The Parables of Christ no. 32
The
Fruit for the Seasons
Rev. Brian Kocourek
Back on February 8th we took our text
from Matthew 21: and we read from verses 33-43. The title of our sermon was the Mortal Heir and
the Mercenary Husbandmen, and the message dealt with the
humanity of the Son of God, and the mercenary activity of the husbandry men, or
ministry. We spent almost the entire message tying Hebrews 6 and Matthew 21
together, but we looked at only one side of the twins
situation and that was at the activities of those that crucified the Son of God
Afresh.
Now, this morning I would like to again review this
parable, and look at the other side of this story, and share a more positive side of this parable.
Matthew 21: 33 - 43 Hear another
parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged
it round about, and digged a
winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
a far country:
Notice that this vineyard belongs to one who also
prepared a winepress in it. This tells us that he expected results from the
harvest. And he expected the winepress to be used. Now, wine presses are used
to press the grapes into juice, which then is turned into wine. And so this
Great One prepared the land, and he prepared the seeds which grew into grape
vines, and he even prepared a way for the grapes to be turned into wine,
representing the stimulation of revelation. He did it all, and then he let it
out to men who were supposed to carry on and do his work. But the sad thing is
as we found out in our study of this parable in Parables of Christ number 21,
is that these men were only hirelings, and were interested only in what they
could get for themselves. Now, the whole parable is set forth in this next
verse.
And when the time of
the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it…
Now this was the entire purpose of the Householder
letting out the field to men to bring forth the fruit. Notice we read, when the time of
the fruit drew near… he sent his
servants to the husbandmen, that they
might receive the fruits of it…
So we see the whole purpose was to gather together
the fruit in its season. But instead of cooperating with the ingathering, these
husbandmen were more interested in their own little kingdom’s
than in gathering together the fruit in its season.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first:
and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son,
saying, They will reverence my son. But when the
husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This
is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let
us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the
vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what
will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy
those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their
seasons.
Notice what we are reading here. He will deal with
those who were not good stewards and will then give the field into the charge
of those that will render him the fruits in their season. And then notice what
Jesus Himself says… Jesus saith unto them, Did ye
never read in the scriptures, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the
Lord's doing, and it is marvelous inn our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The
Now, let’s compare Matthew 21 with Hebrews chapter
six again. Now, as I read these verse, I will read them
also from the understanding we have received from God’s Message that He Himself
has come with and presented to us in this hour.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, (This word once enlightened
actually means once for all enlightened. Therefore we should read it as: For it is impossible for those
who have been once for enlightened) and have tasted of the heavenly gift, (Now, this speaks of the
heavenly gift in contradistinction to other Gifts we receive from God.
In John
Then Jesus told us that it was expedient that He
must go away if we were to receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit to comfort us.
We see this also in ACTS
And again we see Peter tell us in ACTS
Now, we must understand that we were promised the
Gift of or out from the Holy Ghost and we were also promised that the Holy
Ghost would come to us as a Gift from God in the form of a Heavenly Gift. But
to understand the difference between the Holy Spirit during the church ages and
the Holy Spirit in our midst in this end time, let’s go to the Book of John.
JOHN 14:16 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, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.18 ¶ I will not leave you comfortless (That word comfortless is
the Greek word orphanos. Jesus is telling us, I will
not leave you Fatherless. I will not leave you as orphans. And when is an
orphan no longer an orphan? When it is adopted. So
Jesus is speaking of the time of adoption, when we will know our Father as we
have never known Him before.
The Apostle John tells us in 1 John 3: 1-2 ¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth
us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is.
So John tells us at the Appearing, we will know our
Father because we will see him as He really is, and by seeing Him as He really
is, we begin to know and understand who we really are. And how does this affect us? He goes on to
say, 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth
himself, even as he is pure. That
means you begin to purge your mind.
I PETER
Now, the heart is our rational mind. Jesus said, “as a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he, and he said, Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. So you think with your heart. And when we read of
the heart in the scriptures, we see that it is speaking of the mind. So we see
that Peter is telling us that we are to purify our soul by obeying the truth,
until we have a pure heart or pure minds and our love for one another is pure.
And Paul told us that we purify ourselves by the
washing of water by the Word, and King David asked the question, “How does a young man cleanse himself? And then he answered, By Taking heed thereto
according to Thy Word o God.
So when we see the Father at this Great Appearing,
we become Like Him by the washing of water by the Word. And in so doing, we
become like Him, and enter into His Mindset. And that is what adoption is all
about.
Now, I want you to notice what the Apostle Paul
tells us in GALATIANS 4:1 ¶ Now I say, That the
heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing
from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors
until the time appointed of the father. (Now, who is this tutor or
governor? It is the indwelling paraklete, the
indwelling spirit of God that comes by being born again by the Word of God. The
Living Word becoming alive in your soul. As Paul said, “And you hath He quickend who were dead in trespass and sins.” Now,
back to Galatians 4:…) Now I
say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons. In other words, the whole
redemption story was for one purpose and that was to bring us into the proper
place for adoption as sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (That means only
those that are sons is God going to do this for. So
what if you are not a son? Then don’t expect the spirit that was in His Son to
come into you.)
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, (into your understanding, and therefore you
cry) crying,
Abba, Father. Now, abba is not another
name, but a more customary way of saying father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a
son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
So we are looking at the mind of the Father which
was in His Son coming into sons, and making us ready for the adoption.
AT THY WORD LORD 51-0928 E-4 A son was born in
HIDDEN LIFE
55-1006A E-21 Now, here
is one thing that I do believe, that when a child... The Bible speaks back
there, that when the child had been raised, the tutor kept the Father posted on
the conduct of the child. Now, the Tutor in this manner has been the Holy
Spirit to the Pentecostal and the church. The Holy Ghost that give... And
remember, the child, no matter what would ever take place, it was borned a child; it will always be a child. And when a man
is borned of the Holy Ghost, he becomes a child of
God, for it is actually a second birth, a regeneration, that
creates something in the man that wasn't there to begin with. When every man is
borned into the household of faith, he becomes a
child. Then the Holy Spirit follows this man and brings word to God how he is
progressing.
E-22
Now, after this child become of age... Now, he's still a child. But if
the child was reckless, and never paid any attention, and wasn't so interested
in the Father's work, that child never become adopted
to that family. But if he was a correct child, a good child, and loved the
work of his father, and was interested, and tried to do all he
could to progress his father's work, then the tutor brought that word to
the father, and there was what's called the placing of the son or as Paul gives
it in--over in Galatians, "the adoption." That we was
predestinated into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, the adoption. Now,
the same son that was born into a family could be adopted into the same family,
or placed in the same family, or give a position in the family that he was borned into. And I do believe that that is the work of the
Holy Spirit today among the church, is trying to place in the church positionally apostles, teachers, prophets, and so forth,
as... And we've seen many false alarms and so forth moving amongst the people,
which only indicated that the real genuine adoption was at hand. I believe it.
God has to place into the church. That's the business of God, not of man.
E-23 Now, when this boy became of age, and when
he was ready then for his adoption, and he had proved by--the tutor had told
the Father that this boy was eligible for adoption, he was taken out into a
public place, and there he was robed with a--a robe (a honor robe, perhaps
purple, or some color of royalty), and was set up, and the whole city, all the
people around about, seen the Father adopt his own son into the family. And
then when he was adopted into the family, already a son, already a child,
already a heir of grace, but placed in the family...
You get it. Now, when he was placed in the family and given his position, then
that boy's name on a check was just as good as his father's name on the check.
Now, I believe that that is the time that the church has arrived at today, that
the next great move in the church is for God, after we've seen the false
alarms... But now, God will place in His church correctly, apostles, prophets,
teachers, evangelists, not man-made seminary boughten,
but God will place into the church. Not theology run-overs
and overnights, but God will place in the church, as God has chosen, as the
Holy Ghost has tutored this church and raised it up. And in there God will
adopt into His--into the position His sons. They're already His sons, but
whether they are worthy of the position that He has for them.
E-24 If you'll notice in a perfect type, God did
His own Son the same way. He taken three as a witness (where the mouth of two
or three witnesses every word to be established), Peter, James, and John: love,
faith, and hope. And He taken them up into a mountain
apart from the rest of the world. And there before official witnesses, God
adopted His own Son. He was transfigured before them, and His raiment did shine
as the sun. And a voice out of a cloud said "This is My
beloved Son; hear ye Him." Set Him upon a mountain, put the witnesses
there to see it, clothed Him in a robe as bright as the sun shining in the--in
this... They even shined like the sun in its strength. And God spoke out,
"This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him. God adopted
His own Child into the family. "Hear Me no longer, but this is My Son Who takes over from here on." Amen. That adoption is
near the time in parable of the church. It's time for that.
And when will this adoption time be? Jesus answers
this when he says, at the time when he says,) I will come to you. (So we see that
at the time of this coming He speaks of we are to be adopted and at that time we will know
our Father in a way we have not known him before. Now, keep this in mind because Jesus Himself
is speaking of the time of adoption..)19 Yet a little
while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also.
Now notice what Brother Branham said about this
verse from the message WHAT HOLY GHOST WAS GIVEN FOR 59-1217 14 …(Now, you that
would be reading from a Greek Bible would see it in here... "See"
there means "to understand." "For the world understandeth
Him not."
John 1: 1
- 4, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. notice verse 5 darkness does not comprehend it. ( katalambano = to take eagerly, to seize upon and possess, to apprehend and
comprehend. Here we are talking about Life and it says,
that darkness will not seize upon it, they won't apprehend it.
20 At
that day (what day? That day when we are no longer orphans. ) ye
shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath
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. (this is exactly what brother Branham and the Apostle Paul
were saying as well concerning the adoption. ) 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. 24 He that loveth me
not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the
Father's which sent me. 25 ¶
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.
Now, lets read a little bit
further ahead in the Book of John to see what else Jesus tells us about the
comforter.
JOHN 15:26 ¶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will
send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And
ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
JOHN 16:7 ¶ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that
I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I
depart, I will send him unto you. 8
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of
sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go
to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince
of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he
shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
And we see in Hebrews chapter 6 that we are to come
to an Once for all Truth, or enlightenment, and then
there will come a falling away.
Now, remember, Paul taught us that we are to receive
the spirit of the Son. And what did the spirit of the son act like? He said,
“The Son can of Himself do nothing, whatsoever the Father doeth,
that doeth the son likewise. And Jesus said the Spirit of Truth will be of such
a nature that whatsoever He heareth, that will He speak…
Now, that is the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit
that indwelt Jesus Christ, and showed Him what to say, and what to do, and what
to teach and what doctrine to teach, and He has come
in this day to do the same thing. Notice Jesus said, 13 Howbeit when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:
WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS 64-1221 210 Listen to me now. "When He... (not a thought, 'He' is a personal pronoun)--when He the Holy
Ghost is come (the Spirit of Truth), He will reveal these things to you that I
have said unto you, and will show you things to come."
TO SEE JESUS 54-0718E E-5 I am very thankful that this Spirit of
Truth was to be with us to the end. And that Spirit of Truth is none other, but
the Lord Jesus, Himself, in spiritual form.
And so in getting back to Hebrews six, Paul tells us the Spirit of Truth, the heavenly
gift, the Holy Spirit Himself, will come back to us in this hour. And he said of those who ) were made partakers
of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good Word of God, and the Powers of
the world to come, (that’s millennial power like talking to a horde
of bees and having them depart or talking to a raging bull and it goes and lies
down, like the lion lying down with the lamb, and things like an opossum coming
to your home for prayer…That’s millennium talk friends, those things are what
we will see during the millennium. But he says, having witnessed all this and
the once for all enlightenment, and then turn away? ) 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again
unto repentance; (and repentance is a change of the mind) seeing they crucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, (look, they can not
crucify the son of God because there is already been a once for all sacrifice.
But they crucify to themselves the Son of God all over again. And how do they
do that? By doing the same thing they did back the in the alpha. They said,
“away with him, crucify him…And so they depart from him, and they deny him as
son, and thus to themselves they are crucifying him all over again.)
JOHN 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him,
crucify him. (in
other words, get him out of here, get him out of our presence, how? By crucifying him.) And,
how are they crucifying to themselves the son of God all over again? By denying that he existed. They deny the son is what they
are doing. By making him his own father they deny that he is a son.
I JOHN
And so after they have been once for all enlightened
and crucify him by putting him out of their presence, and out of their mind
denying he existed, or still exists. Oh yeah, there are some who claim to
believe the message who say he went back to gases. They scoff at the scripture
that says, He is ever living to make intercession for
our confession. And so they have come to the place of the great falling away,
and will never be able to repent (change their thinking) again. and they put him to an open shame. That
means they put him to a public disgrace.
Now this next verse is very important because it
ties with our parable from Matthew 21. Now catch carefully what Paul says
right after this... 7 For the earth (that’s the field
which the householder owned) which drinketh in the rain (The
rain is the doctrine, that’s Deuteronomy 32: 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb,
which drinketh in the rain (the doctrine) that cometh oft upon it, and that produces a crop that is useful to
those who have sewn it…
And
who did the sewing?, the Son of Man) it is this land which
produces the crop which receives the blessings from God. But the land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless
to the one who sewed the land and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it
will be burned.
Psalm 1: 1 - 3 Blessed [is] the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight
[is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And
he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper. So we see here that there is a fruit that is to be
brought forth in it's season.
Psalm 145 : 15 - 16 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in
due season. Thou openest thine
hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Galatians
6: 7 - 9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in
due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 John 8
- 9 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have
wrought, that means Do not loose that
which we have sewn for
but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth,
and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father
and the Son. Therefore
you must abide in the doctrine to reap.
Then in pp. 231 -
233 He said, "And
if you was just baptized in water right, and then
deny the Word, then you're illegitimate; your birth wasn't correct. You claim
that you believed Him then, and you deny Him. How could I deny my family? How
could I deny Charles Branham being my father? A blood test on the door shows
it. Uh-huh. My action, and the vindication of
God's Word in my life shows whether I'm a child of God or not.
So what is our action
supposed to be? Doing the will of the Father.
Luke 1:
19 - 20 And the angel answering said unto him, I am
Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and
to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou
shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be
performed, because thou Believest not my words, which
shall be fulfilled in their season.
John 6:
63 - 66 It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. Notice how that just after He informed them Eternal
Life is in His Word, they left.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: So
if everything has a season, we must ask ourselves this question? What
season are we in? What is my season? Why am I here? What is my end?
1 Peter 1: 3 - 7 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly
rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than
of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honour and glory at
the appearing of Jesus Christ: now
notice verse 5, the WUEST translation says, "You who are constantly being kept guarded by the power of God
through Faith, for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in a last season which is epochal and
strategic in it's significance. " again notice verse 6 & 7, the trials will produce in you a crop
that is in the image of the Life of the Original seed.
Deuteronomy
Joel 2: 23 - 27 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in
the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he
will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
rain as in the first..(in other words, as it was in Alpha it will
repeat in Omega)
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, (when is this? At the
harvest time) and
the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you(I
will, not someone else, but I personally will restore to you) the years that the
locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller,
and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat
in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Thee, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Hosea 6: 1 – 3 ¶
Come, and let us return unto the
LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind
us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the
third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the
latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
Notice He will come forth to us as the Rain, the
doctrine, for He is the Doctrine. He is the doctrine of Christ. And if you do
not have the doctrine of Christ you do not have God.