<TITLE>07. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 My old sassafras, Southern Kentucky talk, "his, hain't, tote, fetch, carry" might not be.... Anyhow, one night up here at Fort Wayne, I was preaching. And after the service was over, some scholar met me back behind the stage. And he said, "Mr. Branham, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, your grammar is so poor."
I said, "I know it." I said, "I didn't get a chance to go to school, sir."
Well, he said, "You don't... You're old enough now."
I said, "But there's so many sick people, sir; I got to go. I can't stand and learn scholarships."
And he said, "Well, you could take a correspondent."
I said, "Where would it ever catch up with me?" I said, "I just got to keep going."
"Oh," he said, "The grammar that you use before those people... And you said to them tonight, 'Everyone that passes by this 'polepit' will be healed.'" He said, "Those people would appreciate you more if you'd have said, 'Pulpit.'"
That stepped on my toes. And I said, "Mister, I don't want to hurt your feeling, but those people out there don't care whether I say 'pulpit' or 'polepit.' They want me to live the life of Christ," said, "and produce what He said was to be done. I'm getting people saved and healed by saying, 'polepit,' what are you doing by saying, "pulpit?"
Oh, it's not in your language; it's in your heart God wants you to know: not in your head, but in your heart. Yes. David slew Goliath.

L-25 It was Moses, the great prophet... How that if there was any man trained, and well trained, was Moses. Oh, he had took all of the degrees that Egypt had, and could teach their men theology. He was the smartest man in Egypt. And he was full forty years old when he went out to deliver his brethren. But you see, he made a mistake. And he--God took him out behind the desert, and there he stayed for forty years, for God to beat some of that theology out of him: take the clay, beat it down till it's ready.
And one day, when this old man was back there on the backside of the desert, herding his father-in-law's sheep, Jethro, he saw a bush on fire. And he went up in the presence of this bush. Now, he was eighty years old, and he knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that bush, than he learned in eighty years in the schools of Egypt. Sure. What Moses lacked, the bush had. And what the seminaries lack tonight, the Holy Ghost has got: the same Fire of God. What the schools needs is fire, Holy Ghost and fire. In the presence of that Fire, he had an experience. He was running from Egypt before; now here he goes to Egypt.

L-26 And sometimes God can do things so ridiculous to the carnal mind. Could you imagine the next morning, Moses leading a little donkey and Zipporah, his wife setting straddle of the--this little mule, with a kid on each hip; Moses with an old dry stick in his hand, the whiskers blowing to one side, praising the Lord, going down over the hills. If that isn't a pitiful looking sight to the carnal mind. Somebody say, "Moses, where are you going?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over": a one man invasion. But the thing of it was, he did it. Why? He had had an experience. He didn't care how many Egyptians he slew. The first time he slew one and got in trouble and run. The next time he slew the whole army. He'd had an experience with God. What the church needs tonight, is not a schooling, but an experience to have faith: Fire, spiritual, Holy Spirit and fire.


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