Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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In 'A little while and the world will see Me no more', who is meant by 'the world'?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He’s—has risen from the dead; He’s living among men. Now, here’s what He said, “A little while and the world (Not the word ‘kosmos,’ it’s the world order, the world, the unbeliever, in other words.) will see Me no more. Yet, you’ll see Me (ye,...

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Is drinking, smoking or adultery a sin in itself?

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I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of “sin.” I said, “Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery’s not a sin.” A lady raised up and said, “Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?” I said, “That’s the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That...

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Can prayer change what God has already said will happen?

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Now, looky here. The greatest military and a—one of the greatest Christians that we’d call it today in the nation…Now, here it is. I want you to get it. The king, not an unbeliever, a true believer, a worshipper of God, in prayer, sincere weeping with his face to the wall on his deathbed…Looked like...

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What kind of mind does a person have after being born again of the Spirit of God?

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And when a man becomes borned again of the Spirit of God, he becomes an offspring, or a son of God, and then he has the same type of mind that God does, the mind that was in Christ is in us, and we believe for the—for the unseen, for the miraculous, and just anything. See? And then we have the Holy...

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Will a true Angel of God accept worship?

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Now tonight, God is still God. And now, when God led the children of Israel out, He brought down an Angel. God has always used Angels in His work. There’s never been an Angel of God worshipped, for he wouldn’t stand for it, a true Angel of God doesn’t stand to be worshipped. But God has had Angels t...

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Who was the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel?

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Now, anyone knows that the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel was the Angel of the covenant. Is that right, Bible readers? Which was Jesus Christ. “Moses esteemed the riches of Christ greater than the riches of Egypt, reproach of Christ,” rather, “greater than treasures of Egypt.” It was...

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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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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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What does 'gifts and callings are without repentance' mean?

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Moses, when he was born, he was borned a proper child. God had him brought here. Moses had nothing to do with it. Is that right? John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:4, God told Jeremiah, said, “Be...

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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 does the word 'God' mean?

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Let’s say, “Praise be to God. “Praise be to God.” God is…The word “God,” means object of worship. See? And God wants to be worshipped. Jesus said, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in” what? Spirit and in truth. Truth, what is Truth? He said, “I am the Truth.” And here He...

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Did Jesus use His own power to defeat Satan in the temptation?

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I want you to notice how simple this is. When Jesus co—was here on earth, He was Emmanuel. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God was manifested in the flesh in Jesus Christ, and He was the Emmanuel. And when He walked along here on earth, He had powers. What the Father was, He’d ma...

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Why did nobody but the Magi see the star?

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The peasants, when they was in the temple arguing how—what kind of buttons they must use on their coats, there was some Magis coming across the country, looking at a star. They had observatories in them days like we have today. They even kept time. Every city wall had a tower; they kept time by the...

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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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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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Will we come back as angels with wings?

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Now, in different parts of the world, in India and so forth, we find they are sane people, that they believe in God, but…Oh, they believe in—that we return back an angel, and we got wings and fly, but that’s wrong. We’re be men and women just like we are now. Now, only we won’t be old, because when…...

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Does a believer have Eternal Life now, or only in the future?

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My brothers and sisters, for twenty years since being a minister of the Gospel, I’ve tried to give this to the poor lost mortals of this world, to let them know that they have Eternal Life, right now, by believing on the Son of God and accepting Him as personal Saviour. So simple. Jesus said… Now, l...

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Do we seek God, or does God seek us first?

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“No man can come to Me except the Father draws him.” You said, “Oh, I sought God, I went seeking for Him.” No, no, God sought for you, not you for God. Human nature proves that. When Adam sinned, he didn’t start hunting God; he started hiding from God. And Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except t...