Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What determines what a person gets from a gift God sends?

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It’s your attitude towards it. Your attitude towards God’s Divine gift, will purchase just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I’d like to stop right here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half hour, but I can’t do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you…Depen...

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Does the verse 'Jesus wept' prove that Jesus was only a man?

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She said, “I can prove to you by the Bible if you’ll just open up your mind that he was only a man.” I said, “Do it by the Bible and I’ll believe it.” She said, “When he went down to that resurrection of Lazarus…” said, “On his road down there, he cried with the rest the people. The Bible said, ‘Jes...

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Where did Jesus' blood come from, since He was born of a virgin?

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The—the germ of life, to the child, comes from the male sex, we know that, don’t we? It’s like a hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn’t been with the male bird, it’s not fertile. See? It won’t hatch. The germ of life comes from the male. So the germ of Life in this case, come from Jehovah God, the Fa...

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When does a person receive their gifts and callings from God?

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Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you’re borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to. Some of you didn’t put your hands up. I want to ask y...

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What does 'go and sin no more' mean?

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Now, the Bible said, “Go and sin no more, or a worse thing would come upon you.” Is that right? That means, “Go and disbelieve any more.” Sin is unbelief. See? That’s the first thing. That’s all there is to it, is unbelief, is sin. ’Cause when you believe… Jesus said, “He that believeth shall not be...

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How did Mary respond when the angel told her she would have a Child?

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Now, He could reveal something to you, and if you don’t believe it, it’ll never be active in your life. You have to believe it. You have to take God at His Word just like Mary did when she…the angel met her and said, “You’re going to have a Child, knowing no man.” Well, instead of—of—of fussing abou...

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What happened to Abraham's faith while he waited for the promised child?

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If there ever was a time the church of God needs some more Marys, it’s today: taking God at His Word. When God says anything, He means just what He said. Abraham looked at Him; he said, “I know He’s able to—to do that what He promised to do. I’m old, a hundred years old, but that’s all right. Sarah’...

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What were the swaddling clothes the baby Jesus was wrapped in?

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Let’s look down along that line this morning. There stands this little mother and that one here. Way down there I see a gap between them. What is it? They’re all getting away from somebody down there. What is it? It’s a little girl about eighteen years old that’s just been married to a man called Jo...

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Why did the Magi see the star when no one else did?

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I can imagine some of them saying, “Say, the old man’s got kind of old, you know. There’s something wrong with his mind. He’s going around there saying that he’s going to see the Christ. Just think, an old man like that, nearly a hundred years old now, walking around here saying he’s going to see th...

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Does what a person expects affect what they receive from God?

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You get what you’re looking for. If you’re expecting tonight to get healed, you’re going to get healed. If you’re not expecting it, you would usually…If you come to the meeting tonight just to say, “Well, I’ll see what goes on.” That’s all you’ll see. If you say, “I—I—I know that’s not right.” The d...

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What happened the first time the Name of Jesus Christ was spoken by mortal lips?

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The first time that the Name of Jesus Christ was spoke through mortal lips, caused a dead baby in his mother’s womb to come to life and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. If It’ll do that to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? I don’t understand. Oh, my. He sa...

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Why did Jesus meet Satan's temptations with 'It is written' rather than the gifts God gave Him?

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As I was speaking this afternoon of the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Father in Him, all God was—give His gifts into His Son that it might be manifested in the earth. When He met Satan, He never used one of them. He brought it down to show that the weakest of Christians… Satan comes in and says, “If…”...

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What is the difference between faith and hope?

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I believe it’s written in the Scripture, one of the writers said, “Above all things, I would that you’d prosper in health.” And now, I pray that God will let every sick person in here, tonight, be well. I’m sure it’s the will of God that all of you would be well. He wants you to be well, if you and...

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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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Is God the author of sickness?

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Whew. I can’t see that. And I don’t say…And I don’t believe that’s intelligent. I don’t believe that’s…That’s not the Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ. And God is not the author of sickness. You can’t pin that on my Father. He come to heal us. The devil is the one who makes us sick. Absolutely. If tha...

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How important is education compared with salvation?

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And I’m not trying to support my ignorance. I’m just telling what the Bible said. Peter and James passed through the gate called Beautiful, there laid a man crippled from his mother’s womb. He said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I will give thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise...

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What does Jude 4 mean by men 'foreordained to this condemnation'?

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Jude, about the 4th chap—4th verse of Jude, said, “Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, that turned the grace of our Lord into lasciviousness.” Correctly. Foreordained of old to this condemnation, God foreordained it to them; like Pharaoh, Judas Iscariot, and many of them. Don’t tramp on G...

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If Jesus is Jehovah-jireh, is He also Jehovah-rapha?

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But if he said, “No,” then he wasn’t…If he—if he said, “No,” then He wasn’t Jehovah-jireh, the God’s provided Sacrifice. He’s Jehovah…If He isn’t…The redemptive Names of Jehovah, if they are not applied and fulfilled in Jesus, then He is not God’s provided Lamb, and you’re in your sins, and He was a...

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

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Then what I say? Anyone who knows the Old Testament, knows that it was a Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. Is that right? And all Bible readers know that that was the Angel of the covenant. Do you believe that? Then if that was that Angel of the covenant, it was Jesus Christ. He’s the...

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Does a Christian die?

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We don’t believe in death of Christians. You can’t prove to me that a Christian dies. The Blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin; it doesn’t cover it. The believer goes in the Presence of God now.