<TITLE>03. Par 12-17</TITLE>L-12 Now, we're... I missed this last night. My son put it in my pocket. Some precious person had wrote it, and... Now, remember, these questions are not to be different. Sometimes maybe when they're wrote they sound like they're different, but it's a honest heart trying to find out. See? That's the way we always approach it, some real honest person trying to find out what is right.
Now, here sometime ago I was down to a home having a prayer meeting. And Brother Junior Jackson (I heard him awhile ago, or I thought I did.), he was with me. And he'd got through speaking. And there was a minister from another church; and no more than I'd hardly gotten to the floor, he jumped up and started, wanted to fuss with me. Well, it happened to be about five ministers there, and they was all going to climb onto the man at once. I said, "No. Don't do that. Now, he--he challenged me, so let he and I talk it over."
Well, he started off, "We speak where the Bible speaks, silent where It's silent," and so forth. And away they went. And just in a few moments... I just kept marking down the Scriptures he was misquoting, misplacing. Said, "There wasn't but--there wasn't but twelve people ever did receive the Holy Ghost, and that was the apostles. And Divine healing was only give to those twelve," and so forth. So you see, he just missed the mark by a million miles. So after the--after I... After about a half hour of him speaking, I asked him. And he said I was a devil.

L-14 And so then, after he got through speaking, I said, "Now, the first thing I want to say, Brother, I forgive you for that, because you didn't mean that. I know you didn't. For if you're a minister and I'm a minister, we should be brothers." See? And then I said, "Now, to misunderstand each other in the Scripture is something different."
So then, we begin to take the Scripture. And the poor fellow was so lost in a minute, he didn't know where to stand or what to do. Then he got so tied up, he didn't know what to do, and he... When he walked out of the building though, that night, he said, "I'll say one thing, Brother Branham, you have the Spirit of Christ." See?
And I thought, "The devil a few minutes ago, and now the Spirit of Christ." It's only the way you approach it; that's all. Christ... If I was to fuss...
Now--now the man, because that he did that, horrible things happened to him, almost lost his mind; from an institution or something, jumped out of a window and almost killed himself. And now, he's coming back to some good friends of mine. He's seeking every day the baptism of the Holy Ghost, wants to come up to my house to have hands laid on him to receive the Holy Ghost, a preacher of a great denominational church. See?

L-17 So honest-heartedly we answer questions with all that we know how to answer.
And now, I'll read this question, nicely written.
1a. Brother Branham, would you please explain why the people in Acts 2 and 4 spoke in other tongues or languages even before the multitude came together in Acts 2 and 6?
That's the first question; it's the same person, I suppose, also. Yes, it is the same person.
Well now, if you will notice, brother, sister, ever who it was that wrote it, it never said a word about them coming downstairs from upstairs. And the audience was not upstairs. But when they come down into the courts where the multitude was gathered, that's when they heard them speak in tongues. See, see?
Now, you could say, "Well, they did speak up there." And if it was a debate or a fuss, you'd have just as much right to say that they did not speak till they got down here, because "When this was noised abroad..." See?


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