<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>57-0113, What Does It Take To Make A Christian Life?, Philadelphia Church, Chicago, IL, 71 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Joseph. Good to be here this morning. And fellowship is something that's hard to explain, isn't it?" I--I told my wife I'm getting old. When I... Joseph called me the other day and we were talking. I said, "Say, Joseph, I'm just outside the city Sunday morning, I'll be over and see you."
"Oh," he said, "nothing would please us any better." I thought I was at Gary, and I was a hundred and twenty five miles of South Bend. I drove through a blinding snow storm this morning after a meeting last night over there in dedication of a church. And a good friend, Mr. Tom from Canada, and we drove this morning zigzagging over the roads with... over here in a blinding snow storm to keep our promise to Brother Joseph, a very fine friend.

L-2 These Swedes, I don't know... The other day I would've never knowed unless my bosom friends here, Gene and Leo, had told me. I was supposed to be in Minneapolis, February the tenth through the seventeenth. Never heard a word of it. And I was going down... The meeting was in making, to be with Sister Coe, that's Brother Jack's widow. She... He just went on to be with the Lord, and she's in desperate need, and I said, "Now, Sister Coe, I'll let you know in a few days. I'll be praying over it." And here come a message in from these boys that I was on the radio station being broadcast all across the country, to be there the tenth through the seventeenth. Have never yet heard from it. See? So I'm going to have to go because I... I just had to tell Sister Coe I can't go.
These Swedes... Gordon Peterson. So I guess I'll have to do it because I--I... Some people, not him at this time. He just, has just... You have Gordie to know that. So it's just... They advertise you to be certain places, and I don't know nothing about it. And then I've got other meetings set now. I have to keep my word to the people. That's how it happened. So if anybody ever says, "Brother Branham don't keep his word," you just remember that's the kind of slip-ups that it is.

L-3 And I don't have any big outlets, radio, television, and things like that. If I did, I couldn't go to little churches. Do you think Oral Roberts could come to a small congregation? Certainly not.
I was in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the other day, and I heard a man making a statement, said, "Here we are a little people, fifteen hundred here at the little temple." And said, "We asked a certain minister if he would come, 'Too small, can't do it.'" Said, "We asked another one, 'Too small, can't do it.'" Asked three or four of them, of the big ministers that's in the field today, 'Can't do it, you're too small.'" And he said, "Brother Branham come." Like he's giving me a great praise for that.
And I got to the platform, I said, "Now, just a moment. I heard the pastor back there make that statement. Now, these men would come if they could, but you see, they've got theirselves under such obligations, financially they can't do it."
How many thousands of dollars a day do you think Oral Roberts has to have? How's he going to go in a church where you stay there four or five days and get a three hundred dollar love offering, when he has to have six, seven thousand a day? He can't do it. Not because he don't want to, but he can't do it.


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