Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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How should a person respond when Satan says they are not healed?

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The faith that taken away unbelief, will resurrect it again. When you take your stand for Jesus Christ, stay there and die by it. What God says is the truth, and don’t you fear what…Satan hasn’t got anything to do about it. Don’t argue with him; don’t fuss with him. Just ignore him and walk away. If...

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How can Jesus be 'the same yesterday, today, and forever' while He is seated at the right hand of the Father?

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Is that right? Now, according to Jesus’ own words, which I believe they are the Truth. No one disputes that Saint John 5 is not in…but what’s inspired. And according to His Words, He said, “I do nothing until the Father shows Me what He’s doing. Then what the Father shows Me, that I do.” Is that rig...

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Is faith only an evidence, or is it a substance?

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I’ll tell you what we’ll do. I want you to get in Romans 4, also. I’m going to teach a little about faith. That’s what we all need a whole lot of. Isn’t it? Faith is not a…is not an evidence only; it’s the substance. Faith itself is a substance and an evidence of things that the senses of the body w...

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Is God obligated to keep His promises?

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When a Divine promise is made, God is solely under oath and obligation to take care of any of His promises. And His, the…God is worth no more than what His Word is worth. If that Word is not effective, then God is not effective. That is God. Do you believe it? It’s God. The Bible said, “In the begin...

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What does the name Jehovah-jireh mean?

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Jehovah-jireh, which was God’s first redemptive Name. Jehovah-jireh means “the Lord will provide a sacrifice.”

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Can a person contact God through the physical senses?

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Now, the senses are worldly instruments. Do you believe it? Now, God can control them, I’ll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our Heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now if we say I—I have a…

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Is salvation something God still has to do, or has it already been done?

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And God can’t save you, because He has already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept It. It’s already done. I wasn’t saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago, but twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn’t, the first sin I done, God would have wiped...

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Why did God take on a body of flesh in Christ?

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And now, let’s think of the day of our Master. The reading of the text brings it to a spot in His life that where He had become very popular. He was born with a illegitimate accusation against Him, and He came in the way of a stable. Could you imagine it? And inveiled He was Emmanuel. God was in Him...

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Does God accept a person on the basis of their own holiness?

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Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that’s one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That’s the Witness. So God looking down through the—the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the—the—the magnifying gla...

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Do church joining or forms of baptism save a person?

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Not long ago I seen a picture in a paper advertising Sinclair gasoline, said that one gallon of Sinclair gasoline in a big enough motor could lift the Sphinx so high off the ground. I said, “Looky there, they’re advertising that around the world.” I said, “And one drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ w...

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How does faith compare with the five senses of the body?

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Faith is a individual sense besides any there. It’s the—the sixth sense. That’s the outside man, that God put in human flesh here, give him five senses to contact his earthly home. And the inside man, the spirit has two senses, and that is unbelief and faith. And when your faith says that you’re goi...

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How is the virgin birth connected to whether Jesus is the Son of God?

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And you know what? After a survey was made, according to government statistics, after the survey was made, there was seventy percent of the Protestant preachers denied the virgin birth of Jesus. Would you think of it? No wonder we’ve hatched out thirteen million infidels last year. See? Because that...

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How did the virgin Mary conceive Jesus?

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I say that He was the virgin-born Son of God, created by Jehovah. I believe that God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Hear the Truth of it and then worship Him in the Spirit. Now, and here’s what I believe: That virgin Mary, was just a little girl, seve...

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Why did Brother Branham call the blood of Jesus unadulterated?

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God is a Spirit, not a man. If He was a man, Christ was born, sexual desire. He was not a man. He is a Spirit, and He overshadowed the virgin Mary, and she brought forth the Son by a creative power, which is Jehovah God. Amen. Then that Blood is unadulterated, and It answers in my place, this aftern...

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In Daniel's vision, who is the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands?

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He’d say, “One day, Brother Branham, I was viewing the ages,” Hallelujah! “I was viewing the ages as God was passing them by me in a vision. I was watching the ages pass by. I seen all the kings come, and the great kingdoms, and so forth. And then I beheld, till there was a Stone cut out of the moun...

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Does what a person expects when coming to a meeting affect what they receive?

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If you believe, whatever you believe…If you come to the meeting tonight, just to find something to go away to criticizing it, devil will show it to you; you’ll see it. And if you come to find something about God, that you could go away and be blessed, God will show it to you. Whatever you desire, wh...

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How does a person become a member of the family of God?

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I’ve been in the Branham family for forty years; they never did ask me to join their family. I was borned in the Branham family. And that’s how you come in the family of God. It’s not by joining church; I have nothing against that; that’s all right; you should do that. But you’re borned in the Churc...

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What does Hebrews 13:8 mean for the works Jesus does today?

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And the Scripture says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever,” three…Hebrews 13:8. Then Jesus Christ, if He’s the same today as He was yesterday, He still does the same works today that He did yesterday. If He doesn’t, He isn’t Jesus Christ, and His claims is not so.

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What do the devil's counterfeits show about the things of God?

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Course we know the devil has patterns and types of everything that God has. Everything that Satan has is secondarily that he patterned off of God. Every bogus thing has—has something original to be made off of. If there was no real dollar, the bogus dollar would be the original in the first. And as...

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What is the adoption of a son, and how is it different from being born one?

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A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father’s work and everyth...