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Questions 282 (COD Page 1005)
Brother Branham...(Did I finish that? Did I get about the baptism of the Holy...Yes, that was about it, wasn’t it? All right. Excuse me, if I don’t get it, just forgive me. I...These are such wonderful questions. You could just stay one whole night just on one question, brother, and then not even touch it.) I appreciate you as a servant of God, the believe–and I believe the Message of Truth. My wife won’t hear me–says anything–say anything about this Message, and will not listen to any tape. I am in nervous trouble on my job also. I want my wife to believe too and pray for my children. Brother Branham, I want to be friend of God’s–I want to be found in God’s will for my life. I want to be His servant. (And the person signs “over.” Wait a minute.) When I was small, I told everyone that I wanted to be a preacher. I don’t know what God wants me to do. I’m willing to do anything for the Lord. Yours in the Lord.
58 Now, a good question. And the man is sincere. His wife, his companion that’s a part of him...May I add something here to that? My brethren, I say this in the Name of the Lord. One of these days, the Lord willing, I think I’ll just go ahead and make that tape on Marriage and Divorce (see?), bring it right here at the tabernacle. If it separates, it’ll just have to separate. But we’re going to prove it’s the Word of the Lord.
59 Look, my brethren. Listen to this. Do you know many times you get the wrong mate here in the earth? Some pretty pair of brown, or blue, or gray eyes vamps you into a place that’s you–that you shouldn’t have listened. Many man realizes that.
60 A man getting married should first approach it prayerfully. You should not pick a women by being beautiful on the outside, but beautiful on the inside, one that’ll be a mother to your children.
61 I know this is going to sound awful for a minister to say this at the pulpit. But I used to go with–with buyers of cattle when in the West. We’d buy breeder cattle, and they’d want to start a herd. And I learned a whole lot there that–while I noticed those auctioneers and the things they were doing, those buyers. I used to go with an old fellow, come here to church with me, and I led to Christ, a perfect infidel to begin with, Mr. Jeverez.
Many of you remember him, a rancher out of Colorado. We’d go, and they’d come into–a cow. I seen a little breeder calf one day sell for eleven thousand dollars, just a small calf; she had never been bred yet. And I said–and Jeff said, “If I had the money, I’d place it in that calf.” And I thought, “Now, he’s a rancher; he understands his business.” I said, “Jeff, why would you...What is the qualification? She’s a Hereford. That one sold a while ago for three hundred dollars, to me, looked like a bigger calf and everything.”
62 He said, “Look, Billy, there’s one thing you do not understand in cattle buying.” Said, “I think you ought to hold to your road preaching.” But said, “You don’t understand cattle.”
He said, “Now, look at that calf down there.” We walked down
there. Said, “See that wild stare in her eyes?”
I said, “Yeah.”
Said, “Her children, and her grandchildren, and her great,great, grandchildren will still have that wild stare.” And said,
“They’ll run theirself poor. They’ll never be a mother to their calves,” And said, “You never could fatten them; they’ll never make beef.” He said, “Look at this little calf here that’s sold. Look how gentle she looks. Look at that peaceful look in her face, that kind look, no stare in her eyes.” Said, “She’ll be a real mammy to her calf; and her calf’s calf, and calf’s calf will continue to be that way.” And said, “They’ll all of them be mammys, if they can get the right kind of a breeder bull to that calf (see?), that’ll make their children. But that starey look in the face will always make a poor herd of cattle, if a man’s trying to buy cattle.”
I said, “Yes, sir! Thank you.”
63 And the same thing applies by women. You take one of them painted-faced and starey-eyes, look like some kind of an animal, trying to disfigure herself from a human being, she’ll never make anything. She’ll run all the time. And Christianity is not beauty on the outside, it’s on the inside: of peace, quiet, adorn themselves in a peaceful, quiet spirit, which is a great price before the Lord. That’s what we want to look for on women, and on man, and whoever it is. Now...