<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 I'd like for a subject, Jehovah-jireh, and may He add His blessings to the Word.
Now, we want to take our time, so that you'll be sure to get it. God appeared to the people in seven redemptive names. That's His attributes to His people: seven compound redemptive names. Jehovah-jireh was one. Jehovah-rapha (Maybe get on that tomorrow night.) is two, and then Jehovah-manasses, the shield, and--and on down, the seven compound redemptive names. And you cannot separate those names.

L-6 Now, back in the building here, somewhere, you'll find a picture of the Angel of the Lord. And the night that picture was taken, Dr. F. F. Bosworth, who was buried this afternoon, near a hundred years old, was... We was at Houston, Texas, and some minister, Dr. Best, of a great tabernacle, Baptist tabernacle in Houston, wrote a piece in the paper, and said, "Mr. Branham is nothing but a--a religious reprobate, and he should be run out of the city, and I should have the pleasure of doing it."
Well, it was a big front piece in the paper, paid piece in the paper. No one said nothing, and then he challenged me the next day to a discussion, that--or debate upon the Word. Well, I don't believe in debates myself; I don't think we should do them.

L-7 When I was first ordained in the Baptist church, I thought I was the defender of the faith, and I found out that every time you argue with someone, they go away with the same idea they had when they come. If they're not predestinated to Eternal Life, they'll never receive it. They just... That's God's way of doing it. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him."
And you remember, the Bible said that men of old (See?), that these people, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, was foreordained of old to do this thing. So there's no way, if the Bible says they will do it, we just have to remember, they'll do it.

L-8 And I wouldn't listen to it. And the next day there was another piece come out in the "Houston Chronicle," saying, "That shows what they're made out of; they're afraid to attack the Word--or to tackle the Word."
Well, that was just too much for Dr. Bosworth. He come up into my room there at the Rice Hotel; he said, "Brother Branham, the public will think that we're just some kind of scattered bunch of people that don't know what we're talking about."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, you'll never gain nothing by arguing." I said, "There's at least... There's around thirty thousand." and I said, "There's seven or eight thousand setting there to be prayed for. Why should we waste our time on one infidel, unbeliever, and leave thousands go unprayed for?" I said, "Jesus said, 'Let them alone, if the blind leads the blind, won't they all fall in the ditch?'" I said, "Let him alone."
But he said, "Brother Branham." Bless his heart; he's at rest with God tonight. He said, "Let me do it."
Why, Dr. Best was only about thirty-five years old, just out of the school, polished scholar; Dr. Bosworth was near eighty then.


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