<TITLE>19. Par 214-227</TITLE>L-214   Oh, my! There I seen that the very power of the Holy Spirit... Where one time back there I had thought it was wrong, and I knowed that I... This same Angel of God was associated with them people that had those things. Although they had phony and a lot of mix-up and a lot of babbling in it, but in there was a genuine article. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Christ. And I seen that it--it was true.

L-215 Oh, years passed by, and in the meetings the people would see, the visions and so forth.

L-216   One time a photographer caught It in a picture when I was standing down somewhere in Arkansas, I believe it was, in a meeting about like this, the auditorium about like this. And I was standing, trying to explain It. People knew, they would sit and listen, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and so forth. And then I happened to look, coming in the door, here It come, going, "Whoossh, whoossh!"

L-217 I said, "I will not have to speak anymore, for here It comes now." And It moved up, and people begin screaming. Come up to where I was and settled down around.

L-218 Just as It was settling down, a minister run up and said, "Say, I see That!" And It struck him as blind as--as he could be, staggered back. You can look at his picture right there in the book and see it as he staggered back with his head down like that. You can see his picture.

L-219 And there It settled down. Just the newspaper photographer caught It that time. But the Lord wasn't ready.

L-220   And one night at Houston, Texas, when, oh, thousands times thousands of people... We was having eight hundred... eight thousand over at the what-you-call-it, over at the music hall, come back over to the great Sam Houston Coliseum.

L-221 And there in that debate that night, when a Baptist preacher said I "wasn't nothing but a low-down hypocrite and an impostor, a religious impostor, and ought to be run out of the city" and he ought to be the one to do it.

L-222 Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, would you let something like that happen? Call his hand!"

L-223 I said, "No, sir, I do not believe in fussing. The Gospel's not made to fuss, It's made to live." And I said, "No matter how you convince him, he'd go just the same way." I said, "He... wouldn't make him any difference. If God can't speak to his heart, how can I?"

L-224   Next day it come out, said, "It shows what they're made out of," the Houston Chronicle. Says, "Shows what they're made out of, they're afraid to take up for what they're preaching."

L-225 Old Brother Bosworth come up to me, being way in his seventies then, lovely old brother, put his arm around me, said, "Brother Branham," he said, "you mean you're not going to take that up?"

L-226 I said, "No, Brother Bosworth. No, sir. I'm not going to take it up." I said, "It don't do no good." I said, "Just causes fussing when we leave the platform." I said, "I'm holding a meeting now, and I don't want to get things all tore up like that." I said, "Just let him go ahead." I said, "That's all, he's just rattling." I said, "We've had them before, and it doesn't do any good to talk to them." I said, "They'll go right away, holding theirself." I said, "If they once receive the knowledge of the Truth and then they won't receive It, the Bible said they've crossed the separating line and they'll never be forgiven in this world or the world to come. They call It 'the Devil' and they can't help it. They're possessed with a religious spirit which is the Devil."

L-227 How many knows that's true, that a devil spirit is religious? Yes, sir, just as fundamental as they can be. And so, then, that didn't go very good when I said "fundamental," but that's true. "Having a form of godliness and denying the Power thereof." That's right. Signs and wonders is what vindicates God, always. And He said it would be in the last days the same thing. And notice!


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