<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 He said, "What--what have we Lutherans got?"
I said, "I said, The Holy Spirit. Now, listen." I thought I'd keep--talk in his own line so he would know. I said, "One time a man got a great field ready, and he planted a crop of corn. He kept watching it day after day, until one morning he went out, and there was two little blades growing up." You know what corn is when it comes up. I said, "The man stood up on his porch and said, 'Praise God for a crop of corn.'" I said, "Now, did he have it?"
He said, "Well, he had the starting of it."
I said, "Then, we'd say potentially he had it. By and by those... That was you Lutherans at the beginning." And I said, "By and by those leaves growed up, and a tassel come out of them. That was the Methodists."
And I said, "Then the Methodists looked back down to the Lutherans and said, 'I have no need of you. I'm a tassel. You're not into it.' But you see, it had to use back the leaf also because for the pollen to drop in. And out come a ear, Pentecost, with the original... Like it was at the beginning, the grain that went in the ground, it was producing a grain." I said, "Now, we got a lot of fungus on the ear, but we got grains too." That's right. I said, "Like it was at the beginning."
I said, "That's why I'm among the people. They're God's people." And I said, "You see, the Pentecostal church is the advanced Lutheran church, because the same life that was in the leaf made the corn." And that's right. And he caught it.

L-18 He scooted back his plate and got up. He said... looked down to his associates, all the students, and so forth, and the deans. and the body, and he said, "We here at Bethany are hungry for the Holy Ghost." Said, "Brother Branham, what shall we do to receive it?"
I said, "Turn your face from the table, go over against the wall, and kneel down against the wall, and be real sincere."
Went down and laid hands on them. Forty some-odd received the Holy Ghost right then. And now they got better than four hundred in that school doing all kinds of signs, miracles. What is it? That's Lutheran Pentecost. See? Everywhere, everywhere the Holy Ghost... We cannot bind this down and say, "We Pentecostals has got it." God's broke that boundary and went on out in there, and got everything that there was. "Whosoever will, let him come." See? It's for the people.
Pentecost is an experience. Roman Catholic, Jewish orthodox, whatever they might be, Chinese, Buddha, everything: the Gospel is for whosoever will, he may come.

L-19 Oh, I just love it, and just love it. Oh, how I love it. And I know that God is able at the last day to raise up that which He has said that He would do. I believe that. I believe in the general resurrection, that those who died back there in the Lutheran faith at the beginning will not... these... will not prevent these... The trumpet of God shall sound, and the entire dead in Christ shall rise. That's right.
I believe the church comes to Its perfection constantly, coming up. And as the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against it, greater, and greater, and greater building up. Now, it's right down to that last thing, what I was talking about last night. Oh, I believe that He will come. And I believe that these old frail bodies of ours will be changed and made like unto His own glorious body.


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