Episode 94: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 60

Episode Summary:

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41-44)

13 I’m praying, fasting, waiting on God. I want to do my part while I’m here in California. You do your part. Get out and get the people in. God is doing greater things today than has ever been known since Jesus Christ was on earth. That’s right. And it’s going right over the top of the people’s head, and they’re missing seeing it. That’s the bad part.

If they would’ve only knew it, like Jesus said—said about the—the… said, “If you’d have only knowed your day, if you’d have only knew it… Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen does her brood. But you would not. If you’d have only knowed your day, your visitation…”

That’s the way it is today. It’s always been; that’s what it is now. If we’d have only knowed the day of visitation… But the visitation goes right through, and the people are looking way over here for something else. And first thing you know, the visitation’s over, and there it is. But as He said, “No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him first. All the Father has given Me will come to Me.” Amen. Oh, that’s what makes us…

14 Now, we like to talk to people where we can make them feel real good. But the best thing to do, if there’s—there’s something wrong, let’s get that out of the way first. Let’s get the thing down to the foundation. See?

A fellow said to me not long ago, a well-known minister, one of the best in the world; he said, “Brother Branham, you’re making too much of a mistake.”

I said, “Pardon me, my brother. Tell me where it’s at.”

He said, “You cut at people too hard.” Said, “You’re… For instance, you—you’re always bawling the—the women out from the way they dress. And you’re always slamming this and that.” He said, “You better quit that. You’ll ruin your ministry.”

I said, “Any time that the Word of God ruins my ministry, God, ruin it right quick, because I—I want it ruined.” That—that’s right. I want to give something that’s right. The Word of God teaches that. And I say, “God give us boldness, and men that’ll stand for the truth, regardless of what comes or goes.” That’s what we need.

The Gospel’s not something for a sissy; Gospel is for men, God-called men.

15 You never judge a man by how big his hands is, and how wide his shoulders is. I’ve heard them say, “Oh, isn’t he a man.” I’ve seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn’t have an ounce of man in him. That’s right. You don’t measure a man by his size. That’s brute. You measure him by his character. There never was a greater character Man than Jesus Christ.

A big body… A mule’s stouter than any man, so he, or elephant. So that’d be brute. But a man’s not how big a muscle he’s got. I don’t measure him by that, but how the bags is in the knees of his trousers, where he’s been praying. That’s the man that’s to be measured: character.

Jesus was a small Man, little Fellow, probably stooped shouldered. At thirty years old; He looked fifty, the Bible said. But there never was a man on earth like Him and never will be. He—He… The Bible said, “There was no beauty for Him that—that we should desire Him. When we seen Him we hid as it was our face from Him,” and all like that.

But yet, it pleased God to—to smite Him. And He was smitten, stricken, and afflicted. He bore our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we were healed. Oh, it should be attractive to people. It really should. It should stir the heart.

61-0208 – “Sirs, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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