<TITLE>21. Par 218-226</TITLE>L-218   Ern Baxter, one of my colleagues, a very fine-cultured man. Many of you know Ern, a very fine, able minister, of Canada. He was telling me a little story, one day. He said, "Brother Branham, we ride bicycles." And said, "When I was a kid, we could, I could go downtown, get a sack of groceries for my mother, and never even touch the--the handlebars on my bicycle. And this company come up there, named Schwinn, was going to give a bicycle for any kid could ride a foot-wide board standing two-foot high in the air, for thirty yards." And he said, "Every one of us knew that we could do it."

L-219 And said, "There was one little sissy boy there. We never would even fellowship with him, because he--he didn't look like he knowed too much," he said, "so we thought we were just a little better class than he was. And he qualified, or wanted to--to enter the race, too." And said, "You know what? Every one of us fell off of that board, but him." And he said, "He rode it right out to the end, and got off and bowed, picked up his Schwinn bicycle and started to ride away." And said, "We boys met him down at the corner, and we said, 'John, we--we want to know. How did you do it?'"

L-220 He said, "Well, now, boys, I'll tell you what happened." Said, "I watched what you all done, and I went another way." Said, "You see, when you got on and they give you the push, you were better. All of you are better riders than I am, you know that," said, "because I can't ride without holding the handlebars."

L-221   And neither can I go without holding the Cross, you see. This Word has got to be my Life. That's what yours need. I--I--I can't--can't speak without this handlebar to guide, this Holy Spirit that moves me and directs me.

L-222 He said, "I can't. I--I--I'm not the rider that you fellows are. But," said, "I see where you made your mistake. You were looking down like this and trying to balance it." And said, "That made you nervous and you fell off." He said, "When I got on there, and they pushed me, I just kept watching the end of the road and held steady."

L-223 Now, businessman, don't look here, your business may feel, fail tomorrow, it might fail some other day, but watch the end of the road, and there is where your policy is going to pay off.

L-224   This young fellow increased in goods, but we find out his finally pay-off day come. His greed, goods so increased till he found that he had to build new barns. Oh, his business kept increasing! He stayed a member of the church. You say, "Yes?" Yes, brother, that's right. He stayed a member of the church. And one night, he got so big, till there was a man that was poor in spirit...

L-225 You know, we don't have to be so poor in money, we'll have to get poor in spirit. Jesus said, in Matthew 5, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the," not the organization, "the Kingdom."

L-226 And the poor in spirit laid at his gate, and he give him a few crumbs. In other words, when they passed by, he might have give something in the collection box, or something. Or he might have said, "You know, they're nice people, I have nothing against them. I will go to their breakfasts, once in a while." You will furnish a few crumbs. That might be so. "Oh, my wife belongs down there. But I, me, see, I--I admire my--my--my position with my business colleagues, see." And he swept the crumbs off.


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