<TITLE>21. Par 74-76</TITLE>L-74 Positive... Down through the ages she's never varied. That little old church that believed that that Word of God's wade right through every persecution. They've tried to stamp it out, burn it out, persecute it out, kill it out, drown it out; and she wades on.
Some time ago, standing in the Statue of Liberty, a little bunch of sparrows a laying dead. I said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "There's a storm last night, and that big light was beaming out, and those little birds was lost. If they'd just knowed to took that light, they could went on to safety. But said... What was they trying to do? They run up here and tried to beat the light out. Said, "What did they do? They beat their brains out trying to put out the light--the light that could help them."
You cold, formal Pentecostals; you cold, formal Methodists; you cold, formal Baptists; you unbeliever, that's trying to beat Christ out of the nation, trying to put education and science in the stead of the Holy Ghost; you'll beat your brains out and the light will still beam on and on and on and on. He will have a Church that's filled with the Holy Ghost that He will come for her, and He will live and reign in it. You'll never beat it out. You're just beating your brains out, studying all kinds of man-made books and dogmas. Take God's Word and read It and say It's the truth and accept It. Sure.

L-75 "He that believeth in Me (Saint John 14:7)--He that believeth in Me the works that I do, maybe he shall do the same." That would be so uncertain, wouldn't it? But, "he shall do... he shall do the same works that I do. And more than this, because I go to My Father." Nothing uncertain about it. It's positive.
You say, "But, Brother Branham, I've--I've joined all the churches."
On the day of Pentecost, as I said last night about Doctor Simon Peter, Peter said, "Repent every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Not you... "maybe you will, perhaps you will"; but "you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is unto this generation and that's all... "? Oh, no. "Unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Not "maybe"; but "as many as the Lord God calls, you shall receive the Holy Ghost."

L-76 The trouble of it, you want to shake hands and sprinkle, instead of repent and be baptized. Repent means "turn around," leave your unbelief behind. Start up the road believing God, towards Calvary. Turn around. Start up the road, and you will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You shall receive it.
Is that right, brother? I did not misquote that Scripture, did I? I just put it just the way it's wrote. "You shall receive the Holy Ghost." "You shall," not "maybe; perhaps you will; you ought to;" but, "you shall receive it." "Well, the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That's certain.
Now, don't just walk up and say, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God," hold my head over, and a salt shake, pour a few drops of water on me. I go back and say, "I'm a full fledged member now. I got the right-hand of fellowship." You'll never get the Holy Ghost. You ain't got nothing, a lot of confusion. That's right.


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