<TITLE>03. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 Well, the same thing... See? I'm not a preacher, you know that. I just... I haven't enough education to be a preacher. But the Lord... I love to tell people what I know about Him. And then... But my gift in God is something different.
I'm looking right setting here in front of me, another one that was in the meeting this morning, one of the meetings: a Baptist brother, his wife a Methodist. This Baptist brother had the hardest time of ever giving up cigarettes.
So he kept coming down, keep going on, and kept pressing along. And--and fine man... I don't say that because he's setting here, just happened to notice he and his wife. And so finally one day, while he was down there at Jeffersonville, waiting on one of those private interviews, the Holy Spirit came right in and revealed the whole thing and condemned the cigarettes that he'd tried, he'd prayed, he'd laid down. From that time you've never touched one, is that right Brother Artez? Or what's your name? Arnette. He's from some, down south here somewhere. Colombia, South Carolina. And... It's been over since then, hasn't it? Yes, it's... That's right.
And now, this morning he had waited and had another interview upon something that he didn't know what to do. Just watch and see what the Lord said.

L-11 Before he come, his wife had had a dream, of what... She'd dreamed a dream, and before they even come or said anything, I told the brethren what she was going to tell me about the dream, and what the interpretation was 'fore they ever got there (Isn't that right?), before it ever happened, just what would take place and what the dream meant.
We... Here sometime ago I was in a meeting. And I was... I believe in old fashion holiness. And I believe in--in calling just exactly what the Bible says. Say it. That's all. No matter if it hurts, it hurts, it...?... If you do that to be mean, then I ought to go to the altar and get right. But I do it out of love.

L-12 If you seen your child doing something, he was going to kill hisself with it, wouldn't you help that child? If you had to give him a little posterior protoplasm stimulation, you know, just--just really pour it on him. You--you, you'd better off to do that, then it would be to let the kid get killed, don't you think so? Why, certainly, if you'd really have to correct him and whip him and make him behave. Well, that's the way God does us. And here's His whip is the Gospel. It's sharper than a two-edged sword, really cutting. And if a servant is called of God, he won't compromise on one word.
A certain minister met me not long ago, a very outstanding man, Doctor of Divinity. He said, "Brother Branham, your meetings should hit the great nerve centers." Said, "You could hit the places like New York City and--and so, great big places." And said, "We've got our own planes and (this denominational church)," and said, "we'll fly you around the world, just hitting the high places and the nerve centers." Said, "That ministry ought to be known to everybody." And he said, "There's just one thing I want to ask you to do," Said, "Just on a couple of things that you preach, if you'd just forget about that and lay that aside."


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