Spoken Word #25
“Every
Seed After its Kind”
Brian Kocourek
May 31st, 2008
This evening we will continue with The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed and we shall begin at paragraph 20 where Brother Branham
begins to read from his text which is from Genesis chapter 1. Therefore if you
will open your Bibles this evening to Genesis chapter one while I read on. Now,
I want you to notice his title for this sermon is “The
Spoken Word is the Original Seed.” Now, this title alone is very
significant because he is going to talk to us in this sermon about the original
Seed which is Christ and the other seeds that must come forth after the image
of the first seed. And of course that first seed came forth in the image of the
Source itself, which is God. So He is talking to us in this sermon, about the
Son of God coming forth in the image of the Father and then others sons coming
forth in the image of the only begotten.
Now, if you do not understand the Godhead as defined
by the Scriptures of One God having an Only Begotten Son, you will never
understand what this sermon is all about. So let’s pick up at paragraph 20 of
The Spoken Word
is the Original Seed PT.1 pp. 20: Now, I want to open... Now, let us turn to the
Scriptures... I'm going to start in Genesis, and wind up tonight in
Revelations. I believe the Word. Genesis, beginning with the 1st chapter, I
wish to read a portion of the Word. And now, if somebody
would want someone to take, got your pencils and papers and so forth, 'cause
I've got many Scriptures. I want to keep reading all the time on these
Scriptures.
Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. 2. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided... light from the darkness. 5.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day. 6.
And God said, Let there be... firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters. 7.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8.
And God called the firmaments heaven. And the evening and the morning were the
second day. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he
called he the Sea: and God saw that it was good. 11.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and
herbs... and seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it
was so. 12. And the earth brought forth
grass, and herbs and yielded seed after
his kind, and the trees yielded fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. 13. And the evening and the
morning were the third day.
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Now, I want to begin this morning with my text to use this: "The Spoken Word Is the Original Seed."
Now, that's what I wish to lay the text on, "The Spoken Word Is the Original Seed." Now, if you'll notice,
God said, "Let it bring forth of its, in his kind." Whatever it was it must be brought forth of its kind. Now, this
Word of God is eternal. God, being infinite, cannot speak one thing and then
later on change it to something else, to a better decision, because every decision
of God is perfect. He cannot... Once His
Word is once spoken, It can never die. It lives on, on, on, and can never die,
because It is God. His Word can no more die than He can die. That's the
reason we read in
Now notice that God is the Word, and yet when God
spoke that Word that Word had to become what God spoke it to be. So we see in Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the
earth bring forth grass, and herbs... and seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was
so. And so we see God here a picture of God speaking His Word upon
the earth, and bringing into existence seed life of every
specie that will ever exist on earth in its natural un-perverted state.
Notice His word, “that every seed shall bring forth after its kind”, and so we
see the Law of Reproduction at work, “which is that every seed shall bring forth the same nature as
its source.” In fact in paragraph 163
and 172 of this very sermon that is what
brother Branham calls Genesis 1: 11, he calls it “The Law
of reproduction.”
Now, law is defined as 9. a. The body of principles or precepts held to
express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible: 10. A code
of principles based on morality, conscience, or nature.
So we see there are principles and morals and nature
at work in this law of reproduction that God established in the very beginning.
Then can’t you see why hybridization is so wrong? It is anti seed, and Anti –
Word, and thus anti-Christ to pervert the original nature of the seed to
anything other than its original intent. Every Seed is meant to bring forth
after its own kind, and to change that is to alter the Word of God and Life
itself, thus perverting that life that had its source in God.
I hope you can see why what is happening in this world
shows you we are at the end-time; when all these conglomerates have taken over
the seed business and are propagating hybrid seeds and the whole world is now dependent
upon a handful of men to feed them, because, who ever controls the seed will
control the life on earth. That is why we are at war for survival and yet the
world knows nothing about what is going on.
As I mentioned last week, companies like Con-Agra,
Cargill and Monsanto are vying to see who will come out on top of the seed
business and thus control the world’s food supplies.
Now, what is motivating them to do so? It can only be
said that satan in behind it just like he was in the garden of Eden when he got
to the woman with the seed of the serpent and impregnated her with that seed to
pollute the seed of mankind. And so when the man Adam came to give her his
seed, the war was on for control of all human seeds in earth.
And since God had set man as a Steward over the earth
to maintain and control all seed life in the earth, can you see how that Satan
stepped in and thus brought perversion to the plan of God?
Now, what brother Branham is beginning to lay out for
us is that The Spoken Word, or The Word Spoken
is a Seed, and being a Seed it is a bearer of Life, and the speaking of that
Word is the sowing of that Life, and therefore once that Word has gone forth,
it begins to take on flesh and come into manifestation because God’s Word is
Life. So we see in verse 12 And the earth brought forth grass,
and herbs yielding seed after his kind,
and the trees yielded fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Now, I want you to notice that what we are reading
here in verse 12
tells us that which was spoken as a seed in verse 11 must come into manifestation once
that seed has been sown or planted into the ground.
Now, there is a dual principle here in this verse. For
it speaks of not only the Word Seed, but also all seeds must bear the likeness
of their source. That is what verse 12 is telling us. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herbs
yielding seed after his kind, and
the trees yielded fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
Therefore Source is a very important factor in
understanding the Law of reproduction, for if you do not understand the nature
of the source you will never understand the nature of the seed that came forth
in the image of the One who sowed that seed.
Therefore in order to understand better what Source
each seed came from, we need go no further to look than into the Book of
beginnings, which is Genesis. The Word Genesis comes from the root word genus,
which speaks of birth, Source, origin, or generation. Therefore the book of Genesis is the Seed
Book in the Bible. This being so, then it must follow that every seed that will
ever come forth must be found in this Book. For it is the Book of Seeds.
Now, a seed is by definition a carrier of life. Therefore,
the Book of Genesis, being the Seed-Book, must also be the Book of Seed-Life,
or shall we say the Book of Life. Therefore, we must go back into this Book of
Life, This Book of Seed-Life, in order to find out more about the Source of
seeds, and the life that has been manifested in this earth in the lives of men.
Now, In examining the Law of
reproduction of the first chapter of Genesis,
we must make is this. At this initial point, in the history of this earth, we see
God speaking forth, or planting into the ground all seed life; one of every
kind of life form that will ever live on earth.
At this time he also set’s
forth a law to regulate all life forms he has planted into the earth. In each
life form, God placed a mechanism called seed-life, to bring forth others in
the same image and with the same nature. When the Scripture says every seed will bring
forth after its kind, the word kind
means nature. Therefore we have a clue as to the identity of the sources
of the seeds by examining the nature that they literally manifest once grown
up. This tells us what form of life they are, and who their source of
regeneration is.
GENESIS
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed is in itself, upon the
earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
In verse 11 and 12 we
see the Law of Reproduction. Every seed must
bring forth after it's kind. This word kind spoken of in verse 12 is a
Hebrew word miyn and is pronounced meen. The word means specie and refers to
nature. "Let every seed bring forth after it's own specie or nature".
Therefore, God's Law of reproduction speaks totally
against hybridization. For hybridization brings together two different natures
and produces a life that is not natural, but mixed. Then we can see that God's
Law of reproduction is meant to be a protective law that would preserve the
specie or nature that He placed in the seed.
Now, up to this point we also see in these
two verses of scripture that God has placed these seeds upon the earth at this
time by His spoken Word. They are not yet planted in the earth but the
scripture plainly says they are upon (up - on) the earth.
Now, we know that you can not see Life, you
can only see the attributes of life, such as the color, or scent, or other
attributes such the texture, growth rate etc. Therefore life is a spirit. It is
invisible, and can only be seen by it's many
attributes which it displays. When God spoke these words, the seeds that He
placed upon the earth were yet in spirit form. There were no
manifestation of these seeds at this time. But God's Word laid out the
ordained path in which they were to multiply. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
[and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good.
Now, it would
appear here that the reproduction is already taking place, but it is not. At least
not in the visible sense of the word, for we will see later in verse 14-15
that the sun is not yet created, and if no light of the sun, no life can
manifest itself upon the earth.
GENESIS
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth 18 And to rule
over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and
God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth
day.
I want you to
notice that these seeds were not yet planted in the earth, but only upon it,
but when they are planted in the earth, then they will grow up out of the earth
as God's law of reproduction dictates in verse 12.
Notice in verse
12
that the earth “is to bring forth”. That means
that they would have to come forth out from the earth, but to this point the
seeds are only upon the earth as stated in
verse 11.
They have yet to be planted. But we see in verse 12 the order in which they are to
come forth.
Thus we see the
following:
#1) In Genesis 1:11 we see the spoken Word
(logos) going forth and producing seeds.
#2) These
(logos) seeds are placed up and on the earth
#3) The seeds
are waiting their planting in order to spring forth into manifestation up and
out from the earth. This then is the order in which they are to come forth.
Then if we
carefully read on in chapter 1, we see all the animals and all the creatures of
the sea being spoken into existence and then, finally man. GENESIS 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it
was so. 25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed
them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of
all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to
every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green
herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
[it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now, if we
continue reading in chapter 2 we shall find that this is not another account
of creation, but a continuation of the same creation account. In chapter one,
we see only God's spoken Word going forth, and speaking into existence, spirit
beings. But in chapter 2, we see God clothing these spirit beings with
the dust of the earth. That’s the manifestation of the seed.
GENESIS 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his
work which God created and made. 4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and
the heavens, Notice this word generations
is used. It is a Hebrew word, towldah pronounced to led
aw, and means the proceedings, or the account of or the results of the
creation. 5 And
every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
Now, I want you
to notice then, that we are only given an account of the creation up to this
point, as the spoken word life, (the spirit life) of each seed and animal. We
know this to be true because we are told that this account of the proceedings
is before it was in the earth. 5 And every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Now, in chapter 1:26-27
we see that God had already created man in His Own Image.
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Now, notice here that up to this point God had created man in His Image. And we
know that, "God
is a spirit, and they that Worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth",
because that is what Jesus told us Himself in John 4:24.
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Now, we see in Genesis
1:26 God speak it, And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: And in verse 27
God performs what He spoke, 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him;. Then in chapter 2 we see God cloth man in dust,
giving him manifestation 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
Before we go
any further, let's just clear up a few things right here. God is speaking and
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Now, who is He
talking to here? He says, Let us! And then He says our
Image! Who is the Image of God in the first place?
Hebrews 1: 1-3 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us
in Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, (The expressed image... or the out-raying or etching
of God.) and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent
name than they.(Well that ought
to tell you right there that the Son of God came in His Father’s name just like
he said in John 5:43) 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father,
and he shall be to me a Son?
So
we are dealing with the Life that was in the source being in the Seed, and the
Spoken Word is the Original Seed would then dictate that the Life that was in
God was in the original Seed which is the Son of God. John 1:1 In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was God. And then if the Word brought
forth a Seed, an original Seed it would have to be Word for it would thus come
in the nature of the Word Itself.