Episode 314: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 280

Episode Summary:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philipians 2:5-11)

26 Moses, when he turned aside, looked at the bush, God was going to send him, but before Moses knew, he said, “Show me Your glory.” You know, sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd way, peculiar way to the people of this world, it seems foolish to the carnal mind. How that God does things so—so simple, it just confuses the carnal mind.

For instance, the virgin birth, and many things that’s yet got the carnal mind all broke up. They don’t know what to think about it. But God does it.

Just like when John the Baptist came. Why, the Scripture said, when the inauguration of Jesus down there, at the river that day, that the… “All the high places would be made low and the low places brought high. And the—the leaves all clapped their hands, and the mountains skipped like little lambs.” Just think of it. And what was it? An old woodsman type of a preacher, with the beard out over his face, like a fuzzy worm, and a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, standing on the muddy banks of Jordan, preaching repentance. Amen. (No fine, dressed lace, silks, and satins and whatever it was.)

27 And there’s where God spoke from the heaven, and he saw the Spirit of God coming like a dove, falling upon a Man Who’d been born in a manger. See, what the world call great, God calls foolish. And what the world calls foolish, God calls great. That’s right. So don’t mind to be called foolish.

’Cause remember. You can’t have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can’t be in your way and God’s way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That’s the only way you’re ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don’t try to reason; just believe.

28 What if Mary tried to reason about the new birth, or, not the new birth, but the virgin birth. Pardon me. What if she tried to say, “Now, wait a minute. Now, look. I don’t know no man. There’s never been anyone like that. How would I ever have a child? Oh, you can’t tell me that.” She never waited for anything. She just took God at His Word and started thanking God for the baby. Before she felt any life, before she felt anything, before one sign was given to her, she just took the Angel’s Word and went rejoicing and praising God, telling everybody she was going to have a baby, knowing no man. God give us some more Marys around Phoenix here, that can take God at His Word and start rejoicing before anything happens. That’s what you need. That’s all. For she was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost. And when the Holy Ghost truly overshadows a person, they take God at His Word. That settles it, what the Holy Ghost said.

54-0303 – “Witnesses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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