<TITLE>28. Par 209-217</TITLE>L-209   I looked there, and I seen. I started before both of those.
I thought, "There is Oral Roberts with five hundred machines, that not even a human hand touches the letters; four million dollars in the mail, last year." Four million; one-fourth of all the money that was taken up, in the whole Christendom. World, over, one-fourth of the money in all Christendom, come in to one man. What a place! I went out there to see it.

L-210 And, now, Oral is my brother. My! I love him. He's a real fellow, real guy, and I love him. And he just thinks the world of me, and I do of him, too. We just don't agree on--on Scripture.
And, Tommy Osborn, not a better. I just think the world of him. He's one of the finest men that I've met, Tommy Osborn.
"And those men," I thought, "when I went into their office and seen what they had, I think I'd be ashamed for them to come, see mine: one little typewriter, and us trying to get the letters out. And what a thing! Set in the end of a trailer, at that time. I thought, "What would that be?"
Then I walked out. I thought, "Well, 'Future home of Oral Roberts.' 'The future home of Tommy Osborn.' One don't speak to the other one."
So, I went down the road. I thought, "But what about me?"

L-211 And Something said, "Look up."

L-212 Thought, "Yes, Lord, let me lay my treasures in Heaven, for there is where my heart is." Now, I'm not saying that for pity. I'm just saying that because it happened, and God knows that that's right. See?

L-213 Where is your treasures? Do you want to be some great somebody? If you are, you're nobody. You get to a place till you don't want to be a great somebody. You want to be a humble little servant to Christ. That's the way out. That's all.

L-214   Brother Boze and them is forming a church in Chicago. They just had to give up the Philadelphian church to that denomination. Now they was talking about getting some guy with his coat back like this, some DD. I said, "You're on your road out. If you want to find a real pastor for that church, get a little old humble guy can hardly read his name, and his heart is on fire for God. Just take that guy. That's the one you want to get, somebody that don't know all these things, somebody that won't dictate and drive, and throw you into all kinds of debts, everything else, and just feed you the Word of God. That's the kind of a person to get."
So, they won't come to the spiritual feast. I got to close. I've went overtime now. In about six minutes, we'll be dismissing, the Lord willing.

L-215   I hear some say, "But, Brother Branham, you better back up on that statement." Saying, "The people are not neurotics. This people is not neurotics. They are only educated." They're educated neurotics, then. That's right. Yeah. "They're not neurotics. They're educated."
Then I want to ask you a question. See? You understand. I want to ask you a question then. Please explain their actions of today, if they're not neurotics. Tell me what makes them act like they do, if they're not neurotics; see, every fellow pulling for his denomination, greedy. Jesus wasn't like that. He wasn't no hurry about nothing. See? He wasn't greedy. He was our example.

L-216   Crime, the nation, the nation has got more crime than it ever had. What's wrong? Teen-agers, church members, taking lives, men shooting their wives and family, and burning up their children. And look at the crime wave. They're not neurotics? Then what's the matter? What's their actions?
Power-crazy nations, every one wanting to take every... rest and make it one flag, one nation, that be their flag and their nation. Power-crazy!

L-217 Immorality, why, the world is more immoral than it ever was. Nude women on the streets, nude women, and say they're in their right mind? They can't be. They just can't be.


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