The Family Altar
BIBLE READING
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44)
INSIGHTS
You are not saved because you are a good person. You're saved because Christ chose you. No man seeks God; God seeks man. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And if we could stop just for a few moments and realize the great importance of that one thing, that it was God Who chose you, not willing that you should perish; but give to you the opportunity, and called you, and elected you to be His servant. Why, what could be more precious than that? It would be total impossible for any man to seek God; for he's by nature is a sinner; and he has nothing within him to give a desire to serve God.
Could you go to the pig and tell him he's wrong? He's a pig by nature. Could you tell him his diet is wrong? Certainly not. By nature he is a pig. You should tell him he would be a lamb, but he's satisfied as a pig. And a sinner is satisfied as a sinner, because his nature is a sinner.
And here it is. We are all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, by nature a child of disobedience, without God, without a hope, the wrath of God abiding on us. And by the loving grace of Christ, God in His sovereign grace and His omnipotence knocks at your heart and gives you the blessed opportunity, and turned you around and sent you up the road. How could you turn that down? Changes your whole desire, turns you around, and starts you the other way. Oh, you'll be silly to the world; but you'll be blessed in the sight of God. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled," said our Lord Jesus Christ.
God by His amazing grace, notice, it was what God did, what God called. You had no will to call. You could have had no desire to call, because your nature was completely contrary to it. But God by election called you, and turned you around, and set your affections towards Christ and the things above. How could we turn it down?
( Communion
April 18, 1957 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham
see, if you are not blinded from the plan of God for salvation by the Pentecostal perversion of the Word of God, you will discover that you are not the one who led any one to Christ. I have seen the Word of God moved after a message and the preacher begins to struggle with his listeners to accept the message.
" Say after me, Lord Jesus Christ, I have sinned against you, but forgive me, come into my heart and make me your child... "
No one can do it if the LORD doesn't come for His own when He wants to do that. I was also guilty of that rubbish at a time until I met the message of Branham. And every pieces of error began to fall in place.
It is not bad to tell somebody to be born again. But can anyone do that in your own views. If you are saved, did you save yourself? Did you choose the day, the place and the situation of change?
It is God's singular duty to save the sinner and no one can help Him.
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