<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 Brethren, I believe that we have the thing that the world must have. But we've got to approach it in a way... What if you were a carpenter? I'll take the man on the end here, or Brother Borders over there is a carpenter, I believe. Well, what if he was driving with a hammer like this, and driving nails, and I had an automatic hammer of some sort that I could pour a keg of nails into it, and hold it up like this, and brrrip, and drive them boards up like that a whole lot better than he could with his hammer? Now, if I walked up to him, say, "Aw, boy, you're not even in it. You know nothing about it. Why, you're mashing your fingers. My, you just haven't got a product to begin with," I'm offending him. I'll never sell the hammer. That's right. See? It's my approach with what I have. My product, I know, is better than what he's got. But I've got to remember, I've got to approach him in the right way.
And if I walk up to him, and say, "How do you do, sir? My name is Branham."
"Mine is Borders."
"I see you're a carpenter."
"Yes, yes, sir, I am."
"I really believe you're a real carpenter too."
"Yes."
"I was watching the way you was handle--handling your hammer."
"Oh, yes. Old Betsy has been with me a long time."
I say, "Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah, sure good, too. And you can really handle it. Yeah." Go ahead talk to him a while. I say, "Did you ever hear of the new such-and-such a hammer?"
"No, I don't believe I ever did."
"Well, here it is. You put your nails in here, and let's just tack those boards up down there. Look at the time this does, and what a product I got." Show it to him like that. Say, "Take it. Try it for a few days and see what you think about it. I'll be back." See? If it's the right kind of a product, it'll sell itself. You know what I mean, don't you, brethren? See?

L-25 See, we got the right thing. We got to approach the people with it right. See? That's the thing. See? It's the real genuine thing. This is the Holy Spirit. I believe it with all my heart.
I don't believe that brethren are renegades. I believe they are brethren. I do not believe that the Spirit that does the discernment is any soothsayer. I believe it's the Holy Spirit revealing Himself in His Church, just making the Church come to Its place. And if we could just have some way that we could take the whole Pentecostal move, and just break down our little barriers, and a place to come together, and set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, to which we are baptized in by one Spirit, oh, I think there would be manifestations that had never been known before. And if we could approach the Methodist, the Baptist, the Pentecostals, could go everywhere to every place, I believe it could be done, brethren.

L-26 I don't want to stand here. I want to read just a word or two from the Bible and talk to you just a moment. But I wanted... I know you got to go, and I have too, and I--I got that breakfast the--Saturday morning; and--and then anticipating to stay for Monday night to another one down here. I don't know just yet. I have to talk to Brother Borders, and so forth. But I want to leave this with you: that I'm here to help you. It's just... We don't have but just to set together a few minutes. I wish we could just stay here until the service started this afternoon, then in the morning come back again. And I listened to what you brethren had to say, and how I appreciate it.
But now, just to let you know my heart. I appreciate you, and I'm going to do all that I can to help you, as my brothers, to, with what little ministry the Lord's given me, and what He's given you, that we're putting it together now to see what we can do for his Kingdom. Let us bow our heads just a moment, before we approach His Word.


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