<TITLE>13. Par 58-62</TITLE>L-58 Now, how does He testify of God? He testifies it by the life that He lives in you. "By their fruits you are known."
You could say, "Well, Brother Branham, I got the Holy Ghost. I spoke in tongues."
I believe that too. But if that life don't follow that experience, then there was something wrong. See? You got the wrong thing. See? But if you got--if you got the real Holy Spirit and you spoke in tongues, then the life follows it. And then, if--if you claim you've had the Holy Spirit and had the experience, and then your life don't tally up to God's Word, then you got the wrong spirit (See?), 'cause you can't gather grapes off of a thistle. You know that. See? And by their fruits they are known.

L-59 And Jesus, when He come claiming He was the Messiah, He did the works of the Messiah. Amen. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works." What a statement. Same today, as He promised in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-60 The denominations, the great organizations of the world, what do they expect when they see the--a revival break in the city? What does the denominations expect? A great intellectual speech. He has to come by fine education, swell words, and able with a personality to get cooperation everywhere, and--and everything like that, and a great big program. What do you do? Get up to the altar a bunch of painted-faced Jezebels that never wash up, a bunch of cigarette smoking guys that claim to be Christians, and they never straighten their life, still as crooked as a barrel of snakes, and you tell me that that's the Holy Spirit? No, sir. The Holy Spirit is holiness and power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Bible said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen. That is true, my brother, not no slight, but the...

L-61 What is it? Get a man up there, might stammer a little bit, and splutter a little bit in his language, and misspell some words, or mispronounce them. And then they say, "Ah, there ain't nothing to that guy."
What about your Dwight Moody, one of the greatest you've had since Charles Finney. That's right. What about Moody? He hardly could read his name, little old shoe cobbler.
One day over in... He was preaching to the cockneys over in England, and he tried to read the Bible and he mispronounced it. What... I think he called Philistines Philistines, or something, some kind of word he made it. He went back half the verse. He tried again. He thought he'd have time to try to spell it out. He missed it again. He went back and read the whole thing over, and he missed it again.

L-62 He closed the Bible. And he knowed that them cockneys were setting there just... It's got to be intellectual to them. He closed the Bible, and he said, "Lord God, I'll speak with the tongue that you sent me in." Brother, he tore that place to pieces. The tears rolled down his cheeks.
A newspaper come to investigate to see why he was drawing so many people. And the newspaper come and wrote up a article, said, "Why would anybody come to see Dwight Moody?" He said, "The first thing, he's so homely to look at." And said, "The next thing," says, "he talks through his nose. He hasn't got--he hasn't got a good speech." And said, "His grammar is the poorest to nothing." And said, "He's horrible to look at. He's fat, and round, and whiskers all over his face." Oh, they called him everything, nearly.
His manager come up and said, "Mr. Moody, here's what the paper said about you." He read what it was, went through it. Said, "Why would anybody come to see Moody?"
And Mr. Moody just passed off one sentence, said, "Huh. Sure not. They come to see the Lord." That's all. They didn't come to... If you're coming to see Dwight Moody, that's different--he has to be something to look at.


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