<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 I want to thank Brother Jackson and his church and--and the visiting ones with us. If you're not all members of Brother Jackson's church, we sure thank you; these pastors and so forth here. I passed by awhile ago and... I don't... I believe Brother Jackson's church is called, People's Church, The People's Church. I seen one out here called Full Gospel Church. I was riding around and seen one up here called the Assemblies of God. And I know they're all full Gospel people. And I appreciate you all. And all the rest of the churches, the Methodist, Presbyterians, or whatever you are... See? We see, and we love you.
Now, one thing you can do for me. Soon I'm to be out into the big major meetings and overseas. And I--I pray that God will lay--or lay me upon your hearts, that you'll pray for me while I'm trying to win souls for Christ.

L-8 I never will forget what the general overseer of the Baptist Church said to me the night that the vision called me and I was to go pray for the sick. He said, "Billy, you had a nightmare. What'd you eat before you--that night for supper?"
I said, "Doctor Davis, I don't appreciate that." I said, "If you can't cooperate with that..." I said, "God said so. And He... it'll--it'll be done."
He said, "Do you think that people, kings, and potentates, and monarchs are going to listen to a fellow with a seventh grade education?"
I said, "That's what He said."
He said, "Billy, I believe you need a rest."
I said, "All right, Doctor Davis, here's my fellowship card."
He said, "Oh, don't think that way, son." Said, "Now, you run over home and rest up a few days. I believe you'll feel better." (Like that.)
But nothing against the Baptist church, just as good as any of them. They're all in one great big bunch, and the facts of it is, God will never... You'll never come to heaven whether you're Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian, or whatever. You'll come to heaven when you're a Christian, no matter what church you belong to.

L-9 God will never recognize an organization, never did. It never was His plan. He never did have an organization, never did organize the people--no time. Man done that. That's right.
The first organization is the mother church, the Catholic. Out of there come the Lutheran, out of there come the Methodist, out there come on down, and on down, and on down, till the last ones and the Pentecostals, and so forth in the last days. Exactly. The Roman Catholic church is the mother church of organization. Before that they had no organization.
So, if you're organization and you don't draw a barrier line and condemn the other fellow, can reach across the fence and shake hands with the other fellow, all right.

L-10 When I used to pastor up there at the little Baptist tabernacle, I had a good friend below me in New Albany by the name of Johnson, and he was a Methodist. So here's the kind of fellowship we had.
When I got someone converted in my church, and he said, "Brother Branham, I want you to sprinkle me." Said, "I--I--I... My mother is a Methodist, and I--I--I was raised up a Methodist."
And I'd say, "Now--now, look brother, I tell you what. This is a Baptist church, and I'll tell you what we'll do. You're a fine brother." And I said, "I've got a good brother down at the--at the Main Street Methodist Church here in New Albany, just three miles below us. A wonderful man." And I'd say, "I tell you go down there. He will do the sprinkling. And you be a good member for him," because he'd never make a good member for my church. Certainly not, believing that. So I said, "But Brother Johnson is a fine fellow." I said, "It's kinda dry down there, yeah, ain't much water. But I tell you," I said, "he's a good man and a Christian... a lot of Christians in the church."


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