<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 I was in a meeting not long ago at the Cadle Tabernacle, when I said... I preached for five nights with the place packed out. And my love offering was about a thousand dollars, I believe. Brother Roberts, the night that he come, he said, "I want from the middle of this, this side, sixty men to stand and say tonight they'll pledge me a thousand dollars." Sixty thousand just on half side of the same crowd that I had. That's all right. He needs it. He must have it to carry on.
So but, you know, the Lord just knowed that I didn't have that much sense. I--I--I couldn't... That's true. I'm not intelligent enough for that. And my meetings, I just... I don't have to have very much. My expenses run me, I think we counted about, Gene, what was it about? A hundred dollars a day for my office and my upkeep. Well, that's quite a different.

L-8 Perhaps, Brother Allen and his great broadcast and things, he has to have lots of money. But me, I don't have to have it. Just a little bit meager fare to get by. Most my clothes is give to me, and my children also. What we eat, we live in the parsonage and there you are. You see? So we don't have to have very much.
But you know, I like it this a way. If the Lord wants me to go preach to ten people, I'm not under any obligation; I can go where He sends me. And if He wants me to go preach to a hundred thousand, or five hundred thousand in Africa, He will just have somebody to sponsor me, and I go over and preach it and that settles it. So I don't have to have any money.

L-9 So this meeting is... That's the reason that two men who's setting present now... I'd have never... They didn't know I was going to say this. But many don't want to know, let the left hand know what the right's a doing, so it... They're very fine people, both personal friends of mine who's sponsoring this meeting, be--and paying for it so they won't have to draw one penny from the churches, won't have to take anything away from it, won't put you under any obligation.
But frankly, the money was offered to me a tithe money, and I refused to take it, and said that I... If he would--if they'd make these Canadian meetings like this and would pay for it, I'd come preach like that, so that we could get the message to the people. And that's the love that these men have for their own people here in Canada. And I say this in the presence of you people, "God bless men like that." That's right. And I'm sure you appreciate them, though they don't want you to know who it is, but God knows who it is. And they're both listening at me right now.
And so, that's why we are not taking offerings. Someone was asked today, "Why is it you didn't take no offering?" Said, "We want to put something in." That's the reason we didn't do it. And I thought surely that... And then we... And the reason about sponsoring... You said, "Well, the Apostolic sponsored you the last time you were here, Brother Branham. Why didn't the Apostolic this time?" Well, you know, things has changed a little bit since then, and each one... If this one sponsors, the other one... You know how it is; it's just the human element; that's all.


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