<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>62-1223, The Reproach For The Cause Of The Word, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 110 min
L-1-1 Thank you Brother...?... I said to Brother Neville, "Are you sure you haven't got a little bit of the anointing this morning?" I come down to pray for the sick. There was some people gathering in what we... early Sunday morning. What I have to catch there, I just have them come here at the church. And I--I always think it's better to pray for the sick around church. I don't know; I like church, and to come down here where the congregation and the people out here praying.
And there was a little girl back there, the prettiest little girl, why, I think she's setting somewhere out here now, if the people didn't go home. Oh, I see now. And that's the prettiest little thing, and she is very sick. And we was listening when the--we heard the message of tongues and interpretation go forward. And we was listening, and we thought we understood that something was said about a little girl. And we were waiting to see if the Lord gave a message what to say in there, but I think the little girl's all right now and is going to be well.

L-1-3 And so, and there's a lady that had lost her sight also, and we was praying for her; and some man in an ambulance out there, a minister. I don't guess the man would've weighed thirty-five pounds or forty, just--just very, very... And so I come down to pray for them.
And the reason I was kind of hesitant a lot, a filling dropped out of my tooth, and I'm whistling to myself this morning across that place out of my tooth there, in front there. And they tell me now I got to have them ground off, and caps put over them. And so this old age is creeping up; that's the only thing I know. And I had a filling in that one, in kind of half of it, and when I start to speak, you can feel it, the wind kind of push out, you--you know what I mean, out across your lips, and it makes you kind of lisp like.

L-1-5 We are indeed a privileged people to be alive this morning and to be able to come to church. And on this eve of Christmas, waiting for the celebration that they have, which I--I hope I--I... There's too many kids here this morning, and so I'll just keep still. See? And we adults sometimes we speak things that kids shouldn't even hear, you know.
But I think the church has got a little present here for the little kiddies after while. I was just looking it over back there. Oh, you'll want to stay after Sunday school; just hold on (See?), 'cause I think they've got some presents back there for the little fellows, to give out this morning. And well, now, you little fellows remember, while we're doing this... I want to make this clear. It's not Santa Claus, 'cause that's a story that someday you'll learn that's nothing to it. But it's from Jesus Christ, the Truth of all Truth this is, the Son of God. And we're giving you this little present this morning because it's letting you know that one time God gave the greatest present could ever be give to the human race: His Son. And we have a poor way of expressing it. And there's nothing we can give to compare with that, but just as mortals, one to another, we do that.

L-2-2 Now, I was going to wait till next Sunday, and I probably will anyhow, upon something that I wanted to say. And something has been--been made known to us up home of a vision, that I must follow it out. As it's kind of a--kind of seemingly would be kind of rough, but we never want to think that what God says is rough. His--His burdens are light.
And being's that next Sunday, God willing, we're going to have a--a service here, that's just before New Years Eve, if the Lord be pleased with us to have this service. And we want to have a morning service, and prayer for the sick, and perhaps a baptismal service. Then I thought, advertise it out to our friends that they could come in. Then we'll have Sunday morning and Sunday night, and then the people want to stay over for New Years, then we have a--going to have watch this time.


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