Spoken Word #26
“Your
Words are Seeds”
Brian Kocourek
June 1st, 2008
This morning we will read again from paragraph 21
where Brother Branham sermon “The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed.” And we will focus our thoughts on what
Brother Branham had to say about the Word being a seed, and I would like to
take the thought that words are seeds.
21 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, last night we spoke on how God placed the Word
seed upon the earth before there ever was a seed natural to manifest itself out
of this earth. And the Spoken Word of God is the original Seed.
But notice we read from Genesis 1:11
that said, 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 then we read Genesis 2:5 that said,
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. And yet the Lord had already brought forth man
in His image as spirit man in Genesis 1:26 and 27.
But notice in 1:11 it said the seed was upon the earth, and in 2:5 it
says before it was in the earth. So we see the seed was spirit, For the Word of
God is Spirit and Life, That is what Jesus said in
John 6:63.
Now you know from many
times having heard the words from this pulpit that the Word is a seed. And not
only the Word of God is a Seed but all words are seeds. The Word of God happens
to be an incorruptible seed, but there is also a corruptible seed. That’s what
we are told by the Apostle Peter.
1 Peter 1: 23 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
for ever.
Now, if there is a
corruptible seed it has to be something other than the True Word of God that is
incorruptible. Every seed planted will bring forth children of that seed. In
other words every seed will produce a product of the seed nature or life that
is in that seed.
We saw this “Law of Reproduction” in Genesis 1:11 and we also see it in John 8: 44 Where
Jesus said to the Pharisees, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and
the father of it. And again in Matthew 23: 28 where Jesus tells these Christ
rejecting Pharisees to fill up the measure or pattern of their own fathers who
were prophet killers. Even so ye also
outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and
iniquity. 29 Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because
ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous, 30 And
say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of
them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the
measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents,
ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?
Again we see Jesus
speak of the Law of reproduction in Matthew 13:37-42 He answered and said
unto them, He that soweth the
good seed is the Son of man;38 The field is the
world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the
children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Notice how each seed
had to be sown before it could produce.
In the Message "Christ Revealed
in His Own Word" brother Branham said, there are three
things we must not do. We must not misinterpret the Word, we must not
misplace the Word, and we must not mislocate the Word.
Now to understand what it means to misinterpret we must first understand what
the word interpret means: According to Webster’s dictionary, interpret means: To have or show one's own understanding; to construe; to give one's own conception of, and the word conception comes from the
word to
conceive which begins the process of life. So to misinterpret is to misconstrue,
and to misconstrue is to give a misconception. Now, if it is a misconception,
then it is not a true conception. And we know conception has to do with bringing
forth life. Therefore wrong seed produces wrong life. A lie is a truth mis-told.
But when you speak the lie as though it is truth, then you are giving life to that
lie to those who hear it and believe it. And the most effective lie is one that
is 99% true. Because when it is checked out, if the 99% are checked out and the
other 1% is not checked out, then for every % that is checked out to be as the
lie stated, it only reinforces the lie. So then the 99% that is truth
reinforces the 1% that is a lie. But the life of the lie is a perversion. It is
not the same life as though it were 100% true. Do you follow what I'm saying. Your words are seeds bringing to life the things you
speak. Whether true or false, a seed is sown every time you speak. And brother
Branham told us that we, our minds are only a battle ground for God and Satan.
So the life that comes forth from our mouth is either God Life or satanic
perverted life. Jesus said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he. And out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
In fact brother
Branham said that words are seeds in his sermon JESUS CHRIST THE SAME 62-0718 42 I believe that the Bible is a seed. Those words are seeds. Jesus said a sower
went forth sowing seeds. This is it. The
Word of God is a Seed. Jesus said it was. Then, if it is God in print form,
and you receive It into your heart, and then the Holy
Spirit waters that Seed, it brings forth what it's promised. Any kind of a seed you sow, it'll bring
forth that kind of a crop. Exactly right. We've sowed in this great revival going by a lot of intellectual seed.
We've got a
intellectual crop. That's right. If we would sow Gospel Seed, we'd have a
Gospel crop. And we need to get back to the principles, and the Bible
teachings, back to the Bible, back to the Holy Spirit upon the Word of God that
makes the Word of God live. That's exactly what it was.
So whatever form of word that you are sowing, that is the form of life
that will result from your sowing. And I am afraid that people just don’t
understand the way God thinks. And that can only be because they do not have
the mind of God in them.
Isaiah
55: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth
the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:11 So shall my word be
that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
And that is why the people of
Paul tells us that in
order to understand the Spirit of God we must have the Spirit of God in us.
1
Corinthians 2:11 For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even
so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
of God knoweth. 12 Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
So you see the mind is where the Word Seeds are and where they will bring
forth after the image of the original source.
Matthew 13:24-3024 Another parable put he forth unto them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which
sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung
up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,
didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence
then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy
hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and
gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while
ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until
the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye
together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the
wheat into my barn.
From
paragraph 77 of his sermon Christ Revealed in His Own Word brother
Branham said, [77] See, down through the age we
started off from the foundation,
from the first church age when the Seed
went in the ground, the complete Seed. Then it come out through the
feet, Luther, come back out then through Wesley, then into Pentecostals, the
tongues and the lips. See? Now, it's in the eyes, prophetic, of Malachi 4 and
so forth. And now, there's nothing else left for it to come, but Him Himself to step into that, 'cause that's the
last thing there is. The next is the
intelligence, and we have no
intelligence of our own; it's His. See? We have no sight of our own.(Now,
notice here that he is not referring to physical sight because he goes on to
say,) How can a
man foresee those things? He can't do it; It's God
Himself. See, it's becoming to a place... And He's governed the body all the
way through. Then the complete Body
of Christ is revealed in the form of a Bride that was taken out of His
side, like Adam did at the beginning--like Adam's was, rather, at the
beginning.
Now,
I want you to see a couple of things Brother Branham is telling us here that
are important to us in this hour.
#1) He is speaking of a Seed (or carrier of Life) that went into the
Ground, and he clarifies and
Characterizes this Seed
as being (The Complete Seed).
#2) He further describes this Seed as the Foundation Seed, which means it
is the original Seed, and other seeds that come from this Seed, will bear the
same life.
#3)
This Complete Seed will come forth in a Complete body ,
and that this Body will manifest, the same Life, and you will know when this
Body is fully Complete in it’s growth when it comes to it’s last stage of Life
which is the Intelligence, the same Intelligence that was in the original Seed.
Now,
point #1, The
Complete Seed. We know by definition that a seed is a carrier of life.
And since He is speaking about how Christ is Revealed in His Own Word,
we must then understand that this Complete Seed that he is speaking about, is
Christ, or the Life that was in Christ.
In
John 1:1-4
We are told that in Him was Life, and that is why all
things were made by Him. Because It takes Life to
bring forth Life. And He is the Word. So this Life is in the Word.
And
in Luke 8:4-15
we notice that the seed that was sown is the Word of God, and yet we see that
unless this Word Seed is sown in the proper place it will not produce Life.
In
1 Peter 1:23
we see that the Word is again called a seed, and yet we see here that there are
two types of seed, or word which is sown. An Incorruptible
word seed and a corruptible word. And the evidence that we have received
the Incorruptible Word in the right kind of soil, is
that we shall live and abide forever.
Point #2, We find that this Seed that
was sown into the ground is the foundation Seed, or the original Seed. Now,
brother Branham is speaking about Christ here because we find Jesus Himself
telling us that it was necessary for Him to die and be buried and He typed His
own death and burial with that of a Seed.
John 12:24 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground
and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Now,
we often hear brother Branham mentioning how this life came forth in Luther’s
Message and then up through Wesley’s, then up through the Pentecostal message
and on up until it finally comes to a rest in the intelligence, which is the
very mind of God, back in the people.
Now
in looking at these three thoughts here we see that:
#1) The Complete
Seed is a carrier of Complete Life, (That’s 2 Peter 1:3-4 3 According as his
divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.)
#2) The same Life that was sown in the Original Seed, which is the very
Life that was in Christ Jesus, shall manifest
in us. 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.
#3) This original Seed Life shall return in this hour, not only among the
people, but It shall enter into the people as well.
(That’s Collosians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
Brother Branham said “The
Complete Seed,” comes forth in It’s Complete Body (which is the
complete Life that was in the Seed has got to come back into human flesh in a
Bride) in this hour. So we are speaking of the Original Seed, the original
Word-Life back in human flesh again. And that is why we are told our New Birth
comes by a seed which is the incorruptible Word of God. In fact Jesus said in John 6:63 “My Words are
Spirit and they are Life.”
And,
so we see that the Word is a Seed carrier of Eternal Life. Now, this evening I
would like to look at this thought of the Word as a Seed in a little different
way. Since we are talking about the Word as a Seed, I would like to break this
down to our own personal level for a few minutes.
Now,
we know that the Word is a Seed, and then the Word being a Seed, then what is
the Life that is in that seed? Every Seed is a carrier of Life. We know this by
definition of seed. But what is in a Word? The answer is thoughts. Before there
were any words there were thoughts. Then the word is an expression of the
thoughts. So in essence the thoughts within the word are the life of the Word,
right?
So
you can see that a word is not just a guttural sound, but it really has some
significance. Words in a language other than the language you know and speak
means absolutely nothing to you, and could be quite humorous to your hearing
when in actuality to those who understand the language they could be very
serious words. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14:6-11 that
every sound has
some significance in some language. And just to speak words which
have no meaning does not do anything for any one. But when we speak in words
which can be understood, then those words can and will bring forth fruit. In Jeremiah 6:19
we are told that our thoughts actually produce fruit.
And
we know that man is likened to a tree, as we see in Psalm 1:1-3 1 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. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.3 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..
Here
we see that a righteous man is likened to a tree that is planted by the rivers
of water. And we are told that his fruit will be in the proper season and his
leaf shall never wither. Now what does
God mean by this analogy? Well, we know that God likens His Word to Water and Eternal Life to the
Next
we see that this man, is planted. That means he will
not move, but that he is fixed in this place which means that he is rooted in,
and his roots are reaching out for
the waters of Life, and he is living off of the waters of Eternal Life. And of
course we know what that water of Life is. It is the Word, for we are told by
Paul in Ephesian 5:26 that we are washed by the
washing of water by the word. And since this tree, or righteous man has a good
water supply, his leaf will never wither, as Peter said, we are
born again of a Seed, the Word of God that Liveth and abideth
forever. And so we see that this speaks of Eternal Life, for the
Life in this Tree will never wither. But I want you to also see that the
greatest thing this
tree is that it is constant, and It will always bring forth it’s fruit in the
proper season. And so we see that the fruit is tied to a season. It is a
seasonal fruit.
Now
we hear Jesus speak of
knowing a man by his fruit, in the book of Matthew 7:15-20. Now in
a closer examination of this scripture, we see Jesus telling us that you will be able to tell
what a man is by his fruit. Now remember, he begins by warning us
about false prophets. And he calls them
wolves in sheep’s clothing, but then talks about fruit. He is using metaphors
to get a point across. But what are these fruits that he is speaking about?
Some would have you to think these fruits are the fruits of the spirit of the
fruits of the flesh, but brother Branham told us the
fruit is the teaching of the season. And what is God’s teaching
but His very thoughts made known through Words. Therefore if we break down this
thought of what a man’s fruit is we find that it is his thoughts, what he is
thinking. And we find a righteous man will have the correct thoughts for the
right season.
Those
who were Elect in Moses day did not look to Noah’s
Message for their day. But they received Moses Message in Moses day. And in
Jesus day, those who were looking back to Moses actually missed Jesus when He
came. And so we see that the Righteous Man is like a tree that is planted and
rooted in the Waters or Word of Eternal Life, and their thoughts will be in
season for their day and therefore they shall never wither.
Now
to further understand how our mind is like a garden, we shall look further to
the book of Proverbs 23:7
Here we read, “For as a man thinketh
in his heart so is he.” And so we see that a man is what he
thinks in our heart. And we have already shown that our thoughts are likened to
the life that is in a seed. Therefore, a man can be said, that a man is
literally what he thinks, and therefore his character is the sum of all of his
thoughts. as every plant springs forth
from a seed that was hidden in the earth, and could not have began without a
seed, so to every action that we do, springs forth from a seed that was planted
in our minds as a thought. Therefore our actions are the manifestation of what
thoughts lay in our heart.
In
Luke 6:45
Jesus tells us that our words we speak all come forth from the abundance of the
heart. And the word heart as we know means the understanding which is the
compilation of all of our thoughts. Therefore our actions and speech are only
the fruitage which comes forth to manifest the seed within,
In
Genesis 1:11
We see the law of reproduction that every seed must
bring forth after it’s own kind or nature. Therefore, the life that is in the
seed must become manifest. And therefore, whatsoever life is in the seed will
come forth in an outward manifestation in due season. Our thoughts then are the
seeds of our actions. And therefore if a
man is righteous, it is because he has righteous thoughts. In Proverbs 12:5 we read, The thoughts of the
righteous are right: but
the counsels of the wicked are deceit And
so what distinguishes a righteous man from a wicked man? His
thoughts first and then his actions. In Psalms 10:4 we read, The wicked, through the
pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts.
Brother
Branham has taught us the simple principle that before you can actually do the
sinful act in your flesh, you must first have to think of it in your mind.
Therefore the Greatest battle ever fought is in the mind, where the seeds of
righteousness and unrighteousness are sown.
Now since we know that God created man in his own image, then we must
also consider that just as God brings forth into manifestation His thoughts and
desires of His heart, so does man do the same. That’s Jerermiah 23:20
Your
mind then is likened to a garden which will grow forth fruit, whether good or
bad depending on what we do with it. In a natural garden we plant the seeds
that we want to bring to harvest. We cultivate our garden so that no weeds will
grow in it. It takes work, but if we sow we shall also reap. The problem is
that there is another who also wishes to sow in our minds as well. Jesus tells
the parable of the two sowers who went forth sowing
seeds. The First was the Son of Man and the other one was the devil. The Son of
Man sowed forth good seed which was the Word of God. But the devil sowed his own word seed which brought forth tares or weeds. Now we
are likened as to husbandmen who are responsible for this garden. We are
supposed to act a good stewards of the Good seed which
is the Word of God. But if we are not really interested in what kind of harvest
we shall reap, then we do not cultivate the good seed. We just let whatever
grows to grow. And this will result in the weeds overtaking the seeds every
time.
Weeds
will always outgrow the True planting of the Lord because after all they are
wild. And we know that “many more are the
children of the harlot than she which has a husband.” All you have to do is to look at our nations welfare rolls today and see that most of the welfare
today is do to illegitimate births. 69% of the Blacks born today are
illegitimate at birth and I imagine the welfare rolls reflect the same numbers.
And so we see that every deed is first committed in the heart, or mind. Matthew 12:35 A
good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth
forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things. This is also seen in Matthew 15:19 & Mark 7:21
The
Bible tells us, “As he thinketh in
his heart, so is he.” Therefore we are the product of our
thoughts just as any fruit is product of the seed that was planted in the
ground.
That
is why we are told to cast down any thought that would exalt itself against the
Word of God. 2 Corinthians 10:5
Notice
that we are told to bring every thought into obedience to the Word of God. Matthew 12:33, 33 Either make the tree good, and
his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the
tree is known by his
fruit.
Luke 3:8-9 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of
repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of
these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 9 And now
also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.
If
we are righteous it is because we think righteous thought. And if you have your
source from God then you will not be able to help but to think God’s thoughts.
Remember the parable of the two sowers. They both
sowed seed, but the Seed from the Son of Man was called he good seed. And we see
that a good plant will only produce a good fruit. Matthew 7:17-19 17 Even so every good tree bringeth
forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth
evil fruit.
18 A
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can
a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire. & Luke 6:43-45 43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt
tree bring forth good fruit.44 For every tree is
known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble
bush gather they grapes. 45 A good man out of the good
treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is
good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
That is why if the
original Seed was willing to let his thinking go in favor of his Father’s
thinking, then you and I must do the same if we are to be conformed to the
image of the first born in a vast family of brethren as Paul said in Romans 8.
But most people think for some stupid reason that they should be admired for
thinking their own thoughts and holding to their own stupid opinions, but not
so with God. Every person that ever amounted to a hill of beans in this world
let go of their own mind, when they met God and understood His mind.
That is why brother
Branham could make the following statement in his sermon WHEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED 56-0420 16 Now,
you Bible scholars, you who have been looking for a superman to come, that does
things just at random, he will go out and whatever he wants to do, he does it.
That never was in the Bible. And it never will be done by mortal beings in the
will of God. If Jesus Christ, No man will ever live a life above His. And no
prophet at any time ever did do anything without first God telling him to do
it. Search the Scriptures and see if that's right, always. It's not the will of
man; it's the will of God being shown to man.
Let’s bow our heads in
prayer.