The Same Holy Ghost Part 2
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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Introduction.
Day of pentecost. Satan had won.
Picking up from last Sunday.
159 And now It’s ripe, to bring Him back exactly like He was at the beginning, His same ministry; the same Jesus, the same power, the same Holy Ghost. The same One that come down on the Day of Pentecost, is the same Holy Ghost that’s manifested today, from Glory unto Glory, to Glory.
And is back to Its original Seed, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost; with the same signs, same wonders, same baptism; same kind of people, acting the same way, with the same power, the same sensation.
It’s from Glory unto Glory. And the next will be, “Changed from this Glory, into a body like His Own glorious body, where we shall see Him. 64-0629 - The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us
We learned last week that we only become a New Creation by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. Water, Blood and Spirit produces a birth.
Thought experiment:
Once something is clearly set in the church as the way God does things, what would it take to change that?
Example: Tithing
For I am the Lord, I change not; Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Once He set it in motion it did not change.
A word prophet came and told us that this still applies today.
Jesus fulfilled the law.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Why don’t we do the sacrifices? because Jesus fulfilled every type.
We are still under this New Covenant, until redemption is completed.
What instructions did Jesus leave for the church under the covenant, and what would it take for those instructions to change?
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
These are the last words that He spoke on the earth. What would it take for Him to say something different?
There are people who believe that the Apostolic age has ceased. That the “days of miracles” have passed. there are others who believe the Five-fold ministry has ceased, or that there is no need to receive the baptism of the Holy ghost, just believe the Word.
Many that believe that will take you to a certain scripture.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Can I read you what a Prophet said about it?
237 “Where there is tongues they shall cease. Where there is prophecies, it shall fail. But when that which is perfect is come,” oh, that love of God, so rich and pure, fathomless and strong, then these other gifts will work right in with it. See?
That’s gifts of the Holy Spirit that’s given to you, speaking in tongues, prophesying, and what-more, interpretations. That’s to edify the Church, for the edification of the Body. But first receive the Holy Ghost, that you see that your life is changed.
62-0120 - The Unchangeable God Working In An Unexpectable Way
He clarifies this much further in Questions and Answers, but you have to take the time to read all of it.
281. Dear Brother Branham, I have been baptized in Jesus’ Name. The Word says you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Does this mean the baptism, the Holy Spirit, or does it mean I should... receive a definite experience with the baptism? I am anxious to be filled with the Spirit....
40 Now, there’s a good question. Now, the baptism with the Holy Spirit is a definite experience that a person must receive.
Now let me kind of clear that up just for a minute. See? Now, many people have the idea…I believe it’s twisted.
And maybe right here to the church and to the church that’s listening, there might be a question.
Now, when I speak of not believing the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking with tongues (I do not accept that) I believe with God’s help I can prove it in the Bible that that’s wrong (see?), ’cause the speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Ghost.
How many knows that? Divine healing is a gift of the Holy Ghost, and here Beatles are doing it. See?
41 Satan can impersonate any of those gifts. Witches, wizards can speak in tongues and interpret it. The jungle lands, many times a wizard will speak in tongues, drink blood out of a human skull, and interpret unknown tongues.
(Indian Rain Dance, etc.)
44 Now, that’s no evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? You can’t rely upon that.
You can’t rely upon the fruit of the Spirit, because the first fruit of the Spirit is love.
And the Christian Science exercise more love than anybody I know of, and they even deny Jesus Christ being Divine. See?
There’s only one evidence of the Holy Spirit that I know of, and that is a genuine faith in the promised Word of the hour!
45 Now, those Jews come; they had more religion than the disciples had. They were better-trained men in the Scriptures than the disciples was, because they were fishermen, tax collectors, and so forth.
And they had real faith and genuine faith in what they were doing. Now, listen closely now; don’t miss this! See? When it come to being fruits of the Spirit, kind and gentle, I guess there wasn’t a one of those priest but what could outshine Jesus Christ in it.
(Jesus at the Temple)
Why, we could down him here in a few minutes and show you by the laws…” They had a right to do what they did when it come to that. Why? Because they failed to see that He was that promised Word of the hour.
The only way they recognized it, when Jesus performed the Word by being able to tell them what they had in their hearts, what they had been doing…He was a Prophet according to the Word of God. What He said come to pass, every word, word by word.
47 He was God’s Prophet, Servant, God the Prophet. Not…It was before there, the prophet of God, and this is God the Prophet, not the prophet of God.
That was Malachi, Jeremiah, and Isaiah, and Elijah, and so forth, but this was God the Prophet, not the prophet of God. You get it now?
All the prophets that portrayed His life in portions, played their part, but in Him was the Fullness of all the prophets. The prophets, the Word of the Lord came to them, the prophets, but This was the Word and the Prophet, the same Person. See?
48 Now, now, when a man receives Christ in the manner that He is in, you can’t accept it as being…See?
Now, some of them say, “Well, I’m a Lutheran.” Well, there’s nothing against that, but the Eagles don’t feed on that. See? That was as far as it was; that was fresh food of that day.
“I’m a Wesleyan.” That’s all right, but you’re living in the past. See? Now, those people said, “Why, we have Abraham unto our father.”
That prophet said, “God’s able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” See?“We belong to this. We belong to that.” That had nothing…He said, “You generation of snakes, who’s warned you to flee from the wrath?
Don’t begin to say, ‘We have Abraham to our father,’ ’cause God’s able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” See?
49 So being a well-trained theologian had nothing to do with it. Being meek and gentle had nothing to do with it. What made Him different?
He was the Word made flesh, not the Word for the day of Moses, Moses was that day, Word; not the Word for the days of Noah, Noah was the Word for that day; not the day…the Word for the day of Elijah, Elijah was that Word for that day; but He was the present tense Word, and they were living in the back.
50 The same thing repeats! That’s the evidence of the Holy Ghost, when God reveals to you and you see it, THUS SAITH THE LORD and accept it. Not what you are, what you was, or nothing about it, it’s what God has done for you now. There’s the evidence.
(It’s not the Holy Ghost, it is the evidence of the Holy Ghost.)
(Peter saying “This is That”)
51 Jesus said…He give us the evidence of the Holy Ghost, John 14. He said, “I have many things to tell you. I haven’t got time to do it, but when the Holy Ghost comes, He will tell you, bring to your memory the things that I told you about, and will also show you things that is to come.”
Don’t you see? There’s the evidence. That’s forthtelling and being…having the Divine Interpretation of the written Word. Now, isn’t that the evidence of a prophet?
52 A seer in the Bible was a man that could forthtell and it’d be perfectly, exactly, not somebody laid hands on him, that’s a gift. A prophet is predestinated and borned to be a prophet. See? All the whole life it was a prophet, that’s a office. That’s where the people…
53 Many of the questions here on: “Well, will the Bride…?” “Will this…?” “The church and…” See? You can’t divide what they are. The Bride is the Elected of God. The church goes through…That’s the ones It says, “Whosoever will, let him come.” But the Bride is the Elected of God.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
54 There is five offices elected of God. “For God has set in the Church apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists.” God did that.
Man has deacons and so forth, and everything else, but you see, but God set in the Church for the perfecting of the Church; can’t divide it.
(The reason people think these things have ceased is because they can’t rightly divide the Word, they can’t tell true from false. Businessmen in the pulpit)
55 Now, the Holy Spirit, when It comes, It is a witness unto you (see?) that this Word is right, the Word for today, not the Word for Luther, the Word, not for Moses. We witness It’s the Truth, but it’s another day.
56 Now, what if Jesus would come and said, “Now, as Moses come taking you all out of Egypt, I’ve come taking you somewhere else”? What if He said, “Let’s go to work and build an ark. I’m the Lord God, I’m going to float the world away now. I’m going to drown the world, all of them”?
Why, He’d been out of the…See, the Scripture never said He’d come like that. See? He wouldn’t have been the Messiah. No matter how much ark He’d built, or whatever He had done. He’s still not…He’d have not qualified the Messiah. Hallelujah! There you are! It’s qualification! Yes, sir!
57 First Corinthians 13 says this: “When that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away with.”
So all these little things of jumping up and down like a kid, trying to talk in tongues, and all these other things, when that which is perfect…
And we do have today, by God’s help, the perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication!
Then that which is in part is done away with. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish things.” 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2
(The Word has been rightly divided for us. That which is perfect placed the Holy Ghost as being necessary for the Bride.)
289. ... At the instant of receiving the Holy Ghost, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is there a difference? Does a person speak with tongues? If not always, what manifestation is known?
94 Well, could you imagine a mother giving birth to a baby and not knowing it? She’d have to be unconscious not to know it. Neither can you receive the Holy Ghost without knowing it.
There’s something takes place in you. See? There’s something that changes you. Your whole system, your whole spiritual system is made new again, and you become a new creature in Christ, as the Bible puts it, a new creation in Christ. You know it.
95 Now, you say, “Brother Branham, then you don’t believe that a man should speak with tongues to receive the Holy Ghost.” Not to prove he’s got the Holy Ghost.
96 I would that every member of my church spoke with tongues. I would like for them to do that, and if… I believe if you ask God, God will grant it to you. But let me tell you; I know plenty people that speak in tongues and hasn’t got the Holy Ghost.
And there’s not a minister that’s true with himself and with his congregation but what’ll tell his congregation the same. The devil can impersonate that.
97 Paul said, “Though I speak with tongue of men and angels, though I give my body to be burned as a sacrifice, though I understand all the mysteries of the Word, though I give all my goods to the poor, and all these things, and have not charity, I still am nothing.
I have faith that I can move mountains and so forth; I’m still nothing.” Then he said, “That which is in part will be done away with when that which is perfect is come,” or, “when that which is perfect is made known.”
Now, I’ve got a question on that. I hope I get to it tonight, about what happened when the Seals opened. And I think maybe that’ll get it right to you on this question. 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2
He gets to that question in Q&A No. 3, It’s a two part question.
348. Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I’m glad I got this one.) We watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy. Now, that’s the first question, you got two.
198 “Is mercy over?” Don’t never think that! See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you’re taken away. See?
199 “We notice in the prayer line somes finds mercy.” Sure! Mercies, the doors are open. See?
I think where you got this, this thought might lay between…See, I don’t have time to give each one of these Scriptures their right place, (you see?), each one of these things their right place. They…In the prayer line you find mercy, certainly.
200 If I knowed Jesus was coming this afternoon, I’d be doing just the thing I’m doing right now (see?), just continuing right on. Mercy is always open. See?
201 And now, where I think you get it, is about the finishing of the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals being loosed.
See? The Seven Seals, it’s manifested what takes place has…what has took place. The Seventh Church Age, we’re at the end of the Seventh Church Age.
When I say the end, that doesn’t mean it’s this very hour, this very minute. You remember, the Bible said, back in the times of the Lord Jesus, Paul said, “For the time is at hand.”
Do you realize how long that was in God’s time? That was yesterday. My time, it’s been two thousand years.
See? The time is at hand. See? What God calls at hand is not what we call at hand. See?
202 So just keep on believing, keep on praying, keep on…God’s still got mercy open; just keep flowing into it as fast as you can. God will do the stopping when it’s time to stop. See?
349. Now. Brother Branham, is it true that no one should preach but you? We have seen you ordained men. We don’t believe you would do that if there were not…if they were not to preach.
203 Mercy! Brother, sister, ever who told you that nobody’s to preach but me, I’d sure be a poor subject to God with all that. No! Every man or…that feels a call of God upon his life, get into the ministry and start preaching; we need them.
204 Men of God are anointed all over the world to preach the Gospel. See? I’m just one little pebble on the beach among many big stones. See? So I…There’s just many that’s more eligible, more worthy, more of anything to preach than me;
I’m just one little, humble person laying out here. I’m one grain of wheat in a whole garner. See? So that just a…You know what I mean!
205 Any man that’s called of God needs to preach the Gospel. 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
Conclusion.
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Aren’t you glad God sent a prophet to tie up these loose ends? far be it from me to go untie them.
168 You say, “Well, now, I know Doctor So-and-so is a good man. I know Brother So-and-so.” They might be, but don’t look at that.
169 Look up here, see, here is the Way. God has got a Way to prepare. How did He do it? On the Day of Pentecost, Peter told them what to do. He wrote a prescription for them, and it’s always remained the same.
Don’t tamper with It, you’ll kill your patient. They said, “What can we do to be saved?”
170 He said, “Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” 171 That’s right here tonight. If God is still calling, that’s the prescription.
You can still receive the same Holy Ghost that they received there, just…You can receive the same thing tonight. Just follow through. That’s all you do. 64-0215 - Influences