<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-8-2 But what are we doing now? See? That's the reason we not denomination. And just as sure as Pentecostal denominate and... Way back yonder when the Holy Ghost first poured out on the Pentecostal church forty years ago, and they begin to speak with tongues, one of the gifts... That was the smallest of the gifts. That's the least of the gifts according to St. Paul; is speaking with tongues. And as soon as it fell, "Oh," they say, "we got it now." And they made a denomination, the General Council, which is now the Assemblies of God. "Oh, nobody's got it 'less you speak with tongues." God just moves right on away from them, let them set there. Certainly. Yes, sir.

L-8-3 Along come the Oneness, and found out the baptism in Jesus' Name. They said, "Oh, we got it." They organized. What'd they do? God just moved right out and left him setting there. It's for, "Whosoever will, let him come."
See, the Oneness can't go to the Assemblies, and the Assemblies can't go to the Oneness. I've talked to some of the best men they got. Mr. Goth and Dr. Pope, and many men, the who are great men in the... I set down with them and I said, "How can you teach that initial evidence as a scholar?"
"Well," said, "Brother Branham," one, two, or three of them was real honest, said, "we know that's wrong. But what can we do? If we say anything about it now, why, it'll interrupt the whole program." Sure, and you won't be the bishop any more, the general overseer. That's the idea.

L-9-2 Brother, I'd rather have me a little mission on the corner or preach under a pine tree, and have the truth. Certainly. And know that you are telling the truth. Man wants the truth, and you're obligated as a Christian to bear forth the record of truth. God's going to hold you responsible for it. Stand on these things. If you haven't been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and you haven't done these things, and you haven't received the Holy Ghost...
You say, "Oh, I spoke with tongues." That don't mean you got the Holy Ghost. I've seen witches, wizards, demons, and everything else speak in tongues. Certainly. They ain't got the Holy Ghost, and you know that. Drink blood out of a human skull, and dance, call on the devil, and speak in tongues... Certainly. They ain't got the Holy Ghost. So 'cause you spoke with tongues, that don't mean you got It. The only way you know you got It, when your spirit bears record with His Spirit, and the fruits of the Spirit follow you: love, faith, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness. That's when you know you got the Holy Ghost. It bears record of Itself.

L-9-4 Now, when you're trying to rest upon because you belong to the Assemblies, or to the Baptists, or to the Presbyterians, you see what you are doing? You're taking on a name of a prostitute. That's exactly right. Get out of that thing. Come away from it. I don't mean out of your church or anything; you do what you want to about that; but come away from laying ahold, "I'm Presbyterian. We don't believe in the days of miracles." Why don't you believe it? The Bible teaches it. "Oh, I belong to the Church of Christ. They say the days of miracles is past." They are false prophets. I can show you where Jesus Christ give power to the church to heal the sick, and raise the dead, and cast out devils. I challenge any man to show me a Scripture in the Bible where He took it away from the church.
What took it away? Your own dogma, right, not God's Word. The Holy Spirit's still getting the job done, going right on just the same, and He will forever. That's the reason we're not a denomination, "having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. From such turn away." We don't believe in that stuff.


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