<TITLE>04. Par 12-18</TITLE>L-12 All those people from Georgia and Alabama made me feel so great the other night. I believe I was out by the office, and all was gone but Billy, and he said... Brother West and them, which are very sweet loyal friends (I don't see them here, but I suppose they're here.) called up and said, "Well, is Brother Branham going to have the Sunday School, Sunday morning?" And it freezing in Louisville; the news said they're blocking the highways in and out, and slick on the roads.
Billy said, "Well, it's a possibility." Said, "He goes down there." Said, "Maybe Brother Neville or him, one..."
Said, "Well, that possibility's good enough; here we come." All the way from way down in Alabama, and over the slick roads, and I--I'm not worthy to have friends like that. Now, that's true. I--I am not worthy to have friends like that. There's something about it that I just hate to announce the meeting, know that I got people who believe the Message, and--and come, and--and they love me.

L-15 And I--I've always wanted to be loved. When I was a little boy I wasn't loved by nobody. Nobody had no use for me. I was here in Indiana, born in Kentucky, so I was a corn-cracker to these kids over here. In the family, all the boys, nearly, smoked and drank and everything, but me. And I was a--I was an off-cast in the family, and an off-cast in school, and at work I was an off-cast, and everywhere I went I was an off-cast. And then finally when I found Somebody that really loved me, Jesus, and He said, "I'll give you fathers, and mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends."

L-16 And then the strange thing how that His great wise providence, how He works things in His--out. Seems like that love has a funny feeling to it; not a feeling, but a--a reaction. And then I look out among the people, as He's called me to be His servant, and I look out amongst the people and see sin creeping in, then I have to just tear in there with all that's in me (You see?), to tear it out. And that makes it look hard to the--to my way of looking at it, why, to say those things. But yet, down at the bottom, true love runs like that (See?), true love.

L-17 Now, if your little boy or little girl was playing on the street where cars are running, and you knew sooner or later they're going to get hurt... Now, if he says, "Why, papa, I want to be out here." Would you say, "Bless your little heart, Junior, you just go right ahead and play in the street"? That's not a real daddy. If you have to jerk that little fellow up and give him a spanking, scold him, tie him up, anything else, keep him off that street, he'll get killed. Is that right? Well, that's the way you have to do with the Gospel. You have to shake and push, and--and--and try to do everything you can to keep the people lined up. And I hope everybody understands that that way. I--I'm just trusting that someday after it's all over and then when the veils are taken from before our face, we will understand then.

L-18 Brother Way, I... That fine Bible that you and Sister Way gave me for a Christmas present, that's just going to be a good thing to keep my notes in instead of a book like this, when I get a chance to type it out. I don't want to write, 'cause I can't make my own writing out, and how's anybody else going to do it? I told them I had a shorthand all of my own. And I have to study it myself to see what I've said. And I--I get it typed out someday. It's a loose-leaf Bible, where you can just take like here. I got two texts here this morning, two places I want to read from. And in this Bible that he gave me, you pull it out like this, and can take one leaf from Genesis, Revelations, anywhere, and put them both together, and read them right off like that. See? And then a little place back here in the back with a flyleaf, you can just go right back to the... to all the Scriptures wrote down on that message and things. It's wonderful. So I hope that I'll help win many souls to Christ with it.


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