<TITLE>02. Par 3-4</TITLE>L-3 A little tired tonight. I been... I have anywhere from one to three services a day, you know. So at the time I get here I'm pretty near wore out to begin to start. So I was up at the old Pisgah church this afternoon, and--or the Pisgah Home, whichever it's called, and I tell you; we had a glorious time. I--I found out that some of the old timers off of Azusa street is up there yet in that church, worshipping, the old Azusa street. I seen them old women and men setting there. I--I just wanted to get my arms around there and hug them, you know. They--they look so sweet.
I think a real young child, or an old person, you know... They seem to be helpless the second time, and I--I really... I like to get with a young person and try to stir them on the right road, and then get to the old person and find out how many ditches he's crossed and how he crossed them, then I'll know how to cross them when I get there. So... But I like the young and old and in between too. I like everybody. I--I can say that from my heart. If I knew tonight that I had an enemy... I may have. I perhaps have. But if I do, I don't know just who it is. If it was, I sure wouldn't go to preaching till I went first and made that right, see if I could get it straightened up, 'cause we're not supposed to have anything against anyone, or if anything we can do, let no one have anything against us. See? And now if... And It don't say, "If you have ought against a brother," but "If the brother has ought against thee," See? you go to him (See?) if he has the ought. And that way, why, we live peaceful.

L-4 Brother Goad here, a precious boy... Sometimes someone says, "Why--what's the success of your service, Brother Branham?" Of course, it's Christ. "How do you hold up so, and just keep going night after night?" My boys, the Chr--the people that with me. This boy here goes sometimes days without even eating, laying on his face, crying to God for help for me. Now, God just can't turn that down. See? My wife at home, my children, my loved ones, people, my friends, has fast and prayed. There's the success.
See, every one of us... All of us can't preach, and all of us--some of us can't do one thing, another. But we can all do something, and that helps out. You see? Just like this watch here. It's got a--a hand on it that tells time. Now, I wouldn't know how many times that little thing switched back and forth in there to tell what time it was. The hand tells. But if that little wheel hadn't been jumping back and forth like that, it--it--it--it wouldn't be any hand here to make any time. See? I wouldn't know where it was at. And if there wasn't a winding spring to wind that little thing up there, why, it wouldn't be jumping back and forth. See? So we--we... Everything has to work together. All the church has to pray, and all the laity has to pray, the deacons and the trustees and the pastor; then all together we come into the Presence of God like that, as one great unit.


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