Episode 141: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 107

Episode Summary:

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. (Luke 15:4-7)

9 Now, I never took a offering in my life, never. And I—and I have had offered to me… If I had just took what’d been, I’d been many times past a millionaire. That’s right. And tonight I’d hate to write you a check on my bank for anything over about three hundred dollars, unless I was sure I could get it in there right away.

But here’s one thing; I—I want to be honest; I want to live in the condition that the people—just like the people that come to me, so I can feel their suffering, and fellowship with them, and I’m right on the level with them. That’s the way I feel. I don’t say that just from my mouth; I say that from my heart. And God knows it to be the truth.

And I’d rather be that way. My people’s poor, and we’re all poor, and—and our riches is in glory. Amen. That’s where we’re going to get it.

And I asked my wife here some weeks ago; I said, “Sweetheart, what is value? Where could you place value?”

“Well,” she said, “what do you mean, Billy?”

10 And I said, “Well, value!” I said, “Could you…” I remember years ago when I got my first little T-model Ford. I was a sinner. About 1926… And I would just shine that little thing all day Sunday to make it shine, stay home, didn’t go to church, and shined it. Now, what if today I tried to find one piece of that car? It’s gone. You couldn’t do it. It’s finished.

What if someone would come in tonight and say, “Mr. Branham, I appreciate you. I’m… Here, I’m going to give you a million dollars.”

I’d say, “You, know, thank you, sir. I’m going to take that, and I’m going out and going to feed all the poor people. That would be very fine, just go around from house to house, and send in groceries, and feed the—and bring the widows coal and wood, and clothe the little children, and go to the hospitals and take care of their bills that can’t be paid, and so forth, and do good things. But when I got to heaven, it’d all be gone.

11 But what if I get one soul saved? What if I had, laying here tonight, a hundred billion dollars laying here. And what could I do with a hundred billion dollars, the missionaries I could send to the world, and… with myself? And probably win millions of souls. I don’t know.

But if I had a hundred billion dollars laying on this side, and a little button on this side, and I could press that little button, and I’d lose the hundred million dollars, or don’t press the button, I could keep it. But if I pressed the button, my dear old dad that’s passed on beyond the veil, would walk down this aisle, and I could set here and talk to him ten minutes, I would give the hundred billion freely without a question to talk to my daddy one more time.

Where’s value at then? What is it? I think if I can get one soul saved, one little black boy, or whatever it might be, as long as there is an eternity, and that Light and that Star of God is shining in glory, my name will be associated with getting that soul saved.

56-0816 – “The Working Of The Holy Spirit”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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