Episode 62: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 28

Episode Summary:

Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. (Matthew 18:32-35)

33 And those spirits that was in that dear man had drove him insane. And if anyone ever seen an insane person or had to deal with them, they’re many times their—their—their strength, because they are so possessed of the devil. If you was ever around where a—a person lost their mind, oh, it takes several good man to hold them. And they are twice or three times their power.

34 Now, when a person is crippled and the Holy Spirit gets ahold of them, if the devil’s got that much power to make a man three or four times his human strength, how much power can God put in a man? See? That’s what comes upon him to make him walk in the strength of God, where he’s been laying crippled for years. His bones come out straight; and his hands goes straight; he walks, and like a young new man, because the power of the Holy Spirit is on him.

35 Now, these was so evil until they wrapped the man in chains, and he could break them. And they said he plucked them asunder. And there was no—nothing could bind him. He was really a real bad case, because he had a legion of demons in him. And then, when he…Jesus crossed over and come into Gadara and started down by the tombs…And he was so evil, not the man (see?), the man was all right.

36 It’s not the man. When you see a person like that, don’t never think that it’s the man; it’s the devil that’s in the man.

Now, that maniac on the platform that night, was going to kill me, up in Oregon. That man, I—when he come to me, instead of…him spitting in my face and calling me a “snake in the grass” before nearly ten thousand people, well, it wasn’t that, it wasn’t the man. He’s a man that eats, drinks, sleeps, perhaps with a family, and loves, and—and just like I am or you are. But it was that devil in him that was doing that. See?

37 And you never cast a devil out by the wrong attitude. It takes love to do that. And love is the most powerful force that there is in the world. Now, if you notice, a devil is always hate. Hate is of the devil. And when people hate someone, remember, it is a terrible devil to despise or dislike. You mustn’t do that.

59-1223 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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