Episode 57: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 23

Episode Summary:

Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:7-9)

241 Now notice, “if it was possible,” in these days. Only one Word, one Word is needed. That’s all Satan had to have to Adam, just get Him on one Word. That’s all he has to have today, just get one thing turned around. That’s all, that’s all he needs. Now, you know that’s the Truth. To add one, or take one, it’s total failure. Every bit, “Every Word of God!” Think now of the interpretations of the seminaries, every one different from the other.

242 There has to be a Truth somewhere, and this is It, the Bible. Now Jesus said…

243 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, they have the most beautiful worship.”

244 Jesus said, “In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the theology of man, not the Word,” man, his own conception of the Word being interpreted.

245 As I have said, God don’t need no interpreter. He interprets every Word Himself. See, you don’t need somebody to interpret It to you, God interprets it to you when you’re willing to accept It. See, that’s the Life, that’s Life Itself.

246 Jesus said, “In vain they worship Me.” They actually worship God. Cain actually worshiped God, in the beginning. “But in vain do they worship Me.” What’s vain? “It don’t do no good.”

247 They might say, “Well, I do this. I dance in the spirit. I, I speak in tongues. I, I prophesy. I preach the Gospel.” But fail to let your hair grow out, fail on one thing, and see what happens, the Spirit will leave you right there. That’s what’s happened to our churches, failed.

248 “In vain, worshiping Me. Oh, it’s a beautiful worship. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.”

249 Those Pharisees were learned theologians. Don’t you dare to say we got anything today to compare with them. No, indeedy. They knowed one word, every word, just the way it was written, but in vain they were worshiping. Think of it, “in vain,” big fine schools, and seminaries, and teachers, and young man, and everything like that, but lost!

250 Same as the wilderness, He said, “They all eat manna from that spiritual Rock in the wilderness, they all drink from that Rock, I mean, and they all eat manna out of it.” And Jesus said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” Death means “Eternally separated.” Why? Because they failed to believe the promise of God.

64-1212 – “The Harvest Time”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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