Episode 212: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 178

Episode Summary:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. (Psalm 23:1-6)

50 I’m don’t want to live in this old pesthouse that I been living in. It catches every disease floats through. I want one that’s made not with hands, fashioned after God, that—that’s not a hybrid plant like this is. I want one that’s made by the hands of God, that diseases and sickness and death goes from it. Now, whenever He summons me, I—I’m ready, by the grace of God, believing that, “When this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting,” that we move into, that can’t die from it no more.

51 How would you want to live in this? Not me. My it’s…We’re going out of it, and I’m glad of it. And this old human, germ trap that we’re living in, death trap and whatmore, is the groans and pains in it, and old age. And, why, my, who would want to stay in a body like that? I, I’m glad there is one coming. We got a body that—that’s being prepared for us, in Glory. And as soon as the life leaves this old hull here, that Eternal Spirit of God that lives within, it takes its journey into that tabernacle yonder, and there it lives Eternally. Why would we want something like this? My! Yes, sir. Oh, I—I’m so glad that, that there, that there is a God Who has made all these things plain.

52 And we look here, we see they’re just a shadow, anyhow. We are a shadow. I look here on the platform, see men that moves, and I look out on the street and see men and women that moves. They got life, but yet it cannot be real Life, because it’s death in it. And—and David said, “I’ll walk through the valley of the shadow of death.” Now, it takes so much light to make a shadow. There has to be so much light. If it’s altogether darkness, it cannot make a shadow. See? It has to be so much light, in the dark, to make it shadow. Well, now it depends on which one of those sides that you are leaning to.

53 If I see a man walking, fine-looking young man; in a few years, watch his hair turn gray and slip out, his shoulders droop down. A beautiful young girl standing, with a sainted, godly face on her, and stand and praising God; and I come back in a few years and find her stoop-shouldered, packing two or three children. Well, my, there, it shows that in that body there is death. No matter how well it is and how lovely it looks, it’s still got death in it.

54 Now I watch which a way that spirit in there leans. If it’s always representing the Light, speaking of the Light, talking of the Light, it’ll go with the Light. But if it’s always on the other side, of the world, the things of the world, influenced by the world, there is nothing but it to turn into darkness when it dies, into outer darkness. So you see, what we are, we must remember that we are only what we are by the grace of God, and none of us can brag about it. We can only bow in adoration and humility, before God, and give praise to Him for His goodness.

63-0803e – “Influence”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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