<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>58-0126, Hear Ye Him, The Hippodrome, Waterloo, IA, 100 min
L-1 Thank you, brother. Let us remain standing just a moment for prayer.
Precious Lord, we thank Thee that we have this privilege tonight to come into Thy Presence and call Thee our Father. And we ask that You will regard us tonight as Thy children, who has been saved by the grace of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus.
And we pray that You'll pour out to us tonight that which our hearts call for, mercy from God, for salvation of lost souls, and for restoration of the gifts to the church, and for Divine healing for the sick and the afflicted, and for joy for those who are sorrowing, and for mercy for those who are desiring so. And we will praise Thee, in Jesus' Name we ask it. Amen. May be seated.

L-2 It's a very stormy weather we're having, and still the prediction is more snow and cold weather. And I am very grateful tonight for you people who has come out regardless of the weather. May the Lord give to you the desire of your heart.
I've been staying just a little late because of the, just a few people like this to talk to, kindly getting the situation laid out clearly, so that, if the weather does clear and the people comes in for a nice crowd, that you might be my helper in bringing the Gospel message to the others.
Then in the coming week, the Lord willing, we wish to take some very stern texts to preach the Gospel. And also that you might tell the people, be instructed to know how to tell them to receive their healing, and how to wait and to watch for the Lord as you meditate upon Him. That it takes meditation on the Lord to bring Him in your presence. That is right, always. It's while we think on these things that Christ appears.

L-3 I would like to read for a Scripture tonight, and I love the Scripture reading, God's eternal Word. We can just base our faith upon that blessed, eternal, immortal Word and know that it is sure. I wish to take from Saint Matthew's Gospel the 17th chapter and the first few verses to read:
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
But while he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.
And if it should be called a text, I would like to take those last three words in the 5th verse: Hear Ye Him. You might say, "Brother Branham, that is rather a small text. But remember, it is the written Word of the eternal God. And every word is perfect.

L-4 There's been men down through the age that has preached from this same text since it was written. And every time we read it, we get something new from it. Any of us, who read the Bible, know that it is such a--a Book; there's nothing like it ever written or ever will be. It is the greatest word of all word. Even the visions are secondarily. If the vision is contrary to what the Word says, then the vision's wrong. God's Word is right all the time.


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