Episode 305: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 271

Episode Summary:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (Galatians 5:22-24)

138 Christians, oh, you must have a personal relationship to God. In order to be a son of God, you must become relation to God. He must be your Father, in order for you to be His son. And only His sons and daughters are saved, not the members of a church, but sons and daughters. There’s only one thing that will produce that, that’s the new Birth. The new Birth is the only thing that will produce relationship to God. That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Sons and daughters. Then when this takes place, then the men…

139 Here’s the question I want to get to you. The man says, “What do we do then after we been born again?” So many ask me that question. “What should I do then, Brother Branham?” If you are born again, your entire nature is changed. You are dead to the things you once thought.

140 “Well,” you say, “Brother Branham, when I joined church, I got that.”

Well, then, when, God said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He still heals the sick. He still shows vision.”

“But, Brother Branham, my church!” Now, you’re not born again. See? You can’t be; for, if the very God, if His Life is in you, like the…you are in…the life of your father, and, if the very Life of God is in you, the very Spirit that was in Christ, in you, how can the Spirit live in Jesus Christ and write This, and then come back down in you and deny That? See? Can’t do it. It’ll punctuate every Word to be so.

141 Then, if you say, “Well, I’m a good member of the church,” that don’t have one thing to do with It.

I know the heathen. Down in Africa, amongst my dark brethren down there, I find the morals of them people higher than—than ninety percent of the American people. Why, in some of the tribes there, if a young girl is not married till she’s a certain age, or when she’s a certain size and no one has taken her yet, they know there’s something wrong. They excommunicate her. She take off tribal paint, and she goes to the city, then she just becomes a renegade. And when she’s married, she’s tested for her virginity. If the little virgin veil is broke, then she has to tell who done it. And they kill them both, together. Wouldn’t there be a lot of killing in America if that taken place? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] See? Then you call them heathens? Oh, my! They can come teach people, that call themselves church members, how to live clean. That’s right.

142 Never found one case of venereal in the whole trip through South Africa. They don’t have such a thing. There you are. See? It’s just our own dirty filthy ways, as white people. That’s right. Got away from God.

143 When this takes place, the thing you’ll do then, you’ll find out that the Spirit that comes in you, from the new Birth, you will believe and do everything that God says in His Word is for you to do. And everything that the Bible quotes for you to do, you’ll punctuate it with an “amen.” And you’ll not stop, day and night, until you receive it. That’s right. That’s right. And in all this time, you’ll certainly, above everything, bear the fruit of the Spirit.

144 You say, “Will I speak with tongues?” You might do that, and you might not. “Will I shout?” You might do that. You might not.

But there’s one sure thing you will do. You will bear the fruit of the Spirit. And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, faith, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, patience. Your temper will not be, “Oooh!” Just remember, when you got that, that poisons the Holy Spirit away from you. See? When you get to a place that you want to fuss with everybody you come along to, there’s something wrong. When you get a place where the…a minister will read from the Bible, that it’s wrong to do a certain thing, and, you’ll…Just remember, there’s no Christianity there at all. That’s now, that, “By their fruits you shall know them.” That’s what Jesus said. See?

63-0630e – “Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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