<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Well, we know each other I believe, they was asking Brother Roberts, and Brother Coe, and many of the others. And they said... And they just couldn't do it. See? And I--I just listened. I thought, "Now, that's nice of the brother saying that, but there's just a little--little kink in there that really doesn't..." It's the truth, but not exactly all the truth, you know. And that's the kind that makes it awful bad.
So I said, "Look. The reason that..." Well, I got the platform I said, "I appreciate your all's kindness, and all about that, and your remark. But the pastor, you might... The reason that Brother... Brother Roberts would like to come, but he just couldn't do it. See? He's got so much obligation. He has to have about seven or eight thousand dollars a day or he can't exist. See? He's got a worldwide radio and a nation-wide television, and a--a million s--subscribed paper. How can that man come to a little place? He couldn't do it. His income has to be several thousand dollars a day. He just... He's got hisself under such an obligation. He--he has to make that money."

L-6 Well, then I thought about others in the same way. Now, them men are good men. They're wonderful men. They're brothers. They---they would love to do it, but they can't do it. So I seen that a long time ago. So I--I wouldn't tie myself up to a place. If the Lord called me to two people, I could go.
See, I didn't want no such a tie up that I couldn't get away, or do... Now, the Lord has let me preach to little bitty groups of four or five or six, and--and little groups like this, maybe fifty or sixty. And then He's let me preach to five hundred thousand at a time. See?
So now, if He wants me come here, or a little bitty place, even where there's only five people or two people, one person or go alone, it wouldn't make any difference, 'cause I have just a--such a little bit of an obligation, just a little bit. Just my little office there is all I have to run. And I don't have to have any money. So it... The Lord just takes care of that for me, so I don't have to ask for any money, or do... So I can just go where He tells me.

L-7 And then if He wants me to go overseas to some of them big meetings, you know what? He's just got a lot of millionaires that likes to sponsor that. [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.] So I wouldn't have their worries for nothing in the world. I--I'd just rather be free. That's right. And that way if I want to come wherever the Lord leads me to come, I love to do it.
And it certainly is a privilege to be here tonight with Brother Jackson and to all you fine people, the saints of the living God. And I feel like tonight I have before me the elect of Sturgis (That's right.), the Blood of the Lord Jesus, or the purchase of His Blood. That's right. The purchase...

L-8 I've often remarked how I would like to have a little glass or a little container with two drops of the literal Blood of Jesus in it. How I would hold that. But you see, tonight I got more than that in His sight. I've got the purchase of His Blood. He--He loved you so much till He gave His Blood that you would be His. So He gave His Blood freely for you, so you're at my disposal tonight for the Gospel's sake. So then I--I just feel that it's a privilege to be here.
Now, not only just one night, but we got two nights of this. Oh, my. That's dandy. Wish it was even more. But I got to have just a little bit of rest, 'cause I'm going over to Lima over here, Lima, Ohio, to the Baptist people. If any of you go down along in that way, it's at the Memorial Auditorium at Lima, Ohio. And the Baptist people are sponsoring this meeting over there. Dr. Lee Vayle is one of the sponsors.


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