Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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Where do sickness and disease come from?

Answer

Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions.

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What elements make up the new birth?

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“There are three that bear record in heaven.” Now, when we’re…Our conversion. The element came from Jesus Christ’s body when He died; there was water, Blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new Birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new Birth; water, Blood,...

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Where does the life in a cancer or tumor come from?

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Well, then, what does that? The devil. The—the germ is a life. First, the germ is a teeny little cell with a life in it. And that life only can come from two resources, either from God or the devil. And you came from the germ of life, by God. The cancer, tumor, or so forth, come from the germ of lif...

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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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Was it the water that healed people at the pool of Bethesda?

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Later on after the days of the serpent, God sent a Angel down from heaven and troubled the water on a pool called Bethesda, and ever who stepped in that water first, having faith, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Into the waters… Now, the brass serpent done no heal...

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Is everyone foreordained to a gift or calling to minister?

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John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness said Isaiah. Is that true? Jeremiah, God told Jeremiah, “Before you were born from your mother’s womb, I knew of you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations,...

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Who was the Angel that God sent before Israel in Exodus 23:20?

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For a reading of the Word found in Exodus the 23rd chapter, 20th verse, beginning, God sending His prophet Moses: Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him…obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardo...

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How long is a believer sealed by the Holy Spirit?

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“Wherefore grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the Day of your Redemption.” There you are. “Sealed away until the Day of your Redemption.” Not just from one revival to another, but till the Day of your Redemption.

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What does it mean to be born again?

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And I tell you, friends, there’s been a many a man, and is tonight, that’s coming down to the end of the road, will find out that that little shallow religion that you’re holding onto won’t work. Nothing short of being born again will work. Jesus said, “Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he w...

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Why did Martha believe Jesus could still help after her brother had died?

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The woman, Martha, knew that the Shunammite realized that God was in His prophet. And if God was in His prophet, surely God was in His Son. So if she could get to Jesus, she would have the remedy. So she runs and falls down before Him. She said, “Lord, if,” that’s what He was, Lord, “if Thou would h...

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When were we healed by Jesus Christ's stripes?

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Now, remember. Remember me now and believe this. Every person in here was healed when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. His stripes healed you nineteen hundred years ago. And the only thing that I, or any other minister could do, would be point you to that.

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What is the difference between sin and the attributes of sin?

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…out a prayer card. That’s right. Do you believe? All right, just let that group walk right down here first to the platform—just them without a prayer card. Now, I’m going to get the prayer cards just in a minute. We’ll comb right through the building; we want to get everyone prayed for that we can....

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What did Brother Branham believe the Light that hung over him at his birth to be?

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Very well, Brother Kopp. Let’s go back to the beginning. I was born in eastern Kentucky, in a little log cabin near Burkesville, Kentucky. The morning of my birth, I’m told of my parents, that there was a Light came into the room and hung over me. My people was not a religious people. They did not g...

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Is it a sin to disbelieve?

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But the only thing this is to do is to glorify God and to reveal Jesus Christ, that…When He was here on earth, He did this very same thing. All Bible readers believe that, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And He said, “When I go away, and I’ll come again. A little while and the world wi...

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Romans 7:14-18, “We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do—not: for what I would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I (c-a-n-…) un—unto the law, consent to the law, that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” This I cannot understand.

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Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that’s Paul speaking to the Romans. Now he said…Let me just kind of polish it up so you can see. He said, “In me is two persons: right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other wants me to do. And every time I start to do right, then the wrong hinders me.” How many o...

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Dear brother, would Jesus not accept worship in Revelation by John when he fell to…Why would not Jesus receive worship in Revelation by John when He—when He allowed worship before him? Why wouldn’t Jesus receive worship when John wanted to worship Him?

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My dear brother or sister, whoever it is, it was not Jesus that would not receive worship. In Revelation 22:8, you’ll read it was the prophet, angel, who would not receive worship. When John fell down to worship the angel that had showed him these things, he said, “See that you do it not, for I am o...

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Brother Branham, did Jesus change the physical mask several times when appearing to the disciples after His resurrection?

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“Did He change His physical mask?” I—I wouldn’t know, because I think what it was, He didn’t change His mask there. The thing He did, He withheld their seeing or knowing Him. Like those who came from Emmaus, they walked with Him all day and it was withholden from them. And they saw a man on the ban...

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Brother Branham, what is the difference, if—if any, between the Angel of the Lord and the Lord, Himself?

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The angel of the Lord is a messenger from the Lord, and the Lord Himself is that Person, not the person of the angel, the angel from the Lord. Let me show you. Earthly speaking here’s an angel from the Lord. Earthly speaking here’s an angel from the Lord. Earthly speaking here’s the angel from the L...

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Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are living, of being a believer and following the Message and messenger of today, when you cannot seem to pray like you would like to? That’s a good question.

Answer

I believe brother, sister, ever who asked it, it’s a cause of the conditions of time. The revival is over. The revival has lasted some fifteen years, and never did last before over about three years. I believe it’s received its last revival. And I believe that’s why you can’t pray and feel in the Sp...

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Brother Branham, please explain how a person knows if he is thinking his own thoughts, or if the devil is placing thoughts in his mind to make him think wrong, especially, if you know you do not want to think them.

Answer

Then, if it’s contrary to the Word, it’s the devil’s thinking. If it’s with the Word, it’s God thinking. If it’s the wrong thoughts, it’s the devil. If it’s good thoughts of the Word and of God, it’s God’s thinking.