<TITLE>05. Par 36-50</TITLE>L-36   And then another thing, you know, I think we're going down in places. A lot of people that comes to my meetings are poor people just like I am, and I want to stay just like they are. Would it look right now for a minister to go around, an all-great something, you know, like that, and tens of thousands of dollars, and throwing it this way and that way; and--and some poor woman pulling a cotton sack on her back, picking cotton for about three dollars a day, eating fat bacon and corn bread? Huh-uh. I can't, can't see that, you see. Christ owned the earth, and didn't have a place to lay His head; "foxes has dens." And He was our Example. He was what He was supposed to be.

L-37 Now, not as I'm trying to yet condemn that. I'm just trying to tell you about myself. Therefore, with no money, then I've never attempted to start anything big, you know. And--and you can't start nothing big, anyhow. The biggest thing there is, we're going to It, see; so, and it's God. And I think we're all just the same size, and let's just stay like--like that. We're God's children.

L-38   Now, I--I just love to read this Bible. And I can't read it too well and I sometimes mispronounce my words, but you will bear with me for that. I--I--I...

L-39 One time I remember was at Fort Wayne, I was preaching. And there had been an Assemblies of God pack this article, and then the Who's Who had it; the little girl. You might have read it about ten years ago. They had, she was been... her eyes were operated and the sight was gone. And--and she was brought in to me, and the Holy Spirit told her all about it and healed her right there; she could read the Bible or anything. And Who's Who packed it. That book, you know, the Who's Who, on medical science and whatever more, that she could.

L-40   And I remember, a couple nights after that, I went back in the back where Paul Rader wrote that song, Only Believe. And I was sitting there and hearing that come in. There was a--a man who really had an education, must have, and so he come back, he said, "Mr. Branham, can I speak to you?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-41 And he introduced hisself, and--and he said, "I just want to correct you on some things."
I said, "All right, sir."
And he said, "Your grammar." See?

L-42 I said, "Yes, sir, I know that." I said, "I only got a seventh-grade education." I said, "We had ten children. My daddy was sickly and I had to go to work. I had to quit school, just a little boy."
He said, "That's no excuse now."

L-43 And I said, "That, that's right." I said, "I guess it isn't. But now since I've got to serving the Lord, I haven't got time to, for any of it."

L-44 He said, "Well, your..." Said, "The people out there!" Said, "I noticed you last night, you said, 'All you people coming up here by this pulpit,' said, 'go down... '"

L-45 And I said, "Well, what? I didn't know any different." And he said... I said, "What's wrong with that?"

L-46 Said, "It isn't pulpit," said, "it's pulpit." He said, "Your congregation would appreciate you more if you would say pulpit."

L-47 Well, I think he kind of combed them few hair the wrong way. I said, "Brother," I said, "I don't want to differ with you. But I don't believe them people cares whether I say pulpit or pulpit, just so that I preach the Word of God, and live the life that's in This." That's the main thing. Amen.
The little fellow said, "But you don't know your Bible."

L-48 I said, "But I know the Author real well, and He--He blesses me." I would rather know, "to know Him is Life." See?

L-49   Now, tomorrow night, come kind of early. Because, when I come up, just a few moments ago, in a cab out there, there were just strings of people, disappointed, some crying, leaving the place, and they was turned away. So come as early as you can, to get your prayer card.

L-50 Now just before we look on the Word, let's speak to the Author just a minute.


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