Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What must a person die to in order to have Life?

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Jesus had to die to produce Eternal Life. And now, listen closely, Christian friends. Unless you die to yourself and your feelings, and act on God’s Word, you’ll never have Life. Forget your feelings; just take what God said. And plant that seed into that life of your own death, or your own death, a...

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Will the Jews still have an opportunity to be saved after the Gentile dispensation comes to a close?

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Oh, my, if that ain’t a dandy! We ain’t got time to go into it real good, but let me tell you this. And you take my word, I’ll show you. By…If you’ll take my word (as I explain it) to God, then you go look it up, see, and then you’ll find out. Cause I imagine…I can’t see the clock, but I imagine it’...

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What did the tree of death and the Tree of Life in the garden of Eden represent?

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Now, here’s the tree of death. I have my idea of what it was; you can have yours. But anyhow, that whenever they’d taken this tree, they were going to die. But if they ever taken this Tree, they were going to live. So, when they’d taken the tree of death, that separated them from God, and He put an...

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How does God confirm a person's faith?

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Why brother, it’s by faith you’re saved. Is that right? But listen. In accepting of your faith, God confirms your faith by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. If you say you believe, and you don’t get the baptism of the Holy Ghost, then you do not, it—it—your faith isn’t accepted in the sight of God. You...

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Can a Christian save an unsaved member of his family?

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For no matter how much I would pray for you, if you yourself didn’t have the faith, it wouldn’t do any good. That’s right. It takes your faith. And no matter how much I preach to you and how well I brought the Gospel to you, if ye yourself…It’s your own personal faith in Christ that saves you. Is th...

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Does giving up lying, stealing or smoking make a person saved?

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Then the next thing, you go—you go to church and you hear the hymns sang, the Gospel preached. Something…And the Holy Spirit begins to speak to you. “Come, repent.” And you say, “Oh, that…I—I—I—I’m young. I got plenty of time yet. I got this. I’ve got to do this.” See? You’re rejecting God’s provide...

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Can the devil heal the sick?

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But watch here, brother. Let me tell you. He said that—that Simon the sorcerer was down there healing the sick and bewitching the people. And that’s misquoting the Scripture to the public. I challenge that in the Name of the Lord Jesus: that Simon the sorcerer did not do any healing, and the devil c...

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Is 'eternal sonship' a correct way to describe the Son of God?

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And there He come out. There was nothing. And then here come the Logos. That looks like a halo hanging yonder. No man has seen God at any time, now, eye to eye. And here’s the Logos. Looks like It’s a supernatural Being. It’s a Halo. That’s the Son of God. Not “Eternal sonship,” ’cause the words don...

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Was the serpent a reptile before it was cursed?

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And He said, “Serpent…” Now, he wasn’t a reptile then. He was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. And He said, “Cursed is you.” And He took his legs from him and upon his belly he’d go all the days of—of his life. Dust should be his meat, and he will be hated. That’s where he is today.

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In what form is Jesus Christ present with His church today?

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We’re strangers? We are strangers. Yes, ma’am. I just want to talk to you just a few moments because it’s just like when our Master was here, now see, Jesus rose from the dead, did He? You believe that? You ought to, being a Christian, you ought, you believe that. Jesus rose from the dead. Then He’s...

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Is joining a church enough to enter the Kingdom of God?

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If you’re here without Christ, if you’ve belonged to some, “Just join the church…” I believe in joining church, but that ain’t it, you got to be borned again. You’re not born, filled with the Holy Spirit, brother, you, I don’t know. Jesus said, “Except a man be borned again, he will not enter into t...

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Is a person saved because they can shout or because they feel saved?

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So, I’m not saved today because I can shout. I’m saved not because I feel like I’m saved. I’m saved because I met God’s conditions of this Bible. Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from de...

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Could what the witch of En-dor did in calling up Samuel be done today?

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Now, this witch of En-dor, she called up the spirit of Samuel. And Saul talked to Samuel. Now, you might wonder how that could be done. It cannot be done today. No, sir. Because, the blood of bulls and goats was only a waiting for the time of fulfillment. When a man died in them days…Preachers, back...

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What do the stages of Elijah and Elisha's journey to the Jordan represent in the history of the church?

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First stage: Martin Luther stage: first stage of the journey. Second stage was the school of the prophet. Elijah went up there and he said to Elisha, “Now, you stay here, I pray thee, for the Lord is calling me to Jordan. But Elisha was really a prophet. He said, “As the Lord lives and your soul nev...

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Does a person become part of the family of God by joining a church?

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Across the river they went. Said, “What will you ask?” I wish we’d have time to take up before this, the—the Law of Adoption. Pentecost was borned (That’s right.) like the son. But that same son was borned in a family, had to be adopted also. That’s right. And there’s where you missed your calling,...

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What does the word 'demon' mean?

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Now, the first thing, what a demon is. You hear so many people talking about a demon. Well, now, a “demon, devil,” all comes from one word, and in the English it’s called “tormentor.” A fellow that torments is a devil, a evil one. He say…Now, the Bible today is, to most, to many people, is some old...

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Does sickness come from God?

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Now, all sickness, we have to find first that all sickness came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. God sometimes permits Satan to put sickness on you, as a whip to bring you back to the house of God, when you’ve disobeyed. But sickness, in its beginning, c...

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Does Brother Branham believe in eternal security?

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I believe this. In security, I believe the Church has Eternal security. Any reader of the Bible knows that, ’cause God’s already said It would appear yonder without blemish. That right? Then, It’s going to be there. Is that right? The Bi-…The Church is Eternally secured. Now, are you in the Church,...

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Why is a cancer called a devil?

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And now notice, you call them, the doctor calls it, a “cancer.” God calls it a “devil.” Look at today. They just give it…Where did the word cancer come from? It comes from the…from a Latin word which is used in medical terms, meaning a “crab,” a crab that you see along the seashore, has got all them...

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

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Now, see, now Paul was justifying Abraham by faith. James justified him by works. Paul said Abraham was justified, Romans 4, by faith. And so James comes over and says that he was justified by works. Now, both of them, one confirmed the other. Now, Paul was speaking what God saw: his faith. James is...