<TITLE>04. Par 36-44</TITLE>L-36 I'm--I'm kind of slow, and have to think, you know, when I'm speaking. And I write down my Scriptures here, and a note, maybe, but then I have to go back and think what the Lord told me to say, you know, have to wait for Him. And I'm kind of slow, so I hope I don't keep you too long, this morning.

L-37 I asked Brother Williams, I said, "Brother Williams, how much time do I have?" I said, "Now, I had a Scripture here I could speak on which would take me just about thirty minutes, or something, and dismiss everyone and go home." And I said, "But I'd like to have a little lesson, if it's possible," and on what I think that would be something for you today, something that you could take home with you, to think of it.

L-38 And I certainly wouldn't have got up this morning at three-thirty, or twenty minutes to four, and got ready to come up here, just to be seen. I--I--I don't care to be seen. I--I come here and studied yesterday upon some Scriptures I got written down, for something that I prayed sincerely over, and thought maybe that, through that, it might help somebody. I... We haven't got time for shows and sceneries. We--we must get down to business. I believe Jesus is coming pretty soon.

L-39   And now they're taping this, and probably someone might get the tape. And I'd like to make this statement, that sometimes I'm... many times I am really misunderstood. And many times people call me back, say, "Brother Branham, was this the light you meant that in?" And sometimes it's we say something, but you have to know, approach it by terminology that what I meant by it.

L-40 And I say things sometime that's--that's a little contrary to maybe someone's belief, I want you to get that clear now, someone, what someone believes. But I have a--a Message, I'm not... from the Lord, that I feel that way about it. Others might feel It's from the Devil. Others might feel It's nonsense. But, to me, it's Life. And I don't mean to be different when I say things that's different, or maybe a little hurty or cutty, to people. I don't mean it in that light. I--I, if I do, then I'm a hypocrite. I--I say it in the light of progress, to God. I say it in the light of--of--of have people to know God better. And I say it not because that it's something I've made up, myself. It's something that I find from God.

L-41   And now if I happen to speak on something in any of these conventions, that hurts people, or... Say, "I don't believe That that way."
Well, I've often made this rude statement. And my wife sitting there listening to me, she knows there is not much formality about me. I--I... Just like when you're eating chicken, and you run into a bone. Now, no good chicken lover ever throws away the chicken because they hit a bone. He just throws away the bone, then he goes ahead eating chicken. The same thing in eating cherry pie. If I hit a seed, I--I--I never throw the pie away, I just throw the seed away. So...

L-42 And what I say here that might seem like, in any of my meetings, that seems like a seed to you, well, you just lay that aside and, say, allow that to me not knowing as much about it as you would. So, then, you just go ahead and eat what you think that's right. And I'll...

L-43   I trust now that the Lord will bless His Word. I am a firm believer in the Word, and the Word only. Just the Word only, and that's the Message that the Lord has given me.

L-44 We different, one from another. I have noticed this morning, my brethren, missionaries, evangelists, and pastors, standing here, maybe--maybe a hundred or more of them, standing here. Each one of them is more qualified to stand here and speak, than I am. I am sure of that. But, see, each one of us, one can't take the other one's place. One cannot take the other one's message. See, we have our different ways.


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