<TITLE>20. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 And I was down there not long ago, at a decoration where my grandma and all of them's buried down there; and I was preaching on God coming, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Them old women swinging them old sun bonnets and shout. Back up there in them hills where you can't even get a--you can't get a car in thirty miles of it, back in them hillsides there the old people shouting, the women. Them up and down the floor praising God.
And there was a big old boy... I made an altar call. I said, "There lays my old grandma out there in the grave that died in my arms praising God." I said, "There's my old aunt that kissed me on the cheek in the hour of her death and said, 'Billy, I'll meet you across the river, yonder.'" I said, "There she lays waiting for that resurrection morning. Hallelujah." I said, "If any of you here are sinners, come in; Jesus invites you." An old boy standing there with his hat, chewing on the end of it, like that. He throwed his head down and said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." There was twenty of those old mammy around him before he even got to the altar. About twenty or thirty run up around the altar there, all the sinners running there. And we was supposed to eat dinner at eleven o'clock, and we eat around three-thirty that afternoon: crying and shouting and praising God and walking up and down through them woods a shouting and praising God. Talk about Pentecost. It was in the Missionary Baptist church.

L-64 And I come right over here to a Pentecostal church, and sinners pouring out their hearts around the altar and couldn't even persuade, as a servant of Christ, somebody to come and kneel around them. Whew. Have I lost my mind? Is there something wrong with me?
I asked my wife, I said, "Honey, tell me what's the matter?" I asked Brother Moore, minister, "Am--am--have I gone crazy? Is--is this Word... What's the matter? Has too much learning, as Agrippa said to Paul, made me mad?" I said, "No, sir. No, sir. Somebody's got to stand for it."

L-65 A great prominent minister said to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, I believe you to be a man of God. But let me lay my hands on you and pray for you. You're criticizing the people too much."
I said, "Brother, do you believe that it's right?"
He said, "No, but that's not your business." Said, "Your business is pray for the sick."
I said, "Nonsense. No, sir. God don't give gifts just to baby and for fish and loaves. No, sir. He gives you gifts to proclaim the liberty and speak the Gospel." Right. And I said, "If I don't, who is?" I said, "You can't, because you got too much program to support. I don't have nothing to support but my Bible and the Holy Ghost that preaches." Hallelujah. Glory to God. I'm glad to be Pentecostal. I want everybody to know that I'm Pentecostal. I received the Holy Ghost, not Pentecostal organization. That's far from me. I'm Pentecostal by experience. Jesus Christ is my Saviour. I love Him. And nothing in me...


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