Episode 136: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 102

Episode Summary:

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. (Esther 2:15-17)

176 You go at the restaurant and find…get a bowl of soup and there’d be a spider in it, you’d sue the restaurant.

177 But you’ll let the devil poke old dirty televisions and card things down your neck, and swallow it; make you put on old unclean clothes, these women, these little old tight dresses like a skinned-down wienie, and walk out here on the street like that. And do you know, my sister, I ain’t saying that joking. You get me wrong.

178 Listen. I’m saying this. You act like that, and at the Day of Judgment you’ll be counted as an adulterer. Right. Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart.” And when that sinner has to answer for committing adultery, who is it? You. Who caused it? You. That’s right. If you put yourself out there, to look before men, to be like the world and dress like the world.

179 I said that one time, and a woman, Louisville, Kentucky, she said, “Well, listen here, Mr. Branham. I’ll give you to understand right now!”

I said, “Yes, ma’am?”

She said, “That’s the only kind of dresses they make.”

I said, “They make sewing machines and sell goods.”

180 It’s because you want to. There is something wrong in you. That’s exactly right. You do it not because it’s a fashion. You do it not because you have to. You do it because you want to.

181 You smoke because you want to. You don’t have to. I think the silliest thing I ever seen was a woman going in the street, like you see every one, automobile, with them cigarettes up between their fingers. Why, it’s a disgrace. That’s the biggest fifth-columnist move we got in the nation, when the doctors and medical science says it’s full of cancer and everything else. And they suck right down on them, all the time.

182 See a woman, supposed to be a Christian, stretched out there on a bank, with mixed bathing, with a bathing suit on, stretched out there. I got two girls. I don’t say they wouldn’t do it. They say they’re getting a suntan. They’ll get a son-tan if I’m living. It’ll be a son of this. See? It’ll be the son of Mr. Branham, with a board about that long. I believe it’s wrong.

183 Then we call ourself, “Oh, we’re a member of the Pentecostal church.” Oh, shame on you! Right. The Pentecostal church needs a cleansing, all the way from the front to the back, and through the cellar and basement, and upstairs. That’s right. And yet, in all of it, it’s the best we got. But it can…

184 Just like in the revolutionary and during time of Joan of Arc, France needed a revolutionary, then they need a counter-revolutionary to straighten up some of the things they was revolting about.

185 And the Pentecostal church needs a revolutionary. Right. Certainly does. A revolt against the things that’s wrong, and accept the things that’s right, amen, a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost: “A Church to make Herself ready!”

186 Remember, it will never be…You can’t say, “Well, now, I belong to this, the Assemblies. I belong to the Foursquare, or the Church of God, or the Jesus Name,” or—or any of the rest of them. Naw! You can’t get in on any of them.

187 God calls you as an individual. And it’s you that’s got to clean up, because, “He’s taking a people from the Gentiles, for His Name’s sake, His Bride, the Gentile.”

188 Esther cleaned herself. She cleaned her heart. That’s what she cleaned. That’s what the church needs: a heart-cleaning.

“How do you clean your heart, Brother Branham?”

189 “‘Washed by the water of the Word,’ through the Blood of Jesus Christ.”

62-0121e – “The Marriage Of The Lamb”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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