<TITLE>08. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 Out in the Caribbean Islands, not long ago, I said, how God did a great thing. I was kindly shaking down the Christian Businessmen, and a--I didn't do it publicly; I got them to themselves. And I said, "Too many of you are testifying God gave me three Cadillacs, I had a little business on--out here on the side, and He give me three Cadillacs and a great big this, and all that, it's so much about your business. Testify about God, what Christ did for you. Give an opportunity, not what... We're getting too big. We're--we're--we're outgrowing ourself financially. What we want to do, is to give something that we can give God praise." I said, "How much different from the Pentecostals today, than it was in the day of the Bible. They sold everything they had and distributed to the--give it to the apostles and they divided it among one another."
And a certain little fellow, nice brother, wonderful man, he said, "Brother Branham, that's where they made the biggest mistake they ever made."
And I said, "How was that, sir?"
He said... We were setting out under the moonlight by the side of a swimming pool. We was at Kingston, Jamaica. And he said, "Here's where they made the mistake. Then after the trouble got started, they didn't have any homes to go to. They made a mistake by selling their homes."
I said, "The Holy Spirit never makes a mistake." I said, "They didn't have any home to go to, so they went throughout all the country, publishing what God had done. (Yes,), preaching, witnessing, testifying. They had no home to go to: they were truly pilgrims and strangers, Abraham's seed. God never makes a mistake, never." We're trying to...
I'm thinking, my daughter-in-law there, and I was singing, the other night, going home, "Covet not this world's vain riches, that so rapidly decay; build your hopes on things eternal; they shall never pass away. Hold to God's unchanging hand." Oh, I'm so glad to have a hold of that hand.

L-33 Now, in the Old Testament, we read in there, and Paul explained it over in different epistles, and so forth, that a child that was borned in a--a family, as soon as he was borned, he was a son. Now, King James in the translation, which seems to be a mistranslation on Saint John 14. It said, "In My Father's house is many mansions." Well really, it said, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." Well now, if you'd look at that, how could mansions be in a house. "In My Father's little house is many mansions." You see, the English definitions change. Now, in the days of the translators of the king, a house was a kingdom, and he was the father of that house. All of his subjects was in his house, so that's what King James there was in order of the Scripture.

L-34 For when a man owned a great, big place so nice, big farm, he had many tenants all around over this place. And he was a busy man; he had to go from place to place. And then when a son was borned in his house, they didn't have such as we have today, public schools, and so forth, like this beautiful Eisenhower building that we're in tonight. They didn't have it in those days. They had to hire tutors to raise their children.
Now, when a son was borned, he was a son as soon as he was born. He was a born son to that home. But yet, he didn't have any inheritance, until he come to a place that he'd proved himself a son. And then, when he was proved to be a son, then he was adopted into the family. And the law of adoption made him equal holder with his father.


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