<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>61-0316, The Church Choosing Law For Grace, National Guard Armory, Middletown, OH, 102 min
L-1 Again sometimes without the anointing on the people they fail to get it. So glad tonight to be here and fellowship with all you believers and our dear brother pastor here, Brother Sullivan, precious brother. We praying today together and talking.
Many's been calling in all day, of different ministers, different places, wanting to have--leave here to another meeting, or somewhere. But I haven't stopped since Christmas, and I'm getting awful tired. Everybody knows I got about six or seven days to rest, so I just got to have it, I'm just about gone.
And you know, we just left a meeting where sometime as many as thirty visions in a night. No one will never know what that means. It's... That will be a secret that'll go to the grave with me and God. They just could... You... No way to explain it. You just--there's just--you just can't do it. And no one know... If... Just think of this. One vision from our Lord Jesus and He said, "I perceive that I have gotten weak." A woman touched Him. Now, it... How about a sinner then, that's saved by grace. The only thing that does it... "More than this shall you do," it's a promise, "because I go to the Father."

L-2 And there's my daughter-in-law. When she'd been on the meetings this last long eight weeks' journey, when she come home she went to bed for three or four days just to rest: said she was nearly dead. Well, the boys, all of them is just drooped around. I come home and no more got half my suitcases out, till here I was going, going, going, going, going all day, all night; and going, going, going, all day and night; just keep on like that, on and on and on. And I said, "Well, now you think it's rough just to go around, just to stand in the meetings, and come down, set down at the meeting, enjoy it, go home, go to bed, and sleep half the next day, if you wish to, get up, go to the next meeting. Then you get tired." Just take the responsibility of one of them meetings upon your shoulders and know that you're responsible for it (See?), answer to everything. Then preach, when twenty minutes of influential speaking is compared with eight hours of hard work, so science says, to your body. Sometimes I preach a hour and a half, two hours. And besides that, what one vision will tear you down more than three days of preaching would do. See? And then have thirty of those a night... See? See, there's no way... It's just--it's a miracle, a outstanding miracle in itself, that God lets me live. And He does that for your--for your sake.

L-3 How many ever heard of Raymond Richey, Brother Raymond Richey? No. In Los Angeles the other night, he knelt down by my side and prayed. You know Richey, Brother Richey's in a... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Did you know that? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Very bad, throwed him into strokes. He thought he could just do as much as the next one, so he took off, and took the mission fields and come back, and took a revival, and he's finished. And stroked him, nervous, and, oh, a terrible shape... And he's such a fine little brother.
He came in; as soon as he seen me he tried to talk. And he knelt down and I tried to make out what he said. He said, "Brother Branham, don't keep going like that." Said, "Don't keep going; you will be like me one of these days. Don't do that. Just..." But I guess maybe our zeal burns up our wisdom, so we just keep going anyhow, trusting the Lord that it--that it will be all right.


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