<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>E-1h      So I'm--I--I'm not very good at that Brother Boze, I'm... I see I'm--I'm probably too close to it. I remember the first one of those that I ever tried to talk through, I was scared to death. I never seen nothing like that. I was at a Pentecostal meeting, and they had just invited me to the platform. I didn't know how close, and I was scared of the thing. And I was looking at it, and getting back, and--and it was over here around Mishawaka. [Brother Boze speaks--Ed.] Yes. All right.
Now, [Brother Branham speaks to someone--Ed.]  Yes, sir. It probably is, 'cause I sure don't know nothing about it. I'm--I'm sure of that. All--all right.
Say, you know, money plays a big part, after all, doesn't it, brother? I was sure to get it done now. That's fine. Thank you, brother. That's very nice.

E-1j      Now, this afternoon while we're--are here... Brother Baxter said, "Well now, Brother Branham, for a missionary..." Now, I couldn't... I could...?... If it had to come time for me to take up an offering for the Lord, I could do it. But I couldn't do it for myself.
But here not long ago, there was a great sum of money (Many of you heard about it.) was given to me, and I refused to look at it. I could have made all of you happy, just pick through...?... now among us... A million five hundred thousand dollars. See? I even refused to look at it. See? They packed an article of it in the paper. But I--I didn't want it. It isn't money. A man that gets his mind on money, popularity, and things like that, he's surely on the outside.
There's three things I've noticed in reading history, that wrecks a minister's life from the start: one of them is money, the love of it. The next is popularity. When he thinks he's something, when he's nothing anyhow. And the next is women. That's right.
Man takes money, women, popularity. That's been the three major things that God's had trouble with His children. Many of the other things that goes along with it too. But the main thing is when God begins to bless a brother and give him something a little more than--or something another to help the people, then the man begins to think, "See who I am?" Right then he's on his road down.
You want me to tell you how to get up? Get down. The way up is go down. He that humbles himself, God will exalt. Is that right? He that exalts himself will be made abased.


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