<TITLE>21. Par 453-467</TITLE>L-453 Just keep coming in my mind, I've just got to tell it. I've tried to quench it off, four or five times. I have to say it. How many remembers this brother, pastor, that used to be over here at the church of God? Brother, right up here, what was his name? Worked for Vorgang down there. Oh, you all... The First church of God, right here on the corner. Or, used to sell Rawleigh's in time of the--of the depression. A real godly, saintly man. Brother Smith took his place up there. I'll call his name in a few minutes. He was a God-saved man.

L-454 Remember, if you don't walk up to the correction, and you do something wrong as a Christian, God will warn you. And then if you don't take the warning, He will just take you right off the earth. That's what He done.

L-455   You remember, in the Bible? Look at that Corinthian church. He told them what they was, positionally, in Christ. But he warned them of what was going to happen. And they corrected themselves, got straightened out, with God.

L-456 And this little brother, he was a wonderful little brother, I believe, a God-saved man. And he got him a job down here at the... at Vorgang's. If some of his people is setting here, I hope you don't think that I... I don't know you if you're setting here. But, Ramsey, Brother Ramsey, how many remembers Brother Ramsey up here at the church of God? Sure, you do, wonderful little man. And he used to come to my house and we'd talk together, and we'd set there and weep and hold one another's hands; a real Christian.

L-457   One day I went into it down there, just come from overseas in a meeting, had my car checked up, Brother Ramsey said, "What can I do for you, Billy?"

L-458 I said, "Check her up, Brother Ramsey. Change the oil."

L-459 "Okay," he said, "fine, dandy." Said, "You have a nice meeting?"

L-460 I said, "Oh, Brother Ramsey, it was wonderful." I said, "I wish you could go with me sometime. Why don't you go with me?"
He said, "I don't serve the Lord no more, Billy."
I looked around, I said, "What'd you say?"

L-461 He just kind of said, "I don't serve Him no more," walked away.

L-462 I thought, "Oh, he's just going on." I went on, went somewhere.

L-463 Come back and got in my car. I come up home. I begin to think about that, "I don't serve the Lord no more."

L-464 The Lord put it on my heart to go back and ask him again. So, I said, "Meda, just hold the fort."

L-465 And I got in, and got in my car and went back down, stopped again, went into Vorgang's. I said, "Brother Ramsey, I want to ask you a question."
Said, "All right, Billy, what is it?"
I said, "You said, a while ago, you don't serve the Lord no more. You was just teasing me, wasn't you?"
He said, "No."
I said, "Brother Ramsey, you--you don't mean that."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Don't you love Him?"
He said, "If I loved Him, I'd serve Him. Wouldn't I, Billy?" walked away.
I thought. "Say, Brother Ramsey!"
Said, "I don't want to talk no more about it."

L-466 I went home, went in the room, shut the door. And, oh, you know how you feel real heavy, like you'd taken the cookies away from a baby or something, you know. I--I thought, "What? It can't be. Surely something has happened to Brother Ramsey."

L-467   And there's a little colored boy, named Jimmy, he comes here to church. Got one leg, you know; he limps, kind of. I forget his name, works down there at Vorgang's, runs a wrecker. He met me, and he said, "You know, Rev. Branham," he said, "I don't know about this here Dr. Ramsey around here." He said, "I told him, the other day, said, 'We all was scared to even open our mouth around here.' Said, 'You was a godly man.' But," said, "He took his preacher's license and went over to the basket and tore them apart, and throwed them in the basket, said, 'I don't want nothing to do with it no more.'"
He said, "Hey, mister!" Said, "You oughtn't to do that."
He said, "Oh, Jim, I'm through serving the Lord."
So he went on, said, "You don't mean that."


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