<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>57-0407E, Then Jesus Came, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 72 min
L-1 And to the great Name of Thy anointed Child, the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank Thee for His life and for His grace that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. If we would just stop to count the many blessings that's given to us, it would be innumerable. We're grateful for our health and for all the great blessings that money could not buy; Thou has richly by Thy grace, bestowed them upon us. And we are a privileged people to know Thee.

L-2 And it's our heart's desire that those who do not know You, and not friendly with You, that they might become acquainted with You, and their sins be forgiven, and be friendly with You, Father. For You said, "I am meek and lowly, and the cross was easy, and the burdens were light." And we just pray that You'll manifest that to each one tonight.
If there would by chance be some here who doesn't know You, may they come tonight and receive You. Help the Christians as they're going on. Bless these songs tonight from the--the people that sang. And help us in the coming revival, these five nights, Lord; we feel that would be Your will that we might dedicate these nights to service just before we celebrate the great resurrection, the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord. Be with us now. Come to Thy Word, Lord, and minister to us, and may we have fellowship around the Word by the Spirit of God. In Christ's Name we pray. Amen.

L-3 It is such a privilege to try to stand before one person to talk about the Lord Jesus. And I have noticed in my ministry; it just doesn't matter to God whether there is a dozen or there is thousands. He has the same Message all the time for the people, which is His grace.
Our subject tonight starts back with one of the most beautiful settings of the Scripture. I think that all the Scripture is just perfect. There's no fault can be found with God's Word. It's just perfect. But the text that we have under consideration is one of the outstanding texts of the Scripture. It's one of the seals of His Messiahship.
You know, man can come to this earth and can make all kinds of statements and all kinds of promises, but if they're not able to fulfill those promises, why, their promises doesn't do very good. But when a man comes, and can make a promise, and then is able to fulfill that promise, that makes his word good. And He was the only Man that's ever lived on the earth that could make this statement, "I have power to lay My life down, and I have power to take it up again."

L-4 I've been privileged in my ministry to stand by the grave of many great founders of religion, great founders such as Mohammed and many of the other outstanding religions of the world. But every one of them has a marked placed where their founder died and is buried and lays there to this day. And as yet, in the natural I have never had the privilege to stand by that open tomb where Christ was laid and the grave could not hold Him. For He was the One Who said, "I lay My life down; no man takes it from Me. I lay it down and I take it up again."
And it's the only religion in the world that can be proved to be correct, is the Christian religion. Our Lord, not only did He die for His people, but He rose again for their justification. And He's ascended on high tonight and sets on the throne of God, and His Spirit lives in His Church with His people, doing the very same things that He did when He was here on earth, carrying on His ministry.


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