<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>54-1204, God Perfecting His Church, Faith Tabernacle, Binghamton, NY, 93 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Smith. And good evening, friends. It's a privilege to be out here again tonight, over this slick road that we've come. I know you didn't come tonight to be seen. You come because you love the Lord Jesus, didn't you?
That's the way to come. And we were just about twenty-five minutes coming a few blocks, it was so slick. But they are spraying the streets now. And it'll be different in a little while on the highways.

L-2 So, tonight when I was sitting down there, just a few moments ago, hearing our dear brother sing, I said in my soul, "Oh, I wished he would sing my favorite song." And just then he said, "I'll sing next 'Down From His Glory.'" That's it. That...
Oh, it just thrilled me. I thought, "Lord, You're..." In the day... Now, my friend, Booth-Clibborn wrote that song. And if you only knew the backgrounds of it... Out in a cornfield one night, not a dime in his pocket, his sleeves, the elbows out like that, and shoes with the cardboards in them, like that, and kneeling in an old cornfield one night, God gave him the inspiration to write that song.
And certainly, it has been a... It's--of all the hymns, I love them all, but that's one of my favorites. "Down From His Glory."

L-3 Oh, many of you know Einar Ekberg, don't you? You perhaps do, the great Swedish singer who sang for us in California. He just sang about every night for me. I--I loved it so well. And I certainly think...
In the day... What it does to me, it expresses the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ in a day when they're trying to just make Him a philosopher, a teacher, or a prophet. Why, He was more than that. If He was just a philosopher, if He was just a teacher or even, He was a prophet, we're saved--we're not saved. We're in sin.
He was either--He was God or the biggest deceiver the world's ever had. That's right. God was manifested in flesh to take away sin. The Bible said that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He was deity Himself, wrapped up in His own Tabernacle that He created, which was His Son, the flesh, Christ Jesus, Jehovah God revealed Himself through His Son, Christ Jesus. Oh, my. What a story and what a truth that is.

L-4 Now, I announced on the radio... There was some little pastor--brother I was talking to awhile ago. And he said, "Well, we're going to attend every meeting." He said, "Except tomorrow night." Said, "It's my own church night," some out of town people.
I said, "You tell your people to stay at their post of duty tomorrow night. That's where they belong," every person at their post of duty. If you haven't got a church? Come visit us. We'd be happy to have you. But if you're in your own church, your duty is at church, every person. Now, unless your whole church is dismissed to--to cooperate in the meetings, well, that--that's just fine, if they--if they can do--do that.

L-5 (I kindly throw my hands a whole lot. I'm a little Jewish, so I better move this before I break it for the company.) Jewish? Sure, I am a Jew.
Somebody said not long ago, said, "Brother Bran-ham, are you any relation to Father Abraham?"
I said, "He was my father." That's right, isn't it?
"Ye being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise." If that ain't my father, I don't know. See? So, we're dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise.


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