<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 So they said the walls of Jericho fell down on top of one another. They dug all around there, "No, that's wrong." Fellow just dug a few more shovel-fulls out a few years ago and found out there was the walls fell down on top of one another, just exactly the way the Bible said. You always have to come back to This; This is true. I believe the Word with all my heart. And there's where my faith is based.
Many times while we're here in the church, and can talk as a family, I would just like to say this. Give you a little inside. [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] Pardon me. That my... the reason that these things happen, the reason that the Lord has been kind to me, of course, it's sovereign grace and election. But one thing, I believe that Bible to be the Truth. I--I don't know what other things say, and what theories are of people, and what different denominations make out of it. I just believe the Bible just the way It's written, just this way. I accept It upon those basis, 'cause I've always found It to be exactly the truth, just exactly the truth. And It can't be nothing else.

L-10 So now, being that I have boasted so much about this wonderful Book, we want to read out of It in a few moments, and see if we can find something in There that the Lord want us to talk on a little while tonight.
Now, let me make this authentic and official. Brother Joseph Mattsson Boze, if it hadn't been this audience, I'd call him Joseph, but being it's his here, I... Is the services here tomorrow night? [Brother Boze answers, "Through Friday night."--Ed.] Through Friday will be here in the tabernacle, or church, excuse me. Will be here in the church through Friday. Brother Wood, Billy, prayer cards to be give out here tomorrow night; you boys get that. Tomorrow night at, say, six-thirty. That'll give you time, will that be early enough for you, Brother Wood, then, Billy? [Brother Boze says, "We have afternoon services, if you prefer to give them out then."--Ed.]

L-11 Now, what you do do that, Joseph, when you give them out in the... [Brother Boze says, "Ever you want"--Ed.] In the afternoon is nice, but some people go away and then at nighttime I'll say, "Call from 15 to 35." Eight of them ain't there; they went home, didn't come back. And then you're all mixed up again. You see? So it's better for you to be right there, pick up your card and come right straight to the platform. You see? So and six-thirty will be time enough for the people to come and receive their prayer cards for the line tomorrow night, the Lord willing.
And do you love Him? [The congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Wonderful, that's just fine. Now, over in the Book of--of Isaiah, the 40th chapter, and we wish to read just for a little verse to get a context out of it, the 40th chapter and the 3rd verse.
The voice of him... crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a... for our--for our Lord, for our God.
Now, may He add His blessings to the reading of His Word. "Prepare the way of the Lord."

L-12 Of course, this deals with John the Baptist. But we want to use it in another term tonight: "The Ways of the Lord." The Lord has always had a way to do things. And so when we think of His ways, we have to go back to the Bible to find out what He said about it. And so in the Bible there's two great facts that we want to deal with tonight out of the Old Testament, that all the Hebrew prophets from Genesis down to Malachi spoke of. And then from there was the first coming of the confirmation of His Word. Now them two facts is this, the two facts is--was: All the Hebrew prophets spoke of the coming Messiah, and also, to make an atonement for sin. And then they spoke of the anointing and going out of the Church to all the world.


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