<TITLE>07. Par 39-45</TITLE>L-39   Now, we all know that the Lord is coming, we're aware of that. And if Brother Neville got up each night and said, "Behold, the Lord is coming! Behold, the Lord is coming!" that would be all right, see. But he's saying that (the pastor) at the platform, for he's got the Word for that. And if he be a pastor, prophet to the church... or a pastor, rather, he's to study the Word of the Lord and tell you what's written in the Word of the Lord about the coming of the Lord, and you're warned by That. A ministry otherwise (to the church) which he wouldn't have any connection with, is tongues, interpretation of tongues (which is prophecy), or a prophet speaking, that's something that's not written in the Word. What's written in the Word, he's to bring it; but what's not written in the Word, is what you're to tell him. Like, for instance, "Tell Brother Wheeler, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Tomorrow, in his sand pit, not to go to it, because there'll be a truck turn over,'" or something like that, and it's got to be done. And you've spoke it and he's interpreted it, and then lay that on the platform after your ministry is finished. The...?... night, after the church... the hymn, and start singing and so forth; if your ministry is finished then, let them come forth with what prophecy has been given.

L-40   And I do not think that we have... Or if you do, put this in there. When these people meet together, let them who have wisdom first come. Because, you see, if one speaks in tongues and gives an interpretation according to Scripture, that cannot be received unless it be witnessed by two or three people, two or three more witnesses, see, has to witness to that, that they believe it to be the Word of the Lord. Because... And sometimes in these minor ministries, just like in any other ministry, you get spirits that's wrong; see, they'll fly in there. And we don't want that. No. We want these ministries ready to be exposed if they're to be exposed, because anything of God can... you don't worry about exposing it, it'll--it'll stand the test if it's of God.

L-41 Just like the pastor, if somebody challenges him on the Word, he don't have to back up about it, he knows just exactly what he's talking to, "Come on up here." See? And same as these other ministries, got to be the same way.

L-42   Now, if--if one speaks in tongues and gives a message... Now, some people speak in tongues when they're just "edifying themselves," the Bible said, they're just have a good time. They'll speak in tongues, they feel. And they do speak in tongues, they actually speak with tongues, and it's the Spirit doing it. But if it's setting out there in the audience, speaking in tongues, just edifying themselves, then it isn't any profitable thing for the church; the man's edifying himself, or the woman, or whoever's doing it. See?

L-43 To speak in tongues is a gift of God to edification, as Paul says in the Scripture, that it's to edify the church. So it had to be some direct message from God to the church, outside of what's wrote here in the Bible. See? It's something that...

L-44   If you could ask me, "Brother Branham, how must I be baptized?" I can tell you right quick. You don't have to speak in tongues and tell me that, it's wrote right here in the Bible what to do about that. See? I don't have to... you don't have to ask no questions on that and have somebody speak in tongues and tell you. See, that's already written.

L-45 But if you say, "Brother Branham, what must I do, I've got a decision here I've got to make whether I should take this church or go to another church," or something like that. "Or should I do this, that?" Now, that'd have to come from God. See, God has to tell us that. But that would have to come through another ministry, 'cause the Word don't say "Let Orman Neville leave Branham Tabernacle and go to the Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle." See, it don't say that in the Word here, see, so that's what these gifts are for.


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