<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, 'course being a Baptist, now that's no throw up. You see? Now, remember the reason that I just kind of stuck with the Baptist church was the sovereignty of the local church what I think is apostolic. You see? Not as the Baptist, we have in there... I--I don't even attend the fellowships, but in the Baptist church is not a denomination. It's not supposed to be. It is now, but it was not supposed to be a denomination. It's a brotherhood. And the... and it's the sovereignty of the local church. And--and if God is ever going to get a message to His man, His elder, which is the... According to the Bible, they--the highest office in the local church is the elder. And now, with--coming through the elder has to go to the state presbyter, and the so forth, and on back to bishop, and then it's wrote, "We believe this period. That's all."
As Dr. Boze said here one time, "We wrote our--our ritual, or ever what it is, their belief... We'll end it with a comma. We believe this plus as much as the Lord can show us." So that's the way I kinda like that.

L-16 And then in the--in this... Dr. Reedhead came in. He said, "Now, Brother Branham, being a--a Baptist former, surely you knowed something about our message."
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Now, when I was a little boy of seven, the Lord called me." And I think Dr. Vayle here is a... You know Dr. Reedhead, well know him.
He said, "There was a little boy. I was called to the ministry." He said, "Then I studied, and I longed, my little heart longing for God." He said, "Then when I finally got my B.A.," said, "I thought, surely I'd find that thing that I wanted right there in the--my B.A." And said, "But when I got my B.A.," said, "I didn't get what I wanted." He said then when he had his other degrees give to him, he said, "I thought maybe that in each of these degree I would find Christ." He said, "And with honorary degree and so forth," said, "I could almost plaster your wall with them." He said, "But where is Christ in it all?" He said, "Has the teachers been wrong, Brother Branham?"
I said, "I wouldn't say that."

L-17 See, I wouldn't want to take something, because people that put that confidence in you to support your ignorance by the crutches of saying something like that, I wouldn't want to do that. I said, "No. I wouldn't want to say the teachers was wrong and so forth. But Christ doesn't lay in B.A.'s or D.D.'s or LD. See? Christ lays and dwells in a humble heart." See?
And he said, "I tell you what I'm here for." He said, "Sometime ago, a young Indian boy, who had been schooled and was going back to India and to be a help to his nation..." He said, "This young Indian when he was going back, I said to him, 'Sir, why don't you... '" He was a Hindu. And he said, "Why don't you just forsake that old dead prophet you got, Mohammed, and accept Jesus of Nazareth, a resurrected Christ?"


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