<TITLE>17. Par 51-52</TITLE>L-51 Not long after that, I got an invitation to come to his place. Mr. Moore went with me, 'cause I knowed that man was smart. And so, he--after we had dinner out there at that great, famous college, and they had hundreds of acres of corn, where the students could work their way through. That day, after dinner, he pushed his plate back, the dean of the college said to me, said, "Mr. Branham, we come here to ask you some questions."
I said, "I may not be able to answer them, sir." I said, "I'm not a theologian; I'm just a brother, that prays for the sick."
And he said, "Well," he said.
And Mr. Moore, which is a theologian set by me, and he said, "If he gets too wild for you, just touch me on the knee. So with my knee."
So I was setting there, and he said, "Mr. Branham, I see that you--tracing your life back, you're a Baptist."
I said, "I was."
And he said, "What happened, why did you leave the Baptist Church?"
I said, "I never left it; it left me." See? I said, "It left me, when it denied the message that I was preaching in the Bible."
And he said, "A--well, Mr. Branham, there's one thing I'd like to ask you." He said, "Is this." He said, "Now, if you did that, I would like to say one thing, what made you take up with the Pentecostals?"
I said, "They believed the Word."
He said, "What have they got?" Said, "I've been around and seeing them kick over the tables, and knock over the chairs."
And I said, "Oh, sure. That's right."
"Knock out a window, or something like that."
I said, "Sure."
Said, "What is it?"
I said, "Holy Ghost."
And he said, "The Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Sure, if they won't make the wheel roll right, they've got to blow it out the whistle somewhere. They've got a lot of steam." I said, "And that's the truth." If this Pentecostal church would take a lot of it's praises, and put it to work, it would do something for the Kingdom of God. God give you the Holy Ghost. You like to shout by It, and praise by It, but just put that into gifts and wonders and go out on the street and get sinners to come in, and things like that. You're church will grow and everything will go along all right. Don't blow it out the whistle; put it into action, and let--make the wheel roll, the gospel train.

L-52 And he said, "Well, a--what do you think we, Lutherans, has got? Do you think that... We believe that we receive the Holy Ghost, when we believed?"
I said, "Paul would different with you in Acts 19. He said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed.' He never said, 'Now, you take that through the Greek, Hebrew, or whatever you wish to, it's since you believed.'"
Now, they believe--our Baptist church taught you to receive the Holy Ghost when you believed, but it's not right. Paul said, "You--have you received the Holy Ghost since you believe." And those people were shouting, why, Aquila and Priscilla had great meetings, and everything was going on, but he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
They said, "We know not where there be any Holy Ghost."
When Paul had baptized them over, and laid hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost come on them, they spoke in tongues and prophesied. Then they had the Holy Ghost.


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