Episode 170: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 136
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No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44)
59 You are not saved because you are a good person. You are saved because Christ chose you. No man seeks God; God seeks man. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first.” And if we could stop just for a few moments and realize the great importance of that one thing, that it was God Who chose you, not willing that you should perish; but give to you the opportunity, and called you, and elected you to be His servant. Well, what could be more precious than that? Without you having a choice! It would be total impossible for any man to seek God, for he is, by nature, is a sinner, and he has nothing within him to give a desire to serve God.
60 Could you go to the pig and tell him he is wrong? He is a pig, by nature. Could you tell him his diet is wrong? Certainly not. By nature, he is a pig. You should tell him he would be a lamb, but he is satisfied as a pig.
And a sinner is satisfied as a sinner, because his nature is a sinner.
61 And here it is! “We are all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies;” by nature, a child of disobedience, without God, without a hope, the wrath of God abiding on us. And by the loving grace of Christ, God, in His sovereign grace and His omnipotence, knocks at your heart and gives you the blessed opportunity, and turned you around, and sent you up the road. How could you turn that down? Changes your whole desire, turns you around, and starts you the other way! Oh, you will be silly, to the world; but you will be blessed, in the sight of God. “Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled,” said our Lord Jesus Christ. God, by His amazing grace!
62 Notice, it was what God did, what God called. You had no will to call. You could have had no desire to call, because your nature was completely contrary to It. But God, by election, called you and turned you around, and set your affections towards Christ and the things Above. How could we turn It down?
57-0418 – “The Communion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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