Episode 106: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 72

Episode Summary:

Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God. (2 Chron. 33:11-13)

92 Here not long ago in Chicago, a Full Gospel group called for a meeting. And they went to a certain big Bible school, and they got a great intellectual speaker. And it was advertised all over the city, about this great speaker from a certain great school, with such a name, my, and all the degrees on the end of the name, until they thought that would just be it. And when crowds gathered in to hear the man, when he raised up in the back of the building with a suit on, the collar turned around, and his speech under his arm, walked up and spread it across the place.

93 And the speech, my, it was superb. There was no one could say a word against that speech. It was perfect. The grammar was exact. His actions and his pulpit manners were perfect. He never stammered, stuttered, or slobbered, like a lot of us do. But he—but he…He brought his speech out, with such eloquence.

94 But he thought, “With this bunch of an illiterate people, I’ll get up there and show them what it really means to be a preacher.” With his chest out, he walked up, all puffed up, and gave this speech. But he found out that didn’t set with that kind of a crowd. It went over the top of their heads. So much great, big swelled-out words, they didn’t get it.

95 So after while, when he seen he was wrong, he gathered up his speech and put it on his arm. His shoulders dropped. His head dropped. His knees hanging. He drooped back down, humble, humiliated, off of the pulpit.

96 There was an old saint setting back there, looking around, touched another one, said, “If he would have went up the way he come down, he’d have come down the way he went up.”

97 So that’s just about right, until man knows that he knows nothing, and he’ll humble hisself before God and expect the Holy Ghost to do the work. That’s the thing. Man cannot achieve nothing by his intellectuals. He must depend solely upon God.

62-0119 – “An Ensign”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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