<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>56-1209E, Jehovah-Jireh, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 111 min
L-1 [A brother says, "Brother Branham, I am indeed thankful. And I count this, Brother Branham, truly from my heart, the greatest privilege of my life to have you with us. Amen. Brother Branham."--Ed.] Thank you. Thank  you. God bless you. Thank you very much. [The audience claps.] Thank you very much.
I have certainly enjoyed ministering in the--with Brother Huckstra, the blessings of God, or Huckstra--Hutchinson. And I am very happy to be here in Brooklyn and have this fellowship too. And it's a great hour of my life when I come to do this. I've wanted to be with Brother Hutchinson for many years and just never had the time to do it. And this has certainly been a wonderful meeting to me. And I have not been able to minister like I should minister. Or--and this is... I had some difficult, but Brother Hutchinson understands. And that is a physical difficult that we are... If I'd have been just a maybe a little more rested and everything, I could've been in a little better condition for the service.

L-2 But you've been patient with me and been kind, and I thank each and every one of you with all my heart. And I told... I heard them tonight when I was... This afternoon when I was behind the stage there, they said that--or the curtains; I heard them say they were going to take an offering for me, a love offering. And I got Brother Hutchinson back there and told him not to do it. See?
And he said, "Well, we wouldn't let you come any other way." So I didn't come for love offering, friends. Anyone knows that, that knows me. I have never... The reason I don't have any great outlets such as broadcast, and television, and things, and--and papers, I just use other one's papers who will let me use them, Brother Boze especially for "The Herald Of Faith."
And I had one once, and I--the--"The Voice Of Healing." But I'm an uneducated person. And I, oh, I just want to spend my time, not in trying to edit a paper, but trying to serve the Lord Jesus in another capacity.

L-3 And then, if I had a big radio program and a great big television program, it would cost thousands of dollars each day to carry on that. Well, then how could I come to Brother Hutchinson and his church down there? You couldn't do it. And anyhow, all of his people needs; you need every penny you can get a hold of. And--and if I got fine television and radio programs and things, which I appreciate; but I try to keep my meetings small so that I could visit churches and have friends among you people and have this fellowship.
And anyhow, I think they taken a love offering for me. I do appreciate it. I--I never took an offering in my life. I never... When I was a Baptist minister, I worked all the time as a state game warden of Indiana and supported my family. And I never got one penny, and never accepted an offering till I come out in here and got off of work. I had to do it. I love to work. And so, I work with my hands for my living.

L-4 I remember one night, I was... You know how poor people get, when you can't make ends meet. You've had them times, I sure. And I wondered how I was going to make ends meet. And I said to my wife; I said, "Honey, I'm going to take up an offering tonight at the church." Now, not because they wouldn't give it, my church was just about the congregation about like this right here tonight in my church.
And they love me, but I just, I was working, and I had enough just to go by, and I didn't need it. So she said, "Well, I'm going over to watch you do it." Well, we didn't even have a collection plate in the church, not a--not a one nor nothing. We had a little box on the back where they put their tithes in.


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