Q&A "How am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her" - William Branham
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330. Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet playโฆor stay with the Word (Thatโs)โstayโstay with the Word, but still having a question like this said: โWhy donโt you practice what you preach or believe?โ
114 Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when sheโsโฆhas a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if sheโif she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, โIt was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to offend the least of these, my little ones.โ Now, thatโs just yourโฆ?โฆ
115 And may be that this wife is not that type of person. Maybe sheโs a different. Maybe sheโs a good person. Maybe sheโs just testing you to see what youโll do.
116 Now, stay in love with her and let her see Jesus in you. You do that. See? You just go on. SomeโฆI give a little illustration this morning about a person thatโฆOne time this little woman hadโhad received the Holy Ghost. She was a very sweet little person. TheyโฆShe saidโฆWell, sheโd had a hard life, and her husband was an alcoholic. And so, she just kept on; she bore with him. He says, โYou want to go to church, Honey, take off!โ But now, he went down to the saloon, down at the old Brown Derby, down here. Going on. So they hung out down there all the time, used to be Bonifers. Many of you old-timers here remember when Bonifer had there on the corner ofโฆItโs called Brown Derby now, I believe it is.
117 So, hanging around down there, and the first thing you know, one night come up a question about church and about Christians. One of the old drunks setting there said, โThere ainโt no such a thing as Christians anymore. And there is no such a thing. All this bunch of hypocrites,โ said, โyou see them out here smoking, drinking, doing the same thing that we do, and,โ said, โcall themselves Christians. There is no such.โ
118 This one drunk raised up and said, โJust a minute! Thereโs one that I know about.โ
Said, โWho is it?โ
Said, โItโs my wife.โ See? Sheโd become salty. He was catching it all the time.
He said, โI bet if she was put to a squeezeโฆโ
He said, โNo, sheโs still a Christian; Iโll prove it to you.โ Said, โI tell you what letโs do; letโs go up home, and Iโll show you whether sheโs a Christian or not.โ Said, โLetโs go up home, and now, letโs really be drunk. Weโre going to act like weโre really drunk.โ Knocked at the door, come in staggering over everything andโandโฆโWhy the chair setting around this way?โ and everything. And she set them all a chair and (his guests, you know)โand tried to make them just as welcome as could be. Said, โI want you to fix us some supper.โ And so theyโฆShe went out and fixed some. Said, โWe want ham and eggs.โ He knowed they had it, so they fixed the ham and eggs. When he got there at the table, he looked at them like that, picked up his plate, and slammed the stuff on the floor, said, โYou know, I donโt like my eggs like that. Come on boys letโs get out of here anyhow,โ like thatโlike that.
119 They went out and set down like that, you know. And she come out; she said, โDear, IโmโIโm sorry I didnโt get them fixed; Iโll fix some more for you.โ
120 โOh, nonsense, you knowed I didnโt want them that way in the first place,โ just carrying on like that. They went out there, and set down, and act like they was drunk. They heard her in there kind of snubbing to herself, singing real low voice:
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
All the world go free?
Thereโs a cross for everyone,
And thereโs a cross for me.
This consecrated cross Iโll bear,
Till death shall set me free.
One drunk looked at the other one, said, โSheโs a Christian; sheโs got it!โ And that little woman led her husband, plus these others to Christ that night. See? Why? See? Just be real sweet. Just remember, He knows all about it.
121 So, sister, or brother, whoever it might be, or brother, it is here, โcause he asked about his wife, you just be salty; sheโll get thirsty if thereโs anything in her to thirst for. If it isnโt, remember, if you got the wrong person, youโll get the right one in the Millennium. You just keep on going; all wrongs will be made right there.
64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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