Masterpiece 59
The Rejected King
Pastor, Brian Kocourek
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life matched exactly the life of Moses. His
life matched David. Let's see if it was, if He's the Matching-piece. 89-
Notice David, a rejected king over his
own people. He was... One day while he was... His own son rose up in mutiny against him. And he separated and
divided the armies of
Now, this morning since it is Easter morning, I would
like to focus on this thought that Brother Branham is speaking here that
identifies Jesus with David as the rejected King, for that is what He was and
that is why on Good Friday he was crucified as the rejected King.
Now, I do not know if people really have a clue as to Who they are rejecting when they reject the Doctrine of
Christ. To reject God’s word means to Reject God, The King Himself. And to
reject God as King means to Reject His Kingdom which is the Holy Spirit in the
believer. Therefore, to reject the Holy Spirit means to turn down eternal Life.
It is just that simple.
Most people do not know how they worship, and they
know what they and where to worship, and therefore worship in vain. Jesus said
in Mark 7:7,
“Howbeit in vain
do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.”
But it has always been that way. Back in the days of
Samuel they rejected Him, but when he complained to God that they had rejected
him, God told him, “It’s not you they are rejecting,
it’s me they are rejecting.”
1 Samuel 8: 1 ¶ And it came to pass,
when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over
Now, I want you to pay close attention to what took
place in this scene. To the natural way of thinking the people felt they had a
right to reject Samuel because he appointed his own sons to judge them, and
those sons did not walk in Samuel’s ways, and did not follow God in the ways
that their father did. On one hand, you
can say these people were not stupid, they saw how Samuel walked and they knew
he was a man chosen by God, but they also saw how his sons walked, and how those two
sons went after the money, and took brides, and they perverted judgment.
Now, The American Heritage dictionary tells us a bribe
is 1. Something, such as money or a
favor that is offered, or given, to a person in a position of trust, to influence that
person's views or conduct. And the
people knew that Samuel’s sons had been placed in a position of trust as judges
over the people, and when the people saw that they willingly received money and
gifts from dubious persons who were seeking advantage by having a relationship
with those two sons, the people were not stupid. They knew what was going on
and they knew that Samuel had been very different from his two sons, and they
didn’t like it. Then, where the people made their mistake is when they tried to
take it into their own hands and decided to do something about it. That is
where they made there mistake right there.
Now, I want you to think about that for a moment. God
called Samuel and ordained him a prophet which means a mouthpiece. And God
anointed him, and gave the people correct governance through him all throughout
his life. But then he does something that they just don’t agree with and they
don’t understand why he did it, and they want to do away with him, and do what
the other nations are doing, and they ask for a King to Rule over them.
God of
this evil age 65-0801M P:37 Now,
notice these great truths that we are approaching. Now, we see that the church
refused to accept God's Word to rule over them and accepted Barabbas
instead. Now, if you want the Scripture on that, it's Matthew 27:15 to 23.
What did this do? What position did this do? Now, think of it. When the church
world in it's organized life of righteous,
holy men, as they thought they were and were in the eyes of the people, they crucified Jesus and said,
"We'll not have this man rule over us." And Jesus was the Fullness of
the Word of God; I John 1 expresses it. And they said,
"We'll not have this Word of God to
rule over us." Yet He was the Word, but their eyes were blinded to
what He was. For He was the direct answer to every prophecy
that was to come to pass in Him. Now, we all believe that, because we're
looking back to see it happen. But if the world would--that is now, this
present evil age, that would've been back there at
that time, they'd do the same thing they're doing today, because it's still the
same Word for this age being manifested. They'll do it. They can't do nothing else. They are children of disobedience, given a
strong delusion to believe a lie and be damned by it.
Now, God told Samuel that they were not rejecting him,
but they were Rejecting God’s own rule over them. You see God ruled by His
prophets. God’s own judgments were given by the prophets, and when they rejected
something that had been given by the prophet because it just did not seem to be
running in the fashion they were used to, instead of going to Samuel and asking
him why this was happening, or asking him to go to God and ask God to stop
those boys from making money off the name of Samuel, they just outright rejected Samuel,
and in turn rejected God’s rule over them
because God spoke through His prophet. That prophet was God’s
mouthpiece. He never took money from the people.
I believe that Samuel the prophet of God, the
mouthpiece of God, had no more to do with the selecting and appointing his sons
to judge, than nothing. If his life was so devoted to God, and he would not do
anything except God told Him to do it, do you think he would willingly put
forth his two sons knowing their poor character and their lack of dedication
and consecration to God? I believe that God told him to appoint those two boys.
And sometimes God does that to test the people. That gave the people a reason to doubt his
prophet, and yet when they did, and rejected the prophet, God said they were
not rejecting Samuel, but they in doing so were rejecting God.
From his sermon Why? 63-0626 P:32 brother Branham said, And
then, you know, but behind all of it, no matter how much it seems that God has
turned His face from the people, He does that sometime to see what kind of an
attitude you take. Every son that cometh to God's got to be tried and
chastened.
Now, Samuel was one of the greatest prophets in the
Old Testament. You think this man of God would place his sons in a position of
power just because they were his sons? I believe God told him to do it. When people came to him for help he would
seek God and by vision he would tell those people where their lost things were
to be found, and he would tell them things that would come to pass the same
day, the next days or days even to come, and hit them right on the dot
accurate. If you read chapters 8 through 12 of 1 Samuel you will see many
prophecies that he spoke taking place just as he spoken them He told Saul
everything that would take place for several days ahead and who he would meet,
and what they would say, and many things even to where he would find his horses
that had run off.
I
SAMUEL
1
Samuel 12:1 ¶ And Samuel said unto all
Now, notice here that Samuel said, the Lord your God
WAS your King. He used the past tense word was because the Lord God was no
longer their King because they rejected Him as being their King. He is the
Rejected King, Always)
1
Samuel
Now, brother Branham, in speaking of this scene said in his sermon, Modern events made clear by prophecy 65-1206 P:70 But,
you see, Samuel said, "Have I ever at one time taken any of your
money from you for my living?" They said, "No, Samuel, you
never done that." Said, "Did I ever tell you anything
in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?" "Oh, that's
right, Samuel. We believe you're a prophet sent from God. Yes, sir. Everything
you said come to pass, Samuel. But we want it
anyhow." You see what happened. Oh, brother, the Scripture just keeps
repeating Itself back and forth through the Scripture,
'cause it's God's way of doing it. You see? You
And from his sermon Trying to do God a
service 65-1127B P:140 Brother Branham makes this story a little
closer to home in this hour and tells it this way. Samuel stood one day, and
they said, "We want a king; we want to be like the rest of the world. "Samuel said, "Don't take that king. He'll take
your sons and daughters, and he'll do this and do that. "He said,
"Yeah, I know you're right." But Samuel said, "Listen to me. Did
I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for a living? Did I ever tell
you, you had to give me so much salary to hold a meeting for you?" Now,
judge yourselves, even now. See? He said, "Did I ever tell you anything in
the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?" Not one thing. "Oh, yes,
Samuel, you never did beg us for money; you never did want big things. Samuel,
that's true; and everything you told us in the Name of the Lord come to pass.
But, Samuel, we want our denomination anyhow." "Then go take it. It's
up to you." That's right.
Did you know that of
all the wonderful sermon topics that brother Branham spoke, his favorite was “The Rejected King”? That’s what Brother Vayle
told me the other night. He said brother Branham told him his favorite topic
was “The Rejected King.” Now, why do you suppose he so
identified with that subject more than any other he preached? I believe it was
because he identified so much with Samuel. And in his own ministry, he was rejected by
the church world and the church leaders because they wanted what denominations
had. They wanted to be rulers of men like the denomination rule the people.
They wanted to rule the hearts of men instead of allowing God to rule in the
hearts of men. And that is the Bible truth.
The Bible tells us
that is always the case. The people don’t want an independent walk with God,
they want for some man to rule over them. They want for some man to tell them
they are ok, when they are not ok. They want some man to go to God for them
when they must have their own relationship with God.
Jeremiah
Notice the priests by their
own authority rule the people, and the people love to have it that way. I saw
that years ago and determined in my heart that I would never do that to the
people. I would never be a dictator, over the people. And yo9u would think that
people would love to hear the truth and come to a church where no one rides
heard over you, but you see, the people want someone
to rule them. The Bible says they do. We just read it.
But brother Branham
said it shouldn’t be that way. From his
sermon The Rejected King 60-0515M P:31 Brother Branham said, But man wants to rule, and rule over man;
and man wants man to rule over him. He doesn't want to have God to rule. So
this son of
Now, the difference
between the prophet and a deacon board or some elder in this message posing as
a righteous pastor, is
that the Prophet has “Thus Saith the Lord”. The
deacon board does not. And that is the problem I am seeing in this message. Men
rising up in churches and taking authority over the people as though the people
are their own personal serfs in their fiefdom and God has set them to rule over
these people. That is nonsense. There are no big “I’s”
and little “you’s” in the
When then the Prophet
comes with “Thus Saith the Word of God” the people
should have enough respect for God to say “Amen! And “So be it”. And when the
Pastor comes and says, “Thus saith the Word of God”
the people ought to have enough respect for God’s Word to say, “Amen” and “So
be it”. But if any man comes along with some idea of their own and it can’t be
backed by Scripture, then the people should not have to listen to it. They
should not have to follow it. If your conscience tells you that is wrong, and it can’t be proven by Scripture you had better
follow your conscience brother. But they use fear tactics to rule thee people.
Two strikes and you are in the dog house and three strikes and you are out.
What ever happened to seventy times seven? What ever happened to the scripture,
“Come let
Look, I am not saying
the people should be arrogant in dealing with this. That is contrary to the
word of God. But if a man tells you to do something and you can’t find
Scripture for it, then you have a right to go to that brother and ask them in
love, to show you the Scripture for whatever it is that they are asking you to
do or not do that goes against your conscience.
Brother
Branham said in his sermon, JESUS
CHRIST THE SAME 58-0323 P:0022
If there's a question, if we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's
not a promise of God in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and
ask us like brethren. And we ask you to do that. We ask
you as our brothers and sisters to come to us.
When you go to a
minister and ask him why he said something the way he did, and you can’t see it
the way he said it, you have a right to go to that minister and find out why he
said it the way he did. There is no reason for that minister to get upset with
you for asking them something that you can’t seem to get in your conscience.
But if you make a habit of arguing about every point that the man makes, then
that is different. But if you in your heart just can’t see a point that is
made, then you have a right to go ask for further explanation.
Spoken
word original seed 62-0318M P:13 You have a right to disagree with me as you
may see it different; but I hope that me, by the help of God this morning, I'll
be able to show you the reason why that I have took this stand.
So if brother Branham
was gentleman enough to show you by the Word ehere He
stood, then what minister has the right to get upset if any laity have a question concerning something he preached.
Brother and sister,
you will have to answer for your own conscience at the day of
judgment. A woman said to Br. Vayle one time,
“I
don’t understand therefore I am not accountable” and he said, “you
got it backwards sister”. “You are accountable therefore you had better
understand”.
I’ve seen too many times
since I became a Christian that some men would come around and take over a
group and no more be called by God than an old goat. And when it comes to the
Word of God they just but, but, but. Because they are a goat they are more
aggressive in their nature and they think that is vindication they are a
leader. And because they are more aggressive, they use that aggressive behavior
to cower the sheep. And sheep by nature are more timid than the goats, and so
the goats control the sheep by rules and by fear.
Rejected
king 60-0610 P:70 Samuel tried to tell Saul
that. God knows what was best. But Saul said, "Well, the people want
me." That’s it. Long as he get somebody to follow
him, that's all he wanted. He used Samuel's name and get somebody to follow
him; that's all he wanted.
They do the same thing today. They use William Branham’s name to get
someone to follow them. I heard one of these so called big shots on tape say,
“I’ll play second fiddle to no man.” Talk about arrogance. God would never use
a man like that! That’s contrary to the way God operates.
I have seen that in so
many churches. They have rules that govern the people and the hierarchy in those churches rule the people with an iron
fist and if the people get out of line they come down on them as though they
are criminals. And all for what? Since when have we
lost our freedom to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit? Since when do we
need a group of men to tell us what to do and when to do it.
In fact in some churches if you answer questions in your own house for you own
family, you are called on the carpet and made to feel ashamed of yourself. You give
a person advice that asks for it, and the pastors will tell you that you are
giving pastoral council and you are out of line. Since when is discussing the
Word of God out of line for a father or mother. Since when is the head of a
house out of line to direct his family in the Word of God?
Where is this found in
the Word of God? Now, it is true that William Branham vindicated prophet of God
said that you should not hold meetings without the pastor being present, but
that is meetings between believers. He was not speaking of a family asking the
dad questions or a Father teaching his family or a mother teaching her
children.
And so they will cower the
people by their rules and a fear of retribution if they disagree with them, but
show me where fear is of God? He said in His own word, “God hasn’t given us a
spirit of fear but of a sound mind. And a sound mind is a healthy mind that has
answers to its questions.
Show me where the Scriptures say to lock the people
out of a church if they are late. Just because you would like to do it doesn’t
make it right. The Bible tells us the attitude of the Bride of Christ is, “To
him that is thirsty let him come. Jesus called those who would try to keep
people out hypocrites.
In MATTHEW
The NIV says it a little more
straight forward. 13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces.
You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
But
notice what else Jesus said about this. John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any
man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall
go in and out, and find pasture.
Now, pasture is the stuff that sheep
go to, to eat. It’s their food.
And in Luke
8:16 he said, No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth
it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that
they which enter in may see the light. And
how can they enter in and see the light if the doors are locked.
Now we are examining what brother Branham spoke of
concerning the rejected King. And the reason they reject “The King of Glory” is
because they want to be a big shot, and they want to rule men instead of God,
The word ruling men.
I know I will take some heat for these words, but they
are said, and I do not regret saying them, because they are the truth. Have we come so far only to fall short? Have
the Elect of God come all this way into the Presence of Christ just to follow
some man who wants to be somebody?
ISAIAH
29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon
you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed: 12
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13 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: (precepts are rules taught by men.) 14 Therefore, behold, I will
proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,
[even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom
of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men]
shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down
shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made
it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of
him that framed it, He had no understanding? 17 ¶ Is it not yet a very little
while, and
Deceived
church by the world 59-0628M P:50 But as Israel was bound by
their kings, that they could not follow the real King, and the real King, when
He came, they didn't recognize Him, so is
it today, O Lord, the King of glory has appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost,
and, Lord, they don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so tight, that they do
not understand it, because it's not in their organization. Lord, this is a
work of the Devil that's done this to the people. May the Samson of God, may
the true in heart, those who are longing and crying, and pleading and holding
on, may they stay with it, Lord, until
this new crop grows out, until there comes forth again a joy in Zion, and there comes forth a group that can
recognize and understand, that can see the Messiah and the hidden power
that's hid from the world, that they will not understand now. Grant, Lord, that
they'll see this. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
The Rejected King, and he is the Word. And why did they reject Him? Because he didn’t come with polite speeches. He came with a
whip and run them out of His Father’s house. And that is the way he would come
today. For “Jesus Christ is the Same, Yesterday, today and forevere.” And if Jesus Christ is Still in the church, he will do the same as he did then.
In his sermon called, Way of a true prophet 63-0119 P:35 Brother Branham in speaking of a True Prophet
said if he would come in this day, You know what he'd do? He would blast and
condemn this generation. He would condemn every bobbed-haired woman in the
country. That's right. He would condemn every denominational preacher. He
certainly would. He would condemn every cigarette smoker, every woman that wore
shorts or slacks. He'd tear them apart. Why? It's against the Word. It's
exactly right. You think we would receive him? By no means.
They wouldn't receive him.He'd condemn the immorals of the church. He'd shake that little old wrinkled
finger in them preachers' face, and say, "You mean to tell me that you
call yourself anointed servant of God, and will stand in the pulpit, and let
your women dress sexy among your men, and things like that? Let your young
women rise up like that? You'll permit your men to marry two or three times,
and be deacons in the churches? You mean to tell me that you'll hold on to that
credential that you got in your hand, and turn aside the Word of God?" Oh,
my. He'd blast the thing. Yes, sir. The immorality of the church, and the immorality
of the members, he'd blast it. My. Every member he'd tear down. Every manmade
seminary doctrine, he'd tear the thing to pieces.
They don’t want the
Word to rule over them, and so just like with God in Samuels day, they rejected
Him as King, and in Jesus day, they rejected Him as King. Did you know that?
Jesus had rode into
Super
sign 62-0624 P:60 "Nico"
means "to conquer." "Laity" is the church. Take all the
Holy Spirit... They're not holy; just one holy man. It's the idea of getting money into the church…
Abraham's
covenant confirmed 61-0210 P:14 It was at the Nicene Council; it was that
Pentecostal remnant that they forced out, brought in their own ideas, where the
church, the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which was
first just a little saying among them. And "nico"
is a word means "conquer." "Laitia"
means "to conquer the laitia." In other
words, they taken all the spirit out of
the congregation, the laity, and made a holy man out of it. "The
people's not holy so the holy priest, the holy bishop, or something..."
And nico, conquer the laitia
and make it one man. So they'd all
go in, and build up the church, and pay in, and so forth like that. Just
one man could be the intercessor to forgive sins. But that's not God's remedy.
God don't deal with us as a church; He
deals with us as a individual. So the
Holy Spirit is in the laity, just the same as He's up here or anywhere.
You know we don’t have a lot of people in this church but we have the truth.
And I don’t know of any church that teaches so much on the individual walk as
this one. It’s got to be an individual walk. Because it won’t be a church that
goes in the rapture.
The church goes through the tribulation. The elect, which are the chosen out ones, go in the rapture. God deals with
Individuals, not churches. So if you have a group think mentality and think
that if I just conform to the group I’ll be saved, let me tell you that you are
lost, and on your road to hell. It is not he that conforms to the rest of the
church that is saved, but “you are saved by Grace through Faith and that is the Gift of
God”.
Br. Branham said from his sermon The Messiah
61-0117 P:55 You know what "Nico"
means? I looked it up. "Nico" means
"conquer, overcome." Overcome what? The laity, when all the holiness goes into some man, just some man alone. He's the
only one that's holy, and he's the one... The church can live any way they
want to and make confessions to him. Huh! The
Holy Ghost is for whosoever will, laity and all. It isn't God's will for it to
just be a holy man. It's the Holy Ghost amongst a people that's born again…
And from his sermon Greater than Solomon is
here 63-0605 P:51 brother Branham said, There's
no great ones among us. How can you have
faith when you desire respects one from another? We're all one in Christ Jesus.
There's no big men and little men. We're all the same. We're children of one
Father, and we're His children.
Abraham
and his seed after him 61-0423 P:47 "Nico"
means "to conquer." "Laitane"
means "the laity: "conquer the laity," make a holy man, somebody
that's holier than thou art. Just go up and get somebody, and he will be some
half god, or something like that, to stand up and... You do what you please,
and he will forgive the sins, and there you go: "conquer the lady,
laity," take the Holy Spirit away
from the church out there and put It all on the platform. That was not
God's way of doing it. No man on the
platform's got a right to say, he's the only one that has got the Holy Ghost,
and he's the only one got a say so in it. The Holy Spirit is to whole entire Body of Christ…
Let’s bow our hearts and our heads in a word of
prayer.