<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>57-0419, The Perfection, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 75 min
L-1 And to be here to worship together with you. And now, just before the message, I have my good friend here on the platform tonight, Doctor Lee Vayle, from First Baptist church at Lima, Ohio, who was one of my sponsors at the Lima meeting. I asked him, coming down tonight, if he would just say a word to the congregation, maybe pertaining to the Lima meeting, for the next moment or two. And I'm glad to--happy to introduce to you tonight, Doctor Lee Vayle, another Baptist that's got the Holy Ghost. 
[Brother Lee Vayle speaks for fourteen minutes, testifying of many people being healed--Ed.]
Amen. God bless you, Brother Vayle too.

L-3 That was all pretty strong for a Baptist pastor, wasn't it? Well, we're very happy to have Brother Vayle with us. And certainly the doors are open for him to come back and visit us at any time he can. And now, tonight... Tomorrow night is the--"The Entombment" of the Lord Jesus.
Sunday morning is the six o'clock sunrise service. And I believe the brother has announced the further part of the service. Now, let us pray just a moment.
Blessed Lord, Thy Word is Truth, and we're thankful for men who handle It, fearless, as they give It out to the people. And as we open up the Bible tonight, or turn back Its pages, may the blessed Holy Ghost come and open the Word of understanding to us. Through Jesus Christ, we ask it. Amen.

L-6 This great night that we are celebrating, of the crucifixion of our blessed Lord, I wish to read tonight from His Own precious lips, the Words that He has had written in His Book. In St. Matthew the 4th chapter, we--and the 47th and 48th verse, we read this:
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so?
But be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

L-7 And tonight we gave out that we were going to speak on the subject of "Perfection." Now, we... That seems like a very strange text to take for the night of the crucifixion of our Lord. But today, perhaps, you've been listening to the radio, and heared the different messages and the messengers, how they presented that great awful day when our Lord died for the sins of the world. So I have chosen tonight to go around a different way, to get to it, so it would be a little different and might refreshen you a little. And may the blessed Holy Spirit inspire the Word now as we take the effort to bring It.
God requires perfection. We want to bear that in mind, that there's nothing just part way can go in the Presence of God. It must be perfect, our worship, everything.

L-9 Now, in the garden of Eden... God had Adam and Eve in the garden and they sinned and transgressed the laws of God by sinning, disobedience. And when transgression comes, disobedience is the transgression of the law. And the law of God, Him being holy, just unadulterated holy, therefore no spot of unholiness can ever stand in His Presence. So if sin came in the world by transgression, then sin must be dealt with before the sinner can ever stand in the Presence of God.


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