<TITLE>11. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Prophesying is good; speaking in tongues is right. Interpretations is right. Shouting is right. But you can do those things without being first fundamentally baptized into Christ. Those are only... Those are only fruits of... That's not fruits of the Spirit; that's the gifts of the Spirit.
Like what if I'll go out here today and brought down some of the great northern winesap apples, and tied them onto a palm tree, and said, "Now, look here what a fine apple tree I got." It's true. There is the tree, and apples are hanging on it. But it isn't the product of the tree. Amen.
There you are. Through faith you can do great things and yet not be borned again of the Spirit of God. Be careful there. It's a danger line, Pentecostal people. Don't claim everything you hear of God.
I hope you don't get angry with me. I just love you. You put a real old father, loves his children and he sees that they're going to get hurt if they don't watch, he's not a real daddy unless he's...?...

L-37 Be careful. Don't look at great high things, great crowds. Don't look at great demonstrations, or great healings, or great things like this. Look up at the great Saviour, the Lord Jesus.
The fruit of the Spirit is love. What is God? Love. And if you can't love your enemy, no matter what he says about you; your neighbor, no matter what he says about you... If from your heart, not with your lips, not with your knowledge that you should be doing it as a Christian, but something in your heart makes you love them anyway, regardless of what you say. Then it's time to come to the altar again. You just never quite got what you thought you, or what really you should've had. Amen.

L-38 Oh, I hate to say that. But yet, it'd hurt me to know that here's people right here that's lives are living with me... And as I said this morning, if I was hungry, maybe you're living out here in a little place with a few biscuits on the table, your children hungry, you'd split them for me. That's right.
But my lovely beloved friends, I don't do it to be indifferent. I--I do this because that you believe. I do this, because that I know you love me and you have seen the Spirit of God working. And then, in doing this, and you loving me, and me knowing what's truth, and seeing a danger line, and don't warn you of it, I'll become a false shepherd and not a real shepherd of Christ.
Don't go upon demonstrations. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, there's the fruit of the Spirit.

L-39 Now, we're going back to the beginning; that's where we started. Now, if you just only went...
Now you say, "Brother Branham, you're condemning the gifts of the Spirit."
No, don't get that like you did Adam now. See? I am not condemning the gifts of the Spirit. They belong into the Church. But you're going after the gifts in the stead of the Giver. Get that first.
I know that sounds a little...?... to you, 'cause I feeled you. You see? But it's the truth, just not a...?... See? That's right. You've got to come back to the thing. Don't... Not intellectually now, but in your heart, let the peace of God rest in your heart, make you love your enemy as you love yourself.
Why, even Moses for the people that was rebelling against him, threw hisself in the way, said, "God, take my name out." That was it, you see?
Jesus so loved the enemy that He gave His life for the condemned, to save those who were unkind to Him; and prayed on the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they don't even know what they're doing." They couldn't understand Him. He preaching was misunderstood. His life was misunderstood. His speech was misunderstood. They didn't understand Him.


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