<TITLE>35. Par -</TITLE>L-203-341 You say, "Well, glory to God, the Bible said when the Holy Ghost is come you don't need any teacher; He's the teacher Hisself." Oh, brother. How can you be so little from reading the Scrip... Why did the Holy Ghost set teachers in the church then?
Say, "I don't have to have anybody teach me; the Holy Ghost teaches me." It does through a teacher. He set teachers in the church.
He said, "Are all teachers, are all apostles, are all gifts of healing?" The Holy Ghost set these things in the church; He operates them all, and each one of them operates orderly.

L-204-344 Now, it's just like my foot; one of them say, "I'm going this way," the other one say, "I'm going back this way." Now, what are you going to do? The hand said, "I'm going to go up," and the other one's going around this way. What kind of a shape's the body going to get into? See?
But now, if the mind here says (what?), "Move forward, both of you. Hand, you go with them. Head, you stay straight. Arms, you do the same," everything walking in harmony... Now, when I get there, I haven't used my arms. Now, the foot's done its duty. The pastor's through preaching; now, arms, do--do your duty. See? See what I mean?
Well, what if the arms was reaching out like this, "Oh, where's it at? Where's it at?" And you feet reaching it (See?), you're not there yet. See? Hold your peace, arm. It'll be time for you to be used after while; wait till you get over there. See what I mean? That's the gift; that's the gifts of the Spirit in operation.

L-204-347 I love the Lord. Don't you? Amen. Listen, I know one thing I can say for you: you sure got patience: twenty minutes after ten. Now, friends, look here just a minute, like this now. I... These is the best of my knowledge. I have to hurry through a big bunch of them like that. If I... If you don't agree with that, don't fall out with me. You be my brother. See? I love you, and I only say these things because that is in my heart. That's what I believe, and that's the way that I explain it, and that's the way I bring it. It's from the Bible.
Now, if you say, "Brother Branham, I just don't believe it that way." That'll be perfectly all right. See? We'll never think any difference; we'll just go right ahead as brothers and friends.

L-204-349 And--and if you say, "Well, I--I believe if I belong to the Methodist church or Baptist church, I'll be saved anyhow." All right, brother, that's perfectly all right. I'm still calling you my brother, because you believe Jesus Christ. See? That's right. So we're going to be brothers and friends just the same.
But I'm just laying down to this church, this few days here, the doctrine that this church stands for. See? That's what the church stands for. And if there's a deacon here that doesn't believe in the baptism in Jesus Christ's Name, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or the gifts of the Spirit being manifest, that deacon, right here while I'm standing here, doesn't deserve to be in the church until he gets made right. That's exactly right. And the board ought to see to that. Exactly. This church is not controlled by deacons; this church is controlled by the Bible and the Holy Ghost alone. Yes, sir. Now, so them things, we believe that's the doctrine of this church.


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