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Questions 29 (COD Page 168)
If two thirds of the people of the world heard... not heard the Gospel yet, the Word of the Gospel, how much did the...
Beg your pardon. It’s wrote with ink, and I’ve been perspiring here and it’s run into it. Let’s see. If two-thirds of the people of the world has not yet heard the Gospel, how can our Lord come now, being they hadn’t heard the Gospel, two-thirds of them?
Well, that’s exactly right. I’ll tell you what I think.
116 Here not long ago, when Dr. Reedhead, the President of the Sudan Mission, the greatest full... the greatest apostolic... No, I beg your pardon. The greatest fundamental mission in the world, the Sudan mission. Dr. Reedhead, with so many degrees till he didn’t even know how many degrees was upon him, come to my house up there, a little over a year and six months ago. And stood in my house, him and this Hyman
Appleman, this Baptist minister which has received the Holy Ghost now and preaching down in Mexico. And he come to the house. He said, “Brother Branham,” said, “do you deal with the Pentecostals?”
And I said, “Yes, sir.”
And he said, “I’m Dr. Reedhead.”
I said, “I’m glad to know you. Will you come in?”
He said, “Yes, sir.”
117 He set down, said, “I want to ask you something.” Said, “I understand that you was ordained in the Baptist church.”
118 I said, “That’s right.” I said, “I come out of it,” I said, “because I couldn’t stand that. I-I believe to preach what
the Bible says, not what the Baptist church says. And I have nothing against the Baptist church, they’re just as good as any other church.” And I said, “I come out of it so I could be free.”
He said, “Well, of course, you know we are Baptist.”
And I said, “Yes, sir.”
119 And he said, “I want to ask you something. What about this baptism of the Holy Ghost?” Said, “I’ve been in and seen them kick over chairs and stomp and holler and carry on.”
120 I said, “I’ve seen all that, too.” But I said, “Brother, behind it all, there’s a real genuine article of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.”
121 And he said “Brother Branham, can I receive It?” He said, “I’ve got so many honors!” He said, “I’m a Doctor, I’m this, I got my Ph.D., I got my Bachelor Degree, I’ve got every kind of degree and honorary degrees from all over the nations, and things like that,” said, “and where is Jesus Christ?”
122 I said, “Well, brother, He’s right here in the room.”
123 He said, “I stood and talked to a staunch Mohammedan, just been educated in America, and I said, ‘Renounce your old dead prophet and receive a resurrected Lord Jesus.’ He said, ‘Kind sir, what can your resurrected Lord Jesus do for me any more than my Mohammed can do?’ Said, ‘Both of them wrote Bibles, we believe it.’ Said, ‘Both of them died.’ And said, ‘And both of them promised life after death, to us, and we believe it.’”
124 He said, “‘Oh, but, you see,’” said, “‘we Christians have joy.’”
125 “Said, ‘So do we.’ Said, ‘I can produce just as much psychology as you can.’” And that’s right. “He said, ‘Well, look, our Mohammed... You claimed your Lord Jesus raised from the dead.’”
126 And Doctor Reedhead said, “‘Why, He did!’”
127 “Said, ‘Prove it!’ Said, ‘Prove it!’ Said, ‘You’ve had two thousand years to prove it, and only about one third of the world has ever heard about it.’ Said, ‘Let our Mohammed raise from the dead and the whole world will know about it in two days.’” He’s right. “He said, ‘Our Mohammed never promised us nothing but life after death.’ He said, ‘Your Lord Jesus promised you, and you teachers, that the very things that He did you would do also.’ And said, ‘Let’s see you teachers produce that now, and,’ said, ‘we’ll believe He raised from the dead.’”
128 He said, “Brother Branham, I scooted my foot in the dirt like that and changed the subject.” With all those degrees! Why? Where is God in those degrees? God is not known by a Ph.D.’s, and D.D.’s, and L.D.’s, and so forth.
129 God is known by simple faith, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That’s the only way. God in you, till He brings you “a son of God,” changes your nature. And the very same thing, God the Creator Who made all things and spoke the world into existence by His Word, that same Spirit in you, you believe everything God says. And there’s nothing impossible; you believe It.
130 You won’t stand back to one little creed and say, “I don’t believe, accept That. I can’t believe God will do this. I can’t believe.” You limit God by your unbelief! That’s it.
131 So Dr. Reedhead stood there, he said, “Brother Branham, could a man receive, really, the Holy Ghost?”
132 I said, “Yes, sir, Dr. Reed-, you can.”
133 He said, “If God knows my heart; and I believe you, knowing; and under inspiration right now, I want you to... Do you believe I’m telling the truth?”
I said, “I know you are!”
He said, “How must I receive It?”
I said, “Kneel.”
134 And he knelt there by the old coffee table. I just picked up from up here. The man is sitting back there who fixed it just a while ago up here. Setting there, broke the glass on top of it as he kneeled down. He said, “God, have mercy on my sinful soul.” And I laid hands on him, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost come upon him right there. That’s right.
135 And he’s just set that Baptist church afire everywhere now, to all of them in around there. There it is. Yes, sir.
136 The Gospel cannot... Jesus cannot come until the...
137 Listen! We’ve passed tracts all around over the world. You can’t go to any little corner ’less there’s been tracts passed, somebody coming through there with theology. You go overseas today and call yourself a “missionary,” and watch them laugh at you. Walk into India and say, “I’m a missionary.”
138 “Well, what are you going to teach us?” They know more about the Bible then... Some of their kids over there know more about it than some of their teachers here in America knows about it. After all, it’s an Eastern Book. And, remember, they had the Gospel hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years before America ever come into existence. Saint Thomas, the great church that he preached in, is still standing today in India. They don’t need any of your teaching, they know all about it. They said, “What are you going to teach us?” “Well, we are American missionaries.”
139 “What are you going to teach us, how to drink whiskey? That’s what you all do over there in your churches! Smoke cigarettes? Going to teach us how to divorce our wives, and so forth?” Said, “If you’re going to do that, we don’t want it.” And said, “You’ll come over here with some new theology or something another, you’re going to try to teach us some of the Word, we know more about it than you do.” And that’s right. He said, “But if you’re coming to demonstrate what the Word says, we’ll receive It.” Amen! There you are. That’s the thing
they’re hungering for.
140 Mark my Word, write It in your pages of your Bible, for It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, “Remember, when we land in India, you’re going to hear of tens of thousands times thousands being saved.” The Holy Spirit has said It. I’ve wrote It here in my Bible. It’s wrote in tens of thousands of Bibles right here, like the resurrection of the little boy, by a vision that
He said. “There is three hundred thousand of them in there.” And you see if that isn’t right! There is how the Gospel is going to be preached just over night. She’ll just sweep like that, from place to place.
141 In Africa, where those thirty thousand in only one altar call received God, I said, “Raise your hands and receive the Holy Ghost.” I said, “Don’t wait for some American missionary to come over and teach you to learn the languages in the churches.” And mothers washing over boards, to send a missionary over there and ride around in a nice big car, living on the fat of the land; sure, pass out a few tracts and come back. They don’t want that; proved it.
142 I said right here at the Jewish Hospital there, a few nights ago in a meeting with the ministers and doctors, on the subject of Divine healing; I said, “You called me a holy-roller, and you said I had had a nightmare when I told you... the Angel of the Lord.” And I said, “And our own church has sent thousands and spent millions of dollars, of sending missionaries to Africa; and when I got there, they was packing little mud idols, trying to get help from the mud idol, and call themselves ‘Christians.’” And I said, “And what you called ‘fanaticism’ won more souls to Christ in five minutes’ time than our millions of dollars and thousands of missionaries has done in the last hundred and fifty years.” They shut up, that was it! There it laid. I said to you, them man, I said, “Don’t don’t you try to get educated, just take this Gospel and go on out yonder in the-in the native land where a white man can’t even go, from the diseases.”
143 And I’ve got records, right out of the Durban paper, it said, “Even that one old man couldn’t even know which was right and left hand, received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and was baptizing on the average of a thousand a week.” That’s how the Gospel’s going, just in a little bit, It only needs about six months to cover the world. All right.