<TITLE>13. Par -</TITLE>L-168-117 And he said, "I'm Doctor Reedhead."
I said, "I'm glad to know you. Will you come in?"
He said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "I understand that you was ordained in the Baptist church."
I said, "That's right." I said, "I come out of it," I said, "because I couldn't stand that. I--I believe to preach what the Bible says, not what the Baptist church says. And I have nothing against the Baptist church; they're just as good as any other church." And I said, "I come out of it so I could be free."
He said, "Well, of course, you know we're Baptist."
And I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "I want to ask you something. What about this baptism of the Holy Ghost?" Said, "I've been in and seen them kick over chairs and stomp and holler and carry on."
I said, "I've seen all that too." But I said, "Brother, behind it all, there's a real genuine article of the baptism of the Holy Ghost."
And he said, "Brother Branham, can I receive it?" He said, "I've got so many honors." He said, "I'm a Doctor; I'm this; I got my Ph.D.; I got my Bachelor Degree; I've got every kind of degree and honorary degrees from all over the nations and things like that," said, "and where is Jesus Christ?"
I said, "Well, brother, He's right here in the room."

L-169-123 He said, "I stood and talked to a staunch Mohammedan, just been educated in America, and I said, 'Renounce your old dead prophet and receive a resurrected Lord Jesus.' He said, 'Kind sir, what can your resurrected Lord Jesus do for me any more than my Mohammed can do?' Said, 'Both of them wrote Bibles; we believe that.' Said, 'Both of them died.' And said, 'And both of them promised life after death to us, and we believe it.'"
He said, "Oh, but, you see," he said, "we Christians have joy."
Said, "So do we." Said, "I can produce just as much psychology as you can." And that's right. He said, "Well, look, our Mohammed... You claimed your Lord Jesus raised from the dead."
And Doctor Reedhead said, "Why, He did."
Said, "Prove it." Said, "Prove it." Said, "You've had two thousand years to prove it, and only about one third of the world has ever heard about it." Said, "Let our Mohammed raise from the dead and the whole world will know about it in two days." He's right. He said, "Our Mohammed never promised us nothing but life after death." He said, "Your Lord Jesus promised you and you teachers that the very things that He did you'd do also." And said, "Let's see you teachers produce that now," and said, "we'll believe He raised from the dead."
He said, "Brother Branham, I scooted my foot in the dirt like that and changed the subject." With all those degrees... Why? Where's God in those degrees? God's not known by Ph.D.'s and D.D.'s and L.D.'s, and so forth.

L-169-129 God's known by simple faith, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's the only way. God in you, and He brings you a son of God, changes your nature. And the very same thing, God the Creator Who made all things and spoke the world into existence by His Word, that same Spirit in you, you believe everything God says, and there's nothing impossible, if you believe it.
You won't stand back to one little creed and say, "I don't believe, accept that. I can't believe God will do this. I can't believe." You limit God by your unbelief. That's it.


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