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June 28, 1959 ·Jeffersonville, IN · English
§29
Now, the first one on top. Oh, yes, this is a little question. It’s not a question, it’s a…Well, it is a question. It’s someone who would like a private interview with me the first of the week.

Now, that interview, I’ll tell you how we do that. It used to be that we just at random caught catch can, who first, this, that, but we got a system to that. And therefore, there’s many people who come into the prayer lines, that maybe pass through a fast line, or have a proposition that don’t know what to do about it,...

§37
Now, the second question laying on top is…Brother Bill, can the Lord do effective work through me in a congregation where they do not believe in the spiritual gifts?

No name on it, but the person wants to know if the Lord can work with them as they are officiated in a congregation that does not believe in spiritual gifts. I doubt it very much. I’m very much in doubt, dear friend, that the Lord could efficiently work through you, because you are linked up among unbelievers, and the...

§42
Now, the next question is: Is it true that you are not saved unless you have received the Holy Ghost?

There could take about a good five hour discussion on that. When you accept Christ as your Saviour and are then ready for baptism in water, you have not yet been converted; you’re only believing unto repentance. Conversion means “to be changed.” Now, to make this efficient, Jesus said to Peter who had also followed Hi...

§49
Can you find anywhere the apostles took Communion after Pentecost? Did Paul mean people do not discern the Word? Holy Ghost was the only way to worship God? If you take wine and crackers, sickness and sleep fall on you?

Now, here is maybe a place that I believe the dear person that asked this is no doubt deeply and sincerely in this, what they’re asking, or they wouldn’t ask it. And I—my Brother or Sister, whoever it was, I answer it just as deeply and sincerely as you answered it—or asked it. I want you now to turn with me unto the...

§65
Question. Now! Brother Branham, is it true that Satan was once in Heaven and was cast out, he and his angels come down to earth, or is it a vision like John saw on the isle of Patmos? Why I ask this, is, I was told that it was a vision.

John saw it as a vision, but it was a literal happening. If you’ll turn to Isaiah 14:12. Now, these go slow, but to me, they’re—they are lessons. And it’s something that…Maybe you think, “Well, I don’t have no need of that now.” You just don’t know how that Holy Spirit feeds on the Word of God. It’s got to have the Wor...

§102
Now, here is another one; let’s see what it is. All right. Please explain the parable of the five virgins. Does a Christian sin?

Now, the parable of the five virgins—or the ten virgins it is, please excuse me. The ten virgins is found in Matthew 25:1. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom (now notice!), and five of them were wise and had oil in their lamps, five were unwise and did not have oil in their lamps. While they slumbered, the cry...

§139
Why do churches who baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and admit women preachers to preach, why do they have so much power and authority?

Now, that’s a ticklish thing. Now, I know that I’m speaking to people that’ll different with this, but as a Christian I must say it. There is no Scriptural authority in the Bible for water baptism in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There never was one person ever baptized in the Bible in the name of Father, So...

§160
Is there more than one world?

Yes, there’s worlds of worlds, Hebrews the 1st chapter the 2nd verse, Hebrews the 11th chapter and the 3rd verse. There’s worlds of worlds. God created the worlds, w-o-r-l-d-s, worlds.

§161
Is there more than one heaven?

Yes. In First—in Second Corinthians 12:3 Paul said he knew a man that was caught up into the third Heaven. And over in Revelation and so forth, there’s more than that. I’m just going to have to hurry, ’cause it’s—it’s right now past time for me to close. Would it be all right if I’d just read the rest of these off and...

§162
Will a babe in Christ go up in the rapture?

Absolutely, if he’s a babe he’s born again. No matter how young he is, he’ll go up anyhow. You see?

§163
Why should Christ appear to me as I was about to take the Sacraments?

Well, no doubt your heart was just in tune and you was coming sacredly up to God to do it; and that’s why He appeared to you. See, that’d be the only reason I know. I couldn’t say no more than—than what that…Let’s see.

§164
If we were saved before the foun-…(Oh, oh. We don’t want to stop here do we?) If we were saved before the foundation of the world—were we?

Yes, sir! Revelation 13:8 said that you were saved and your name was put in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the world was ever created. And Ephesians 1:4 and 5…Let me just read that; it won’t take but just a minute and just so you see that I’m not just—just quoting it, I’m—I’m…All right, here we are; let’s read this. Bl...

§166
Were—were we spirits then?

No, we were not even nothing then, but in God’s mind we were. And He spoke it and it materialized. Jesus was slain before…How many knows that the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Why? God spoke it, and when He spoke it, it was as good as finished. And when He saw me...

§182
Will you please explain what it means by, “Sinneth not” in First John 5:18? My, we’re right at it, I believe here. Maybe it…Got it; turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, First John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;…

Certainly not! I just went through that. He can’t sin; he’s born of God. “Sinneth not,” he can’t sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God…David spoke, rather, years ago and said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin to.” See? And course,...

§183
Matt-…(Let’s see.) Brother Bill, what is the difference between fornications and adultery, Matthew 19:9?

Jesus said in Matthew 19:9, “Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another, except it be for the cause of fornications, commits adultery.” The difference between fornications and adultery, the word could be applied either way. But to make it clear what he was talking of there, that—a woman that’s unmarried cannot...

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