<TITLE>09. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 And the chaplain said that he waited with a few moments with the Bible in his hand to hear what the captain would say. And he kept thinking and thinking, and his struggles, as the blood was filling up in his lungs. And after while a great smile come on his face and the tears rolled down his cheeks. He said, "Oh, I remember."
Said, "Start from there captain, quickly."
And the captain said, "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take," turned his head and was gone.
Where did he find him, in his high school experiments, in his training of psychology and man, in his creed, in his church? No. Where had he found Him at the cradle. That's where he's left Him, and that's where Jesus is waiting.

L-40 We'll never find Jesus by going back to the beginning of Baptistism, back to the beginning of Methodistism, or Catholicism. We'll only find Christ when we go back to Pentecost, the beginning, not the denomination now, but to the real Pentecostal experience.
When a hundred and twenty people were gathered in the upper room, that Jesus had sent them there... And He told them, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." We'll never wait long enough to get enough education, not to get doctors degrees, or theological experience, but we'll have to wait until that Pentecostal Holy Spirit falls upon the individual with enduing power to turn his or hers face from sin and the things of the world, and to live like a Christian. Then you can join any church that you desire.

L-41 But we left Him at Pentecost. The Methodists left Him at Pentecost. The Baptists left Him at Pentecost. The Catholic left Him at Pentecost. The Amish left Him at Pentecost. The Brethren left Him at Pentecost. The Assemblies of God left Him at Pentecost. The United Church left Him at Pentecost. There's where He began. Oh, God help this to drive home to every heart.
That's why He can't dwell in this building. That's why He can't come to our creeds and denominations. We've left off the principles. Listen. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And when the Church buried itself in Jesus, it produced a Pentecostal branch. And if the first branch come out of the Vine Pentecostal, every branch will have to be like the first one. We've got to get back to the Pentecostal experience again.

L-42 If a vine puts forth a branch of a grape vine here, the next branch will be grape vine, and the next branch will be grape vine, and the next branch will be grape vine. And Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He can only have one type of branches, and that's Pentecostal branches in His church with Pentecostal experiences. Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, just a minute. I am loyal to my creed."
If your creed teaches that all you have to do is shake hands with the preacher, Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
You say, "Brother Branham, I belong to a great denomination. And my church says that the days of miracles is past."
Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning." Where was the beginning? Pentecost, where the power of the living God fell upon an hundred and twenty people and baptized them with the Holy Ghost and power for the services came. That changed the known world.


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