Episode 295: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 261

Episode Summary:

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; (Psalm 103:1-4)

4 Some time ago, let’s say fifty years ago, or a hundred years ago, we’d say: if someone would’ve said there was such a thing as electricity or lights, they’d have been laughed at. But there was a man named Benjamin Franklin, he got a kite, put a key on the end of it, and went fishing in the skies, because there was something in him that told him that when this light would flash, it would light. So they could catch it somehow. He knowed it was static electricity. And he caught it in a bottle. And many of you people remember, even your grammar school education, when he got it in the bottle, he begin to scream, “I got it, I got it.” He had it, but he didn’t know what he had.

5 That’s the way many Christians are today. You get saved, Jesus forgives your sins, you say, “I got it,” but you don’t know what you got. That’s as far as Benjamin Franklin took it. But what was God doing then? He was fixing to reveal to the world electricity. He had a Benjamin Franklin to do it.

6 Then He had a fellow by the name of Thomas Edison, wasn’t satisfied with, “I got it.” He said, “If—if I’ve got it, it’s got benefits for me.” As David said, “Who… Forget not all of His benefits.” So Thomas Edison, tireless nights, tried tens of thousands of wires. He would try one wire; it wouldn’t work on that kind. He couldn’t get the current to follow the wire. He tried another, another, another. Was he defeated? Certainly not. He couldn’t be defeated. He couldn’t be; there was something inside of him told him that that would light. And he believed it with all of his heart. And before… If he believed it like that, there… it’s got to happen. There’s a deep calling to a deep; there’s a deep to respond to it. There’s something had to light. With a cup of coffee and a sandwich, he’d work all night. If one wire didn’t work, he wasn’t discouraged, like many of we Christians get.

7 We ought to be ashamed of ourselves calling ourselves Christians who believe in the great Jehovah. The promises that He gives and the benefits He’s got for us, and the first little discouragement we throw it away. But not Thomas Edison, he believed that they would light. No matter that he was called crazy, but that didn’t stop him. He believed it would light. And he kept on until he proved that it would light, and he gave the world electricity.

8 Well, electricity’s been here all the time. We’ve always had electricity, but they didn’t know nothing about it until we had a Thomas Edison and a Benjamin Franklin.

53-1104 – “Deep Calleth Unto The Deep”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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