<TITLE>08. Par 83-94</TITLE>L-83   I was talking to a man the other day, that's just organizing a church up at the... pulled out of an organization that there had been. And, well, it's Brother Boze, and them church where they had, they had had that great church there for so long, and the Lord was blessing. Then the people got to a place that they wanted to polish up like the rest of them, and wanted to throw it into an organization. And when they did, it just... those humble Christians in there did not want that. All their life, they had been taught against it, so they walked away from it. Now they've got a group, and the Lord has blessed them until they're coming in, up into a big place now again, for a church now that puts up about four or five thousand people, and they're starting over.

L-84   And they come to me, and said, "Brother Branham," setting right there in the office, the church office, the other day. And he said, one of the leaders, Brother Carlson and them, said, "What must we do?"

L-85 I said, "Find a man to be the shepherd that has no reputation in all denomination, that's just a real good, genuine, sweet, humble brother that lives the life. God will take care of the rest of it, see." I said, "A good pastor that'll just feed the sheep, and be humble and things, God will do the rest. If you'll... Not some big know-it-all's coming in, going to put this in order, and this has to be this way, and cutting things around." I said, "It'll never work. You've just got to it."

L-86 That's it, every piece in the church must work together, and you must keep up your part of it. So we see what time we're living in. We may be closer than we think we are.

L-87   Now, we appreciate Brother Vayle. Don't we? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Lord bless you, Brother Vayle. Thank you. And we thank the Lord for bringing this great message to us tonight.

L-88 And I got a note, a few minutes ago. One of the sisters has had something she wanted to tell, in a dream. If you'll just write it out to me, sister, I--I'm... He has give her some dreams that has been absolutely true. We don't accept all dreams. No, no. But when they're of God, we want to know that it's God talking to us.

L-89 Like everything speaks in tongues, we don't believe it; but when there is an interpretation comes that tells us something that's going to happen, we see it happen, then we thank the Lord for it. See?

L-90   We want to keep it running smoothly, sweetly, and in order of the Lord. So just remember, that your part may be the mainspring, or it may be the little, some little hand, or some little part, or the winding stem, whatever it may be, or it may be the hands on the face of the clock, that tells the time. But whatever it is, it takes us all working together in harmony with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to bring this to pass.

L-91 Just think! If gifts is so great, what we call power; and Paul said, "Though I have faith that I could move a mountain, and have not charity, I am nothing." Think of that.

L-92 And though we say, "Well, though I--I understand... I wish I knowed the Bible."

L-93 "Though I understand all the mysteries of God, see, and still though I could do it and have not charity, I am nothing. See, I ain't got nowhere yet." See, the main thing is, love God, and humble yourself with it.

L-94   Now, surely, after all these years on the field and around the world, and seeing different people, I ought to know a little bit about the gate to enter in at. And if you want to get somewhere with God, never let an arrogant spirit ever come around you. Don't let no malice come in. No matter what anybody does, if they are wrong, don't you never build up a complex against that person. See? You be sweet and kind. Remember, God loved you when you were in sin. And if the Spirit of God is in you, you love the other person when he's in wrong. See, just pray for them, and love one another.


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