<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>64-0418B, A Paradox, Morrison's Cafeteria, Tampa, FL, 104 min
L-1      The Lord bless you. It's certainly deemed to me a--a grand privilege to be here this morning. I was... It's an unexpected blessing, because I, to think I'd have this privilege to get to speak especially to just you, what we would think, we'd call, "a selected group," the ministers and my brethren here who are cooperating in this meeting and making it possible. I wanted this opportunity. This way, I get a chance sometime to explain things that I--that I don't do at the platform, 'cause you're in a mixed audience there.

L-2   And I met an attorney here this morning, one of the brethren, the Christian Business Men. And last night I was speaking on Zacchaeus. Once there, you know, when he... Jesus was in the... He hardly believed; as the little drama was, that, "He wasn't a prophet." But when Jesus stopped under the tree, and looked up and called him by name, and come down. I never did tell just what happened to Zacchaeus. You know what happened to that fellow? He become a member of the Full Gospel Business Men's, and charter member there, is right. Of course, Jesus wouldn't have nothing else but a full Gospel, you know. So, him being a businessman, that was part of your... So, you could remember that, then.

L-3 And so I--I was speaking the other day on... up at the last meeting, on having a court trial. And Jesus brought, or God brought in, about His Word, for a breach of promise. Many of you has heard it. And so I was thinking about maybe giving that, Sunday afternoon, this court trial. Then this attorney here, he might be able to correct me on some of the procedure that I go about.

L-4   So, but setting here this morning, it's certainly a--a privilege. I was looking around, different friends, as a little boy here, a little friend here, just called me over there. And he was crippled. He said, "Brother Branham, if you'll just tell me that I can walk out of here, that's all I want you to do." See?
And I just thought, "How--how lovely!" See?

L-5 But, see, these things are a little different than what we... you think they are. See? See? Now, that's where I think many of the brethren gets off of the track. See? See? God will let them do something with a little faith. Then they feel that everything they bounce into, they just say it, and that's all.

L-6 But, you see, how can I say THUS SAITH THE LORD until He tells me first? I've got to have it first. If it didn't, I'd say, "Thus saith William Branham," but that wouldn't do any good. But, see, now, He's got to tell me first.

L-7   A man drove up in a ambulance, with the babies. And I was real busy. He said, "Well, I... If you'll just tell me; come here and say my baby will be all right. That's all I want to know." Well, that, how lovely. But how can I say that until I know it? See? If I...

L-8 Some people just go on impression, "The Lord told me to do this." Well, that's--that's yourself, many times. See? You've got to actually see it and know it.

L-9 How could--could I... Brother Fox here say something unless if he's honest? He said, "Brother Branham said so-and-so." And if I didn't say that, he--he's--he's falsely accusing me of saying something that I didn't say. But if I really said it, then I've got to stand behind it.
So, when the Lord says anything, that does it.

L-10   I met a little Baptist here a while ago. And he isn't Baptist. I think he's a Pentecostal Baptist like me. And--and he's another good old southerner. I watch him eating this Georgia ice cream this morning here, that, the grits. And so he--he was one of those persistent type, you know. And he smoked cigarettes, and a very good Baptist, and yet... So he--he... and he had a lot of things that he was going on. And he kept on.

L-11 Now, out here in the meeting, it's those, you--you people. The people, they are doing that, themselves. See? And it's Christ coming to His Body. See?


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