<TITLE>10. Par 101-116</TITLE>L-101 And he told me his name. And I thought, "Well, now, if I can just get his contact of his spirit now." And yet not knowing what that was doing it. And I said, "Well, say, sir," I said, you people have Something here that I don't have."
He said, "Have you got the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
I said, "Well, I'm a Baptist."

L-102 He said, "But have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"

L-103 And I said, "Well, brother, what do you mean?" I said, "I--I haven't got what you all got, I know that!" I said, "Because you've got Something that seems to be powerful and so..."
Said, "Have you ever spoke with tongues?"
And I said, "No, sir."
Said, "I'll tell you right quick you haven't got the Holy Ghost."

L-104 And I said, "Well, if I... If that what it takes to get the Holy Ghost, I haven't got It."

L-105 And so he said, "Well, if you haven't spoke with tongues, you haven't got It."

L-106   And keeping his conversation that way, I said, "Well, where can I get It?"

L-107 Said, "Get on in the room there and start seeking the Holy Ghost."

L-108 And I kept watching him, you know. He didn't know what I was doing, but he... I knew he had a little strange feeling, 'cause he... his eyes begin to get a little glassy as he looked at me. And he... But he was really a Christian. He was absolutely, rung out one hundred percent, a Christian. That's right. Well, I thought, "Praise God, here It is! I--I've--I've got to get to that altar somewhere."

L-109   I went out, looked all around, I thought, "I'll find the other man." And when I found him and started talking to him, I said, "How do you do, sir?"

L-110 He said, "Say, what church you belong to?" He said, "They tell me you're a Baptist."
I said, "Yep."
And he said, "You ain't got the Holy Ghost yet, have you?"
I said, "Well, I don't know."
Said, "You ever spoke in tongues?"
I said, "No, sir."
Said, "You haven't got It."

L-111 And I said, "Well, I know I haven't got what you all got. I know that." And I said, "But, my brother, I'm really wanting It."
He said, "Well, there's--there's the pool, ready."

L-112 I said, "I've been baptized. But," I said, "I--I haven't received what you all got." I said, "You got something that I--I really want."
And he said, "Well, that's fine."

L-113   I was trying to catch him, you see. And if I... When I finally got his spirit, now, that was the other man, if I ever talked to a low-down hypocrite, there was one of them. He was living... His wife was a black-headed woman, he was living with a blond and had two children by her. Drink, curse, run to taverns, and everything else, and yet in there and speaking in tongues and prophesying.

L-114 Then I said, "Lord, forgive me." I went home. That's right. I said, "I'll just get... I can't understand it. Seemed like the blessed Holy Spirit falling, and, on that hypocrite." I said, "Can't be! That's all."

L-115   During this long period then, me studying and crying, thought if I could get out with them maybe I could find out what it was all about. Here's one, a genuine Christian; and the other one, a real hypocrite. Then I thought, "What of it? Oh," I said, "God, maybe--maybe there's something wrong with me." And I said, being a fundamentalist, "That'll... have to see that in the Bible. It has to."

L-116 To me, everything that operates must come out of this Bible or it's not right. Has to come from Here. It can be proved in the Bible, not just one place, but it has to come all the way through the Bible. I have to believe it. It has to dovetail and tie together with every Scripture or I don't believe it. And then, because Paul said, "If an angel from Heaven come, preaching any other gospel, let him be accursed." So I believe the Bible.
And I said, "I could never see nothing like that in the Bible."


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