Episode 274: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 240

Episode Summary:

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof: Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience? For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:27-31)

12 A few days ago I was sitting, talking to my loyal little friend here in the city, a medical doctor, Sam Adair. And he said, “How are you doing, Bill?”

13 And I said, “Oh, pretty fair, I suppose, Doc.” I said; “Yourself?”

14 And he said, “Oh, a lot of patients.” Said, “I had fifteen examinations this afternoon.”

15 I said, “Well, that’s good as long as it’s just examinations and finding nothing wrong.” I said, “You know, the…” We got talking about back when we were boys. And I said, “Well, Doc, I don’t know just how long I’m going to be around. We’re both in our fifties.”

And he said, “That’s true, Bill.”

16 And I said, “But all these years, about thirty-one years of ministry now, I have kept my heart prepared for that hour when He comes. So it doesn’t matter when He comes.”

So he said, “That is true.”

I said, “The greatest thrill I have is living for others.”

17 And he said, “That’s what life is, makes life real, is when you…not what you can do or accomplish for yourself, but what you can do for others.”

18 See, that’s when you’re really living. And if there happens to be someone among us who has never did that, tried to live for somebody else, give that a try, and just see how much more life holds for you when you will not live for what you can get yourself out of life but what you can give someone else in life. And you’ll find that it’s more blessed than riches or anything of…that can be thought of. Is what you can do for someone else to make life’s burdens…Which, life in itself is a burden. And it will make it a little lighter for someone else. You just don’t know the joy unless you’ve tried it once, to do something for someone else.

19 And then that brings me to thinking of thirty-one years (will be soon) of ministry for the Lord. And I guess every man thinks of sometime when he has to come to his last service and come to his last hour, and look back down the path and see what has been accomplished, see what’s went on, “Have you did anything?” And if…I have just said, it’s what you do for others that counts.

61-0611 – “Revelation, Chapter Five #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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