Episode 315: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 281

Episode Summary:

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philipians 3:7-10)

73 If anything turned me the first time against my—made me ashamed of America, was…I was in Switzerland one day, and Brother Arganbright and I had found a good place way down by Lausanne where we could get a big, fine steak, about so big around, weigh about three-quarters of a pound, I think, for around thirty cents in American money. Oh, we were living like kings! Every day we’d go down there. And all of them there drink wine, you know; their water’s no good. And I wouldn’t drink that wine, so I got me a little jug from the—a drugstore that had distilled water. And I packed that jug wherever I went. I guess everybody thought, “That boy carries his own brand.” So I had it in my hand. We went down there to this place where all the—selling these steaks, and one day Miss America drove up. About a ’28 model Chevy, had a poodle dog setting on the lap and brought that in there, and she had enough…Them two women had enough ten cent store jewelry, great big, long things, and earrings, and hanging way down, and paint; and both of them fifty years old, as old as me. And you’d thought they wanted to be fifteen. But what are they trying to do? They’re trying to drive life’s road looking through a rear-view mirror, looking back to what they used to be.

74 Now, Christian don’t do that. A Christian don’t try to be what he used to be; he’s not looking where he’s been, he’s looking where he’s going. See, see? Don’t pay no attention to what you was then; you’ve done lived that out. You’ll never return to it; that’s in the past. And any man that drives life’s road looking through a rear-view mirror will go to wreck; and so will you on this Christian road. Don’t look back what you was, look what you’re going to be. Paul said, “Forgetting those things which are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling.”

75 Now, but it made you ashamed. They brought this little, old stinking dog in there and set it upon the table! Now, that would make anybody vomit! And fooling with that dog right there, setting it right up there with their hands, and then going to eat with them same hands! And the waiter come over there, and blabbed off something. Dr. Guggenbuhl was with me; he started laughing, and turned his head.

I said, “What’s—what’d say?”

Said, “The waiter said, ‘Take that off!’”

They said, “No, she’s an American; let her alone.” In other words, “She don’t know any better.” See?

64-0823e – “Questions And Answers #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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