<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 When the Pillar of Fire moved, Israel moved with It. And in the New Testament, when It begin to move, just exactly like It did in the Old Testament, moved the same way... Israel had to follow that Pillar of Fire, and set the tent up under It. And when It begin to move in this last, at the reformation, Martin Luther saw It.
And then, as soon as Luther was over, they built an organization around Luther's work. God moved right out from under it. And Wesley saw It, and away he went. After Wesley, and Asbury, and many of the others, when... after their time, then what happened? They built an organization under It. God moved right out from under it, went right on. See?
And now, we Pentecostals are doing the same thing. You can't organize the Holy Spirit. You can't do it. We believe in organizations to keep brotherhood and so forth. It serves a good purpose. But always stretch the blanket out to get the other brother (See?), and hold your heart open to get what God is ready to send down upon us. That's the way to do it. That's real brotherhood. And so I like that. When... If I could ever see a time that the Pentecostal church...
Now, Pentecost is not an organization, Pentecost is an experience. I know almost as many Lutheran and Baptist and Presbyterian that's got the Pentecostal experience as Pentecostal people who call themselves Pentecostal. So Pentecost is a--an experience.

L-10 Some time ago... I'll start there, and then get away from my message, or... Just give me time to say this. Will you? Bear with me. It's good.
I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That's a great Norwegian country. And I was having a meeting, and we were at the--some great building, and I was there right in the wintertime, or springtime. And I stayed at a little cheap hotel down... I believe that Christians shouldn't have everything just so swanky. Jesus didn't have a place to lay His head (See?), and we try to have to have the best, and so much security and everything else. Shame on us. See? But a little hotel...
And that... one night when I come in from the church... The next morning I went out, had breakfast, and when I come back there was a--a twenty-two page letter in a little pigeonhole to me. How the man ever knew I was there, I don't know. So I read it. And oh, you talk about good criticism; it was good. And I appreciate that. I certainly do. Any man that's really got a point, and wants to criticize, that checks us up. You know, a criticism makes a good product (See?), when we're willing to receive it, test it.

L-11 So this man had give me the awfullest bawling out. He was a dean of a college, and he said, "You was talking last night about being in the ministry twenty-five years (it's thirty-one now)." But he said, "Twenty-five years." Said, "I was in the ministry before you were born." And he said, "And some... I've seen some mighty strange things." And said, "I drove last night fifteen miles through a blinding snowstorm, thought I would see a servant of Christ. And what did I find but a polished-up soothsayer."
And he said... And he wouldn't call me "brother"; he just said, "Branham." That was all right. So he said, "And the very idea. The theology, the rottenest I ever heard in my life." And he said, "For instance, you said this, that Satan could not heal." Said, "A man that stands before as many people as you do and make such a mistake as that." Said, "Why, it's terrible."
He said, "Now, let me tell you something, young man." He said, "Over behind our seminary here," or place, said, "there's a woman's got a familiar spirit." And said, "She has a big apron on." And said, "People come there for divine healing." And said, "They... And she goes, and feels all over them, like that with her hands." And said, "Then the first thing you know, they drop money down in this apron."


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