Episode 331: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 297

Episode Summary:

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16)

20 Now, we know what the Holy Spirit is. We found out, last night, that It’s God.

Now, when we think of God, the Father, as Jesus spoke of here, His Father; God, the Son, as Jesus; God, the Holy Spirit, as what we call It today, now, that does not mean that there is three individual, distinct Gods. It means that there is one God in three offices.

May we say it like this. All that God was, He poured into Christ, because He emptied Himself and poured It into Christ. “And Christ was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” All that Jehovah was, He poured into Christ.

And all that Christ was, He poured into the Church; not into one individual, but into the entire Body. There, where we come together in unity, we have Power. All that God was, was in Christ; and all that Christ was, is in you.

“For God was made flesh, and dwelled among us.” First Timothy 3:16, if you’re putting it down, “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: for God was manifested in the flesh, and we handled Him. God, Jehovah, made flesh, and walked on the earth, and we saw Him with our eyes.”

21 You know, in the same chapter, of John 14, Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us.”

22 Jesus said, “I have been so long with you, Philip, and you don’t know Me? When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. And why sayest thou unto Me, ‘Show us the Father’?” God was made flesh.

23 Now here it is. The Father was God over you, we’re saying. We’ve been since Adam. God, the Father, was over Moses and the children of Israel, in a Pillar of Fire. Then, God with us, in Christ; walked with us, talked with us, eat with us, slept with us. God over us; God with us; and now God in us. All God was, come into Christ; all Christ was, come into the Church.

What is it? God working in you. Anywhere in the world that He would want to call on you, you’re right there, working in you to do His good will. How we ought to thank God for that! God, the Holy Spirit, is sent for the purpose of God living in His Church, moving through each age, working out His Divine will.

24 When man make fun of you, they’re not making fun of you, they’re making fun of Him that sent you. So Jesus said, “Blessed are ye when men shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for My Name’s sake. Blessed are you.” And, again, “All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions.”

For, when God made Hisself known in Christ, they hated Him. Who hated Him, worst? The church. The church hated Him, worst. They hated Him worse than the—the drunkard. They hated Him worse than all the other people. It was the church that hated Him. So, therefore, when you see kosmos, “The world order, the world knowed Him not,” means, “the church,” so-called, “knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not.”

“But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God, to them that believed on His Name.” Oh, how we should love Him and worship Him! The purpose of God, wanting to become in fellowship!

59-1217 – “What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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