<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>58-0928M, The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 124 min
L-1 Certainly very happy to see as many out tonight after me keeping you till midnight last night. I didn't think you'd all be out today, but looks like you're going to come out to Sunday school, and that's very good.

L-2 Now, we're studying and trying to just take our time upon this church doctrine. And now, I just teach it... And now, there may be some strangers with us that I don't know. I'm not here in the Tabernacle enough to know who is the members of the church. But I'd announced that this would just be for members of the church, because out... People has so many different doctrines and so forth... Well, it--they're believe those things (They've been taught to believe them.), and--and--and then when you come into another church maybe and it teaches something very contrary, well then they think, "Say, I don't agree with that." See? Well, we don't mean to be rude or to hurt anyone, the reason we do this... Now, you believe whatever you wish, but we are--I'm placing it and have to make it real strong, because we have to clinch it down. This is what the Tabernacle stands for (See?), just what we stand for here. And that way, we wouldn't want you to feel offended and think that we were trying to hurt you and your belief or anything like that. That's not at all.
And this is a... We go through this about every two or three years around here, and what we stand for, just the doctrine what we stand for and why we do it, what--why we believe this. And so if there be strangers here who is not a--a member of the church, we're certainly glad to have you to set in on this discussion this morning and also tonight.

L-4 And then, Wednesday there will start a regular campaign in--in the meeting, I mean, at the Tabernacle here. And I've been away for a while on a little rest. I got real, real tired and had to go away to rest awhile. And I just got back, feel fine, feel wonderful. And so I'll be leaving again as soon as it's over and won't be back any more till January. I'm not going in any meetings; I'm just going away, continue the rest that I was on.
But when we come in we found the church kinda in a little upset here and there, and some of the members had begin to kinda get a little lukewarm, pull away, holding little enmities against each other and so forth like that. I went around from one to the other till we got this all straightened up. Now, it's all right. See?

L-6 And there's nothing wrong; there was nothing wrong with any of the members. They're every one fine men and women. If they could just realize that that's the devil gets between the people... That's exactly right. It's not the people. If you can let a brother see that, then he won't hold enmity against the other fellow. He has--he'll--he'll feel bad. He'll feel like, "Well, that's... I feel sorry for my brother." See, if he did do wrong, why, it wasn't the brother; it was the devil that did that.
You say, "Well, this guy did a certain-certain thing." Your brother didn't do that; your sister didn't do that; that was the devil got into them that did it. So don't blame the brother, the sister; blame the devil. That's the one who caused it.

L-8 And so now in these church doctrines, now, they may be very odd to you. They... May be that you wouldn't agree with them at all, but we just--that's what we believe. We believe it because that it's in the Bible, and we teach it that way.
Now, last night our subject was: "Why Are We Not a Denomination?" Now, we are a organization, because we're a church; but we are not a denomination. And then I was giving the reasons why we are not a denomination.
Now, as we open the discussion this morning, before we do so, let us pray.


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