<TITLE>19. Par 191-199</TITLE>L-191 Now, these Seven Church Ages begin with Ephesus, and 'Tira, Pergamos, and on through. And the Holy Spirit, which is the Oil of God, fell on the Church at the beginning in Ephesus, the Ephesian Church, which was the Church of grace. You Baptist ought to holler "amen" there. And then on the Church of grace, which in Ephesus, and the Ephesian letter sets us out, who we was before the foundation of the world. It fell there, and they received the Holy Spirit.
But wait a minute, my Baptist brother, how did they receive It? How did they get It? By joining the church? Never. They got It by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You say, "Yes, Brother Branham; that's right." What happened to you when It fell on you?
Notice, the same Fire that burnt the oil there in Ephesus, burnt it in 'Tira; the same Fire burnt there, burnt in Pergamos, burnt on down through to the Laodicean Church Age. The same Holy Spirit, lit by the same God, by the same Fire, and the Fire that fell on Pentecost has lit the candle, the Church, through every age, right on down now.

L-194 But the trouble of it is, we Baptists, we Methodists, we'r are way back up here, trying to take some historical thing, and here goes the Church down here. That's right. That's where we're left behind. Every church, when it started, there wasn't...
Look at Luther in the first reformation. What a revival: Luther. Look, I've got his textbook at home. How that that man shook under the power of God, how he believed in Divine healing, accepted It himself; believed in the power of God, even so much, till he spoke in tongues: Martin Luther. That's exactly right. Martin Luther spoke with tongues.

L-196 And then the next age come down, John Wesley. John Wesley done the same thing. When he was preaching, he said, "What are these words that I mutter, unknown to myself?" That's right. Speaking with tongues; believed in Divine healing, and when he come to America, the churches here treated him like they do the holy-rollers today, they put him out in churches. And they preached the Gospel out there, and fell under the power of God, until they laid on the floor all night at a time.
And John Wesley's own textbook, that I got at home now, of where he was riding a horse one day to pray for a woman that was sick, and the horse fell and broke its leg. And he got off the horse, and took a cruse of oil, and anointed the horse with oil, and got on him, and rode away. Same Fire burning there...
But you've got it down to a ritualistic form of something, and the Holy Ghost is moving on. Right. That's right.

L-199 And in the Methodist church, "They got something wrong with them," the by--their book said, "they got the jerk." And they would start to walk, and they'd jerk and jump, and act like that in their tent meetings and things, the Methodists. Why, brother, if John Wesley could rise on the scene, he'd be so ashamed of you, he'd deny you; unless he'd give you a good Gospel whipping with the Gospel that he preached.
I stood not long ago by the shrine, where they turned their hounds loose, that day when he was preaching the--the new birth, and so forth and that. And the high church of England turned them dogs loose on him. And he said, "The sun will not fall on your head three times, till he calls for me to pray for him." And he did; and he died. That's right. Sure.


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