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57-0120M SOFTWARE EDITION THE IMPERSONATION OF CHRISTIANITY 1 The Impersonation Of Christianity E-1 Thank you Brother Neville. It is understood that the Neville trio is one of the best trio’s in the nation. [Someone says something to Brother Branham_Ed.] Anyway that’s right. That’s right. And how many heard the broadcast yesterday? I am an old veteran preacher, over twenty years old. And I heard lots of sermons, but I believe I heard one of the most appropriate sermons for the day that we’re living; I heard it yesterday by our pastor, Brother Neville. You who missed that, missed a great treasure that was dearly in my heart. And when my wife was washing dishes^Junie, I was helping her, so that won’t hurt. Dolores makes you wash them too. So while I was helping her wash the dishes, we both had to stop as just to_to remark to each other how that the Lord was using our brother, and yesterday’s message on the radio. And it was a marvelous masterpiece, if I ever heard one. And I was so happy to know that the one who the Lord was using to bring the message, I was associated with in the work of the Lord. E-2 And so, and the quartet, or the trio yesterday was just marvelous, and they are all the time and so is our pastor. And we appreciate this with all of our heart, and pray that God will continue to be with our brother, and grant these great powerful messages both in song and in the Word as the time goes on. And now, to_for the sake of your prayers, that_that you have prayed for us while we were in the field, the Lord has blessed abundantly, greatly. And we are very happy to report that, that many things our Saviour did out in the services, saved souls, and_and the people’s faith met the requirement of God’s healing power, and they were healed. And now, as we have moved up just a notch farther, now we are going out again, plunging out in the field this coming week to Lima, Ohio, to the Baptist people. Which we certainly desire your prayer for the Lima meeting this week. And then we go from there, come back and go to Evansville, Indiana, just for one night, that’s the third of_of February to the Christian Business Men^They are setting a new chapter, and I’m to speak in the morning. And then in the evening, if it’s Change leading to 10.5 57-0120M SOFTWARE EDITION 2 THE SPOKEN WORD not snowing or bad weather so I can get back, well, I’m to stay for services that evening. If not, I’ll be here at the Tabernacle for that night, the Lord willing, February the third. Then the tenth through the seventeenth is at Minneapolis, and the sixteenth, morning of the sixteenth, is the Christian Business Men’s breakfast. And so we are_we’re expecting a great time at this_at this break_at this breakfast, and also at the meeting. E-3 We come back to go to Shreveport, then to Phoenix, Arizona, to the Madison Square Garden, and there with full cooperation with all the ministers of the Maricopa Valley Association, at the big beautiful Madison Square Garden there at Phoenix we have the services. And then from there to the San Fernando Valley with Brother Espinosa, with all the Mexican people. Then up to some lake, I forget, Lake Clear, for three nights up there. And then over into Oakland then, to the beautiful big civic auditorium which seats nearly ten thousand people, with the Twin City Ministerial Association sponsoring the meeting, which we thank God and pray that He will give us a great outpouring of His blessing. E-4 Just a note from my secretary, just a moment; you see I have to push it away from me, I’m^All right. Yes, it’s someone to see me after the meeting, some ministers that’s come in, Martin brothers. All right, brother, we’ll see just immediately after the service in the deacon’s room. Now, I love the Word, because the Word is the truth of God. And I was talking yesterday to my_our Brother Cox and Sister Cox. And I think that brother^Yeah, he’s present this morning, and I don’t know whether Sister Cox is or not. But we were discussing some things of Christian life, as Christians usually do when they come together. And in the discussion came up on the speaking of against other fellow citizens of the Kingdom, how that we hear broadcasts sometime that just cuts the other fellow to pieces, and calls their names, and_and tells them they are not Christians, and so forth, which is just children; that’s all. They are just children, and we should be grownups. That’s right. And so, a grownups don’t talk like that, we^ E-5 But we were talking and_Brother Cox and I. And I said, “Well, I have determined in my heart to preach against 57-0120M SOFTWARE EDITION THE IMPERSONATION OF CHRISTIANITY 3 sin, just sin, and I just lay it out, and wherever it_it belongs, God can place it in its right place.” The little boy, one time down South, who was a_a saying that the^He was a kneeling in a row where he had been plowing, and as a_a clergyman passed by and heard the little fellow repeating the alphabet, A, B, C, D, so forth. And he was on his knees, so the clergyman was very much disturbed. So he heard the little boy repeat the alphabet and then say, “Amen.” And as he got up, why, the clergyman spoke to him and said, “Sonny, I am a_the servant of the Lord, and I heard you praying. But you were only saying the alphabet. And I_I don’t understand why that you were just saying the alphabet.” E-6 He said, “Sir, I_I can’t pray.” He said, “I_I have never prayed, but I had a praying mother and father, which is done gone on to heaven.” And said, “Mother, I_she died when I was such a little boy, but I remember hearing her, when she was in trouble, she went to the Lord and she prayed. And she died when I was so young; she couldn’t teach me to pray, and I have been given into the hands of an unkind person who beats me and mistreats me. And I_I was_thought maybe after I had learned my abc’s, if I could take all the_the words and say all the letters, maybe He could put it together and understand what I meant.” That’s the prayer of sincerity. Certainly He could put them together. It’s not how we pray in our lips; it’s the motive of our heart is what God hears. He sometimes don’t hear our lips; He hears our intention what_the motive of our heart. So in doing so yesterday, I was very stricken on this time, and being that it’s in the tabernacle, I might express some things that I was thinking that it might be a help or a benefit. And if I would ever say anything that would be unkind, I_I certainly wouldn’t won’t want to mean it that way, if it was contrary to somebody’s beliefs, but I would only express it as a_as a love, and would want maybe to try to straighten it up. Like people who doesn’t believe in Divine healing, and so forth, and you didn’t believe in it, why, I^And me saying I do believe in it, it would_it would not be that I were trying to fuss at you, but I was trying to express it to_to those who do believe in it. If you understand just what I mean^ Now, praying that God will understand, I know He does. He understands; we know that. 57-0120M SOFTWARE EDITION 4 THE SPOKEN WORD E-7 Now, I was speaking to a very scholarly man from Canada, and as we know the Canadians are, if you know them. If_if you’ve ever had personal acquaintance with them, they are scholars, very deep, most of them. And they do not have the troubles up there that we have here. And in that I found that this man, yet not much older than I, he’s probably fifty^And he was completely grayed, and his mustache was gray, and yet not over fifty years old. And I said to him, “My brother,” when he came to the_the room where I was staying, the pastor of a_a church. I said^looked at him^And just a few years ago in Saskatoon when we had a great meeting together at the big arena, when I first started into the_the evangelistic meetings, he was black-headed; his mustache was black; and he was_had two young daughters; and they are married now and got children. And so I said in my heart, “Oh, what has happened?” E-8 He said, “Brother Branham, about two years ago, I thought maybe the Lord had called me to the United States for_for work.” He said, “I went to the west coast and got connected with a certain broadcast that goes national.” And he said, “When I seen the dishonesty of the way they misused the finance that was sent in,” he said, “I just, as a Christian, couldn’t stay there any longer.