Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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Was sickness included in the atonement Jesus made when He died?

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If you bought my ticket…I’m fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now…That’s about a six, seven hundred miles’ trip, right quick. Now, if you’d say, “Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for...

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Was Isaiah 53's 'with His stripes we are healed' fulfilled in Matthew 8?

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And then, the Bible said that He’s the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn’t ta…you couldn’t say that. When anybody tells you that, it’s wro...

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How can Jesus be the same yesterday, today, and forever if the world sees Him no more?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and do we believe that the Holy Spirit is on earth today? How many believes that? Well, that Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. Is that right? The third Person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. “Yet a little while, the world seeth Me no more,...

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Does it matter how close you get to sin, as long as you don't actually sin?

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You remember…How many remembers old toboggan slides? See? You kept sliding around—laid the toboggan down and slide around and see how close you could come. All at once, gone. It ain’t how close you can walk to sin without sinning; it’s how far you can stay away from it. The old Scotchman said, one t...

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Why did God tell Job's friends to go to Job and have him pray for them?

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Now, these men who had scorned, and had kinda made fun of Job, God said to them, “You go take an offering and go down to Job, my righteous servant. I won’t hear you, because you got too much folly. You haven’t stood for truth. You haven’t did what’s right. Therefore, you take a burnt offering, and g...

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In James 5, what is meant by the 'righteous man' whose effectual fervent prayer availeth much?

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Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now. Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil in the name of the Lord: The praye...

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Why did God reconsider His sentence of death on Hezekiah?

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Look at Hezekiah when…?…and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.” And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer…Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason....

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When a person prays, is God brought down to man, or is man brought up to God?

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Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It’s bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose—you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a—a faith that y...

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What does it mean that 'the worshipper once purged' has no more desire of sin?

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Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing is because of unbelief. ’Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do those things. You believe that? “He that’s born of God does not commit sin.” See? All right. You must believe. The w...

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Can a person come to know God through theological degrees and scholarship?

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I know people that’s got D.D.’s, and D.D.’s and everything else, and know no more about God than a rabbit could know how to put on snowshoes. I ain’t saying that for a joke either. But that’s right. Don’t know no more about God, than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian night. But they don’t know God. T...

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Are believers the sons of God now, or only in the future?

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It’s in me, Eternal Life, “Now we are the sons of God.” Not we will be; we are now. That’s what the trouble of it is. People, you begin…You people that’s born again, the people call you holy-roller, or fanatic, or something another like that, because you’re borned again, and you let the devil kick y...

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What should a person do when knowledge and reasoning can take them no farther?

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I said, “This is the Tree of Faith.” I said, “A man has knowledge which is by five senses.” I said, “He’s done a great job of it.” But I said, “you know what’s the matter with you fellows, with all your education.” I said, “I’m not trying to support my ignorance now”; said, “we use crutches of this,...

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Was Jesus' knowing what was in people's hearts a form of mental telepathy?

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Jesus, they seen that He…He knew the peoples thoughts. He knew what they were thinking of. He saw visions and told them that He couldn’t do nothing till the Father showed Him. And what He said that the Father would do, that the Father had done, that every time was right. Isn’t that right? So they fi...

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What does a person go to hell for?

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Here not long ago, I was preaching in a Methodist church, one night, and I thought the Lord was firing me up good. And I was just a preaching away, and I said, “You don’t go to hell because you get drunk. You don’t go to hell because you commit adultery. You don’t go to hell because you smoke cigare...

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Can someone believe with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and still live the life they lived before?

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You can’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That’s right. That makes it pretty strong. That’s not skim milk by a long ways, but it’s good for you. You can’t believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal...

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Is a person saved by their own will or by God's grace?

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Now, in Jeremiah I want to read a—a portion of the Word. I want to read from the 1st chapter, and the 4th and 5th verse of Jeremiah. And then from there, I will quote two or three Scriptures, and then try to get off the platform within an hour, if I possible can, so you have time to go home and get...

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When the religious leaders called Jesus a devil, who acknowledged Him as the Son of God?

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My first revival, I looked around. I didn’t know. There it was. The businessmen of the city, a group of them met me that afternoon and talked to me after I baptized. I had to baptized five hundred out of my first revival. They said, “What does that mean?” I said, “I don’t know.” I said, “I am a beli...

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

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You love Him? What am I trying to say now? Jesus is here with us. I’ve kept you longer than I should, yes, way longer. I’m so sorry. Forgive me, just enthused. But that you might understand that the same God…How many believes that the Pillar of Fire, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israe...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he expected God to curse Israel?

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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here…Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I’m at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn’t mean that it’s just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God tryi...

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What is the source of the life in a cancer or tumor?

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Now, Satan…Now somehow, there’s not a cell of cancer in there now. But a cancer could come in there from some cause. Then it’s like…Maybe it’ll be on—on the inside, in the female glands, in the stomach, in the lungs, or wherever it may be. But it starts with first a little cell. Then it…Before it ca...