Episode 368: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 334

Episode Summary:

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:3-4)

37 See, “the world,” we’ve escaped that now. He’s addressing this to the Church. That’s why we’re here this morning, is to find out what is the way, what is God’s requirement. There’s not a person in here, that loves God, but wants to—wants to become more like Christ. Now it’s laid out here. Every Christian! I’m an old veteran. Look at Brother and Sister Kidd here, they’re probably the oldest in the building. But if I’d ask them, “What is your heart’s desire?” It’d be, “Closer to God.” When you learn of Christ, there’s something about Him that’s so loving, you just try to get right into Him.

38 Excuse this expression. I told my wife, here not long ago, she… both getting old, and I said to her, I said, “Do you love me like you used to?”

She said, “I certainly do.”

39 And I said, “You know, I love you so much till I would like to take you and pull you inside of me, so we could just be, really, be one, more.”

40 Now, that, multiply that by a hundred million, and then you’ll find out how that the believer, who falls in love with Christ, wants to get into Him, because it’s a love. And here He’s going to show us how that, through these promises, we might be partakers of Christ’s Divine nature. These, mortal body, how that we can be partakers.

41 I might say something here. The reason I believe…Now someone got me all wrong, here not long ago. I got a letter from the ministerial association, that said that I believed that there was… “We were soul-mated. And we must leave our companions if we’re not soul-mated to them, to marry another one that we were soul-mated to.” Oh, my!

42 I said, “I’m not guilty of a heresy like that.” I’ve always been against that. I—I don’t believe in that. Certainly not. I believe that God gives us a mate. That’s true. And then we become part of each other. That’s right. And ’fore a man gets married, he should think these things over, study it.

43 A young man asked me the other day, said, “You think I could, ought to get married, Brother Branham, to such-and-such a girl?”

I said, “How much do you think of her?”

He said, “Oh, my, I just love her.”

I said, “Well, if you’re not going to live without her, you better marry her then. But if you can live without her, you better not. So, but if it’s going to kill you, you better—you better go ahead and get married,” I said. And so what I was trying to get to him, this, that, if you love her so much!

44 Now, right now, before you’re married, everything is just fine and dandy. But after you get married, then the toils and trials of life come in. That’s when you’ve got to be so in love that you understand one another. When you’re disappointed in her, she disappointed in you, you still understand one another.

45 That’s the way it is with Christ. See? We’ve got to be so in love with Him, till when we ask for something, and He doesn’t give it to us, that doesn’t shake us a bit. See? See? Why? And the only way you can do that, is to become partakers of His Divine nature, then you’ll understand the reason He can’t give it to you. “Partakers of His Divine nature.”

62-1014m – “The Stature Of A Perfect Man”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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