The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 181

And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. (Acts 13:20-22) 137 And God is our King! Why do we want anything else besides God? Why would a Christian want anything else to lead him but the Holy Spirit? I don’t know. I can’t understand. 138 And Samuel called them up. He said, “I want to tell you something.” Said, “Have I ever said anything to you in the Name of the Lord, but what come to pass?” “No.” 139 “Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for money?” 140 “No, you haven’t begged us for any money. And what you said, the Lord brought it to pass. We know that.” 141 He said, “Then why are you rejecting God, and want a king? You want to act like the world.” 142 And that’s what Pentecost is doing today. It wants to make intellectual giants. It wants to take the Power out of the Church. It wants to make a denomination grow, bring more members in. That’s nonsense! And when you bind a man to a creed, when you do that, you take the Holy Spirit away from him. He’ll have to give somewhere. The Holy Spirit will move on; the man can’t, on account, of his creed. Now he said… 143 And then, of course, Saul trained his army. Oh, my. He had them Israelites just knowing every which way to knock a spear off, or to do anything. But one day there come a challenger, old Goliath. And, brother, it taken more than an intellectual training then. 144 It took a man that knowed something about supernatural. But God had such a man. Thank the Lord for that. God has always got somebody. He always has. He had a man He could put His hands on. A little bitty old ruddy fellow out there, wasn’t very much, but he come up there and he said, “You mean to tell me that you will let that uncircumcised Philistine defile the army?” And there was old Saul, head and shoulders above all of them. All of his intellectual training didn’t do any good. 145 Now the churches has done that. They got away from the Holy Spirit. They got away from the Power of God. They got away from the leading of the Spirit. And we’ve got…We got sons of—of Kish, too. We just had one of our great giants the other day, over here in Africa, was challenged by a Mohammedan, on the Scripture. What happened? He took water like the other son of Kish; no disregards to our brother. 146 But they had a man who knowed that God could deliver. They brought that little old David up there, and he said, “I don’t know nothing about your spears, your intellectual training. But I know one thing. I know one thing, I went out after sheep that was took by the enemy. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. God let me bring them back.” He said, “How much more will He make me, let me, bring back this uncircumcised Philistine!” 147 What we need today is men and women who wants a reality. Hallelujah! Not a creed; a reality, that’s what the world needs today! Not creeds and fashions; we need realities in God! The world don’t want It. The world don’t want It. They won’t, don’t want to accept It. But the Church has to have It. God wants you to have It. He is the God of realities. Yes, sir. 60-0626 - "The Unfailing Realities Of The Living God" Rev. William Marrion Branham ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Order your own copy of the Family Altar at http://store.bibleway.org