<TITLE>04. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 And I said, "Well, now..." I said, "Brethren, I'm going to tell you," I said, "I--I think you brothers are the finest group of men I've ever met in my life." But I said, "The thing of it is..." And I said, "I don't belong to any organization, but I do belong to that fellowship with that. I pack their fellowship card with me, the only card I pack because it represents all the organizations. You see? And that's what I like. That's what I'm striving for." But I said, "The thing that worries me that you brethren, before those men down there, which are a thousand times more prosperous than you are... And then trying to tell them that Christ is prosperity. Don't never try to sell them that. See? Don't never try to compare with the world. Let the world come over on our grounds; don't go off on their ground." See, see? You go off on their ground... We'll never shine with them. After all, the Gospel don't shine, it glows. Hollywood shines. The Gospel glows. There's a lot of difference between glowing and shining.

L-16 And so, now, and I said, "The early Pentecostal brethren that had something, tried to get rid of it, and feed the poor, and so forth like that, and went out without nothing, (See?) to preach the Gospel, to associate." I said, "Now, we're trying to brag on how much we got." I said, "What a difference it is."
And one precious little brother, after a few moments he raised up, said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, that was one of the greatest mistakes that people ever did."
And I said, "Now, look, brother, I wasn't trying to hint for people to sell what they got. But I'm just trying to make a point to these business men."
He said, "That was the greatest mistake the people..."
I said, "They did that by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit told them to do that." The Holy Spirit tells anybody to do anything, you do what He tells you to do.
And he said, "Well, it was the worse mistake the church ever made."
I said, "Why, brother?" And right there before the men who'd been talking to.
He said, "Because as soon as a little fuss come up in the church there," there was a difference between the Greeks and the--and the Hebrews and so forth. He said, "Those people didn't have a place to go. They didn't even have any home to return to."
I said, "Just exactly the will of God."
He said, "How could that be the will of God?"
I said, "They went everywhere scattering the Gospel, 'cause they had no place to go."
The Holy Ghost don't make any mistakes. It just doesn't do it. That's all. And as I was speaking last night, you just have to take a hold of God, and take a hold of His Word, and hold right on to it. No matter where It leads you, just keep following It. Keep it going like that.

L-17 But I'm certainly a--a supporter of this Business Men's fellowship. Every convention that I'm invited to, I always go and speak, say everything that I can, not just try to make up something to say that would please somebody so-and-so. But every time when I go to my meetings, I try to study and pray and fast, and say, "Lord Jesus, what--what could I say that would help that people."
Everybody knows I'm not a preacher; I'm not a speaker. I--I'm... Anyone knows that. I'm not a preacher. My--my message is praying for the sick and so forth like that. But I'm not a preacher; anybody'd know that'd hear me preach. But what I do say, I want to put the punch in that'll do something. Not to say, "Isn't he a--a forceful speaker? Doesn't he use his grammar right? Isn't he wonderful in the pulpit?" I don't want that. I--I couldn't do it. God never called me for that. But I'm trying to find something that'll help that person and that church to be a better church, help it to be a better people, praying over it.
Now, I was kind of talking I guess, 'cause I seen a few people still gathering in and it raining. That's the reason I was saying these things.


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