<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 At Fort Wayne recently, they... You all, that take this "We The People," they wrote up an article, the Lord did, in my meeting up there for Him, of a little blind girl being healed. You Assembly of God people, it come out in your "Evangel" and so forth. And so that night we come from the platform, a little clubfooted baby was made straight, and a--and a little blind girl received her sight. And so they'd put it in the "Evangel," and in "We The People," that speaks on religions and so forth. It's a... Goes over the world and the events on things and it writes it up.
So, I was back in behind the stage where my song that they sing for me... My old friend Paul Rader wrote it, "Only Believe." And I was back there just thinking, when I heard it come through the microphone, think, right in this same room Paul wrote that song. He's gone on to glory long ago. And I--I was back there, and there was a man came back there who had more education then he had knowledge to know what to do with it, I guess. And he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "your message was nice," he said, "but, oh, your grammar."
I said, "Yes, sir, that's right." I said--I said, "I know my grammar's awful." I said, "I'm sorry about that." I said, "I was raised in a family of ten, and I was the oldest. And my daddy died, and I had to take care of ten children, and my mother..." I said, "I didn't get a chance to get an education."
"Oh, that's no excuse now," said, "you're a man."
I said, "Yeah, I know that's right." I said, "But since the Lord... I had to work so hard till I went in evangelism," I said, "and then when I started here," I said, "the people calling me from everywhere, I don't even get a chance."
He said, "Oh, you could take a correspondence course." Said, "Your grammar's so bad."
I said, "I know it's awful, brother." I said, "I hate it, but I just can't help it."
Said, "You using those words 'hain't,' and 'his,' and 'tain't,' and..."
I said, "Well, they seem to understand it pretty good." I said...?...
He said, "Well," he said, "look, one mistake you make Brother Branham, is horrible out there, before an audience like that." Said, "You said, 'People coming up to this polpit.'" Said, they'll... and he said, "You should not say 'polpit.'"
I said, "Well, isn't that what it is?" And I...
He said, "No," said, "You--your congregation will appreciate you more if you said 'pulpit,' not 'polpit.'"

L-18 Huh. I said, "Brother, you know what? I love you." But I said, "I tell you, them people don't care whether I say 'polpit' or 'pulpit.' They want me to preach the Gospel in the plainness and produce what I'm talking about." I said, "That's exactly what they are. And they know I'm just an old sassafras, farmer anyhow, so I--I can't be nothing that I'm not; so I just have to talk like that. So you excuse it like that; it's the only way I know." So, but one thing I do know, Jesus saved me, and I love Him with all my heart. And He promised me a home in glory, and I'm looking forward to it. And I want to take as many as I can, telling this good news of what He did."

L-19 Now, and now, you remember, that you don't have to wait now for a evangelistic service or a person coming through praying for the sick, you have a right yourself. Remember, gifts and callings are wonderful; but remember, here is the greatest thing that God gave the world outside of Jesus Christ, is the Bible. And do you know what? The Word of God will defeat the devil any place, anywhere, any time, on his own ground. Did you know that? The Word of God alone...
Jesus made it so simple until the--the--the weakest Christian could do it. Look when Jesus came on earth: He was the Son of God, don't you believe that? He was conceived in the womb of Mary and was borned a virgin birth. Almighty God overshadowed Mary and created the Blood cell that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. And God tabernacled Himself, Jehovah, in that body, in His Son. The Father dwelt in the Son, being the tabernacle.


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