<TITLE>19. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 Mercy, goodness. What we need is the Gospel. And the Gospel is the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost. That--that's what the world... We've went and built churches. Jesus never did say, "Build a church." Show me the Scripture. We went and built schools. He never did say, "Build schools." We built hospitals. He never did say, "Build hospitals." Yet, we done it. That's all right. I ain't got nothing against it. We done it.
But He never said do that. We done the things that He said--the very things that He told us not to do, we did it, or the things that He told us to do, we refuse to do it. Let's preach and demonstrate the power of the Gospel. That's the reason two thirds of the world has never heard it.

L-75 And he--Mr. Reedhead standing there in the room, he said, in my own room, he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I've seen the Pentecostals and kick over furniture, and tear it up, and everything like that." But said, "I heard that there..." Said, "I have enough degrees I could plaster your wall." Said, "When I was a little boy, seven years old, I started studying the Scripture. I gave my life to Christ."
Said, "When I thought I got my B.A., that would be Christ in that." Said, "I got my B.A.; it wasn't so." Said, "Then, when I was ordained, it wasn't so." Said, "When I got my LL.D., I thought that would do it. It didn't then. So I've got every kind of degree can be thought of, an honorary degrees, till I could plaster your wall." But said, "Where's Christ in all of it? Has the teachers been wrong?"
I said, "I don't want to say the teachers are wrong, sir. But I say one thing they've left out, the Keynote. They've left out the Cornerstone. Christ doesn't lay in B.A.'s, or D.D.'s, or L.D.'s.; Christ lays in the power of His resurrection to a heart that will receive Him.

L-76 He said--he said, "Mr. Branham, could I receive the Holy Ghost right here?"
I said, "If you'll meet it on God's conditions."
He said, "I don't care what it is. I want to know Christ." There I laid hands on him and prayed there in the room, and he fell under the power of God and little coffee table there, broke the glass out of it, and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and is preaching Divine healing today on the field: Dr. Morse Reedhead.

L-77 While I'm at Chattanooga, Tennessee, to my friend Don Wells, the biggest Baptist church in the south. And he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and over two hundred of those people has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in that Baptist church.
A few weeks ago when a Lutheran dean of psych--a dean up there of a big school come down and criticized me when I said the devil couldn't heal. And made fun of me upon the Word, saying the devil couldn't heal.
He said, "Well, I'll just prove to you that the devil can heal." Said, "We got a woman lives in town with a familiar spirit." And said, "The people come to her and she pulls hair out of her head, and plucks their veins, and gets blood on it, walks down to the river and throws it over her shoulder, and she walks back to the house and if she's has to turn around and looks, the disease comes back to the people, if it does she casts away." And said, "About thirty percent of them get well. Then you say the devil can't heal." Said, "I'm ashamed of you. I was preaching the Gospel before you was born." Said, "You get a little age on you yet."
Of all my forty-seven years... He said, "I've preached the Gospel fifty years."
I said, "Then I'm ashamed of you, then. And know no more about the Scripture than that." I said, "Certainly, the woman--the people got well; but not the witch had nothing to do with it."


<A HREF="P20">Next Page</A>