<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>L-1-7 Now, I... I think I owe to this Tabernacle the--the reasons why; and to be the first place that I make this announcement of anywhere yet. It's typed out and ready for mail. But I think that I would want to quote it, being the new years; not that it's New Years, but it's the new turn of time.
I believe we're living in a very wonderful, glorious day of opportunity, when people of this day living to see the shadows of the coming of the Son of God. I--I believe with all my heart that the world is going to burst now into the greatest revival that was ever known, or it's going into the darkest chaos that's ever been known in history.
And I... It's a--it's a great time of people to make a decision on what they're going to do. If there happens to be someone here today who hasn't made the decision right, for Christ, I trust that it'll be this morning; somewhere in the service that you'll in your heart say, "Yes, Lord, this is the day when I take my--make my decision to serve You the rest of my life."

L-2-3 It's a wonderful day. I'm sure that over our eyes has been just a veil--even believers, till we can't see just what's going on around us. You see? And many times spiritual led people are misunderstood, and... and they don't... to the peoples of the world, because it's such a strange and an odd life to live a full surrendered life to the Lord Jesus.

L-2-4 Now, a few weeks ago... I had--had promised the Lord eight or ten, about ten years ago, when I left in 1946, when I left the Tabernacle, that I would serve Him with all my heart in these campaigns, knowing that it was going to be a great disturbance out there, because--and a lot of money included and everything like that. So I--I knew that usually, in reading, that men who get--the Lord bless them just a little bit, there's about three major things that usually brings a minister to his--back to the rut. And noticing them: one of them was money, women, popularity. And those three things... I noticed in the Scriptures that where it... Money was the prophet Balaam, who sold out his gifts to go and... on account of money--when Balak offered so much money. Many of you are acquainted with the story.
To Samson, it was Delilah, the woman who wooed him in her lap until he give away the secrets of the Lord to her.
And Saul, it was popularity; he was a prophet. The Bible said he was numbered with the prophets. And through popularity he wanted to be big and above someone else. He fell by this.

L-2-7 And this is the three major causes that I see in the Bible that caused men to fall. And I asked our heavenly Father to please let me shun at all times those things, especially these three major things, and had kept a covering over them.
I made a promise to God that I would never beg for money in the meetings. And I made a covenant with Him: if He ever got to a place where He didn't supply my needs in the meetings, just by passing the collection plate: which I knew it would take tens of thousands of dollars to do it in great massive meetings. And then I--I told Him that I would leave, and come home off the field.

L-3-2 This He miraculously did without making one stress at any time for money, or press. Three or four managers lost their jobs because of making a little press for money, which I would not permit it. I don't believe in it.
The people around the city here might think... Well, the Lord gave us a little home up there. That was taken up in one night that I... Someone thinks, "Well he's a multimillionaire." I wished you only knew the truth (See?); you'd know different from that. That I could've been, that's right. But I... not even begging, but just people come and say, "I give you this Brother Branham," but I refused it. I don't want it. I want nothing to do with it. It's--it's filth. I--I want my inheritance to be above: up here.


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