Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What does Christ as High Priest work on?

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But when you believe you have, you say, “Yes, I am.” Then you believe you’re a Christian; you can’t show nothing that you are. But you believe you are. You believe you are. And then when you confess that you are, and when you confess Him, and He confesses you, He’s a High Priest working on what? Not...

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Why has there been no revival in America?

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But you know what? We set sometime, “Well, that was very nice. Yes, Lord. We appreciate that, Father.” Go home, as if it was just one of the regular routines of the day. Why? Brother, sister, if it was in Africa, and the Holy Spirit would move out through that audience there, and call somebody, and...

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What were man's five senses given to him for?

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Now, I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I believe that in the beginning God made man in His own image, and God is a Spirit. And God made man spirit-man. Then He made him in the dust of the earth. Now, I believe that man in the beginning, well, led the animals...

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What did the Logos look like when it went out of God?

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And now, the Bible teaches us that the Logos went out of God, or I might say, all of the—the God becoming His first body form when the Logos went out of God. Let’s look what It looked like. No one has seen the Father at any time, nowhere, never did and never will. But then the Logos that went out of...

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Is God known by education and knowledge, or by faith?

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And He…When I was—I was a young Baptist preacher baptizing my first converts, five hundred of them down on the river, my first revival…I had about three thousand attend at the revival. And my education was so poor, till my girlfriend read the Bible while I preached. That’s right. It’s not much bette...

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Who was the Angel of the Lord in the bush where Moses took off his shoes?

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And what if Moses said, “I will just take off my hat, Lord, that’ll be just as good.” But God didn’t tell him his hat, He said, his shoes. I believe we must do just what the Scripture says do, no matter how hard it seems, and how indifferent from our teaching, we’ve got to do what God said do. He sa...

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What did Jesus mean by saying believers would do 'greater things' than He did?

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And that’s the way always: take these things back to the Scripture. There’s the mint. And if the Scripture spoke of it, Jesus Christ said, “The things that I do shall you also. Greater things than this,” or more. You couldn’t be greater, it’d have to be greater in quantity, not in quality, because H...

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What does the word 'testify' mean?

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“Oh,” you say, “yeah, but I know. But here it is.” Oh, sure, the snakes are there too. Your name is penned unto it. He might’ve marked you for a death with a cancer, with anything else. But refuse to see it. No, sir. “By His stripes I’m healed.” “Testify” means “say the same thing.” If I testify in...

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What does it mean that Jesus is the High Priest of our confession?

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Divine healing lays in Calvary. And the only thing that you can do is point to Calvary. And there’s where your salvation lays. You wasn’t saved just five years ago, ten years ago, or twenty years ago, or how long it was. You wasn’t saved then. See? You were saved nineteen hundred years ago. When Jes...

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In 'the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me,' who are 'the world' and 'ye'?

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Now, let’s just find out what…Before we look for Him tonight, in the Scripture…Now, before we look for Him, I want you to keep this right here, close to you. If you’re going to look for somebody, you’re going to have to have some kind of a general description of what you’re looking for. Is that righ...

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Did Jesus read people's minds?

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Someone said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, do you say Jesus was a mind-reader?” Sure. He perceived their thoughts. Call it whatever you want to. I don’t mean one of these here, setting out here, or what the devil has made a pattern of setting out yonder, with her hand out, reading down alon...

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What does John 5:19 mean by 'the Son can do nothing of Himself'?

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He did—did not do a thing within Himself until God showed Him a vision of what was being done. That’s His own Word, Saint John 5:19. “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. And He will show you greater things...

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How can a person be a witness to the resurrection of Christ?

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So, therefore, no man can exactly witness to the resurrection of Christ, only by the Holy Spirit. You have to be a personal witness, yourself; being there, knowing something about it, knowing what you’re talking about.

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What do Gilgal, the school of the prophets and Jordan represent?

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Three places. Justification, Gilgal; sanctification, the school of the prophet; and to the baptism of the Holy Ghost, at Jordan, where Jordan represents death. Notice! Martin Luther; John Wesley; Pentecost, down to the Jordan, dying-out time.

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What did David foresee when he said God would not suffer His Holy One to see corruption?

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I think of David, when he was getting old. Being a great king that he was, God had swore to him, according to the fruits of his loins he would raise up Christ to sit on His right hand. Then I see David, when he was old, getting down to the end of his road, and all the physical strength was just abou...

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How can a person know that Jesus rose from the dead?

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That’s the way it is with every man or woman, when he is born of the Spirit of God, and sees the true resurrection. No man knows that Jesus is resurrected from the dead, unless he has died, himself, in Christ Jesus, and been born again, anew by the Holy Ghost. Every man is only theologically believi...

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Does Christ force Himself on anyone, or does He come only when invited?

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And every man that ever comes into Christ will have to invite Christ into your little house which you live in. He only comes by invitation. He doesn’t push Hisself on you. You say, “I don’t want none of that fanatical stuff,” all right, don’t worry, it won’t be there. But when you are willing and re...

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Does a person get a new spirit when he is born again?

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Now, when you are re-born, you don’t get a new spirit. You get a new nature of that spirit. It’s the same spirit, but a new nature of it. You take two man, stand them together, both look alike; and one of them is a sinner, and one of them is a Christian. One man say, “I got a spirit the same as you...

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Can God take back His Word once He has promised something?

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And if God promises, God will keep His Word. If God promised to heal you, He’ll do it. If God promised to give you the Holy Ghost, He’ll do it. You just come and be…repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and believe Him, and watch what happens. That’s right, you will be filled with the...

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Are drinking, smoking and gambling sins?

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As I said last night. Drinking, smoking, gambling, all those things isn’t sin. It isn’t a sin to gamble, it isn’t, or, gambling isn’t sin, rather, smoking isn’t sin, drinking isn’t sin, swearing isn’t sin, it’s a attribute of sin! Because you’re a sinner, that’s the reason you do it. If you was a Ch...