<TITLE>01. Par 5-12</TITLE>53-0329, Israel And The Church #5, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 54 min
ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH #L-5 53-0329

ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH #L-5 53-0329

L-1 And tonight we want to put them in the homeland. May the Lord bless. Now, this morning we had questions and answers. My, we had a bunch of them. I started, looked about nine o'clock and let out at two-thirty; I still got a pocketful, all kinds. But maybe we can get to them this next week. There's still more laying up here I haven't even seen yet; we'll get to them just as soon as we can. Hope Brother Tom stays with us next week. And so we got plenty of preachers around here, if one of us gets hoarse, we just jump on to the next one. So we...

L-2 This is my first time to hold a revival of this type for seven years. Seven years ago, this coming week, I held my last revival here at the Tabernacle. It's been healing services. I'll admit we've had greater crowds and things, up to a hundred thousand, but I've never had any better time. I've just had a good time.
Last night I was just a-slobbering like a horse eating clover, Brother Wright, having a wonderful time. The Lord did bless us.
He blessed us today till we just liked to tore the house down. That sounds like old fashion camp meeting, "tearing the house down," doesn't it? But we had a good time. The Lord did bless us. We believe He will tonight. Some very vital questions we discussed this morning, some of them on deep Bible subjects.

L-5 Now, this coming Friday will be a--a crucifixion message, this coming Friday night, the Lord willing; we'll take Him to the cross, see Him crucified, put Him in the tomb and keep Him there over Saturday night; but Sunday morning, on the Easter sunrise service we'll try to bring Him out, show you how He proves what He is.
Be pretty nice, right after that, if the Lord let us have a big healing service, wouldn't it? Would be nice? Maybe get the high school gym or something, and just crowd in a few more thousands of people, and have a big healing service, put it in the paper and on the radios, and so forth. Usually runs several thousand people when we have healing services. That's my calling, praying for the sick. Had such a marvelous experience along those lines.

L-7 And I believe the Lord is fixing now, the reason He's brought me in out of the field and set me down; I believe it's His memorial, seven years, He's going to raise up another bracket, go on a little farther, "When the enemy comes in like a flood," He said, "I'll raise up a standard against it."
Tonight, I want to read for our text, or, for Scripture...

L-8 And now we got a baptismal service right away. I won't talk too long tonight. I been saying that every night, then give you about two hours and a half of setting there, punishment. But I--I can't do that tonight, because we got several to baptize.
And Easter morning, right after sunrise service, will be water baptism here in the Tabernacle too, Easter morning baptism.
They'll be baptizing tonight. We're Baptists, in the way of baptizing. We just have to be Scriptural; that's all. Not exactly Baptists, but Scripture, we believe in baptism by immersing. And now, if you don't believe it that way, that's still all right. But we believe it, in water baptism by immersing.

L-11 Now, here's a Scripture that I've been... It's come to me for years and years, the last four years. Without many times a-failing, I could pick up the Bible; It'll turn to this chapter. And it's, I didn't know it till just awhile ago, has worked right up to the very closing of this message tonight.

L-12 Next week we may go back into Genesis or somewhere. We don't know where we go yet for this next week, as the Lord leads. But tonight...


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