JESUS WAS NOT BORN ON DEC 25TH

The Family Altar :

BIBLE READING

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:37-39)

INSIGHTS

Sometimes I've met people that said, "Oh, glory to God, The Lord wants me to do a certain thing. He wants me to go to Africa, to India."

I said, "Have you ever asked the milkman if he was saved? Have you ever asked the paper boy if he'd been borned again yet? How about your neighbor, are they saved?" See? Now, that's the question.

Here sometime ago a woman met me down here in Florida. And the little woman, I'm not the judge, but there's a little preacher had been right here and preached at this platform. And the little fellow in another country was married and had a wife, three or four children. And this woman was a widow woman. And they had come from Texas, together over here in a big Cadillac car. And the woman come in. And she has the right to dress anyway she wants to, didn't make nothing to me; but as a Christian woman she didn't dress just like it. She had great big long, them ear bobs (ever what you call it) hanging down like this, and she had a real lot of stuff on her mouth; and her eyebrows had been cut off and she had other eyebrows with a pencil, put on. And she said, "Brother Branham, the Lord's calling me to a foreign country."

I said, "He is?"

"Yes." And she said, "I'm going over with this man."

And I said, "Well, if the Lord's calling you, well, all right." (But by their fruit... Didn't look very much to me like, see?)

And she said, "Don't you believe the Lord..?"

I said, "Don't ask Me. If the Lord's told you, you do what the Lord told you to do. But for me, I don't think so, for myself. I'll just be honest with you." She said, "Well, why do you think so?"

I said, "The first thing, as you as a married woman with this married man don't look very good, you staying down here in the city together. If anything brings reproach is that." See?

Now, what would happen to that woman? She had kept messing around without receiving the Holy Ghost, just like that woman over yonder today that called me and wanted to marry that man, and leave her own husband, and marry the man. She had come in such a place, maybe one time being in contact with God, but had been lusting after the things of the world. And I asked her; I said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost?"

She said, "Not yet, but I'm seeking it."

I said, "You get the Holy Ghost first, and He'll tell you what husband to have." That's right. See?

That's what it is. If you don't, you'll die spiritually. God's speaking a lot tonight. But He's knocked at your heart so many times. And one of these times He's going to shut the door, and mercy's gone.

( Questions and Answers

January 3, 1954 )

~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Christianity is not in a claim one made. Good to claim it but it is in what a person is. You will know that you are because you are made to be one. It also shows that you are, it cannot be hidden. What you manifest is called fruit because you are a tree. You can't be mango tree with cashew fruit on top. It is the inward nature that manifest in outward appearance and conduct. Membership of the family is just a nomenclature and a claim. Your fruit shows what tree you are from.

For instance, a Christian can't sleep with a woman or man she or he is not married to. A Christian doesn't fight, no. He cannot lie. She cannot wear whatever will bring shame and reproach to his or her family. He or she does not "make up" knowing what his or her is. He or she is an agent of peace and harmony. This is true of who carry the Spirit of Christ with him or her. *[[Col 1:27]] BBE* To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

That's it. This is what the whole world is waiting to see in us. It is not the question of where I am. Though where I am now speaks volume but what I am there is what matters most to heaven.