Episode 269: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 235

Episode Summary:

Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. (Judges 5:1-2)

30 If it be so pleasing to God, I wish to take a text there, upon, I believe the…about the 14th verse, where It said, If God Be With Us, Then Where Is All The Miracles?

Now, we are all acquainted with the Judges, of Israel.

31 And how that they had done the Israelites; the Philistines, the Midianites, the Amorites, and all the different ones had come in like locusts and just eat up what they had, and take it out, and go on. But, did you notice, they could not do that until Israel first fell away from God.

32 The devil can’t set a foot on you, to hurt you, until first you get away from God. You must first remember that. Check when anything happens, see if you are in the Faith, or not, see that if you’re right up to place with God; then, remember, the devil can do you no harm, you’re in Christ.

33 And this place here, we had just left the…A few years before this, had been the prophetess, Deborah; and Barak. And how that she had prophesied and told them what to do, and it was just exactly right; Barak, the great warrior; and how that they made a song, of the triumph over the enemy. But as soon as they got out of the twist, right straight back into the rut they went again.

34 If that isn’t the picture of the church today! Just as soon as it gets out of one twist, right into another one it goes. But time had come for action. And that’s the same now, the time has come for action. The time had come, when playing church had come to a halt, with God. There’s no more playing church. We must get down to business. And I trust that that same God will place this upon the heart of the people tonight, that it’s time for a halt of playing church, playing religious, playing righteous, and now it’s time for action.

35 As I was speaking this morning upon the subject of what the new Birth was, and how we come to it, surely that still sinks in your heart. Now the time has come to act upon what you know to be the Truth. You cannot act with faith until first you know what you’re doing. You’ve got to first know what you are doing, before you can have faith to do it.

36 Someone said to me one time, a noted doctor, was talking about a miracle that had happened among…a sick person. And he said to me, “Preacher, don’t you believe, if you told them people to go out and touch a tree or a post, the same thing would take place?”

37 I said, “No, sir.” I said, “Because you cannot have faith, in touching a tree or a post.”

38 Faith is not that loose. It’s got to be based upon some noted fact. You’ve got to know something about what you are having faith in, before you can have faith in it. So we first must know how and what, what God’s desire is, what God’s plan is, and how to approach God by that plan. And then we can walk up boldly to the Throne of Grace, and plead what the plan is promised us.

39 Now, they had been playing church. Just soon as they got out of one twist…God delivered them. Then, instead of really going on and serving God, seeing His mighty hand, they twisted right back out into the things of the world again. And so the time had come, when, God called a halt. And it must be that way.

40 And I think it’s time to call a halt now. We have twisted the Word of God, to fit every organization there is in the world. Every plan that every man has schemed to do. We twisted the Word to make It this way, and twisted the Word to make It that way, and twisted It some other way to make It to fit a plan. But the time has come, to halt, stop your playing church. The time has come when people says, “If you can just get enough Spirit, to dance in the Spirit; if you can get enough, to see lights before your eyes; or a sensation to run down your back, or some quiver, some shake, some emotion; you’ve got It!” You’ve got something; but, I wouldn’t say just what you had, till I seen what kind of fruit it growed.

41 As we went through it, this morning, you can’t expect a baby to be born a man. It’s got to grow to it. And we grow in Christ, to the full stature. Something…Not somebody get converted tonight, and tomorrow go to preach the Gospel. We grow up into manhood, into the stature of Christ.

42 Now, we find that when God’s people gets in trouble, God always sends them a prophet with the true Word, to bring them out. It’s never a time that God’s people ever gets in trouble, unless God sends them His Word. And His Word, as we had this morning, come to the prophets. And how you test it, is to find out whether it is according to the Word. If it’s according to the Word, then God’s Word becomes alive.

43 Now many might say, “This is the prophet of our church.” “This is the prophet of our church.” And two of them, contrary, one to the other one, something has got to be wrong.

44 We all must speak the same thing. Then we must speak, not contrary, but exactly with this Word. That’s how a true prophet is tested, whether he has got the Word. The Bible said, “If their testimony is not according to the law and prophets, there is no Light in them.” That’s right. It’s got to be according to the Word.

61-1231e – “If God Be With Us, Then Where Is All The Miracles?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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