<TITLE>03. Par 16-24</TITLE>L-16 And then Sunday evening, the regular Easter services here again. We'll probably be preaching the--the death, burial, and the resurrection, for Sunday night. And we just don't know what our Lord will do for the following week coming on, whether the services will continue, or just what, for the coming week. We trust that you'll all be--be here Sunday, that can be.
I recognize many of the preachers around. Somebody told me that Mr. Fuller was here, that was used to be... or come to our meetings. Is the man here? Brother Fuller, aren't you the man that used to take me in New York, from place to place, go down to the meeting? Happy to see you, Brother Fuller. The Lord bless you.
Then I seen another little minister here that--that Brother Thom didn't know. I don't even know the boy's last name, but I know they call him Junior back there: Jackson, Brother Jackson, Junior Jackson, just raise up your hand, Brother Jackson. We're glad to have you with us. He's from down around Elizabeth, Methodist church down there, where I'm to hold a service pretty soon, the Lord willing, before we go back into the field.
Now, the great call to India. And everything is going denser and denser, every day. Pray for me.

L-20 Now, tonight, this is Good Friday. It's a night that when we all... Oh, I guess, in Jerusalem, by this time, it's--sun's up pretty well now, on Saturday morning. But all day, the people has crawled up that same old path there where the cross drug out the bloody footprints of the Bearer: tears, afflicting their souls, crying. Many great cathedrals, and so forth, today, have celebrated this great memorial time. If there ever was a time that the world ought to be celebrating, it's--it's now, in this hour of trouble.
And I wonder if our sister, seeing this little, old organ here... I--I love an organ. I'm just kind of old fashion. And I--I wonder if we could get a chord on that:
 Jesus, keep me near the cross.
Just one of those good old fashion, heart songs we used to sing a long time ago. And wonder if we could all join in on that. I love it.
 There's a precious fountain,
 Free to all, a healing stream,
 That flows from Calvary's mountain.
How many knows a verse of it, anyhow? All right, you join right in with me now. And now, let's just pull down the curtains around us and set our minds to some nineteen hundred years ago this afternoon. What a Sacrifice, the world's never knowed nothing like that: shook the whole world. And now, don't you want to stay near that place, where you're in the place of fellowship and blessings with Him?

L-24 Let's all sing it now, just the old fashion way, now, don't... just--just the way you'd sing it if you was by yourself now. All right. Brother Thom, you help me lead it, will you? I haven't got much of a voice now. And then, all right. All right. [Brother Robert Thom helps in singing "Near The Cross"--Ed.]
 Jesus, keep me near the cross,
 There a precious fountain,
 Free to all, a healing stream,
 Flows from Calvary's mountain.
 In the cross, in the cross,
 Be my glory ever;
 Till my raptured soul shall find
 Rest beyond the river.
While you bow your heads, if you will, let's just hum it real slowly now. [Brother Branham and congregation begin to hum "Near The Cross"--Ed.]
 Near the cross I will watch...
 Hoping, trusting, ever,
 Till I reach the golden strand,
 Just beyond the river.
[Brother Thom continues to softly sing the chorus again, "Near The Cross"--Ed.]
I wonder if you just would want to just now... Nobody did it for you. I wonder if you just won't... wouldn't want to reconsecrate your life to Christ, and, "Lord, remember me. I appreciate Your... the tired, and suffering, bleeding, dying for me. I'm unworthy, but I'm going to slip up my hand now, Lord, and You'll see me. I want my life rededicated." God bless you. God bless you. All right. "Want to rededicate myself to Thee just now, Lord, on this Good Friday night." God bless you.


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