Episode 387: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 353

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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. (Ecclesiastes 7:27-28)

79 Then I remember coming on up. I got to be a young man. (I’ll hurry to make it within the next little bit.) When I got to be a young man I had ideas like all young men. I…going to school, I’d found them little girls. You know, I was real bashful, you know. And I—I finally got me a little girlfriend. And like all little boys, about fifteen years old, I guess. And—and so, oh, she was pretty. My, she had eyes like a dove, and she had teeth like pearl, and a neck like a swan, and she—she was really pretty.

80 And another little boy, he…we were buddies, so he got his daddy’s old model-T Ford, and we got a date with our girls. And we was going to take them out, riding. We got enough to buy two gallons of gasoline. We had to jack the back wheel up to crank it. I don’t know whether you ever remember that or not, you know, to crank it. But we—we was going along pretty good.

81 And so I had a few nickels in my pocket, and we stopped at a little place and got…you could get a ham sandwich for a nickel. And so, oh, I was rich, I could buy four of them! See? And after we had eat the sandwiches and drank the Coke, I started taking the bottles back. And to my surprise, when I come out, (women had just start falling from grace at that time, or from womanhood) my little dove was smoking a cigarette.

82 Well, I’ve always had my opinion of a woman that would smoke a cigarette, and I haven’t changed it one bit from that time on. That’s right. It’s the lowest thing she can do. And that’s exactly right. And I—I thought I…Now, the cigarette company could get after me for this, but, I’m telling you, that’s just a stunt of the devil. It’s the biggest killer and sabotage this nation’s got. I’d rather my boy be a drunkard than to be a cigarette smoker. That’s the truth. I’d rather see my wife laying on the floor, drunk, than to see her with a cigarette. That’s how…

83 Now, this Spirit of God that’s with me, if That is the Spirit of God (as you might question), you smoking cigarettes has got a slim chance when you get there, ’cause that just…every time. You notice it on the platform, how He condemns it. It’s a horrible thing. Keep away from it. Ladies, if you have been guilty of that, please, in the Name of Christ, get away from it! It breaks you. It’ll kill you. It’ll…It’s a—it’s a cancer by the carloads.

84 The doctors try to warn you. And then how they can sell you that stuff! If you’d go down to the drug store and say, “Buy…I want to buy fifty-cents worth of cancer.” Why, they’d come lock them up. But when you buy fifty-cents worth of cigarettes, you’re buying the same thing. Doctors say so. Oh, this money-mad nation. It’s too bad. It’s a killer. It’s been proved.

85 Well, when I seen that pretty little girl just acting smart, this cigarette in her hand, that liked to killed me, ’cause I really thought I loved her. And I thought, “Well…”

86 Now, I’m called a “woman-hater,” you know that, because I’m always kind of against women, but not against you Sisters. I’m just against the way modern women act. That’s right. Good women should be packed along.

87 But I can remember when my father’s still up there running, I had to be out there with water and stuff, see young ladies that wasn’t over seventeen, eighteen years old, up there with men my age now, drunk. And they’d have to sober them up and give them black coffee, to get home to cook their husband’s supper. Oh, something like that, I said, “I…” This was my remark then, “They’re not worth a good clean bullet to kill them with it.” That’s right. And I hated women. That’s right. And I just have to watch every move now, to keep from still thinking the same thing.

88 So, but now, a good woman is a jewel in a man’s crown. She should be honored. She…My mother’s a woman, my wife is, and they’re lovely. And I’ve got thousands of Christian sisters who I highly respect. But if—if they can respect what God made them, a motherhood and a real queen, that’s all right. She’s one of the best things that God could give a man, was a wife. Besides salvation, a wife is the best thing if she is a good wife. But if she isn’t, Solomon said, “A good woman is a jewel in a man’s crown, but a—an ornery one or no-good one is water in his blood.” And that’s right, it’s the worst thing could happen. So a good woman…If you’ve got a good wife, brother, you ought to respect her with the highest. That’s right, you should do that. A real woman! And, children, if you’ve got a real mother that stays home and tries to take care of you, keeping your clothes clean, sends you to school, teaching you about Jesus, you should honor that sweet old mother with all that’s in you. You should respect that woman, yes, sir, because she’s a real mother.

59-0419a – “My Life Story”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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