I am that I AM
A perfect being has no place where it begins and therefore, has no place where it ends. That means it exists everywhere and is timeless. There is no place where it is not.
To lack to be in a place means to be imperfect. For your not being in that place means you are short of the fullness. And being short of the fullness means you are short of something.
Thus, the place where you are not means you are lacking in that place; that means whatever of you that should be in that place is lacking. And therefore, you stand short of something. Yea, what should be part of you that should be in that place is lacking.
Therefore, the moment you miss to be in a particular place, then you are imperfect. In that place where you are missing to be, you are wanting. Being wanting means you are wanted. Wanted in that place means a criminal who is on the run. A fugitive!
Yes, there you are wanted! There is a place where you ought to be, to be something in that place, to occupy that place and provide what is required of you, yet you are lacking, you are wanting, you are missing, you are absent – a wanted criminal!
A servant of God or a messenger is one sent of God. Every servant of God, in the service of God, is in a state of being sent there. In that place, he is a messenger of God, in God’s calling, in God’s service. As a messenger therefore he is God’s sent one. Thus to be absent, is to be ab-sent…that is the opposite of being sent. You are only truly present anywhere if you are there in the service of God, the only one who truly calls and sends. Thus, pre-sent, means pro-sent. That means in line with your vocational calling. Any one being anywhere and not doing God’s service in that place is not present at all.
To miss to be where you are supposed to be so as to provide the essential service in that place makes you a wanted criminal.
Get that clearly. Anywhere that you miss, you are lacking in that place. That means you are lacking the part of you that should fill that space and provide the essential service.
To lack to be in a place is to be wanting in that place. To be wanting in any place qualifies you to be wanted, a wanted criminal.
Wanted, first in the sense that we have things that need you in that place, yet you are absent. So, you won’t provide the essential service… a criminal offense before the eternal state.
Secondly, wanted means you are a criminal on the run, a criminal at large, a fugitive, a vagabond.
So, that which is perfect must be everywhere, in every place and through and through, providing the essential service. Yes, not just there but supplying what is necessary in that place to freely satisfy all who stand in need of that essential service.
If you miss to be anywhere and, in any place, then you cause a lot of harm. That is a great defect, and eternity has no such things.
So, God being perfect is everywhere and in every place all the time and beyond. He is not wanting in any place. He is all sufficient all round.
There is nothing needed in any place which He lacks to be. Name it! God has it! He is there, in that very place where He is needed! His part occupies that place, representing Him. It is part of His fullness.
Yes, anywhere in God you lack nothing, totally nothing! You stand in want of nothing, totally nothing! And all that you need in that place, God supplies freely to the very fullness!
Notice it in Kiswahili. Kukosea (to miss). From kukosa (to transgress). From kukosekana (not there, missing, absent).
On the mark! Wherever you are missing, you leave there a transgression! Instead of what you are supposed to be, a transgression takes your place! Why? You are supposed to be there providing the essential services as per the demands of that place.
Again kukosea (to strike outside the mark) means kufanya makosa (to error). That error is certainly a trespass, for you have erroneously struck where you shouldn’t. Obviously, you have done harm. So, you have committed two errors: first you have missed to be what you ought to be in the right place, and second, you have done harm, striking outside the mark. A wanted criminal!
95 And sin means “to miss the mark.” Like you’re shooting, you miss the mark, better adjust your gun, see, because there’s something wrong. You missed the mark. See, come back and try over. See? It means to turn around, you’ve missed the mark. When you want to be a Christian, and you go join the church, you’ve missed the mark. When you want to be a Christian, and you’ve been sprinkled in the name of “the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” you missed the mark. Better come back.
62-1007 – The Key To The Door
Rev. William Marrion Branham
Again, kukosa, kukosea, kokosesha – whoever misses to be, he commits an error, and thus he misleads by the same error.
And again, kukosa, kukoseshwa – whoever misses to be (not there, absent) he is misled. So, to miss amounts to misleading and being misled! All these things spell imperfections.
Any time and in any place that you were or are missing means you are a transgressor, misleading and being misled by yourself! How many places do you miss? That is how much a transgressor you are! How many times or how long have ever missed to be anywhere? How much a transgressor you are!
It is plainly clear that all finite things are full of transgressions for they are only found in one particular place at a particular time. In all other places where they are missing, transgressions fill their space. Why? Missing in action! Failing to fulfil an essential duty! Lacking, wanting, wanted!
God alone is infinite because he is eternal and thus perfect. He can never miss anywhere. He has never missed anywhere. He will never miss anywhere. He that is (everywhere). He that was (everywhere). He that is to come (everywhere).
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne… Rev 1:4 KJV
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him ; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Rev 4:8 KJV
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Exo 3:14 KJV
I AM (everywhere), I WAS (everywhere), and I WILL BE (everywhere), the Lord God Almighty.
Thus is the name of God’s perfect state. Him who can never miss to be. That means He who can never transgress, mislead or be misled.
But without faith it is impossible to please him : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6 KJV
That is God’s name which means Him who never lacks, never misses the mark, never misses to be, never lacks anywhere or lacks anything; never wants anything, never wants anywhere. That means without transgression. He cannot commit any error. He has no defect! Yes, the eternal one is perfect! To be perfect you have to be all round! Only God is all round and thus eternal.
Yeye ‘YUKO’. YUKO (means He is) is the name of His being, and it spells perfection. Hajawai kosekana! Hawesi kosekana! Na hatawai kosekana! Kwa maana yeye hana kosa!
Ni vitu au watu ambao walikuwa wanakosekana wakati mmoja, ndio wamejaa makosa wakipatikana hapa duniani. Wao hawako, la! Ni wakupatikana, kwa maana walikuwa wanakosekana. Kukosekana ni kupotea. Kupotea ni kuwa mpotevu.
Mungu si wakupatikana. Yeya hakupatikana kwa maana si wakupotea, na si wamakosa. Yeye amekuwepo tu! Yeye ambaye YUKO milele, anaitwa ‘YUKO!’
Yes, ‘He is,’ eternally ‘He is!’ Yahweh, Jehovah means ‘He is.’ The name of God’s perfection, of His eternal being, of His eternal incorruptible nature. A just, perfect God who cannot error! Hallelujah! How wonderful is He! He is my God and my Lord. The one whom I worship. Glory!
Because I will publish the name of the Lord : ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Deu 32:3-4 KJV
Notice the same thing in Kibukusu. Khutambao, khutamba (to miss to be); kumutambo (poverty, lacking); butamba (whoredom, fornication, adultery). That which misses to be anywhere any time causes poverty and is a whore and adulterous!
The state of fornication is being unholy. It is profanity. It is defilement. Anything that lacks anywhere any time is an adulterer or adulteress. It is a whore when it appears. It is full of wanton eyes! Full of fornication. Full of covetousness. Full of lust. It is full of lasciviousness, of greediness, of idolatry, concupiscence, of uncleanliness, of filthy, of vileness, of evil affections, of murder, of deceit, of immorality, of subtlety, of mischief, of craftiness, of wantonness, of vulgarity, of riotousness, of extortion and every excess.
That is something that lacks to be, something that misses anywhere. It totally and completely lacks holiness. But God lacks nowhere. There is nowhere or no time He misses to be. In Him there is no poverty. He is rich beyond compare.
His riches cannot be exhausted. Why? Because He is holy! In Him there is no lust for anything. Why? Because He lacks nothing, therefore He is holy!
Notice, in English, to miss or to lack means to be wanting and thus wanted…. A criminal! A man full of iniquity. One who is wicked, full of wickedness.
And it’s God trying to condition His people, so He can get from them what He created them for. He never made you to be something else besides a son and daughter of God. If you have missed that, of being a son and daughter of God, you’ve missed the mark.
66 And “miss,” the word s-i-n means “to miss the mark,” miss the mark. Then, if I’m shooting at a target, driving a tack at fifty yards, and I shoot; take my gun down and shoot, and I miss it, four or five inches, what’s happened? My gun needs tuning up. There’s something wrong. And if I miss faith in God, if I miss being a Christian…God put you here to be a Christian. If you’re off to one side, come back and get tuned up. And there’s only one thing can tune you up, that’s the Scripture. The Holy Spirit in the Scripture, tune you, bring you directly onto the target again. That’s right.
62-1014M – The Stature Of A Perfect Man
Rev. William Marrion Branham
In Kiswahili, to miss to be or being absent means a transgressor. Anakusekana kwa maana amajaa makosa! That means one who is unrighteous. Unjust.
In Kibukusu, to miss to be means one who is impoverished, one who is a fornicator, a whore, an adulterer or adulteress; one who is full of lust. That means one who is unholy! That means sinful.
God is perfectly opposite to that. Why? He is, He was, and He will be. The never missing one. The perfect one. The infinite one. The eternal one.
Yeye hapatikani; yeye Yuko tu! Kila wakati, kila mahali ‘Yuko!’ Hallelujah! Mwanadamu anapatikana kwa maana ni wa kupotea! Ni mpotovu! Kabila kupatikane, kilikuwa kinakosekana!
The foundation of the world. The world that was not there. It was lost (kukosekana). So, it was found (kupatikana). The foundation that was laid means a place to seek and find what was not there, what was missing, what was lost.
Things that were thus founded, were initially missing, absent or lost. Such things are full of iniquity, transgressions and sin!
But God was never founded. No foundation for God! Why? He is the one who seeks and finds others!
…and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there. Ezekiel 48:35b KJV
To be anywhere depends directly on the state of one’s thoughts of the heart and the mind of the spirit. You are present where your thoughts and mind are. If your thoughts and mind are in London, you will be present in London though you outwardly appear to b in Kenya.
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Eph 2:6 KJV
So, then for one to be present everywhere infinitely, he has to have a perfect heart and mind. Such a mind comprehends all things everywhere in a moment. Only God has such a mind. By that He comprehends all things in a moment. By that He encompasses all things in a moment. And so, He is present everywhere.
Why? For all you comprehend is in your immediately presence, and by the spirit you are always in all the immediate presence. So, God’s mind being perfect, He comprehends all things and all places in a moment. And by that He encompasses all. Therefore, all things and places are in His immediate presence and His Spirit sweeps over them…the ever present one, even in hell, He is there.
Yea, His presence is everywhere by the thoughts of His heart and mind. For you are in the immediate presence of all that you comprehend. For a perfect mind means that which is everywhere in the same moment.
Then how shall we attain this perfection? By receiving the perfect mind of God that is in Christ. By being fully united with the eternal Godhead. Yes, by being filled with the fullness of God.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Eph 3:17-19 KJV
Christ dwelling in our hearts brings in us God’s mind by which we comprehend with all the saints all things at once. By comprehending the length, the breadth, the depth and height at once makes us to be present everywhere at the same time. By that we encompass all things like God, and by that we are filled with God’s fullness.
What then but we will be present everywhere! And that means no more iniquitous; no more transgressors, and no more sinful! What is that but perfection!
That perfection depends on the state of the mind is manifest in the following scripture.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before… Phil 3:12-13 KJV
To apprehend is to have a perfect understanding of a matter. Now, only God has a perfect mind that has a perfect understanding of all things at a moment. The moment God becomes fully our head, then with Him we shall understand all things and comprehend all at once. Thus, shall we be perfect.
Echoes From Paradise 