<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>61-1119, Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 144 min
L-1 Good morning, friends. And nice to be out again this morning on this rainy, snowy, mixed-up morning. Know that many of you has had quite a time driving, coming from distance. And we have some--these precious friends that comes from Chicago, and Alabama, and Georgia, and Tennessee, and Illinois, and all around, on these days, so we are--trust that God will give you His safety as you travel. And it's our prayer that He will protect you along the roads in these hazardous roads as they get slick in the wintertime. And this is a bad country in the wintertime. It's the most beautiful country there is in the spring or in the fall, but in the wintertime and summertime it's very bad.

L-2 Now, I don't suppose they're recording as yet in there. And I just like to make a statement concerning last Sunday in the message. The reason that I--I held the tape and wouldn't let them to sell the tape, take it out, well, was because of I have to look it over first. Because many times, that way, I would say things in the church here that I wouldn't put before the rest of the public out like that, because sometimes it cause stumbling blocks. And sometimes it even causes questions amongst our people here at the Tabernacle. And it's...

L-3 I don't say this (say those things) to be indifferent, but sometimes under anointing you know things that you wouldn't--you'd be daresn't to tell the people. Then sometimes under anointing something will slip out (You see?), and you won't notice it. And one of the things that I believe was said (that last Sunday) that might cause someone--when I mentioned that I never did believe in altar calls. See?
I want to say that and clear that so you'll understand. There never was an altar call made in all the Bible. There's no such a thing in the Scripture. Nowhere down through the ages was it made till the Methodist age, about two hundred years ago. See?
Altar calls are when people come up and try to persuade and pull people, "Come on, John. You know, they... Your mother died, praying for you. Come on, John." That's not conviction, friends. No. Them--them kind, I--very seldom you ever hear one that ever goes very far. And in that you get everything. That's the reason the church is an muddled up the way it is today is because of such things.

L-6 Conviction, you don't have to say a thing, brother; God's there and done done the work. "While Peter spake these Words the Holy Ghost fell on them that heard the Word." See, see, see? There's no altar call (See?) no such a thing.
Now, the altar is the place of prayer where... Every person coming to the church should first go in, kneel at the altar, silently pray to God, and offer their petition of prayer and--and for their loved ones, and thanking God for what they have had done for them, then go back to their seat.
And then the church is the place where the Word of God... "And judgment begins at the house of God," where the judgment of the Word goes forth. Then... But today we--we've changed that around so much.

L-9 Now, I have nothing again anyone who makes altar calls. See? That's... And I've made a-many one myself, and I'll probably make a-many more if I keep on going. But just for my own-self... See, you--you--you collect too much. And there's nothing against it, no harm in it. It's all right. See?
'Cause listen, Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me." That's right. So then (See?) they're... That throws your altar call completely out altogether. See? See that? "All the Father..." You...
Our--our responsibility is preach the Word. The Bible said, "As many as believed was baptized." Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission, forgiveness of sins. What? Be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (See?) and you shall then receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.


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