Episode 86: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 52

Episode Summary:

And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. (Mark 3:32-35)

67 Notice how infallible the Word is. Mary and Joseph…Now to you, my dear Catholic friends, that said Mary was the mother of God. Mary wasn’t even the mother of Jesus, let alone being the mother of God. How could she be? Right. Not one time did He ever address her as mother; not at all.

68 They come to Him one time, and said, “Your mother and brothers wait outside.”

69 He looked on His congregation, said, “Who is My mother? Who is My brethren?” Looked at His disciples, said, “The ones that does the will of My Father, that’s the same as My mother, My…”

70 On the cross, when He was dying, He also spoke the same thing. He said to John, John here, this man, “Son, behold your mother!” Not, “Mother, behold thy son.” “Woman, behold your son!” Not, see, she wasn’t no mother of God.

71 She was just a borrowed womb that God used; no more than any other woman that God take a notion to use. He might use (your) the womb of your heart, to declare His Son, if you—if you’d just let Him do it. See? Not no mother of God. There would have to be a sensation, even to be a seed of Mary. He wasn’t even a seed from Mary.

72 It was, the whole thing, was God, the Creator. If the first Adam back there was created without father and mother, the Second Adam was the same thing. And anything less than that wouldn’t put Him on equal with Him. That’s right. The same God, He created a body that He Himself dwelt in.

73 Now we find, look how, look, if Mary was the mother of God, how she slipped up, there. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.” Denying the virgin birth, “Thy father, Joseph, and I, have sought Thee.”

74 Watch that twelve-year-old Boy, twelve-year-old Child, saying, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business, debating with them denominations up there?” Now, if He was with, about Joseph’s business, He’d have been down at the carpenter shop. Joseph wasn’t His father. God was His Father. “Don’t you know I ought to be about My Father’s business?” Up there, at twelve years old, with them learned priests. Not a day in school, but yet they were astonished at the wisdom. And look at the…

75 He was the Word. When He was born, He was the Word. He is still the Word. Notice, the Word will not take counterfeit. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.”

76 Said, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

77 Rebuked His Own mother? Why? He was the Word. There would be a question in somebody’s mind, if Mary here, who once said the “Holy Ghost” overshadowed her and brought forth a Son, and then here calling Joseph the father. The Word is infallible. It can’t fail.

64-0119 – “Shalom”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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