<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-3-6 I said, "If a Roman Catholic, if he is depending on the Catholic church (which is their fundamental doctrine), but if he believes that that Catholic church is going to save him, he's lost; but if he's got faith in Jesus Christ God's Son, and depending on Him for salvation, he's saved. If a Methodist, or a Pentecostal, or a Baptist, if they're depending on their church or organization to save them, they're lost; but if they're depending on Jesus Christ and accepted Him... Because it's your own personal faith in Christ Jesus that saves us, whether you are Baptist, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Catholic, Jew, or whatmore; it's your personal faith in Jesus Christ.

L-4-1 I--I... This is magnetic tape too. It's going right now. So I'm sure that everybody clearly understands that. But when a person is preaching a doctrine, then you've got to stay with your own belief. If you don't, then you're a hypocrite. If you say something because someone else says it, and in your heart you don't believe that, then you're a hypocrite because you're saying something that you don't believe. I'd rather be--be criticized a little upon things that I do believe than to be a hypocrite in the sight of God trying to compromise with someone else.

L-4-2 And now, on these meetings here, you may disagree with some of these things tremendously, but don't--don't fall out with me, 'cause I--or 'cause I--I love you; and that's right. Now, I think I make it clear that I believe each one of you, if you're a Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish, or whatever you are, if you are depending on, and have accepted Christ as your personal Saviour, you are saved; for it's by faith are we saved, and that by grace. And so our churches won't--our affiliation of churches won't mean much. But I think in this, if you'll come and not be prejudice, just set, you'll find out that that very church denomination is what's got us all tore up the way we are now. That's what's brought the trouble. See? And if we just leave it the way it was...

L-4-3 Now, I'm putting off something here, and I--I want to make a quotation. And I'm sure that you here at the Tabernacle, my friends, know that I don't say this to say, "See, I told you." I--I don't mean that. I hope I never get to a place that I make myself before people as a know-it-all. If I ever get like that, please somebody come, and correct me, and straighten me out, and say, "Here, wait a minute." See? I don't want to be like that, but when God says anything, and it proves to be the Truth, I--I like that to be known; because it wasn't I that said it; it was He that said it.

L-4-4 Now, I was... And as I said last Sunday, I believe it was here, I've been in this pulpit for twenty-eight years, and never one time did I ever mention politics, on no way at all until last Sunday, and I told you people just to pray before you went to the polls and vote. I went down to Brother Wright's the other day, and I guess he's one of the oldest, he and Brother Roy Slaughter and a few of those that's knowed me all these years, and Brother Wright never knew how I voted; he never knew whether I was Democrat or Republican, and that's a second home to me. [Brother Wright said that Brother Branham never asked him how he voted, and Brother Wright never asked Brother Branham how he voted--Ed.] It's so insignificant, that's the reason, Brother Wright. [Brother Wright speaks again--Ed.] Thank you, thank you. I never... No one knowed how I voted; because both parties, neither one can brag.


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