<TITLE>15. Par 106-112</TITLE>L-106 A many woman, man tonight in the Assemblies of God would like to come and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, knowing that it's the God's truth. They'd be excommunicated if they did it.
And a many Oneness of the... Now, I'm not Oneness. I don't believe in the oneness the way they do. I don't believe in Jesus like they say, "Jesus"; there's a lot of Jesuses. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's right. Now, and I don't... I believe that different from what they do. They baptize in the Name of Jesus, in the Name of Jesus for regeneration, that being baptized regeneration brings in Christ to you for your water baptism. I don't believe that. I believe regeneration comes by the Blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. That's right. Baptism's only an outward act of the inward work of generation's done been done. See? So I don't agree with that. That's all right, but they're all my brethren.

L-108 When I first started out as a Baptist preacher, they come around saying, "Brother Branham, you come over here; we--we got it; we carried it over here."
I said, "Neither one of you, I stand right between the two groups and say, 'We are brothers.'" Don't care what, I don't care if a man disagrees, that don't make one speck of difference to me; he's still my brother.
I got a brother that likes apple pie; I like cherry the best, but I ain't going to disfellowship him. He can eat his apple pie and I eat my cherry pie. And I put calf slobbers on top of mine. If he don't want it, why, he can have it. You know that... What is it? Whipped stuff they put on it, you know, whipped cream. I like it. Getting too old now to eat it, but it's a... But I--I--I... That's what I like. If he don't like it, he don't have to eat it. That's all right; I'll eat mine. But he's still my brother. That's right.
And so I--I like that; I like a fellowship. But when we draw lines like this and say, "No, this is our denomination," and won't reach over and shake hands with the next man, and say, "Bless God, brother." My. That's when you call fellowship. If you don't, you get that root of bitterness just like the Smyrnaeans got back there, and you cause the same thing. All right, so their name was "bitter."

L-112 The Nicolaitanes kept smothering them out until the dark ages. Luther's age brought out the first step of grace, a little Light begin to shine. Then come forth, after that come John Wesley with sanctification, growed a little brighter. And then come the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the Pentecostals, bringing back again the faith of the fathers. But they could not keep it that way; thus they had to organize it; and then they started right back into Nicolaitane again, just exactly what the Bible said they would do.


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