Episode 180: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 146

Episode Summary:

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. (John 11:39-46)

103 So Martha, when she come up… And she fell down at His feet, and she said, “Lord,” Lord, that’s what He was, “if You’d have been here my brother would not died,” See? Said, “But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it.” Oh, there you are. There you are. “No matter what You’ve done, Your attitude, You’re following what God said do. Whether You said this or that, or whether You did come, or didn’t come, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You.”

He said, “Thy brother shall rise again.”

Said, “Yea, Lord, he will rise in the last days. He will rise… He’s a good man, he will—he will rise in the general resurrection.”

He said, “I am the Resurrection and Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Nobody could say that but Him. “He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”

She said, “Yea, Lord: I believe that You are the Son of God, that was to come into the world.” There you are.

104 What is it? She’s acting. She wants to see a miracle, so she’s finding out what the Word says. “I believe the Word. It’s standing there in the form of the Son of God. His Words is not His. ‘Not Me that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth in Me.’ Whatever comes from them little lips of Yours that speaks, I’ll believe it’s the commission of God. (Oh, my, my.) You are the Messiah.” What is Messiah? The anointed One. “You are God’s anointed One.”

105 God had an anointed one in a lesser measure one day, and his name was Elijah. And there Elisha… And the woman had a baby that died. And she went up to this servant of God, and she said, “Thou man of God.” She recognized him. And that anointed one of God come and walked through the floor (Oh, my.), laid his body upon that little dead baby, and it sneezed seven times and come to life.

And if God did that by His anointed prophet, how much more will He do by Immanuel? “I believe that You are the Son of God.” If you ever get anything from God, you’ve got to believe God’s servant, God’s Word. See? And He was the Word. “I believe. Just tell me what to do.”

“Where have you laid him?” Down He went to the grave, weeping like a man. When He got down there, what did He say now do when you get here? See, you got something to do too, you know. Said, “Take ye away the stone, if you want to see a miracle.”

106 You sick people tonight, if you want to see a miracle, take away the stone. Take away that stone, that sin that lays at the door. What is it? Say, “Brother Branham, I don’t do nothing.” But if you don’t believe it, it can’t happen. Take away that stone of unbelief and watch what happens. Just take away the stone. And when she obeyed the Word of the Lord, she saw a miracle. Sure.

62-0124 – “Have Not I Sent Thee?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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