<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-5-5 And old Brother Kidd, that I went to pray for the other morning... You all remember me telling you three weeks ago; the doctor gave him twenty-four hours to live; he's up and walking around. He quoted a Scripture; a song he couldn't sing. And when I went in and looked at him the other morning and that little shawl over him (I left here about three or four hours 'fore day so I could get to him, they said he'd die that day: cancer in the prostate.)

L-5-6 And his precious little old wife washed for fifty cents a day. And that's before day break until after night for fifty cents to keep her husband on the field as a preacher. Preached a two-weeks revival and took up an offering and got eighty cents. But I seen them setting there the other morning, them two little old couples--a little couple, rather, setting there, and his little shawl over his shoulder; and one of his converts, ninety-two years old just as brilliant and bright, and Pentecost to the core, and setting there, you know...
And I said, "You know, what you old people setting out here for?"
"Just waiting for the boat to come." That's all.
Their work, all they have achieved; purpose they have achieved, and they're ready now to go to their reward. And I said to Brother Cheive that--to Brother Kiddson--Kidd that morning, "You will be at the Chautauqua meeting."
He called me yesterday, said, "I'm all--I'll be there, Brother Branham. I'll be..." Well just fine.

L-6-3 Many of the meeting from my new ministry coming in... A brother, Baptist brother standing here, his daughter, teen-age, had been kind of a little wayward, and I told him, "I give you your daughter for the Lord Jesus," the other morning, and when he went home she's saved, and the other one here this morning to be baptized, and going on.
And a man, Mr. Sothmann, a friend of mine from Canada, his mother-in-law in a dying condition, said, "You'll find your mother-in-law when you get there, well, on her road to recovery, all right." That's just the way it was. And just--people just coming in. It's just in its infancy now, moving. But oh, we're expecting the exceedingly, abundantly above all. We're in the evil and last days, but in a glorious hour.

L-6-5 Now, have you got your Bible for the reading? 8th chapter of Samuel. And I promised Gene to stay back there at the record, the rest of this... We were just beginning to, in our meeting.
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
That we may be like the nation... all nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Samuel heard all these words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man to his city.
Now, if I should try to choose from this this morning what I would call a text for the next few minutes, I would like to choose the text of: "The Rejected King."

L-7-2 It was a time that as, in all times, that people has never wanted God to lead them. They want their own way of leadership. And this story this morning... And when you go to your home, it would be good for you to read it all the way through. It was during the time of the--the days of Samuel, the man of God, the prophet. And he'd been a just man and a good man: honorable, reputable, true, and honest with the people, never deceiving them, and telling them nothing but straight, THUS SAITH THE LORD.


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