<TITLE>01. Par -</TITLE>62-1230M, Absolute, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 139 min
L-1-1 So happy to be here this morning and to hear this exhortation, just as coming to the--the platform. Sorry to be late, but the sick in the back out there, and cars, ambulance like, and--and I had to catch those that couldn't get in (You see?), before I could get in.

L-1-2 Now, I wonder if the sister that's got the--the little fellow, if she can't come back this afternoon. I want to preach this evening also, if the Lord willing. If she can't come back for the dedication then (while I've been standing so long this time), well, tell her to--she can bring the baby on now. But if she can come back the--this--tonight, it'll be a little better for us. But let... Whatever she can do; whatever it means. Why, if she can't come back, we'll bring the little fellow now for the dedication. And now, all these... While I'm speaking, if she wants to come now and--this would be the time...

L-1-3 Now, tonight there is a very special; I--I want to speak on the subject tonight, a prophetic message of "Sir, Is This the Time?" So if the Lord willing, I want to speak on that subject tonight: "Is This the Time, Sir?" or "Sir, Is This the Time?" rather. And then, I want to take this opportunity in the presence of the church, which... There's been many things happened in the last few days that points up to a great something that I do not understand. But we are--we're always... God's ways are past finding out by man, so we just have to walk by faith. If anyone could explain God, then it would no more be necessary to have faith, because you--you know then. But we just walk by faith.
And this morning I thought I would try to just have a regular evangelistic service, because... Kind of changed my thought after I got down here and seen so many standing and been waiting so long. And then, tonight, maybe be less here, and then I can go ahead with this, what I want to say.

L-1-5 One thing I'd like to announce, while many of them are together--many of you together; it's something that I've... I'll refrain from announcing for the last couple weeks; that is, your prayers has been answered concerning the tax case that I had with the government. It's settled. And so we are... It's--it's all over now. As many of you understand, what they had against me was those checks that had been made out for the campaign. And yet, they tried to say they were mine out there, and wanted to charge me three-hundred and fifty something thousand dollars for being my personal property. And it wasn't; it was the campaign's. And the church knows about that; all of you know about it.

L-2-1 And finally, they've come to the place that... I'll just give you a little outline of what happened. They been almost three to five years about--nearly five years, I guess, in the case; and back and forth, and character, and everything. But I'm so grateful that they couldn't find anything against me, so they couldn't indict me for it. So they wasn't nothing to be indicted, only they said, just my--my ignorance myself, I guess. But not knowing much about law, they'd bring me the checks; and I'd sign them--put my name on them, place them in the campaign. But then, as long as I put my name on them, they were mine. You see? No matter... Said, "That's very nice for you to..." like that, "but they were yours, and then you give them to the church. But as soon as you put your name on it, it was yours; no matter what they was designated for, they were wrote to you." So, and if they'd been put on... Somebody had put across there "personal gift," it would've been all right; but they just wrote William Branham (See?); and when I put my name on it, it--that done it; it was all of it. So they was... And then finally with prayer...


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