<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 Now, it's like I said, if a doctor, a good doctor, though he'd have to cut you... If you got a cancer, let's cut the thing out, get rid of it. If you got a tumor, let's operate and get the thing out. If it's a bad appendix going to burst, take it out if it does hurt. Let's get rid of it.
And if old unbelief, and selfishness, and denominations are--are absolutely binding us, and separating us, and separating brotherhood, and the fellowship of Christ, let's get rid of the thing and get right with God, and get out into the harnessing and serve the Lord.
Now, in the Book it's taught over there that God has placed in the Church five ministering gifts. First is apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors; those gifts God places in the Church sovereignly. Now, those gifts God places in the Church.

L-14 Then when you become in the Body of Christ, then there's nine spiritual gifts that goes in ever local church body. And those are gifts that you're to pray for, to pray for the gift of speaking with tongues, or the gift of interpretation of tongues, or these other gifts that goes into the church. Pray for the gifts of healing, and pray for the gifts of miracles, and so forth. That's the ones that you pray for, and the Spirit comes on and works in each local assembly to--in the perfecting of the Church.
Now, many times we've misjudged that, went over the mark and so forth; and that's what's caused it. But we expected... I... If it wasn't that way, I--I'd think there was something wrong with the program, 'cause it's Satan trying to upset it. You see?

L-15 So, look, we believe that. And I believe, to you Methodists and Presbyterians here tonight... I've seen many things since I've been on the Pentecostal realms that I didn't agree with. That's right. I've seen plenty of it. But what of it.
I think one of the most gallant men that I spoke to in a long time was Lewi Pethrus of Stockholm, Sweden. One day we were riding out in a car, and he said, "Brother Branham, Billy Graham sat and rode in there." It was when Billy had first started in evangelistic service, and we were talking. And he said, "How long have you been Pentecostal?"
I said, "Ever since I received the Holy Ghost."
And he said, "Wasn't you Baptist first?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-16 He said, "So was I." And he said, "I seen them tearing up the furniture and kicking over the chairs." He said, "But I knowed they had something, and I went with them so I could bring them back."
Oh, I love that. I said, "Brother Pethrus, just a moment. Let me write that down. I want to keep that remark. 'I went with them so I could bring them back.'"
Now, when I come into Pentecost, the Pentecostal people, I found one was a Oneness, and one was a Twoness, and one was a Threeness, and one's baptized this a way and that way, and one was this, and one was that; they were broke up in one Assembly, and one United, and one this. And you know what I did? I didn't join with any of them. I stayed free from their denominations and stayed between them so I could love them all the same time and bring them together. That's right. See?

L-17 Because they're all brethren, and they're all good men, good women. They're brothers and sisters in Christ. So therefore, I've never drawed a line no matter what the man was, what he believed. That didn't make... It's Who He believes is what I'm thinking about; is the Lord Jesus.
Now, if it's true that Jesus Christ... The Bible said in Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, the Bible says He is. Then if He is, then you can only interpret it that one way and that... You might try to place something different, but the Bible said, "Jesus Christ, the same," Just partially the same, He's the same (See?) yesterday, today, and forever." He has to be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in attitude, everything just like He was or the Bible's wrong (Is that right?), the Bible's wrong.


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