<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-525-96 Now, but now, let me just not get away from that now, because I don't want to dishonor a great gift that God has given. See? And I believe that a Spirit-filled man, or woman, or a child, that lives under the altar of God, won't live there long until they'll be speaking with tongues. See? I believe that he will do it, or she.
Now, you can receive the Holy Ghost, and maybe you didn't speak with tongues when you get It. See? But if you constantly lay there before God all the time, with baptism after baptism striking you, something's going to take place. See? You'll get so full someday till you can't talk nothing else. See, you--you--you try to say something; you just can't say it no more; and you just can't say it. And many times if people realized that that was the Holy Spirit they'd go ahead and just open their heart up and let God speak to them.

L-526-98 The Bible said, "With stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people." Isaiah 28 (See?), 28:18, "Now, with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak."
What is a "stammer"? Somebody who can't talk plain, going [Brother Branham illustrates someone stammering--Ed.]. You just... You stammer, just trying. See, just so full of the Spirit, He's try to say... Like I was going to say, "Brother Ja--Jack-... Ja-... Brother Jack-... Brother Ja--Ja--Jack--Jack--Jackson." See, it like that, you're trying to say, you can't say it. See, that's, so filled with the Spirit. It...

L-526-100 I want to ask you brethren, have you ever felt the Holy Ghost shake you so bad till you just couldn't hardly say nothing, would just set quiet sometime, just sit there and cry? Have you did that? Well, that's the Holy Ghost. If you'd... The reason people don't speak with tongues many times; they don't know how to yield themselves to the Spirit; and they're looking for something way off when It's right on them. See? That's the reason they don't...
And then some people just gets theirself worked up in emotion and say a bunch of words that has no meaning to it, and still ain't got the Holy Ghost, and try to say they have because they spoke in tongues. "By their fruits you shall know them." See?

L-526-102 Now, is there a question? [Brother Junior Jackson says, "Brother Branham?"--Ed.] Yes, brother. ["I'm glad that question was asked, because no doubt somebody was wondering what maybe I believed and taught the wrong thing. But I believe it just like you taught it."--Ed.] Thank you, Brother Jackson. ["Irregardless of how many times I might speak in tongues, or anything, if my life doesn't bear record of what the Bible said, I'm no better than an ornery dog walking the street."--Ed.] That's right. ["And I did not ever speak in an unknown language until six months after I had received my baptism."--Ed.] That's about the way I did it too, Brother Jackson.

L-526-103 I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost back in my shed. See? And about a year later, or something like that, I was--I was--spoke in tongues.
And about a year or two after that, I was preaching again in a church, and I was--I was standing up on the platform like this, and I... When I was young and wasn't stiff and old as I am now, I could get around a little better, and I was very emotionally preaching. I was standing there preaching, and I just jumped up on a desk. It was on a Baptist church, Milltown Baptist church, and went right down into the aisle, preaching just as hard as I could preach like that. And just as I stopped preaching, Something just had me all carried away and said several words, four or five, or six words in unknown tongues. And before I knew what I was doing, I heard myself calling out "The Rock in a weary land, the Shelter in the time of storm." See?


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