<TITLE>02. Par 12-21</TITLE>L-12 The people is standing now, Charlie, I hate to see you and David and Rodney, and all of you there. You're so good to me when I come down to your house, and things, and can't give you a seat in the house of God. But I'll tell you what I'll do. If you'll come right here, here's mine. Come right on up, and just make yourself welcome. Any of you that wants to come right here and take this seat, just walk right on up here. See? You'll be more than welcome.
And it's a--it's a good one. It really don't belong to me. It belongs to Mr. Wilson, the head of school. I've had it since 1937, so it's the oldest.
Why, he's here sometime ago, say, "Hey, you still got my chairs?"
I said, "I'm sitting in them every night before I preach."
And he said, "Well, it's in good hands then, so let it go."

L-15 Now, you're welcome. There's one seat here. And then if you'd just like to come here where the little fellows are setting. Now, don't--don't let that embarrass you, think you're a little fellow, because you're not. But you'd like to be again, but... And here's one more seat here, setting out here. And--and there's one over here. And so you might be able, especially some of those ladies there, that's kind of standing there like that. Thank you. And we'd be glad if you'd come right up here and set down. It would be all right. Just put your arm right around, lean over, as we talk.

L-16 And--uh, Charlie, I thought you was coming up this way. I--I've teased him all the time. I said, "You come up to church." I tried to get him to come and see me. And then I said, "When you come to church, I'm going to say, 'This morning, Doctor Charlie Cox will have the message,' and walk away."
He said, "I'll faint." [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.] So before I called him, he took for the back room. See?

L-18 So I would like to, just before we start in on the lesson... I thought last week that the Lord did bless us. Did you like the--the... [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] My, it's just went everywhere. Even that message has got all the way into California. They was calling last night out of California from it. And--and now they are wanting to set up and have the same thing in California, in the next coming month of January. See?
The Holy Spirit just seemed to strike all at once right there at Shreveport. And it's just going from place to place, like that. It's just an hour of revelation.
And so we're so glad, and trusting, and seeing our--our own group here, here at the Tabernacle, so prospering by this, seeing the manifestation of God among us here. We're so happy for it, and believe that we're at that great hour of the calling out of the Church, and setting It in order. So they...

L-21 I was finding something, that I--while talking to my good friend, Doctor Adair, setting in his office. And he said, was talking about different things about x-rays, and said about bad colds, and different germs, and reaching up and getting his books, and showing me through them, what they find out. He said, "I'll tell you, Billy," said, "as a bad cold, so many of them," said, "we haven't got one thing for a bad cold," he said.
I said, "Well, I always thought that if you got a sore throat, if you'd gargle something." I said, "Now, after I get through preaching," I said, "go home of a night, that little hoarse." I said, "I--I get some Lavoris and--and gargle it." I said, "We've had it in our house for years and years, a mouth wash."
He said, "Cold water would be just as good." He said, "'Cause, don't never think that anything you could gargle would ever--would ever do you any good, because only thing it could do is just wash what germs is in your throat out. It can't get down into the blood stream. If it does, it'd burst your throat and you would have a hemorrhage. See?" And said, "Can't do that."
So the old saying comes back again, "Medicine was made to sell, not to take," you know. [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.]


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