<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Now, if this is His Book... I had an interview not long ago with a Catholic priest. He came to my house to ask about if I'd baptized some girl that--when she was a baby, or a little girl about fifteen years old. She'd remarried, and remarried Catholic. He had to baptize her over. And the bishop asked me some questions. And he asked me if I baptized her, and I told her, "Christian baptism by immersing."
He said, "The Catholic church used to do that."
I said, "When?"
So he went back and said, "In the days of the Bible."
I said, "Then do you claim that the--the Bible is... the Catholic church wrote the Bible?"
Said, "Jesus Christ organized the Catholic church and placed Peter the head of it and the twelve apostles; and that was the first Catholic church."
I said, "Then if it's infallible, and changes not, why has there been so many more changes made? Why, you've got ten thousand women out here you're praying to: dead people. And there's only one mediator, said the Bible, between God and man, and that's the Man Christ Jesus, no Marys, or nothing else. See?" I said, "Why?"

L-27 He said, "Well, you see, Mr. Branham, we're not supposed to argue the Word."
I said, "I'm not arguing the Word. I'm just asking you." I said, "I've got Hislop's "Two Babylons." I've got the most ancient histories that I can find. Here's the Nicene Fathers, the Nicene Council, the Pre-Nicene Council, and all, right here in my study. Show me anywhere there was a Catholic church till 305. Show me where it was."
He said, "You're quoting history."
I said, "How did I know there was a George Washington here, only by history? Show me something different." See? I said. That's exactly right. God never did organize a church, and it never was God's plan to do it. Organizations, "mother church" is Catholic, and all the rest of them is off of that same organization according to Revelation 17. That's exactly right. Breaking down fellowship...
We're all one. Pentecost is for Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, "Whosoever will, let him come, drink from the fountains of the waters of Life freely." Right. Now, if Jesus is the...

L-28 Now, I ain't talking against these organizations, but when you draw a little fence around... Like a little thing I seen one time, a little monkey setting up in the tree. And he said, looked over at the other little monkeys, said, "You know they tell us that... telling us... Or they say down there that--that they come from us." He said he couldn't believe that.
Said, "Would I fence up my tree here so my fellow monk couldn't come over and get a coconut when he wanted it? Would I say that I'm the only monk there is in the--in the trees?" Well, said, "If it has, then the monkey race is fallen." That's... Well, that's about right too. Yeah.

L-29 When we try to hedge up something... God don't hedge it up. He breaks the hedges down, tore down the middle wall of partitions and all in one in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is for all of us, that we all might see the glory of God.
In all my meetings I've never seen Him say, "Well, this fellow's a Presbyterian, so he can't get healed. And this one's Baptist, so he can't get healed." He doesn't heal people that way. It's on the basis of their faith and not their denomination. That's right.
Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever... The Catholic church would say, "Sure, we believe that. We believe that in our church."
Baptist would say, "We believe that in our church."
The Catholic say, "We believe it" in that church.
Now, if I was going to base this talk upon Baptist, the church that I come from... If I was going to base it upon Pentecost, or if I was going to base it upon any one of the organizations of Pentecost, I just might as well stop. That's all.


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