Episode 324: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 290

Episode Summary:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-7)

147 And, brother, we’ve been a great nation. We’ve been a great people. We’ve been a great church. We’ve been a great everything. But, I tell you, everything mortal has to give away. And this, the time is at hand. I tell you everything is laying, and the world has become to one great big chaos of just corruption and stink, before God.

148 This nation is whiskey drinking, beer drinking. And our taxes is paid on this whiskey and stuff, which supports our nation. And it’s blood money, if you think it’s wrong to drink whiskey.

149 And you say, “Leave it alone, preacher. You oughtn’t to say nothing about drinking. It’s our American rights.”

150 I know it’s your American rights, but it’s not your Heavenly rights. And, brother, if you are willing before God, you’ll…You will be able…You will, in your heart, forfeit every filthy right that you have, to serve the Lord, and will purpose in your heart that you’ll not defile yourself with the things of the world.

151 You say, “Brother Branham, other Christians smoke. Why can’t I smoke?”

152 You might have a right to smoke, as an American citizen. But you have not the right to do it, as a Christian, because it’s a stumbling block in the other person’s way. That’s exactly right. And you shouldn’t do it; you’ll lay a stumbling block.

153 All these other things, and your dressing. Say, “Well, the rest of the women, they dress like this. The other girls, they dress like this. They do this. Why can’t I do it?” I know, it’s your American rights. “The law don’t say I can’t do it.” I know that. It don’t say hardly anything. You can do anything you want to, that’s right, just about any.

154 But, brother, it’s not in a Christian’s heart to do that. If you’ll purpose in your heart that you’ll live clean and pure before God, nature itself will teach you that those things are wrong.

155 But, here we are, we come into this place. What is it? It’s because we’re at the end road. Purpose in your heart, tonight, “Never no more, never no more, as long as the world stands,” or as long as you live, that you’ll never defile yourself anymore with the portion of the American way of life, yes, sir, American way of life, so-called.

156 Now, the old American way of life was fine; be neighborly and honest, so forth. That’s good. But this modern way, of your nakedness, and drinking, and carousing, and separation, and marrying, and intermarrying, and—and all this nonsense; purpose in your heart to abstain from all that, as long as you live.

Let us pray.

56-0902 – “The Handwriting On The Wall”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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