<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0607, Hearing, Receiving, And Acting, Miami Valley Chautauqua Campgrounds, Chautauqua, OH, 85 min
L-1 Thank you very much. You may be seated. Brother Clare Hudson said he was going to shoot me. And he got by with it. So good to be here tonight, Brother Wittson. And I suppose Brother Mattsson's around here somewhere and... Well, I'm glad to see you, Brother Mattsson, again; I've asked about you last evening. So good, that makes me feel real good, seeing so many and Brother Clare Hudson and bringing greeting from overseas. Wonderful...
Last evening, I believe that David duPlessis... I don't see him. I thought I'd look around first and see if I could see... Here he is. I believe he did this congregation a injustice when we were on the road home. We got in the car together, and I looked down; I said, "Oh, it is almost ten o'clock." I said, "Brother David," I said, "I suppose I kept those people too long."

L-2 He said, "Brother Branham, I think them people feel about like I do. We are tired of hearing sermonettes, by preacherettes, to Christianettes." So, that might encourage me to preach two more hours tonight, so... No, I'll usually let out before one o'clock. I never... But I used to I didn't. We just getting started good at one o'clock. We'd stay and praise the Lord all night. It's too bad we ever got away from that isn't it (It sure is, Brother Sullivan.), and got into a twenty minute, intellectual sermon? And I just wonder where all that come from. I wonder if we're not trying to pattern after the world a little too much. I believe if that hasn't worked into our ranks too much. Think we should get out of it.

L-3 You know, I just love to set, and mince, and eat, and mince, and eat, when I'm at the table. And I, when at the Lord's table, I like to stay a long time. Our pastor the other night, preached about forty-five minutes; I see him look up at the clock, and I think, "Yeah, Brother Neville, you're getting into it also." See? Forty-five minutes, that's not long enough to get started. We should have, I... He's getting, just getting interesting; I was just getting stirred up to a place where I was feeling pretty good, you know, then he cut it off. What a shame.
But now, each day there's services out here, and I know you're all having a wonderful time. How many people here that's not from Ohio, let's see your hands, people not from Ohio? Wonderful. That's fine. I guess over half of the congregation is from out of the state of Ohio. We're sure happy to have you here. Pray that God will multiply His blessings to you. May you go home, back to your home state rejoicing, happy, praising the Lord.

L-4 Now, I wish tonight to read some Scripture found over in Romans the 8th chapter, and we're going to begin to read here about the 11th verse, of the 9th chapter, rather. Let's begin about the 10th verse.
 And not only this; but--but when Rebecca also conceived by one, even by our Father Isaac;
 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to the election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
 As it is written, Jacob have I loved... and Esau have I hated.
I would like to take a text from that, on about three words: "Hearing, Receiving, and Acting."


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