<TITLE>21. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 When I first come into this as a Baptist minister, why, one group said, "Come, join our group"; the other one said, "Come join our group."
I said, "Brethren, I love you both."
"You'll have to come to one. We just won't permit it."
I said, "Oh, but God will permit it. See? I'll stand right between you with a arm out to both sides and saying, 'We are brethren!'" Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die. That's right. Get love in your heart, and be true and honest, and have the right kind of a motive, and the right kind of objective, and God will take care of the rest. If your motive is right, and your objective is right... If your objective's right, and your motive's wrong, it won't work. But when you get your... If you know it's the will of God, then your motive right, and your objective right...

L-80 Like now. Here's a group of people. I've been talking about Him being Messiah that you can still touch. I'm not talking about it because I think so; I'm talking about it 'cause the Bible said so. Now, the reason...
You say, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid He'll...?"
"No, sir. Now, if I wanted to say, "Look here. I could do this. See what a big guy I am?" I'd better shut up, and walk away from the platform right there, 'cause it'll never work. See?
What's my motive? To melt these people together, as God's people. Say, "I tell you, all you people, I belong to the Baptist. You all come over, join the Baptist." "I'm a Oneness." "I'm a Trinitarian." "I'm a Threeness," or "Twoness," or whatever you have, I don't know. All the... "I belong to that one."
No, sir. I'm your brother. I belong to Christ. We belong to one another. So that makes my motive, my objective right. My motive's right. So therefore, He said, "Say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt..." And it's the will of God for me to do it, or He'd have never sent me. There you are. You get everything working right, and your motive and objective right, you can say to anything... As long as it's the will of God, it'll do it.

L-81 But if I want to, say, to be some big stuffed shirt, to make me a great program somewhere, and put me on some telecast, universal or something, now that's wrong. I don't...
Jesus lacked one thing. You know what it was? Showmanship. He wasn't a showman. See? No, no. No. They said, "Why do you fool with this bunch of holy-rollers down here, fishermen and so forth?"
His brother said, "Come on up to the high priest. Come on up, and show yourself, what you can do, if you're the So-and-so."
He said, "Your time's always. Mine hasn't come yet." That's right. He didn't go up with--even with them. He doesn't today. He isn't a showman; He's the Son of God. Amen. We believe that. Oh, isn't He wonderful? Jesus, the Son of God...

L-82 Now, I can't have discernment in this line (See?), but we're going to pray. Before I do it, I want to be sure, if I can--the Holy Spirit will help me--to know that the power of God is here, so you can see the anointing.
Now, look. All this audience... Let's just make this a showdown tonight. This audience out here, every one a stranger to me... There's only one person... These two little girls setting here; that's my buddy's girls, the little Evans girls. Brother Evans, where you at? I haven't seen you...
Tell you something on Brother Evans while we're waiting. I'm waiting for something. We was fishing not long ago. How I come to get acquainted with this fine man and his wife, Brother Mercier introduced me to him.
The morning before I left the hotel... Wasn't that in Philadelphia? With Theo Jones at the Met. And Brother Mercier said, "There's a fine man by the name of Welch Evans. He wants to meet you." Wife was with me. I got up that morning, and my little boy, Joseph...


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