<TITLE>20. Par 64-66</TITLE>L-64 Now, you strangers, you Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterians, over in these Full Gospel realms, I--I come from where you are. I'm still there. We're all one. We're not divided, Not a bit. I'm just as much Lutheran as I am Pentecostal. I'm just as much Baptist as I was the day I was ordained in the Baptist church.
I've just found something better, something more. Not... It's just more of what you got. It's the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You received Christ, sure, when you believed, but the Bible said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
We were going through Moody Bible Institute the other day. They said, "Brother Branham, did you... Would you quote that out of the Bible?"
I said, "Why, certainly. Acts the 19th chapter. Paul asked a Baptist, the Baptist people, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' Why," I said, "I'm a Baptist. I know I was taught I received the Holy Ghost when I believed."
But the Bible said, "Have you received It since you believed?"
They said, "Not, we know whether there be any Holy Ghost."
He said, "Then to how was you baptized?"
They said, "Unto John."
Said, "John baptized unto repentance (Not for remission of sin), unto repentance, saying you believe on Him that's coming." When they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And Paul laid his hands on them, and the Holy Ghost come on them, and they received the Holy Ghost, and spoke in tongues, and magnified God, and prophesied.

L-65 That's what the Baptist church needs tonight. Amen. Sure. That's what Dr. Reedhead said when he received It. That's what Don Wells said he received It. That's what all these other great men said when they received It: Presbyterian, Lutheran, many of them.
The day is on; the hour is here. You want the Holy Ghost, It's yours. You've been saved, then expect to get the Holy Ghost. God bless you, sir. That's right. God bless you. That's good. All right.
Our heavenly Father, I now bring each one, the recording Angel standing here taking down every name that raised their hands tonight to receive Eternal Life and taken those names who are candidates for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The Word said, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."

L-66 Think what they'll be five hundred years from tonight. Somewhere, somewhere, when the atomic bombs done blowed every mountain into powder. The howling hot scorching winds out of the atoms of the sun will be blazing this old earth. Their tombstones even as the dust, their bones are done turned to dust, but their soul will be somewhere enjoying the Presence of God. That great peaceful heaven.
If they're rejected, in hell they'll be forever. Oh, God, what a time of decision. How You've made it for men to make their choice this night. And this little group that You've presented to me, I give them Your Gospel. Many of them, dozens of them, Father, is raised their hands, You know. I pray as the minister could pray. I intercede for each soul from the least to the oldest, from the richest to the poorest.
I pray, God, that You'll give them the deep desires of their heart and fill their soul with the Holy Ghost, heal their sick bodies, and take them into Your Kingdom at the end of this life. I ask in Christ's Name. Amen.


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