Episode 276: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 242

Episode Summary:

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:23-27)

23 This precious brother, a very dear brother, he came and he said, “I never—I never did take it, Brother Branham, I don’t understand what it is.” Said, “I been taught the other side.”

24 I said, “But remember, we will admit that Saint Paul set it in order in the early Christian Church. They went from church…from house to house, broke the bread with singleness of heart, and so forth. Now,” I said, “he did put it in the Church. Galatians 1:8, he said, ‘If an angel from Heaven comes and says anything else, let it be accursed,’ you see, see, the same one that had them to be rebaptized again from the baptism of John, to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.”

25 You see, there are three things that we must—three things that we must do as symbols: the Lord’s supper, feet-washing, water baptism. See? There’s…

26 You say, “Well, the…” Now, the Salvation Army takes it from the point, “The dying thief, when he died, he wasn’t baptized, yet Jesus said he would be in Heaven.” That’s exactly the truth. That’s exact. But, you see, he—he—he only recognized Jesus right there in the hour he was dying. See? That’s the only—that’s the only opportunity he had. He—he was a thief, he was away, he was out. And he, as soon as he seen that Light, he recognized It, “Lord, remember me!” And Jesus…That was true.

27 But to you and I who know that we should be baptized, and refuse to do it, then that’ll be between you and God. Same thing in communion!

28 Now, when we take this communion, it isn’t just the thing say, “I’m coming up here and going to eat some bread, and I’ll believe I’m a Christian.” But, if you noticed, the Bible said, “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily shall be guilty of the Blood and the Body of the Lord.” See? You’ve got to live a life that—that…before the people, that…and before God and the people, that shows that you are—that you are sincere.

29 Now, just a moment longer. Now, in the Old Testament when the sacrifice was made a—a statute or an ordinance. And so is water baptism an ordinance; so is feet-washing an ordinance; so is the Lord’s supper an ordinance. “Blessed is he that does all of His ordinance, keeps all of His statutes, all of His commandments, that he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.”

65-1212 – “Communion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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