<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>62-0311, The Greatest Battle Ever Fought, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 172 min
L-1-1 Thank you, Brother Orman, the Lord bless you.
Good morning, friends. Happy to be here again this morning, and kinda a little unexpected I guess to myself, and I'm sure it would be to the congregation. And I just was reading and (Thank you, sister.)--and the Lord just seemed to put a little something on my heart to bring to the church, and I thought it's time to do it.
And now, this--when I arrived, and then, not knowing we'd be here this Sunday, I've announced that I have a--a message for the church. And I want to, if God willing, bring this message next Sunday. And there'll be a quite a lengthy time, so it probably will not get out before twelve-thirty, one o'clock maybe, if at that time. It's been on my heart for a long time, and I think I owe the public an answer why that I haven't been active out in the field. And I've preached all around it, but I'm sure it hasn't never just come right out to where it should be; so I think, the Lord willing next Sunday, I just want to take my time and just lay out a reason and why, and let you know Scripturally what's going on. See? Just why it's all about, because I'll probably be going overseas or somewhere right away. I'm waiting now to see which way He will call me to go.

L-1-2 Last... About three nights ago or two nights, I had a phone call near midnight, and it was to pray for some woman that was in the hospital. And they called me and said pray. And I forget the name that they gave me that--said it was a friend to Mrs. James Bell, our sister here at the church, a colored sister, very loyal, fine woman. I believe the name of Shepherd, was give me. so I got out of the bed and knelt down and--and told my wife (the phone ringing woke her up), and I said, "We must pray for Mrs. Shepherd, a sister that's called that's a friend to Mrs. James Bell."

L-1-3 So we prayed for her, got back in the bed, and then along about ten or eleven o'clock the next day, I got a call again; it was Billy, and he said it wasn't Mrs. Shepherd, said it was Mrs. Bell, herself, not Mrs. Bell's friend; it was Mrs. Bell; and, she's in the hospital very seriously. And rushing out to the hospital, but she was gone. The Lord had called Mrs. Bell home.

L-2-1 Mrs. Bell has been a faithful gatherer with us here at the church for years. Her husband, James, and I worked together with my father many years ago out running--we run these spurs in from the Pennsylvania into Colgates here many years ago, I guess thirty years ago or more. And we love Sister Bell; she was a grand person.

L-2-2 And I understand she had a acute attack of gallbladder condition, and they--her physician that knew the case real well was out of town at the time, and a new physician came to look at her and had advised an emergency operation, and she never survived it. And--and she was... I think her... Way I understand it, that her regular physician wouldn't have prescribed the--the operation, because she was heavy set, and her gallbladder was bad, and she'd have stones, I think, or something in it, and--and the Lord had been merciful. She'd had those attacks before, and the Lord had taken care of those many times, but just happened to be that... Well, if we bring it to a full measure, we'd say this: God had called for Sister Bell, and that's the way it had to be taken. You see?


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