Episode 263: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 229

Episode Summary:

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)

54 How much different it was from Paul. Paul said, “I never come to you with wisdom of men, enticing words, that your faith would be built upon the wisdom of men, but I come to you with the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that your faith could be built in God.” Amen. Today they want to make an educational school out of it: reading, writing and arithmetic.

When I got to Africa amongst my colored brethren, what did they know? Reading, writing, and arithmetic, they had no business for that. That’s the reason when they seen a real true moving, God come into the midst of the people, thirty thousand accepted Christ at one altar call: Durban, South Africa. The book gives it there. See? That’s right.

Bombay, India, there’s probably five hundred thousand people that attended the meeting. Hard to tell how many come at one time. It’s not reading, writing, and arithmetic. You don’t get men to God with that. It’s the Gospel. The Gospel never come by word only, but through the power and manifestations of the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe.” Takes more than just teaching a word; it takes a manifestation of that word to make these signs follow (That’s right.), God manifesting Himself.

55 Somebody said, “Well, I want you do this, want you do that?” Well, brother, I would rather be out there making a mistake trying to do something right than I would be trying to rob people from the last hope that they have. I make a mistake… I prayed for hundreds of people that never got well. But I’d rather be showing them people a God, and a Bible, and a Christ that does heal than to try to rob them from the last chance they have of ever being well.

Say you love humanity and keep those things from them, be like giving, trying to give milk to a dying baby and take it away from him. It’s not right. There’s something wrong. Reason they do it is by hybrid, because they accept it their church will put them out for it. Right, hybrid… Yes, the Word… And don’t mix the Word with nothing.

61-0411 – “But It Wasn’t So From The Beginning”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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