<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 And I said, "Finally, that corn growed up to a place it had a tassel. And you know what the tassel did? The tassel looked back down at the blades, and said, 'I have no use for you any more. I'm a tassel.' But it had to use the blade again in order to reproduce itself. Then he brought forth from this tassel back into the--the blade, and brought forth a ear."
I said, "Now, the first was you Lutheran; the second was the Methodist move of God; and the third, the ear, was the Pentecostal group that brought back a restoration of the gifts to the church, of the original grain that went into the ground. It's just restoring again, as Joel says." See? I said, "Now I know we got a lot of fungus on that ear; but yet we've got some grains there too, you know." I said, "We..."
And he said, "Well..."
I said, "That is the original grain." I said, "Now, the Pentecostal church is the advanced Lutheran church. After all, the--if there had been no leaf, there would've been no tassel; and the life that was in the leaf made the tassel. And the life that was in the tassel made the grain. So it's an advanced church of the living God."

L-22 He stopped, pushed back his plate. He said, "Brother Branham, I went west one time. That he... I wrote... I heard a book wrote of about all the spiritual gifts." And said, "I--I went west to find the man." And said, "When I did, he said, 'Oh, I just wrote about them; I didn't have them.' Said, 'I just wrote about them.' Well," said, "I could've done that." And said, "I went around and I noticed all this; and I went to the Pentecostal groups and so forth." And said, "I--I noticed them shouting."
You see, it just happened to be there. The devil put him there at the wrong time, you know, when the people are really rejoicing. And there he's got an opinion, and went out. See?
And he said, "I apologize for the letter that I wrote you." Said, "I built myself up with such a place, that was against it, and that's where I pinned it down, right there; and said you wasn't nothing but a soothsayer." He said, "I ask you to forgive me."
I said, "Why, certainly, sir. I would never hold nothing, and never did--what I told you in the letter."

L-23 He said, "I wanted to hear it from your lips." He said, "Now, Brother Branham, to me and all the students, we're all hungering for the Holy Ghost. What must we do?"
So you know what I told him, don't you? I said, "Turn your backs, your backs this way, and your faces to the wall all the way around. And make a purpose in your heart that you will never leave your knees until God gives you the baptism of the Holy Ghost." And I said, "Now don't think about this, or that, or the other. Just stay there and say, 'God, I want the Holy Ghost.'" I went around and laid hands on them, and forty received the Holy Ghost right then. And now, they're about five hundred of them, strong, going, having signs, miracles, and wonders, and so forth. See?


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