"Bawling them people out like that." -- "You're going to ruin your ministry."

73 Someone got after me; a great, noted minister, not long ago. Said, "Brother Branham, come. I want to lay hands on you." Said, "You're going to ruin your ministry."

I said, "What?"

Said, "Bawling them people out like that."

I said, "I'm telling the…"

Said, "I believe that." Said, "I'm a Pentecostal, too. I believe that women shouldn't wear short hair, shouldn't wear paints, and these things like that the way they do, paint their faces up." Said, "They shouldn't do that. But," said, "God called you to pray for the sick."

I said, "He called me to preach the Gospel." Yeah.

And he said, "I believe in that. But," said, "you think that?"

I said, "Yeah. Look what you got, all these big programs, televisions, and everything else. I ain't got nothing but God to answer to." That's right. I said, "I don't have nothing but God to answer to."

He said, "I—I—I… You're going to ruin your ministry."

I said, "Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined." That's right. Certainly. That's exactly.

He said, "Well, you're going to ruin it."

74 I said, "Who is going to tell It then? See? Somebody has got to say It. Somebody has got to stand for that what's Truth, no matter what It hurts." And friends, as Christian, as people that believe we're going to Heaven, the Holy Spirit Itself will type us in the Word of God.

He said, "You know what you ought to do?" Said, "People believe you to be a prophet." Said, "You ought to be teaching these women how to get gifts of prophecy and things like that, and great, higher things instead of little thing."

75 I said, "How am I going to teach them algebra when they won't even learn their ABC's? When they won't even do the common thing, see, the natural thing, how you going to tell them high things?" When you won't even start from the… You want to get on top the ladder before you hit the first. That's the reason you fall. See?

But get at the bottom, and climb right on up as God leads you up. See? Cope your life and ever follow every bit of the Word that God has ordained for you to do.

65-1205 - "Things That Are To Be"