<TITLE>06. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Here the other day, I seen a person had an old man in a sheet. I went to what they call a healing service. They was jerking him up-and-down like that. And the old fellow had heart trouble. And a woman taking a stick, and run around beating like that, saying, "Get out devil. Shoo, shoo," like that--talking about Divine healing.
And I went to a healing, a man very prominently known. Said, "I got a healing in my right hand." Laid it on a person, said, "Feel that? Feel that?" And I called the man back behind his tent, and I said, "It's a lie." That's right. I said, "You can get by that. Sure, people will just believe just anything you tell them. But" I said, "in the sight of God you'll have to answer for that someday."

L-13 And here the other night, standing right here... The man's listening to me, no doubt, now, a fine man. I--I don't know his name. I was talking to him yesterday. The man is probably listening to me right now. He stood there and was talking to me about people coming around.
Said, "Here's what makes it on Divine healing." He said, "I've watched about your offerings, Brother Branham." See? He said, "I've noticed you've never strained on offerings."
I said, "No, sir. No indeedy."
And he said... And many times, my managers has said, "Brother Branham, we ain't got enough money to make the expenses. We got to put some pressure on the meeting."
I said, "No. You'll never put pressure on any meeting that I'm preaching in for money. No, sir. I never come for that. I come to help people." That's exactly right. Sometimes it gets so low, we have to go and maybe borrow money somewhere to tie that over. And sometimes our meetings--maybe in the thousands--won't average over a--a half a cent apiece of the people. But we never let them beg for money. No, sir. That's against the rules.

L-14 And they--this man was telling me, said, "I was in a campaign here not long ago, and he said you know what happened?" He said, "The man stood up, and he said, after he took a offering, he'd go down and say, 'Who will give me tens?' and 'Who will give me fives?' and like that."
Now, brother, God have mercy on me. If I have--ever have to get to do that, then I will go back home, and lay on my stomach and drink branch water, and eat soda crackers, and half starve to death, and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ before I will do something like that. God being my Helper. That's right. That's right. Yes, sir. God is able.
He said--told a couple of farmers, said, "Now, the Lord is going to send a storm through here and tear up your farms if you don't put in a couple of hundred dollars in the..."
Now, that's a lie. And that's just what gets people so down on Divine healing and truth. But brother, in the midst of all that, to you fundamental people that's setting here; there is a real genuine God that heals the sick. And there's a real genuine... That's right.

L-15 I went to a lady's meeting, here some time ago. I won't call names. But just to show you. The lady stood up and said, "I--I... The Lord tells me there's somebody in here got a kidney trouble." Oh, sure. There's probably a dozen or two setting in here that's got kidney trouble. "The Lord says there's somebody in here that's backslid, and He is talking to them right now." Well, I--probably that's right. If the Gospel is being preached, it's talking to every backslider. See? That's true.
That's psychology, friends. That's purely psychology. And that's all. And now, I'm--I'm honest with you, and I'm going to tell you something. See?


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