<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>56-0603, The Lamb's Book Of Life, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 107 min
L-1 Morning, friends. It was kind of surprising for me to be here today. I wasn't expecting to be here. I was going to be down in Kentucky, and a very dear friend of mine took terribly sick, our Brother Lyle...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] dying condition in the hospital. Mrs. Ferguson that used to come here, her son dying also in the hospital... And so, I didn't go and just stayed for them.
And Mr. Matheny, of the Pentecostal church in New Albany, on Silver Street, just a past a... It's between... It's on Oak and Silver, I think. And he... I was supposed to speak for him tonight, and I told him... Canceled it out last Wednesday, told him I'd wait till I come back from Indianapolis. And then just as I run into the hospital yesterday to see Brother Lyle, why, the... I met him. And he said, "Well, I see you didn't go."
And I said, "No."
He said, "Come on, speak anyhow."
So I guess, the Lord willing, I'll be down there tonight to speak for Brother Matheny. And he... I told him that when we went down there, I was going to have a healing service for him. And I usually like to fast about three days before the healing service. So I told him I'd speak, and if anyone there, we'd pray for them anyhow, just a--a regular prayer line.

L-2 Now, we got one more week. A week from next Monday now, the services begin at Cadle Tabernacle, in Indianapolis. And we trust that the Lord will bless us up there in a exceeding great meeting. As a child with Christmas anticipations, I'm waiting for that service. I... You...
Just something about serving the Lord. We get so tired sometimes till it look like we can't go any farther. And then when you rest up just a day or two, there's something strikes you, and--and you just got to go again. It's... So today we are here for one purpose; that is, to serve the Lord.
And just before we have prayer and the reading of the Word, I want to apologize publicly to Brother Neville. Yesterday, I stayed home from down in Kentucky yesterday a purposely to preach for him on the broadcast.

L-3 Next Saturday, if God willing, and Brother Neville willing, I want to speak on the morning broadcast next Saturday for Brother Neville. And so, he was so gracious to forgive me, easy, as he said... I guess I took advantage of him. And he's one of those guys that can... I can pass the compliment back. And expecting somebody...

L-4 And what got me upset was early that morning when they called me to Brother Lyle, and them, in New Albany. And I... It was just about ten minutes to nine o'clock, and I said, "Oh, I was supposed to be on that broadcast in ten minutes." And here, me in Jeffersonville, him down there waiting for me. So I...
Brother Wood called him yesterday, and I thought I'd let Brother Wood apologize for me, first, you know. So he just pentalized it to make me speak this morning, and come on down. So here we was. And so he... We're...
We trust that--that God will--will be in our services. I have nothing premeditated, don't even know where to begin in the Scriptures, just picked up my Bible a few moments ago, and run down.
I had to get my Collins' Bible, 'cause it's got a little bigger print. And I... I'm past forty, you know. So when you get forty years old, anything close to you, you don't see it like you used to, you know, and... How many knows that to be true...?... Yes, sir.


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