<TITLE>04. Par 34-45</TITLE>L-34 I couldn't meet men that they meet. I haven't that intelligence. I haven't the education. So, I go, pray for His sick children, and hoping that some day, in the palaces Above, that we can all meet again, where we'll never have to be sick, no more prayer meetings or no preaching to the sinners. Until that time, I'm your brother in Christ.

L-35   Now, the tapes that's being made here, they are, you can have them there. Mr. Sothmann, over here. They're already made up. Just immediately after the service, you can have them. Don't have to wait for them. They're right there, you can have them.
And, now, pray for me.

L-36 And now, tonight, Brother Shakarian told me he was going to let me on early. I guess that means, "get out early." And I'm--I'm going to do my very best to do that. And this being Good Friday, and I thought, this morning, take...

L-37 [Brother Demos Shakarian says, "How many want Branham just take his plain time, though, not be a hurry?" Congregation applauds and says, "Amen."--Ed.] Oh! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ["All right. I don't want you to blame me."] No, brother. Brother Shakarian, I didn't mean that that way. See? I... ["We want--we want you to just take your time, Brother Branham. We got all night here."] Thank you. Thank you. ["Where the Lord is, there's peace, there's comfort, and there's rest."] Thank you.

L-38   I, sometimes, in speaking, if I mix my words all up, just reminds me of a little story I heard one time, of a little boy. A minister was coming up a--a lane, and he heard a little boy over in a corner, saying the alphabet, "A, B, C, D..." And he listened at him. He had his hands up towards Heaven. He said... After he got through with that, he raised up, put his hat on.

L-39 He said, "Son?" Turned around and looked. He said, "I'm a minister." Said, "I heard you, on your knees, holding up your hands, saying the alphabet."

L-40 He said, "Sir," he said, "I was raised in a Christian home. Father and mother was both killed, suddenly. I was taken out." Said, "The man that I'm living with is so cruel to me!" Said, "I was just praying for him. I don't know how to pray." He said, "I was just saying all the alphabet, and thought maybe God would understand how to put it together."

L-41 So maybe you just think the same thing to me, that--that maybe He'll understand and put it together such ways that you'll understand from the--the objective and the... that I have in my heart towards what I say.

L-42   I've never been prone to--to try to be flusterated among men, because I been among men. I only have one thing that I see, and that's Christ, and Him crucified. I see a Church that I love, that He died for. And I've very zealous of that Church. And I--I do the best I can to keep It what I think is right in order, in line with God's Word. And, now, looking some day to spend a ceaseless Eternity with you, over in a Land where we'll set around like we was tonight.

L-43   As many times I look upon when we're having breakfasts and suppers, and things like that. Now, I'm a southerner. And it's still "supper" to me. They talk about this here breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I--I can't do that. Now what becomes of my supper? See? I--I--I just... I got to have supper. That's right. Just lunching won't do me no good. I--I got to eat three times a day.

L-44 But, so, I'm thinking, as I looked. I was shaking hands with some of the men here, aged ministers that was probably on the field when I was still a sinner. And I look at them, and I think of seeing the gray in their hair. I think, "My! Them men was out there, fighting, before I was even converted. I have no business standing here on the platform, speaking to such men as that." Then I look out...

L-45   Well, only thing they done, they--they prophesied and said these things would come. And I want you know, brethren, I think you just--you just laid the foundation stones for the... and broke the fields.


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