The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 13

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6) 154 You’re crying for a messiah here at Christmas time. Uh-huh. What did they get? They—they wanted it. They want to take it over. The world today wants to take over. The church wants to take over, each denomination. But look what God gave them! They wanted a military genius. They wanted a—a scientific genius, but God give them a Lamb, a Baby. What a contrast! You think they’d accept that crying Child? But that’s what they needed. God gives you according to your needs. Certainly. They…He got…They got a Baby when they was wanting a general; but they got a Baby, meek, lowly. God knew their needs, though. 155 He never came to be a national or a church politician. And if Messiah would come today, He would not be a national or a church politician. And if we cry for such a person, God will send us deliverance, but we got to receive It in the way that He sends It. They didn’t do it, they didn’t want It that way. The church cries today, “O Heavenly Father, will You please send Jesus to us? Will You please?” And when the Holy Spirit begins to move in, “Oh, that’s…We don’t want that.” See? Well, you be, “Oh, oh, we won’t have this man rule over us. Oh, I don’t want to hear That. No. My…I couldn’t accept That, my denomination won’t believe That.” Then you don’t want a Messiah, you don’t want the anointing. If God sent a Messiah, He’d be exactly Word by Word of the Bible, exactly what He was at the first time. The cry of the world, when we see politicians and everything else pinching out the very Life of the church, and we cry, and God sent it to us, then we’d refuse It. “That’s right, we wouldn’t want it. No, if it didn’t cope with our—our denominational beliefs, we couldn’t receive It.” See? Oh, don’t you see what real Christmas…The people don’t want It. They don’t want God’s way of sending It. They’re looking for something, but they don’t want It. 156 Now, God sent them, in the day that they were crying, not a military genius, not a great general coming down with buckle and armor, and with a supernatural sword or spear that he could yield and run Rome and Greek and the rest of them into the sea and drown them again. He didn’t send them something like that, though He said He did do it one time in Moses, but they needed it then. But He sent them a Saviour and they didn’t want It. They thought there was…they were saved. See? That’s the way with the churches today. Finds at this Christmas time with all the tinsel of Christmas, the Santa Claus lights, the pagan traits and things dropped into both Catholic and Protestant churches, and just as corrupt as it can be. And God sends them a Saviour. What? Back to the Word. The Holy Spirit, God’s Messiah, His Anointed, to anoint His church and send it back to the Word. Do you think they want It? No, sir. They won’t have It. They’ll turning her down just like they always do. 157 He sends a Saviour, but what does He send a Saviour for then? Want to drop a little something here that’ll help you. There is a predestinated people that’s going to receive It. There was when He come the first time, there will be when He comes the second time. No matter what the church world’s got to think about it, some…He don’t send It in vain. Somebody will receive It. There’s somebody’s going to get It, that’s all; but not the political world or the political church, or whatever it is. But when you cry out and God sends It, somebody’s going to—going to receive It. That’s right. 62-1216 - "The Falling Apart Of The World" Rev. William Marrion Branham