<TITLE>13. Par 60-64</TITLE>L-60 And he said, "Then what have we Lutherans got?"
I said, "The Holy Ghost." Then he was all confused. I thought... I said...
He said, "I went to California. I wrote a... I read a book one time on all the spiritual gifts." Said, "We're hungry here at Bethany," and he said, "all my associates here." And there was about three hundred or four hundred of them setting there; he said, "We're all hungry for God."
He said, "Now, the thing is," he said, "we wrote--read this book in our school in our studies here." And said, "Why, some of the brothers and I got on a plane, and went to California and found this man. And he said, 'I don't have any of the gifts. I just wrote about them.'"

L-61 Said, "Then we heard about you was coming over here." And said, "We went over there." And said, "Quickly, being disappointed so many times on an illusion, we applied it to being an evil spirit that... I'm sorry that I said it."
I said, "Well, that's all right." I said, "We all maybe have those times, sir." I said, "Probably been that I'd might have done the same thing myself at time." I said, "God is merciful to us. He's certainly merciful to me."
And he said, "Well, I would just like to say one thing." He said, "What can we do?"

L-62 And I happened to think... The students that couldn't pay their way through, they had about a thousand-acre farm there, or more, maybe two thousand acres, and they planted corn, and let the students work their way through. See? And I said, "One time there was a man that planted a field of corn." How many ever seen corn come up? We all seen it. And I said, "The next morning when he went out there were two little blades, or one morning when he went out there was two little blades sticking up." He said, "Praise the Lord for a crop of corn."
I said, "Did he have it?"
He said, "Well, I wouldn't say he had it."
I said, "Let's say this: potentially he had it."
"Yes," he said.

L-63 I said, "That was the Lutherans. Finally those two little blades growed into a tassel, something different. And that was the Methodists by sanctification, which you all preached justification; and the tassel looked back down at the blade and said, 'Huh. I'm a tassel. I don't have any use for you at all. I'm it now.'"
"But you know, that tassel finally shed off these little tassels down into the blade again, and it brought forth an ear of corn, like the original grain that was planted." I said, "That was Pentecost, the restoration of the gifts being restored to the church." I said, "We got a lot of fungus on the ear, but yet, we got some grains there too. See?" I said, "That--that's right." I said, "It was--it was the--the original Pentecost."

L-64 And I said, "Then the grain said, 'I don't need neither tassel nor leaf. I don't need you Methodists, or you Lutherans either one. I'm the grain.'" I said, "After all, it took the life that was in the blade to make the tassel, and the life in the blade to make the grain." I said, "The Pentecostal church is the advanced Lutheran church."
He scooted his plate back. Did a little simple thing like that: not arguing their theology (See?), or arguing with them, just letting them see what's the truth. See? Let us... He said, "Brother Branham, we of Bethany (no matter what the rest of the Lutherans say), we want God. What can we do to receive the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Get back from the table, turn your backs to the table and kneel down with your faces towards the wall." And we went around and laid hands on them, and four hundred received the Holy Ghost. And now they are running hundreds and hundreds, a-doing miracles, and signs, and wonders. That's Dr. Aegery of the Bethany College at Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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