Episode 130: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 96

Episode Summary:

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? (Luke 9:23-25)

84 You’ve got to repent first, get right, get down there and really cry out. I can remember the times when the old-fashion people would walk down through the aisles, and up and down the roads, crying, and talking to their neighbors. That was Christians of that day; telling them about the things of the Lord.

85 And, today, we put our name on the church book, and go out and stay home, and never say a word about It. Unconcerned. “Just as long as we belong to the church, it’s all right.” I’m sure we’re wrong there, people. Check up. For, that won’t stand in the judgments. No, sir. It won’t.

86 Nothing less, “He that will follow Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and die daily.” Stay dead, there on the cross. That’s right. Agony! “The way, I’ll take the way,” you sing, “with the Lord’s despised few.”

87 I think today, what a time that we’re living in! That, evangelism, they put it out in great big bright lights, and they try…When you see the evangelist coming to town, you wonder. I, my meetings has been guilty of the same. That’s right. I wonder who is coming to town, sometime, the evangelist or Jesus Christ? Why, they got…

88 I went into a place here, not long ago, where a certain evangelist was supposed to come. And Jesus’ Name…Why, they had the picture of the evangelist, “the man of the hour,” the man’s with this, and the man with that.

89 I, sometimes I think of my ministry, and see people come. And I’d get in a hotel room, say, “God, who—who is the people coming to see, me or You?” See? “If they’re coming to see me, they’re lost, yet; but, O God, tear me down, take me away. I want to represent You, the One Who we’ll stand before someday, with trembling hands and trembling, feeble body, looking at You. Knowing that my soul hangs by Your decision.” Let us exalt Christ.

90 Today, you say, “Well, I belong to the Baptist. I’m a Methodist. I’m belong to the tabernacle. I do this.” Oh, that has nothing to do with it; not a thing. I wonder sometime.

91 Here not long ago, I seen a—an advertisement up, where a certain campaign was coming to the city. And the word of the man, the man’s name run great big letters all the way around, like that. And on the bottom, in a little corner, said, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,” way down in the corner. See?

92 They took all the sacredness from Christ, and put it onto some man, or some church, or some organization. Brother, I’m telling, you can get by with glamour, Hollywood clowning, like that, in a…by the church. But, in the Presence of Jesus Christ, He is the One to be glorified. That’s right. Now, that’s the truth, my dear brother and sister.

93 Don’t feel angry at me. You just remember that I’m preaching to you. I want to preach as if this was the last sermon I’d ever preach in my life. I want to preach, every sermon I preach, as if I was a dying man preaching to dying men. And, I am; my light is burning down, every day; yours is, too. And we’re dying mortals. And we got to face the living God, some of these days, and we better be in deep sincerity about this.

54-0509 – “The Invasion Of The United States”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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