<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And about time they got ready to serve their pink tea, or whatever they do, you know, there was the awfullest commotion upstairs, screaming, and jumping, and rolling around, and bouncing up and down, and screaming, "Hallelujah. Hallelujah."
All the women got scared, and they run upstairs, and she jerked the Geography out of his hand, and said, "Daddy, that's not the Bible. That's the Geography."
He said, "I know it." But said, "The other day I was reading in the Bible where my sins, being pardoned, was put in the sea of forgetfulness (See?), buried into the sea. And I see here in the Geography where the sea is so deep, till they can't even find the bottom of it sometimes." Said, "They're still going on and on."

L-11 So I think that's what pardon means: is completely erased, not just turn aside, and give something a try; but it's erased. It's gone, not turned aside, but it has been... We have... Through pardon, we are released, not by psychology. We're not released by a creed. We're not released by emotion. But we are released through the power of Calvary. We are pardoned, free. Oh, what it means to be free, a burden off your shoulders, out of your heart, a free person.

L-12 I had a little experience the other day. I guess I shouldn't say it here, but I want to say it. I've been under a great burden for five years now, as you people here know about it, from the federal government. And they were trying to find some way to arrest me. In the meetings in these sixteen years on the field, they had traced back and picked up checks that people had made out personally to me in the meetings, and had my name on it, and me endorsing it, turned it in to the Tabernacle for expenses.
And the federal government income tax collector said that those checks were mine personally, no matter what I done with them, if... Like, some brother signed a check at the window for so many thousand dollars for an overseas trip. Then he signed it, just pay from his foundation to the order of William Branham; I signed it, and put it in the Tabernacle Foundation. We kept every check, everything, brought it back.
He said, "But when you signed it, it was yours. Then you turned it over to the Tabernacle." There's no way of beating it. That's all.
So, oh, my, over the coals and back and forth. And they said they was going to make me, that I owed them with delinquency, and with all of my meetings, three hundred and something thousand dollars.
I said, "I can pay it at a dollar a year. I hope I live long enough to get it done." And... But I rejected it. I said, "I pay my taxes. I..." But there it is.
They said, "You owe that too."

L-13 Well, up and down, and they'd been years searching for character. And I say this with my Bible open, men setting present who was there and know it, that not one cent did they ever find that I spent for myself: only the Kingdom of God. That is right.
So the attorney called me in the other day, and he said, "Brother Branham, the government is ready to compromise," after five years. I had the--the Ice and Miller at Indianapolis was suggested to me by Brother Arganbright. I couldn't leave the nation. I was under control of the government, a federal case. And I thought, "My, what have I ever done?"
And he said, "Well, this is what you've done. You ought to have knowed better."
Wasn't defraud, because I'd placed it into the church, just as people would make out a check. They wouldn't know to put it in a foundation. They just made it out, "William Branham."


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