<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 My poor, old half-Indian mother used to tell me this: Birds of a feather flock together. And that's true. You don't see crows and doves having any fellowship together, because they're two different species. They don't look alike; their diet is not alike. A crow can set over on a dead carcass and eat all day. But the dove cannot eat out of that carcass, 'cause he doesn't have any gall. If he'd take a bill full of that carcass over there, it would kill him. There's no gall in him to digest it. And he's a different bird. Therefore he don't associate with the crow.
That's the way it is when a man becomes borned again. There's something takes place within him, that he's sick and tired of the world. And there's godly spirit around him.
But my life has been dealing with spiritual things, as you understand in the meeting. You walk up to people sometime, that try to impersonate something. "Oh, Brother Branham, I sure got faith in you." And you know he's lying. See? There's a spirit there that speaks lot louder then his lips speak. It's the atmosphere.

L-18 And if you'll learn to love and to be kind to everybody, and to be gentle, have patience, it'll even make your home life different. It'll make your associations different. God will honor you. Now, I've tried it.
Here some time ago in my home, you can imagine what kind of a turmoil it's in all the time. You just think, "Well, the people say like here, this little city." What about the people from around the world? See? And they're flying in, coming in, calling in, all the time. Hotels, motels, setting full of people, crying, begging. You can't get a minute's rest.
One day our house had been completely torn up all day long. The basement had been full, ever room full, the den room full. Along about dark, I got them kinda quietened down, everybody away, I thought. And I went into the kitchen. There stood my poor, little wife at thirty-seven years old, completely gray headed, holding her hands up, crying.
She said, "Billy, I'm just about to lose my mind." She said, "These children hasn't had a bite to eat all day long."

L-19 Had some nervous people there, and mental cases and some of them walking up-and-down the floor, telling me that the Lord is going to strike me dead, if I didn't go to a certain town, 'cause they said so. And that's the kind... You have to put it all together.
Another one in another room saying, "Oh, he don't know what he's talking about. I got THUS SAITH THE LORD."
If the Lord wanted me to know anything, He would tell me. He's not afraid to talk to me. And then... But you have to put up with that sometime. And she said, "I don't know what to do."
Well, look. There set Sarah and Becky in the floor, fussing over some little blocks, little bitty building blocks, Sarah screaming to the top of her voice, "Daddy, Sarah--Becky's got my blocks. Daddy, she took my pocketbook awhile ago." All right. Joseph setting in the floor, beating on something as hard as he could, the little boy, screaming to the top of his voice. Now, you talk about home, sweet home.


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