<TITLE>03. Par 17-23</TITLE>L-17 Many times, people misunderstands. And when they say, "Brother Branham, you're--you're... You don't go to the places like you used to, and like these other ministers do, and have all the..." I--I learned one thing, that learning a lesson from our Bible and from our Lord, that Jesus was not a showman. He--He lacked that; He didn't have showmanship. See, He--He wasn't a showman at all. And I don't believe that His disciples are showmen. Never did they ever make themselves showmen.
That's where I think we miss the boat a lot today (maybe it's just my own idea), that when we have to make a big blow about everything, you know, why, I think it looks like it's more of a show than it is the sacredness.

L-19 Did you notice in the coming of the Lord, those who really received Him was Simeon, nobody never heard nothing about him, but he was looking for the Lord; blind Anna in the temple, John the Baptist in the wilderness. And those...
John went in the wilderness at nine years old, never appeared again till he was thirty: in the wilderness. And men like that who secretly believed, and kept humble, they was looking for the coming of the Lord. And they never did blow their meetings up and have to put it on great signs (the hour, the time) and--and telecasts and everything. That's all right to those who want to do it that way, but, to me, that doesn't seem Christlike.

L-21 I know one time His brethren told Him, said, "You--You--You--You do these miracles and things, why don't You go up here to--to Jerusalem? And we're going up to the feast of Passover, call out Caiaphas the high priest, and all those, and let them know. Do it before them like that, that they might see Your works. And--and (See?), what are You fooling with a bunch of fishermen, and so forth, down on the river, and that low class of people? What... Why don't You get up here and let the world see it?" See?
Jesus said, "Your hour is always; Mine hour has not come." See. See, see?

L-23 John was one time... John the Baptist, the--the Scriptures spoke of him coming, and said when he come, that... Why, Isaiah said about seven hundred and twelve years before he was born "There'd be a voice of one crying in the wilderness." And said, "All the mountains skipped like little lambs, all the leaves clapped their hands, the high places was made low, and the low places was made high," such prophecies as that.
What do you think ministers of that day... When they picked that up, they must have said, "My, when that great prophet comes, everybody will know him. God will just spread back the canopies of the sky, the corridors of heaven will roll down, a chariot of fire will move down, Angelic band escort him to the earth."
When he come, he was an old fuzzy-faced preacher with a piece of sheep--sheepskin wrapped around him, with a piece of leather for a belt. Probably never took a bath every three or four months. Out there in the wilderness, come out, standing in mud, knee deep, preaching, "Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." He never went to no cities. If anybody wanted to hear him, they come out to Jordan to hear him them that want to. What did he do? He shook the nation; he shook the world.


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