<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>57-0114, The Infallible Proof Of The Resurrection, People's Tabernacle, Sturgis, MI, 126 min
L-1 Thank you, brother. You may be seated. I'm very happy to be here tonight in the Name of the Lord Jesus to greet you all, and have this time of fellowship. And I, trusting to the Lord God that it will be just as much blessing to you, of me coming, as it is for me to be here.
And I was... You might think this is a strange thing to say, but this is just the kind of a place I like to come to preach, just like this, where you can all be right up here close together, and we... You know, when you get in great big meetings, you get so much unbelief till it's densed, demon powers to fight against. And here, why, it's... We're just a little group of people gathered together.

L-2 Last evening I was preaching at a little church that, oh, maybe two or three times, three, or four, five times the size of this. And someone had said coming in, said, "Brother Branham, how do you feel coming to a place like this when the Lord has helped you to preach to so many people?"
I said, when I got on the platform, I said, "The next one I go to seats about sixty or seventy people, just a little place."
But that's just the way I like to be. Here's where people can really... You... Everybody just set... The Bible said we could gather in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, just have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all unrighteousness. And I, from the bottom of my heart, I deem this a privilege. That's right.

L-3 I remember the first meeting I ever had, my own, when the Lord sent me to preach. It was a little cottage prayer meeting, there was about a dozen of us there. I believe I preached all night. I... Best I remember I just stayed there all night.
It was just so good, and I didn't have intelligence enough, or either had enough intelligence, just to keep on retaining the blessing that was coming in. So I just let it go like that. And it was marvelous.
And I--I love to come to small meetings. It's something about it that I love. Now, it could've been, friends, that if the Lord would've seen it that way or put it on my heart, I had the grand opportunity to pre--to put a... Or I would have got myself in such a position so that I couldn't have come to a meeting. I couldn't afford to have done it.

L-4 Here a few nights ago I was at a--a meeting where somebody made a statement and said, "Well..." I think they was trying to just throw a little bouquet to me. The pastor's a fine man. It's way away now. You wouldn't know who it was, so it--it was over, way over in--in Virginia, West Virginia, Parkersburg.
And I was setting out in a little room waiting to come into a little auditorium about, oh, not over I guess twenty-five hundred people. And so this brother got up, he said, "There's one thing I like about Brother Branham." He said, "We try to get so and so to come, and so and so to come, and each one of them said, 'Can't do it. Too small. Ain't got a--ain't enough there to come to.'" And said, "We asked another man, and..."


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