<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Most all Branhams when they get real old, they take the palsy. Now, my grand dad on my father's side was ninety-eight and my grandmother was a hundred and ten when she died. And my grandfather on my mother's side was ninety-six (I believe it was), died about three years ago. And my grandmother died young with...?... when she was just a--a young woman about thirty. But anyhow when they get old, they all shake with palsy. They're nervous, Irish, high strung, and I suppose if I live to be that old, I'll too take the palsy when I get old.
But someday when I come my last road, and I feel the breakers a dashing against me, and I know my time is over, and I'm standing by the shores of the Jordan of death, and I feel it coming in on me, I want to take off the helmet, lay it down on the shore; and I want to take the Gospel shoes off and lay them down; take the old sword and stick it back in the sheath of eternity, raise up my trembling, shaking hand and say, "Send out the lifeboat, Father. I'm coming across this morning."

L-16 I believe He will meet me there. I... And then when I'm taken up, I want to look back down to briar patches, and hills, and hollows, and bad places, and rough places, of where I've cut my way through teaching Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I believe He will meet me at that day, not only me but all those who will meet and His requirements in this life to accept Him as your only personal Saviour. May the Lord bless you.
Now, I want to read a portion of the Scripture. My words will fail. God's Word will never fail. That's the reason in each service I try to read some of God's Word 'cause my words is just another man's word, but His Words is eternal forever. They cannot fail.

L-17 And I've preached here before and on a little subject, and I just got a new idea today, that coming down here, I thought. I believe... I was reading in the Book of Jude while I was waiting, and I thought I'd read the first few verses of it and speak to you a little bit on it. In Jude the 1st verse we read this:
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father... preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
I want you to notice. He's addressing this to not to sinners, to the elect. See? This letter is not sent to unbelievers. Now, listen.
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Beloved... I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints.

L-18 And now may the Lord add His blessings to that. I want to speak just a few moments on "The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints." I believe... How many Christians are in here? Raise your hands, all over the building, Christians. All right. This is a very appropriate time for this. I thought sinners would be out bathing and--and out on gambling, and so forth, but Christians would come to the house of the God, surely.
Now, Father, we thank Thee today for mercy and grace for Thy Son, Jesus, Who by His great sacrifice has redeemed us back to God, the Father. Beloved in the bonds of His sufferings, He has redeemed us, and one day we poor alienated Gentiles were cut off from God, without mercy, without hope in the world, idol worshippers going into a devil's hell, a sinner's grave.
And in due season, Christ, the lovely One, came and took upon Himself the form of sinful flesh and was made sin for us. Oh, that great substitutionary, the beautiful One for we ugly ones, the holy One for us the unholy, the righteous One for we sinners. And God accepted Him, insomuch that He witnessed with His Own Voice, "This is My beloved son. Hear Him."


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