<TITLE>17. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Here not long ago... You've heard of Brother Roberts, the great man. And I went... Oh, he's a sweet brother, very good friend of mine. And I went to his great big building. I went over to Tommy. And Tommy was down here at the--at Portland when that maniac ran out to kill me that night on the platform (You've heard the story) great big fellow, and said, "I'm going to knock you out there in the middle of that audience. I'll break your neck."
And the Holy Spirit said, "Because you've challenged the Word of God, you'll fall over my feet."
Said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over," pulled back his big fist.
And I said, "Come out of him, Satan," and he fell across my feet, just exactly. There he was.
So Tommy was standing there. The police run out and said, "We're after that man to put him in jail." Said, "Is he dead?"
I said, "No, sir. But roll him off my feet." See? He weighed about--about over about two-fifty, so they rolled him off my feet, and there he was.
He said, "Is he healed?"
I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit." He won't... I'd led those two little police to Christ in the dressing room back there at the--at Portland Auditorium.

L-60 Now. Now, you see, in that Tommy became a servant of God, and now he--and going out in the fields, done a great work. And Brother Oral, there was his great building. It's a great thing to think that one man, one man could put up about a two and a half, or three million dollar building. Whew. My. Look at Tom...
I went in Oral's place, and there's five hundred IBM machines running. His letters never touch human hands. The--there's a machine picks them up, writes it off, takes it down, folds it, and sends it out. Goes to the bank, and gets money, and brings it in by great big truck, and dump it in a... A conveyer runs around in different languages. They pull them out, like that to take care of their money. Why, it's a... You never seen anything like it in your life. And it's a great thing. And Oral taking me through to show me, and Brother Fisher, and one of the missionaries with him there.
And then I'd seen Brother Tommy with his great big place over there. I thought, "How wonderful, how good." And I happened to look out. Brother...

L-61 The police come up, and said, "Brother Branham, you can't get out that door." Said, "There's fifty people standing out there waiting for you." Said, "They'd--they're just waiting to see."
And I said, "Well, is there a back entrance?"
Said, "Yes. Go out through this way." And they said, "We'll send a man around to pick you up."
And I walked out in the back parking lot. I was walking up and down there looking at that great big building. Oh, my, just like... I never seen anything in any part of the world like it. A little Pentecostal boy did it.
I thought, "Isn't that wonderful?" I thought, "God, how wonderful." I thought, "Just think of Brother Tommy's place, where, how that great big almost a city block, just in making books, and secretaries, and so forth, and IBM machines running.
I thought "My. I'd hate for them to come to my place to look mine over." I got one little typewriter setting in the end of a trailer. And I would--was trying to get someone to help me answer my letters.
I thought, "But boy, I wouldn't have all that responsibility for nothing. I ain't got brains enough to take care of that." I thought, "God knowed that."


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