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According to Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', Roy E. Davis was the pastor of the First Baptist Pentecostal Church in Jeffersonville, Indiana . Roy Davis' church was not a Missionary Baptist Church as indicated by William Branham but was a "Holy Ghost church where they worship God in Spirit and not in fleshly denominations" (See ''Jeffersonville Evening News'', 10 June 1933, 4:7) | |||
According to Roy Davis himself (see below), William Branham received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in Roy Davis' home in Jeffersonville. While Roy Davis had originally been a baptist, at the time that William Branham attended his church he was a Pentecostal minister. | |||
==Letter from Roy E. Davis== | |||
The October 1950 issue of the Voice of Healing magazine contained a letter from Roy E. Davis. The following excerpts from that letter contain some very interesting information: | The October 1950 issue of the Voice of Healing magazine contained a letter from Roy E. Davis. The following excerpts from that letter contain some very interesting information: | ||
:First, I am the minister who received Brother Branham into the first Pentecostal assembly he ever frequented. I baptized him, and was his pastor for some two years. I also preached his ordination sermon, and signed his ordination certificate, and heard him preach his first sermon. I was the first man on this earth whom Billy ever saw anoint and pray for a sick person. I feel I can write more intimately of Billy Branham than any living minister, as he also received his Baptism of the Holy Ghost in my humble home in Jeffersonville, Indiana. After that experience we were most "chummy" and grew to love each | [[File:VofHealingOct50pg14.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Letter from Roy Davis]] | ||
other a great deal. Many intimate conversations were indulged in between us during those days concerning the deeper things of the Holy Ghost. | |||
:First, I am the minister who received Brother Branham into the first Pentecostal assembly he ever frequented. I baptized him, and was his pastor for some two years. I also preached his ordination sermon, and signed his ordination certificate, and heard him preach his first sermon. I was the first man on this earth whom Billy ever saw anoint and pray for a sick person. I feel I can write more intimately of Billy Branham than any living minister, as he also received his Baptism of the Holy Ghost in my humble home in Jeffersonville, Indiana. After that experience we were most "chummy" and grew to love each other a great deal. Many intimate conversations were indulged in between us during those days concerning the deeper things of the Holy Ghost. | |||
:He would always drift out into some sort of conversation which I did not grasp, and later came to disregard as entirely visionary, and finally to dismiss his strange cogitations as useless and irrational. I had been a Baptist preacher for many years, and had been taught to disregard such ideas and concepts of spiritual things as visions, talking with the Lord, and kindred things. Therefore this explains my impatience with Brother Branham, and at a time when had I listened also to that "voice" perhaps he would not have been circumscribed so long by my imposed provincialism. As a direct result of my failure to listen to God on matters so deeply important to us both and to the world in general, I went through the very fires of hell. Still I was unbending, and would NOT yield myself wholly over to God in matters which were more or less strange to me. | :He would always drift out into some sort of conversation which I did not grasp, and later came to disregard as entirely visionary, and finally to dismiss his strange cogitations as useless and irrational. I had been a Baptist preacher for many years, and had been taught to disregard such ideas and concepts of spiritual things as visions, talking with the Lord, and kindred things. Therefore this explains my impatience with Brother Branham, and at a time when had I listened also to that "voice" perhaps he would not have been circumscribed so long by my imposed provincialism. As a direct result of my failure to listen to God on matters so deeply important to us both and to the world in general, I went through the very fires of hell. Still I was unbending, and would NOT yield myself wholly over to God in matters which were more or less strange to me. | ||
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:May the good Lord bless you, and keep His hands on Brother Branham, is the wish and prayer of | :May the good Lord bless you, and keep His hands on Brother Branham, is the wish and prayer of | ||
:Yours in the blessed hope, | :::::Yours in the blessed hope, | ||
:::::R. E. Davis, Sr. | |||
==Quotes regarding William Branham receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit== | |||
THE.RESURRECTION.OF.LAZARUS_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0813A | |||
:''I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost since I've been a Baptist. That's right.'' | |||
EXPECTATIONS_ LA.CA MONDAY_ 51-0507 | |||
:''Well, I'm a Pentecostal Baptist now, you know. So I got the Holy Ghost.'' | |||
THE.MANIFESTATION.OF.THE.SPIRIT_ TOLEDO.OH TUESDAY_ 51-0717 | |||
:''I'm a Baptist, but that... Not... I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost, so that changed my things a little bi | |||
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 | QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD THURSDAY_ 61-0112 | ||
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INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114 | INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114 | ||
:''I know many of them think that I've lost my mind. Even my good old righteous mother, that died a few years ago. When I first received the Holy Ghost, there was no one in our country knowed anything about It. And I was just a local, little, young Baptist preacher about twenty years old.'' | :''I know many of them think that I've lost my mind. Even my good old righteous mother, that died a few years ago. When I first received the Holy Ghost, there was no one in our country knowed anything about It. And I was just a local, little, young Baptist preacher about twenty years old.'' | ||
==Quotes regarding Roy Davis== | ==Quotes regarding Roy Davis== | ||
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:''He said, "Well then, I'll say over there, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and heavy laden,' Matthew 11:27 said," I'll say, 'That's not inspired then.'" | :''He said, "Well then, I'll say over there, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and heavy laden,' Matthew 11:27 said," I'll say, 'That's not inspired then.'" | ||
So he had him on a spot. And Roy said... The Holy Ghost begin to move on him, say, "Stand up there." So he said, the old bishop, he said, "If that infidel makes that challenge one more time, if I die in my shoes, I'll go to heaven believing God's Word." | |||
So he said, "Now, listen, son. Set down and let him just... He's just popping his own brain. Let him alone." | :''So he had him on a spot. And Roy said... The Holy Ghost begin to move on him, say, "Stand up there." So he said, the old bishop, he said, "If that infidel makes that challenge one more time, if I die in my shoes, I'll go to heaven believing God's Word." | ||
So he said, "Now, listen, son. Set down and let him just... He's just popping his own brain. Let him alone."'' | |||
:''So it was the Holy Spirit moving. So when he made that challenge again, he let out a big "Ha-ha" and held his watch up. "If there's a God, I'll die in a minute." Waited for a minute and said, "Didn't I tell you wasn't no such a thing? Ha, ha, ha," like that, laughed out like that. | :''So it was the Holy Spirit moving. So when he made that challenge again, he let out a big "Ha-ha" and held his watch up. "If there's a God, I'll die in a minute." Waited for a minute and said, "Didn't I tell you wasn't no such a thing? Ha, ha, ha," like that, laughed out like that. | ||
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==Quotes regarding William Branham being a Baptist== | ==Quotes regarding William Branham being a Baptist== | ||
I tell you how I received it. I come just the way the Bible said it. I never varied for any denomination. My own Baptist church put me out because I wouldn't ordain a woman preacher. It's not Scriptural, and it's not right. And I said, "You might as well put me out, 'cause you have to sooner or later. So I'll just walk out before you do do it." All right. | THE.MESSIAH_ SHREVEPORT.LA TUESDAY_ 61-0117 | ||
:''I tell you how I received it. I come just the way the Bible said it. I never varied for any denomination. My own Baptist church put me out because I wouldn't ordain a woman preacher. It's not Scriptural, and it's not right. And I said, "You might as well put me out, 'cause you have to sooner or later. So I'll just walk out before you do do it." All right.'' | |||
==References== | |||
Weaver, C. Douglas, ''The Healer-Prophet'', Mercer University Press, 2000 | |||