<TITLE>37. Par -</TITLE>L-568-362 She jumped up. I said, "Set down." She started on. I said, "Set down!" See? And boy, everybody... I just stopped. She acted like she didn't hear me, and I squalled it out again. She heard me that time, 'cause I like to shook the building over with that big microphone standing right there. And she set down.
I said, "Now, as I was saying, how many wants to come to the altar and give their hearts to God?" And I went right ahead with the meeting. See?
And that night when I started to the truck, I was surrounded. And here them bunch of women sounded like a bunch of chickens, you know, "You blasphemed the Holy Ghost."
I said, "I did?" I said, "How can I blaspheme the Holy Ghost by following the--His--the declaration of the Scriptures?" See?
And this woman said, "I had a message right straight from God."
I said, "But you was giving it in the wrong time, sister." I said, "I'm not..."
"You say that wasn't--that wasn't of God?"
I said, "I couldn't tell you, lady." I said, "I--I--I believe it was. See?" I said, "I'll say it for your benefit, that, 'I say I believe it was.' And I believe you're a good woman, but you were out of order."
And there was her pastor standing there. I know he was her pastor. See? I said... I--I said, "There's only one thing I can say, that either you was in the flesh or you've got a pastor that's trained you that don't know nothing about the Scriptures." I said, "He ought to come and talk to us a little while about the Scriptures. That's wrong, you're out of order. You lost many souls, night before last, and many last night again, and would've done the same thing tonight."
And this man said, "Brother Branham," said, "I beg your pardon."
I said, "What do you mean?"
Said, "She had a right to give that message; you was through."
I said, "I was on the platform, and the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet. I'm still in the platform."
And he said, "Well..."
I said, "I still had the message. I was making my altar call, that's to rake in. I throwed my net out; I'm pulling it now. Don't throw barbed wire out there or something to upset it. See?" I said, "I was still pulling my net." And--and I said, "She interfered with the--with the bringing in of souls. The very... What good would it do to preach or anything else if you don't call and get sinners to come up? See?"
And he said, "Well, her message was later than yours. Hers was right off the platform... Hers was right straight from God."
I said, "'If any man thinks himself to be spiritual or a prophet let him acknowledge what I say is the commandments of the Lord. But if he be ignorant, just let him be ignorant. We have no such custom, neither the church of God,'" quoting Paul, you know. I said, "No, sir, nothing fresh. He... Jesus said, 'Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true.' Paul said, 'Though an Angel from heaven come with anything else but what's here, let it be accursed.'" I said, "Mister, you're firmly off the line." I said, "What kind of a church have you got? I bet it's a big bunch of confusion. See? If you'd let them people do that how do you ever make your altar call? She's got a ministry, they all got a ministry, but you got times for your ministry (See?) that's given to."


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