<TITLE>02. Par 6-9</TITLE>L-6 Now, I do think that Christianity is convincing, and it's... If it is preached in its simplicity and God will reveal Christianity in a living presence. Now, if it comes to just ritual, creed, it isn't very convincing, because it's--it's too misunderstood; it's... There's something wrong with it. That's when man has contaminated It with adding dogma and so forth to It. Then it isn't convincing at all. But just to see the plain Bible just read, and see it moved and lived among the people, I think it is very astounding, myself. I--I really love it. And maybe...

L-7 I--I'm a southerner. And everybody since I been here tells me I talk funny. I hope I don't talk funny to you, because I tried to get out of it as much as could to try to speak like you Canadians. But I--I just haven't got it in me. I just--just can't do it. But I hope that the Holy Spirit will reveal to you what I'm trying to get to you, my--my words.

L-8 And now, we believe that Christianity is convincing, and then we come not representing any certain denomination, but representing all of them. And the way of... We believe that Christ is the Head of the church, which He has purchased with His own Blood, and by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body. We--we believe that we join our different organizations, but we're baptized in one body, Christ, by the Holy Spirit: One Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
I've always made a little remark (oh, not always, but several times), saying, "You know, I belonged to the Branham family for fifty-three years, and they never did ask me to join the family. I was borned a Branham. And that's the way I think that we are Christians. We are born Christian.
Now, we have our organizations. And many times the, oh, the Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Anglican, and so forth, try to say that we are a Pentecostal organization. That's a error. We... You cannot organize Pentecost. Pentecost is an experience for all believers. See? It's an experience.
I have many Anglican friends who has the Holy Ghost. I have many Methodists... I just helped lead four hundred Lutherans to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. See? And so there's a whole Bethany College received the Holy Ghost at one time. So, see, it--it's not a--an organization, it's an experience for anybody that wishes it.

L-9 In Africa amongst the heathens and Hottentots, I've seen thirty thousand blanket natives receive It at one time. So, see, in India, where we had at Bombay, the largest gathering I ever spoke to in my life at one gathering, oh, around half a million, I guess. But I seen thousands times thousands of them, innumerable, that I couldn't even see how many there was, accept Christ as Saviour at one time. And they belong... They were Mohammedans, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, and whatmore. See? But they--they all received Pentecost (See?), because that it's for "whosoever will" may be a partaker of it.
And Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me." And he that comes, of course, has Eternal Life with the assurance of being raised up again at the last day. So what an assurance and a rest it is to be a Christian, to know that in this day, that when the world is so nervous...


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