<TITLE>09. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 So we walked into the room, Brother Baxter, Brother Bosworth, Mr. Stadsklev, which is, I believe is present tonight. And those men were setting there. At least two of those men, present now. They were all sleeping in a room over to theirself, the four of them in a room, or, the three of them, rather.
And I walked in the room, I said, "Brethren, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD." I said, "We are doing wrong when we're going down to Kimberley, Klerksdorp, and Bloemfontein, and Cape Town. We're doing wrong. The will of the Lord is for us to go back here, and come down, or go back to Johannesburg, and go from there over to Brother Jackson's, and from there over to this Durban."

L-37 And I said, "But He gave me His permissive will this morning, and gave me these signs." And I told them what He told me. And I said, "It's--it's daylight outside now. It's a pretty day." And I said, "These things shall come to pass. But remember, it's not the will of the Lord."
How many knows Fred Bosworth? Let's see your hands. Do you believe Him to be a good man? He is. And he's as close to me as my daddy. But yet, in that, Brother Bosworth, who stood by my side, who stood in the pulpit, who's preached of this gift, who's built platform, who constantly speaks of it, that "I--I'm seventy some years old. I never seen it, and never read of anything like it, since the days of the apostles." Believes in me, with all of his heart...

L-38 And he raised up, and he said, "Brother Branham, you're wrong. It's the will of God for you to go that way."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, it is not."
He said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "I read one time where Satan give Aaron a false vision."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, you're a daddy to me." But I said, "Look. This is not a false vision. This is from God. My honor, and my ministry, and my reputation, not only mine, but the Name of the Lord rests upon it." I said, "It's wrong."
He said, "No." Said, "If you go that way, you'll see the exceedingly, abundantly above all that you could ask or think."

L-39 And I turned around. I looked at Brother Baxter; he was rubbing his eyes. I looked over at Brother Stadsklev. I thought then, "There it is. No matter how close an individual is to you, you can't trust the arm of flesh." I don't care if it's your mother.
You remember, one time where there was a--a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, God told him what to do. And he said, "Don't eat or drink," it's in I Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, "The Lord said to come back here." And he minded the prophet in the stead of God. You know what happened? He lost his life. Both of them prophets... No matter who they are, you do what God tells you to do.

L-40 Before I left, while preaching in Shreveport one day, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, there is a snare set for you in--in South Africa." Was anybody at the Shreveport meeting? Let's see your--let's see your hands. Was there anybody at the Shreveport meeting, just before I left, that heard me give that prophecy? All right, I guess there's not nothing, just in this little group anyhow. But that, I didn't know it was among my brethren. Now, the thing was...
We went on. And as soon as we got to Kimberley, there was--or the next stop, there was an elderly man there, an old man, good man. But he said... Thousands of people... And that old brother said, "No, sir, you're not going to have it anywhere but in my church." His church hold about four hundred people. And about ten, twelve, fourteen thousand people there, but, yet, it had to be in that church.
Brother Bosworth blew up, and shook his hat, said, "Ridiculous! Ridiculous. That's a shame."
I said, "That's the 'exceedingly, abundantly, above all." (See?) I said, "You understand?"
He said, "Oh, I never heard of such."


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