<TITLE>20. Par -</TITLE>1L-022-Q-292 292. Brother Branham, can Satan use a gift of tongues or prophecy in a person who has the Holy Ghost?
That's a good one isn't it? Yes, sir. If... It must be watched very, very close. If you'll notice in I Corinthians 14:29, you who wants to put it down... See? The--the person who wrote this never signed their name; they just said, "God bless you." See? In I Corinthians 14:29 we find out that any gift in the church has got to be judged first. See? You have to watch, 'cause evil spirits slip in. Because remember, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The same rain that was sent to ripen the wheat also ripens the weed: the same water. How many knows that? Now, that ought to clear the serpent's seed to you then, how that this son come. I'm trying to pick it out here to get it before my time runs out, but I can't find it: so, how that son was about the serpent's seed. See?
God has a law. Now, on this, in this law of the spirit of Life you have to watch, because Satan slips in.
And Paul, when something was revealed to somebody, it had to have at least two or three judges before it could be told before the church.

1L-022-124 Now, also here I might bring this out. I see my... I don't think my Brother's here tonight, but somebody made fun of somebody leaving the Tabernacle and went down to Brother Junior Jackson's for a church. Said, "They went down amongst the 'dead birds.'" Aren't you ashamed to make a remark like that? Ever who you are, if you're my kid here in Christ, I'm ashamed of you. Don't do a thing like that. Junior Jackson is my brother. Don Ruddell is my brother.
Well, the reason of it, because when I set the church here in a certain order, when I come back, to see if I could get the manifestation of the gifts, half of them pulled away from it. Because when you would start to speak, or preach, or something, it got... It was getting in such a place that you could hardly preach 'less there was somebody spoke in tongues, somebody interpreting, somebody give the interpretation; and half of it never even come to pass.

1L-023-126 Now, I believe in speaking in tongues. I believe in interpretation, but it must be something directly to the church, not, "The Lord is coming soon," or something--which is all right. But, "Don't use vain repetitions," Jesus said, "as heathens do."
It must be something. "Go, tell Brother So-and-so a certain thing he done and--and to get..." "Why, go tell Brother, Sister So-and-so, when she did a certain thing down there the other day, she transgressed the laws of her husband's--the vow to her husband. Unless she makes this right--right, the Holy Spirit will cut her off." There you've got THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Then bring that sin in. That's when we got a church like it was when Ananias and Sapphira come in. Then we got a church that stands solid.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham..." One guy, I told him that; he said, "Well, you put us too much on the spot."
I said, "Ain't I on the spot up there to strangers I never seen in my life? But I got faith and confidence in my God Who sent me to do this, and never one time has it been wrong or never will be as long as it's God." That's right.

1L-023-130 Not speaking in tongues and things like that... I believe that those tongues and people that got them gifts, if they're real genuine Christians and interested in it, they'll meet themselves together, because--and give the tongues and interpretations and see what they can do to further the Kingdom of God. They got a ministry of their own, but it don't belong here in the middle of the audience where the--the sinners are being dealt with and so forth. The Bible said, "They'll say you're unlearned."
Sometimes they get so irreverent with it and--and so forth... Not our gang hadn't, but I let them go ahead awhile. I said, "Watch it."


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