Episode 304: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 270

Episode Summary:

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. (Galatians 4:22-23)

54 Here we are presented with a picture. Oh! The seed started, the seed of promise, started in a slightly doubted, doubt of the original promise. See how it starts low, in doubt in the original promise. God promised Abraham, through Sarah, to have this child. But now watch, the first seed of Abraham by the bondswoman come by Sarah doubting that this could happen, because she was old and passed the age of bearing.

55 Now that’s how the church starts. That’s how it always starts. You start from the bottom. You don’t start from the top. A man trying to climb a ladder, tries to get on top first, he’ll break his neck. You’ve got to start and build up to that.

And here we find the beginning of the promise of God being made manifest, through a slightly doubted, interrupted program of God.

56 That’s the same way sin begin in the garden of Eden. That’s how death started by sin, was when one Word of God was misconstrued or doubted. You can’t doubt or misplace one Word of God, that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, ’cause Its every Word be so.

57 And here Sarah, even to who the promise (Sarah being a woman, which is a type of the church), gave doubt to the original program of God’s promised Word, and said, “You, Abraham, my husband, take unto you this beautiful maid, and live with her, and be a husband to her. And God will give this seed of promise through her, and I’ll take the child.” See, just bypassing one little iota, changed the whole program.

Therefore, we’ve got to take every Word of God as THUS SAITH THE LORD. Every Word of God is true.

58 Here the seed starts then in a promise, slightly doubted. Isaac being the seed of the free and promised woman, brought forth, as Paul was trying to explain here in Galatians, he brought forth the natural, promised seed. And he goes on to say here that the—the bondswoman’s children cannot be heir with the freewoman’s children, because they are of two different categories.

59 And, that is true, the unbeliever cannot be heir with the believer. There’s no way, at all. That’s where the trouble is today. You can’t make a denominational chicken believe with a eagle. You just can’t do it. There is where the trouble comes. You’ve got to believe every Word of God. You just…You’re not heirs together. Neither will you—will you join with it; you cannot do it. You’ve got to be eagle or a chicken.

60 It could not be heir with Ishmael, the seed of the bondswoman, of the…because of the doubting. Sarah doubted God’s Word, that God was able to keep It. Notice Abraham! You see what I’m building on for Sunday morning. Abraham did not doubt it. Sarah did doubt it; she was the one. It was not Adam that doubted; it was Eve that doubted. So, then, we’ll find out more about those as we pick it up Sunday morning.

61 Neither can the spiritual be…the natural be heir with the spiritual. No more can Ishmael’s children be heir with the—with the Isaac’s children, and no more than the carnal can be heir with the spiritual.

65-0218 – “The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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