Episode 264: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 230

Episode Summary:

Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:14-15)

82 And God gives you your choice. “Choose you this day who you shall serve.” In the garden of Eden there was a tree of—of knowledge, and a Tree of Life. Man was given the privilege to choose either one he desired. And so is it today. You’re given your privilege, as free moral agents, to choose whatever you want to choose.

83 My advice to you, is, don’t look at the modern things around you, and the popularity and the glamour that you could be. But choose, rather, by faith, Him that give the promise that some day He will come and will righten all wrongs, and will give you Eternal Life, and raise you up. No matter if you take the despised way with the Lord’s few, make that choice. If there is troubles in the hand, if there is troubles in the land, if there’s troubles in the church, if there’s troubles in the home, no matter where it is, make your choice, “By faith, I’ll serve God. I’ll humble my heart in His Presence. I’ll take the way with God’s children. I see them despised and rejected, and drove out and made fun of, but I’ll still take my post of duty. I’ll stay right by. And when they cry, I’ll cry with them. And when there is sorrow, I shall sorrow with them. The way they live, I’ll live.”

84 Like Naomi said…Or, Ruth said to Naomi, “Your ways be my ways. My ways be your ways. Where you live, I’ll live. Where you go, I’ll go. The God that you serve will be my God.” Take that choice, though it pulls the very skin off of your conscience, of thinking that you’re somebody. Skin yourself down and take your way with the Lord’s despised few, and stay loyal on the field of service and at the post of duty.

85 Lot looked around. He said, “I got a choice.” And he looked towards Sodom. He saw the good grassy fields were better than what Abraham saw, and where Abraham was. He saw the opportunities to graze his cattle, to have fatter and better cattle.

86 I hope I’m not hurting anyone’s feeling. But that’s been the stand of too many preachers, to compromise with the Gospel, thinking that they get more money out of it. [Brother Branham claps his hands three times—Ed.] A meal ticket! I’d rather live in the barren land, eat, drink from a branch, and eat soda crackers, than to compromise upon the conviction of my faith in the Word of the living God. I’ll take my way.

58-0720m – “By Faith, Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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