Episode 214: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 180

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O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. (Psalm 25:20-21)

50 But he got lifted up so much in his heart! Now I want to speak this word to the Full Gospel Business Men. He got so lifted up in his heart, until he thought he could take a minister’s place. He tried to become a minister, which he wasn’t called to be. And I think that’s a many times that where sometimes man in these ranks, and the businessmen’s groups, they—they get to a spot that God blesses them in their business, and makes them prosperous, and so forth, till they get to a place till they think they ought to preach the Gospel, also. And that’s wrong. That is wrong. You should always let a minister do that preaching, ’cause, as Oral Roberts once said, “It’s hard enough to keep the thing clear, by ministers, let alone by men who is not called for that office.” See, you should have men there that knows, and are ordained for the work.

51 This proves it. That, he, we find out that this man, being a great man, a good man, an honorable man, but he took the—the offering, the censer, and went in to the altar of the Lord, to burn incense before the Lord, which is only for a dedicated priest to do so. But he thought, being that God loved him so much, and—and He had been so good to him, that he could go do that, anyhow. And the priest run after him, and said, “You’re not ordained to that office. God forbids that anyone should come in there, only a Levite that’s dedicated to that service.” You should never do that.

52 And that’s the way many times, that, what’s, I think has got the world today in such a confusion, that men go out and try to take those places which they’re not ordained to do. It gets to a spot to where they—they try to fulfill this office, and they’re not called for that place.

53 Now we find out, though a good man, blessed of God; but, if God blesses you, you stay in the category that God has called you in. If it’s a housewife, remain a housewife. If it’s in a business, remain in that business, reflecting God. And whatever God has called you to, let it be that. Because, He wants you to be a real housewife, to reflect your influence upon another person that would want to be a good housewife. If you’re a good businessman, let your life so be that it will reflect Jesus Christ in your business, with honesty and integrity, and with things that really mean something. Because, somebody is watching your life. You’re influencing somebody. God has to have a real housewife. God has to have a real teen-age in school. God has to have a—a—a real minister, a real businessman, somebody that will reflect Him. Because, there they see, in you, Christ. No matter what the rest of the world has got to do, that has not one thing to do with you or I. We are responsible to God for our lives, and for our experience with Christ.

63-1130b – “Influence”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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