<TITLE>24. Par 214-222</TITLE>L-214 Look, if the Holy Spirit is here, we'll... He'll--He'll heal you. I want those people who are strangers in our gates, that's--that's sick and afflicted. And now if I've told the Truth about God, and these people told the truth, that I don't know them, and they're sick and afflicted, if the Holy Spirit remains the same, He can reveal to me. If that's the same Holy Ghost, and It's connected with the same stump down here that the cankerworms has eat off of, but there's a little piece of bark running down there is connecting this together, it'll work just like it did down there.
Church creeds can say, "Oh, that ain't right. That's mental telepathy. That's the--the devil. That's fortune-telling."
They said the same about Him. "If they called the Master of the house 'Beelzebub,' how much more they call His disciples?" Right. Still that don't stop it. That just increases it, makes it go on.

L-217 Now, is He still God? Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Does He honor His Word? He does.
And I constrain every one of you, if you've never been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. I don't care what the old church rag says. That's a denomi...
And I know men that I've brought right in my study and studied, ground, good men. I'd say, "Come here a minute. You show me where you were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, if that's Scriptural."
And when he's pinned, down, say, "I know it, Brother Branham, but don't give this away on me." See?
I said, "Support your doctrine, show me where one. Everybody in the Bible..."

L-222 There's some baptized in no name at all. They had to come and be baptized over again, 'fore they get the Holy Ghost. How many knows that? Paul passed through the upper coasts of Ephesus, he found the Baptists. They had a good... They had a good pastor; he was a converted lawyer: Apollos. And he said to them, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost."
Said, "Then how was you baptized?" It says in the King James, "unto what." Read it in the original; it says "how." "Unto what" means the same thing. "How was you baptized?"
They said, "We've been baptized by John, the same man baptized Jesus." That's a good baptizing. "Walked out in the water, the same one that baptized... John."
Why, Paul said, "That won't work any more. That ain't no good no more. He's done come, been crucified. 'Cause John baptized unto repentance, not remission of sins, saying you should believe on Him Who's come, Jesus Christ." And when they heard this, they walked out into the water and was rebaptized again in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul laid his hands on them; the Holy Ghost come on them; they prophesied and spoke in tongues. That right? Paul constrained men who'd been baptized by the same man that baptized Jesus, told them they'd have to be baptized over, because they wasn't baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. I've got a right to say the same thing if it's the same doctrine.


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