<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0128M, Unbelief Does Not Hinder God, Church Of God, Phoenix, AZ, 63 min
L-1 Lord bless you. You know, it's written in the Word, "I was happy when they said unto us, 'Let's go to the house of the Lord.'" Amen...?... See? This lovely place, lovely atmosphere, lovely pastor, and this choir, such a nice church, I don't see why there'd be anything lacking this morning for all that we have need of. I sure appreciate that song, "God is Sufficient." Isn't that beautiful? Sang so nicely and consecrated voices, and I like that. I like something that's real, that hasn't got any (you know) put on. You don't have... I like good singing, but I--I just can't stand an over-trained voice, you know. You know, I... Hold it till they get blue in the face and... you know, and some kind of a gargle or a warble or something, and... That--that's not singing. I--I like singing like that: just real right from the heart, good old fashion Pentecostal singing.

L-2 Brother Fred Sothmann, you here somewhere? (One of my trustees) Look around this place. This is the way I'd like for our church to be built at home, with all these Sunday school rooms and things back here like that. I like that--that... Coming up awhile ago I noticed it. We're in the process of building a new church, and I--I like this. I like those pews, the rugs the way they're fixed. It's nice. And I'm not saying that complimentary so much as I am... I'm just telling the truth. I--I like that. I just--I like it.

L-3 I think this is where I was supposed to be first. I'm just about ten days late. That's me: usually late. But two things that I've learned this morning, that this being the--one of the Churches of God from Cleveland, Tennessee. Those people has been a blessing to me around the world. I remember one run-in we had when we first got acquainted. Here some years ago Brother Gordon Lindsay, which is associated with the Assemblies of God, he sent me up to Chattanooga. And he said they was going to have a meeting there and they had a great auditorium. So I sent Brother Baxter, which was speaking for me at that time, on to Chattanooga. And he called me back. He said, "Brother Branham, we got an auditorium here seats sixty-five hundred people; we got one church on a sponsorship, and it's a little church in a basement--in a basement, just probably about thirty-five in membership." Said, "That's nice," but said, "that's all is on the sponsorship."

L-4 And I said, "Well, I'll be up tomorrow," and I flew in. And the next morning I had the privilege of speaking at the Lee College. That's one of the big colleges, and, oh, what a fine student body that was. And the next night when they come in they was backed out on the street. They just couldn't even get room to set down anywhere. They really come to my rescue then. All that auditorium, with one little bitty church on sponsorship, and they all come together, and we really had a glorious time. And that was my first contact right straight with the headquarters of the Church of God. I like that name, The Church of God. I--I like that for a name, and I appreciate them very much.
You know, I guess, Brother David Littlefield. And he's such a bosom friend of mine. He comes to my house all the time. We have fellowship one with another up there. And he just built a new church and I had the privilege of dedicating it to the Lord recently.


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