<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>56-0715, The Mark Of The Beast, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville IN, 97 min
L-1 The Lord bless you. Good morning, friends. Happy to be in again today. And I see it's a little warm back there, and if there's any of the fans that they wish to let loose, well, it'll be all right.
I was just a little late. I'm always a little late, but the phone calls and things had held me so. And especially, the manager called and was a telling me where the future meetings was coming. So next Sunday we begin on the fairgrounds at Shreveport, in a big tent, next Sunday to run a two week service, the first week of preaching services only, the Gospel, and then the second week a healing service. And then from the fifth to the ninth, it's at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in the ice arena there, where we was at a few years ago. And then, by then, we come back and go to the California, then for the great fifty year Azusa Street rally. And the California coast, and up around in San Francisco, and up there, there's several meetings set up. And Brother Kopp will have them pretty soon, as soon as we can get them scheduled.

L-2 Now, I'm so glad this morning to be a Christian. I just don't know anything greater than being a Christian. I can think of years gone by and of misspent life. And I was thinking the other day, being forty-seven now, I thought, "If I could only take back those twenty-three years that I lived in the world..." I was twenty-three before I was made a minister of the Gospel by the grace of God. And if I could only call those years back, I would like to do it for one purpose: to make that up in preaching the Gospel, for--or getting souls saved. There's nothing any greater than to see a soul borned again in the Kingdom of God.

L-3 And I can remember the years of walking in the world, where I seemingly thought I was having a good time. As far as morals, I--the Lord blessed me so much in that not to be immoral, and drinking, smoking, running around, immoral life. But yet, I--thinking I was a pretty good fellow, but one day the Lord took me to the deathbed, and I realized that there wasn't nothing in me any good then... that... It... I must have an experience of being borned again. When the Lord Jesus saved me... I don't say that everything has been real good since then, but I've had so much joy in knowing that if anything does happen, everything's all right (See?), that I--that I have peace with God that passes all understanding. Sometimes I can't understand those things, but knowing His Word, that He promised that it was all for good, then it's all right; that just settles it forever.

L-4 Now, today, announced the subject that I was to teach on: "The Mark Of The Beast," which is a very vital subject. And it would maybe try and approach it today from a--a standpoint... Why, that subject would probably take... I could stay on it three or four months every day and still be in the Scriptures on that great subject.
But I thought today, being that we were going to pray for the sick people after this morning's Sunday school session... Many of the people gather in here for healing, and they wait around in motels and hotels, and wait for this morning, till when they can come in to be prayed for. And we certainly wouldn't want to take their space of time. So if I start on the subject, and then continue on in a few days when I get back again, maybe between the two meetings, then back again after that... I'll try to continue on, the Lord willing, on the mark of the beast. And you... Teaching the mark of the beast, you have to have the Seal of God to run with it, 'cause they run right side by side.


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