<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-4-3 See, when you write a check, it goes through the clearing house; they photostat, copy of that check. 'Course I had all the checks too, that'd went through.
So they said, "That's where they get you right back again." And he said, "Another thing, Mr. Branham, if you ever are called in to the government like that, under an investigation, no matter what you ever do, in the eyes of the public you're a crook." See? But that's all.

L-4-5 Look at this little Baptist minister down here in Mississippi. That little fellow... A woman said that he come in and insulted her. And that man brought evidence from across the country and everywhere. He wasn't even around the city for days before the day, or day after, insomuch that the judge wanted to turn back and have him to sue the woman for scandal. He said, "Let her go."
And when that was put on a monitor test across the country, you know what happened? Seventy-five percent of the American people said, "Where there is smoke, there's fire." And that poor little fellow, just as innocent as I'd be, or anybody else, will labor under that the rest of his days, when he had nothing at all to do with it.

L-4-7 I felt very bad for a while, to think that I put my life to the Kingdom of God to try to make peop--people pay your taxes, and do things, and do what's right, and make crooks become right men; and have to be put up like I was a crook myself.
I thought, "What in the world have I did?" And then it came to me, and I looked in the Bible. Every man in the Bible, no exceptions, that ever had a spiritual office; if Satan couldn't get them on morals or something, the government caught them. Go right back to anywhere you want to, all the way down... Moses, Daniel, Hebrew children, John the Baptist, Jesus Christ died by the government, capital punishment, Paul, Peter, James the Great, James the Less. Every one of them died under the government, because it is... Every government is the sait--seat of Satan. Jesus said so; the Bible says it. See?

L-5-1 Every government is controlled by the devil. There's coming a government who will be controlled by Christ; but that's in the millennium. But this--these governments now, no matter how well we think they are, yet the back of them they're--they're dominated by Satan. "These kingdoms," he said, "are mine; I do with them whatever I wish to. I'll give them to You, if You'll worship me."
Jesus said, "Get thee hence, Satan. Thou shalt worship the Lord, and Him only shalt thou serve."

L-5-3 And then I got discouraged (My wife's listening to me.); I went home and I said, "No, sir. I... If I owed it, I'd pay it. I do not owe it, and I'm just not going to pay it. That's all." I said, "How can I pay it anyhow?"
So I went home and I said, "Meda, wash the kid's face, get their clothes ready; I'm leaving." I said, "They won't even... Everything, it's just upside down." I said, "What have I done? Tell me." And I said, "Yet, me forty thousand dollars? Whew. You don't realize what that means to me." And she come in as a nice little wife would, I said, "I'm leaving."
She said, "You think that would do any good? Prayed over it yet?"

L-5-5 I thought, "Well, maybe I better pray again." I goes back in, and seemed like He said to me a Scripture. Always we want to watch the Scripture, what God did about it. You see?
And one day it was asked to Him, you know, trying to--trying to accuse Him to the government; they said, "Is it right for us free Jews to give tribute or taxes to Caesar?"
He said, "You got a penny?" Said, "Whose inscription's on it?"
Said, "Caesar's."
Said, "Then you give Caesar's the things that's Caesar's, and to God's the things that's God's."


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