<TITLE>04. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 I've met ministers, who've patted me on the back, and called me brother, and I knowed right then that was wrong. I want to love them; I don't want to think that. And when I know it, then I'd--I'd rather not know it. That's one reason I don't meet with people.
Another thing, visions show, and you find things that you don't want to know. I'd rather not know nothing about it. I love people; I'd just like to get my arms around every one, and--and I--I love them. And I want to think the very highest and best. But sometimes, there's little secrets that every one of us have in our lives, and under them kind of times, it cannot be hid.

L-13 And now, one thing about--one of the strange things, that my close associates has always thought (not all of them, certainly not, but many people), they can't understand getting weak on the platform: "Why just a few times and you're gone?" I've had many men to tell me, "Brother Branham, I believe you're stalling." Well, if I'd be a hypocrite like that, I'd walk out of this platform tonight. Yes, sir. No, sir, that's wrong.
Now, I want to stay Scripture. Anything that's not Scriptural, I don't want nothing to do with it. Now, let's just take this for a moment and while I try to explain that, and what a vision is. If you all so desire, would you give me that much time, just for a moment? Yes, sir, thank you.

L-14 This is for ministers. See, they're having a--a convention here, and I wished I could go to the convention in daytime and talk with those men. And I'd really enjoy that. And I could learn lots from them that I don't know. I'm sure I could. But I can't do it, and holding these type of meetings.
Now, a vision is a... I'm going to give you a little parable. Stand out here so I can see you real good. And let's take it like this now, in a childlike form, so everybody will understand it.
Now, we're all little children, and we're... You remember when we used to didn't have a dime to go to the carnival, when it come to town, or the circus? Sure we did. And now, "Gifts and callings are without repentance."

L-15 We're all standing around a great big fence; it's a great big fence. On the inside of this fence is a great carnival or circus, going on, all kind of animals and everything. And all of us little boys and girls are standing around there. And we want to--we want to know what's on the inside.
Well, I happen to be your tall brother. Now, there's--that don't make me any more of a brother. There's another brother, maybe by me, who's short and stocky, strong. If there's a load to be lifted, he can lift it. But I've got... God just made me taller, than my brother.

L-16 Now, the first thing you know, way up there, almost to the top, there's a little hole in the--in the fence, that you can look through. But my little short brother, he can't get up that high, but I can. Now, God made me tall. Now, I never got tall because I wanted to be tall. Do you follow me? I'm tall because I was born to be tall.
You're a preacher, because you was born to be a preacher. "God has set in the church--God has set in the church, first apostles..." An apostle--I don't know why they ever desire to get them call it apostle. Apostle is a missionary, the same word, missionary, one and the same. "And first, missionaries, prophets, evangelists, teachers... God has set." God foreordained those things to be, and they're put in the church, by God's foreknowledge. And then...
Moses couldn't help being Moses. And Jeremiah, God called him before he was even formed in his mothers womb, said, "I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Had nothing to do with him. God does it. "God has set..."


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