<TITLE>07. Par 39-46</TITLE>L-39 Now. See? "Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels and have not charity (though he could do it), I'm nothing." So you see, you can't say nothing.
Now, to my precious Methodist friend. I got two setting right here, and everywhere. I got them out here, many of them. The Methodist church used to believe, back in its early, primitive days, that when a man got religion enough and sanctified to shout, he had It. The Pentecost said when he spoke with tongues he had It. And nowadays they say if you've got a healing ministry, you got It. But there isn't any of...
Listen, friends. Don't try to depend and seek sensations. Instead, rely upon realities (See?), not sensation. Shouting's all right; speaking in tongues is all right; praising the Lord's all right; faith for miracles is all right, all those things and those feelings... Some of them say, "Oooh, I felt It like a rushing wind."
Another one say, "I felt fire in my soul." What... That doesn't make it right either way. It's what you are after you have received It. See? That's what counts. See? So you can't pin It to any certain sensation.
Now, that's honestly the best that I know. Now, I may be wrong; if I am, then I misunderstand the Scripture. And if it's contrary, well, I don't mean to be contrary. See? But I'm just telling it my version of what I believe that is Truth.

L-44 Now, we're--take up a lot of our time here on this before we start into our regular service. And now--now, we don't mention these things too oft around the Tabernacle. Sometime... This has been the first time, I guess, for a long time, for maybe a year or two or something. And then, maybe some of our people come in, and they say, "Well, Brother Branham, I've--I've had stammering lips, and I've done this, and I've done that."
And I said, "Well, all right, That's very good."

L-45 Now, if you want to speak in an unknown tongue, I believe God will let you do it. But according to the Scriptures, you're still nothing until the Holy Spirit comes. Then after the Holy Spirit comes then you can speak in tongues and have... God will just take the nature that you are, and cut it out for you, and make you the best servant you can be. He might make you preach the Gospel; He might make you have a gift of speaking in tongues; He might make you a prophet; He might give you a spirit of prophecy; He might... It's hard telling what He'd do for you; or He might do all those things for you. But the first thing is to be sure that by one, not sensation, but by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body. And then, the gifts come from that body (See?), speaking in tongues and everything.

L-46 What it is, if--if a Nazarene comes up to me... You'd say, "Brother Branham, now there's a Nazarene and the Methodists. They say they received the Holy Ghost when they shouted. They said they received the Holy Ghost." I'm not saying they didn't. But here's one thing that I watch: by their fruit. When Truth is revealed, some of them turn against It bitterly: "That's the devil." Then the fruit shows where it come from. See? It shows they didn't get It. But those who are willing to walk in Light, receive Word...


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