<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And then... A long ways from being a historian, but from reading a bit of history, and finding out that it's usually the--the organization that's--that, when it becomes so organized till it can't recognize the next man, God just lays it up on the shelf, doesn't use it any more.
Now, I don't want our groups to be like that. I--the think organization is a wonderful thing. It keeps a good clean brotherhood, and, you know, it serves its purpose. But I always want them to a place till one could put his arm around the other one, and, you know what I mean, have fellowship.
As old Brother Bosworth said to me one time, the godly, saintly, old man. Many of you knowed him, F. F. Bosworth. He said to me, said, "Brother Branham, you keep speaking of fellowship. You know what it is?"
I said, "I think so."
He said, "It's two fellows in one ship." So I--I thought that was a very good expression (See?), two fellows in one ship. Then there's room for all of us.

L-11 If I seen our brother here, some brother, going down a swift river in a little boat, that I knowed that boat wasn't going to make the riffle (See?), and I begin to scream at him; it isn't I got something against the brother, it's love that makes me do that. See? It's the boat that he's in; it won't pack him. See?
Now, when organizations--I think if the organization would organize and then end their doctrine with a comma, instead of a period: "This is this, and this is that, and that's all of it." If they just make a comma, "We believe this, plus as much as the Lord can add to us." That's where Luther made a mistake, justification by faith, that was it. Wesley made a mistake by sanctification, second work of grace, and refused to see--receive the Holy Ghost when It come in. If you end it with a comma, all right.

L-12 So you see, God is so great, the tent stretched over us all. And we, eating different foods, dressing different, look different, we are different. But God is a God of variety. He isn't a God--He isn't a Sears and Roebuck, Harmony House. See? He... God is a God of variety. Look out here: big mountains, little mountains, green trees, deserts, white flowers, blue flowers, pink flowers, red flowers, red-headed people, black-headed, and--and gray-headed, and then none at all. See? See, He's a God of variety. He... I believe He--He likes it that way. That's the way He made it. I think that in our organizational life that God has it that way.

L-13 I'm a southerner. The big boss up here says (this nation) what they say is all right. I think in the segregation condition of the south, some of them said to me one time, said, "Brother Branham, being a southerner, what do you think about segregation?"
I said, "It's not for me to say. The boss, government, said, 'Let it be what it is, permit them to marry, and so forth.'" I said, "That's--that's up to them. As an American, I abide by the laws." To me, you ought to leave it the way God had it. He made white men, black men, brown men. He's a God of variety. Let them stay the way God made them. That's what I think. If I was a black man, I'd--I'd want--I'd want to stay in my class of people. If I was a Chinese, yellow, I'd want to stay that way. Being that I'm Anglo-Saxon, white, let me marry amongst the white, teach my children the same, and just stay the kind of a flower and the color that God made us at the beginning. After all, He's the One that made it.


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