<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>55-0911, The Unwelcomed Christ, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 123 min
L-1 Sickness and many bad things... And death kept some away. And sickness kept others away. And disappointments kept others away. But God has brought us together again to serve Him. We're so happy for these things.
And now, coming together, I would like to just say a few words about our last meeting overseas, where you all prayed so hard for us, that the Lord would give us a great service. He did. And we're so happy to report that many souls were saved; that's the main thing: souls being saved, born in the Kingdom of God. We... You know we...
The preaching of the cross brings observation; it brings troubles; it brings stir-ups; and we can't expect to be immune from all those. We just have to take them as they come. So we--we had some trouble when we left Zurich. Now, I might explain what it was.

L-4 Ah, the church, the first reformer was Martin Luther, as we all know, and second was Zwingli, and Zwingli went into--to--out of--into Switzerland. And there, at Zurich was the Bible first translated in English, the full Bible, from the first translation, was did at Zurich, Switzerland. They still hang with the old Zwingli idea. And Zwingli's translation denies the virgin birth. He doesn't believe in the virgin birth. They said that He was the Son of Joseph, "called the Son of God."
And we believe that He was the Son of God, that He was born of the Father, God, that give Him His birth through creation.
And Billy Graham, well known, everyone knows him, nearly, he was in there for one day before I was. And if they didn't criticize that poor boy, just making fun of him, where it didn't... They didn't need to be. They said, "He put an permanent wave in his hair." And said, "He come to the church like he was going to a band box, instead of a church." And said, "He preached like a fantastic American, soap salesman." And--and said, "You could smell him ten feet away, with perfume," and just all things like that, just making fun of the boy. Because why? He didn't deserve that.

L-7 I heard Billy, was right there. He preached the supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's right. He said, "There's many men who stand up, and philosophers, and so forth, but Jesus Christ was God Himself manifested in the flesh."
Brother, I hollered "amen" as loud as I could, 'cause I know that's true. I believe that. Well, of course, me seeing the way they treated him, I dropped right into his place, started right on with the supreme Deity, that Jesus Christ was Jehovah God manifested in flesh. Well, in doing that, the Lord gave us fifty thousand souls in that five night's meeting.
And then when they heard we were going up into Germany... Now, there, it's state and church. What the church tells the state, the state does it.
And we've often taught about, many times... If I have someone here, that's a Catholic friend... I don't say this now to be shoving your church at all. No, sir. I have thousands, and tens of thousands, of Catholic friends. But we've often thought in the early days when the Catholic church united with the church and state together, in the days of papal Rome, and what a persecution it brought, well, brother, the Protestant is just as bad, if not worse.
The Protestant church treated me twice as bad as Catholic church ever did treat me. See? So then when they went up there, and sent into Germany, and told the German authorities not to receive me, that I was absolutely against the teaching, and I wasn't nothing but an impostor, and not to receive me.


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