<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Brother Jackson come along and said, "Brother Branham, why not come to our place now?"
Well, in doing so, I couldn't hardly turn Brother Jackson down. He said, "Now..." I said, "Brother Jackson, I... You mean for a healing campaign where there's cooperation amongst all the preachers and churches?"
And he said, "No, Brother Branham, the thing to do is just come over..."
I said, "I'll come to your little church."
He said, "Well, we only seat just a few." He said, "We'll get the school auditorium."
I said, "Well, if you're going to come over there, we'll extend the time out from one night to be three or four nights." So I come through Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
And then we made it, so that being that way... Usually churches don't have services on Friday night or Saturday night, but they have it on Sunday morning and Sunday night. Therefore, I wouldn't have to interrupt with any brother's service (You see?), any service... Just come in for a fellowship, where everybody can come in, 'cause it's in my heart to always have fellowship with every man that believes in Jesus Christ, regardless. His ideas might not cope with mine, but we'll never mention that. We just, we believe him to be a brother as long as he believes Jesus Christ to be his Saviour. No matter if he's Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Christian Science, Roman Catholic, whatever he is, doesn't matter to me as long as he's a child of God, he's my brother. And I believe that. And I wouldn't lay a straw in any denomination's way.

L-5 I stay interdenomination. At the time I was ordained in Missionary Baptist church where I still have full fellowship. And my--my... Some of my Baptist friends was sitting right here the other night and so forth, and they're wanting to sponsor a meeting on up here a little--in the country a little piece, the Baptist people. I have meetings. I just won't come for the Baptist alone. It has to be all of them together--everybody.
And in that, many people has said, "Well, Brother Branham, you're... But we thought you were Pentecostal."
Well, one time I was preaching in--in the Roberts Auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas. There was a dear old brother there, who had been on crutches for years, and he sold pencils on the corner. And that night, while having the healing service, his faith got stirred up and the Lord called him, and he picked his crutches up and started running through the building. And the next day, here he was running all around over the city with his crutches and a sign on them, "These old buddies, I don't need no more." Oh, he was having him a big time.

L-6 So I got to preaching. They was around four or five thousand people setting there then, and he said--and he said, "Just a minute, Brother Branham," he was just so happy. He said, "I don't understand this."
I said, "What's that, brother?"
And he said, "When I--I heard you preach I thought sure you was a Nazarene," 'cause he was a Nazarene. See? He said, "I thought sure you was a Nazarene, the way you preached." And said, "I looked around, and nearly all of them here is Pentecostal. So I thought maybe you were Pentecost. And now, somebody tells me you're a Baptist." Said, "I don't get this."
I said, "Oh, that's easy." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal, Nazarene Baptist." So that's just it a... That's just it.
By one spirit we are all baptized into one body. That's right. Whether you're Pentecostal, Nazarene, or Baptist, or whatever you are. By one spirit, the Holy Spirit, God by sovereign grace brings us in to one body; that is the body of believers, Christ Jesus. And I'm so thankful for that today: To know that I have the privilege of being in this body, and being your brother, and to come here to have this little time of fellowship with you.


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