<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 He said, "Brother Branham, I'm here today to ask this." He said, "I've seen the Pentecostals kick the seats out in the floor, break up the furniture," he said, "but have they got anything?" Reedhead was a Baptist as myself.
I said, "Yes, Brother Reedhead, they have."
He said, "Have they got the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Well, we Baptists have too."
I said, "If you did, you got it after you believed, not when you believed." They believe you get it when you believe.
Paul said in Acts 19, "Have you received the Holy Ghost, since you believed?"
I said, "I can stand a little, wild fire and kicking furniture over, 'fore I could set in an old church, so cold till the spiritual thermometer go forty below zero. I'd rather have a little wild fire, than no fire at all."

L-22 And we Baptists are only painting fire. What good would it do to tell a freezing man, "See, that big beautiful picture? That was a great fire that burnt two thousand years ago. Go, warm yourself by it."
Painted fire will not warm. What we need is an experience of the same Holy Ghost and fire, that warms the heart, and performs the Word, and does the things, because that same Spirit lives today in all of It's power, much as It ever had.
Where we've made a fatal mistake is not following this commission. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel, or demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost to every nation and every people." What have we done? We've went and built schools, organized people together, make them, "Well, they don't believe just like we do; don't associate with them. Don't go around their churches."
We've had great schools; we've tried to educate the people to it. You'll never come any closer to Christ by education. If anything, you'll go farther away from Him. I'm not saying this... I'm in a schoolhouse; I appreciate being here, and I'm not trying to use crutches to support my ignorance. But the greatest indebtiment that the Lord Jesus Christ has ever had on earth, wasn't bootleg joints, it was schools. That's a hard one to say, but search the history and find out if that isn't true.

L-23 Captain Al Farrar, head of the FBI, called me into his place; he was a Baptist, and he said, "Brother Branham, I'm a Baptist, but I haven't got what you're talking about." We was down in his shooting gallery. He said, "I appreciate your talk. I make similar--the same remarks."
He took me into his office to show where every juvenile delinquent was in the United States. Where do we find them, the most delinquent? Where do the criminals come from? Not down in the poor people, but in the smart and educated. They think they know more than God. When you get to that place, your lost! God doesn't come from education; God comes from the--from accepting a principle; that's His Son, Christ Jesus, and being borned again.
The eternal Spirit of Life comes into the man, not by educating him, but by him accepting the Lord Jesus as his personal Saviour. But we've went and tried to educate the people to it. We've tried to shake it in them at the altar, us Holiness and Pentecostals. We've tried to baptize them in by different modes, by sprinkling, pouring, upside down, and Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Jesus' Name, all these other different things. But it doesn't come that way; it's a personal experience to an individual to witness the power of the resurrection of God's Son, Jesus Christ, in your heart. That's exactly right. There's where we fail.


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