<TITLE>01. Par 1-2</TITLE>60-0807, Debate On Tongues, Yakima, WA, 38 min
L-1 The subject on--on this speaking with tongues. It's an issue with the Pentecostal people. And I've had quite a--an affair. I don't--I don't make any issues on the platform, because now I'm--I'm sponsored by different groups. And as a--as a Christian gentleman, I certainly would not want to hurt anybody. I... If they're Christian enough to have me at their place, and their people setting there, I--I want to be brother enough to say nothing about it. See? And I just preach the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and--and then when they... When... Let them do what they wish to over there.
Now, I do believe that Spirit-filled people (See?) sometimes get so filled with the Holy Ghost till they don't have any--any control of their own language. I--I believe that. Sometime another it happens, for it's happened to me, and it's happened to others and... But you see, the thing it is, the Holy Spirit first has to be in there. See what I mean? It has to be in there first. See? It's just like if speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Ghost.

L-2 Now, if I was a--a boy, and I was in a, in my--under the tutorship of my father and mother, and you wanted to adopt me, and I gave you my knife. Now, you've got my gift but not me. See? Now, tongues is a gift of the Holy Ghost. There's no Scripture in the Bible that says it is the Holy Ghost. It's a gift of the Holy Ghost. Now, watch. On Acts 2:38. "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." 'cause they were marveling, because they heard every man speaking in his own language wherein he was born. See? And He said if you would repent, you would receive that gift of the Holy Ghost.
Now, the gift of William Branham is not William Branham. See? Now, if you'll notice you say, "Well, the gift of God is the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is God." See how you could... Couldn't use it there. Well, to everything that I speak of, it must line with the Scripture. I--I won't receive it. Now, I only receive when He tells me, then He always clears it with the Scripture. If He didn't, I would not believe it, although as much as He's told me along the road, still if He ever told me anything wasn't Scriptural, it would not be right, 'cause the Scripture is absolutely our basis. We cannot base our--our salvation upon sensations, or experiences of others, or on our own experience. It's got to be the Word of God (See?), 'cause that's the--that's the true mark.


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