Episode 80: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 46

Episode Summary:

Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. (Matthew 27:41-42)

42 Let’s change our picture for a few minutes. Let’s take four thousand years later. Let’s get in Jerusalem. It’s a morning; it’s about eight o’clock. I hear a noise outside. We’re all talking. What’s going on? Oh, a great bunch of carrying on, and some hiss, and some crying, some mocking. Let’s go pull the shade back and look out, see what’s out there. Why, look, coming down the street, there comes a Man. And He’s got a—two malefactors following Him. He’s got a cross on His back. “Well, Who is that?” I say to my company in the upstairs.

They say, “That’s that Jesus of Nazareth, that impostor, that Divine healer, that one who troubles our churches and makes trouble with them, teaches things that the priests don’t believe in. That’s Him. They’re taking Him to Calvary. They’re going to crucify Him.”

Those big old cobblestones as He went out the gate, that cross bumping up and down on His shoulder… And as they took Him out along, I noticed He had one robe, it was wove throughout without seam, and all over that robe comes little bitty red dots. Is it speckled? Is that its natural color? No, it was white. Why those little speckled dots? Let’s watch them. As He goes on towards Calvary, them little dots begin to get bigger, bigger, bigger. And after while they all run into one big red splotch. What is it? Blood.

43 And as He starts up Calvary there, I can hear something going [Brother Branham claps—Ed.] What is it? The second Adam, the Redeemer, the Blood of a righteous One, bleeding for the sinner to cover up our sins. And we spit it back to Him. We wag our heads and said, “I’ll have my own way about religion. I’ve got my own religion, I don’t have to have that stuff.” Without that you’re lost, without hope, without God, without Christ, in the world dying, going to a sinners grave and a devil’s hell, without that.

God made a preparation for you. I can see Him going up the hill packing that cross, His little weak body staggering as He went up the hill. The first thing you know, it was whirling around Him; death was biting at Him hard, and He’s moving on with a cross on His back, moving towards Calvary yonder. What? Because He had to? No, because love drove Him to it.

44 There, think of it. They said, “He saved Hisself… others… He saved the others; Himself He cannot save.” That was a compliment. He couldn’t save others and Himself. Did you ever think of it? He was the Father. Amen. He was Father God as a Sacrifice. That’s the reason I love that song, brother. When you try to make Him just a prophet… He was more than a prophet; He was God manifested in flesh.

Why couldn’t He… He said He could get twelve legions of Angels. Why didn’t He call them? He couldn’t. That’s the reason His own children was crying for His Blood. Could you imagine your own children screaming for your blood? If He condemned them He condemned His own children. He said, “I won’t condemn you before the Father.” He said, “You got one that condemned you and accused you before God; that was Moses; and you believe in him.” He didn’t condemn them. He said, “Forgive them, Father; they don’t know what they’re doing.”

55-0115 – “Law”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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