I certainly did not. When they wrote a letter about that, somebody up here in Connecticut or something, I answered the letter back and said, “You’re making the worst move you ever made in your life. Don’t you do a thing like that.” See, you can’t…Well, you just remember, you people…Now, you all know that I’m not telling them people to do that; I’m telling them not to do it. But you see, that’s got to follow the meeting. Why does people call me Messiah? Why does people…? They got carry…Well, one fellow out there showed me the other day, he had a little thing and he was go…carrying on, wanted all the people to be baptized in my name. That’d make me an antichrist! But I’m not for those things, and all you people know that. But you see, this has got…That only identifies the Message true.

Did not they come and try to tell John, though, that forerun the first coming of Christ, “Aren’t you the Messiah?” He said, “I am not! I’m not even worthy to loose His shoes. I’m not even worthy to look at Him.” See? But he said, “He that cometh after me…”

Questions and Answers #1, 1964-08-23, Jeffersonville, IN, §245