<TITLE>11. Par 51-55</TITLE>L-51 See, God knows how to do things to work it. See? But sometimes if it's a lingering case... Now, that case lingered for a couple months or more, two months (What say?)... Two years before it ever happened... But you see, he'd asked, and knowed that if we asked that thing...
Martha said, "My brother's dead. He's stinking out there in the grave. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." There you are. See? Whatever You ask God, God will give it to you. Two years after all that he held on. He knowed he'd get it. See? God worked it right around; he got it.
That's it, brethren. It's God reflecting Himself in our lives.

L-52 I could talk to you all day. You're such a wonderful bunch of people. I love you real well. And I'm here, my Christian friends, to help you. I'm here to do all that I can to help seine with you brethren. Now, sometimes people say, we knowing today.
There's been a lot of carnal impersonations of these things. You understand that. It's just got to come. When Moses went out, the supernatural had been done, and a mixed multitude went with him. It upset the camp after while and--and with Korah, you know, and so forth. And we--we--we realize that. And it does that, brethren.
And I... sometimes shepherds are little suspicious, and I--I don't blame them. They got sheep to feed. You see? They--they... I don't--I don't have no feelings against those brothers that just even condemn it. I--I don't feel bad about it, because they're shepherds. You see? But I want you to know, as my brother, as--as the end is drawing nigh, when I meet you on the other side I'll still have the same testimony. It's God. You just believe that with all your heart.

L-53 And I want you to pray for me. It's awfully hard, brethren. It's hard, 'cause sometimes you say--you have to say things that just... Maybe a person's opinion's been one way, and yet you've got to say it. You're--you're duty bound to say it. You've got to say it. And then it hurts, and it hurts maybe your brother or something. Then you feel terrible about it.
But you're not your own. You are bought with a price. You're commissioned to a job. You must be loyal and true to it, no matter what it is. And I think in most all real level-thinking people will respect that. Even though they might disagree with it, they'll respect it.

L-54 How about a man to a woman? No matter whether she's pretty, ugly, or whatever it is, if she's a lady, a real lady, any man will respect that's got a ounce of man about him. See? No matter who it is, he respects her stand. See? And that's the way I think it is amongst brethren, brethren who sees somebody that's convinced. I have the same respects to brethren who might disagree with me. I would say, certainly I respect his...

L-55 A great story comes in my mind now of that Lutheran dean up there, you know, when he wrote me a letter, and said I was a polished-up soothsayer, you know, and so forth like that; and told the horrible (You see?), about me. Yet I wrote him a letter back.
He said, "You said you'd been preaching for thirty years." Said, "I was preaching before you were nursing," he said. And then--and tell something just like...
But still, I had a respect for him. He just called me "Branham." I wrote back. I said, "Dear precious brother (a Lutheran dean)." No one could preach the Gospel fifty years and yet disrespect Christ. I wouldn't think so. See, he's--he's--he's a man. He's not made out of sawdust; he's a human being. And I wrote him a nice letter back.


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