<TITLE>08. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 So now, I want to just read a Scripture and make a little talk for you tonight.
And now remember, we're up here for nothing else... We're not here to represent any denomination, because I--I do not belong to any denomination church. I was ordained a missionary Baptist minister, and I pastored the tabernacle at Jeffersonville for seventeen years. And then I went on the mission field about fifteen years ago, and I been on the field ever since.
And when I come out praying for the sick, I just left the church, or left the organization, because out here I--I get everything all together. And then I--I feel that that's the way the Lord's got His children, everywhere. Every man that's born again by the Spirit of God is my brother and every woman, my sister, that's borned of the Spirit of God.
So I don't represent any certain organization. If I was here in the city, to the converts, I'd join one of these fine churches here that believes the same thing that I believe. So that's the way I--I'd do it myself. You have your own choice to do whatever you wish to.

L-23 And then we're not here for money. I want you to know that. We're not here for money. No, sir. I am fifty-one years old. I've been a minister for thirty-one years, and I have preached seventeen years at the--a Baptist Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Never took a offering in all my life. I've preached seventeen years without one penny of anything; any of the trustees could tell you that. Never took a penny, I worked for my living. I wouldn't even do it now if I could afford to pay these meetings off.
The only thing that I do is come out here and hold the meeting. And the only thing you have to do is pay the expense of the building, or whatever expenses goes with the meeting, is all I'm concerned about. Just pay the thing off and that--that settles it. Don't owe me nothing.
We got books. But them books... I buy those books at forty percent less, not--not because it's a money making thing because I will lose in them, but get the message out to the people. The tapes are from the Audio Mission, another group that's not with us. It's... Well, they're making the tapes for the tabernacle, which they in some kind of collaboration there that they make the tapes by. But for myself, no.

L-24 Sometimes at the end of the meeting, if all the debts is paid off, they give me a love offering. If they don't have the debts paid off, they don't give me nothing. And if they do give me a love offering, I turn it back in to--to--to pay the debts. We want to leave this city without one penny being owed. If we have to send home and get the money, somewhere we'll do it. See?
But we don't leave any debts; never have yet. Want to keep our name clean and clear and in above board, because we're meeting the sick people, we're meeting Satan on his grounds, and we--we want to have our hands clean, that when we come to pray for the sick, that we'd be honest and just and nothing shady. We're standing right before God as His servant. And we want to keep just fair and clean and clear with everybody. And I want you to know then that there's no pulls for money and there's no nothing about that. We--we're not here for that.
And we just love you and come to fellowship with you. And as Brother Bosworth said to me one day, he said, "Brother Branham, do you know what fellowship is?"
And I said, "I think so, doctor." I said, "I think I... Well," said, "here's what it is? It's two fellows in one ship."
And I said, "That's just about a...?... report: two fellows in one ship."
So we're desiring that. If we can come into your little boat, and you can come into our boat, we can have fellowship one with another, while we're seining across this city here to pull every lost soul that we can into the Kingdom of God.


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