Topic: Divine healing & miracles

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Is all sickness caused by sin?

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And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so. Notice. And so God put up this—...

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If Divine healing is in the atonement, why is there still pain?

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Notice, but He said—He said, “Well, Brother Branham, if there was Divine healing was included in the atonement, it would be so killed till there wouldn’t even be any pain.” I said, “Is there temptation?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Then there’s pain.” See? Temptation…“If the—if the atonement killed sin...

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When Jesus said 'These things that I do shall you also, and greater', greater in what way?

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And of course, as always has been my theme, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His present attitude hasn’t changed from what it was at that day. Now, as each night we have people coming into our services who has…probably newcomers. And in the forepart of the meeting we had...

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Can any man rightly claim to be a Divine healer?

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Now, to some of the newcomers, first time here, I’ll just quote this again. Jesus did not claim to be a Divine healer. And any man on this earth cannot claim, and be rightly, claim to be a Divine healer, because there’s no Divine healers. Only God alone is the Healer. Jesus said, “The Son can do not...

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What brings about healing when a sick person is prayed for?

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Friends, I had nothing to do with the healing of that girl. I only told her what He told me. I had nothing to do with the healing of anyone. It’s your faith in God that does the healing, like your faith in God does the salvation. Jesus, when He died at Calvary, He, there on Calvary He purchased your...

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When was our healing completed?

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…Christ’s Name. Amen. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] If the people could just believe, have faith for all things… Today, way down on the highway many miles below here, almost to Jeffersonville, there was…I stopped in a little place to eat a sandwich…Taking my children, wife home…And I was eating and the p...

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What does faith do when the symptoms and the doctors say a person is dying?

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Now, see, faith doesn’t look at any—at any symptoms. Faith doesn’t see nothing but victory. Faith has already appropriated it, and there’s nothing else to be done. No matter, if you were laying dying, and a half a dozen doctors was stand around saying, “Their blood pressure is dropping. Their heart’...

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Who has the right to pray for the sick?

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So what He has done, I cannot do, or no one else. But now, if you can appropriate faith, have faith to believe that He has did this and it’s for you, individually you, then the healing will be there. It will not fail. So have faith in God. God has set preachers into the church. These pastors here, t...

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If someone is prayed for and not healed, does that prove there is no Divine healing?

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But there come a fellow along by the name of Thomas Edison. He thought that it made a flash. So if that flash would follow a wire, it would help mankind; it would help do something. It would embetter. God put it here, so it would embetter mankind. So he said it will light. The people thought he was...

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Does fanaticism around Divine healing mean it is not real?

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Now, I want to say this, in behalf of many, probably [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] people tonight, we wouldn’t understand Divine healing, or—or critics of it. We do not claim to be Divine healers, now. There’s—there is a lot of fanaticism hooked up with Divine healing. There’s a lot of fanaticism hooked...

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Why do some people not believe in Divine healing?

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Our Lord is here tonight. Many are standing, been standing for quite awhile, no doubt. And I feel sorry for you, to have to stand like that. Someday, there’s some of the brothers out on the field that…well, they—they probably was a little more prosperous in the financial ways than I was, and they go...

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Does preaching Divine healing make a man a divine healer?

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Now, if we see Him in His earthly ministry…He went about, He didn’t claim to be a great person. He didn’t claim to be a healer. I hear so much slam that the devil has give upon people who pray for the sick, call them “divine healers.” Well, because a man preaches Divine healing, doesn’t make him no...

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Why was the brass serpent lifted up in the wilderness?

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God provided an ark for the saving of the household of Noah and his family. God prepared twelve stones by Elijah one time, for the preserving of the children of Israel. God’s always made a provided way. When they was in the wilderness, and the first thing you know, sin set in. Now, watch! Here’s one...

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Why did Jesus refuse to perform signs when His mockers demanded them?

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Notice here. They put a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head. Said, “Now, if You’re a prophet, tell us who hit You. We’ll believe You then.” Jesus never opened His mouth. He didn’t clown for people. Yet He knowed the woman at the well where here sin was. He knowed where Nathanael was wh...

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Should a person who believes in Divine healing still go to the doctor?

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Look, I will prove it to you it’s of Satan. When Satan met Jesus, he said, “If Thou be the Son of God, You can do miracles now. You’re a Divine healer, You’re all…?…Make these stones bread and I will believe You.” Is that right? See the fatherhood of that spirit is? Took Him up on the temple, said,...

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Why did Moses lift up the brass serpent?

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But the serpent was raised up for a compound reason, that they might be forgiven and healed. So help us tonight, Lord. As Thou did say here on earth, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent,” the same way, be lifted up, the Son of man, same reason, forgiveness of sin, healing of the body. Then if the...

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What does being born again have to do with believing the supernatural?

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If it hadn’t…If you haven’t been with the Mate Jesus Christ and been borned of an supernatural, you can’t believe the supernatural. And when a man’s born of the Spirit of God, God’s a Creator. And when part of God is…I’m a part of Charles Branham. He’s my father. He looked like me, or I look like hi...

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Why might someone never get well no matter how many times they are prayed for?

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Now, any of those things, if you’re weary, upset, fretting, nervous, sick, sin, whatever it is, when you accept that from your heart, go to confessing it, and then saying it’s right, God’s right there to make it right, when you go to confessing it. But if you’re afraid to say so, and afraid to act u...

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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 are hands laid on the sick?

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Now, Elijah knew that everything he touched was blessed. But now, if he could get the woman to believe it. I think that’s where Paul got his handkerchiefs. See? He knowed God was in Him. And Elijah knew what he blessed, what he put his hands on was blessed. That’s why we have the order of laying han...