<TITLE>10. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 I asked Him when I went in the ministry, I said, "God, if I ever get off the path, You straighten me out. I don't want no trouble when I come down at the river that morning. It's going to be a horrible day. And when them waves are dashing against my soul, and I know all hopes is gone, the brittle threads of life is breaking, I don't want no trouble. I hope to be an old man at that time.
Branhams, usually when they get old, they get a palsy, shake. And when I'll get... like to live to see the day when I was so old I couldn't preach the Gospel no more, I don't want to stay any longer. I'd like to come up to the end of the road, look back down through ever briar patch, ever hill where I've come; see the footprints, know that I'm standing at the end of the river, won't be long till I'll be going over...

L-33 My. On them sands I'd like to kneel down, take off the helmet of salvation, unbuckle the breastplate, take the old Sword and stick it back in the sheath of eternity, raise up my hands and say, "Father, send out the lifeboat. I'm coming home this morning." That's right.
I believe He will be there. If I'm faithful to my Saviour, to His guiding Hand I will cling. He will guide us over death's river, Heaven's new sweet song to sing. I believe He will keep His believer. That's right.
David said, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

L-34 Now, God foreseen; He ordained a Church that was to appear before Him. Now, as I have been running the last two night--two nights, the three's of God's dispensation... I believe in the first reformation; Luther came out preaching justification by faith, being the first reformation from the dark ages, of fifteen hundred years of dark ages. Many of you Christians and you people who read history, and so forth, know what that is.
Then Luther, being God's man of the hour, come out to bring the Message. It was a type of in the wilderness. Israel had a Pillar of Fire, a Pillar of Fire, and they followed it day and night. And when that Pillar of Fire stopped, Israel camped under that Fire, that Light. And they stayed there until the Pillar of Fire moved on, and Israel moved with the Fire. And as He did it in the natural for Israel, He's done it in the spiritual for the Church.
Martin Luther, first one to see the Pillar of Fire, moved out and the--moved on with this message, "The just shall live by faith." And he preached the Message, and men followed him. But the mistake that Luther made was he organized a church. And he made everything to become Lutheran, and there's where he made a mistake.

L-35 I have deep respect for every organization, and I think we're all good, every one of them. I will not talk against them because I have many fine brethren in every one of them. And never on the platform, under the visions, have I ever seen the Holy Spirit challenge anybody and tell them they was in the wrong church. I've never had it done.
He will tell them just exactly what kind of--of what church they belong to and--and different things like that. But never did He ever challenge anybody's faith, and say you belong to the wrong church.


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