Brother Branham leaves the Westward Ho Motel in Phoenix to attend a convention across town at the Ramada Inn, where he brings the message, Lean Not Unto Thine Own Understanding.
The world tries to sway us to lean on understanding of education, knowledge, fashions, and entertainment. Here we get a stern warning of what comes from doing this, where it started, and what is the ultimate result.
Here are a few highlights of today’s message.
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Oh, I would rather see that than all the prayer lines I ever had in my life, just--just to see the sovereignty of God fall among His obedient children.
And the only way you can be a son of God or a daughter of God, you had to be a part of God, and God isn’t complete without you.
And that, because He thought of you in the beginning, it gives that little tug towards Him. That’s what has to be quickened. Some of them will never be quickened; they just don’t have it, that’s all.
That’s the way every believer is. You wasn’t born for this world. You was created in the image of God, to be a son of God. And you don’t belong in this chicken yard out here. You’re a eagle.
But it’s going to be required, of you, what you did about the understanding of God’s Word.
The Holy Spirit will never lead you to anything else but the Word of God.
To find Life, you’ve got to lean to the Word. That’s Life.
Those people who adopt those things, in the stead of the Word of God, are just like Eve. And it’s been done over and over, till it’s got this whole generation plunged away from the Word of God.
And a born-again Christian from Heaven, he is a part of this Word. Right. Another mama he will not follow. He is a part of the Word. He stays with the Word.
Now notice, they had their own thoughts of what God should be, they had their own ideas of what Messiah should be. But the Word said what the Messiah should be!
One Word of God misplaced, or misconstrued, or It not accepted, breaks the whole Chain. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
But a man that’s born of God, is of the Seed of God. And the seed of God is the Word of God, and he only lives by That. That’s his Life.