Don’t Forget The Main Thing

63-0601 – “Come, Follow Me”

“Kids, you, each one, seem like mine. You, each one, seem like just my sons and daughters. In one way, you are, see, spiritually speaking. That’s right. The Lord God has—has put your souls into my care, because you come, listen to me. You believe me. See? And in one sense of the word, you are my sons and daughters. That’s right.

Always remember, keeping the commandments of God is a great thing. Being raised in a good home is a heritage from God. And to be fine kids with personalities as you have, good. Wonderful, to have an education. It’s wonderful to even live in this free land. We got many things to be thankful for.

But there’s one thing that you just don’t inherit. You’ve got to accept It. That’s Eternal Life. And you’ll only do that by following Jesus, by a born-again experience. Don’t neglect that.

Little story one time I heard, of a man who was, oh, he was poor. And he—he always wanted to…It’s a little fairy story, like. It always stuck with me, though. And one day he picked a flower. And the flower was magic, and the flower answered to him, and said, “You’ve been poor all your life.” He said, “Now ask what you will, and it’ll be given to you.”

He said, “That yonder’s mountain would open up, and I could go therein and find the gold in the mountain.”

“Well,” he said, “you will have to take me with you wherever you go. See? You’ll have to take me with you. So, wherever I am, then you can ask what you will.”

He walked to the mountain, and the mountain opened up, and he went in. The shelves was full of gold and diamonds, as the little fairy story goes. He laid the flower down on a—on a table, or, a rock. And he run and grabbed a great big gem, and he said, “I must go show this to my friends. And now I’m a rich man. I have everything now. I must show this.”

And so the flower spoke, “But,” said, “you have forgot the main thing.”

So he runs back and picks up, said, “Well, maybe I’ll—I’ll get a piece of gold. I’ll get a piece of silver.” And so he said, “I’ll—I’ll hurry out, to tell the people how rich I am, and what all I’ve got.”

And he got to the door, and the flower said, “But you forgot the main thing.”

So he runs back again. He said, “In here we find all kinds of materials.” So, he picked up a stone. He said, “I’ll go, take this stone and show the people what kind of a stone this mountain is made out of, so I can find my way back to it.” See?

And he started out the door, and the flower said, for the…its final time, “You have forgot the main thing.”

“Oh,” he said, “oh, shut up.”

See, he didn’t want to hear it any more, “Forgot the main thing,” and he ran out the door. And when he did, the door closed behind him, with the flower on the inside. The main thing was the flower. See? The main thing was the flower.”

Bro. William Marrion Branham