Episode 229: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 195

Episode Summary:

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psalm 39:4-5)

93 Now, natural life, if we have natural life, in order to be active in this natural life, in natural things, we have to have a natural birth. They don’t just jerk you off of a tree somewhere, see, stick you out some way. They tried it, but it didn’t work. It’s got to be an actual birth, natural birth, to make you active so you can have the five senses, walk, talk, see, taste, feel, smell, hear, move around, so forth, because you’re then a human being, and you’re—you’re subject to all these things because they go into the natural life.

94 And, in such a birth, sometimes we become very wise in worldly wisdom or the affairs of the world, become Presidents and—and great scholars, and master mechanics and scientists, and so forth. And you always know, from the very beginning, it was Cain’s children that had that kind of wisdom; not Seth’s, they were humble sheepman. But Seth’s children were godly people. But Cain’s children was always smart, high, science, doctors and great man. That’s right. The Bible said so, you know, That teaches that. And very religious, but perished at the end. We become wise by going to school, taking scholarship, and so forth, we become very wise, smart, and can do things and say things, and sometimes outtalk a man that’s Spirit-filled. Didn’t Jesus say, “The children of this world is wiser than the children of the Kingdom”? Sure, ’cause they, by their intellects that they can—can talk and outsmart and outtalk, and take the Scriptures and twist It to make It say things that It doesn’t.

95 “Oh, It doesn’t exactly mean that.” When a man says that, get away from him. God watches over His Word, you know, the Bible said. It’s wrote just the way It should be. See? Now, It’s put in such a way to deceive, or to make the wise stumble over It. It’s so simple, that’s the reason they stumble over It. See? All right.

96 All this wisdom and things that they can accumulate, yet, but it is from…that birth is from beneath, this earth. It’s from the earth, and it is against the Spirit of God. The first birth, to make us active here, makes us mortal man, because of the sin act at the garden, made man come into the world by a woman. And a man that is born of a woman is of a few days, but a man that is born of Christ is Eternal. Job said, “A man that’s born of woman is few days and full of trouble.” Notice, but a man that’s born of Christ, has to be born from Above. Now, but a man that’s born of the earth, become wise and can almost outsmart.

62-1111e – “Why I’m Against Organized Religion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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