Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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Is being tempted the same thing as sinning?

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Paul said in Hebrews the 12th chapter, “Seeing that we’re compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every sin, every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us.” Now, he said, “Well now, Daniel had Angel, and so forth.” But said, “The New Testament does not support...

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What difference does it make whether a person comes to criticize or comes looking for good?

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It’s your attitude towards…Your approach towards a Divine working of God, will determine what you’ll get out of it. If you come and say, “Well, I…Glory to God.” Stand there and chew your chewing gum, and say this, “I’m just going around to see what them holy-rollers is doing. I didn’t see nothing.”...

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At what point do people usually get desperate enough to really pray and get right with God?

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And that’s the way it is, if they don’t…If you’re not interested in God, you can’t talk God to people; but whenever they get hungering and thirsting after righteousness, God said “They shall be filled.” But first there has to be a hunger and thirst. You have to really want it. Just like healing, if...

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What did Peter answer when he was told to let down the net after fishing all night and catching nothing?

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Peter said, “Lord, we’ve seined all night long, and haven’t taken a fish,” but said, “at Thy word I’ll let down the net.” Now, they were fisherman. They knowed the fish calendar. They knowed how the winds was blowing. And just think, fished all night and hadn’t taken a fish. And God told them, “Let...

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What does the right mental attitude toward one of God's promises do?

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You don’t know how you’ll get up out of that chair, and get away from there tonight. See? You don’t know how you’re going to do this, and how these other diseases are going to be healed, “But at Thy Word, Lord, I’m going to let down the net.” “At Thy word, Lord, I’m going to rise up from here. I don...

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What can a born-again person do about a sickness that Satan has put on him?

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Well, anything that Satan’s put upon you in the way of sickness, or whatever it is, you, every borned again person, has an abstract warrant—has a warrant from God. And the Holy Spirit is here to put any devil out. No matter if he is cancer, tumor, cataract, whatever he is, the Holy Spirit will put h...

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What happens when a person testifies that he is not a Christian?

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Well, that same Holy Spirit’s leading the Church today. There’s no way to…The only thing you say, “Well, now, God tells me in my heart that Jesus Christ healed me. I just…This is my possession. I take it. I go on. It’s mine.” Well, then you just go on. The Holy Spirit just keeps leading you. No matt...

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Why did God say He would give the land little by little instead of all at once?

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Now, look. God said, “I’m not going to give it to you all at one time. If I give it to you at one time, if I do, then you’ll…the whole land will swept bare, then the wild beasts will multiply against you, and will overcome you. I’m just going to give it to you little by little, as you’re able to pos...

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Who controls the nations of the world?

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And now, if you need healing, just climb up. God’s got here in the variety store tonight. Don’t you believe it? Just reach on up and get a hold of it. It’s yours. God promised it to you, but you can’t stand back here and say, “Yes, I believe it’s right. Uh, huh. I—I believe if I went over there I co...

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Does calling someone a righteous man mean he was a man without sin?

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Now, a righteous man is not a sinless man. For you notice, he said, “Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are.” He had his ups and downs and his differences. And the Scripture of his life proves that he had his ups and downs like we do. And he had his times of wondering and his times that...

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What did God give man the five senses for?

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Now, God put man first in His Own image, which was in the image of God. And God is a Supernatural Being; he was a supernatural man. And then He put him in five senses, and none of those five senses declare his Heavenly home. Those five senses declare his earthly home. And God give him five senses to...

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Can a person come to know God through education or scientific research?

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Now, in the garden of Eden there were two trees. One of them was the tree of knowledge; one was the Tree of Life. And man can never know God by knowledge. So no matter how well you get educated, how smart your pastor is, how many degrees he’s taken, you can’t…God is not known by education, neither i...

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Can a lost person save himself by reforming or turning over a new page?

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And that’s the way a man is. When you’re lost, brother, I don’t care how much reforming you try to do, you’re absolutely helpless until the Shepherd come get you. That’s…You can’t save yourself. There’s no way at all of doing it. A—a leopard could lick his spots just as hard as he could; you could s...

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Is lying or stealing itself sin, or is sin something else?

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Now, sin is not just moral habits you know. Some things, a lot of them say, “Well, this man smokes, that’s a sin.” No, it ain’t. It ain’t a smoke…for him to lie. It ain’t—it ain’t no sin for him to lie, for him to steal. That’s not sin. That’s the attributes of sin. That…he does that because he’s a...

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Has God ever been without a witness on the earth?

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God never changes. His power is just the same as it was in the—before the creation of time. God made and spoke, and in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That’s in the beginning: the Word. The Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. The Word returned back...

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Do you have to join the Church to belong to it?

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I’ve been with the Branham family, this coming April the 6th, I’ve been in the Branham family forty-four years, and they never did ask me to join the family. See? Why? I was borned a Branham. I am a Branham by birth, so that just makes me a Branham. See? I don’t have to join the family, because I ju...

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What covers a person's sins?

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And God went and got some skins and made them aprons. In order to get skins He had to kill something. Something had to die a substitutionary, and the only thing in the world…It’s not the Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian church that’ll cover your sins. God killed Something: His Son at Calvary. That...

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How many crosses were at Golgotha?

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I want to show you a little parable here right quick. A lot of people only seen three crosses at Golgotha. There was four. There were four crosses. The cross is a tree. Is that right? Here was Jesus, and a thief on the right, a thief on the left. Now, here was Judas went and hung himself on a sycomo...

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Was all of Jesus power taken away from Him and given to the disciples?

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I love Him. I declare to you, my little audience tonight, that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. And it’s not as people try to say, that all of His power was taken away from Him, and it was just allotted to the disciples. He said, “Go into all the world. I’ll be with you, even to the end of the...

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What did a Mohammedan say Christians would have to show before he would believe Jesus rose from the dead?

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And said the Mohammedan said, “Kind sir, what can your resurrected Lord do any more for me than what my dead prophet can?” Said, “My dead prophet promised life after death,” and said, “so did your Lord.” He said, “They both wrote books. We believe them.” Well, Dr. Reidhead said, “We have happy and j...