Ten Thousand Worlds

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. (Psalm 91:1-4)

22 Genesis was the planting of the seed, and these six thousand years has been the maturing of the harvest. And now the seed has become a seed itself. It’s went back to the blossom, and from the blossom to the—to the fruit. And it’s the gathering time now, harvest time, all the great things that started. The true Church that started in Genesis has come down to the fruit time, the fruit of the Spirit. And the antichrist that started in Genesis has come down to its fruit. And we’re just in the closing time of this world’s entire dispensation, the…of the mortal being. And we’re…It’s the greatest time that anyone, or any at any age, ever lived, is this time. It’s a shaking time. It’s a troublesome time for sinners, but it’s a marvelous time for Christians, because we know that we are—are packing up, or gathering the last little efforts together, to go Home and meet the Lord.

23 Now people, today, as you look around and see the great trouble and distress facing the nation. Where, a few nights ago, I was talking to someone, was one of these here lookout agents that watches. And they said, “Brother Branham, we were just instructed by the government never to advise people anymore to lay down by…away from the window on the floor, if the bomb hits, or never to go into a basement, because this new bomb that they could radio guide from Moscow to Fourth Street in Louisville, and hit right on the street. Shoot it up. It’s got tar-…things in it, explosives, and takes it so many thousands, so many thousands. Guided by the stars and radar, and drop it exactly on Fourth Street in Louisville, from Moscow, Russia. And when it would hit there…Don’t have to use a plane nor nothing. Just scoot it off here, and it’ll land right there. And it will blow a hole in the ground, of an area, the depth of a hundred and seventy-five feet for fifteen square miles either way it goes, fifteen square miles. There ain’t nothing to do but get ready to take a flight upstairs, is the only thing to do when them times come.

24 Just think, they can shoot fifty of them, or a hundred of them, at one time, if they wanted to. It’ll all be over, within the space of…I believe it’s a sixty or eighty minutes, or something, or seconds—seconds, rather, from there to here, to the entire annihilation of the whole thing would take place. There wouldn’t be nothing left between Louisville and Henryville, and between Louisville and—and Bardstown, or down in there, but one hole in the ground with a bunch of dust laying in it. That is all would be left, besides the areas it would go out, and burn for miles and miles and miles beyond that. And while one is a dropping there, another one is dropping over somewhere else, to meet with it.

56-1125m - "A Secondhanded Robe"

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For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. (1 Corinthians 15:9-11)

10 And now, I’m sure that in this we have found lots of impersonations. And an impersonation, friend… A person that would impersonate something is the most miserable person that I would know of. Isn’t it much better just to be yourself? As Congressman Upshaw used to say, “Don’t try to be nothing that you hain’t.” Well, that’s pretty good. Don’t try to be nothing that you are not. Just be yourself. And then, if you want to be a Christian, just ask Christ. He will take your old nature out, put a new nature in; then you don’t have to impersonate anything; it’s just your normal life that you’re living.

And as long as you got malice, envy, strife, all these things of the world, then you know Christ isn’t in there. The Bible said, “If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God’s not even in you.” See, ’cause the Life of God isn’t in you. The Life is in there, it just produces itself; it just lives its way out.

11 And how happy it is that a man… Don’t try to say, “I’m a Christian because I joined church.” That’s one way. “I’m a Christian because I sing in the choir.” That’s something else. “I’m a Christian because I preach the Gospel.” That doesn’t make you a Christian. “I’m a Christian because I spoke with tongues.” That don’t make you a Christian. “I’m a Christian because I danced in the Spirit.” That don’t make you a Christian. “I’m a Christian because I shouted.” That don’t make you a Christian. “I’m a Christian because that I quit smoking; I quit drinking.” If you did it within yourself, there’s something wrong yet. That’s right. We mustn’t do these things in ourself. If there’s something in us that just simply takes the world out of us, then it begins to bear fruit of itself.

12 And now, the fruit of the Spirit is not joining church. The fruit of the Spirit is not smoking cigarettes. The fruit of the… I mean quit smoking cigarettes. The fruit of the Spirit is not to—to speak with tongues. The fruit of the Spirit is not to pray for the sick and they be healed. The fruit of the Spirit is not to prophesy or preach. But the fruit of the Spirit is found in Galatians 5:22: Love, joy, peace, goodness, longsuffering, faith, meekness, gentleness, that’s the fruit of the Spirit.

13 Now, no matter how much you preach, you got a real ill-temper, don’t do you much good to preach. See? No matter how much you join church and try to impersonate, if you’re crabbing and nasty with your neighbor, you’ll never win him to Christ then. See? It’s the fruit of the Spirit. As my wife used to tell me, “Actions speak louder than words.” That’s right. Live me a sermon instead of preaching me one; that’s a good thing; live me a sermon.

57-0325 - "The Lamb And The Dove"

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And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. (Judges 16:4-5)

45 Now, Samson gave God His strength to use, but he didn’t give God his heart. He gave his heart to Delilah, and gave his strength to God.

46 But you’ve got to surrender soul, body, spirit, strength, everything you are, to the will of God, become a prisoner to Him. You’re going to be somebody’s prisoner. You don’t belong to yourself. You are somebody’s prisoner. You’re either a prisoner of the devil, knowing this Truth and won’t surrender to it, or a prisoner to—to the world, and surrender to God, one or the other. You’re either the devil’s prisoner, to sin, or you’re God’s prisoner, to righteousness. You’re one or the other.

47 And now Samson thinks of the great victories that he had won. No doubt it come to his mind of how, that when he was a little boy, that God had vindicated him, told his mother that how that she must do; not drink strong drinks, or—or watch her diet, that she was bringing forth a Nazarite. How she combed his hair, and told him, “Son, through these locks, it’s a covenant with God, that your strength will lay in there. Don’t, never give it away. Don’t, never give away your secret. Don’t, never surrender it. Whatever you do, stay with it.”

48 Jesus Christ told the church, that, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but my Words shall never pass away. And whosoever shall take one Word from It, or add one word to It, his part will be taken out of the Book of Life.” The church ought to think of that now as we stand in this chaos, in this hour just prayer…prior the Coming of the Lord Jesus, at any moment, for a Rapture.

49 The great victories that we can point back, in the days gone by, in the reformation, back in the days of Irenaeus and Saint Martin, Patrick, and those who protested those organizations.

50 And when Luther came out and protested that first organization, Catholic church, and the group that followed him come right back and organized behind him.

51 When John Wesley come out of Anglicanism, and, as soon as Wesley left, they organized right behind him.

52 And the early Pentecost come out of the denominations. That was a cursed word to you. But, “As a dog goes to its vomit, and a sow to their wallow,” you’ve went right back in the thing that you were born to defeat. Hallelujah! That hurts my heart, too, even more than to think of the victory yonder that Dagon had over Samson. I see what Jezebel has got over the church. And that’s the reason that every strength and every fiber in my being, I’m trying to protest that thing, and call back that church to her place of repentance. Your mothers, your fathers, were ousted out of those organizations. They come out of it and protested it, and here their children has turned right back around and has went right back in the thing that they come out of. If that ain’t a picture of Samson, what Delilah did!

63-0804a - "Once More"

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And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi. (Judges 15:14-17)

54 How little Samson… I can imagine seeing little Samson out there, with his seven little locks hanging down. Oh, some people picture him like he had door—shoulders like the doors back there, great big brute of a man. That wouldn’t be mystery to see that man kill a lion, or slay a thousand Philistines with a jawbone of a mule. There wouldn’t be no mystery to see him take the city gates and walk away with it; a man that size. But Samson was a little, bitty, curly-headed shrimp, just about like that. Little, bitty fellow. But he was just a little, bitty fellow. We’d call him a little shrimp today, little, sissy boy, seven little mommy’s—little golden locks hanging down on his head, walk around, little, sissy fellow. But to see him slay a lion… Hallelujah.

55 Oh brother! It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight that’s in the dog. That’s right. That’s what it takes: It’s somebody who’s got that courage and faith in God to stand there and say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Faith moves in and everything else takes its place (Amen.) when faith moves in. But faith cometh by hearing.

56 I can see that little, curly-headed shrimp walk down there, going to see his girlfriend. Walking down through and a lion run out, he was helpless. And the Spirit of the Lord come on him; he just took the lion, tore it in pieces and throwed it down. Oh, that was the mystery. Yes sir. Why? What made the difference in that man? The Spirit of the Lord come on him.

57 Let me see a little, old, cowardly church that’s afraid to trust God, or a family, and let the Spirit of God strike that family, or that individual, or that church, and watch what takes place. Brother, I’m telling you, skeptics fly like roaches in the summertime when you turn the light on them. That’s exactly right. Yes sir. Everything moves out. Faith comes in and “I’m the boss,” said faith. The rest of it moves out. Make any difference what anybody said, God’s Word is eternal, right.

54-0320 - "Faith Cometh By Hearing"

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)

17 So we people are more or less going after gifts instead of the Giver. See? We must come back to the place where… You’re wonderful people, but you must come back first. And the key that unlocks the door to everyone… We’ve left the key and rushed for the door. So when you get there, you find out the door don’t open, because you haven’t got the key.

Oh, I’ve often said this, that in my world travels, I’ve found two different classes of people: One of them is the fundamentals, the group that I come out of: Baptists. Positionally, they know where they are, but they haven’t got much faith with it. And then the other is Pentecostals. They got a lot of faith, but don’t know who they are.

It’s just like a man’s got money in the bank, and he don’t know how to write a check; and the other man hasn’t got no money in the bank, yet he can write a check. If you could get the two together you’d have it.

Now, what the church is lacking is Divine love. I don’t mean affectionate love for one another. I mean the Agapao love, the godly love. And have it so richly in your heart until you just love the Lord and everything… You just take His Word for it. You don’t mistrust Him.

18 My wife is setting present. When we were married, I took her to be my wife, and promised to live faithful to her until death separated her; and she promised—separated us; and she promised the same to me. Now, it isn’t a law. When I leave and go overseas, or somewhere, and be away a long time, I don’t have to go say, “Now, Mrs. Branham, I’m going to lay down the law to you. While I am gone, I don’t want you flirting with any other husband, and I don’t want you doing so-and-so.” I don’t say that.

Now, she doesn’t come to me and say, “Mr. Branham, and then I’ll tell you. You’ll not flirt with any other wives, and you mustn’t do this or that.” We don’t think that. We just love each other. When I get ready to go, we kneel in the room and take hold of each other’s hands and raise the other hand to God, and say, “Thank you, Father, for being so kind to us and for helping us. And now we must separate because You said, ‘If you won’t forsake wife, children, and all, and cleave after Me, you’re not worthy to be My disciple.’ And now, Father, no matter what I would do, I’m still not worthy to be Your disciple, but this is such a little thing that we can do, but we’re willing to do this little thing to—for love, that we have for You, as we know You have for us.”

19 When we get through praying, I kiss her good-bye and say, “Good-bye, sweetheart.”

She’d say, “Good-bye, I’ll be praying for you, Billy.” That settles it. There’s no “thou shalt not,” and “thou shall,” nothing about it.

Now, when I’m out into the field, and when I’m out there… And yet, I would know, and I… She don’t have to worry about me. I don’t worry about her. As long as I love her the way I do, she’ll never have to worry. And as long as she loves me, I’ll never have to worry. So we got confidence in each other, as husband and wife, that we love one another, and that just settles it. We don’t… We just go on the regular routine of life.

56-0814 - "Divine Love And Sovereign Grace"

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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. (Ezekiel 33:1-5)

15 Now, it’s come across, and it’s in the evening time. Now, the Bible promised us that in the evening time it would be light. What kind of a light? The same light that shines in the east shines in the west. The same light shines in the morning, shines in the evening. Now, we’ve come all the way across this, and in the evening time the shadows are falling. And we’ve had light.

Now, I want you to notice, oh, in the hour of this watchman had warned and had told the people of the oncoming judgment, but they laughed at him and made fun of him. And then we see in the Scriptures, that when a city was built, the first thing was built was the protection of that city, which was the wall. And then to be sure that the city was safeguarded, they had a tower built way high on the wall, and a watchman was in that tower day and night. Twenty-four hours around he watched east, north, west, and south. Because he’s higher than the rest of the people he can see off. His duty is to warn the people when he could see oncoming judgment, armies approaching, spies slipping up, anything coming on. No matter what it was, he reported it back to the city if he was a good watchman.

16 I want to say something here. And I hope you catch it in the right way. Do you mean to tell me that they would put a nearsighted watchman in that tower when the life of the city depended on him? Would he… Would they put a—a man in there that was half blind? Certainly not. It would be the best sighted man they could find they’d put in there.

God also, when He builds His city, He—His church, He walled it with the Blood of His Own Son, Jesus Christ. And He put a tower in it. And in this tower… The Bible likens His prophets to being eagles. Now, a eagle can soar higher than any other bird. If another bird tries to follow an eagle, he’d die, because he—he—the eagle’s made special, and he can go so high if the hawk trying to follow him, the hawk would disintegrate in the air. He just couldn’t follow him; his feathers would fall out; he’d come apart. But the eagle is a special bird. Now, what good would it do him to go way up there in the air unless he could see way off? He’d be blind himself. But see, nature has provided the eagle with an eye that he can see as high till you can hardly see the eagle yourself: some of them fourteen feet across their wings. You can hardly see the eagle with your eye. But he can see any little moving object on the ground. Now, God likened His prophets, His preachers, to eagles. He calls Himself, “Jehovah Eagle.” He’s a Eagle Himself.

60-0303 - "Former And Latter Rain"

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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)

72 “I believe in Jesus; don’t believe in the Holy Ghost in this day, not like they had It back there.” That shows He isn’t there.

73 The Holy Spirit will bear record of every Word It spoke. He is not a liar. He’s not afraid of nobody or no organization. He don’t have to take down for nobody. He speaks, and then He stays with it.

If the high, and polluted, and educated, or as we’d call it, plutocrats, if they don’t want to receive It, “God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” He’ll take gangsters, and bootleggers, and everything else, and rise it up. God can do it, and He is doing it. “God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” Somebody is going to do it, ’cause He’s God.

74 “If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you, ask what you will,” because you’re asking His Word, and His Word is Life. Speak it. If God said it, and you’re sure He said it, the Holy Ghost bears record that Word is right, then, there you are, brother. Speak it; there it is. “Say to this mountain, ‘Be moved.’ Don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass.” [Brother Branham claps his hands together three times—Ed.] Not you that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth in you; He doeth the talking. It’s not you talking to that mountain, it’s the Father that’s in you, speaking to that mountain. It has to move. “All heavens and earth will pass away,” He said, “but My Spirit shall not…or My Word shall not pass away.” Certainly, It cannot pass away. Father!

75 Now, “The works that I do.” God is in His Church, to continue His works. That’s why He sent the Holy Ghost. Now, He knowed that. He, He knowed it wouldn’t be, it couldn’t be done that way, so with by otherwise, so He had to send. The Father sent the Son, put all that’s in the fon-…Son in you. And the same works that He did, the same very works now that Jesus did, you will do also, the Church.

Wouldn’t you like to do the works of God? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Jesus said, “If you want to do the works of God, believe on Me.” How you believe on Him? You can’t do it till you got the Holy Ghost.

76 Cause, no man can say He is the Son of God; you’re saying what somebody else said. “The Bible said that He’s the Son of God; I believe the Bible.” All right. “The Bible says He’s the Son of God; I believe the Bible. The pastor says He’s the Son of God; I believe the pastor. Mama says He’s the Son of God; I believe mama. My friend says He’s the Son of God; I believe my friend.”

But the only way that I can say He’s the Son of God, is when the Holy Ghost comes in and bears record of Himself, then I know He’s the Son of God. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit four times—Ed.] “No man can call Jesus ‘Christ,’ only by the Holy Ghost.”

77 Huh! No man speaking by the Spirit of God called Jesus accursed, or say He was something that day and something else today. That makes Him weak and faltery. No, sir.

He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Any true spirit will bear record of that. All right.

59-1217 - "What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?"

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For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:23-27)

23 This precious brother, a very dear brother, he came and he said, “I never—I never did take it, Brother Branham, I don’t understand what it is.” Said, “I been taught the other side.”

24 I said, “But remember, we will admit that Saint Paul set it in order in the early Christian Church. They went from church…from house to house, broke the bread with singleness of heart, and so forth. Now,” I said, “he did put it in the Church. Galatians 1:8, he said, ‘If an angel from Heaven comes and says anything else, let it be accursed,’ you see, see, the same one that had them to be rebaptized again from the baptism of John, to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.”

25 You see, there are three things that we must—three things that we must do as symbols: the Lord’s supper, feet-washing, water baptism. See? There’s…

26 You say, “Well, the…” Now, the Salvation Army takes it from the point, “The dying thief, when he died, he wasn’t baptized, yet Jesus said he would be in Heaven.” That’s exactly the truth. That’s exact. But, you see, he—he—he only recognized Jesus right there in the hour he was dying. See? That’s the only—that’s the only opportunity he had. He—he was a thief, he was away, he was out. And he, as soon as he seen that Light, he recognized It, “Lord, remember me!” And Jesus…That was true.

27 But to you and I who know that we should be baptized, and refuse to do it, then that’ll be between you and God. Same thing in communion!

28 Now, when we take this communion, it isn’t just the thing say, “I’m coming up here and going to eat some bread, and I’ll believe I’m a Christian.” But, if you noticed, the Bible said, “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily shall be guilty of the Blood and the Body of the Lord.” See? You’ve got to live a life that—that…before the people, that…and before God and the people, that shows that you are—that you are sincere.

29 Now, just a moment longer. Now, in the Old Testament when the sacrifice was made a—a statute or an ordinance. And so is water baptism an ordinance; so is feet-washing an ordinance; so is the Lord’s supper an ordinance. “Blessed is he that does all of His ordinance, keeps all of His statutes, all of His commandments, that he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.”

65-1212 - "Communion"

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Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. (1 Corinthians 11:4-7,13-16)

125 And then, the Holy Spirit wouldn’t let me go over there. And It spoke to her and told her that I was near the place and wanted to come. And last night in a vision, saw the woman coming, and told what was wrong with her; and she was healed in my room a while ago. See? Is that right, Brother Junior? That’s right. Just a while ago. See? God wouldn’t let me go over there for the thing wasn’t ready yet. See? He brought me right down to the place and confirmed it right there, to show it wasn’t a man, It was God. See?

Now. She said, “Brother Branham, my husband wants me to have long hair.”

126 I said, “God wants the same thing.” That’s right, for the women is supposed to have long hair. That’s their covering.

127 I know we ladies today, or you ladies, rather, wear hats. You say that’s your covering. That’s wrong. The Bible said a woman’s covering is her hair. And if she cuts her hair it’s a common thing for her to pray. That right? That’s Scripture. See? So now, women are supposed to wear long hair, regardless of what you want to think about it; that’s what’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. You just show me any place…

128 You say, “Well, my hair’s long. See, it’s down to my shoulders.” That was short hair. “Christ…” You said, “Christ had long hair.” No, He never. Christ had shoulder length hair, so they say. They—they just pull it around this way and cut it off, shoulder length hair. Look at the Greek word on that in there, and you’ll find out.

129 Feminish hair…A man shouldn’t have long hair, ’cause it’s feminish, way down long like this. But He just cut it off here at His shoulders, where they cut it off, around His head, just bob it off like that. That was short hair.

130 So, ladies with hair to their shoulder, it’s still short hair. Now, I don’t say that would send you to hell or take you to Heaven. That don’t have nothing to do with it. But the order of the Church is for women to have long hair. That’s right; that’s right. And to enter the church…And—and not to have anything to do in the affairs, the social affairs—or not to—I mean the business affairs in the church. And she’s to be obedient, and reverent, and so forth like that, because she was the one, the Bible said, that brought the first fall. And that’s right; that’s right. Now, right quick. I hope that didn’t hurt.

54-0103e - "Questions And Answers #2"

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If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:27-31)

12 A few days ago I was sitting, talking to my loyal little friend here in the city, a medical doctor, Sam Adair. And he said, “How are you doing, Bill?”

13 And I said, “Oh, pretty fair, I suppose, Doc.” I said; “Yourself?”

14 And he said, “Oh, a lot of patients.” Said, “I had fifteen examinations this afternoon.”

15 I said, “Well, that’s good as long as it’s just examinations and finding nothing wrong.” I said, “You know, the…” We got talking about back when we were boys. And I said, “Well, Doc, I don’t know just how long I’m going to be around. We’re both in our fifties.”

And he said, “That’s true, Bill.”

16 And I said, “But all these years, about thirty-one years of ministry now, I have kept my heart prepared for that hour when He comes. So it doesn’t matter when He comes.”

So he said, “That is true.”

I said, “The greatest thrill I have is living for others.”

17 And he said, “That’s what life is, makes life real, is when you…not what you can do or accomplish for yourself, but what you can do for others.”

18 See, that’s when you’re really living. And if there happens to be someone among us who has never did that, tried to live for somebody else, give that a try, and just see how much more life holds for you when you will not live for what you can get yourself out of life but what you can give someone else in life. And you’ll find that it’s more blessed than riches or anything of…that can be thought of. Is what you can do for someone else to make life’s burdens…Which, life in itself is a burden. And it will make it a little lighter for someone else. You just don’t know the joy unless you’ve tried it once, to do something for someone else.

19 And then that brings me to thinking of thirty-one years (will be soon) of ministry for the Lord. And I guess every man thinks of sometime when he has to come to his last service and come to his last hour, and look back down the path and see what has been accomplished, see what’s went on, “Have you did anything?” And if…I have just said, it’s what you do for others that counts.

61-0611 - "Revelation, Chapter Five #1"

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