<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-13-2 You won't get off on the side and say, "Mental telepathy, a devil, Beelzebub. I don't believe that. My church doesn't teach it." You'll say, "God be praised forever." For you're filled.
You can't stay empty; empty is idleness. That's what's the matter with the converts today. As soon as you get converted, you start idling around. You ought to be over there on your knees, seeking God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost to be filled up. Then you've got to wall, His blessed Presence with you.
And when the enemy comes in like the lion in the den that night with Daniel, the Light of God shines out, and he gets away from you; if the good man of the house hasn't got it garrisoned. Certainly.

L-13-5 Now, united on the day of Pentecost, or just before it, the disciples had all been cleaned out. All their sins had been forgiven, and Jesus the Shepherd, the old hen as it was, as He said He would've gathered them as a hen his brood, then when the spirit of the devil was kept away, waiting for the filling time... And yet in all that, just twelve men, one of them got the anointing of the devil.
And after he'd seen Jesus do all those fine works, he was the very one that led the soldiers to put a rag around His head and hit Him over the head with a club or a stick, and say, "Tell us who hit you, we'll believe you." After following Jesus, and seeing His miracles, and hearing the Jew come up, and Jesus tell him who he was, where he had come from; after seeing all that, this same man doubted it. After seeing Him at the well of Samaria with the woman, tell her her sins and hear the Pharisees say, "He is a fortuneteller," and then after seeing the lovely Jesus, the woman touching His garment and being healed, he still wouldn't believe, and permitted a spirit of unbelief to come to him, because he was instructed on the outside. See what I mean? Oh, what a horrible thing unbelief is. And yet people profess Christianity setting with that in them. Heady, high-minded, the Bible said in the last days. Do I feel strange about it? No, sir, it makes me know this: that the end time is at hand.

L-14-1 For the Bible said, "The Spirit speaks expressingly (You know what the word expressingly means?) that in the last days (That's this.) perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of theirself."
"I'm Dr. Ph.D. Jones, and my--my seminary experience, I've--I have all my degrees. I'm a LL, double L D. Our pastor is all this, that." That don't have one thing to do with God.

L-14-2 I had a man come not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, I can plaster your wall with degrees." And said, "Every time, when I got my doctor's degree, I thought I'd find Christ. When I got my literature degree, when I got my bachelor degree, I hunted for Christ in all of it, and I haven't found Him yet." He says, "Have the teachers been wrong?"
I said, "Christ is not known by these theological degrees, but He's known in the Person of the Holy Ghost which come down on the day of Pentecost." And the man fell across my coffee table in my dining room, and there received the Holy Spirit. Amen. On the field tonight preaching Divine healing, which is one of the outstanding men of the day.


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