<TITLE>42. Par -</TITLE>L-64-4 About three or four years ago they called me down here at the hospital in New Albany. There he was dying with cancer; just eat him up. Doctors give him till the next morning to live. Said, "He's dying...?..." said, "come at once."
I went down to the room. When I did, just stand there praying. He said, "Billy, there is a rainbow circling that corner yonder."
And I turned to look. I said, "Busty, it's a covenant. You're not going to die. The covenant of the blood saves you." I put my hands upon him, said, "Lord God, by that vision yonder that proves that You're here, Your covenant is: by His stripes we are healed." Laid hands upon him, and there he got well. Sent him home.

L-64-7 About four or five years, about four years fishing up and down the river and everything going on, and where the cancer had been around the esophagus of the stomach, had calloused it; there's a big hard knot. The doctors, the veterans of the hospital told him that they had a cobalt treatment that could stretch that, let more food go down at a time. (He had a hard time getting much food; he had to eat so slow.) He went over to get it done. I didn't know he was there.
Then when they operated on him, found out it throwed him into a convulsion, and he had a stroke, paralyzed his side down like that; and the only thing he could do is just kindly halfway cry. And he got a pencil like that and he would go, "Uhh-uhh-uhh" and he tried to write, shaking like that with his good hand. His left side stroked down, and his hand, "Jesus saved nineteen hundred and something." He couldn't get it.
So now when his wife said, "Brother Branham, I don't know what he means by that."
I said, "Mrs. Rodgers, what he means it was nineteen hundred and something that he was saved and baptized in Jesus' Name down there. That's what's paying off now. He's not afraid to die." I said, "Lord God, spare his life. I pray in Jesus' Name that You'll spare his life," laid hands upon him. The stroke left him, the convulsions stopped, and he raised up from the bed, and he's up now giving testimonies.

L-65-3 Add to your faith, virtue; add to your virtue, knowledge; to your knowledge, temperance; to your temperance, patience; to your patience, godliness; to your godliness, brotherly love; to your brotherly love, the Holy Spirit, and Christ will come. 'Cause just beneath Him, the Holy Spirit, is the Spirit of Jesus Christ into the church to manifest those virtues.
Oh my, here it is a quarter after twelve.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me (Way down here before you was anything)
And purchased (What did He do?) my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
How am I this? Because He loved me first.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me (There's the cause.)
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

L-65-6 I pledge this morning to Him with all my heart that by His help and by His grace, I pray that I'll seek daily without ceasing until I feel every one of these requirements flowing in this little old statue of mine. Till I can be a manifestation of the living Christ, for He became sin like me, that I might became--come righteousness of God like Him. He took my place. Lord, let me take His now, because that's the purpose He died for.
How many will pledge that same thing by the grace of God. With our heads bowed now and our hands up.
I love Him--(I pledge it, Lord. This church pledges it. The full statue of Jesus Christ...)
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

