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message, by revelation, and believe it, it is proof that you had the Holy Ghost, like on the day of Pentecost, dwellingin you before.Now, my refutation on that is: when the sinner came in here, did he have the Holy Ghost? When you camein here from wherever you came; from organization, Jehovah‘s Witness, Baptist, Pentecostal, Hindu or Muslim, didyou have the Holy Ghost in order to hear the Word of God? [Congregation says, “No!”] No! That is simple.Now, this doctrine here that was inserted into the C.A.B., which I will deal with first, people around theworld have accepted that, and that is a gross deception that they are resting upon. They think that as long as theyaccept the prophet, accept his message and think that they have a divine revelation, it is proof that they have whatthey had on the day of Pentecost. That is what they are thinking. ―So, Brother Bruce, you said this is a detrimentaldoctrine? How do you mean it is a detrimental doctrine?‖Here, every human being that will be translated and go in the rapture, to escape the judgments of God thatwill come on the earth for three and a half years, must have the true article of Pentecost to go in the rapture,otherwise they are lost. Isn‘t it important then? [Congregation says, ―Amen!‖]Then if something comes and makes me believe that I have what they had on the Day of Pentecost and thenhope in that until the rapture comes, then I cannot go in the rapture. That is what this teaching has done to thepeople around the message worldwide. It made them believe that as long as they accept the prophet, as long asthey accept the message, as long as they could say, ―amen‖ to what Brother Branham said, they already had theindwelling Spirit before that time, and they are ready for the rapture.Do you realize the detriment in that? The detriment in that is that if I could convince you as thiscongregation, that you have already returned to Pentecost, and tell you the only thing is that the power is notworking like it used to work, and that the evidence is just to believe the message, I have deceived you.Now, if I could deceive you long enough and cause you to believe that, you will miss the rapture, becausethe requirement to go in the rapture is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the true baptism of the Holy Spirit. Theprophet confirmed that by saying, ―You will receive the token or you will perish.‖ That is what he was talking about.Let that digest, and you will get the point and you will see the importance of my contention.So now, people who will and have accepted this erroneous teaching of Dr. Vayle from the C.A.B. and reston that as having the article of Pentecost are deceived. They are deceived worldwide. And that is the reason whythey are not doing the things as recorded in the book of Acts, that Peter, James, John and all the apostles did, evenbecause they think they have what they had on the day of Pentecost, but it is just not working like BrotherBranham‘s and the early apostolic church‘s. That is a proof that they are deceived of the devil. And they are sitting,waiting and hoping to go in the rapture with that anointing. It cannot take them in the rapture.They might be sincere and honest, but they will go through the tribulation and it could put them in thefoolish virgins bunch. And that was the problem of the wise and the foolish virgins. The wise virgins went after thetrue article of Pentecost and they received the genuine thing. And the foolish virgins were deceived. And that iswhere the people that follow this message stand today. The majority of them stand today, thinking that they have thearticle of Pentecost and do not have it.Let me show you the detriment. If you convince a man that he already has what they had on the day ofPentecost, beloved, there is no need for him to look for another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So, those very samepeople will be fighting another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So, the very thing to take them in the rapture, is thething that they will be fighting. Now, we are preaching an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and we are saying that wemust go back to Pentecost, and that is the wise virgins' teachings. The foolish virgins became foolish because shebelieved this doctrine from the C.A.B. This is Pentecostalism.Right today, there are people sitting and waiting for the rapture by having the evidence that they believe themessage. They cannot go in the rapture. That is my contention. That is a serious thing.Another thing that this doctrine did is that if a man is convinced that he has already returned to Pentecostand he has that baptism of the Holy Spirit, then there is no reason for pressing. There is no reason for desperation.So then, that has affected the people in such a way that they have stopped pressing into the kingdom of God. Andbecause they have stopped pressing into the kingdom of God, it plunged them into sin. It plunged them into Sodom.It sent them back to the sports field. It sent them back to wear short dresses and high-heeled shoes. It brought thetelevision back in the house. And you could hardly recognize these followers of the message from otherorganizational people, even because that doctrine helped to push them into Laodicea. When the message of WilliamBranham ought to pull you out of Laodicea, this is an article from Laodicea, that you just believe Jesus Christ andyou are going in the rapture. So this is an article from Pentecost 1906 and from the Baptist, to keep you earthbound.Dr. Vayle could not put into the C.A.B. more than what understanding he had, more than what revelationhe had on the Holy Ghost. The man did a good job and he put whatever he thought was right. And he slipped thatinside of there, but I want to announce to you that this doctrine from the C.A.B., pages 139-148, is a Pentecostal