<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>63-1226, Church Order, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 108 min
L-1      You'll scratch it. Hit the... [Someone says, "Let me turn it."--Ed.] Okay. And don't turn them on yet, so it just... Turn it on. And we'll... And you be ready to turn them off. And I'll motion my head to you, like that. See? See? I'll motion my head to you. You... All right, turn it, quick. [Brother Billy Paul says, "Where you want me, daddy?" Someone says, "He said, 'Turn it on.'"]
Brethren, we called this meeting together here tonight for the purpose of knowing how that to operate the Church of the living God, which, we believe to be a part of this Church.

L-2 I want to, first thing, I want to say that in my travels around the world, so far as I know, this is one of the most spiritual places where you feel the Spirit of God more than any other place I know. I had two other places in mind that used to be, but so far we--we don't seem to see those places; one of them has went into the organization, and the other has--has kind of fallen.

L-3 So I was called yesterday and was--was told me that you all wanted a meeting to ask me these questions concerning your duties in this church, and I... that's what I'm here for tonight, is... and to--to set the church, or to give to you the things that I think that--that is what's substantial to make this church to continue on.

L-4   Brethren, I'm sure that you do realize that, as I've made this remark about this being a spiritual place. It isn't the biggest place in the world, and it isn't what we have the most singing, the most screaming, and the most hollering, or the most speaking in tongues, and things, that isn't it, but it's the quality of the Spirit that operates here in this tabernacle. And, so far, I want to commend and thank Brother Neville, and--and you brethren here, trustees, and deacons, and Sunday school superintendent, and all, for--for what you have done in helping keeping this this way. It's been a long prayer of mine, and a desire since a boy, to see the church put in order and kept in order.

L-5   Now, when we dedicated the church, I told you, "A little later I had something to talk to you about," how to set this thing in order, the way it should be run. And you started off... after leaving here, we had ministers and so forth. But now, Brother Neville being just young among us, come among us, I thought it'd be better for Brother Neville to get better established in the Faith before I presented such things as I'm about to do now. But now, after I find out that he is getting well established in the Faith, and understands what the Doctrine is, and has played the part of a faithful witness to Christ and holding for what we believe to be the Truth, I think it's the hour now, would be a good time, to approach him in the... and among you elders and things here of the church, that you would take these orders and remember them, they're the best of my knowledge before God. And then I'm looking to you to carry these things out the way that I'm saying them, because somebody has to be a head around here. You have to have...

L-6   Now, I'm not trying to usurp authority or something like that, but, you see, a man or anything with two heads to it, it--it doesn't know how to go. God never did have two heads to His Church, He never did, it's one head. He always dealt in every generation as we've studied through the Scriptures, there's always one individual that He deals with. Because you get two man, you got two opinions. It's got to come to one final absolute, and my absolute is the Word, the Bible. And as a pastor here of the church, my absolute is the Word, and I want... I know you are brothers, you kind of look to me to be your absolute to what... as long as I follow God as Paul said in the Scripture, "You follow me, as I follow Christ."


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