Episode 186: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 152

Episode Summary:

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (John 15:12-15)

141 If you’re a member of a church, that’s a good thing, but that’s not good enough. See, the rich young ruler was a member of the church. See? He asked Jesus what could he do to have Eternal Life. He never accepted It. He walked away. What a foolish thing for that young man to do. Don’t take his place. You remember the last time he was identified? A little later, he prospered. He got richer. He got to a place till even his barns bursted. But then we find his last identification, in hell, flames tormenting. Don’t, don’t let that happen to you. Accept Christ.

142 You young people, you young girls, young boys, just at the turning of life, please do that. Hear me, as—as your brother, one who loves you. I’m here because I love you. I love God, and I love you, and I cannot love God if I don’t love you.

143 I would a lot rather, if you had a comment to pass, pass it on my son out there, or one of my children. Let me just…I, I’ll go without it. Any parent will do that; so will God. See? Love His people. Love one another.

144 You say, “What do you scold them for?” Genuine love is corrective.

145 If your child is sitting out on the street; you say, “Well, there sits Junior. He oughtn’t to do that, but I don’t want to hurt his little feelings.” You don’t love him. He’ll get killed there. If you love him, you’ll bring him in and give him a spanking. You’ll make him obey.

146 That’s the way God does. Love is corrective, and that’s genuine love.

147 When a preacher stand and lets you women bob your hair, and wear paint and stuff, and don’t correct you, there is no genuine love there; and won’t call it out. And let you men marry three or four times, and all of these other things, and get by with it, there is no genuine love there. Let you join a church, and pat you on the back, and smother you with some creed, then, “That’s all you have to do, is join the holy church,” there is no love there. Or, either, the man is so totally lost, himself, he don’t see.

148 Genuine love is corrective, and brings you back to the Word of God.

149 Look at Jesus, how, what He said, ’cause He loved them, so much that He died in their place, when they was even calling for His Blood.

64-0322 – “Possessing The Gate Of The Enemy After Trial”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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