Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What was the secret when Peter let down the net after catching nothing all night?

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In other words, I can hear Peter say, “Well, Lord, why, we’re fishermen. Why, we—we was born and raised on this sea here. Why, we know when the moon’s right, and when all the signs are right. There’s not even a fish in that water. Well, we toiled all night long. And we know when the signs are right,...

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What does 'man's extremity is God's opportunity' mean?

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And now, another thing, they had seined within themselves all night and had got nothing. But one time taking God’s Word for it, they got all the fish, and even begin to sink their boats. Men’s extremity is God’s opportunity. When you’ve gone as far as you can, when the doctor’s done all he can do fo...

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What does the little boy who gave Jesus what he had teach about faith?

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My, I can imagine seeing that, just in a drama way I can draw it in my mind. I can see the little fellow…Now, as long as the little boy had, what he had wasn’t very much, he could hardly feed himself with that. But once what he had he gave to Jesus, Jesus fed five thousand. You may not have very muc...

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What kind of faith is Jesus looking for?

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That’s what He’s trying to find tonight: somebody with childlike faith who will stand by and say, “Jesus, I believe You can do it.” If He can get somebody to do that, He will do it. But if you back off and say, “I don’t know, I just afraid; I know I believe You, but I—I don’t…” Oh, He can’t use you....

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Where did the blood in Jesus' veins come from?

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Now notice back, quickly. God the Father, a Spirit overshadowed the little virgin and God the Father, the Creator of all things, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that—womb of that woman and brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus, God’s tabernacle on earth. Amen. Then we are saved not by sexual blo...

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How was Mary's response to the angel different from Zacharias's?

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Now, this little virgin was all excited. Notice, here’s what I like about Mary. Amen. Instead of doubting like Zacharias, that preacher, she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Your Word.” She didn’t try to figure it all out like he did. “Why,” he said, “now, look, my...

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Does Jesus weeping at the grave of Lazarus prove He was only a man?

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He said, “Why, He wasn’t Divine, Brother Branham,” said, “He couldn’t have been. I can prove to you by the Bible that He wasn’t Divine.” I said, “If you’ll prove it by the Bible I will accept it.” She said, “All right.” She said, “In Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said when Jesus was going d...

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How serious is it to reject the Holy Spirit compared with rejecting the Father or the Son?

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Now, in the great Divine trinity of God, in the day…It’s all the One God, God in a trinity: the Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Spirit dispensation. Now, if a man rejected God in the days of Fatherhood, under Moses and the law, well, he was put to death, if he disobeys God, broke His command....

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Was Jesus born on December 25th?

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So in the days when Jesus was born, they didn’t have press, and so forth, like we have today, and radio, and television. News just come merely from lip to ear. And when Jesus was born, some magis was watching for the Star of Jacob to rise, so they followed it over from the Orients and worshipped Him...

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What were the swaddling clothes the baby Jesus was wrapped in?

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Let’s look along the line. But way down there I see a little girl standing, about eighteen, nineteen years old with a veil over her face, holding two turtledoves: a peasant’s offering, poor man. And she’s got a baby in her arm. And some of them says, “Say, that’s that Mary; that—that’s that illegiti...

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If Jesus were here in person, could He do more for the sick than He already has?

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Now, I want you to be just as reverent as you can. Now, I want to ask you this vital question right now. If Jesus Christ was here, wearing this suit that He give me, and standing with my shoes that He gave me, He couldn’t do no more for you than what He’s doing right now. For His…When He was here on...

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Is all sickness caused by sin?

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And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so. Notice. And so God put up this—...

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Why did God have to become flesh and blood to redeem man?

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Said, “Who is she? Where’d she come from?” And when the harvest was over, the great lord of the harvest, which was Boaz, a representative of Christ to the church…He’d fallen in love with her, and he wanted to marry her. But before he could marry her, he had to redeem Naomi’s lost estate. And before...

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When Jesus said 'These things that I do shall you also, and greater', greater in what way?

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And of course, as always has been my theme, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His present attitude hasn’t changed from what it was at that day. Now, as each night we have people coming into our services who has…probably newcomers. And in the forepart of the meeting we had...

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Why does Brother Branham call faith a sixth sense?

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Now, look. What is faith? Faith is a sixth sense. Five senses control this man. God put man in five senses to contact his earthly home. You don’t contact God with your five senses. You know God by faith which is the sixth sense, which is the…There’s two senses of the soul: faith and unbelief. And if...

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What is the new birth?

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The new birth is an experience. It’s a gift of God. It’s the seal of your faith. The Holy Spirit is a Seal. Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.” God made Abraham the promise, and Abraham believed God, and was justified by fa...

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Can Angels die?

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And may the Lord add His blessings to His Word. The Angel of the Lord, coming to Paul in the hour of distress…Now, do you believe that Angels die? They can’t die. They’re immortal beings. They are free from death. They cannot die. Now, then the Angel that stood with Paul is still somewhere in existe...

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In 'A little while and the world will see Me no more', who is meant by 'the world'?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He’s—has risen from the dead; He’s living among men. Now, here’s what He said, “A little while and the world (Not the word ‘kosmos,’ it’s the world order, the world, the unbeliever, in other words.) will see Me no more. Yet, you’ll see Me (ye,...

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Is drinking, smoking or adultery a sin in itself?

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I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of “sin.” I said, “Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery’s not a sin.” A lady raised up and said, “Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?” I said, “That’s the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That...

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Can prayer change what God has already said will happen?

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Now, looky here. The greatest military and a—one of the greatest Christians that we’d call it today in the nation…Now, here it is. I want you to get it. The king, not an unbeliever, a true believer, a worshipper of God, in prayer, sincere weeping with his face to the wall on his deathbed…Looked like...