Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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If someone shouts under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, does that prove they are saved?

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And someone ask me not long ago on that question. “Brother Branham, do you really think that they are shouting under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?” I say, “Yes.” You’d say, “Well, how could the Holy Spirit fall upon them, if it—and make them shout if they aren’t the blessed of God?” Well, I be...

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Do you have to come to an altar to be saved?

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Everything is don’t fear; be ready now when you’re called up here or when you’re setting in the prayer lines out there…All that’s the prayer line. And when you’re setting there just be ready to receive. Just be ready. And just when you feel that your faith is appropriated or not—enough to receive it...

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What lesson does Brother Branham draw from the men the devil answered, 'Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?'

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Now, how them old days, they really tantalize us. And there’s many things happened that I wouldn’t have time to tell you, along the road. But you know how it is in old school days. Wouldn’t you like to go back there again? My, go back to just… I wished I could live one day again. I wished I could ge...

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What does Brother Branham mean by 'the right mental attitude' toward God's promise?

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Now, the right mental attitude…All you along here, do you understand what I mean when I say, “The right mental attitude?” That’s…Your right mental attitude towards God’s Divine promise will bring any promise to pass. Now, maybe you don’t believe that. You say, “Well, my faith is weak.” I wouldn’t co...

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Can a person sin away their day of grace?

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Now, Jesus here was speaking, He said, “Father, the time has come.” Now, there’s seasons for everything. Do you believe that? You sow in a certain season, and you reap in a certain season. And there’s seasons when the time comes that’s right for things to happen. Do you believe that? The time came o...

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Who was the Angel that led Israel in the Pillar of Fire?

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Now, Angels has always been ministering spirits that’s sent to the church. Is that right? All through the apostolic age, or apostolic age, they had ministering Angels that went with the apostles, the disciples. Is that right? And most always, they appeared to them in a form of Light. Is that right?...

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What is iniquity?

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Jesus said, “Many will come and say, ‘Lord, have not I…’” He said, “I didn’t know you.” No, you never…See? Many will confess and say, “I have cast out devils in Thy Name, and in Thy Name I prophesied,” preachers and so forth, and everything. He’d say, “Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I didn...

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Can prayer change God's mind?

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And if you ever want to do anything for me that’ll please me, you pray for me. That’s the…That’s one thing that I—I want you to do, pray for me, ’cause I know prayer changes things. It even changes God’s mind about things, changes God’s program. Do you believe that? God can pronounce a certain thing...

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What shows whether a person is really a Christian?

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And now, I want to speak just a moment, or just bring your attention to a few words here that Jesus said, “The works that I do bear witness of Me.” The things that I do, what I say, is what bears record of me. And that’s what bears record of every person. Do you know, I’d rather you’d live me a serm...

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Would Brother Branham rather have the gifts or the love of God?

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After all, I’d rather have the love of God sealed in my heart than all the gifts there is in the Bible. That’s right. I thought of that here a few nights ago. My little girl called me, and I told her…She wanted me to come home to her. She loves me, oh, my. And so I—I…She’s…I told her I sent her a li...

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When Brother Branham says God's seal is there to stay, is he teaching eternal security?

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When God once signs His Name across something like that, signs your name, or the Name of Christ, and a notary takes the seal and puts on there, and presses that thing down. Brother, it’s there to stay, what I mean. You know what I’m speaking of. Now, I’m not preaching eternal security either, being...

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Can a man use a gift from God in a way that is not God's will?

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Now, notice. Now, Moses smote the Rock, second time, representing that Christ should come to the earth and die again. Now, he had power to bring forth the Water out of the Rock, whether it was God’s will or not. Did you know that? Everybody will admit that it wasn’t God’s will. But Moses done it any...

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Does even a small sin need to be confessed?

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But the least sin should be confessed, always, no matter what, how little it looks to you, it’s sin in the sight of God. Look how little the first sin was, but look what it did to the human race. When the first sin was committed, look at the difference. When the message came to Heaven that, “Your so...

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What does it mean to be born again?

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That’s right. “Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom.” Borned of the Spirit of God, renewed, regenerated, become a new person in Christ Jesus, old things passed away, and all things become new, converted, changed over, going your road this way, and turn, come this way, v...

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Is keeping the Golden Rule or the Ten Commandments what covers a person before God?

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And so is it today, friends, not the Golden Rule, which is all right, not the Ten Commandments, which is holy, but God killed Something to cover you up, His Son, Christ Jesus died on Calvary, the Innocent for the guilty to make a way that you and I might be innocent in Him before God. And that’s the...

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Does God bring things to pass the way people have mapped them out?

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People have their own beliefs drawed out today what they think that they’re going to be, and the way it’s going to be. It’ll come just as according to that, or they won’t believe it. And that’s the reason they have their way. They thought the way Jesus was coming first…They had it all mapped out. He...

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Why do we now speak to the Rock instead of smiting it?

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And the rod that Moses had in his hand, it was not the rod of Moses, it was the rod of God: God’s judgment rod. Moses held it out over Egypt and flies came up. He held it out and fleas came up. Wherever he dumped this rod, it was a judgment rod. It brought judgment upon a disobedient people. And the...

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What was the old custom of tearing a contract in two over a slain beast?

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In the old days, when a contract was made, you know what they did? Notice. God just telling me to say this, I don’t know. A person would go and write a—a contract on a piece of paper. They’d write the contract. And then on the contract, they’d write what it was they was going to do, then they’d tear...

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How is Christ's death at Calvary like a contract torn in two?

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Now, God made a contract with the peoples of this world. Therefore, He sent the Son of God and killed Him on Calvary. You believe that? “All we like sheep have gone astray. God laid upon Him the iniquity of all. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our...

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What should you say if symptoms appear after hands have been laid on you for healing?

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Now, the Bible said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Is that right? “If they…” Now, that’s the last Words that Jesus give the Church. “If they lay their hands on the sick…” What will happen? “They shall recover.” Now, if symptoms should arise, what would you say? “It is written.” Is th...