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1. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-01-12

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• ¶79–¶85 “Brother Branham, was you justified?” “Yes! I remember when I just couldn’t hardly look at you. Brother, I can look you in the face now.” See, here we are. Now, what’s this other? Now I’m going to…This is cleaned and set aside for service, and this is coming into service. Now we all know that the word sanctify is a Greek word, a compound Greek word that means “cleaned, and set aside for service.” The vessels was cleansed and by the altar, and sanctified by the altar and set aside for service. But to be in service is to be filled and put in service. Now, I go over here and now I’m coming into service. Now, it was God that turned me, saying, “Hear Me. Hear Me! Hear Me!” And He said… You get what I mean? See? And here, [Brother Branham illustrates someone speaking in tongues—Ed.]…?…See, here, you’re just so full you…That’s it. There you are, that’s speaking in tongues. And I believe this now: I do not believe that speaking in tongues is any evidence of the Holy Ghost. It isn’t! Because I have seen witches, wizards, snake-handlers, devils, everything else speak in tongues, and it is not an infallible act of God (when you speak in tongues) that you’ve got the Holy Ghost. But, remember, the Holy Ghost does speak in tongues and the devil can impersonate it. The—the evidence that you’ve got the Holy Ghost is the life that you live, see, “By their fruits you shall know them.” And the fruit of the Spirit is not (nowhere in the Scripture found) speaking in tongues. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, faith, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. See, now, that is the fruit. That’s what you find on the tree to tell what kind of a tree it is. See?

• ¶199–¶201 No. It should be used on this way, and then told in the service. But for this time, for this present time, let them speak. Now, if it goes to getting out of hand, then it ain’t, you have to watch that. Now, sometimes it could be God. And those little fellows, just like a little kid trying to walk, now, if he falls down four or five times…Now, I’ve seen this since I’ve been here in church, and—and, well, I’ll—I’ll just leave it like that. See? And, but, you see, but what of it, would you then say, “Brother Branham, why didn’t you correct this?” No, no. When Billy Paul back there first started to walk, he was up and down, and down more than he was up. But he didn’t know how to walk. But I believe he had a gift of walking. See? I let him walk a little while. And then when he got to stumbling his big feet, I tell him about it now. You see what I mean? See? Go along looking at something else and popping into something, I say, “Pick up your feet, boy. Where you at?” See? Now, that’s—that’s the difference, you see. Now, let them—let them stumble and let them block along a little while. Now, when you have to correct them, if they resent it then you know yourself it wasn’t God. Cause the Spirit of God is subject. As you got here a little bit, “The spirit of prophecy is subject to the prophet.” See? That’s right. [Brother Stricker says, “Brother Branham, I’d like some correction.”—Ed.] All right, brother. [“Many times I’ve set in services and I’ve heard speaking in tongues and interpretation, and most of the times I’ve felt very bad about it. And I go home and I’d seem as though I’d repent all the way. Was it because I felt that it was not of God, or was it because it was out of order?”]

• ¶242–¶249 Now, the…Now, there’s two different tongues, men and angels. See? And Paul said, “Though I speak with tongues of men and angels,” see, both men and angels, both of those tongues, the one that cannot… Now, that’s where the Pentecostal people, tongues-evidence people that say, told me, he said, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re all mixed up.” Said, I said, “Well, if you get it according to Acts 2:4, then everybody heard you speak in the language that they were born in.” “Oh!” he said. And “No! No!” he said. I said, “Sure. Yes, sir.” Said, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re all mixed up.” Said, “You’re talking about the…” Said, “There’s tongues of ‘angels.’ That’s the Holy Spirit angel that comes down and speaks through you.” Now, it sounds good, see, it sounds like it could be a lot of truth, but it ain’t all the Truth. When Satan told Eve, “surely you’ll not die,” that was a…he told her a lot of truth, but that wasn’t Truth. See? Now, said, “‘Men and angels,’ and the angel he was speaking of was…” Now, let’s look how it won’t jive with Scripture. See? Now, it won’t “cooperate,” I mean to say. Pardon me, I didn’t mean to say “jive” with Scriptures. I mean “cooperate” with Scriptures, or “follow, coordinate” with Scriptures is the best word. “Now, the man speaking with angels’ tongues,” he says, “that’s the tongues of the Holy Ghost that” he said, “now, when you, we, they received the Holy Ghost.” I said, “Did…When, where’d you receive It at?”

• ¶250–¶256 Well, he told me exactly the spot, the minute and the hour. I don’t doubt but what he did. See? I have no…I’m not his judge. See? He said, “That’s where I spoke it.” He knowed exactly the place. Said, “Something happened to me.” I said, “I believe it. See? But still that wasn’t the evidence of the Holy Ghost to you, son.” “Oh, yes!” Said, “That, that was it!” And, “No.” He said, “Now, look, I want to tell you something, brother.” I said, “Did the people in your audience, that church there in Indianapolis where you said you received It, did those people hear you speak in English telling them of the resurrection and the power of God and everything?” He said, “Why, no! I spoke in—in unknown tongues.” I said, “You never got it according to Acts 2:4, ’cause every… wasn’t one word unknown. ‘We hear every man in our own language.” “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, I see where you’re confused.” He said, “You see,” he said, “there is tongues that’s tongues of angels, when you receive the Holy Ghost,” said, “then you speak in tongues and nobody has to interpret that, that’s—that’s the Holy Ghost speaking. See? But then you have a gift of tongues, and that’s to be interpretation.” I said, “Then you’ve got the cart before the horse. On the Day of Pentecost they got the cart before the horse. Before they got the Holy Ghost, unknown tongues, they spoke in tongues that was understood.” See? So really it… There is two different tongues. Tongues of angels, that’s the man in private prayer out yonder somewhere speaking to God, speaking to God in angelic tongues. I could just call you a case right now, but I haven’t got time. You remember when the woman come to the auditorium there, in where Doctor Alexander Dowie’s from, Zion. Remember me down there? And Billy come after me down there to get me to go to the meeting, and I said, “Billy, go on back.” And I… He said, “What you crying about? Somebody been here?”

2. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — 1958-09-28

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• ¶159b–¶162 And don’t you fool with them little old girls out there. And don’t you smoke a cigarette or chew a chew of tobacco.” Oh, my! What was it? The Father’s good will, before the foundation of the world, that He would send me to preach the Gospel and lead His sheep. God bless Him and, forever, that great Name! I’ll stay by His Bible, sink or drown, popular or unpopular. Whether anybody loves me, or not, I’ll please Him. I want to do that which pleases Him. If the Baptist turn me down, the Methodist; the Pentecostal, upon their “initial evidence, speaking in tongues, being the Holy Ghost.” That’s the reason we’re not Pentecostal. We don’t believe that the speaking with tongues makes you filled with the Holy Ghost, no more than we believe living in a barn would make you a pig. No, sir. No more than we believe living in—in a king’s palace would make you a king. Doesn’t! You could be a servant. See? You could be anything. No, sir. We believe that you receive the Holy Ghost by an experience, not by mythical intellectual conception of the Scriptures, but by an experience that you alone know. Now, if you want to know whether it was the Holy Ghost, watch how your life patterns after that. It’ll tell what kind of a spirit come into you. You might speak with tongues and you might not. But why did the Pentecostal do such a horrible thing as that? Catch that. Why did the Pentecostal do that? Why? Because, in the beginning, when God begin to restore back yonder, forty years ago, bringing back the gifts, somebody begin to speak with tongues. And speaking in tongues is the least gift, according to Paul’s teaching, of the entire bunch of gifts. “The least of all the gifts, is speaking in tongues.” And as soon as they did it, they all got excited and made a denomination, and called it the General Council, which is the Assemblies of God.

• ¶163–¶165 Now, I’ve talked to some of their best men, their best theologians, and they say, “Brother Branham, you’re right. But what can we do now? If we’d raise up against that, we’d be kicked out. And what would our church think about us? When, we’ve taught them for years, we’ve taught them for years, that, ‘The evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues.’ What if we change it now?” That’s the curse of denomination. Bless the Lord! We have no denomination. Just as the Spirit leads, we take It. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is a personal experience. I’ve seen people speak with tongues. I’ve seen witches and wizards. Any missionary knows the same, that’s ever dealt in witchcraft and devils. I’ve seen them stand and speak in tongues, and throw dirt over the back of their heads, and cut themselves with a lance, and speak in tongues and interpret it. And you say that’s the Holy Ghost? Certainly, it isn’t. It’s a devil. Jesus never said, “By their tongues you shall know them,” but, “By their fruit you shall know them.” And Ephesians 5:1 said, that, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness, faith, temperance.” Is that right? There you are. Now, if you’re a Methodist, those kind of fruits follow you, that you’re not quick-tempered, thus fight a buzz saw; if you got patience, since you got love, and you’re consideration to everybody; if your first love is Christ, your second is your fellow man, let you be third, down like that; if you’re moving on, got longsuffering, gentle, patience, faith. “My,” you say, “the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. And there is Divine healing. The Holy Ghost is the same today.”

• ¶192–¶197 You’ll hear somebody say, “That’s not Scriptural.” That’s right. “Let’s take it and go here in the room. Let’s search the Scriptures through. Show me in the Scriptures where that’s at, the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” One said, “Oh, I spoke with tongues. I got It.” “Show me in the Scriptures that’s the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” That’s right. “Oh, the Lord called me to preach,” says some woman. “Show me in the Scriptures she did that.” Yeah. “Oh, I know the Lord told me. He blessed me that night I was baptized in the name of ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost.’” “Show me in the Scriptures where you’re supposed to do that.” “Well, I’m just as good as anybody else, and I’m a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a Presbyterian. I’m Pentecostal.” “Show me in the Scripture where God said that.” See? That’s right. It’s not there. Now, there’s a wide-open challenge to you members of this tabernacle. There’s a wide-open challenge. Now, if you find one thing that you think that’s wrong, that I’ve said this morning, one thing that’s contrary to the Scripture, you’re duty-bound to lay that on this pulpit this evening. That’s right. You bring it and lay it here. Show me the Scripture, the verse in the Bible where that there was a denomination, that Jesus made a denomination, or any of these things that I’ve taught. Where He ever ordained and put a woman in the church, as a preacher; where He ever ordained sprinkling, pouring; or—or anything of that type that I’ve been talking on. Put it here. Then, tonight, we’re going in, if the Lord willing, to “the baptism of the Holy Ghost,” and into “the seed of the serpent, and of the woman.” All right. The Lord bless you. How many feels good? Oh, I feel like traveling on, Oh, I feel like traveling on; Now sing that real sweetly to the Lord. …Heavenly home is bright and fair, And I feel like traveling on. Oh, I feel like traveling, (Traveling on!) Oh, I feel like traveling; (Traveling on!) My Heavenly home is bright and fair, And I feel like traveling on. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]

3. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶40–¶42 And we hope to get the church up, so I can get these Church Ages in, before—before the winter sets in, if possible. If I don’t, or when I have to come back from over there, if the Lord Jesus tarries. I was listening yesterday when I was taking, believe it was day before yesterday, of a tape. I thought I heard it playing out here this morning. Some little Southern brother had…His mother had come into the meeting. She had a malignancy on her breast, and she was shadowed to death. And the Holy Spirit, in one of the recent meetings, at the Southern Pines, I believe it was, or somewhere, told her, said about her malignancy, and who she was, and where she come from. And said she had a boy that was a backslider, and he was going to have an accident, and be for manslaughter. And a whole lot of things like that. And this fellow… It all happened just the way. And her malignant cancer, or malignant growth, rather, left her. Which is, malignant growth is a cancer, you know. So then it—it left her. And the boy was up for manslaughter, and everything just the way the Holy Spirit said it. And he was led to Christ, back again. And he made a tape of it, and I—I heard it playing. Did you enjoy that little, old Southern talk? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Said, “Down here in North Carolin’er,” he said. Oh, I just love that, them old Southern people. And he had…The Lord just blessed him on. He said, “I know you say you don’t preach doctrine, Brother Branham; only to your congregation.” Said, “We’re part of your congregation.” So that was right cute in him, to say that.

• ¶298–¶302 Directly, I noticed the people begin to get like they was physically hungry. And so they had enough spiritual, so they started walking away. And some of them [Brother Branham yawns—Ed.] started walking away. I thought, “What’s the matter with everybody?” And—and I looked, and here some young couples going along, to my side. I thought…I said, “Just a minute, friend! Just a minute! You’ll be back again when the evening shadows fall.” See? I said, “You’ll be back again. But let me give you this first climax. Where does all these things come from, that I’ve showed you? Where are they from?” I said, “Here they are. They are in the Word of God. They are THUS SAITH THE LORD, His promise. Cause,” I said, “all of you bear me record, witness this, that my commission is, ‘Stay with the Word.’” I said, “What’s the matter with all of you? Can’t you understand the Word? You must understand It.” And some of them said, “Man, I’d like to have some biscuits,” and so like that. Well, I just thought, “Well, glory to God! If they want biscuits, let them go get them.” So I—I turned around. I thought, “Oh, but, you know what? The shadows is going to fall, after while, right away.” I said, “Then, tonight, when that congregation gathers in again, I’ll put the climax to them, and told them that the things that they have seen me do is found in the Word of God, not in some mythical book or some organization. It’s found in the Word. See? Every bit of it, in the Word, ’cause I’m commissioned to That.”

4. THE CHURCH CHOOSING LAW FOR GRACE — 1961-03-16

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• ¶83–¶87 God promised the Holy Ghost to whosoever will, let him come. You don’t know split beans from coffee, what difference does it make? If you can’t say your ABC’s, what difference does it make, as long as you’ve received an experience? When Peter and James was caught up, or, John, at the gate Beautiful, where they had made the man to walk that was crippled, made him to walk, was lame from his mother’s womb, the Bible said they were ignorant and unlearned men, but yet they taken heed that they had been with Jesus. That’s the qualification of a real Pentecostal, not how much degrees you have, how much a degree that you have took, a Bachelor of Art, or whether you’re Ph.D., or LL.D., or whatever it is, that has nothing to do with it, is let people know that you’ve been with Jesus Christ, let people know that there’s Something behind there that’s got your soul on fire, that’s Pentecost. Sometimes I see the way the church is getting…I left the Baptist church to become a Pentecostal, I left it on the account of I knowed they had something, but when I get over here, it’s as tightly organized as the Baptist was, worse. That’s right. Now, we come out and look, and look around, and see eleven-days’ journey from theology to total unbelief, from the days they got the law until they finally went into total unbelief. Here come two back that had evidence. The Pentecostal church, forty years ago, brought back one good evidence that there was a Land beyond there, because they had a evidence of speaking in tongues. But brother, that ain’t the only evidence, not only did it have good grapes in it, but it had milk and honey flowing, it had everything. But they was satisfied just with the grapes, and said, “That’s, I guess that’s all it is.” That’s what the Pentecostal church has done, “Acts 2:4, Acts 2:4, Acts 2:4,” till you got so many grapes, I believe it become from real grapes down to possum grapes, sour grapes. “Acts 2:4, Acts 2:4,” till you almost become a 2 by 4 preachers, that’s right, to suck around a organization. Huh!

• ¶98–¶101 Not stop on one evidence, there’s more evidences, there’s homes, there’s places, there’s gardens, milk, and honey, and good foods, and many things, waters flowing from the mountains. Everything is good over there, just not a bunch of grapes, but that’s where we stop, “Bless God, got the Holy Ghost, the evidence of speaking in tongues.” That’s all right, shows somebody went over there. But why do you stand at this borderline? See, “Made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the power of the world to come,” see that they’ll fall back into that same ol’ rut that the Methodists did, the Baptists did, the Presbyterian did, “and crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and bring Him to an open shame.” And we find in the Laodicean Church Age that He was on the outside of the Pentecostal church trying to get back in. “Bring Him to an open shame.” Oh, God have mercy, brother. If you disagree with me upon these things, search the Scriptures. Find out the day that we’re living in, see where it’s at. I got an exhortation, I won’t read it now, but here it is, Demos Shakarian is having it documented, by a man, Hollywood man, that come up to shake hands with me, and begin to speak in French, and the UN interpreter there gave the interpretation, with a French woman, said, “Because you’ve chosen the hard way, but that’s MY WAY, don’t you fear what people say about you, for I’m with you, and I’ll be with you, and I’ll bring to pass the exceedingly abundantly.”

5. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE HOLY GHOST — 1959-12-19

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• ¶140b–¶144 That is right.” “That’s exactly what God has told us tonight through a Brother So- and-so, spoke with tongues; Brother So-and-so interpreted; Brother So- and-so here said, of the discernment, said it was from the Lord. And that’s the truth.” “Yes!” “Then, THUS SAITH THE LORD, go make it right, and you’ll get over your cancer.” Brother Jones goes home, gets the wagons, backs up, gets his furniture, and gets away from there. At two o’clock tomorrow afternoon: Zowie! goes the whole thing off. See? Then the church glorifies…“Thank you, Lord Jesus, for Your goodness.” Now, that’s what it is, to edify, for the church. Now, what if it doesn’t happen after they’ve said it? Then you got a evil spirit among you. You don’t want that evil thing. Why do you want something evil when the—the skies are full of Pentecostal real? Don’t take an old substitute from the devil. Get something real. God’s got it for you. Then don’t you have no more meetings, and put anything up here, till God already vindicates that you’re right, ’cause you’re a helper to the church in the working of the Gospel. Now, you understand it what it is? And tongues, unknown tongues…No man he—knows what he’s talking about. He speaks; but every sound has a meaning. That has a meaning. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] “Gluck, gluck, gluck!” That has—that’s a—that’s a language somewhere. When I was in Africa, I never believed it, but everything that made a noise had some kind of a meaning to it. The Bible said there’s no sound without a significance, without a meaning. Every sound that’s made has some meaning to something. Why, I’d hear people say…I’d say, “Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”

• ¶149–¶149 That is the Pentecostal church in operation. There’s no possibilities for evil spirits to slip in, because it’s already…The Bible gives exactly, “Let it be by courses, and that by three; and let two or more judge.” That’s the church. But where we got it today? Jump up, carry-on, laugh and go on while somebody’s speaking in tongues; another looking, talking about something else and crowding around; the pastor doing something; or somebody crowding around. Well, that’s not right. Maybe the pastor preaching, and somebody get up and interrupt him in the…Maybe reading the Bible and somebody…Reading the Bible, and somebody back there speaking in tongues. Oh, no! See? Preacher up preaching in the pulpit, somebody raise up and interrupt him, speaking in tongues. It’s all right. I don’t say it isn’t the Holy Ghost, but you ought to know how to use the Holy Ghost (see?), to use It. Now, I—I’m taking…Have you got room for one more? Then, tomorrow’s Sunday. Then, we’ll…Let’s just…Here’s one. I think it’s the most gracious. And now, if you all just bear with me just a few minutes longer, please. And then, I’ll…I want you—I want you to get this. I saved this purposely. This is my last one. Now, first, I’m going to read the two things that the person asked. It’s on an old piece of paper, wrote with a beautiful handwrite. Have no idea who it was, no name signed to—to any of them. 98. Brother Branham, is it right for ministers to make long pulls for money in their services, telling that God has told them that so many in the audience are supposed to give so much? If this is right, I want to know. Or if it is wrong, I want to know. This has disturbed me terribly.

6. GOD BEING MISUNDERSTOOD — 1961-07-23

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• ¶113–¶115 Now, there is a stiff one, but let me shed just a little light on this if I can. And I’m sure you’ll understand that this is just Brother Branham trying to do my best, but let me just give this as my own personal experience of dealing with spiritual things. And I appreciate your confidence of asking me questions like this. If you didn’t have confidence in me, you wouldn’t ask me no such. I believe a Christian wouldn’t ask questions to raise an argument, I believe they’re trying to find what’s Truth. See? And I would answer, and if…And I’ll answer it, and if I’ve made myself clear “it’s the best of my knowledge,” and then if that spirit in you gets angry, that shows it isn’t the Holy Spirit in there. See? So then the Holy Spirit will not anger, it’ll be corrected each time with the Word, and stand correction. Now let me say this, that I…In this case, remember, God be my judge. I, this is William Branham, I couldn’t say. But in experiences that I have witnessed while under the anointing of such meetings, I believe that the person that’s saying the same thing over each time, the same tone of voice, is really speaking in tongues. I do, I believe, by the Spirit they’re speaking in tongues, if they’re Christians. They are speaking with tongues, no doubt. But I believe that you get the wrong slant of interpretation. Now, many times, people…I—I don’t…I know it’s just the church folks here, I guess, tonight, anyhow, about. Isn’t it, Brother Neville, just about what comes? So if the strangers are here and you different with this, I’m trying to speak to my own church, see.

• ¶145–¶147 Neither do I; see, “shouting, dancing, speaking in tongues, and not even read the Scripture.” I—I—I say this, remember, William Branham, which could be a million miles wrong. I believe that most of the people…I was asked that question today by a brother, something on that order. That, when they go to pray for the sick, a brother will maybe pray for one, then get them all singing or dancing in the Spirit, thinking that brings power amongst the people. No, I—I for myself, I believe that’s wrong. I believe that a person coming in the healing meeting will be like coming for salvation, come reverently, believing, every person in there, not shouting and dancing, but seeing their brother or sister going up there to ask God for mercy, bow your head and start praying, “God, help my brother now as pastor prays for him, anoints him. Let the Holy Spirit come upon him and give him faith to believe for his healing. He’s a precious brother. She’s a precious sister.” Be praying for him instead of just singing, shouting and dancing. But we see so much of that in our Pentecostal meetings, it’s a constant…I believe it’s a worship, I truly believe they’re worshipping God. Yes, sir. I believe it with all my heart. And I believe in speaking with tongues, shouting and dancing. And I believe it every bit, yes. I believe anything that they do in the Bible is just as good today as it was then, sure, but I believe it has its time and its order.

7. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN — 1954-10-24

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• ¶218–¶221 I want to ask you a question, flat, and right to the point. I don’t say it to put you embarrassed. I’d rather be embarrassed here than embarrassed There. Wouldn’t you rather do that? There is many of you here that’s seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many of you here has watched me since I was a boy, just a little old kid here, or in my teen age, preaching the Gospel. And I haven’t varied one speck from the Gospel I started with. I still teach the same thing. Because, It wasn’t given to me by some seminary, neither was It taught by man. It come by revelation of the Bible. That’s right. Therefore, I know It come from God, and I’ve stayed with the same Gospel. Many years ago, I preached the water baptism in Jesus Christ’s Name. Many years ago, I preached the cleansing of the human soul by the Blood of Jesus Christ, through sanctification. I preached the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a confirmation, or the sealing of God’s people away, in the Kingdom. You know that’s right. I’ve taught Divine healing. I’ve taught the second Coming. I’ve taught feetwashing. I’ve taught communion. I’ve taught holiness before the Lord. I’ve taught all those things, to begin with. I taught speaking in tongues, “not the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” I’ve taught shouting, “not the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” There is none of those thing you can say is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, or the only evidence. It might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Singing might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Talking might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Any of the signs might be, and yet it’s not an infallible. There is only one Person Who can say the Holy Ghost is there, that’s God Himself. He is the Judge. I’ve seen them sing, I’ve seen them talk, I’ve seen them shout, I’ve seen them speak with tongues, and all those things, and didn’t. Their fruits proved that they didn’t have It.

8. PARADOX — 1961-12-10

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• ¶298–¶303 Well, this great minister of the biggest Pentecostal organization we have, was standing there, and resented It, see, said that I didn’t mean it that way. But I got back and said, “I do mean it that way, see. I said exactly! I take nothing back.” The other day when I spoke about those altars, not knowing, never seeing that in history. I never have said nothing yet, from the platform, under inspiration that I ever had to take back. Now you can call that, Seed Of The Serpent, or whatever you wish to, whatever them Messages was, or, The Great Harlot, that so much kick is against. Just come, and…Why don’t you come to me with the Scriptures, with it? See? See whether it’s right. This man come up there, put his arms around me, and was going to say…He said, “Brother Branham, not to be sacrilegious, but that could have made the 23rd chapter of Revelation. You know, another Book added. Of course,” he said, “that wouldn’t be right, of course, we’re not supposed to add anything to It.” And just as he started to say that, he started speaking in tongues. And the boy didn’t know what speaking in tongues meant. And as soon as he did, right out in front of me was a French woman, from Louisiana, she said, “That needed no interpretation. That was pure French.” And a man over here got up and said, “That’s right.” And way back in the back was the interpreter for the UN, give his name, never been there before. He said, “Correctly. That’s right.”

9. FAITH BY EXPERIENCE — 1958-03-25

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• ¶24–¶25a My old sassafras, Southern Kentucky talk, “his, hain’t, tote, fetch, carry” might not be…Anyhow, one night up here at Fort Wayne, I was preaching. And after the service was over, some scholar met me back behind the stage. And he said, “Mr. Branham, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, your grammar is so poor.” I said, “I know it.” I said, “I didn’t get a chance to go to school, sir.” “Well,” he said, “You don’t…You’re old enough now.” I said, “But there’s so many sick people, sir, I got to go. I can’t stand and learn scholarships.” And he said, “Well, you could take a correspondent.” I said, “Where would it ever catch up with me?” I said, “I just got to keep going.” “Oh,” he said, “The grammar that you use before those people, and you said to them tonight, ‘Everyone that passes by this ‘polepit’ will be healed.’” He said, “Those people would appreciate you more if you’d have said, ‘pulpit.’” That stepped on my toes. And I said, “Mister, I don’t want to hurt your feeling, but those people out there don’t care whether I say ‘pulpit’ or ‘polepit.’ They want me to live the Life of Christ, in it and produce what He said was to be done. I’m getting people saved and healed by saying, ‘polepit,’ what are you doing by saying, ‘pulpit’?” Oh, it’s not in your language, it’s in your heart God wants you to know, not in your head, but in your heart. Yes. David slew Goliath. It was Moses, the great prophet, how that if there was any man trained, and well trained, was Moses. Oh, he had took all of the degrees that Egypt had, and could teach their men theology. He was the smartest man in Egypt. And he was full forty years old when he went out to deliver his brethren. But you see, he made a mistake. And he…God took him out behind the desert, and there he stayed for forty years, for God to beat some of that theology out of him, take the clay, beat it down till it’s ready.

10. FAITH COMETH BY HEARING — 1954-03-20

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• ¶13–¶13 When a certain, well known, internationally known man, lovely brother from the West Coast, spoke to me one day at the beginning of my services on the West Coast. I was to be in the same auditorium where he was. He said, “Brother Branham, they won’t go for that fanaticism out here: Divine healing.” I said, “Oh?” He said, “Why don’t you to preach the Gospel while you’re on the West Coast?” I said, “That’s what I’m doing.” I said, “If I didn’t preach Divine healing, I wouldn’t be preaching the Gospel. ‘The Gospel come not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.’” See? And I said, “I’m not to argue with you, brother.” I said, “You know more about it than I do, but I…what I do know, I know real well.” See? I said, “I know that part real well.” He said, “Well, the people on the West Coast won’t receive you.” Said… I said, “Well, brother, dear,” I said, “that’ll be all right.” Said, “You’re renting that auditorium; going to cost four hundred dollars a day?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “There won’t be anybody there.” He said, “The first thing this Angelus Temple, McPherson bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” Said, that, “All the Pentecostals, that radical bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” I said, “Yes, sir. That may be all right, but I’m—I’m not responsible for nothing but what God told me to do, and that’s what I’m doing.” See? And so… He said, “Well, come on down, kick your hat in.” I said, “I’ll see you.”

11. GOD HIDING HIMSELF IN SIMPLICITY, THEN REVEALING HIMSELF IN THE SAME — 1963-03-17

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• ¶240–¶245 Now let’s go, just hurrying up now, with just a few minutes left, and then we’ll close. Now, now, others go so far as to be fanatics. Now, they go on the other side. And they think, just because that they jump up and down, or get some kind of a sensation or emotion, speak with tongues, or—or— or give a prophecy that happened to be right, or something like that, they think that’s It, that—that they got It. But, it isn’t. Jesus said, “Many will come to Me in that day, and say, ‘Lord, have not I prophesied in Your Name? In Your Name done many works, and cast out devils?’” He said, “Depart, I never knew you.” See? That isn’t it. That isn’t it, friend. That’s the reason…And, tongues, the evidence? I believe in speaking in tongues, but I don’t take it to be the only evidence of the Holy Spirit. No, sir. The fruit of the Spirit is the evidence. See? Yeah. Now, you see, that’s the reason I have differed with the move of the Pentecostal brethren, in that manner, that they say as, “If a man speaks in tongues, he has the Holy Ghost.” I differ. That’s no sign he’s got the Holy Ghost. See? I’ve heard devils speak with tongues just as fast as they could, drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil. I’ve seen Indians take snakes and wrap around them, in the—in the—in the rain dance out there in Arizona; hold their hands up like that, and run right around. The witch doctor come out, lancing himself. And lay a pencil down, and it write in unknown tongues, and give the interpretation to it. See? So, don’t, don’t tell me that. I’m too old for that. See?

12. GOD COMMISSIONING MOSES — 1953-05-08

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• ¶1c–¶1c Webster; at least he thought he did; he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “your grammar’s very poor.” I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He said, “Oh, at the—at the mistakes you made tonight.” And I said, “Yes, sir,” I said, “that’s—that’s right.” I said, “I’m sorry.” I said, “I was raised a big family and I didn’t get an education.” And I said, “I…My father died and I had to work—have to take care of ten children.” I said, “It…Didn’t get a chance to get any education.” He said, “Oh, but that’s no excuse now.” And I said, “Well, that’s right,” I said, “but since this ministry’s come on,” I said, “I can’t even get a chance to eat my dinner at home, let alone study grammar.” I said, “I’m just…people…praying for the sick.” He said, “Oh,” but said, “you could take a correspondence; you could do something.” Said, “I noticed one—one mistake that you certainly made that you ought to correct.” And I said, “What?” “You said, ‘The people coming by this ‘polepit.’” He said, “Your congregation would appreciate you more if you said, ‘Pulpit’ and not ‘polepit.’” He just kinda pull me a little hard. I said, “Look, brother, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but them people out there don’t care whether I say ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ The only thing they want me to do is to preach the Gospel good and clear in everyday language, and live what I preach. And then if God performs the signs and wonders and takes care of the rest of it…” So that’s right. Isn’t that right? That’s right. So the main thing is produce what you’re talking about. That’s right. If God will back up your word, if the word is “pulpit” or “polepit,” it will be just the same. Tonight, for a few moments, if you will spare the time, I like to read some Scripture out of two places in the Bible, and just talk to you a few moments, and then we will go right in and have prayer for the sick. And I want to read out of Acts, the 1st chapter of Acts, the 8th verse.

13. THE SEAL OF GOD — 1954-05-14

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• ¶154–¶157 I know they got a lot of fana-…I am not Pentecost. I’ve never belonged to a Pentecostal organization, never. I’ve stood in the breach. I’m not Pentecost, Methodist, Baptist. I’m just a Bible Christian. That’s all. I believe what the Word says. And I cannot deny the gift of speaking in tongues; if I do, I’ll deny teaching and every other inspired gift. That’s right. I have never agreed with the Pentecostal brethren on “the only evidence,” of speaking in tongues. I don’t do that. Now, that’s all right, if they believe it that way. That’s their business, see, but that’s perfectly all right. I…Paul said, “I would that you all speak with tongues.” I’d like to see everyone be that close to God. They’ve got a lot of make-up, a lot of phony belief. They’ve got out there, a lot of times, and acted like they had the Holy Ghost, and said something that wasn’t speaking in tongues. Their life proved what it was. But there has been a real genuine article going on just the same, all the time. Well, why wouldn’t the devil throw out crony, crow bait? Sure, he would, to try to hinder. He throwed out the same thing in holiness. He throwed out the same thing in Methodist. He throw out the same thing in Luther’s day. And he’s throwing out the same thing today. And under the power of gifts, of Divine healing and discernments, he is throwing the same things out. But what does a scarecrow mean to you, if you could talk bird talk? Birds say, “When I see a scarecrow, that’s a meal ticket. The best apples there is, is right around where all the clubs are laying and the scarecrows are hanging up.” That’s right.

14. TESTIMONY — 1951-05-09

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• ¶53–¶54a And up here at Santa Rosa not long ago, the minister may be standing present now; they was having a Saturday night of a playhouse. We had several people, about like here. And they was trying to put a man out of the prayer line. And he kept saying, “I’m not wanting in the prayer line; I’m wanting to see this minister.” And I said, “Let him alone,” down like this. “What do you want, sir?” And he said, “How do you spell your name?” And I said, “B-R-A-N-H-A-M.” He said, “Mother, that’s it. That’s it.” And a lady came forth. They had an old paper, turned yellow. They were evangelists, belonging to the Assemblies of God. And twenty-two years, that would be about…That’s four years ago, it’d be about twenty-six years now. Twenty-two years before that, one said they had a gift of speaking in tongues, the other one had the gift of interpretation. And when they were…Said they were down praying, twenty-two years before that, and the interpretation come. And this was one of their messages they TESTIMON Y had laying back, said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the last days before the coming of the Lord, I’ll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast with…” And there it was wrote on old paper. And then one night, I was coming out of Seattle, and there was a man standing over there. And he had a book under his arm. He kept telling me, “Brother Branham, you’re in the wrong church.” And I didn’t know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don’t know what it was. It’s a—it’s one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And—and back there a hundred and…long long…how long ago it was, it… on a certain page there…I have the book in my library.

15. TESTIMONY (RAISING DEAD BOY) — 1953-12-03

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• ¶83–¶84a Now, that, my Christian friends, is Bible order of Holy Spirit speaking in churches. The Scripture says, “If one speaks with tongues, let them all hold their peace the interpretation…” And God Himself through other voices has uttered these things. Now, this man’s a Baptist. I don’t know what the woman was that spoke, but (See?) it’s for all. Now, all churches are coming to this (See?), every one. You all heard Charles Fuller a few Sundays ago. How many’s heard Fuller’s broadcast? You all know that’s right. They had the same thing in the Long Beach Auditorium: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues—Charles Fuller. See? And they have accepted healing also. See? So it’s all coming to the…See, the churches coming together. These apostolic gifts are being restored again to the Church. God is here. I was going to call a prayer line. I don’t believe I’ll do it. I want you to look this a way. I want you to look and believe. I want you to have faith in God, after He spoke in that way. He’s here, that second gift of confirmation. His Presence is here. And now, how many of you…Did you give out prayer cards? How many of you haven’t got prayer cards? I want people that haven’t got prayer cards, raise your hands. I want you to have faith. I want to believe. Look here. God is standing here. His Spirit is here. How many seen that picture of the Angel of the Lord back there? You’ve seen it, haven’t you? Uh-huh. Now, that’s what’s right here now. That’s the Pillar of Fire. It seems strange that how the world will reject it. I want you to look this a way. I want you to believe with all your heart, that God Almighty, the powerful Jehovah God is present to make well. He will do it. He will do it if you’ll just believe. Now, look this way, and just be praying, and say, “Lord, I believe that—that Brother Branham has told us the Truth.” You know that was truth what He just spoke there through the Spirit. Say, “I believe that’s the truth.” I want you to do it. I want you to believe it with all your heart.

16. PARADOX — 1964-02-06

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• ¶210–¶214 He had to become that, to die, to satisfy His Own laws of righteousness. He predicted, and said, “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” And He had to fulfill, there was nobody else could do it but Himself. If—if He… Today, in this day, I like to bring this, of the—the Deity of Jesus Christ, because that man try to make Him a prophet. Now if there happens to be a Christian Science sitting here, I’m not hurting your feelings; I hope I’m not. But we express so much upon evidences. We Pentecostals put our evidence upon speaking in tongues, and how bad we’ve been fooled in that. And how many of them says, “The fruit of the Spirit is the evidence,” how badly you are fooled by that. No, sir. If you talk about speaking in tongues being the evidence of the Holy Ghost…Which, I do believe the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues. Don’t get me wrong. Yeah, but you say, “A man speaks with tongues, got the Holy Ghost.” We believed that for a while, but we found out it was wrong. Luther said, “Those that said they believe.” We found out that was wrong. Wesley said, “Those that got sanctified and shouted.” We found out that was wrong. Pentecost said, “Those that spoke with tongues.” We found out that was wrong. The Christian Science said, “The fruit of the Spirit is the evidence.” We find out that that’s wrong. I’ve seen witches and wizards drink blood out of a human skull, and speak in tongues; and lay a pencil on the table and write in unknown tongues, and interpret it. See? Now, don’t tell me about that; my mother is a half Indian, see, and I—and I know. I’ve seen it and dealt with it.

17. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-04-15

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• ¶37–¶42 [A sister speaks in tongues, a brother interprets, “Yea, would I send My prophet weeping? Yea, would I send him seeking, lest it was for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, my people, it is I, God, that standeth before thee. Yea, would you not follow Me? Yea, was I not the—the One that loved thee? Yea, was I not He that bore thine iniquities? Yea, was I not He that suffered? Yea, wilt thou let Me cry? Yea, wilt thou let Me weep for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, fear not, for I am standing, yea, I am standing ready to receive. Wilt thou come? Saith the Lord.”—Ed.] Praise the Lord! Listen to that. Just a moment. “How long will you halt between two opinions?” You know what I did? Now, watch the story as it goes on. I walked out to the woman, standing out there. I said, “Father, forgive me.” I walked out to her, I said, “Could I set down?” She said, “Oh, hello.” She said, “I—I got company.” I said, “Lady, I didn’t mean it in that way.” I said, “I would just like to set here just a moment, until your friends return.” I seen she was drinking. And she said, “Very well.” And I told her the story that was told me by the vision. She said, “I know who you are,” she said, “You’re that Mr. Branham that’s down here in that armory building.” I said, “Yes, ma’am, I am.” She said, “I passed by your meeting the other night, I couldn’t get in.” She said, “Mr. Branham, I’m beyond hopes.” She said, “My father was a Methodist preacher, I got two daughters that’s Methodist Sunday school teachers.” I said, “What happened?” She told me the story. She said, “There’s not a hope for me.”

18. I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE — 1952-08-10

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• ¶1g–¶1g I was out there just a preaching away (You know?), and I come back behind the curtains after the service was go to rest up; I was too weak to walk back. And there was a fine scholar walked up to me, said, “Brother Branham”, said, “your grammar’s terrible.” I said, “Yes, sir. I know that.” I said, “I just had a seventh grade education. My father had died and I had to take care of ten…” “Oh, that’s no excuse.” He said, “My,” said, “the mistakes that you made tonight.” Said, “You should—you should know better grammar than that. The crowd that you’re speaking for,” said, “why, it’s a disgrace.” I guess he was part of Mr. Webster you know, so I said, “Well, sir,” I said, “I know that’s right.” I said, “But…” He said, “Well, you could take a—a correspondence course.” I said, “Yes, sir. But you see other times,” I said, “I was…I had to take care of a big family and everything, and now to make ends meet,” and I said, “And now,” I said, “the Lord’s work is so—keeps me so busy,” I said, “I don’t have time to—to take it.” He said, “Oh, that’s no excuse.” He said, “I heard you tonight out there saying, ‘All to you people that come by this polepit tonight, believing will get healed.’” I said, “Yes, sir. What was wrong with that?” I don’t know the difference. And he said, “Why, you should not say, ‘polepit’”; said, “you should say ‘pulpit.’” He said, “Those people would appreciate you more if you said ‘pulpit.’” But he pinched me a little too hard. You know? So I put my hand over on his shoulder; I said, “Brother, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings (See?), but them people out there don’t care whether I say, ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ They want me to preach the Gospel and produce what I’m talking about. They see Jesus Christ; that’s all they care about.” That’s right…?…Well now, I…That’s the reason I don’t say I’m a minister or a preacher. When I was a little boy, my father was a—a rider, and he used to follow rodeos and so forth, and ride fancy riding.

19. BROKEN CISTERNS — 1964-07-26

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• ¶65–¶67 And that’s the way it is with a lot of these parasites today. You can’t live in the fresh water of the Holy Spirit. That’s the reason they’re so firmly against the Word, and say, “It contradicts Itself. There is nothing to It.” Is because they have to have some kind of a stagnated pool to wiggle in. Right. That’s the same way it is with frogs, and with lizards, and with tadpoles, and such as that. They’ve got to get around the swamp or the stagnated pool, to live, for it’s their nature to live there. And you can’t change the animal till you change its nature. And you cannot make a man see the Word of God till his nature has been changed; and when his nature is changed from what he is, to a son of God, and the Holy Spirit comes into him. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word of God! Today I was talking with my good friend, Doctor Lee Vayle, who is present now. And he’s quite a theologian, and so we usually have some—have some pretty good discussions on the Scripture. Very smart. And he asked me one time what I thought about the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, “Was it speaking in tongues?” It’s been many years ago. I said, “No; can’t see that.” He said, “Neither do I,” said, “though I’ve been taught that.” He said, “What would you think would be an evidence?” I said, “The most perfect evidence I can think of is love.” And so we got to talking on that. And then I thought that sounded pretty good so I just held that, “If a man has got love.” But one day the Lord, in a vision, straightened me out. And He said, that, “The evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word,” neither love, nor speaking in tongues, but it’s receiving the Word.

20. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶142b–¶145 Brother Branham, will there be any children born during the Millennium…thousand years Millennium, one thousand years reign of Christ here on earth? Or will there be any sign on earth…any sin (pardon me) on earth during that time; and will there be people on earth in corporal bodies during that time? I’ll try to just run through them right quick. Now, in Genesis the 6th chapter, 12th verse, God said all flesh had corrupted…Yeah, that was marriage, divorce, and everything else. The Bible said, “As it was in the days of Noah, how they married, and give in marriage,” and so forth like that. That is one of the signs of the end time, just one of the signs. Now, if that’s all the world was doing, I couldn’t call it the evidence of the end time, no more than I can call speaking in tongues the evidence of the Holy Ghost. It is true that there’s supposed to come a time when marriage and divorce is just like it was in the days of Noah, but there’s so many other things goes with it; it’s just one of the signs. And speaking in tongues is one of the signs of the Holy Spirit, but not an infallible sign of the Holy Spirit, no more than just women and men marrying and divorcing and marrying again. That wouldn’t be the only sign. If that’s the only one there was, I couldn’t call it that. See? Other things has to go with speaking in tongues or any other gift to make it God.

21. FAITH — 1953-12-13

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• ¶71–¶72 Some dear person, a Nazarene brother, very dear sweet brother, he said, “Brother Branham, I just…We just won’t let people come in our church that speaks with tongues.” I said, “Then Jesus couldn’t come, ’cause He died speaking in tongues.” It’s true. And He taught speaking in tongues. The Bible teaches speaking in tongues. All the apostles, all the saints, and everything believed it, taught it, and received it. Well now, Paul said, “If you all speak with tongues and there be no interpretation for edification of the church, some unlearned person would say, ‘Now, aren’t you all mad?’ But if one is a prophet and will reveal the things that’s in the person’s heart, then they’ll fall down and say, ‘God’s with you.’” Is that right? Well now, all those gifts goes in the Church. Is that right? See, how did I know the woman here? Never seen her, never knowed nothing about her. She looked like she went over there to get in the prayer line, probably without a prayer card, so they just sent her back. See? So, and so that was it. But she don’t have to have the prayer card; she just has to have faith. And God honored that when she passed by. Now, here’s a man; I don’t know him. God knows I don’t. Don’t know nothing about him. But God knows him and knows all about him. His very breath he’s breathing now is by the mercies of God. If He’d call that life out of him, all this petroleum and light and stuff that his body is made out of will just go right out, and he’d—he’d die. And he couldn’t operate no more. He’d be gone.

22. ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH 2 — 1953-03-26

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• ¶103–¶108 And the very baptism of the Holy Spirit that’s brought Life to the people, the reason the Pentecostals and the holy-rollers, as you call them, receive me on the subject of Divine healing. Oh, sure, kings and potentates, they hear about it, they say “come over here,” the Lord, being merciful, heals them that’s like that. That’s true. But all the rest of it, when you talk about Eternal Life, they “belong to the Anglican church,” they “belong to this, that, the other,” they “belong to church.” That don’t have nothing to do with it. You belonging to church don’t mean that with God, unless you’re born again! [Brother Branham snapped his fingers—Ed.] There’s only one Church, and that’s them that are born into the Body of Jesus Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Let me tell you, my brother, there’s only one way to get into Christ. That’s not by shaking hands, neither by water baptism, by sprinkling, by stop eating meat, by keeping sabbath days. By quit smoking, chewing, drinking, swearing, all these things, that’s not the way into Christ. Smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, running around with the other, with women, unlawfully, and all these things that you do, that’s not sin. There’s nothing…That’s not sin. Cussing, swearing, drinking, that’s not sin, that’s the attributes of sin. You’re a sinner, what makes you do it; but that isn’t sin, that’s the attributes of it. Just like now, this is going to hurt you. But I’m responsible with God’s Word, willing to discuss It, anytime. Here’s where you Pentecostal people has made your mistake, many of you sitting here, of teaching, “The initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues being the Holy Ghost.” Why, speaking in tongues is all right, but that is an attribute. That isn’t the Holy Ghost; that’s what the Holy Ghost does.

23. FELLOWSHIP BY REDEMPTION — 1955-04-03

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• ¶171–¶174 We’ve went off after education. We’ve went off after great flowery sermons. We’ve went off after Hollywood dress and—and fanaticism. The churches must be so big. It must be plush. It must be crucifix every where. There must pipe organs. Those things are all right. But we’ve put all of our thoughts to that, and left the real Thing off. The Pentecostal people has went after initial evidence, speaking in tongues, and shouting, and—and something. Them is all right, but you’ve left the real Thing out. For, it’s proved that you can’t love God, and hate, at the same time. “Bitter and sweet water won’t come from the same fountain.” You can’t have speaking in tongues and Divine healing in the church, and still envy and strife and malice and hatred. You can’t do it. It won’t mix. God will pull it out, just as sure as the world. Got to come back. That’s what happened to the church. You say, “Are you against speaking in tongues? And…” No, sir. I’m for it. It’s God’s Word. But I see where the church has went off on a bunch of fandangle stuff, and has never come back, never has recognized, yet, the…’cause, they do these things with malice and hatred and strife, mixing the same, and oil and water won’t mix. See what I mean? Let’s come back. Let this little unit, this morning, here at the Branham Tabernacle, purpose in their heart, we’re coming back. We’re going back to the foundation. “God, create in me a right kind of a spirit. Create in me a love, a peace that passes all understanding. And, O mighty God, from there, build me then. When I see anything going wrong, let me go back to the foundation and start again.” Tear off the boards and come on back down again. It has to be built right. Cause, it’ll only…Cause, no matter how high you build it, it’ll be a heavier fall when you do fall. Amen. Oh, people.

24. GOD KEEPS HIS WORD — 1957-01-15

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• ¶24–¶27 So we…This was—this was dinnertime for us. And so we went out there, and they had a great, oh, a beautiful place, hundreds of acres where the students could work their way through and so forth, pay their tuition. And he had seventy-something students setting there. And we, after we had our dinner, he said, “I want to ask you a question, Mr. Branham.” I said, “Yes, sir?” And I thought, “Oh, my, here it comes now, Lutheran dean.” He said, “I’ve been down to the Pentecostals, and see them kick the furniture around, and everything like that.” Said, “I want to ask you, is anything to it?” I said, “Yes, sir, there is.” I said, “It’s like a little kid, when he gets a toy, he just falls.” And I said, “Like Ezekiel said, there’s a valley full of dry bones. He said, ‘Can these live?’ He said, ‘Thou knowest.’ So he said, ‘Prophesy to the dry bones.’ And when the bones come together, there was a rattling and a shaking, lot of noise. But then, when the skin come on them, the meat come on them, there wasn’t much noise. He said, ‘Prophesy to the spirit now.’ See? I think that’s what’s going on. See?” So I said, “They…I see them make a lot of noise.” I said, “I think the bones are coming together.” And so, he said, “We’re hungering and thirsting for God.” I said, “That’s fine.” Said, “And we want you to tell us how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” He said, “Now,” said, “we believe that—that in, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe.” And I said, “Well, did you ever read Acts 19?” And he said, “Yes.”

25. DESPERATIONS — 1963-09-01

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• ¶17–¶19 Then, the Life that was in Christ is the Holy Ghost, not the third Person; but the same Person, in the form of the Holy Spirit, coming upon you, as a Token that your life and your fare is paid, you have been accepted. Until that token comes, you’re not permitted on the highway, you’re not permitted on the…in the—the bus line; you’re not permitted to go in until you can present this token, and that token is your fare. And now It shows that the Blood has been shed and been applied to you, the price has been applied to you, and you have the Token that the Blood is applied to you and you’re accepted. Get it now? Oh, my! Oh! Now—now, just not no certain evidence. See? You say, “Brother Branham,” I feel it in your minds, you see, “why will I know?” Look, what were you, and what are you? There is how you know. See? What was you before this Token was applied? What are you after It’s applied? What was your desires before, and what is your desires after? Then you know whether the Token is applied or not. And these other things just automatically go with That. See? It—it isn’t like talking about it, and say, “Tongues is the evidence.” Now, I’ll bear, buy a pair of shoes, the tongue isn’t the shoe. It just comes with the shoe, you see. It just comes with the shoe. See? Now, the same thing is the Token. The Token is Christ. But speaking in tongues, and casting out devils, and doing those things, and preaching, and whatever, is the evidence It’s there, true, but it’s—it’s not It. See, it’s a gift of It. If I told you that…

26. SHALOM — 1964-01-19

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• ¶134–¶137a Oh, you try to place your evidence of the Holy Spirit upon different actions. I believe in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. What does it do? The Pentecostal says, “Speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost.” I’ve seen witches and wizards speak in tongues. I’ve seen them speak in tongues and drink blood out of a human skull, and prophesy and deny there was such a thing as God. I’ve been in the witch camps where they lay a pencil on the table and make it jump up- and-down, and write in unknown tongues and interpret it. That’s right. That don’t have a thing to…Yet, I believe God speaks in unknown tongues through His people. But you put so much stress on that, “Why should there be an interpreter? Why should it have to be a message to the church?” Then you other people, you say, “The fruits of the Spirit, that’s how we know. Love, joy, that’s how we got the evidence.” It is? Then the Christian Science has got you all beat. They exercise that more than all you Pentecostals, Methodists, and Baptists, put together. Watch what happens. Let me show you the fruits of the Spirit, and see if you could go for that anymore. Let’s take Jesus. God forgive me for these words I’m going to say; I’m going to turn against Him for a minute, to show you, take these council of man here, and this council of man here this afternoon. I’ll say… “Sirs, there is a young Fellow around here, by the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, have nothing to do with Him! Who was the first… What does our Bible teach us? God is love. Who was the first with you when you were born? Your kind, old priest. That’s right. Who come to you when you was in need, didn’t have no money, and loaned you some money? Your kind, old priest. Exactly. Who put his hand on your shoulder and on mother’s shoulder, when you was about to separate, and prayed you back to God? Your kind, old priest. Who was it took sides with you, when you and your neighbor was in fussing, and brought you back together in fellowship? Your kind, old priest.

27. IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 1 — 1962-03-18

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• ¶405b–¶411 Brother Branham tells it, ‘They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can’t have a revival.’ That’s right. He’s right about that.”—Ed.] That’s just it. Brother Ed, that’s what it did. Oh, isn’t that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother. Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here. Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, now, we’ll start right in now until midnight, then we’ll… [“Amen.”] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us. Now, before we start again, let’s just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we’re talking to now. Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, “He’s gone. He can’t live but a few hours. It’s done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away.” Here he is, years later, still Now we pray, Father, that You’ll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

28. IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST — 1959-12-20

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• ¶14–¶18 And so then, after got through speaking, I said, “Now, first thing I want to say, brother, I forgive you for that, because you didn’t mean that. I know you didn’t. For, if you’re a minister and I’m a minister, we should be brothers.” See? And then I said, “Now, to misunderstand each other, in the Scripture, is something different.” So then we begin to take the Scripture. And the poor fellow was so lost, in a minute, he didn’t know where to stand or what to do. Then, he got so tied up, he didn’t know what to do. And he, when he walked out of the building, though, that night, he said, “I’ll say one thing, Brother Branham. You have the Spirit of Christ.” See? And I thought, “‘The devil,’ a few minutes ago, and now ‘the Spirit of Christ.’” It’s only the way you approach it. That’s all. Christ was not to fuss. Now—now, the man, because that he did that, horrible things happened to him; almost lost his mind. From an institution or something, jumped out of a window, and almost killed himself. And now he’s coming back to some good friends of mine. He’s seeking, every day, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Wants to come up to my house, to have hands laid on him, to receive the Holy Ghost; a preacher of a great denominational church. See? So, honest-heartedly we answer questions, with all that we know how to answer. And now I’ll read this question, nicely written. 1. Brother Branham, would you please explain why the people in Acts 2:4 spoke in other tongues or languages, even before the multitude came together in Acts 2:6? That’s the first question. Yeah. It’s the same person, I suppose, also. Yes, it is the same person.

29. THE WORLD IS FALLING APART — 1963-04-12

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• ¶70–¶73 Oh, we talk about people coming in and receiving the Holy Ghost, and things like that. And I’ve…Certainly, I appreciate that. I do appreciate it. But looky here what we’ve done, friends. We’ve built our denominations upon some evidence, like we take speaking in tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues, sure, but everything speaks in tongues hasn’t got the Holy Ghost. I’m a missionary. I’ve seen witches speak in tongues and interpret, and give the right interpretation to it, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil. Right. Get back to the Word of God where you belong. Get away from these things. A life is what tells in human being, the Life of Christ. How can you be of Christ and hold to these forms? Then see where we’ve got to? The Pentecostal church, when it started, fifty years ago, and the Holy Ghost begin to fall and the people received the gift of speaking in tongues, then you begin to take everything into it, denominating this, and that, and the other. And look where you’re at today, till the whole thing is rotten. That’s right. The whole system is corrupt, and she’s just falling apart with the rest of the world. Everything has to do it. “But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” Now, remember, our politics has gone out after the world. Our churches has gone out after the world. All is polluted, our days, today. When, we used to be, long time ago, when I can just remember, when our old Baptist church down there in the state of Kentucky, when they had them old-fashion women and men setting around there, with those. Preacher, last night, Brother Crow, talking about those ladies with the bonnets on. And—and they used to, what they call, get sanctified. Or, and they’d get out there and shout, and—and the—the hairpins would fall out of their hair when they cried, and—and walked up-and-down those aisles, praising God. Why, brother, them people had enough religion to make the Pentecostal day feel ashamed of itself. And, then, right. That was Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. Right.

30. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1954-05-13

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• ¶211–¶216 Now, then, all the Lutherans went back on the shelf, because they forgot the…did not…Now, not all the…I mean the Lutheran church. The Lutheran still has good men, filled with the Holy Ghost. That’s right. But now they all went back on the church, in that age. All right. Here come Wesley along. He taken them through his age. Then, the first thing you know, along come…After Wesleyan age, up come the Pentecostal. And they received the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues. My, the Methodists, and the Nazarenes, and the Holiness, say, “Oh, it’s the devil.” And you see what you done? You blasphemed the Holy Ghost. And see where you’re at today? That’s right. You, exactly what you done. Sure, you did. And you failed to walk in the Light. And now you Pentecostals has got so lukewarm, this Laodicean Church Age, till God is spewing you out of His mouth. Right. That’s exactly right. You say, “Do you believe in speaking in tongues?” Yes, sir. “Did you ever speak in tongues?” Yes, sir. I praise God for it. Yes, sir. I’ve spoke in tongues, several times. And I believe it’s the Power of God. Yes. I don’t believe in the initial evidence, now, is speaking in tongues. But I believe there’s a Power of God makes you speak in tongues, signs and wonders to follow. Yes, sir. And then the devil put an old scarecrow up there, somebody that mocked and acted like they had the Holy Ghost. And all you Pilgrim Holiness, and Holiness, and Nazarenes, and all of you, looked back and say, “Ooh, I don’t want none of That. Ooh!”

31. JESUS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD — 1954-02-17

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• ¶31–¶31 And then Mr. Hall had been converted. Which was a very, very foul man. And he was converted in that same meeting. And he’s the pastor down there now. And so… She said, “Mr. Hall has been pronounced with a cancer of the liver.” And said, “He is laying at his sister’s house, and his sister married the judge of the city’s brother, and is down at his house. They brought him up here. He’s dying. He’d been calling for you.” And I said, “Well, let’s go down and see him.” And I went down to see Brother Hall. And he was just as yellow as the color. Cancer in the liver, started off with a liver sclerosis, and it went into cancer. I said, “Who is your doctor, Brother Hall?” He said, “Dr. Dillman.” Dr. Dillman is a bosom friend of mine. I said, “What about it, Brother Hall?” He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I guess it’s just the end of the road for me.” Said, “I guess that’s just about all that can be done, ’less the Lord undertakes for me.” I said, “Well, I’ll pray, Brother Hall.” And we prayed. And the next day, I went back; he was worse. The second day he was still worse. Looked like he was dying. Mrs. Hall come out and said, “Brother Branham, do you know anything?” I said, “Sister Hall, I pleaded with God, just with all my heart.” The Word’s still the Word of God. But it just hadn’t fell right then. See? It hadn’t been given to me. It hadn’t been given to him. But it’s still the Word of God, just hadn’t anchored right.

32. IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL? — 1963-06-30

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• ¶233–¶235 I said, “Last night the Lord told me. You’re going down there today, and you find out you’re not going to get that building. You’re going to another building. Doctor Mead will be setting on this side. That colored man, his wife, that sings, will be setting right here, and so forth, where they’ll all be setting.” I said, “There’ll be a Buddha priest there.” And I said, “Now find out. They got it against me because I preach the water baptism in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. They got it against me ’cause I preach the serpent’s seed; and against the evidence, that, every man speaks with tongues has got the Holy Ghost, and things.” I said, “Come down and watch God.” Got in there…They went down there, and the very two hours from then, or better, some time that afternoon, they called up Brother Carlson. And he said, “The guy that let him have that, and paid a down payment on it, said, ‘We have to cancel, because the manager said he had already promised it to a band for that night, or that morning.’” And they couldn’t have it. So we went out to the Town and Country. And that morning when we got in there, and stood in there, and—and Brother Carlson said, “There’s one thing. You brethren might disagree with Brother Branham, but,” said, “he’s not scared to say what he believes.” He said, “He told me these things would happen just exactly the way they are.” He said, “Now here he is. Let him speak for hisself.”

33. IT WASN’T SO FROM THE BEGINNING — 1960-03-06

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• ¶84–¶88 O God, wish I could push that into hearts, I wish I had something another, that I could show the people, that the first branch out of the Vine bore Pentecostal evidence, the second branch will bear Pentecostal evidence. Oh, there you are, back to the beginning, back to where we started from. That’s the reason today, that through traditions, and so forth, we explained away all the supernatural, that the Holy Ghost come, fell upon the people, they begin speaking with tongues, the people made fun of them, called them holy-rollers, and cast them out to one side. They kept growing, growing. What’s it coming to now? Greater things than this. Divine healing services started. Then the Angel of the Lord come in, manifesting the spirits of the gifts, revealing back again the very same Spirit that was in the Church at the beginning, that knowed the secrets of the heart, and could speak it out, which was the sign of the Messiah. The Bible said so, the Bible declares it. And if that was the sign of the Messiah at the beginning, it’s the sign of the Messiah at the end. Oh, if you could see it! “Let him that has ears, hear; he that has eyes, see.” If it was so at the beginning, that Jesus Christ made Hisself known to the last age of the Jews and the Samaritans by a Messianic sign, that same sign will take place at the end of the Gentile, ’cause it’s another branch out of the same Vine. Why, the life in the vine produces grapes, the second branch will produce grapes. Now, you can graft something in there, you can take a graft, and put it in there, it’ll never bear the life of the vine. Right. No, sir. The life of the vine is grapes, it’ll bear grapes, every one it produces, every one it produces will bear grapes. Man can graft anything in there. That’s what’s the matter today, we’ve grafted too much man-made doctrine, we’ve got wild gourds and everything else in it. But when the Vine Itself puts forth a branch, it’ll be a Pentecostal branch full of the Holy Ghost, doing the same signs and wonders that they did at the beginning.

34. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (LAW HAVING A SHADOW) — 1954-05-16

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• ¶43b–¶45 And then when we’re growing old here, and we been born again of the Spirit here, begotten in the wombs of the earth here, when we leave this earth: “This robe of flesh, I’ll drop and rise, and seize the everlasting prize; and shout while passing through the air.” As long as in this earth here, there’s a born-again Christian, a spirit in here groaning and waiting: “If this earthly tabernacle’s dissolved, we have one already waiting.” When this—when this natural was conceived and being brought forth, when it was born, there’s a spiritual body to receive it. And now, as this natural body’s dwindling away, there’s a spiritual body to receive it, when it goes away. See. When it’s begotten of the…We are begotten of the Father, through the Word by the washing of the water of the Word and made new creatures in Christ Jesus. So, it’s all one work of grace. But now look. In the age, Luther, Wesley and all down through the Pentecostal age…Now as I said, “I’m not Pentecostal.” I believe in Pentecostal doctrine, many things. There’s some things that I disagree in, as I told you last night, some things. I—I disagree preeminently in the initial evidence, what they call, “you have to speak with tongues to prove that you’ve got the Holy Ghost.” That cannot be Scripturally proven. Now that is just…Let your pastor come to me. See. That’s right. And I’ve even, from the highest, of Doctor Pope, and all those others, we’ve come together, even the head of the Assemblies of God, one of the greatest in speaking in tongues for evidence. And Doctor Pope reached across the table, him and Ern and them, and took hold of my hand, said, “Brother Branham, that is the truth. But what are we going to do about it now? If we fail to do that, then the people will go off, just like Pilgrim Holiness and so forth.” I said, “No, they won’t. You just lay it out there like the Bible said. They’ll…”

35. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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• ¶73–¶74 Someone got after me; a great, noted minister, not long ago. Said, “Brother Branham, come. I want to lay hands on you.” Said, “You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “What?” Said, “Bawling them people out like that.” I said, “I’m telling the…” Said, “I believe that.” Said, “I’m a Pentecostal, too. I believe that women shouldn’t wear short hair, shouldn’t wear paints, and these things like that the way they do, paint their faces up.” Said, “They shouldn’t do that. But,” said, “God called you to pray for the sick.” I said, “He called me to preach the Gospel.” Yeah. And he said, “I believe in that. But,” said, “you think that?” I said, “Yeah. Look what you got, all these big programs, televisions, and everything else. I ain’t got nothing but God to answer to.” That’s right. I said, “I don’t have nothing but God to answer to.” He said, “I—I—I…You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined.” That’s right. Certainly. That’s exactly. He said, “Well, you’re going to ruin it.” I said, “Who is going to tell It then? See? Somebody has got to say It. Somebody has got to stand for that what’s Truth, no matter what It hurts.” And friends, as Christian, as people that believe we’re going to Heaven, the Holy Spirit Itself will type us in the Word of God. He said, “You know what you ought to do?” Said, “People believe you to be a prophet.” Said, “You ought to be teaching these women how to get gifts of prophecy and things like that, and great, higher things instead of little thing.”

36. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-06-28

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• ¶114–¶115 But I don’t serve the Lord because I think He’d send me to hell if I didn’t; I serve Him because I love Him. I serve Him because there’s something in me. If you go out and say, “Well, I have to quit doing this because my church don’t believe in it,” you’re just playing the part of a hypocrite. That’s right. But if you do it because that you love it, and— and it’s a contribution to God, and something in your heart making the love of God so greater to you than these things, now you’re on the right line. But if I didn’t drink, smoke, chew, cuss, do nothing else, I’d still go to hell. Sure! I joined all the churches, was baptized, and had my name on all the books, and played a good part, and lived a good life, “Except a man be borned again, he can’t even see the Kingdom of God.” That’s right! Now these virgins, ten of them slowed up. What stumped the Nazarene people was this: Because the Pentecostals took the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues. They got them down at the altar and made them say something or another over and over till they spoke in tongues. A real, true Pentecostal wouldn’t go for that. The devil had a lot of things in your Nazarene church too. See? And he’s got a whole lot of things in the Pentecostal church, but as far as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that’s the Truth. That’s exactly the Truth.

37. IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR? — 1962-12-30

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• ¶324–¶332 I said, “All right.” (I said, “Watch Tommy Hicks be there, too.”) Went down at Town And Country, and he said, “Well, Brother Branham,” he said, “oh, this is one…” I said, “Tommy, would you do me a favor?” “Sure, Brother Branham.” I said, “Wonder if you would speak for me?” He said, “Oh, I—I couldn’t do that.” I said, “Why? I’m just a seventh-grade student, and I—I’ll say… I’d say empire instead of umpire. See? I don’t know how to speak before there. And there is going to be the Ministerial Association of Greater Chicago. How am I going to speak before them, with my seventh-grade education, Tommy? You’re a Doctor of Divinity.” I said, “You’d know how to talk. I don’t.” He said, “Brother Branham, I couldn’t do that.” I said, “Why? I’ve done you a many favor.” And I just put it real straight. And Brother Carlson said, “Oh, Brother Branham, he couldn’t do that.” I said, “Why?” He said, “Well, he, the—the—the—the…” I said, “You know why? You know why, but you don’t want to tell me. They got a trap set for me.” And I said, “Brother Carlson, you’ve got that hotel room, haven’t you, where we had the other banquet?” “Yes.” I said, “You’re not going to get it.” He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I done got the deposit on it.” I said, “I don’t care what you got. It’s not going to be there. That’s a green-colored room. We’re going to be in a brown-colored room. I’m going to be back in the corner. Dr. Mead will sit to the right. That colored man and his wife will sit here, and so-and-so. There’ll be a Buddha priest sitting to my extreme right,” and how they’ll be dressed.

38. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

39. THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED — 1965-02-19

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• ¶143–¶149 The Pentecostal church is in a Laodicean condition. Oh, they still jump and holler, and carry on when the music is beating. When the music stops beating, or the beatnik music some of them play and calling it Christianity, and whenever that stops, all the glory is gone. Yeah. If it’s a real praise of God, there isn’t enough whistles and enough— enough power in the world to stop it. When it really comes from God, it don’t take music to be beat up. It takes the Spirit of God to come down on it. That’s what does it. And they’ve long forgot It, because they’ve classed the gift of the Holy Ghost, “initial evidence of speaking in tongues.” And I heard devils and witches speak in tongues. The Holy Ghost is the Word of God in you, that identifies Itself by accepting that Word. Outside of that, it can’t be the Holy Ghost. If it says it’s the Holy Spirit, and denies one Word of that Bible, it cannot be the Holy Spirit. That’s the evidence whether you believe or not. Notice another great sign. The Jews are in their homeland; their own nation, their own money, a member of the United Nations. They got their own army. They got everything. They’re in their homeland; which, Jesus said, “Learn a parable of the fig tree.” There they are, right back in their nation. This day this Scripture is fulfilled, the Jews in their homeland. This day this Scripture is fulfilled, the Laodicea Church Age. This day this Scripture, Matthew 24, is fulfilled. The world is in corruption, the whole thing; nations against nations, earthquakes in divers places, great whirlwinds coming down, shaking the nations, and so forth, great disasters everywhere. This day this Scripture is fulfilled.

40. FROM THAT TIME — 1962-07-13

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• ¶41–¶44 So we set at the table, they set us a nice table down in the gymnasium room. Lovely little Lutheran women served our fine dinner, very fine. And whe-…Dr. Hegre set next to me, and he said, “Now, Mr. Branham,” when we got through, he said, “I want to say this one thing, I apologize,” what the man said. Said, “Now, but I…” I said, “That was forgiven at the beginning.” And he said, “We are hungry, here at Bethany.” Said, “We are…” There’s a great…The students, if they can’t pay their way, they’ve got hundreds of acres of corn and stuff they raise, and work their way through college, very fine school. And he said, “We are hungry. We’re studying about God.” And said, “We found in there, a couple of years ago, about the Holy Ghost and how It worked.” And said, “We went to the Pentecostals that claimed to have It.” And said, “We seen them kick over the chairs, knock out the windows, and so forth.” He said, “What have they got?” I said, “The Holy Ghost.” And he said, “That?” I said, “Sure. They got so much steam they have to blow it out the whistle, they won’t put it to action, let it go to working,” I said, “that’s all. There’s so much steam blow…builds up, they have to get it some way.” And I said, “They just…If you’d put that same power, that same thing in action, in faith, with God’s Word, and go to moving it, see, instead of just blowing it out. See? It’s…The Holy Spirit builds it up in there.” And he said, “Well, then what do you think we Lutherans has got?”

41. THE GODHEAD EXPLAINED — 1961-04-25

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• ¶291–¶294 Now, Paul said, in First Corinthians 13, “Though I have knowledge, see, and understand all the mysteries of God, see; under all, stand; and have not charity, I’m nothing. And though I speak with tongue of men and of angels,” that’s those who you speak to God, and always the ones cannot be interpreted. “Though I speak with tongues, genuine tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, love, it profits me nothing.” So if I know all the mysteries of God, and can unroll them and—and make them all hit together, and I don’t have love, what good does it do? And when I… Jesus said, “This will all men know that you’re My disciples, when you have…” when the Assemblies has love for the Oneness, and Oneness has love for the Assemblies, “when you have love, one for another,” be right or wrong. And as long as the objective is wrong, the motive is wrong, rather, then you’re wrong to begin with. Isn’t that right? See, “Though I speak with tongue of men and angels, and have not charity, I’m not nothing yet.” Because, God is love. We know that. And I believe in speaking in tongues. Now, somebody said, “Brother Branham don’t believe in the initial evidence.” I’d like to clear that up with you now. See? I’d like to tell you. I believe that when a man receives Christ, he receives a portion of the Holy Spirit. Cause, Jesus said, in Matthew the—the 12th chapter, of the 5th chapter and twenty-…the 24th verse, He said. No, I believe it’s Saint John 5:24. He said, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life.” Now, there’s only one form of Eternal Life. “And not come into the condemnation; but passed from death to Life.”