Questions & Answers
Questions 257 (COD Page 968)
Dear Brother Branham: Do you believe that signs should follow all who have the Holy Spirit? Jesus said so, Mark 16. If so, what about the people who believe the Message with all that is in them, yet they have not these signs? Are they unbelievers or do they need the Holy Spirit? If so, please instruct us today, how to receive the Holy Ghost. We believe you are God’s mouthpiece for our day. Your brother.
216 Thank you, my brother, for regarding me as your–your brother, and I think that that’s a very good question. Friends, yes, it is a little slack. I’d like to deal a little bit longer on that if I could. See? It is slack. Look! Some of you...See? When–you cannot receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost without having an experience when it happens...Now, if you believe “every speck of the Word,” you say...You say you believe every speck of It, then the Word is laying in there waiting for the Holy Spirit to put It to work; but it takes the lighting of the candle.
217 Here’s the candle with the wick in it, and with all the–the tallow, and everything it has to have in that candle; but until the fire comes on it, it will not shine any light. No matter how perfect the candle is, and how perfect it’ll burn and everything, it’s got to be litten, and then it burns. And when you believe and are made up of the instructions of what the Holy Spirit is, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness–the fruits that It bears out, until the Holy Spirit with a fiery experience comes down and lights that candle, then you are–you are–you haven’t received the Holy Ghost. See? You’ve got to have the experience to have the Holy Ghost.