<TITLE>14. Par 87-94</TITLE>L-87 This is an order, we must keep the house of God! And deacons are supposed to know how to do that. See? And that's why I'm telling you now to keep them things caught up. And if this, you tell the parents and they won't listen to this, won't listen to it, then you get you another deacon or one of the trustees, or some good person of this church, and call... take your trus-... Take your deacon board, all your deacons together, say, "Brother Jones, Brother Henderson, Brother Jackson," or whoever it might be, "their children are disbehaving, and we've told them two or three times about their children and they won't listen."

L-88 Then call Brother Jones in, or Brother Whoever-it-is, and say, "Brother Jones, we've called you in here for a meeting. We love you, and we... you're a part of us, you're one of us. Let me just set this certain tape and listen what Brother Branham said about it, see. Now, we've asked you to make those children behave. See? If they won't behave, and you can't make them behave in church, leave them with someone while you come to church until they learn how to behave themself in the house of God." See? But this is an order, it's got to be carried out! See?
88a        Now, the other question goes on.
Now, have we misunderstood?

L-89 No, sir. You haven't misunderstood, that's correct. I'm saying it again, the orders. In the army, they don't ask you, "Will you go do a certain thing?" If you're in the army, you're compelled to do it. See? And that's the way it is in the... I'm compelled to preach the Gospel. I'm compelled to stand for This regardless of what my other men and brethren and so forth say about It, I'm compelled to do this. I have to hurt feelings and cut men to pieces, but if I...

L-90 You don't want to get like Oswald. See? If you can't disagree with a man and things, then shake his hand and still have the same feelings towards him, then there's something wrong with you. If I can't disagree with a man (bitterly, from one side to the other) and still think as much of him as--as Christ would, then there's something wrong with my spirit, I haven't the Spirit of Christ. See?

L-91 If he says, "Well, Brother Branham, I--I believe that your teaching is this, that."

L-92 "All right, brother, let's come together to reason, you and I. We'll take it ourselves. We'll go over here in the room to ourself, we'll reason it out." And he just cuts me to pieces, and I have to say things back to him. If in my heart I can't feel the same about him, that "he's still my brother and I'm trying to help him," then I'll never help him, there's no way for me to help him. If I don't love him, what's the use of going over there? Tell him, "The first place first, Brother, I don't love you, and let me get that out of my heart right here before we go in there, because I can't help you until I love you."

L-93 And that's right, and that's the way. See, carry it on, you've done it exactly right, that's the way it should be. You never misunderstood it.
93a        Are we going about it the wrong way?

L-94 No, it is the right way to carry that. Let order be kept! Because it's constantly... Now, little children and mothers, little babies and things, they--they'll cry, and if they get crying too much and interrupting your pastor up there, remember, you are his bodyguards, you're his Gospel bodyguards. See? And if it's interrupting the message of the Lord, then you are deacons, what are you to do? Just like a man speaking in tongues, he's duty bound. And a man preaching, he's duty bound to the Word, he's duty bound to these things. Each one of you is duty bound to an office, and that's--and that's just what we're--we're here to do.


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