<TITLE>03. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 He said, "Well, you... They just made a decision that--that some of the churches here in the city, and "The Voice Of Healing" together, if--if you were going to preach for Brother Mattsson Boze at the church, that they couldn't have you to be their speaker." Well, said, "Now, you'll have to make your decision. And if you will cancel out your meeting with Brother Boze and go on and have the... You can speak tonight at the convention. But otherwise, they won't let you do it."
I said, "Well, I just won't do it, because I won't cancel my meeting with Brother Boze, 'cause I've promised him, and I want to be a man of honour. I want to keep my promise. You see?"
He said, "Well," he said, "well, Brother Branham," said, "you--they're... I--I'm your friend." And he said, "I just wanted to tell you 'fore you get there."

L-12 Was... I said, "Well, I'll go in. I want to go in, 'cause I want the people to know that I kept my word, 'cause they'd advertised it around the city." And I... Now, many times people advertise that I'm to be at the place, friends, when I know nothing about it. I--I don't known about that.
But if I've promised, and God being my helper, I--I'm going to do all that I can to be there, because I wouldn't want to be disappointed. I wouldn't want Christ to promise me something here and then back up on His Word. And He won't do it. And if I'm His child, well, I won't do it either. I'll be like my Father. You see?

L-13 And so I'd promised that I would be here, so I got in the car and we went over. And just as I walked into the front door, Brother Velmar Gardener, I believe was his name, got me by the arm, and rushed me into a side room. Said, "Come here just a minute, Brother Branham."
And I didn't get to see the--get into the audience. He... And then in come Brother Hall, one of the others of "The Voice Of Healing.' And he caught me and he said, "Now, Brother Branham," they put the same thing to me. And I said... Said, "Now, you make your choice."
I said, "I'm going to stick with Brother Mattsson Boze on my promise." And I said, "I... that's definitely."
He said, "Well." And then some ministers come in and said, "I don't think this is right."
I said, "Well, don't think nothing about it, brethren, it'll be all right."

L-14 So then they discussed it a little while. And then the first thing you know I started to go out into the audience, and they had me outside before I could get into the audience. And then, so I didn't have a chance to even... And I heard them announce that I wasn't there. And I had a brother that'd been sick or something another. Well, that's...
Well, I've got a brother that's been failing for about two years, which the Lord told me two years ago, and I told you right here in the pulpit about that, that he wasn't going to live, a young man, because he failed to serve the Lord; and--and he's not going to live, I know that. And I seen my father come from glory and mark out his grave. So I--I know he's to go.
But, my, I don't know when that'll be. But as far as me not being there, I was there forty-five minutes before the preacher got to the platform to preach. And I was setting in the room waiting to be called. And so they... Then they said that I wasn't there. And then I said, "Oh, that's mis--that's misrepresenting something." You see? I said, "Someone ought to say that that's different."

L-15 And now, nothing against the brethren, but it was a misrep--misrepresentation, that I--I was at the building and there in time to preach, forty-five minutes before they started preaching service, and was in the building. But that's why it was.
Now, do not hold that against the brethren. It's just; that's what you get by organizations. It becomes--it becomes a bunch of politics. And God is not pleased with any of them, and there will be no organizations represented in heaven. The very church itself, the word "church," means "called out." And it'll be called, "Come out of Babylon," confusion.


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