<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>53-0607A, The Ministry Of Christ, Roberts Park Amphitheater, Connersville, IN, 72 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Rush. Good afternoon, friends. Very happy to be here this afternoon, and again in defense of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to bring the good tidings, the good news that Jesus raised from the dead, living among men today, His Church. The same Jesus that was yesterday, will be today and forever. He's never failed.
And now, we're very thankful for the progress of the meeting in these last few nights, and how the Lord has been blessing. And testimonies coming in from all kinds of diseases, and afflictions, and so forth, are being healed right out in the audience even, besides up here, and the things, right out there. Some of them write in and say, "Well, you know, I had a baby; it had braces on. I took it home, took the braces off; it could walk." And just... See? There's many times that I can't call everything that's going on out there; I just speak now and then.
And I notice in this middle part here, there's a light back there, but right in here, sometimes I see It standing in there, but I can't see just who it is and where It's at, so I just wait till It moves somewhere else. But I know, the people are being blessed and I'm so thankful for that.

L-2 And now, usually in our meetings on the--a Sunday afternoon, it's usually given over to me to--to speak from the--from the Word. I'm not a--a speaker, by what you'd call a speaker; I just haven't got much of a education, and very, very, little, but I love Him and I like to say about Him what I know to be the truth. And so...
I know there's many of my friends here from Fort Wayne. I remember one night at the Fort Wayne meeting; I was back over... just come in and there was a man there who knew all the angles, or especially in grammar. He said to me; he said, "Brother Branham," said, "you're grammar is very poor."
I said, "Yes sir, I know, that."
And he said--said, "My, you make some of the awfullest mistakes."
I said, "Yes sir, I know, it." He said--I said, "Well, my father dying, I with my mother and ten children," I said, "I had to go to work. I've worked all my life." And I said, "I didn't get an education."
"Oh," he said, "that's no excuse now; you're a man."
I said, "Yes sir, that--that's right."

L-3 He said, "You could take a correspondent, or something, brush up on that grammar."
And I said, "Yes sir, I guess that's right," I said. But after I started out into the meetings..."
"Why," he said, "it's a shame, all those people, and the thousand of people you speak to," and said, "use the word 'his' and 'hain't' and..."
And I said, "Well, they seem to get along pretty good."
So he said--he said, "Well," he said, "I--I tell you," he said, "for instance, tonight you made one awful mistake," said, "I'd like to correct you."
I said, "All right, sir."
He said, "You said all the people coming up to this 'polpit' tonight. And..."
And I said, "Yes sir, ain't that right?"

L-4 He said, "No." He said, "You should said 'pulpit.'" Said, "The people would appreciate you more if you said 'pulpit' and not 'polpit.'"
So I said, "Brother dear, I love you. See?" But I said, "Look, them people out there don't care whether I say 'polpit' or 'pulpit'; they want me to preach the Gospel and do what--what is right out there." That's right. So that's just about it.
I used to remember, when I was first ordained in the Baptist church, you know, how a young preacher is, especially the Baptists. I hope there's some hear this. Oh, we got our Bible under our arm, you know, and we were Reverend. So I used to go down the street with my Bible and I'd... somebody say, "Are you a minister?"
"Oh, yes, sir."


<A HREF="P2">Next Page</A>