<TITLE>07. Par 61-72</TITLE>L-61   But we find this man, Uzziah, trying to take the place of this priest. And when they run after him, tell him, he got angry. He turned around and let them know, "I'll do what I want to do. Who are you to tell me what to do? You tell me what I'm supposed to do? I'm king, I'll do as I want to!" And God smote him with leprosy, right there. And he died, a leper. In his anger, when his anger had kindled up, then he was smitten with leprosy.

L-62 Then was a lesson for the young prophet, sure enough. After he had watched this man come up, and get his Ph.D., his LL.D., and so forth, and then try to take a place that didn't belong to him. He found out, and got angry about it. When somebody tried to tell him what was THUS SAITH THE LORD, he failed to recognize it. And God smote him with leprosy, which is a type of sin. All right, by this, Isaiah learned that God orders His man to his place. God does the ordering. We can't take a man sometime and do this to him.

L-63   A young lady, here not long ago, she told me she... or she had a little boy she was going to... Said, "He felt he had a call." She was about thirty-five years old, I guess. She said, "My son, about fourteen years old, he feel he's got a call. Brother Branham, would you send him away and get his Ph.D., or something another like that, send him to some college? What would you advise?"

L-64 I said, "The best one I know is the college of kneeing-ology, down on his knees." I said, "He'd get out there amongst that, and, the first thing you know, it's begin to learn mathe-... mathematics and all about this, and so about this, and they give him a mental test and an IQ, and all like this. And then they got all of God, that was ever in him, took out," I said. Not just degrading them things, but I'm just showing you how far they get off of the line.

L-65   Watch and see what, this happened. Now, God orders His man to his place.

L-66 Not long ago, I was reading a little story where a--a woman that was... had a--a disease, a--a--a--a pneumonia, in Saint Louis, Missouri. And she was very, very sick, and they said she was going to--to--to die. And she had a son in college. So come over to find out, the doctor did, just how much longer he thought she had, to live. And said, "She probably won't be here over a day or two, more."

L-67 So they wired to the young son, to "better come home," his mother was seriously ill. So the young son, getting the telegram, was getting ready to go, and he got another telegram, "Your mother is better now, all right. Don't come."

L-68   Well, then about a year later, why, the boy made his annual visit home. When he come home, he said, "Mother!" After he greeted her, he said, "You know, I just wonder, when you were so sick, you never did tell me just what happened."

L-69 She said, "Oh, son, I've got something to tell you." She said, "You know that little mission down the street here, down here where them people hollers like that, and cries and goes on?"
Said, "Yes."

L-70 Said, "Their pastor believes in praying for the sick." Said, "One of the ladies come up here and told me." Said, "The doctor told me I had a couple more days to be around." And said, "Then they sent and got, wanted to get this pastor to come and pray for me, and the lady did, and I said, 'Well, sure, have him come up.'" Said, "You know, he come up and," said, "he read a Scripture out of the Bible there." And said, "He come and laid hands on me, and prayed for me. And, you know, the fever left me, and I got well." And she said, "Oh, praise God!"
He said, "Mother, mother, now you know better than that!"

L-71 Said, "Oh, oh, no, no, honey," said, "it actually happened." She said, "Glory to God! I'm telling you," she said.

L-72 He said, "Now your actually acting like them people." Said, "You mustn't do that, mother."


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