<TITLE>18. Par 166-173</TITLE>L-166 No, same One! "Yet a little while, I'll pray the Father, He'll send you another comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. A little while and the world won't see Me no more, Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the consumation, end of the world."

L-167 I said, "Yeah, that's Him come on the Day of Pentecost. Yes, sir. He came, lived in them, notice, in the form of the person of the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ in the person of the Holy Ghost, as we understand the Godhead."

L-168   Now notice, Satan didn't need his theology, theology. And this man said to me, he said, "Mister Branham," he said, "I'll give you to understand, I'm from a certain school, and we are trained."
I said, "I hear your program, all the time." See?
He said, "We are trained there." Said, "The baptism of the Holy Ghost is for the disciples only."

L-169 I said, "The Bible said there was 'a hundred and twenty' in the upper room." And I said, "Now who is right, you or the Word?"

L-170 And I said, "And then, also, when Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, and he baptized them in the Name of Jesus Christ, but the Holy Ghost hadn't come upon them yet, 'cause Peter had the keys. So he sent up to Jerusalem and got Peter, who come down and layed hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost came upon them. The Bible said, 'The Holy Ghost!'"

L-171   I said, "Then Peter, with a vision, with the keys, went up to the house of Cornelius, Acts 10, forty-nine... 'And while he yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell upon them. For they heard them speak in tongues, and--and--and prophesy, magnifying God. Then said Peter, can we forbid water, that these should not be baptized, seeing that they received the Holy Ghost like we did at the beginning? And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.'

L-172 "We find, thirty years later, Paul passing through the upper coasts of Ephesus, finds some Baptist people who was having a great revival. Great things were going on. They shouting, praising the Lord. And Paul visited to the church where about twenty people were attending, where Aquila and Priscilla was attending the meeting; where Apollos, a converted lawyer, proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ. And they had great joy, and a great meeting. Paul passing by, he came by after he... the Lord delivered him out of prison; for casting a spirit out, a devil out of a fortuneteller. And then he come on up through there, in the work of the Lord, and he went to hear the meeting. And he said, 'This man is a great man, all right, but,' said, 'have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' He believed you received It when you believed. But he said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' He said, 'We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.'

L-173 "Said, 'Then to what was you baptized?' That was the question. He said, 'We've been baptized, the same man that baptized Jesus: John. We've been baptized to John's baptism.' See? He said, 'John only baptized unto repentance, not for the remission of sins.' John... 'cause the Lamb hadn't been killed yet. He said, 'John baptized unto repentance, seeing that you should believe on Him that was to come, on Jesus Christ.' 'And when they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. And Paul layed his hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost came upon them, and then they prophesied and spoke in tongues,' thirty years later."
And I said, "Besides, do you believe the Bible?"
He said, "Certainly."


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