<TITLE>01. Par 1-13</TITLE>63-0803B, Investments, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, IL, 108 min
L-1      Let's just remain standing just a moment, while we speak now to Him, as we bow our heads.

L-2 Our Heavenly Father, we are indeed grateful for this time again that we can stand to present the Gospel to this city, Chicago, as it's upon the hearts of these people here, these Christians, to see their people saved. And, Father, we know that no man can come unless You've drawed him first, Jesus said so. And we believe that, every foreordained seed that lays in this city now, there is no way to keep them from receiving the Light of the Gospel. You will, You will grant it, Lord. You'll watch over it, to be sure it gets there. You present the Message, and I believe that You are able, and will bring those to the Light of the Gospel who You've ordained to see It.

L-3 So, Father, as we let our lights shine, and put forth our efforts, in all that we know how, to--to bring the... this great Gospel of the evening time; the tides truly of sin is flowing in, unbelief on every hand. Oh, so many horrible things facing the face of us. But we have the assurance of the... "When the enemy comes like a flood, the Word of God will raise up a standard against it," Father, and You promised it, so we thank Thee.

L-4 And now, today, help us as we settle down now. I'm thanking You for the jubilee of the morning, these wonderful songs and testimonies, whatever has been done. And now may we look to Thy Word, Lord, to draw from This, strength for the day. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-5   You may be seated. Thank you, very kindly, for the fine invitation of coming to be here with you. And now I want to thank the little lady here for her song, how wonderful it was. I believe it was the first time I've ever heard her sing. And then, of course, our Brother Mel Johnson there, I requested he would sing that song, when, Remember Me. And we've got it down home, and I want to get it anew.

L-6 And Billy Paul, I think, just lives on those songs. He put them in the... while they're in the office, and playing it constantly for people who are coming and going, from across the world. And you can come around the office and you can hear Mel Johnson singing quite often around there, on the tape. And then when I get feeling kind of wore out and tired, I--I'll go down and set somewhere in a room, and just speak... bring one of the speakers up, and I'll listen to it again.

L-7   So we--we are very grateful for these fine singers. And I'm thinking of the time when we cross over this river of Jordan. I want to hear that golden voice of Mel Johnson blending in with Einar Eckberg and many of those great singers who has crossed the river. So we are looking for that time.

L-8 I want to thank my good friend here, Dr. Lee Vayle, a former Baptist minister, a very fine scholar and wonderful man, who has stood before me this week and has brought up the ministry in his way of doing it, give me a great help here in the meeting.

L-9   When we're having those services, prayer for the sick, we call it "healing service," many time, just before the people. But, of course, we realize that we can't heal people, we just simply pray for people.

L-10 Someone said, sometime ago, said, "Brother Branham, did you heal so-and-so?"

L-11 I said, "I never healed anyone, in my life. But I've had some direct answers to prayer, because Jesus promised it, and I--I believe it."

L-12   I remember the night that the--the picture of this great Being, the Holy Spirit; that from Exodus 13:22, I believe, or 21, where "the Pillar of Fire shall go before thee, to lead thee in the way," and how that Pillar of Fire that had been with Moses, It went before them.

L-13 And then when It was made manifest here in a Person called Jesus, which was the Son of God. And then He said He come from God and returned to God.


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