<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Now, we like to talk to people where we can make them feel real good. But the best thing to do, if there's--there's something wrong, let's get that out of the way first. Let's get the thing down to the foundation. See?
A fellow said to me not long ago, a well known minister, one of the best in the world; he said, "Brother Branham, you're making too much of a mistake."
I said, "Pardon me, my brother. Tell me where it's at."
He said, "You cut at people too hard." Said, "You're... For instance, you're always bawling the--the women out for the way they dress. And you're always slamming this and that." He said, "You better quit that. You'll ruin your ministry."
I said, "Any time that the Word of God ruins my ministry, God, ruin it right quick, because I--I want it ruined." That--that's right. I want to give something that's right. The Word of God teaches that. And I say, "God give us boldness, and men that'll stand for the truth, regardless of what comes or goes." That's what we need.
The Gospel's not something for a sissy. The Gospel's for men, God-called men.

L-15 You never judge a man by how big his hands is, and how wide his shoulders is. I've heard them say, "Oh, isn't he a man." I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn't have an ounce of man in him. That's right. You don't measure a man by his size. That's brute. You measure him by his character. There never was a greater character Man than Jesus Christ.
A big body... A mule's stouter than any man, so he... or elephant. So that'd be brute. But a man's not how big a muscle he's got. I don't measure him by that, but how the bags is in the knees of his trousers, where he's been praying. That's the man that's to be measured: character.
Jesus was a small Man, little Fellow, probably stooped-shoulders. Thirty years old; He looked fifty, the Bible said. But there never was a man on earth like Him and never will be. He--He... The Bible said, "There was no beauty for Him that--that we should desire Him. When we seen Him we hid as it was our face from Him," and all like that.
But yet, it pleased God to--to smite Him. And He was smitten, stricken, and afflicted. He bore our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we were healed. Oh, it should be attractive to people. It really should. It should stir the heart.

L-16 But you know what's the matter? We've took out the Wednesday night prayer meeting, and put in a television program that keeps all the people entertained. "And where the heart is--the treasures is, there the heart is also." And what makes people want to go to things of the world? Well, I... You know the reason you do that is--the reason people does that? What makes a man want to get drunk? What makes people want to act the way they do? The world. What would a person stay home on Wednesday night from a prayer meeting, to watch a certain television program? What would they do that for?
Is because there's something in them that desires to be satisfied. They want... There's a little place in a man's heart or a woman's heart, and God made that place for Himself. How dare you to try to take the things of the world and put it in there where God made for Himself to set there.
God is our joy. God is our pleasure. God is our satisfaction. That's where it belongs, in here; let God in, and then the other things are so dead, you don't even care nothing about them no more.


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