<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Now, nearly every one in here has heard my life story. And, I say this with humility, with love towards you all, trying to find favor before God. That in the day of my parting from this life, and when my task is over here, I want to go to heaven, just the same as anybody that's in this building. Heaven mean much to me. I've got a wife there; I've got baby there; I've got--I've got loved ones there. I've got thousands of friends there; I want to go too. And above all, my Lord Jesus is there. And I want to go see Him. And I know as a deceiver or a liar, I would never enter the kingdom of heaven. I'd be counted a deceiver, so I could not go. And I want to go. And that's why I'm here tonight. Although, it may be criticized in my--in my preaching and teaching, but I can prove it by the Bible, and God confirms it with signs and wonders following. And if God says it's so, then no one has a right to doubt any more. God has spoken.

L-12 Recently, in Houston, Texas, and this... Just a moment now, a few moments, rather, just as quick as I can. I want to tell you what happened.
I was holding a meeting in Houston, Texas, at a--an auditorium, which seated about, oh, I guess we had about eight thousand in the meeting. And in this... And there might be people here that was in the meeting. And in the--the meeting, there was a--a clergyman of the city that said... Mr. Best, of the Baptist Temple, he wrote a piece in the paper and said that I was a religious impostor and should be chased out of the city; and he should be the person that would do it."
Well now, that doesn't sound very much like a servant of Christ; but a--however, the man, he's young and had lots to learn, as I have, and all of us. And so, Mr. Bosworth... How many knows Fred Bosworth? Nearly all of you. And he was the--the managing of the meeting. And he said... He come to me, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham, isn't this a disgrace?" Said, "Challenge him."
Well, I said, "Brother Bosworth, nobody ever got anywhere by fussing. The Gospel is not to be fussed; it's to be lived and believed." See? And so I said, "Why, why fool with one critic when there's thousands laying there dying to be prayed for?" See?
And he said, "Well, all right."

L-13 And the next day, another big piece come out in the "Houston Chronicle" and said that (a paid ad, of course), and said that it went to show that I was afraid to say, to take up for what I was teaching: that in the light of the Bible that I could not stand on what I was teaching. And it showed that I wouldn't accept his challenge because I was afraid of it. Well, up in the hotel, come Brother Bosworth, pushing the paper under my face again. "Here you are, Brother Branham. You see what I mean? Looky there." Said, "You ought to do something."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, that doesn't bot... If they be blind, lead the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?" I said, "Let them alone." See? And I said, "That wouldn't do any good."
He said, "But, Brother Branham, for the principle of what we're standing for before the public, we ought to do it."
I said, "I don't fuss with anyone." See? I said, "Just be a fuss..."
He said, "Brother Branham, let me do it." Well, I thought of old Caleb when I thought of him standing there, about seventy-five years old. And He said, "Let me do it."
I said, "No Bro. Bosworth. Not to fuss. I don't..."
He said, "Brother Branham, I promise you I won't fuss one time." He said, "But that man hasn't got one Scripture." And said, "I--I'll prove it before the people." And He said, "Just to the reporters are waiting downstairs..."


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