Episode 341: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 307

Episode Summary:

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. (Psalm 142:4-5)

97 He cared for the leper when He was here on earth. There set the leper.

98 Did you ever see a leper? Oh, I’ve seen many of them, hugged them in my arms, them white with leprosy. Looks like a seed wart turned inside out.

99 Sitting where nobody would touch him, down in the slime and dirt and filth of the street, about as low as he could be, where everybody was afraid to get around him. He was a…He was the outcast. He was cast away from the society of the city, from the society of the church, from the society of—of everything there was in the city. No one wanted nothing to do with him. If they done anything, they’d pitch him a piece of bread and let him get it out of the dirt. They wouldn’t get near him.

100 But Jesus cared for Him. He walked right down with him, and sit down. I can just see Him lay His hands upon him, and said, “I will, be thou clean.” Oh, He cared for him. When nothing else could care, He cared.

101 When nothing else will care for you, He still cares!

102 There was an old blind beggar, with his sleeves all torn, whiskers all over his face, and not nothing to eat, sit by a gate side one day, begging. And the Son of God, on His way to Calvary, to be crucified, with the sins of the world on Him; but one screamed, “Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!”

103 Would a man of that caliber, would a man, would a President, would the mayor, the governor of state, one on the police force, stop for such a thing as that? Seldom you’ll find it.

104 But Jesus cared. He cast his cares on Him, and He cared. He said, “What would you that I would do for you?”

Said, “Lord, that I might receive my sight.”

He said, “Thy faith has saved thee.” He cared for him.

105 There was an immoral woman one time, like an alcoholic or a prostitute, so immoral till the women of the city wouldn’t touch her. She was an outcast. She come out to get her water, she had to wait till noontime. She couldn’t come with decent women. Nobody would have anything to do with the woman. She had been married, and had a bunch of husbands, and living common-law then. Nobody cared for her. They were too stiff and starchy. Nobody cared!

106 But He cared for her so much that He told her the secrets of her heart, and forgive every sin. And put Something in her, that she run into the city, saying, “Come, see a Man that has told me the things that I’ve done.”

107 See, that’s what makes Him great to me. He isn’t a stuffed shirt. He was God’s grace to the people. He was God’s love expressed in human flesh. No matter how little or insignificant, He cared; immoral, drunks, alcoholics, whatever it was.

60-0301 – “He Careth For You”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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