<TITLE>06. Par 47-60</TITLE>L-47 I love them, because it's people out of all the churches. It gives me a chance to--to speak. Sometime the churches won't cooperate, but their businessmen are cooperating, they--they'll have to kind of hold their face for the businessmen's sake.

L-48   So now we find out, that in there, I was having a meeting. That night when they come back over to the Flamingo Motel, I said, "I'm ashamed of you fellows." I said, "It's a disgrace. All you talked about, before all the political leaders and things, and businessmen up-and-down here, was about, 'I had a little bitty business down here, and I got sixteen Cadillacs,' or whatever more." I said, "Them man, you can't compare with them."

L-49 That's what's the trouble with the church today, you are trying to compare with Hollywood. You're trying to make it like Hollywood. Remember, Hollywood glares; the Gospel glows. You can't go over on their ground; you've got to bring them on our ground. That's where we've got to get them. Got to get them over here, not us go out there. We could never compare with them. We don't want to. They shine and glitter; the Gospel glows with meekness and humility. That's just the difference between a glow and a glare.

L-50   Now we find out, I said to these man, I said, "The thing of it is, you man which are just businessmen, are trying to preach the Gospel. You ain't got no business doing that. We preachers have hard enough time keeping it level. And you fellows oughtn't to be doing that. You're trying to take the wrong place. You're businessmen, but don't try to take the Gospel's place.

L-51 And I--I said, "The thing of it is, today, you're trying to say how much you got. What a difference it is from the first pentecostals! The first pentecostals got rid of what they had."

L-52 Some little singer there, was a fine little man. I love him. He was a nice man, but he said, "Brother Branham, I never want to dispute your word, or say anything against It."

L-53 I said, "That's all right. If it's not the Word of the Lord, then you got a right to, brother."
And he said, "That's one time you're wrong."

L-54 I said, "Oh, no. No, no." I said, "The first pentecostals sold everything they had, and throwed it into missions, and--and went out."

L-55 And a preacher there, he said, "That was the worse thing they ever did."
I said, "What? The Holy Spirit make a mistake?"

L-56 He said, "I don't say that; but it was the worse thing they ever did." Said, "Then when the dispute come in the church, they had no homes to go to."

L-57 I said, "Just exactly the reason God had them to sell their homes, then they went everywhere, scattering the message throughout the country. They had no other place to go." God knows what He is doing, just let Him run the Business.

L-58   We find out that this man took a censer, started in to--to--to make a--a wave, a--a--a censer, burn incense. That wasn't his job. He was king, not to be priest. And the priest run behind him, and told him, said, "You shouldn't do this. It's only for a Levite to do that, and you're not a Levite. It takes a consecrated man for that, and you're not consecrated to the Lord. You're a king. God is blessing you. That's good. But you're not consecrated to do that."

L-59 So many times have we seen gifts tried to be impersonated, when they wasn't consecrated to the call. And we've seen all this. We see it today just as it was then, see somebody try to impersonate a person having the Holy Ghost; shout like them, speak in tongues like them, and still they know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about Egyptian night. That's right, just impersonation, acting like it, putting on something.

L-60 But let me tell you, you that's looking on that, remember, where you see somebody impersonating it, there is a genuine something somewhere. If I found a dollar, and it was a bogus, it's only a sign it was made off of a real one.


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