<TITLE>06. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 And I want to link it tonight with something a little different. Many times we read in the New Testament in the King James Version of John the 14th chapter... And I don't know just how many times that men and women has come to me and say, "Brother Branham, what does that mean? 'In My Father's house is many mansions.'" Have you ever wondered that? "In My Father's house is many mansions." That doesn't sound just intelligent, does it? "In My Father's house is many mansions."
Now, Moffatt, I believe it was, made it more ridiculous than that. He said, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments." Like you were going up there to rent an apartment. But both is wrong.
In the originally it's, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." But in the translator's days of the King James they still had the old Bible order, and the kingdoms then, as I'm going to refer to now.

L-28 We notice that back in the Old Testament that when a man had this--his great farm (we'd call it), maybe many hundreds of acres. And all over these acreages he had little houses and in there lived his tenants. And the... his tenants taken care of the place. So this was all called the house. And in the King James time of the translation of the King James Version, in the kingdom, the domain of the King of England, it was called his house. And all of the little houses all over was called a mansions. So there's why you see that they translated so the English would understand it, "In My Father's house is many mansions." In other words, the Father, the King, was the Father over all that was in His domain: "In My Father's house, many mansions..."

L-29 Now, in the Old Testament way back years ago, many, many years, when a father owned a great place, he set his subjects all around, and they all looked to him as a father. And this man... If a child would be borned into his pre--into his home... Now when the child was born... I want you Pentecostal people to pay close attention to what I'm saying, all you others. Here's where you made a vital mistake. When this child was borned into the home of this parent, certainly he was a child when he was born. But then to raise this child, the father having so much to look over, he went and hired a tutor, or a raiser, a teacher. And this father so loved his child; you know, he would look over the country until he found the very best teacher he could find. He must be the type of a teacher that was well educated and understood what he wanted, a kind man that would raise his child in the right way; because this child was to be heir of everything the father had. And this tutor raised the child. What a beautiful picture that is of God and His church.

L-30 Now, the tutor had to report to the father all that the child did, whether it was good or whether it was bad. The tutor had to give a correct report. And the father seen to it that his tutor would not be a little wishy-washy sort of a guy, that his son would be doing wrong. and be afraid before the father to say that his son was doing wrong. He had to be the right kind of a tutor, a real just and honest man. He looked for that type of person to put over his child.

L-31 And it's altogether a beautiful type of God, our Father, sending to us, the church, the Tutor, the Raiser, the Holy Spirit. God found the best Tutor that there was in heaven to put over His church: the Holy Spirit, not some intellectual being that's got a lot of education more than they got knowledge to know how to control it. And the church was not to be raised on intellectuals, but it was to be tutored, not by denomination, but it was to be tutored by the Holy Spirit. That's God's Tutor.


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