<TITLE>47. Par -</TITLE>L-584-Q-126  126. Paul said to the... Paul said to "covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I you a more excellent way." Please explain what the excellent way is.
Love, I Corinthians 13. See? "Covet..." Get First... Now, get I Corinthians 13 there, brother. I Corinthians 13th chapter, and now just read the last three or four verses of it. I Corinthians 13, last, about the last three verses of the chapter--of the chap...
[A brother reads I Corinthians 13: 11-13:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I... also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity--Ed.]
Uh-huh, sure, see?

L-584-Q-127  127. How should a brother be condemned whose weakness is to take a place in church without being asked to do so?
Oh, my. Well, suffer with him, I guess. See? How should a brother be condemned... He shouldn't be condemned... whose--whose weakness is to take place in a church without being asked to do so?
For instance, if he wanted to--to be a deacon (See?), and he's not asked to do so, yet he wants to be a deacon anyhow. See? Well, if a person's like that, you know there's a little something, you know, weak somewhere anyhow, and so I'd just kind of deal with him in love.
And 'course, you never want to--to do a thing like that unless you really know. Put your very best men you can on your board (You see?) like that. Brother, don't never get nothing in there that's... Test that man, first. A deacon's got more responsibility than the pastor has. He's to be blameless, a deacon is. See?

L-585-Q-128  128. At a communion service, a man came to the altar to pray. Brother Branham was standing behind the--the elements of communion as they were being administered, he said he could not leave them to pray with the man at the altar. Please explain.
I sent the associate (You see?) Brother Neville. I remember the night when it taken place. I'm supposed to stay with that communion table (See?) even when... Look here. Now, I ain't got time to go into this. Somebody setting here that asked, of course. Here's what it is, brother. When--when you got the communion, that is a representation of the body of Jesus Christ. It could be... It should be under guard all the time.

L-585-463 Look, when Elijah said to--to Gehazi, "Take my staff" (He'd blessed that staff.), he said, "go on your road. And if anybody speaks, don't speak back. If anybody salutes you, don't salute back. Go on, and lay that staff on the baby." Is that right? "Stay with that staff." See? And that's what I was doing.
Now, if there had not been an associate pastor here, standing there... I'd got through preaching. I remember when it was. And I... if they... if Brother Neville hadn't have been standing here, or somebody to help that man at the altar... I'd just got through preaching, so I was standing at the communion table. And while they was fixing to take communion, and I was already in--in giving the communion. Brother Neville was just standing by, and I was ministering communion. Now, Brother Neville was standing there.


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