<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>58-1228, Why Little Bethlehem?, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 84 min
L-1 It might look kind of funny this morning to wear my overcoat on the platform, but I was so happy to--to display that pretty overcoat that this church give me. I seen Brother Neville up here the other day with that nice suit on, how it fit him so nicely, and I thought, "Well, I..." It looked so nice, and the congregation talking about it, I thought, "I'll just wear my overcoat out on the platform." I did...
You know, I believe we never grow up. We always... And I don't want to grow up. How about that, Brother Luther? No, I never want to grow up; we just want to always remain children.
[Brother Neville says, "Brother Branham, I thought you had on one of those attires like these higher-classed ministers. I just glanced the corner of my eye, and I thought maybe you'd put on a robe." Brother Branham and congregation laugh--Ed.] Complimentary to that nice overcoat.

L-4 Well, I'll say it's--it's... I was needing one awful bad, and it's the best one I ever had. And I sure do appreciate it. And Brother Roy Roberson, I don't know whether he's here this morning or not, he had something to do with the selecting of it. And it was really a fine selection, and we're--we are very--very pleased to have it.
And so we are very pleased to be back in the house of the living God, this morning, and to enjoy these wonderful times of--of fellowship around His precious Word.

L-6 And it's soon now, that if the Lord willing, I've got to go overseas. And I guess you seen it in the Business Men's "Voice," that I leave for overseas this next month. And we'll be soliciting all the prayers of the people, that they will pray for us while we are away. It's seemingly that overseas my meetings seems to be better, because it takes better there. In America...
I was telling Brother Mercier that I listened to... He gave me a record player first, and it had the--the records on it of some of my sermons. I knew then, if anybody ever listened to me, would have to be God's grace to them, because I thought I could be a little better.
He's taping that too. A--a little... You can cut that part out. See? Or he's holding his thumb down, I guess that's cutting it off.

L-9 But I--I tell you, I was so surprised. I... The poorest preaching I ever heard in my life was my own (That's right.) on--on--on the record. I... It made me so nervous, I couldn't even eat my dinner. I got sick, got away from the table, couldn't sleep that night.
And went down in Kentucky with Brother Wood yesterday. Coming back, I said, "Brother Wood, I don't see how that I ever get a person to come and hear me speak. It's so--so poorly, such repeating myself, and, oh, grammar missing, and punctuations, there isn't--isn't any." I just... I don't know. I said, "It encouraged me in one way to know it has to be God, or nobody would come at all." That's right.

L-11 So I was speaking to Brother Collins. I suppose he's in the building. And so I said to him... He come over, and they was telling him about it. I said, "Brother Collins, I... Honestly," I said, "I'm pretty near thirty years old as a preacher, and I certainly ought to know what a sermon is." I said, "That's the poorest I ever heard."
And he--he's a Methodist minister, and his brother's a--quite a man in the Methodist denomination. And he said, "Well," he said, "I'll tell you, Brother Branham," said, "the punctuations and--and your sentences may not end right, and things like that," but said, "did you ever think of that guy that preached on the day of Pentecost, that couldn't even sign his own name--name? His name was Peter." Said, "I imagine that wasn't punctuated just right."


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