<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>63-1222, God's Gifts Always Find Their Places, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 86 min
L-1      Thank you, Brother Neville. [Brother Neville says, "God Bless you, brother."--Ed.] The Lord bless you, brother.
Evening, friends. I just got in, a while ago, and I thought I could come down and wish you all a "Merry Christmas."

L-2 And so I didn't know I'd have this grand privilege to talk to you on the Word of the Lord. And so Brother Neville asked me, and I had several little Christmas texts that I been using, one of them up at--at Phoenix and down at Tucson, different places around there, a regular Christmas message. And I thought, tonight, I'd just speak on a little something here that the Lord put upon my mind recently, as I was up in Colorado.

L-3   And I was thinking on something at Christmas time, and I got about five or six of the little jots wrote down here, Scriptures and things. The... I don't... I guess Brother Neville and all ministers do that. You... seem like something comes to you, and you jot it down. You wait a while, and you put it down. I put it on a tablet of paper, just on a tablet of paper. Then when I called on sometime, I'll look back through here and say, "What was this now that I got a-hold of?" That's the way, when we're called real quick, you know.

L-4 Used to be, I... when I was younger, I could just... my mind was full, I could just think this right now, I didn't have to wait, I think "Ten days ago I was a certain, certain place. That's the text. Here it is, and here it goes."

L-5 You know, since I've passed a few milestones, Brother Higginbotham, and crossed a few rivers, that it just don't come that way no more, getting a little far up the road. But it... as Brother Neville said, a while ago, "We're getting closer, closer Home."

L-6   It's good to be back home. I, coming back, why, awful snowy. And there's... and heard of the accidents and things, so many of them on the road, and people being killed. And just think of how many hundreds will lose their life now, between tonight and after New Year's, how many Americans will die! And you know, some of us might be right here, tonight. And it just depends on now, that... our condition before God. It's a sad nation, this Brother said, sadness everywhere. And our flag has been hanging, thirty days, half-mast, all because of sin and people who would not accept God's way of--of--of things.

L-7   Even if we can disagree with a person, if we can't yet do it in a brotherly way, and then... See, if Christ is in the heart, then no matter how much you disagree with the man, you still got love for him and respect. I disagree with many men, many times. But still, I've never seen one yet I disagreed with that I ever thought of anymore that "put my arm around him and call him 'my brother,' try to help him the best I could." I disagree with him because that I think maybe that upon disagreeing that he... What he believes, that I might not believe just like him, but... and so forth, but now I might try to project my way to him as he projects his to me, and get them together and comb out and see what we got, but disagreement like that. Just far as it comes to... we should never get angry or want to hurt, or destroy or anything. We should always be trying to build up.


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