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Question

In 'the world seeth Me no more, but ye shall see Me', who is 'ye'?

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Jesus said, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. But ye shall see Me.” And “ye” is His church, you. The unbeliever never sees Him. It’s the believer that sees Him. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you to end of the world.”...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1953-02-15, Tallahassee, FL, §8 Read more →

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How does a person serve God?

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I’ve always knowed this and I found this in my life of ministry. If you’ll…If you want to serve God, serve His people. That’s how we serve. As we love one another, we love God. And I love His people, and I’m doing all that I know how to try to represent our Lord Jesus Christ to them in a way of His...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §4 Read more →

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When were believers saved and healed?

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How many that has been saved in the last ten years? Let’s see your hand. Been saved the last ten years? Now, I don’t want to differen with you, but you wasn’t saved in the last ten years. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago, and you accepted it in the last ten years. Is that right? That’s righ...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §17 Read more →

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What brings a Divine promise of God to pass?

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Now, and—and now, here’s another statement I want you to remember, and you—you especially here that’s so sick setting here, these cancer cases and so forth tonight. Look, that, the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. Can you understand what I mean? The righ...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §25 and 1 more answer to this question Read more →

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What should someone do who thinks they have crossed the separating line?

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I just want to say, there’s so many people passing through here that’s suffering with mental oppression, demon manifestation, but oppression: Satan. I seen a vision break before me of a young lady. She went back there, and set down a few minutes ago, that thinks she’s crossed the separating line. Do...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §96 Read more →

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Does healing depend on excitement or emotion?

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You think that I’m just asking His blessings for the people. They been healed. See? You might not see. Healing doesn’t consist of excitement; healing consists of power. See? I’ve seen many who…It’s not—it’s not emotion: healing. You just stomp, and scream, and cry at the demons; they won’t move. But...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §103 Read more →

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Does what a person expects affect what they receive from God in a meeting?

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Did you ever expect something? Usually, you get just what you expect. Did you know that? If you come to the meeting, and would say, “Well, I’m going down there. There’s nothing to it,” well, that’s just what you’ll get out of it. If you would get down there, and say, “Well, I—I’ll go down there, but...
Expectancy, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §33 Read more →

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What does the name El Shaddai mean?

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When He appeared to Abraham when He was a hundred years old, He said, “I am the El Shaddai.” El Shaddai means, El comes from God, Shaddai from shad, means “the—the bosom,” like on a woman. In other words, “Abraham, I am the breasted One. You just come to Me, I know you’re old, and you can’t—you can’...
Expectancy, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §110 and 1 more answer to this question Read more →

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How is the Holy Spirit related to Christ?

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Now, He sits at the right hand of the Father tonight, God Almighty, to make—as a high Priest, to act in our stead (Do you believe that?) to make intercessions upon our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. “He is the high Priest of our confession.” Whatever we confess that He has done…First, we ha...
Do You Now Believe?, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §12 Read more →

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What should a believer do when people say divine healing is not right?

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“Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it.” Do you believe that? Then take, no matter what person says, “Divine healing’s not right,” what person says, “this is not right,” take God at His Word. He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie and Mine be true.”...
Faith (Africa Trip Report), 1952-08-16, Battle Creek, MI, §108 Read more →

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Did the Old Testament sacrifices take away sin, or only cover it?

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We know this, that in the Old Testament the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. It only covered sin. And the living just waiting in—in paradise for the day that sin should be taken away. But when Jesus came, the Son of God, the Messiah, He took away sin. He divorced it, never covered i...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §4 Read more →

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Does God show the evidence of His promise before or after a person accepts it?

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Soon as you hear the Word of God that says you can be set free, believe it. Rejoice with it. God will show the evidence after you’ve accepted it. But first you accept it. Christ died for sinners. I believe it. I accept it. I start rejoicing. God works righteousness by it. I believe He was striped fo...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §24 Read more →

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Does the devil come against a person right after they are baptized with the Holy Ghost?

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Now, look. Then I seen John, when he came out there and begin to preach, my, just with repentance, as hard as he could preach. Laying at the axe to the root of the tree, and every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the sea. And then notice, or into the fire, rather....
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §45 Read more →

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What determines what a person gets from a gift God sends?

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It’s your attitude towards it. Your attitude towards God’s Divine gift, will purchase just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I’d like to stop right here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half hour, but I can’t do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you…Depen...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §61 Read more →

Question

Does the verse 'Jesus wept' prove that Jesus was only a man?

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She said, “I can prove to you by the Bible if you’ll just open up your mind that he was only a man.” I said, “Do it by the Bible and I’ll believe it.” She said, “When he went down to that resurrection of Lazarus…” said, “On his road down there, he cried with the rest the people. The Bible said, ‘Jes...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §71 Read more →

Question

Where did Jesus' blood come from, since He was born of a virgin?

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The—the germ of life, to the child, comes from the male sex, we know that, don’t we? It’s like a hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn’t been with the male bird, it’s not fertile. See? It won’t hatch. The germ of life comes from the male. So the germ of Life in this case, come from Jehovah God, the Fa...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §17 Read more →

Question

When does a person receive their gifts and callings from God?

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Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you’re borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to. Some of you didn’t put your hands up. I want to ask y...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §38 Read more →

Question

What does 'go and sin no more' mean?

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Now, the Bible said, “Go and sin no more, or a worse thing would come upon you.” Is that right? That means, “Go and disbelieve any more.” Sin is unbelief. See? That’s the first thing. That’s all there is to it, is unbelief, is sin. ’Cause when you believe… Jesus said, “He that believeth shall not be...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §58 Read more →

Question

How did Mary respond when the angel told her she would have a Child?

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Now, He could reveal something to you, and if you don’t believe it, it’ll never be active in your life. You have to believe it. You have to take God at His Word just like Mary did when she…the angel met her and said, “You’re going to have a Child, knowing no man.” Well, instead of—of—of fussing abou...
Deep Calleth Unto the Deep, 1952-08-09, Chicago, IL, §3 Read more →

Question

What happened to Abraham's faith while he waited for the promised child?

Answer

If there ever was a time the church of God needs some more Marys, it’s today: taking God at His Word. When God says anything, He means just what He said. Abraham looked at Him; he said, “I know He’s able to—to do that what He promised to do. I’m old, a hundred years old, but that’s all right. Sarah’...
Deep Calleth Unto the Deep, 1952-08-09, Chicago, IL, §4 Read more →

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