<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Sometimes on the first night, we don't pray for the sick. We just... We never have any set, cut and dried program; we just let the Holy Spirit lead. And I think that's what the people want--is just let the Spirit of the Lord lead. We don't know what He will have us to do. But if we'll just keep ourselves prayed up, don't overeat--eat least that you can, and pray. Call on the phone; get somebody to come; attend every meeting you possibly can. And I'm sure that with all that effort, God will meet us more then halfway on the ground. I believe that.
Now, just before we read His Word... We believe this to be the Word of God. We believe this to be the true Word of God. Everything that's in here is God's Word. Do you believe that, the whole church? That's good.

L-10 Just a few weeks ago, there was a grocery man lives out the lane from where I live. And he's a very staunch believer, a Catholic. And he said to me; he said, "Brother Branham, I've often wondered why you wasn't a Catholic."
And I said, "I am a Catholic."
"Oh," he said, "I--I don't understand."
I said, "Yes, I am a Catholic."
And he said, "I--I never see you at our church, and you've got a church down here." And said, "I--I--I just don't get that."
I said, "Well, I want to ask you: Is it true that the Catholic church believes that this Bible is a history of the early Catholic church, that Jesus Christ established the Catholic church; Peter was the first pope; and that the acts of the apostles is the acts of the early Catholic church?"
He said, "That's exactly truth." ('Course, many of my people are Catholic. I'm Irish and kindy know their--their doctrine.) So, he said, "That's truth."

L-11 I said, "Well, and then the reason you don't live by this Bible now, because that--that the pope has a--the church... The Pope has a right to change anything in the Scripture that he wants to, because he was given the right to do that. And this is just the history of the first church."
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, I... See?" I said, "I believe I'm more of a Catholic than you are." I said, "Because you're one of these new--new day Catholics: the one that takes the doctrine of the Catholic church today. And I'm an old fashion Catholic, that believes what the old fashion Catholic wrote and done." I said, "Surely, they ought to know more about it; they walked with the Lord Jesus. And Peter (the first pope) said, 'There's no other mediator between God and man, but the Man Christ Jesus.'" And I said, "I--I just kindy believe that." And I said, "I--I teach just exactly like the early Catholic church did--just what they wrote in the Bible and what they done."
He said, "I believe you got something, son."

L-12 So that's right. Oh, I just love God's Word. It's certainly food to us to study it together and read it. I'm not a theologian; I'm--have not the education to be a theologian, and I don't try to be. I just love the Lord Jesus, and just try to walk the way He would have me to walk, and say what He has me to say, and pray for the sick people. And He's blessed me so far, and I believe He will bless us tonight.
Now, before we open His precious Word, let's bow our heads just a moment while we speak to the Author.


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