Episode 329: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 295

Episode Summary:

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. (1 Timothy 1:3-4)

58 If we’re not, why don’t we just break the thing down, and consolidate with some other of our denominations, our Methodists brethren here, our Baptist brethren, our Pente-… our Presbyterian, or, why don’t you all go back and be Catholic? That’s the oldest one of the bunch of them. See, go back and be that. But if we’re Pentecostal, let’s be Pentecostal by experience. Rise, shake yourself. Yes. Said, “Go tell him. What’s the matter?” Why would the Pentecostal people…?

A girl asked me the other day, said, “Brother Branham, they’re beginning to wear scandal skirts.”

I said, “What’s that?”

“Oh,” she said, “the girls are wearing skirts that’s cut down this way that shows their underskirt. Do you think it’s wrong for a girl to do that?”

I said, “Sister, what in the world does a Pentecostal Holy Ghost-filled girl want to show her underskirt for? I would just like to ask you that.” If she’d been right with God, she wouldn’t have had to ask that.

59 I got a little Bible when I first started out, I wrote a little book; there should be if somebody say, “Is it wrong to smoke, is it wrong to drink, is it wrong to so-and-so?” Like that.

I said, “Don’t ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind. If you love the Lord with all your heart, you don’t smoke, chew, or drink any shine.” And that’s… I still stand by that. When the love of God’s in your heart, you have got no time for nothing else. You’re sold out.

The Bible says, “If you love the world or the things of the world, it’s because the love of God’s not even in you.” And your own life tells about it. I hope that’s plain enough, I won’t have to get any plainer. See? But that’s true. “By their fruits you know them.”

So shake ourselves. Let’s be Pentecostal or—or to be something else. If we are not Pentecost, let’s quit saying we are (See?), until we get back to the real Pentecostal experience, get back to faith, daring faith. Them disciples sealed their death with their faith. “Oh, faith of our fathers, living still, in spite of dungeon, flame, or sword.” That’s what we want, real genuine faith.

60 You Methodists need it; you Baptists need it; you Pentecostals need it; all of us need it. God’s going to say, “Why? Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there, then why? Is there no—is there no prophet in Israel, is there no God there?” Has Pentecostal lost their God? Don’t they have any more gifts in amongst Pentecostal? Have they no more prophets, gifts of prophecy, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, no one else to speak in tongues and give message? One thing, you don’t reverence them gifts enough. Another thing, you don’t prove them first. Then you get every kind of spirit in there speaking. When you get that spirit that don’t say something that’s right, get it out of there. You don’t want a substitute. God’s got a real one for you.

61-0413 – “Why?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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