Topic: Faith

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How does a person come to know God?

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Then if a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he doesn’t listen to reasons at all. God cannot be reasoned. God is believed. We don’t know God by theology. We don’t know God by education. We don’t know God by reasons. We know God by faith. It’s beyond reason. You cannot reason it. That’s what makes i...

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How does God confirm a person's faith?

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Why brother, it’s by faith you’re saved. Is that right? But listen. In accepting of your faith, God confirms your faith by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. If you say you believe, and you don’t get the baptism of the Holy Ghost, then you do not, it—it—your faith isn’t accepted in the sight of God. You...

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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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What was the secret when Peter let down the net after catching nothing all night?

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In other words, I can hear Peter say, “Well, Lord, why, we’re fishermen. Why, we—we was born and raised on this sea here. Why, we know when the moon’s right, and when all the signs are right. There’s not even a fish in that water. Well, we toiled all night long. And we know when the signs are right,...

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What does 'man's extremity is God's opportunity' mean?

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And now, another thing, they had seined within themselves all night and had got nothing. But one time taking God’s Word for it, they got all the fish, and even begin to sink their boats. Men’s extremity is God’s opportunity. When you’ve gone as far as you can, when the doctor’s done all he can do fo...

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What does the little boy who gave Jesus what he had teach about faith?

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My, I can imagine seeing that, just in a drama way I can draw it in my mind. I can see the little fellow…Now, as long as the little boy had, what he had wasn’t very much, he could hardly feed himself with that. But once what he had he gave to Jesus, Jesus fed five thousand. You may not have very muc...

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What kind of faith is Jesus looking for?

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That’s what He’s trying to find tonight: somebody with childlike faith who will stand by and say, “Jesus, I believe You can do it.” If He can get somebody to do that, He will do it. But if you back off and say, “I don’t know, I just afraid; I know I believe You, but I—I don’t…” Oh, He can’t use you....

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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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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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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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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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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 is the difference between hope and faith?

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I find here at the platform about ninety-five percent of the people…Excuse me. May I change that? Ninety-nine percent of the people has hope instead of faith. Oh, say, “I got all faith, Brother Branham.” Well, what you doing here then. See, see, see? Your works prove it. See? Now, faith knows no def...

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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 God known by education and knowledge, or by faith?

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And He…When I was—I was a young Baptist preacher baptizing my first converts, five hundred of them down on the river, my first revival…I had about three thousand attend at the revival. And my education was so poor, till my girlfriend read the Bible while I preached. That’s right. It’s not much bette...

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What is rapturing faith?

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And I believe we’re on the borderland tonight. I was wondering about all my meetings and things, how I had to cancel them out. I truly believe, before the Church can have the Rapture, it’s got to have rapturing faith. We can’t even have faith for Divine healing, let alone rapturing faith. Got to hav...

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Is God obligated to give the Holy Ghost to someone who truly believes?

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You say you “believe, and haven’t received the Holy Spirit”? Something wrong with your faith. God circumcises the heart the minute the believer really comes in full surrendering. Amen. Say, That, well, surely must have done something, I felt that even come back. Get it! When the believer…Here it is...

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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 brings a Divine promise of God to pass?

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Now, and—and now, here’s another statement I want you to remember, and you—you especially here that’s so sick setting here, these cancer cases and so forth tonight. Look, that, the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. Can you understand what I mean? The righ...

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Does healing depend on excitement or emotion?

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You think that I’m just asking His blessings for the people. They been healed. See? You might not see. Healing doesn’t consist of excitement; healing consists of power. See? I’ve seen many who…It’s not—it’s not emotion: healing. You just stomp, and scream, and cry at the demons; they won’t move. But...