<TITLE>25. Par 215-223</TITLE>L-215 Then along come Martin Luther to continue the age, and he swung the church out under justification. What happened when Luther died? They organized it, made it a Lutheran church; they got a doctrine. When they organized it, what did they do? Give it a birth right back into Romanism again. Exactly right.
Then the Holy Ghost moved out of that, and Wesley saw it. And Wesley, and Whitfield, and George Whitfield, and many of those others, and--and Asbury, and many of them were great revivalists. They saved the world in that day. They had a revival in that Philadelphian age that saved England and the United States too. They had meetings where they kicked out and called "holy-rollers." You Methodist was done that; they'd fall on the floor under the power of God, and they'd throw water in their face and fan them. That's right. And they jerked so hard under it, till they got the--said, "they had the jerks." They--people would jerk and shake under the power of the Holy Ghost. That's Methodist history. From there come the Quakers and so forth that's now.

L-217 They organized it. They made this Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and this kind of Methodist, and that kind of a Methodist, until it's got so lowdown until the Methodist people wants to take the "Blood" out of their song books.
Here the other night on a television program (my mother called me), they had a Methodist pastor, right here in Indiana, teaching rock-and-roll in the church. Said, "It's a shame that we have failed to see this beautiful art that goes into the church."
That's the devil and a false prophet. Right. Don't want to hurt your feelings, but, brother, that's the God's truth. I'd rather anger you a little bit this way and make you study the Scripture, maybe get right with God, than to be lost at the end. You might not like me now, but someday you'll put your arm around me, say, "Brother Branham, that's true." Here it is right here, and their going into that. That's where they... It's just there. The Bible said they would do that.

L-220 Then from Wesley, if Wesley did that, then along come the Pentecostals. And they got the restoration of the gifts, started speaking with tongues, the Holy Ghost baptism.
Just like a grain of corn comes up out of the ground. The first thing, it rots, brings forth couple blades. Then it... You got a field of corn, you think. That blade grows up and makes a tassel. This first was Lutheran. The tassel, what was it? Methodist; the pollen, the brotherly love, the evangelize, the pollen going out into others.
Why, even nature claims these church ages. Methodist coming out of chaos--or, I mean, Lutheran coming out of chaos, Methodist shaking off its brotherly love, and evangelistic day, and the--and the day of--of missionary. The greatest missionary day the world's ever known was Methodist time. That's right. Shaking off its pollen...

L-223 What happened out of there? Out of that pollen come a ear of corn, Pentecostals, a grain, just like the same thing went in. Not a leaf, not a tassel, but a grain. And now, the--the Pentecostals has got fungus all over that grain, till it--you can't even see the grain hardly. It's time to clean it off. Amen. What did they do? Did the same thing the Methodists did. One organized them a bunch, said, "We're the Assemblies of God." The other one, "We're Pentecostal Holiness." Another one, "We're the Oneness." "We're the Twoness." And--and there's so many of this, and so many of them (my,) riding one-hump-back camel, two-hump, three humps, everything... Oh, there's sixty, or thirty, or forty different organizations of them.


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