<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>61-1224, Sirs, We Would See Jesus, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 133 min
L-1-1 ...?... I tried to call you this afternoon, as hard as I could, you wasn't home...?... If you got a message you go ahead and I'll ask Brother...?... You sure you don't, you don't have anything...?...
All things are possible,
Only believe.
Thank you, Brother Neville, thank you. Good evening, friends. I was saying to Brother Neville, I--I tried to call him at his home this afternoon. I said to the people from down in Georgia and around last week that I--I just didn't suppose I'd be here today, because many of the people come...
And yet, at Christmas, you know, little kiddies, you can't tell them no different. They just... It's Christmas time for them, and they wouldn't have their little sock hung up, there would be something... It's a tradition, even in our nation, that they hang up a sock and something another. Why, I did when I was a kid. And--and although it's as far off the Scripture beaten path as it is, yet kids are... They hear the other kids say, "Well, I got this for Christmas; I got this." The little fellows stand around and look, you know. You--you can't make them understand. See?

L-1-3 So just... Christmas is here to stay, and it isn't the birthday of our Lord, the time He was born. Now, if you'll get on your--on the globe and look, Judaea is just as about as far under the equator as this is above it. So we find out in Judaea, in them mountains up there, that there's snow, my, it's--more snow than there is here. So the shepherds could not be at--on the mountain at that time herding their sheep.
And another thing, He... It'd be contrary to all nature. See? Lambs and so forth are spring born, not this time of year. Lambs are not born now; the--the ewes don't lamb now. And He was the Lamb of God (You see?), so there--He was born along in (they claim), along in April sometime, middle of April, or something like that.

L-1-5 But this being the 25th of December, why, making it the birthday, this is the sun god's birthday (See?), the Roman Baalim, the sun god. See? And the sun is just exactly halfway around now. And from the 20th unto the 25th was when the Roman circus was in celebration of the sun god's birthday. And the... So they said, "Well now, to please the--both Christian and pagan, we'll make instead of sun god, the Son of God and the sun god together. So we'll put it all together and make it the same birthday and make it on the 25th."
So it seemed to please the pagan and the nominal church then, or the first church of Rome was just... It was just all right with them, so they didn't care. So they made it both sun god and Son of God's birthday.

L-2-2 Now, the longest day in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd--the longest night, I mean, in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd, when in the solar system the sun is just bouncing over, coming back. Now, they'll start getting just a few seconds or minutes longer, and then sometime up in June or July we have the longest day in the year.
So... But Christmas is here to stay, so we're... We can't help it. Tubeless tires are here to stay. I hate them, but they're--they're here to stay. That's right.
Undressed women, they're here to stay. Shorts, they're going to stay. That's all. They're going to get shorter all the time, so ain't nothing I can do about. I can just say it's wrong and stay with it. That's right.
Sin, it's here to stay. It's here to stay. We're going to have it on and on, so just... It's here to stay until Jesus comes. And all these things are here to stay.


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