Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What are the three things that hinder a minister?

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Now, this is not to be—to be humble, or it’s not to show off, but from the bottom of my heart, I wished I had a place where I could work while in these meetings (That’s right.) so I wouldn’t have to even take up an offering or something. That’s the truth. I just dread the thoughts of taking up an of...

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Can God break His promise the way a person can?

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Now, Simeon believed because the Holy Ghost had promised him. He was looking for it. If you’re expecting it, you got something behind that you believe that God has promised it, then you got a right to expect it. Is that right? When God promises it… Now, I might break my promise, ’cause I’m a man. An...

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How does a paid pawn bill illustrate what Jesus did for us?

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If you had a watch in the pawn shop, somebody went down and—and paid the pawn bill, or ever what you had on it, and the man gave a receipt and sent it back and said, “Here you are it’s paid off,” you’ve got a right to go down, not pay for the watch again, go down show the receipt and take your watch...

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Which angel will announce the second coming of Jesus?

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Oh my, I can see our Master when He come with that blackness behind Him and saying: that He was an illegitimate child. But God sent a warning always before the coming. He sent a man by the name of—of John the Baptist. He was a great forerunner of Jesus. God always sends a forerunning before some gre...

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Why does God sometimes hold off answering a prayer until the last moment?

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Now, I could think of when Zacharias…God setting Hisself in order, getting His church ready…Zacharias, the great high priest—or great priest, rather, he was to burn incense. He had a home that was consecrated to God. God give us some more homes like that. Yes, sir. They believe God and waited on God...

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How did Mary respond to Gabriel's promise that she would have a child?

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Look, the priest doubted Gabriel’s word. But Mary…And he had something to believe that’d happened before that time; but Mary didn’t have nothing: never a baby had been born without being, well, like man and wife. But she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit. And instead of doubting him, she s...

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How was Jesus both a man and God?

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The Bible said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He was a man. When He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, and He was looking for some to eat around a fig tree. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and fed five thousand, He was God. Halle...

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How does Jesus Christ compare with the founders of other religions, such as Mohammed and Confucius?

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And ten…I say five hundred years from tonight, this little group that’s setting here will be somewhere. That’s right. And wherever we are then, we’ll be where we’ll have to be to spend eternity. And tonight, it may be a decision time, and the last time that some of us will have to make our decision....

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What does it mean to take God at His Word, as Peter did when he let down the net?

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Peter, here, I can imagine seeing the people press upon him to hear the Word of God that came from his lips. He didn’t speak like an ordinary man. He was a great…he’s…he might not have been so forceful, but his words had such a weight, the people loved him. There was something different. I can imagi...

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What does Boaz redeeming Naomi and gaining Ruth show about Christ?

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He’s our Kinsman Redeemer. Isn’t that right? God was manifested in the flesh to take our place, to be a Kinsman to us. As in the Book of Ruth, and Exodus, and so forth, how it preaches, teaches there of how that we become kinsmen to God, and God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, became K...

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How can Paul say Abraham was justified by faith while James says he was justified by works?

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Now, if Abraham says, “I got faith in God,” but was afraid to offer his son Isaac, then his faith was no good. Paul justified Abraham by faith, Paul was talking about what God seen in Abraham; but James justified him by works, James was talking about what men seen in Abraham. See? God sees your fait...

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What does it mean that Jesus is the High Priest of our confession?

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Let him that’s weak say, “I am strong.” See? Just say in your heart that “I am now strong. I have now accepted Jesus as my Healer,” and never have any negative testimony, anymore, just believe it, God is under obligation, or, Jesus Christ is, setting at the right hand of the Father to accept you, fo...

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How was Jesus related to Jehovah?

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He said, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me.” Just as Jehovah…Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was, He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works, It’s My Father th...

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Did Jesus use His own power to answer Satan when He was tempted?

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Now, He had all those fine gifts at His command, but when Satan found Him, He didn’t use those gifts. When Satan said, “If thou be the Son of God, change these stones to bread. Turn them into bread and eat, for you’re hungry.” He said, “It is written!” And he taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temp...

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Why did Brother Branham want to take the initiative without waiting for discernment?

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I’ve kinda got to a place where I want to get more boldness. I want to take the initiative side, regardless of whether it’s under the discernment, brother, I want to go forward and challenge the enemy in—in—in a bold, I’m more like a timid sort of a person. And I only try to work as I see the Spirit...

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Can prayer change something God has already pronounced over a person?

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And—and as far as I know, the best of my knowledge, to all of the people that I—have come before me to be prayed for, there has never been one time in all my life that I can remember praying for the sick when I absolutely saw the vision and told them that the Lord Jesus had healed them but what was...

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Who was the Angel God told Moses He would send before him?

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Now, notice. In the old days, when God told Moses, “Now, you go, and I’ll send an Angel before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him. Obey His Voice, for He will not pardon your transgressions, for My Name is in Him.” That Angel was the Ange...

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What are the three steps in God's deliverance of His Church?

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Time’s up. Brother, sister, in the Name of our Lord, please get me right now. What am I trying to say to you? That God Who came out in the old days, and led the Church of God out of the—Egypt, the bondage into freedom, has come down again in the same manner to lead His Church spiritual out of bondag...

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Was it the water that healed people at the pool of Bethesda?

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Brother, sister, if I don’t come here tomorrow night, and you never see me again ’less I’m in a casket somewhere, I still say that God has testified that I’ve told the truth. The Church knows it by signs and wonders; the scientist knows it by scientific research. And this same…I believe that’s the s...

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Does God ever use sickness to chasten His children?

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Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to—to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it’ll only be for the good. Se...