Episode 96: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 62

Episode Summary:

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? (Mark 8:15-21)

Sin is so—so enticing. Oh, it’s glamour. And it’s got a very appetizing appeal, sin has. It’s so innocent. Why, it looks so… it looks so innocent. Don’t you listen to it.

15 After while, when Joshua took the land, God told him, “Utterly destroy everything there is there. Don’t leave nothing.” Why, could you imagine some of them Israelite women picking up a little baby? “Oh, isn’t it cute? Look at its… it ain’t even got teeth yet.”

Joshua said, “Kill it.”

The mother said, “Oh, I’m a mother. I can’t kill that baby.”

“You must. Hand it here.”

Why? It might look cute now, but it’ll grow up and be just like its daddy. You can’t baby sin. It’s got to be handled with—not with gloves on, but barehanded. We want to be nice. Everybody does. We want… But what is nice? We want to be humble. What is humility? We want to be full of compassion. What is compassion?

Jesus, a man full of compassion, passed through two or three thousand people, water-head babies, crippled, blind, halt, withered. He had compassion. What did He do? Walked over where the Father showed Him, a man that had maybe prostate trouble, or something, and healed him and walked away, and left the rest of them: a Man full of compassion.

16 Now, people today… Our English words turn the people around. See? That’s human sympathy; that’s not compassion. There’s a lot of difference between sympathy and compassion. They’re two different words altogether. And we use them the same.

Now, the Word doesn’t use any compassion; it’s got to be obeyed. Stay with that Word, no matter how bad it cuts. How would you think it’d destroy babies, and innocent women, and things like that, so-called? One little leaven leavens the whole lump. That’s the same thing started back there with Eve. It looked awful cunning.

“Why, you’ll be wise. Surely you’ll not die. He’s too good. He wouldn’t kill you. But surely you’ll not die.” But God said you would die. That started the whole thing, right there. See? You’ve got to stay with that Word, regardless.

62-0408 – “Presuming”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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