<TITLE>02. Par 6-13</TITLE>L-6 And another Scripture leads me to believe this way, I have written down here, is Matthew 24:24, where it said that, talking about the--the seat, the seed of discrepancy. Jesus said that the two would be so close together till it would deceive the very Elected if it were possible. Almost exactly the same.

L-7   Another place in the Scripture where it's written, that the rain falls on the just and the unjust.

L-8 I remember my first experience of ever coming amongst the Pentecostal people. I was at Mishawaka, Indiana. And I was at a great convention, a hall about like this, where the North and the South had come together. Because of them days, of the segregation, they had to meet up there. They were two great orders of the Pentecostal brethren. I had never heard of them or met them before. The first time I ever heard speaking in tongues. And at the end of the row, of the convention... Me being not a member among them, I was just a young Baptist minister, I set way back in the back. And I remember the first time I heard anyone speak in tongues, I didn't even know what--what it was all about. And then these two men, mainly, set up in the front, one would speak in tongues and the other would interpret what the man said. Well, I just started studying my Bible as hard as I could, there then, and found out that that was Scriptural. That's exactly what the Scripture, the Holy Spirit would do.

L-9   Well, about a day after that... That night my heart was so stirred. I slept in a corn field. I didn't have enough money to get me a--a--a bed, so I just had enough money to get home on, and I got me some doughnuts, couple days old, or rolls, it was, and for my breakfast. And I was welcome to eat with them, but I didn't have no money to put in. In them days, that was in the depression, 1933, so it was--it was pretty hard going. And so I thought, "Well, I'll... I don't want to eat with them, but I want to know what they got. They've got something that I haven't."

L-10 So that morning I was... they asked me, "All ministers come to the platform and just identify yourself, who you are, where you're from."

L-11 Well, I--I just said, "William Branham, evangelist, Jeffersonville," set down. Well, at that time I was the youngest minister on the platform. And the next day they called me to the platform to speak. And then after I spoke, why, we had a great time, and then I begin to meet different people inviting me to their churches. Then after they...

L-12   After that, why, I thought, "If I could only get where these two main men was that spoke in tongues and interpreted!" That was burning me up in my heart, I wanted it so bad. Well, as I've told you at the beginning, a little gift that you pull over. You know, gifts and callings are without repentance, you have them all your life, see, you're born with them, if they're gifts of God. So I always, since a little bitty baby, it always happened to me, people who knows me all my life, they know that's true. Well, if I thought... I didn't know what it was then, called it a vision, I just didn't know what it was. But I thought, "If I could ever talk to them!" Well, and the spirit that was in the building felt like it's really the Spirit of God.

L-13 So I--I got to talk to one of them, and I asked him a few questions, and he was a real genuine Christian. There was no doubt about that, that man was a real believer. And the next man, when I talked to him, if I ever met a hypocrite, that was one of them. That man was actually... His wife was a blond-headed woman, and he had children by... two children by a black-headed woman. And I thought, "Well, now what? Here it is, I'm--I'm all mixed up. I'm a fundamentalist; it must be the Word, or it isn't right. And here's that Spirit, one rang out, according to all I know, genuine; and the other one was no good at all; and the Spirit falling on both of them. Now, how can that be?" I'd, it had me puzzled.


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