Episode 194: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 160

Episode Summary:

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:24-29)

35 Watch here, Oral Roberts, a bosom friend of mine, used this Scripture after, I believe he got it from Jeremiah. Jeremiah said, “God is a good God.”

And my friend, Oral Roberts, has used that many times, that expression, and that’s true. God is a good God. He… Certainly, He is. I want to ask you something. God being a good God, did you notice at the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Peter was at the grave and some women, and Peter recognized the Lord had raised from the dead. He come right back to the disciples, and he said, “The Lord is risen.” And the rest of them began to praise the Lord, ’cause they knowed He was supposed to raise from the dead. So, don’t you remember what he said to us? They began to rejoice, because the Lord had risen.

36 In this group there was two missing, and one of them was called Cleopas and his buddy. And they were on the road to Emmaus, going back home very sad. They never heard the word yet. So as they journeyed on, Jesus appeared with them. And notice, He didn’t go to tell them some kind of fantastic, the first thing He went to, was back to the Word, said, “Fools, slow of heart, don’t you know the prophets have said, the Word has said, that Christ must suffer to enter into His glory? He begin with the Word. And Christ always begins with the Word, and stays with the Word. And when He made hisself known to them by a sign, not a fantastic, a sign that He did before them here on earth, which made it a Bible sign, they rushed back, and in this midst of people, they found a guy named Thomas.

“No, don’t believe it. No, don’t believe it. I’ve got to have bloody hands before I believe it.” He was the first Pentecostal. “I’ve got to have a sign. I’ve got to have some kind of a feeling, a sensation.”

God’s a good God. He appeared and said, “Thomas, come here.” Said, “Put your hands here in My side. Do you feel Me? If you want to feel something, here it is Thomas. Feel Me. Touch My hand.”

And Thomas said, “Oh, now I believe.” He had to have a feeling.

37 The others didn’t have to have a feeling. They had faith. They didn’t need a sensation. Thomas had to have some evidence. They needed no evidence. The written Word was written, and they had faith in the written Word. Not special hard, brother, that’s what Phoenix needs—faith in the written Word.

And He said, “Thomas, now, you’ve had all the feeling and sensation, and you say you believe.” He’s got many children, Thomas has. He said, “Now you believe. How much greater is their reward, who has never seen, or had any sensation, and still believe?” I want to be on that side—the greater reward.

57-0307 – “God Keeps His Word #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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