<TITLE>27. Par 177-185</TITLE>L-177 Now, why I'm not taking you back to a church. I'm taking you back to the Bible. Now, what did Paul say? What did Paul say? "If an angel from heaven preaches anything else than this, let him be accursed."
God said, "Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be the Truth." So I don't care what any church says, Pentecostal, Baptist, Presbyterian; God's Word is Truth. Why did they start this? On account of denomination.
The Pentecostal Assemblies of God today would give anything right down in the bottom of them great teachers' heart if they'd never started that dogma of the initial evidence, speaking in tongues. They know that's wrong. It won't hold water. Certainly won't. I can prove to you by God's Bible that you don't receive the Holy Ghost by speaking with tongues. It's not in here. Oh, you think... Yeah, sure, it's written so close it'd deceive the very elected. See? He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and revealed it to babes. It's a spiritual revelation. You watch the revelation hits it and watch it brighten out. See, there you are. See, there's the thing you want to watch, friends (See?) is there...

L-180 We thank God for the Holy Ghost Who is our Teacher, and He doesn't just go out and get some little old mythical idea, and bring it up here, and say "Oh, hallelujah, here it is right--wrote right here. Hallelujah." The Holy Ghost goes back and brings it right down through the Scripture, places her right down, right on through the Scripture. See? That's when you got the truth. That's exactly. For precept must be upon precept upon precept, and line upon line upon line. That's the way the Bible said to do it.

L-181 You say, "Do you condemn denomination?" No, sir. "Do you condemn women preachers?" No, sir. "Do you condemn speaking in tongues?" No, sir. "Do you condemn these people who's baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost?" No, sir, no, sir. But if I say: if they know better now, God will hold them responsible if they don't follow in the light. You might not knowed it till just now, but you know it from now on. See? Now, if you don't think it's right, search the Scriptures, and then find you a place, and come back, and lay it on this desk tonight; and we'll see whether it's right or not. And you go search It with a open mind, open heart.
Not that--now, this teaching like this is for the Branham Tabernacle. See? This here, just right here. It's not...

L-183 I wished it wasn't Branham Tabernacle. I wished it was just called, The Tabernacle, didn't even have my name attached to it. I'm fixing to turn this church...
You all know when we bought it. I bought it when I worked for the Public Service Company, and put this thing up here, and they just called it that because that Brother Seward and them attached my name to it when they put it on the deed down there. Just as soon as I can get clear of this thing that we're in now, this church is going to be turned over to this, a community, and just given, my name taken off of it.

L-185 I don't think my name ought to be on that church. It oughtn't to be a Branham Tabernacle, should just be a church. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, or something like that, The Tabernacle of the Lord (See?), The Dwelling Place, The House of Prayer, or something or other, given some kind of a name. Let the congregation choose their name. My name--I'm--I'm just a man. My name don't deserve to be on this, not no more than nothing. The reason I had to be, to put my name on this, because my name was on the deed, said, "Billy Branham." See? And it shouldn't be there. No, sir. It should be a community church. This--this should be to the--the congregation here.


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