Episode 234: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 200

Episode Summary:

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. (Psalm 44:6-8)

169 A woman said to me, some time ago. I might have re-…said that here some time. It’ll bear repeating. She was a Christian Science. And she said, “Brother Branham, I—I appreciate your remarks that you say of the Scripture. But,” said, “there’s just one fault you have.”

170 I said, “Thank you. Just one? My!” I said, “I’m certainly got grace in your sight.”

171 And she said, “This fault is, that, you brag too much about Jesus.”

172 I said, “Oh, my!” I said, “If that’s the only fault I got, I hope God feels—feels I only got one fault when I get there. And if that’s the only one, I’m sure I’m going in.” I said, “If I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn’t brag on Him enough. No matter what I’d say, I couldn’t brag on Him enough.”

173 She said, “But, Brother Branham, you make Him Divine. You make Him God.”

174 I said, “He was, and He is. And if He wasn’t, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had.” That’s right.

She said, “Oh! Don’t…”

I said, “Don’t you believe that?”

175 She said, “Oh, Mr. Branham, I believe He was a teacher.” And said, “I believe He was a prophet, but He was just a plain prophet like the rest of them.”

I said, “Oh, my! Oh! You’re so mistaken.”

She said, “I’ll prove it to you.”

I said, “How?”

176 She said, “In the Scriptures, when Lazarus…Saint John, the 11th chapter, when Lazarus died, the Bible said, that, ‘Jesus wept.’” And she said, “How could He be Divine and weep?”

177 I said, “That was the Man part weeping. That was the Man. The immortal part was inside. That was God in Him.”

She said, “Ah, nonsense!”

178 I said, “I want to ask you something. When, that night on the ship, He was a Man laying there, sleeping. That’s true. He was sleep and tired, like a man. But when He could put His foot upon the brail of that boat and say, ‘Peace, be still,’ and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. He might have been a Man, crying, but when He said, ‘Lazarus, come forth,’ and a man had been dead four days come on it. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain, hungering for something to eat, looked on a tree; but when He took five biscuits, and two, fed five thousand, that was the Creator.” That’s right. Sure.

179 In action, God in action! Oh, I love that! Not some idol, not some mythical thought of rubbing a statue, not some totem pole, but a real, living God in action. Amen. Amen. Not something that was. Something that is right now. Sounds silly, to the world. But, oh, how gracious, to the saint who believes it. How wonderful! Certainly. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.

63-0117 – “Awakening Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Order your own copy of the Family Altar at http://store.bibleway.org