<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>61-1001M, It Becometh Us To Fulfill All Righteousness, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 112 min
L-1 It's always a privilege to come to the house of the Lord. I have never in my life, ever seen one time that I regretted to come to His house. It's a... But I suppose this morning is about the hardest time I ever come. Yes, that's right. So things happen in life; we know that, that we have to face. And we must remember that, that it comes to all.
And we are very thankful this morning, I am, and I know my brothers and sister is very grateful to God to know that our mother is saved.

L-3 And she's old, and we've been expecting this for some time, because she's a mother of many, and she has broken her life down. In the days of my mother, they didn't have the things that they have now to take care of mothers when they had their baby. Perhaps maybe mama would have one of the children that morning, and get up and do her washing that afternoon. And so now they lay in the hospital several days with all kinds of medications, which is... We are grateful for such things that can help these--these mothers and all.

L-4 She is very, very near death now. And I... [Brother Branham weeps--Ed.] It's just a--just a little hard this morning, but yet I'd--I'd promised to be here. And I'm...
Now, I can't say that my mother is going; I've often said this, and many are witnesses, about visions. I said, "If my own mother was laying, dying, and looked into my face and said, 'Billy, what--what's to become of me?'" I said, "Unless God would tell me, I wouldn't know. I--I couldn't say." And that very thing has come to pass. If mother's going, He certainly has kept it a secret from me.
Before my father died, I saw the vision of him going. When I was yet a sinner, I saw my brother, the first one, he was going. Howard. I told you all two or three years before he went, about his going.
But mother, He hasn't said a word to me. And if she's going, it's something that I don't know about. Although, we had... The doctor has said that he didn't see how she lived through last Sunday. And she's pretty poorly. But however, when I was...

L-9 About a month ago, like I did to Mrs. Broy; I always like to check up on the people, to knowing that they are near the end, that to see just how they stand. We must be sure of this. We don't want just to say, "Well, perhaps it's all right." We want to be positive that it's right.
I had a good long talk one morning with mother. She said, "Billy, I--I have lived as long as I should live." She said, "I have nothing else to live for." She said, "I've got to go." And said, "I'd just rather go on, be with dad and some of the other children that's over there. I get to see you all often."

L-11 And when she was being put in the ambulance to take out to the hospital to give glucose... 'Cause she couldn't eat nothing, they had to give her glucose through her veins. And I said to her, when we was putting her in the ambulance; I said, "Now, mama, everything is all right."
She said, "I am longing to go."
And I said, "Mama, if you were leaving me a treasure upon the earth of a hundred million dollars for we children, or you were leaving us a home that would reach from city to city, it would nothing like compare with this testimony that you're leaving us, 'I am ready to go.'" It's a treasure that money cannot buy to know that.
So therefore, in the face of that, I stand boldly, believing these things that I have preached. This stands good for my mother; it stands good for other people's mother; it stands good for all of us. I could not say, "God, don't take her." Because I know that as soon as her mortal soul leaves this body, she has another one waiting. And she'll be a young woman again in just a few minutes after she leaves here.


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