<TITLE>21. Par 162-173</TITLE>L-162 Me and my brother was fishing when we was little boys, up here. And I caught an old snapping turtle, and I cut his head off, get him off the line; I didn't want to fool with that thing; and throwed him up on the bank there. And my little brother come along, and he said, "What'd you catch awhile ago?"
I said, "A turtle."
He said, "What'd you do with him?"
I said, "There lays there, and his head's laying up there."
And he went up there. And he said, "Is he dead?"
I said, "Sure, separated his head from his body, he must be dead."
So then he picked up a stick, and started to reach down to throw this turtle head back in the river, and when--or in the creek. And when he did, the old turtle grabbed it. You know, they'll snap for a hour or two. He jumped back; he said, "Hey. I thought you said it was dead."
I said, "It is."
He said, "Well, he don't know it."
So that's the way a lot of people are: dead and don't know it. Nicolaitanes... Oh, my. Oh, He said, "You hate that." Taking all the...?... fine holy priests, holy cardinal, holy bishop.

L-168 And some of you Pentecostals, "The great overseer, let him come down, the general overseer, he'll tell you whether you can have the healing service here or not." Hallelujah. The Holy Ghost is the One to say that or not; It's God's eternal Word.
"Well, Brother Branham, we believe that the Bible does teach baptize in Jesus' Name, but the general overseer said if we started that in our church, he'd kick us all out." Go ahead. That's right. I'd rather be kicked out here than kicked out there. So if you take anything out of here, you're going to kicked out there, anyhow, so you might as well get kicked out here. If he kicks you out here, you'd be kicked in There. So that's just the same thing, so stay right with it.
We want to be right. Oh, my, it's a serious thing, brother. We've got to get this thing right. We'll never be able to have a church until God gets a foundation to lay it on. He'll never build His church upon a bunch of nonsense. He has to come on His Word or He won't come at all: right on His Word.

L-171 Somebody, not long ago, up there, said, "Brother Branham, come out to the Chautauqua." How many was at the Chautauqua? Why, just looky here, a third of the church or more was at Chautauqua. Which... Now, that man got up there that afternoon, and you all heard him, not knowing that I'd know about it. God can reveal in the room up there what they're saying down there, and, you know, He did do it. Come up there, said, "Now, Brother Branham, oh, he's a servant of the Lord. When the Spirit is upon him, he's anointed prophet; he sure knows; God tells him what is and what's going to be; but his theology, don't listen to that."
What a scrupled up idea. How a man can say that? Why, I haven't... Well, if you didn't know split beans from coffee, you'd--you'd know better than that. How can you ever think of such a thing as that? "Why?" Why, the very word "prophet" itself means "a Divine revelator of the Word." How can you... The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. I never said I was one; they said it. But there you are. See?

L-173 How men... To hold up a little church doctrine somewhere, because their organization wouldn't agree with it: selling your birthrights for a mess of pottage, Esau, you miserable hypocrite. That's right. They're selling your birthrights for a mess of pottage, for a mess of denomination, a mess of organization that God hates. Just remember, you say "organization?" God hates it. It's the thing that separated brothers, and broke down... There's a many a Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian, tonight would like to have the fellowship around the table of God. But if they do, they'd get kicked right out the first time they start into it. That's exactly right.
"Mama belonged to it," and they're just a grandchild to begin with. Oh, my. I don't care what mama belonged to. Mama lived in all the light she had in her day; you're living in another day.


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