Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What is faith worth if a person is not willing to act on it?

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How many have faith? Raise your hands as a witness to God. Now, your faith without your works is dead. You might as well not have faith if you’re not willing to put it to work. Now, as the Holy Spirit moves into the building tonight, let’s us take the initiative side. Let’s believe with all of our h...

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If someone says they were saved ten years ago, when were they actually saved?

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When you said, “Well, I was saved ten years ago.” No, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it ten years ago. See, see? You were healed nineteen hundred years ago. Are you willing to accept it tonight? That’s the only…See He couldn’t heal her. Now, the only thing He would, just lik...

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In what forms has God veiled Himself at different times?

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Now, if that Jesus Christ is raised from the dead and living in His Church tonight, He can produce the same things; for He said, “The things that I do shall you also.” Is that right? “Lo, I am with you always even to the end of the world.” Church has forgot those things. Theology of the church has w...

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Where does sickness come from?

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Well now, for instance, a cancer…Now, a cancer comes from a bruise, and it’s a—it’s a—it’s a growth too. So’s tumor, cataract and oh, we could spend hours on it, of what it is. Now, those…Let’s say cancer. Now, first it’s a teeny little cell, and it begins to develop cells. It doesn’t have any form....

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What three elements come with a natural birth, and what are they in the new birth?

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Here, let me show you something in the Scriptures so you won’t be tied up. I don’t have time to teach, but look. For instance, when a baby’s born in this world…A baby born a natural birth, what is the three elements that comes from the body? The first is water. Is that right? Blood. Is that right? T...

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What difference does it make what a person expects when they come to a meeting?

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Let’s take just a little subject for the next ten, fifteen minutes and say, on the word, “Expectancy.” You know, usually you get what you expect to get. If you come to the meeting saying, “Well, I’m going down there just to see what I can see. I don’t believe it in the first place.” Well, the devil’...

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What were swaddling clothes made from?

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And she’s holding this baby. I can imagine seeing He’s wrapped in swaddling cloth, the King of Glory, wrapped in swaddling cloth. They tell me that’s what they take off the back of a yoke of an ox. When it’s—keep it from rubbing its shoulders, they take this cloth off. And there’s nothing to put on...

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What holds back the wrath of God from a sinful world?

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And then while I was standing there looking at that, I was criticizing that woman. I was criticizing the officer in my heart. But I had never taken a seat yet at the table. And then just seemed like Something said to me, “Step over here to one side. I want to talk to you.” That was my Boss. And when...

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What reasoning led the lepers to go down to the camp of the Syrians?

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And these lepers says…Well, the Syrians had them besieged and they was starving them to death. Now, they said, “Why set we here until we die? Now, we got to do something. Now, let’s see, there’s only two roads.” One of them led in the city. They had three things they could do. They could go into the...

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Will faith do any good without works?

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How many in here believes God’s going to hear tonight and answer prayer? Oh, isn’t that wonderful? Brother Lindsay, that was a mighty nice then to see a solid ground there of—of every person believing—on believing grounds. Anything could happen. Now, the one thing I’m going to ask you to do, is…How...

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What did Jesus mean when He said the Son does nothing of Himself?

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Walked right on over, and the man wasn’t too bad. He’d had maybe a prostate trouble or something, for about thirty-eight years. He was laying on a pallet. Jesus healed him. Then walked right on out of the building. Mmm. And they said He was full of love and compassion. His love wasn’t…It was to the...

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Should someone who came to be healed rejoice even if God says nothing to them?

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And that’s the way God wants you to say, “Why, thank You, Father. I come up here to be healed, and it’s all explained to me. And You’ve proven it to me now. So I’m ready to go away from here rejoicing. Praise the Lord.” And go away just rejoicing and made well. That’s the way to do it. No matter if...

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Who was the Angel God promised to send before Moses to keep him in the way?

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And we’ve just stayed in one huddle here and preached it till you’re Gospel hardened, then the heathens out yonder, dying. That’s my vision. I must go to them. There’s where God has blessed. ’Cause they’re hungering; they’re thirsting; they want to hear something. That’s why I’m so with Tommy Osborn...

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Did Brother Branham believe in eternal security?

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And then I—I believe that God has a Church. Now, I believe that in this Church, that this…I—being many people has thought that I was a radical eternal securitist. Well, that’s—that’s an error. No, I only believe in eternal security as this: I believe the Church has eternal security. Now, if you’re i...

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What do the crow and the dove on the ark illustrate?

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Even put it back in the ark, in the destruction of the world. There was the crow and the dove setting on the same roost. One was just as much bird as the other one was. Is that right? But what was it? One was a crow by nature, and the other was a dove by nature. One could fly just like the other one...

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Does Satan know all things?

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Now, I suppose that we’re strangers, are we, lady? We are. All right. Now, I want you tonight, each one in the line, I don’t believe there’s anyone crippled or anything, standing very—to stand very long. Let’s just take our time. Everyone just let your nerves down now, and let’s just talk to the peo...

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What does the existence of a counterfeit prove?

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The devil has just got a…The devil has a pattern of everything God has real. The Babylon was made a pattern of heaven, all the natural. See? Just exactly. There is a real genuine Christian, filled with the Holy Ghost; there’s a whole lot of hypocrites that just act like it. See, see? But that really...

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Did Jesus ever plainly say that He was the Son of God?

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May our Lord add His blessings to His Word. God in confirmation of His Word, of the testimony of Jesus Christ, was declaring to the people that it was the Son of God. Once in talking to a man, he said, “Nowhere in the Scriptures did Jesus ever say that He was, plainly say He was the Son of God.” The...

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Why did Jesus say 'ye are gods'?

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You see, if a man does not have the Holy Spirit, he cannot believe those things. Because when a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he becomes a son of God. And his nature is likened unto God. That’s the reason Jesus said, “Did not it say in your laws, ye are gods?” Because you’re an attributes of G...

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How does a person come to know God?

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Then if a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he doesn’t listen to reasons at all. God cannot be reasoned. God is believed. We don’t know God by theology. We don’t know God by education. We don’t know God by reasons. We know God by faith. It’s beyond reason. You cannot reason it. That’s what makes i...