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God Being Misunderstood

July 23, 1961 ·Jeffersonville, IN · English
§26
Brother Bill, please say something about both children and adults being so noisy in morn-…moving about during the service. This tabernacle needs some lessons in reverence.

Amen! Children, do you not know how to obey yourself in the house of God? Do you not know this is the sanctuary of God? God is in His holy temple, let everybody keep quiet. It’s the place of God where people are coming, meditating, trying to find salvation to the soul; trying to find the problems of the people’s lives,...

§30
The two children, aged six to eight years, were here at the altar this morning. How soon is it advisable to have them baptized?

Just as soon as you can. “Repent immediately and be baptized,” that’s, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, that’s question number one. I would advise that. But we find out in the Scriptures… You say, “Is that Scriptural?” When Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, three thousand souls were saved and baptized the very...

§35
A minister friend of ours baptizes in the name of “Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Would we be held responsible for not telling him of his error?

I believe, as a Christian, as a duty, and if he is a personal friend of yours…Not to pick an argument with him; if you do that, then you’re not right, your—your spirit’s not right. But if you love that brother, which you must, because you said, “A minister friend.” Then…No names is signed to any of these notes, I do no...

§40
In a statement of faith, they said, “We believe in one God, Eternal, existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19, 18 and 19; First…Corinthians 13:14.” Should this not be three offices instead of three persons?

You are correct! There is no three persons in the Godhead. And there cannot be a personality without being a person, it takes a person to make a personality. There is no three Gods. There is only one God, and that God is Jesus Christ. God is a Spirit that lived in Jesus Christ, and is living in His Church (you and I) t...

§42
Can a Christian go to Heaven if he or she does not pay tithe?

Now, that’s one that I could not answer, Scripturally. Now, this “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” if the minister is sincere, just let—let us know, you see, we’d be glad…Brother Neville and myself, or Brother Beeler, or Brother Collins, or any of these ministers here who are ordained to this ministry, and so forth, can...

§45
Brother Branham, I am saved and have been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, but how do I get away from a stubborn spirit that I can’t seem to break away from?

Well, my Christian brother or sister, whoever it may be, now, most times when you find people that’s got stubborn spirits, it’s usually a complex that causes this, either they have inherit it from a mother, father, uncle, aunt, or grandmother, grandfather, somebody like that. And if you’ll trace back down through your...

§48
Why do you baptize in the Name of Jesus Christ in place of the name of the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”?

Well, there is no such a thing as a name of “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” That’s the reason. There was nobody in the Bible ever baptized in the Name of “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Every person in the Bible, or three hundred years this side the Bible, was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Not one apostle, not on...

§50
Some people say that “Christ was in Hades before the resurrection.” Is this…Is there Scripture for this?

Now, here’s a Scriptural question I’d like to answer you from the Scriptures, ’cause they’ve asked, “Is it in the Scriptures?” I would that you would turn with me to First Peter 3:18 and 20, you that wants to hear It, whether you asked the question or not, so that you won’t have to take someone else’s word. You may re...

§55
Now, were the five of the virgins lost?

I presume that they are asking the question’s, “the five virgins,” the five wise and the five foolish. Now, if you were with us in the last teachings in Revelation, you find out there that those virgins, the—the five foolish virgins were not lost; but they were not permitted to go into the Wedding Supper, but they suff...

§59
Brother Branham, in the First Corinthians, Corinthian, chapter the 14th, verse 34th and 35th, says, “Let your women keep silent in churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak.” 35th, “For it is a shame for women to speak in church.” Now, if a woman with short hair speak—speaks in tongues in—in churches, in church, is it the Spirit of—of the Holy Ghost that speaks through her or is it a false spirit?

Now, you are…And this is a real hard question, and I can only answer it the best that I know how, see. Now, I could not judge, because I was not sent to judge. But I think there’s so many times…I got another question down here somewhere that goes right along with that. But if a person is speaking in tongues, they are a...

§99
Deuteronomy, the 23rd chapter, the 2nd verse, doesn’t it teach that a person whom out of wedlock cannot be saved? It says that “God will visit the iniquity of the parents upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” Explain what this means.

All right. Adultery was such a horrible thing in the time of the Bible until even if a man had a child by a woman that wasn’t his wife, that child, its children’s children’s children, for four generations, four hundred and something years, could not enter even into the congregation of the Lord, because that the blood o...

§101
Will Ezekiel 38 and 39 come to pass before the Rapture?

Now if you will notice, Ezekiel 38 and 39 deals with Gog and Magog, which is Russia, the north country. Now, I do not say that this is correct, but to my way of teaching it, that, it comes to pass after the Rapture, after the Church is taken up. And God deals with Gog and Magog when they come down before Israel there....

§102
The Lord has told us through prophecy to witness unto others of the things which we have heard and seen here, such as the nearness of the Coming, baptism in the Name, in Jesus’ Name, and such things. We have told these things to some who seem to be Christians, yet they don’t seem to believe. What do you think will happen to those people? Will they go in the Rapture?

Now, I’m glad you said it that way, “What do you think?” Which that wouldn’t make it right because I would think it. I believe that no man can walk in the Light of God until God reveals It to him. And I don’t believe that any man that…All these hidden things are hid from the people, and no man can see them except God r...

§107
Brother Branham, in Daniel the 11th chapter, the 31st verse, teaches of the day…taking away of the daily sacrifice, and the abomination that maketh desolation. Would you please explain what these are?

Oh, this person has signed their name to this one. That is my subject on next Sunday, and that comes in with the—with The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel. But…And I might just say this to you, my most precious brother that signed this here, which is a very dear friend to all of us. Yes, “the abomination that maketh desolation,...

§110
Brother Branham, don’t you feel that everyone who claims to be a Christian should pay tithes, pay their tithes into the storehouse of the Lord? Please give Scripture to this question.

All right, if you will…That is right, that the Bible said in Malachi, the 4th chapter, “Will a man rob God? And you say, ‘Where have’ you ‘robbed Thee?’ In tithe and offerings. Bring all of your tithe and offerings into My storehouse, and prove Me,” saith the Lord, “if I will not open up the windows of Heaven, and pour...

§129
If there is—if there is already three messages gone out in unknown tongues in one meeting, then in the prayer line can there be more messages go out and still be in the spiritual order of the meeting?

Why, certainly. That’s right. Sure. I know where you’re getting to. There’s Paul, said, “If they was…You prophesy and speak in tongues,” something like that, Paul speaking of… Little later on, when you all…Brother Neville, when you all want to now, these people that’s got these spiritual gifts…Now, if you’ll trust my...

§139
All right, Dear Brother Branham, time after time the Lord shows me things in dreams. He has showed me things about my son in the navy, which my son told me were “secrets”. He has showed me of people’s deaths and of the secrets of people’s hearts. Is this a gift from God? When He shows me in dreams the hearts and minds of people, everything has always turned out like the dream shows me.

Why, yes, my brother or sister, whoever it may be. The Lord bless you. That is, to my opinion, the gift of God. It’s a gift of God. Don’t you know the Bible speaks of dreams? Joseph, how he dreamed dreams and interpreted, and how others dreamed dreams. Those things are of God. Now, if it’s of God, it’ll always be truth...

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