Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

Answer

Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was b...

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Does God send people to hell because they are sinners?

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Now, then if He should take me as His servant. And now, He never spoke this directly to you, but it’s just the same as directly to you. But He never said, “Mrs. So-and-so at a certain age and a certain time…?…” But then, He has a prophetic gift that He sent into to His Church in these last days to s...

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Why did the wise men see the star when the stargazers in every city did not?

Answer

There’s…I guess you wonder why I’m stalling. See? I could feel that impact of faith moving. Just be reverent, as it’s getting near me. Now, the Angel of the Lord is coming near this platform right now; I can feel It moving down. It’s coming from this side here, right this a way, right down this a wa...

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How could Jesus, born of Mary, have holy, unadulterated Blood?

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…?…He is the Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star, the Root and Offspring of David. See, He’s both the Root and Offspring of David (See?), He that was, which is, and shall come, the Alpha, Omega (that’s A and Z), beginning and the end, He that was dead and is alive for evermore. He’s just got so man...

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When the Angel troubled the water, why was only the first person to step in made whole?

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Then people believed that it was an Angel, which God testified that it was, it came down, because there was no current in the water, but it just chopped the water, made a choppy condition. And the people lay there, great multitudes, now listen what the Scripture says: lame, halt, blind, withered. Wh...

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What brings a Divine promise of God to pass?

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Now notice, and never forget this, you people laying here sick and needy: The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. When you believe, and take God at His Word, say It’s so, believe It’s so, God will bring it to pass. I hope I’m not yelling at you, this thing...

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What happens to a Christian at death?

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Christians do not die. There’s no Scripture in the Bible that says Christians—Christians die. A man that…A person that lives in pleasure is dead while they’re living. Death means separation, separation from God. And sinners are not se…Sinners are separated from God, but Christians never separate fro...

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Why was Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm?

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There’s no need of me trying to explain these things friends. No matter how much I would try to explain them; I could never explain them to you. So you just try to understand (See?), and just believe me, that it’s—it’s something that just takes the life right out of you. One time I wondered how that...

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Why was Jesus born in a stable?

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Now, before this Redeemer could come in the days of our text, when Jesus had become very popular. Although He was born with an awful scorn, He came in by the way of a stable door and went out the way of capital punishment (Did you know that?), considered a fanatic, laughed at, spit upon, made fun of...

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Where did the blood of Jesus come from?

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And we are redeemed through the Blood of Christ. And God Almighty is a Spirit. And He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created…God the Creator, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that woman, knowing no man by sexual desire. You believe it? And that Blood Cell developed into the Man which was the...

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What three things does Satan work on when God blesses a minister?

Answer

An old minister has been hanging around here on the street; I met him the other day up here on the street, jumping just as high as he could singing, “Old Time Religion.” Name’s John Ryan. Got long hair and beard; he’s been around here for a few days. He—he was—rode an old bicycle down there. And he...

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What should someone do whose faith is only as small as a mustard seed?

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Some people has great big faith like this, anything can happen. The next has faith that deep, takes a little longer. Next has faith that deep, takes quite a little while. Some has faith like a mustard seed. But if it’s mustard seed faith, genuine faith, hold on to it; just keep believing it; it’ll b...

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What does the story of the crow that kept walking around after it was untied illustrate?

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God, you know what? He’s your Redeemer. Did you ever see a pawn shop? Oh, that’s a horrible looking place. The devil put you in a pawn shop, and Jesus redeemed you; you’re free; get out of it. That’s right. He give you these things, but Jesus paid the ransom. And He paid the price; you’re out of the...

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Are believers who belong to different churches still brothers?

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If He can show me what’s wrong with people in their lives, He can show me where to go, and what to do, and how long to stay. And I’ve been so tied up though. I got into…Well, at first when I left the Baptist church to be interdenominational to help bring the brethren together, to do all that I could...

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Is God known by knowledge or by faith?

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In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one of them was the knowledge. And the other one the Tree of Life. And when man left the Tree of Life and took the first bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated himself from God. And now he bit off gunpowder, destroys himself. He bit off an electricit...

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How is the Word of God related to the Gospel?

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Now, the Gospel, commonly believed, is the Word of God, and that is true in one sense. But the Word of God is not Gospel alone. The Word of God is the Seed that produces the Gospel. Jesus said a sower went forth and sowed seed. And some fell onto the stony places, and some fell by the wayside, and t...

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Does being a loyal church member make someone a believer?

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Now, there’s many has a profession that they believe, and today in my church, as in most all of our churches, we class a believer as one who is loyal to the church, and comes to church regular, and takes a—a place, a position in the church, and helps the church in its financial needs. But that’s ver...

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Is God under obligation to keep His Word?

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God is worth no more than His Word. And if His Word is no good, then He is no good. If your word…If I can’t put no confidence in what you say, you’re no good. But you’re just as good as your word is. And God is just as good as His Word is. And I, as a Christian believer, I believe that this Bible is...

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Does a Christian die?

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Now, we don’t believe…Whatever…You believe anything you want to. I don’t believe a Christian dies; there’s no Scripture for it in the Bible. No, sir. “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has passed from death to Life, he…I am the resurrection and life,” says God, “he that bel...

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What should you do when discomforts make it hard to keep on praying?

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And I went over there, and I knelt down. Did you ever feel like, you know, the briers stuck you, and the floor was too hard? Did you ever have that? That’s the time to press on. That’s the devil trying to keep you from it. Move right on. As long as you’re doing right, you can’t be doing wrong. See?...