<TITLE>04. Par 20-26</TITLE>L-20 In some of the statements that I might make, if I try to drive it down hard, now please do not misunderstand it. That I'm not meaning to be rude on lecturing on the Bible, but if I... Through thirty years of search, taking no creeds or nothing but just the Word, there's people here that's Presbyterian, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Church of God, Pilgrim Holiness, they're all setting here. And I know that each church: has its own creed, and I do not want to interrupt that, but I'm only trying to bring out the Scripture and make it with the Scripture. So then all--all will understand that it isn't to be rude. It's just to be with love, and affections, and with mercy, and with the best that I know how to explain the Scriptures.

L-21 And now the subject this morning is going to be a kind of a long subject, and I do not wish to hurry. I want to take my time for just what I'm going to say, and try to explain it, why that we say it.
So many times in the meetings, someone will say, "Well, what does he believe? Is he a Baptist yet? Is he a Pentecostal? Does he believe in speaking with tongues? Or i--is he this, or that? Is he an eternal-securitist? Or, what is he?" And then you just make one mention of anything that you are, they'll drop like hot potatoes. No matter, they won't stop to listen, to take consideration, but they'll drop you right quick.

L-23 Nowhere in my meetings at any time, have I ever known of leaving discord among brethren. I always just preach the coming of the Lord, salvation, and--and Divine healing. That doesn't hurt any Full Gospel person.
Then in the church here I have our own doctrine. It leaks out amongst people who comes, and said, "Well, I... Brother Branham said so-and-so," those things. Well, I've--we've got to have a doctrine.

L-25 Now, just recently at a meeting, when someone asked a group of ministers... My secretaries and them are present. Many, many letters come in, and said, "Does Brother Branham believe in the--the preserving or keeping, the security of the believer?" Well, I knowed in a legalistic group that was asking that, it would be hard for me to say it; they'd "hands off" right quick. And that doesn't make a bit of difference whether you believe that or not; as long as you're saved, that's the main thing. And I didn't say nothing. And sixteen different churches dropped out of the sponsorship, you see the--because that I refused to answer, on account of keeping fellowship with the peoples.

L-26 Now, in the church this morning, I want to explain why I believe what I believe. Let us pray.
Lord, Who brought again Jesus from the dead, and has given Him to us as a Sacrifice of Your love to us... And by the washing of the water by the Word, He has sanctified a peculiar people, a called-out group, and we are waiting patiently for His second coming. And we know that in the eyes of the peoples there are many creeds and denominations. And, Father, God, we would pray that You'd bless each and every one of them. And the stand that they stand for, though we might disagree with them in many things, yet in principle, as Christians and as brethren, we stand shoulder to shoulder with them, and not only shoulder to shoulder, but heart to heart. In a day of indifference when men are heady and high-minded, lovers of the pleasures of the world more than of God. We pray, O God, that the Holy Spirit will bind our hearts closer together, all day by day. Heal the sick this morning, Lord.


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