<TITLE>11. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Like Doctor Reedhead said to me, "Brother Branham, when I got my degree, Bachelors degree, Bachelor of Arts, I thought I'd find Christ, but He wasn't there. When I got my Ph.D., I thought He'd be there. He wasn't there." Said, "I've got enough degrees I could plaster your wall. And now where is He at?"
I said, "He's not in those degrees." Hallelujah. That's right. They're all right; I wished I had them. I--if I had them plus what I got, all right. But if I have to give what I got to get them, no indeed; I will take what I got. Yes, sir. If I could have them both, all right. But if I have to sacrifice that to have this, let me have this.

L-34 Now, now, my brother, look. They w--searched all around, through their kindreds. We have a revival amongst the Lutherans, amongst the Baptists, amongst all the churches; where do we find that Spirit of power? Where do we find that? Where do we see those people like there was on the day of Pentecost, so drunk under the Spirit of God that they staggered like drunk men. And let me tell you my Catholic friends, the blessed virgin Mary was in there. That's right. And if God wouldn't let virgin Mary come to heaven until first she was filled with the Holy Ghost, dare you to try to get there anything less. But the Bible said that she was with them, and the same thing they were all doing, so filled with the power of God till they staggered and acted like a drunk--drunken people. The Bible says that.

L-35 Where do you find it? Among our kindreds? Go out amongst the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian, and so forth, see if you find it. No, sir. You don't find Him amongst our kinfolks like that. The only way you find Him is the way Mary and Joseph found Him: where they left Him. That's where you find Him. Where did they leave Him? At the Pentecostal feast. Hallelujah. That's where the church will find Him again. Go back to the feast of Pentecost. Go back to the pouring out of the Holy Ghost. There you'll find the power of Almighty God; you'll find the risen Christ; you'll find signs and wonders of Him just exactly like He said would be. Go back to where you found Him; go back to the beginning. Jesus said, "At the beginning..."

L-36 John 15th chapter, Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the first branch that come out of that vine, they wrote a book of Acts after it. They had power to heal the sick; they spoke with tongues; they interpreted it; they had visions, prophets, power; they done the signs that Jesus did. And if that first branch come out of that vine was that kind of a branch, the next branch it bears will be the same; and every branch it bears will be the same branch. Amen.
And if we say we are the church of God, then we'll bear the record of the first branch. He's the Vine. If you're--if you're growing grapes and you're first branches are--produces grapes, your second branch will produce grapes; your third branch will produce grapes. Every branch that that tree bears will produce grapes. And if the church of the living God that Jesus Christ set up...
We Methodists want to think it was our church. We Baptists think it was ours. We Catholic think it was ours. We Pentecostal think it was ours. Let it be what it may be. But if we are in that branch, we'll have the same fruits they had. You can't get pumpkins off of a grape vine. Hallelujah. The Vine of Jesus Christ will produce the Life of Jesus Christ, for He is the Life that's in the Vine, and we are the branches.


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