Topic: Faith and the senses

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Is faith a sense, like sight or hearing?

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But the sense of faith is just as real as your sight is, or any other of your senses. You see what I mean? You believe it, you just…There’s no one can make you doubt it, because you ar...

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What did God give man the five senses for?

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Now, God put man first in His Own image, which was in the image of God. And God is a Supernatural Being; he was a supernatural man. And then He put him in five senses, and none of those five senses declare his Heavenly home. Those five senses declare his earthly home. And God give him five senses to...

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Is a person saved because they can shout or because they feel saved?

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So, I’m not saved today because I can shout. I’m saved not because I feel like I’m saved. I’m saved because I met God’s conditions of this Bible. Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from de...

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Why does Brother Branham call faith a sixth sense?

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Now, look. What is faith? Faith is a sixth sense. Five senses control this man. God put man in five senses to contact his earthly home. You don’t contact God with your five senses. You know God by faith which is the sixth sense, which is the…There’s two senses of the soul: faith and unbelief. And if...

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Is a person saved by what they feel, or by believing?

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Now, before you can be saved…I hear many times, say, “Oh, it hit me in the face like a rushing mighty wind.” Well, that might be right, but that wasn’t why you were saved. You were saved because you believed. No matter what other experience went with it, first thing, you had to believe. And if you d...

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What were man's five senses given to him for?

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Now, I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I believe that in the beginning God made man in His own image, and God is a Spirit. And God made man spirit-man. Then He made him in the dust of the earth. Now, I believe that man in the beginning, well, led the animals...

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Is a man limited to his five senses?

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And in time, the old wheels grind slow, but it grinds sure. It’s got to be just the way God said it was going to be. No matter how unreal It seems, but It’s going to be that way, as we talked last night. One time they didn’t have electricity, but some man believed there was such a thing. And he kept...

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What senses does the inward man have?

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Faith is an element. It’s a sense. It’s the sixth sense of the human body, or, the…it’s the one sense…the human soul has two senses. Part of a man, that his five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses: that’s faith, unbelief. One of them gover...

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Can a person contact God through the physical senses?

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Now, the senses are worldly instruments. Do you believe it? Now, God can control them, I’ll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our Heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now if we say I—I have a…

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How does faith compare with the five senses of the body?

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Faith is a individual sense besides any there. It’s the—the sixth sense. That’s the outside man, that God put in human flesh here, give him five senses to contact his earthly home. And the inside man, the spirit has two senses, and that is unbelief and faith. And when your faith says that you’re goi...

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Does receiving healing depend on what you feel?

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There’s a fountain open, flowing freely everywhere. Just drink till you just can’t drink no more. The tree, if it just drink to what it was allotment, why, it would just always, still in the drought. That’s what’s the matter with the Christians. They don’t drink enough. You want to drink till you ju...

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What are the senses of the spirit, compared with the five senses of the body?

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Your faith is the only thing that can do you any good, your belief, your faith in God. See what I mean? Without faith, it’s impossible. Is that true? Now, you believe it with all your heart when you come through, that you’re going be well, and you’ll get well. If you don’t believe it, it won’t get w...

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How is faith related to the five senses of the body?

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All right. Now, you see what faith is? It’s something…Now look, friends, I know that all of you are, at least know this: This body is controlled by five senses. Is that right? All right, it’s got five senses is everything that controls this human body. Now listen real close, and give me your attenti...