<TITLE>09. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 He said, "Well, they..." Then he started on with the rest of it. He said, "Now, you will admit, though, Brother Branham, that these men coming out of here just wasn't like Methodists or Baptists." See, that... Throwing it off to my Baptists. See? Said, "They'd not... They had received and was speaking under inspiration."
I said, "Yes, sir. I'll agree with that." So they marked that one. "I'll agree that they--they were speaking under inspiration, what they were saying." I said, "Every time I preach, I preach the same way, don't you? Under English, you know, with inspiration." That settles that...?... That put me in the... I said, "Every time I preach or prophesy, it's not in unknown tongues. Paul said if it didn't have a interpreter that it was nothing, like a barbarian. It's got to be for edification and so forth. See?" So that knocked that out for him. See?

L-27 I said... Well, he said... And I said, "Well, I'm agreeing that it was all under inspiration." I said, "Now--now, like this," I said, "some of them now," I said, "like we were..." I said, "Those then who were speaking in Galilee to the Galilean, they were under inspiration, wasn't they? See? Like if we're all English..."
He said, "There's none of them Gali..."
I said, "It was in Galilee, and they were all Galileans that was speaking. There were Galileans there hearing them, because they were in Galilee. That was the--the national language." I said, "Then this man come out, and he spoke to the Galileans in their native tongue, and he was Galilean, just like I am English, speaking to the Englishman, in English. See? And he didn't have it." See?
Well, he said, "It might've fell on one and then the other. They just divided it up. Maybe this one here would come speak to them awhile."
I said, "Then after the poor Galileans, then didn't hear nothing." I said, "He wasn't inspired then when he was speaking to them of the resurrection. Same thing." See, it's just no place to stand then, you know.
And we just went on like that till we just combed the Scriptures down right close, right on down like that. See? It'll have to come back to that original, the first. See?
So you see, it... There... It--it--it isn't speaking in an unknown tongue; it's speaking under inspiration. See? And like if I receive the Holy Ghost here this morning in amidst you all, I would be under inspiration, telling you of the resurrection of the Holy Ghost is come to me, under inspiration.

L-28 Now, see, tongues is not the Holy Ghost. See? Then he said, "Then you don't believe in speaking in tongues?"
I said, "Definitely, I do. I believe in speaking in tongues." And I said, "It's the least among the gifts--gifts according to the way it's recorded in the Bible, 'cause it's the last gift." See? I said, "And a fellow would speak with tongues, but first he's got to have the Holy Ghost before he--he speaks with tongues. If he isn't, he's an impersonator." I said, "Then he could speak with--with tongues, as you said, both of men and of Angels, and still not have the Holy Ghost." I said, "'Cause Paul says, 'Though I speak (though I can speak) with tongues of man and of angels and have not charity, I'm nothing. Though I can understand all knowledge and can interpret the Scriptures exactly right, without this baptism, I'm noth--nothing. And I give my goods to feed the poor and my body to be burned as a sacrifice, and faith to move mountains, and I am nothing.' I ain't even started yet. See? Now, I have all this faith."
I said, "Now, that answers like Dr. Eggery up there that time, you know, that Lutheran dean, you know. And I told him..." You remember the debate that we had, you know, there on the--on... about the... He was telling me about that witch woman, you know, that prayed for the sick, and they got healed, and said God couldn't heal. You've heard the story. See? You mean that... See? I said, "Sure."


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