<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Here sometime ago, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I was amazed. It just comes to my mind now. I walked behind a pulpit, where you that read this famous book, "We the People." Just the outstanding things of the world takes place; they put it in this. On the religious article, they wrote something about my services at Fort Wayne, where God made a total blind girl to receive her sight. And a baby that had its feet clubbed in was made completely whole at the platform.
I'd gotten real weak. They had taken me behind the stage where my friend, Paul Radar that went to glory many years ago, had wrote the famous song that I pack with me now, "Only Believe." Standing in there, an educated man come in, very scholarly. From the sound of his talk, he must have taught Mr. Webster what to say. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "there's one thing wrong with your ministry."
I said, "Well, kind sir, I would like to know if there's anything wrong." I said, "I don't mean for it to be."
He said, "That is your grammar." Said, "Oh, it's poorly."
I said, "Yes, sir; that is right." I said, "I... There was nine of us children, boys and one girl, ten children. My father died young." I said, "I had to work and take care of ten children." And I said, "I--I didn't get much education, just the seventh grade."
He said, "But, Brother Branham, you're a man now." Said, "That don't count now." Said, "You could take a correspondence or something, I... And check up on your grammar." Said, "It's terrible."
I said, "Yes, sir. I know that." I said, "I'm sorry. But," I said, "after the Lord has ministered to me, and I must go minister to Him, the people crowd so much in the... Right today, four hundred major cities in the United States is calling for services. Sign papers and things where tens of thousands attend the meeting." And I said, "How could I go, sir, like that?"

L-5 "Oh," he said, "one thing that you made such a mistake on," said, "the night you said, 'all the people coming pass this polepit--polepit,'" he said, "Brother Branham, the congregation would appreciate you more if you said, 'pulpit,' and not 'polepit.'"
Well, he kindly pulled my ear a little hard, I guess. I said, "My beloved brother, I differ with you. Them people don't care whether I say, 'polepit,' or 'pulpit,' the thing they want me to do is preach the Word, and live what I'm talking about." I said, "That's the main thing."
So, Christ doesn't come by education. Christ comes by a surrendered heart believing Him. Now, education's fine, but it will never substitute salvation. It can't.

L-6 And, but, in them days, the people had got away. As soon as education comes in, the phenomenon leaves the Church. Christ leaves. He can't stand it. They get so smart they know more than He does. So, the Scripture is not given by education; it's given by revelation, not education, revelation. So, as soon as education takes your pulpit...
Many of you people in selecting your ministers to come to your pulpit, you select the--the--the young fellow who's just out of school, who's smart and witty, a social mixer. God don't want a mixer; He wants a separator. God wants something that's... See? And you choose him, because a lot of times he's very smooth. He's kind. Like... God don't choose men like that.


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