Topic: Bible characters & history

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How was Mary's response to the angel different from Zacharias's?

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Now, this little virgin was all excited. Notice, here’s what I like about Mary. Amen. Instead of doubting like Zacharias, that preacher, she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Your Word.” She didn’t try to figure it all out like he did. “Why,” he said, “now, look, my...

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Was the virgin Mary filled with the Holy Ghost at Pentecost?

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Now watch, that was our Manna that’s to carry the Holy Ghost Church down through the age till Jesus comes. Hallelujah. Notice, how long was it to last, you teacher who don’t know, your Bible? Peter said…When they begin to stagger and scream, the outside ecclesiastical full Gospel phenomenal, or fana...

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Why did Joseph not want his bones buried in Egypt?

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Then along come Joseph. He said, “Now, wait.” They put his bones in a coffin. I had my hand on an old lead coffin here, not long ago, they he was supposed to had his bone in. He said, “When you go out of here, bury my bones up there. Don’t bury me down here.” I wonder why? It isn’t written in the Bi...

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Did Elijah call down fire from heaven on his own initiative?

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One time, it happened to be one of my managers, not Brother Baxter, but it was a man who was with us, one of the field managers. And a newspaper had made a very critical statement that was absolutely untrue. I can expect friendly criticism; but the criticism wasn’t due because it was untrue. As long...

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Can prayer change what God has already said will happen?

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Now, looky here. The greatest military and a—one of the greatest Christians that we’d call it today in the nation…Now, here it is. I want you to get it. The king, not an unbeliever, a true believer, a worshipper of God, in prayer, sincere weeping with his face to the wall on his deathbed…Looked like...

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Why did Jesus delay going to Lazarus when He was sent for?

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Now look, Jesus claimed that He done nothing except the Father showed Him by vision. Now, now remember, look at the resurrection of Lazarus: He went away when He knowed Lazarus was going to die, He went away. Course they criticized that. And they sent for Him, He didn’t come. They sent again, He jus...

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What did the centurion mean when he said, 'I am a man under authority'?

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Now, this centurion…A centurion was—is a man that’s over, I think the right word would be, over a century which would be a hundred men. And he was—put himself in the background. Now, I want you to do that: keep yourself in the background. Never be somebody that you’re not. I’ve often wondered, when...

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Did Jesus tell the woman at the well everything she ever did?

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Now, look. One time He seen a woman coming. He sent His disciples away. And He found a woman coming from a well, or to a well to get some water: Saint John the 4th chapter. And He seen this woman coming and she was a Samaritan. There’s a well there, near Samaria—Samari. So He…They all came to get wa...

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Why did Joseph want his bones buried in the promised land and not in Egypt?

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Look at him there at the river, a big, strong, healthy man, on this side running from God, on the other side a limping prince. Oh, my. How that he said, “Joseph, my son, put your hand on my hip, limping prince, and swear by God that you’ll not bury me down here.” I wonder why? Took him up in Palesti...

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Why did Nathanael ask whether any good thing could come out of Nazareth?

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Why Nathanael knowing what a polluted city that Nazareth was, full of robbers, thieves, he said, “Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?” He said, “Come, see.” In other words, “Just come see for yourself.” That’s the best way. And I think if any man will approach God, as Moses did with...

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What if the man who asked Jesus to heal his son had not believed the word 'Thy son liveth'?

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Now, the man…I want you to notice something, get this point in mind. The man wanted Jesus to come down to his home and heal his son. But Jesus did not grant his request in the way that he wanted it. Sometimes He doesn’t do it for us that way. You might say, “If I can get in the prayer line…If God wi...

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Why did the Pharisees fail to recognize Jesus?

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Oh, my. No wonder you can’t believe. It’s no wonder you can’t believe. Quit asking Dr. So-and-so; take what Jesus said. Let that settle it. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. That’s the way the Pharisees and them, they had to go ask the priest whether it was all right to do this or do that...

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Who was the Angel of the Lord in the bush where Moses took off his shoes?

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And what if Moses said, “I will just take off my hat, Lord, that’ll be just as good.” But God didn’t tell him his hat, He said, his shoes. I believe we must do just what the Scripture says do, no matter how hard it seems, and how indifferent from our teaching, we’ve got to do what God said do. He sa...

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What healed the sick people that Peter's shadow passed over?

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Oh, brother, what’s in your hand? Why, it’s got right in you. It’s in your heart, It’s all over you, the Holy Ghost. Do something about it. Throw it out there and trust God. Say, “Certainly, God promised it to me, and I believe it.” Oh, what this world needs today…On the day of Pentecost, when they...

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What kind of spirit is the antichrist?

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And I said, “You fundamentalist, you preach the Blood. You preach it just as clear as it came be preached. You preach Jesus Christ, the great evangelical fundamentals. You preach the birth, the death, the burial, the resurrection, the second coming, clear.” I said, “That’s fine. I appreciate that. B...

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Why did Jesus ask the woman at the well for a drink?

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Now, if our Lord Jesus was here tonight in a body of flesh, wearing clothes like we wear, He would do just what the Father would show Him to do. God was in Him, made Him Emmanuel. And whatever God would speak or reveal to Him, that He’d know. But now, when it come to the people, when He begin to spe...

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Why did Aaron's priestly garment have bells and pomegranates on its hem?

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Why, when Aaron, the great priest, when he went into the Holiest of holies, packing the blood, they had to dress him a certain way, and he had to walk a certain way. He had to be a witness for God. And he took the blood and he went forward. And on the hems of his garments, at the bottom, was a bell...

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What did David's five stones and five fingers spell out?

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Little David starts. When he gets about in the sling throw, he had…Watch, he had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped up in five fingers, f-a-i-t-h. Brother, he got the thing to working right, around and around and around.

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What do Gilgal, the school of the prophets and Jordan represent?

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Three places. Justification, Gilgal; sanctification, the school of the prophet; and to the baptism of the Holy Ghost, at Jordan, where Jordan represents death. Notice! Martin Luther; John Wesley; Pentecost, down to the Jordan, dying-out time.

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What did David foresee when he said God would not suffer His Holy One to see corruption?

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I think of David, when he was getting old. Being a great king that he was, God had swore to him, according to the fruits of his loins he would raise up Christ to sit on His right hand. Then I see David, when he was old, getting down to the end of his road, and all the physical strength was just abou...