Jambres, the
impersonators, will appear again, just like they did when Moses appeared with
the original Word to say it; they appear to impersonate it. Just exactly right.
Now, you see what Matthew 24:24 is? See? Anointed ones.
So we see by this last quote, the Third
Pull had to do with the opening of the Word and the revealing of the mysteries,
and then he finishes by telling us the third pull was the opening of the seven
seals to reveal the hidden truth that had been sealed in the Word.
Now, that still
does not answer the question so many have concerning the third pull. But this
next quote which is the third from the last time brother Branham mentioned the
Third Pull and in it he tells us the Third pull was not given to him to do with
it what he wanted to do, but what God had sovereignly told Him what to do. During
a questions and answers session, brother Branham was asked a question about the
third pull and being able to use it to speak the Bride into perfection for the
rapture. And I want you to carefully see what his response was.
Questions and Answers COD
64-0823M P:86 248... this the third pull
and is speaking the Word. It seems entirely possible for you to speak the word
and one would be completely and fully restored, placed entirely ready for the
rapture in the resurrection, the Son of man. This is so, or is it not? And
you would do this if properly pressed upon. Would you not "escape all
these things (it's got a ditto there) escape all these things and stand before
the Son of man"? (Luke 21:36) Now, my dear friend. See? Now, I think here that you got a
good statement. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Now, that would be so. You said,
"Brother Branham..." In other words, here's what I'm... I believe ...
Not polishing up what you said, but I believe I can make it a little clearer to
people. See? You are believing, because of the Spoken
Words and things like that that He said about. And all of you here witnessed
the squirrels and all these other things that's been done. But did you notice, that was Sovereignly given. I never asked Him, "Lord, let me
do this, speak these things in like that, do these things there." I never asked Him that. He by His own
Divine will came to me and said,
"You go do this." See? I
wasn't asking one thing about it. Moses never asked to go down in
So you see, even if the Bride had the
Third Pull she could never use it until God told her to use it.Remember what
william Branham said in the sermon, The Spoken Word
is the Original Seed 62-0318E P:175 He was talking about harmony with God, and he said, … Notice, what harmony. Jesus
never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father showed Him first:
(Harmony between God and Christ. See? John
5:19) So will the Bride, and He
shows Her His Word of Life (He shows Her), and she receives It. She never doubts it. Nothing
can harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be
planted, the water will raise it up again. Amen. (Now, I got a great big
"Hallelujah.") Here is the
secret: the Word is in the Bride
and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it in His Name.
She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then
it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its
purpose. They do only His will.
(Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can
persuade them different. They
have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still. Then they will do the
works of God. For it
is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His
day. All things when He was here, He did not complete all when He
was here, for it was not time yet.
So you see the 28th benefit to
the Elect that we receive from understanding the revelation of the Son of God,
or shall we say the 28th benefit we receive from understanding the
relationship between the Father and the Son is that we will only do with God’s
word what God has already told us to do with His word. We will know His word
and His mind concerning His Word, and we will only do with it what that Mind
tells us to do.
Here is the secret: the
Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the
Word, and She does it in His Name.
She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then
it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its
purpose. They do only His will.
(Amen. I'll believe that.) No one can
persuade them different. They
have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still. Then they will do the
works of God. For it
is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His
day.
And Paul told us in I CORINTHIANS
So you can see
that the whole thing comes right down to whether we have the mind of God or we
do not have the mind of God. For if we do not have the mind
of God, He could never trust us with His Word. But if we have His Mind,
then we will know what He wants done with His Word, and we will not do anything
until He shows us what to do and when to di it. The hat must be on the chair if
you know what I mean. Brother Branham could not pronounce “Thus saith the Lord
until the vision was completely acted out in it’s
entirety and every detail had come to pass. Thus in the particular vision I am
referring to the hat had to be on the chair before he could pronounce “Thus
saith the Lord that person would be healed.”
And that is
exactly what Jesus Himself said that He could do nothing unless the Father
showed Him what to do and when to do it, and that is the role of the obedient son.
The first time
God spoke He said Let there be Light” and that is the
first. Then what will be the last? “Let there be light.” For the Alpha Must
become Omega, and he is the same yesterday today and forever.
Man that can turn on light
63-1229M P:31 Now, when you see His Word being vindicated, or other words, made
known, proved, that is a--the Light of His spoken Word. And without light
nothing can live, without light. There is no life upon the earth today
that--but what has to come by the--the light of the sun, in--in botany life and
so forth. And there's no Eternal Life outside of the Son of God. See? He is the
Light.Now, we find out, I believe, as we study now... And
this light... The earth was without form.Now, some people argue today in
their schools and so forth about the world being so many million years old, and
try to condemn the Bible, and say It's wrong; they just don't never read the
Bible; that's all. Because the Bible don't tell us how old the world is; the
Bible said, "In the beginning God created heavens and earth
(period!)." When, how, that's--we don't know it.
Now, that's the first, and that's a "period"; that's the end of that
sentence.
Man that can turn on light
63-1229M P:48 There's nothing can give you Life but the spoken
Word of God. It's the only way that Life can come is through His spoken
Word.That's all right to know how to split a atom; I wished they'd never found
it out. But if they... They have to do it, because this world is hanging
today... It had to happen to burst these big holes in the earth to let that
lava come forth and rejuvenate this world again to make a new earth, where
righteous will walk out upon the dust of the wicked, where sin will be
forgotten. Everything has a way of renewing itself. And man who was given to
live on this earth, by his own wisdom, taking the tree of knowledge instead of
the Tree of Life, he'll destroy the earth that God give him to live on. But
those who are still on the Tree of Life shall come to a new heavens and a new
earth where there is no sickness or death. Light, Light, Lord, send us Light.
There
shall be light, in the evening time, the path to glory you will surely find.
In
the water way there is light today, buried in the name of Jesus Christ
Young
and old repent of all your sins, the Holy Ghost will surely enter in,
The
evenning light is come, it is a fact that God and
Christ are one.
And how are they One?
SHOW US THE FATHER
IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 Now, it's many
times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible said so. But
the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was very
inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so
long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?"
Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the Father express
Himself through the Son. Him and the Father were one
in the sense that His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He
was a Son, Himself, the immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him
was dwelling the God the Father, expressing Himself to the world, His attitude
towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said,
"When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do
you say, 'Show us the Father?'
I
want to show you the hypocritical nature of those who preach against what we
stand for in one simple prayer that Jesus preached. In JOHN