Topic: Children

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How should young people treat their father and mother?

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And young people, remember. If you’re fortunate enough today to have a daddy and a mother living, love them, honor them. The hour will come when you’ll think they’re the greatest people in the world, if you don’t now. And don’t never, little fellows, don’t never give this slandering word, “old man,”...

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Brother Branham, what achievement should we let our pre-teenage children participate in? (I beg your pardon, it’s…) What activities should our preteen children anticipate, participate in. Also, how should we go about helping them select their associates?

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Keep them in Christian company as long as you possibly can. Keep them with…If it’s a girl, keep her with Christian girls; Christian boys, vice versa. If she’s old enough to go with a boy, see that she keeps with the right kind of a boy. Discourage her to any boy otherwise, or boy to a girl. If she’s...

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Dear Brother Branham, if a baby is born of a…out of wedlock, can this child ever be saved or go in the Rapture?

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Saved? Why sure, I believe the child could be…The child can’t help what’s been done. That is true. But I…About going in the Rapture…Saved, I’d say, “Yes.” But in the Rapture it’s a predestinated seed that goes in the Rapture. And I can’t believe that adultery was a predestinated seed. You understand...

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Brother Branham, is it all right for a—a young child to wear slacks and shorts?

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How young? Just let you be the judge of that; if you’re a Christian. A little girl or any little bitty kid, I imagine, I don’t know, I…Only thing I know, the Bible says it’s an abomination for a woman to wear a garment that’s—that pertains to a man. See? “A woman,” didn’t say, “a child.” But now, I...

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What can I do for him? Should I continue to (Oh!) care for Dad on the farm? What can I do…make a—a living for…? And he signs his name. Yes, my brother…It—it’s wrote here. I don’t know who…It says, “Brother Branham…” It just starts out, “What can I do for him?”

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Now, probably some boy for his dad. Look, my dear brother, blessed are you when you will take care of your dad, for your dad took care of you when you could not take care for yourself. And the first commandment with promise, first commandment with promise: “Honor thy father and thy mother which may...

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Brother Branham, in respect to the order of the church, we have tried to go accordingly to the way we understand the orders given in the dedication of the new church. And by doing so, some have gotten mad and left the church. And others will not listen to anything we say, especially the children. We have talked to the parents about their children, and they won’t take care of them. Now, have we misunderstood? Or, are we going about it in the wrong way? Thanks. Now let me answer this as they come down. In respect to the order of the church, we have tried to go accordingly to the way we understood it given in the dedication of the new church.

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Now, that’s correct, you’re doing right. Now, this is supposed to be deacons, I suppose, ’cause it’s right here, it’s a deacon’s job. All right. And by doing so, we have often…people has often gotten mad at us. They do at me, too! They’ll do at any man. See? A person that does that, there’s somethi...

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Brother Branham, if this question is not—is not fit, does not fit in the…do not answer. (That’s nice. I appreciate it.) What children—what children go in the Rapture, if any small ones? Thank you. They never signed no name. Now, if you don’t, it’s not necessary.

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But, look. When God puts a name on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world, there’s not nothing in the world can rub it out, because it’s wrote with the ink of the Blood of Christ. Be it this big, that big, or that big, or whatever it might be, it goes just the same. See? All chil...

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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.

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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...

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

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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 a...

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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.

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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, beca...

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Now, here’s one that’s really a sticker. Question (I think it’s the same person, ’cause it looks like the same handwrite): If a person must have the Holy Ghost to be—have the Holy Ghost to be converted and to go in the rapture, what will be the state of children that have died before the years of accountability? And when will they rise?

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Now, my brother, sister, I cannot tell you that. There’s no Scripture on it in the Bible as I can find anywhere. But I can express my thoughts. Now, this’ll strengthen you that believes in grace of God. You see, the person wants to know (which is a very good question. See?) the person wants to know...

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I have two boys (one, two; and one, five), and they have been sprinkled. Should they be baptized by immersing?

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Well now sister or brother, whoever you are, that’s up to you. I’ve got a little girl…My little boy, Billy Paul, was sixteen years old, and I baptized him in the Name of the Lord Jesus right here. My little girl was eight years old. She come to me and got up on my lap, and she said, “Daddy, I want t...

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What does he say about teaching a five-year-old child the Kingdom of God compared with teaching someone with a college degree?

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I can teach a five year old child the Kingdom of God, better that I can teach a man that’s got a—a degree out of college. I can teach him Christ better. He’s simple. He just listens to what you say. Watch coming to the platform. You’ll never see God turn a child down. He don’t do it. No, sir. Becaus...

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Which commandment is the first one with a promise attached to it?

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They got such a word today, they say, “The old man and the old woman.” One of these days, when a squeaking casket is going out the door, and they’re going out head first, and you look down to see your mother or dad at the last time you’ll ever see them on this earth, you’ll realize it’s not the “old...

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Whose faith counts when a baby is too young to have faith of its own?

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Believe that, well you watch the baby and see if it’s not right. “In My Name they shall cast out devils.” That baby’s too little to have faith. It has to have our faith. And I know with love to God, then in love, and faith accompanies love, and when those two meet together, something has to happen....

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How should young people speak of their mother and father?

Answer

Look, it’s true. You’ve read my life story out there. My dad did drink, but I don’t care what he done, he’s still my daddy. And let me tell you something, young folks, this afternoon. Don’t you never get little enough to call your mother and dad “the old man and woman.” You don’t never do that, no m...

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What does Brother Branham tell young people about how they treat their parents?

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And young people here, you don’t know what a good friend you got in your mother and dad until they’re gone. When they’re gone, then you really know who they were. And I heard many, the children these days say, “The old man and old woman.” Oh, my, don’t never do that. You—you don’t realize who that i...

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What did Brother Branham say about young people calling their parents 'the old man' and 'the old woman'?

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And look, young children, young folks, I don’t care what it is; you always have a respect to your father and mother. I think one of the awfulest things that I can hear little children say, or young folks, “the old man” and “old woman.” Listen. That’s not the “old man” and “old woman”; that’s your da...

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What causes juvenile delinquency?

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You go to homes today, I’ve went into Christian homes, when they open the icebox and it would be full of beer cans, supposed to be Christian home. Christians don’t fool with that stuff…?…We’ve traded the old-fashioned prayer altar out of the house, and made a card table out of it. That’s what’s got...

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What happens to a baby that dies before the age of accountability?

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I’ll say this by the authority of God’s Word. Every baby that’s under the age of accountability, dies, goes to glory. Yes, sir. Christ died to take away the sin of the world. And when you come to the age of accountability…We were all born in sin. But when He died, He taken away the sin. And when you...