What is value? My mother, I don't guess she's here. I don't see her anywhere. Is she? Yes. Mom, you're getting little. So I asked her yesterday. I asked her the subject, 'cause I been studying on it. You ever get a thing on your mind, just start studying? Brother Ledford, you've done that a many time. You just start studying.
What is value? And I begin to think. I said, "You know, if I had a hundred million dollars laying here in a pile, and I had a little button here, if I press this button, I lose my hundred million dollars, but I get to talk with my old dad that's gone on, as one hour a mortal being again, what would I do? No hesitation, I'd press the button. I'd give a hundred million dollars this morning, to sit my dad down in this chair while I teach this lesson.
But what's money worth? How much more is a soul than money?
Mama, you remember when I had that little old T-model Ford, the little old '26 model? How I'd polish that thing. I was just a kid about sixteen, seventeen years old. And I was a sinner then. I was working with Mr. Ginther back there.
After Sunday afternoon, Sunday morning, I'd go down and sharpen all the bits, and things for the air compressor, and clean it up. Sunday afternoon, I'd polish that little old Ford till it looked like the paint would almost come off of it.
What if I tried this morning to find one piece of that Ford? What if I tried to find one of those bits off that air compressor? The same time I could been winning souls, I was polishing my Ford. I wonder where value is?
I worked on Sunday mornings up there, as much as they'd let me. I appreciated it, 'cause I was in debt. But where did it get me? What did it win?
Brother Ledford, what if somebody come to you and I, and Brother Neville, this morning, all of us here, the three of us, rather, and say, "Ministers, I'm going to give each of you a million dollars," somebody was worth, that could do it...
And I'd say, "Now, Brother Ledford, Brother Neville, I'll tell you what let us do. Let us go out and find all the poor people that we can. Let's make every little home happy by giving the kiddies some clothes, and paying off the mortgage, or buying this little place." We'd never miss it. And then what would we do?
That would be fine. Not let nobody know nothing about it. Our hearts would feel satisfied. Brethren, it would take a miracle of God, if we're still living a hundred years from today. You know that. Now, we'd be in eternity. What good would the million dollars do, or all the feeding of the poor, and things that we've done? It wouldn't amount to very much. If I had a billion this morning, what good would it do us after we're gone?
But let me tell you something. We haven't got that money. You're poor men. All of us are. That's right. We live by the alms of the people, being ministers. But, brother, in Africa one little black boy about this high, or a prostitute off the street yonder in Louisville, one soul saved, in eternity when that star is a shining yonder, our name will wrapped into it. There's your value. It isn't how much you got, how much you desire; it's how much you can do towards saving souls for Christ Jesus. Our money will fade.
Now, you polish that little old Ford, and this morning, setting up there in the garage is a Cadillac that they give me. But one of these days that Cadillac will be like the Ford is; it'll be no more. But God will still be the same.
But if I get a soul saved for Christ, brother, as long as there's an eternity, the glory of God will rest on that soul. So what is value anyhow? What good does it do when the struggles is in your throat, and the doctor sees the pulse coming up your sleeve. What good's all the money and all the popularity? People to pat you on the back, or you become a great person, what good does that do you? Not a bit. It vanishes and stays here on the earth.

William Branham, sermon «The Lamb's Book Of Life»
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