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The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. (Psalm 34:15-19)

26 And if we will just draw from this conclusion this morning. And that’s what we’re here for. We’ve heard the Easter story, over and over, and read it back and forth; and today, on your radio broadcasts, you’ll hear different ministers approaching it. But what I thought, for my little group this morning, the Lord has given me, I would approach it from a different standpoint if I could, coming to a place of: Why do we come to these troubles? What makes these things come? Why should a Christian ever be perplexed? Why would not everything, just run perfect for a Christian? But it doesn’t, and we know it.

27 And sometimes we have more troubles when we become a Christian than we did when we were sinners. Course, It is written, “Many is the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth him from them all.” God promised many afflictions, strange feelings, and strange things that would be beyond our understanding, but it’s always done for our good. We just can’t understand it, because, if we did, then it would not be a faith to us; we would go with an understanding. But we do it, and we have it, and we believe by faith, His Word, that it’s going to work some good thing for us. If we could grasp that today, on this—this morning. If we could grasp that all of our troubles…And there is none of us immune from them. And if we could realize that those things are for our good!

28 It is written, in one of the Scriptures in the Bible, that, “Trials are brought upon us, are more precious to us than gold itself, for it is God giving us these trials.” After we become His property, our confession and our baptism, and our promise to walk in life for Him, then every trial that comes upon us is to perfect us for His glory. It’s to bring us to a place where God can make Himself more real to us than He was before the trial come.

29 I want to join in this morning with Job, to say that I’ve lived long enough to know that’s the Truth. I have seen it in my own life, that every time a great situation rises, that I can’t get around it, or under it or over it, God makes a way, and comes out glorious. I just wonder how His grace ever does it, but He does it.

30 And remember, in all these things, Satan tries to make us nervous, and upset us, to get us to think, “Oh, why did this happen? Why couldn’t I have been like this?”

31 A few days ago when I come out of the most prettiest, and most gorgeous place I ever saw in all my life, it was the great building of our brother, Oral Roberts. When I seen that solid marble, and not a window in it nowhere, but how it was fixed! And I’ve been in Hollywood and I’ve been in kings’ palaces, and I’ve been in everywhere that could be, hardly, around the world, and all the swanky, lovely places and home, but I never seen anything, any place, to compare, with it, nowhere at all. How the little aluminum wires weave the—the inside together, and, oh, I have never seen anything so gorgeous in all my life. When I walked through there, and took my hands and rubbed those pole pilasters, and—and the great granite; all in the form of a trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the—the carvings of it. All those things! I had just come from Brother Tommy Osborn’s, and seen his great, mighty work there for the Lord.

60-0417s - "I Know"

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. (Psalm 33:1-4)

2 I just come a little early, tonight, and was sitting back there on one of the—the benches, when I heard that good old fashion singing, and the choir, and the—the music. My, I thought maybe the Millennium was about ready to start. That sounded real good. If anything I like is good singing. And I wished… I always thought I’d like for the Lord to give me voice to sing. I—I just can’t hardly make a joyful noise. So but…

If you want an appointment with me, as soon as life is over, and it’s all finished, there’s a… Where the river of Life comes out from under the Throne, and comes down, this way, and goes around the mountain of—of salvation, and there—where the trees are on either side of the mountain; over on that side, there’s a choir sings. All the great voices sing over there. There’ll be Sankey, and all of them over there singing.

And over on this other side, there’s this little tree; I’ll be setting under that tree listening. So now… That’s where I want to be to hear that great, Angelic choir join in with the mortals. But you know, I was thinking, that the Angels, when Jesus comes… And one singing I want to be at, the great singing, is to hear the time that when we stand upon this earth and sing the songs of redemption.

Angels will stand just out—off the earth with bowed heads, not knowing what we’re singing about. They never had to be redeemed. We are the ones will be rejoicing. We were the ones that were lost, and now we’re found. And we’ll sing the redemption stories, when they won’t even understand it. They’ll just stand with bowed heads, and listen to us sing. Won’t that be a wonderful time? Oh, I long to see that.

3 I love good singing, but it’s one thing I don’t like is an overtrained voice, overtrained, one that holds their breath just so long, till they get blue in the face. You know, they’re not singing to the Lord, they’re just trying to see how long they can hold their breath.

There’s nothing any prettier than old fashion pentecostal singing, with the glory of God in the meeting. That’s real joy to my heart, and I was so glad to refresh myself in the presence of that good singing tonight. The Lord bless you, and keep that up.

58-0512 - "Life"

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Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. (Psalm 32:1-2)

50 And that’s the way with a real Christian. Did you know a real Christian doesn’t have even any sin at all imputed to him? David said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin to.” When you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb (not by make-belief, but really the—the Blood of the Lamb), God does not impute to you anything that’s done, because you’re under the Blood and He doesn’t see it. There’s a Blood sacrifice; the only thing He can see you in, is the way He saw you before the foundation of the world when He put your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That’s all He can look at, because you are redeemed from everything that was ever done, you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Therefore there’s no gall in you, there’s no unclean habit in you, because that the Blood of the Lamb has did this; and God cannot impute sin to you after you’ve got a sin-offering laying there waiting for you.

51 “Well,” you say, “that gives me plenty of room then, Brother Branham, I can do what I want to.” I always do; always. But when a man can really see what Jesus done for him, and turn around and do something contrary to Him, it shows he never received Christ.

52 I got a little wife setting back there. She’s ten years younger than me, and is gray as I am. The reason is because she’s stood between me and the—and the outside world. If I was going overseas, and I’d…Wouldn’t this be some sort of a family to live in, if I’d gather my family around me and I’d say: “Looky here, Mrs. Branham, you want to realize that you’re Mrs. William Branham. Thou shalt not have any other husbands while I’m gone. Don’t you make eyes at any other man,” and all these things. “Don’t you flirt at all. If you do, when I come back I’m going to divorce you.”

53 And she’d turn around and say, “Now, my good man, I want to tell you something also. Thou shalt not take out any other woman while you’re gone. Thou shalt not do this and that. If you do, just consider yourself divorced when you come home.”

54 Now, wouldn’t that be a loving family? See? No! If I really love her…Though I believe if I did make a mistake and slip and do something wrong, I believe she’d forgive me for it because she loves me. And if she did, I believe I’d forgive her for it; certainly, because I love her. But if I love her like that, as long as I love her like that she has no worry. Though she would forgive me, I wouldn’t hurt her for nothing. I—I—I’d feel the guiltiest guy in the world, I couldn’t wait for the minute I’d tell her about what I done, because I love her. Well, that’s…If I love her with phileo love like that, how much greater would my agapao love be to Jesus Christ?

55 Though I might smoke a cigarette, I never in my life; but though I would, He might forgive me for it, I believe He would. If I took a drink, I never in my life, but I believe He’d forgive me for it. And I love Him too much, (God, help me) I don’t want to do anything like that, see, because I love Him. That stuff is gone from me, because when He changed me from a crow to a dove it made a difference, my appetite and things left me; then sin is not imputed to me because I don’t aim to do it, it’s not in me to do it.

65-1128e - "On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove"

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And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. (Deuteronomy 18:17-19)

44 We noticed the disciples, one time, after the…Well, it was the first Easter morning. What a morning! Jesus, up from the dead, walking among the flowers. And two friends, Cleopas and one of his friends, was on the road down to Emmaus. And they were walking along talking, grieved at their heart. And a Man stepped out of the bush, and walked with them the rest of the day, talking to them about Christ. And that evening, they asked Him. He act like He was going to pass them by, but they asked Him to come in. He did.

45 And, when He did, He did something there the way He done it before His crucifixion and His resurrection. Before He was crucified, they seen Him do it just like He did. They recognized it was Him, though been with Him all day long and never recognized Who He was.

46 It’s possible, today, that good man, fine man, walk with Christ, reading His Word, and still don’t recognize that this is the hour that certain things of this Bible must be fulfilled. It’s the hour that we’re living in, the time is at hand when these things must be done. It’s written, and thus it must be fulfilled because God promised it. Yes, our eyes must be opened to see the Word. Now, you can look at the Word…

47 The Pharisees had that Word drawed out just exactly the way the Messiah was coming. They believed they were right. And here He was born and walked right among them, and they condemned Him; when He told them, “You search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me.”

“Search the Scriptures.”

They said, “We are Moses’ disciples.”

48 He said, “If you would be Moses’ disciples, you would know Me, for Moses wrote of Me.”

49 And He did. Moses said, “The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet like unto me, a law-giver, and so forth, and a Prophet, and Him the people shall hear.”

50 See, if they’d have knowed Moses’ writing, they would have knowed Him. They thought they knowed Moses’ writing, but, you see, they didn’t know it. See, they were blinded to that very fact.

51 So just a few words from Him, like that, what did they do? Sprung up and said, “This Man has got a devil. Comes to teach us? What school did He come from? We have no record of Him. Wonder whose fellowship card He is packing?” Or, something on that order was the question.

52 But they failed to look and see that the very God that promised the Word was a vindicating it right there through that Person of Jesus Christ, for He was the Light of the hour. He was the Light for the people to walk in. And, only Word of God produces Light. Only God’s Word produces Light.

53 God’s Word produces the sunshine. God’s Word produces the earth. God’s Word produces the air. Everything is the Word of God made manifest, everything that’s got a reality to it.

64-0122 - "Looking Unto Jesus"

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I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. [2] O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. (Psalm 30:1-3)

4 Now, when you become a Christian, you—you come and confess Jesus to be your Saviour. You believe it. When you go outside, your—your critic friends, they say, “I don’t see no difference in you.” But you believe there is. Then you go acting like there is, then after a while everybody knows there is.

5 See, Jesus [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] is the High Priest of our confession. He can’t do nothing for you, till first you accept it and confess that it’s already done. And He will make your body, your nature, come in subject to His Word. Do you understand now? See? You must act just like it’s already done.

6 I remember when I was so sick, the best doctors I knew of, they said I couldn’t live. I had stomach ulcers that was bursted. And they said that one mouthful of solid food, I would take acute indigestion and would die in a few moments. I was reading the Bible. He said, “When you ask anything, believe you receive it.”

7 I went out telling people that I was healed. When I’d swallow my food, it would try to come back up. I’d say, “Oh, no,” hold my hand over my mouth, swallow it back again. God promised.

8 I’d go down the street. They’d say, “Hello, Brother Branham. How you feel?”

I’d say, “The Lord has healed me. Praise the Lord.”

9 Here come a big mouthful up; I’d swallow it back. I said, “Satan, if you don’t like to hear me testify, you might as well go, for I believe Jesus told the truth. But if you want to stay around, you’ll sure hear me testify of His healing power.”

10 The first thing you know, it was all gone. And when I went to show the doctor, he said, “Well, did you change doctors?”

I said, “Yes, sir.”

He—he said, “Who are you… be… going to now?”

I said, “Doctor Jesus.”

11 He said… He scratched his head; he said, “I don’t believe I ever heard of him,” said, “Where is his office?”

12 I said, “In Glory.” That’s where His office is, but His power is here.

55-0625 - "Show Us The Father"

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Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. (Deuteronomy 16:2)

40 God has not chosen to put His Name in any denomination. I want the Scripture for it, if it is. I know they claim He has, but He hasn’t. He cannot put His Name in many places, because He said He put His Name in one place. And, that one place, each one of our denomination wants to say they are that place, but it’s contrary.

But where did He put His Name?

41 Now, and, He, what is His Name, first? We’ll have to (Name) find what God’s Name is before we can find what it is He is putting in the place.

Now, we find out that He had many titles. He is called the…He was called “Father,” which is a title. And He was called “Son,” which is a title. He was called “Holy Ghost,” which is a title. He was called “Rose of Sharon,” which is a title. “Lily of the Valley,” a title, “Morning Star.” “Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha,” seven different, compound, redemptive names, and all of them were titles. None of them were names.

But He has a Name.

42 When He met Moses, He had not a Name yet, and He told Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And when we see Jesus on earth, speaking in Hebrews the 6th chapter…I beg your pardon, Saint John the 6th chapter. He said, “I AM THAT I AM.”

They said, “Why, You’re a Man not over fifty years old, and say that You ‘seen Abraham’?”

43 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” And “I AM” was the One, the burning bush, the Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush back in the days of Moses, the “I AM THE I AM.”

44 And now we find out that Jesus said, also, “I came in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” Then, the Name of the Father must be Jesus. That’s right. The Name of the Father is Jesus, ’cause Jesus said so. “I carry My Father’s Name. I come in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” Then, His Name was Jesus.

And Gabriel called Him Jesus, the prophets called Him Jesus, and He was absolutely Jesus. Before His birth, even the holy prophet called His Name Emmanuel, which is, “God with us.” Then, “God was manifested in the flesh, in order to take away the sin of the world,” and, in doing so, He was given the Name of Jesus. So, Jesus is the Name.

And the Name was placed in a Man; not a church, not a denomination, not a creed, but a Man! He chose to place His Name in Jesus Christ. Now we find out that then He becomes the place of God’s worship, where you worship Him.

45 Ever before He was even born, His Name was called Jesus. It was so important, it was give to His mother by the Angel Gabriel, that His Name would be called “Jesus, Son of God,” what He was.

46 There we have it, then. This is it, alone. It is, for Him alone, God’s chosen place of worship. God’s place, chose. God chose to meet man; was not in a church, not in a denomination, not in a creed, but in Christ. That’s the only place that God will meet a man, and he can worship God, is in Christ. That’s the only place. No matter if you’re Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, whatever you might be, there is only one place that you can correctly worship God, that’s in Christ.

Romans 8:1, said, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” That’s the Gospel.

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And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. (Deuteronomy 15:16-17)

60 Now, we notice. And, in the Old Testament, they had what they called the jubilee year. That was when all the people, that was slaves, could go free when the jubilee sounded. And then if a man did not go out, if there was some excuse that he could give, that he didn’t want to return to his land, then he had to be marked in the ear, with an awl, by the post in the temple. And then no matter how many jubilees come along, that man was sold out. He could never no more come back as a citizen in Israel, no more. What did he do? He rejected his invitation. He didn’t have to pay nothing. The debt of his slavery was over. His family was free. He could go right back to his homeland and get his own possession. But if he refused to do it, then he wasn’t lotted no more with Israel, and his possession was give to another.

61 Now, the same thing in the natural applies to the spiritual. That, if we, as inheritants of Eternal Life, and we hear the Gospel and know that It’s true, and we reject It, and refuse to do it or to listen to It, we take on the mark of the beast.

62 Now, somebody said, “Now, there’s going to be a—a mark of the beast, it’s going to come some day.” Let me tell you. It’s already come. See? As soon as the Holy Ghost begin to fall, the mark of the beast begin to take place. See?

63 You only have two things. One of them, is, accept It, takes the Seal of God. To reject It, takes the mark of the beast. To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. For, the Bible said, “All that was not sealed by the Seal of God took the mark of the beast.”

64 When the trumpet sounded, and all wanted to go free could go. Them that didn’t, was marked.

Now, you see, the mark of the beast, if we talk about it in the future, is when it’s going to be made manifest, when you realize it’s what you’ve already done. See? And so is the Holy Spirit, It’s to be manifested. When we see the Lord Jesus coming in glory, and feel that transforming power, and see the dead rising out of the grave, and know that a second longer, we’ll be changed and have a body like His. It’ll be made manifest. Then, to see those who rejected It, will be left down, out.

63-0630e - "Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?"

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Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. (Psalm 27:7-9)

26 That was the sacrificial Lamb. The Blood was in the shape of the cross, on the lintel on the door post and was a sign that death could not come to that house. And when death tries to strike us, that separation from God, then the Blood is applied by the Lord Jesus Christ, and the death angel cannot take it. No sir, for we are free then.

We are in Christ and led by the Spirit of Christ: led. Many men and nearly all men… I’ll say all men, that’s ever amounted to very much in this life has been men and women who have been led to do the gallant things they’ve done by the Spirit of God.

I think tonight one of the greatest generals that America has ever had was Stonewall Jackson. I believe there’s never been a general that’s like him since Joshua. Why was it he done that? He was a gallant man. He was a man of prayer. He—he closed up everything, even made all of his generals, and everything, don’t even eat breakfast, or nothing, and lay on their face and seek God. Yes, sir. General Grant, or, I’m… Stonewall Jackson, I’m thinking of instead of Grant…

27 General Grant was a drunk, alcoholic, but Stonewall Jackson was a Christian gentleman, and he loved the Book of Joshua. And he wanted to be like Joshua, and God give him the desires of his heart. And one day he was asked, “Why is it, Mister Jackson, that you can stand in such opposition, so many men against you, and you take a little handful and stand?”

He was a very timid sort of a fellow, little short fellow, kind of blue-eyed and dark hair. He kicked his boots on the dust, and he said, “I never put a glass of water to my mouth without thanking Almighty God.”

There’s where it comes from. That’s right. There’s where the secret lays: trusting God, being led by the Spirit of God. God speaks to man; man hears His Voice.

56-0723 - "Led By The Spirit Of God"

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And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. (Acts 13:20-22)

137 And God is our King! Why do we want anything else besides God? Why would a Christian want anything else to lead him but the Holy Spirit? I don’t know. I can’t understand.

138 And Samuel called them up. He said, “I want to tell you something.” Said, “Have I ever said anything to you in the Name of the Lord, but what come to pass?”

“No.”

139 “Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for money?”

140 “No, you haven’t begged us for any money. And what you said, the Lord brought it to pass. We know that.”

141 He said, “Then why are you rejecting God, and want a king? You want to act like the world.”

142 And that’s what Pentecost is doing today. It wants to make intellectual giants. It wants to take the Power out of the Church. It wants to make a denomination grow, bring more members in. That’s nonsense! And when you bind a man to a creed, when you do that, you take the Holy Spirit away from him. He’ll have to give somewhere. The Holy Spirit will move on; the man can’t, on account, of his creed. Now he said…

143 And then, of course, Saul trained his army. Oh, my. He had them Israelites just knowing every which way to knock a spear off, or to do anything. But one day there come a challenger, old Goliath. And, brother, it taken more than an intellectual training then.

144 It took a man that knowed something about supernatural. But God had such a man. Thank the Lord for that. God has always got somebody. He always has. He had a man He could put His hands on. A little bitty old ruddy fellow out there, wasn’t very much, but he come up there and he said, “You mean to tell me that you will let that uncircumcised Philistine defile the army?” And there was old Saul, head and shoulders above all of them. All of his intellectual training didn’t do any good.

145 Now the churches has done that. They got away from the Holy Spirit. They got away from the Power of God. They got away from the leading of the Spirit. And we’ve got…We got sons of—of Kish, too. We just had one of our great giants the other day, over here in Africa, was challenged by a Mohammedan, on the Scripture. What happened? He took water like the other son of Kish; no disregards to our brother.

146 But they had a man who knowed that God could deliver. They brought that little old David up there, and he said, “I don’t know nothing about your spears, your intellectual training. But I know one thing. I know one thing, I went out after sheep that was took by the enemy. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. God let me bring them back.” He said, “How much more will He make me, let me, bring back this uncircumcised Philistine!”

147 What we need today is men and women who wants a reality. Hallelujah! Not a creed; a reality, that’s what the world needs today! Not creeds and fashions; we need realities in God! The world don’t want It. The world don’t want It. They won’t, don’t want to accept It. But the Church has to have It. God wants you to have It. He is the God of realities. Yes, sir.

60-0626 - "The Unfailing Realities Of The Living God"

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O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. (Psalm 25:20-21)

50 But he got lifted up so much in his heart! Now I want to speak this word to the Full Gospel Business Men. He got so lifted up in his heart, until he thought he could take a minister’s place. He tried to become a minister, which he wasn’t called to be. And I think that’s a many times that where sometimes man in these ranks, and the businessmen’s groups, they—they get to a spot that God blesses them in their business, and makes them prosperous, and so forth, till they get to a place till they think they ought to preach the Gospel, also. And that’s wrong. That is wrong. You should always let a minister do that preaching, ’cause, as Oral Roberts once said, “It’s hard enough to keep the thing clear, by ministers, let alone by men who is not called for that office.” See, you should have men there that knows, and are ordained for the work.

51 This proves it. That, he, we find out that this man, being a great man, a good man, an honorable man, but he took the—the offering, the censer, and went in to the altar of the Lord, to burn incense before the Lord, which is only for a dedicated priest to do so. But he thought, being that God loved him so much, and—and He had been so good to him, that he could go do that, anyhow. And the priest run after him, and said, “You’re not ordained to that office. God forbids that anyone should come in there, only a Levite that’s dedicated to that service.” You should never do that.

52 And that’s the way many times, that, what’s, I think has got the world today in such a confusion, that men go out and try to take those places which they’re not ordained to do. It gets to a spot to where they—they try to fulfill this office, and they’re not called for that place.

53 Now we find out, though a good man, blessed of God; but, if God blesses you, you stay in the category that God has called you in. If it’s a housewife, remain a housewife. If it’s in a business, remain in that business, reflecting God. And whatever God has called you to, let it be that. Because, He wants you to be a real housewife, to reflect your influence upon another person that would want to be a good housewife. If you’re a good businessman, let your life so be that it will reflect Jesus Christ in your business, with honesty and integrity, and with things that really mean something. Because, somebody is watching your life. You’re influencing somebody. God has to have a real housewife. God has to have a real teen-age in school. God has to have a—a—a real minister, a real businessman, somebody that will reflect Him. Because, there they see, in you, Christ. No matter what the rest of the world has got to do, that has not one thing to do with you or I. We are responsible to God for our lives, and for our experience with Christ.

63-1130b - "Influence"

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