Episode 151: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 117

Episode Summary:

And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David’s son? And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? (Luke 20:41-44)

140 To be borned of the Spirit, is to believe and behave yourself in the Spirit, is to understand and believe with your heart that Jesus is Christ and This is His Word, that no other words can be added to It or taken away from It without your name taken out of the Book of Life. That was a strong one. If you add one thing to It, in your tradition, or take one thing from It, well, Christ said, Himself, “Your name shall be rubbed off the Book of Life.” Now, find organization, denomination in the Bible. You’ll run from it! All right. Regardless of the flesh, denomination teaching is contrary to the Bible. Yeah. Borned again means “a new Birth from Above; birthed from Above.” Then we are active in the things from Above. Oh, my! For It is Himself acting in His Word through you, His branch, to the Vine.

141 That’s the reason Jesus said, “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not.” Oh, certainly! He said, “No man has ascended up to Heaven but He that come down from Heaven.” Watch Him fix Nicodemus here, when Nicodemus…You know, they thought, Him being a Man, He couldn’t be God. And He said, and there He said, “No man has ascended up to Heaven but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man which is now in Heaven.” That was too much for him. How could He, the Son of man, come down from Heaven, come down from Heaven, was the same that ascended up to Heaven, and the same One that’s standing here on top of this house, talking to Nicodemus, was now in Heaven? Well, he ought to have seen that it was God. He’s omnipresent, everywhere! See? But he, in his traditions, didn’t know that. He wasn’t spiritual-minded. The carnal mind, and couldn’t catch it.

He says, “Who does man say I the Son of man am?”

“Some says, well, ‘He’s the Son of David.’”

142 He said, “Then why did David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ say, ‘The Lord said unto my Lord, “Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thy foes a footstool”’?” How that He is both Root and Offspring of David; He was before David, He was David, and after David. See? “He is the Root and Offspring of David,” the Bible said so, both Root and Offspring of David. How could He be His Son then? How could He be His Lord? The Bible said, “From henceforth they asked Him nothing.” I guess it was a good thing, too. Yes, sir. All right.

62-1111e – “Why I’m Against Organized Religion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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