<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 And that's the reason, Christian friends, that I'm going around trying to see my friends and--and... Not to pick up money, that isn't it. It's to visit my friends. Now, perhaps, tonight if I really was desperately in need, I could go to two or three men setting right here in this audience and they'd send me over to India. But that ain't--that ain't the way I want to get it. See? I want to get the nickel from this one, a dime from that one, and fifty cents from the other. See, like that? And then the whole group would have something to do with it, and--and I have a little rest from the foreign fields, come back and go off again. You get what I mean? See?
And I love you and I... There's no secrets. There's nothing at all before me or anything that anybody wants it. But it's all above board. I tell the people everything that I have, every penny of money I get, everywhere it all goes to. And there's my records from Uncle Sam. There's my bank, and--and there's my family, my home. Clothes I get, people give them to me, so there you are. I don't need money as long as people does give to me. I'd rather have prayers than all the money. So that means that all the money belongs to me, if I got that--some friends. You see? And the friends of Christ is my friend. And I am a friend to the friends of Christ. And so that's the way I get along in life.

L-12 Wonderful, wouldn't swap it for ten billion dollars. I'd rather have it, oh, my. Yes, sir. That's better. And my expenses runs totally... I send out thousands of letters a week and there has to be prayer cloths bought and buy--buy stamps. Money runs hundreds of dollars a week, and we send them to foreign fields and all over the world, and everything. Five in the office working all the time, and you realize what that is? While I'm not out on the field. There you are. It's backing up and backing up.
The bank, they tell me said, "That's all right, Reverend Branham, if you're overdrawed. Just let it go. You'll take care of it." That's my life...?... So that's... So it makes things fine. Then I just live by faith, that's all, just by faith.

L-13 And it's the greatest thing I ever knew in my life is living by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, knowing He loves me and blesses me. And taking up money? If I ever took one hundredth of the money that's been offered me, not what I ask for, I never... But the money that has been offered me, I'd be a multi-millionaire. You know what? That gets you in trouble. I'd rather just take day by day, day by day, just live for the Lord. What I have need of tomorrow, He will provide tomorrow. That's right.
And then I... See, if you can get... Then you go to trusting in your riches. Then you go to, if you got education, you trust in it. If you got a lot of theology, you trust in that. I don't have theology, education, personality, money, or nothing. I just love the Lord and trust in Him for everything. That's all I have. See? I... That's the way I want to live. That's my choice is living that way.
Now, God bless you. And well, you're such a lovely people here in Chicago. And now seeing that maybe we'd have to have just a few nights out, our auditorium here. We... Someone has spoke for it ahead of us. And that's just... That's what they deserve. They... We don't want to compromise with it.


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