Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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Why did the Magi see the star when no one else did?

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I can imagine some of them saying, “Say, the old man’s got kind of old, you know. There’s something wrong with his mind. He’s going around there saying that he’s going to see the Christ. Just think, an old man like that, nearly a hundred years old now, walking around here saying he’s going to see th...

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

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You get what you’re looking for. If you’re expecting tonight to get healed, you’re going to get healed. If you’re not expecting it, you would usually…If you come to the meeting tonight just to say, “Well, I’ll see what goes on.” That’s all you’ll see. If you say, “I—I—I know that’s not right.” The d...

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What happened the first time the Name of Jesus Christ was spoken by mortal lips?

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The first time that the Name of Jesus Christ was spoke through mortal lips, caused a dead baby in his mother’s womb to come to life and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. If It’ll do that to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? I don’t understand. Oh, my. He sa...

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Why did Jesus meet Satan's temptations with 'It is written' rather than the gifts God gave Him?

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As I was speaking this afternoon of the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Father in Him, all God was—give His gifts into His Son that it might be manifested in the earth. When He met Satan, He never used one of them. He brought it down to show that the weakest of Christians… Satan comes in and says, “If…”...

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What is the difference between faith and hope?

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I believe it’s written in the Scripture, one of the writers said, “Above all things, I would that you’d prosper in health.” And now, I pray that God will let every sick person in here, tonight, be well. I’m sure it’s the will of God that all of you would be well. He wants you to be well, if you and...

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What senses does the inward man have?

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Faith is an element. It’s a sense. It’s the sixth sense of the human body, or, the…it’s the one sense…the human soul has two senses. Part of a man, that his five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses: that’s faith, unbelief. One of them gover...

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Is God the author of sickness?

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Whew. I can’t see that. And I don’t say…And I don’t believe that’s intelligent. I don’t believe that’s…That’s not the Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ. And God is not the author of sickness. You can’t pin that on my Father. He come to heal us. The devil is the one who makes us sick. Absolutely. If tha...

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How important is education compared with salvation?

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And I’m not trying to support my ignorance. I’m just telling what the Bible said. Peter and James passed through the gate called Beautiful, there laid a man crippled from his mother’s womb. He said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I will give thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise...

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What does Jude 4 mean by men 'foreordained to this condemnation'?

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Jude, about the 4th chap—4th verse of Jude, said, “Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation, that turned the grace of our Lord into lasciviousness.” Correctly. Foreordained of old to this condemnation, God foreordained it to them; like Pharaoh, Judas Iscariot, and many of them. Don’t tramp on G...

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If Jesus is Jehovah-jireh, is He also Jehovah-rapha?

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But if he said, “No,” then he wasn’t…If he—if he said, “No,” then He wasn’t Jehovah-jireh, the God’s provided Sacrifice. He’s Jehovah…If He isn’t…The redemptive Names of Jehovah, if they are not applied and fulfilled in Jesus, then He is not God’s provided Lamb, and you’re in your sins, and He was a...

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Does a Christian die?

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We don’t believe in death of Christians. You can’t prove to me that a Christian dies. The Blood of Jesus Christ takes away sin; it doesn’t cover it. The believer goes in the Presence of God now.

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Was sickness included in the atonement Jesus made when He died?

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If you bought my ticket…I’m fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now…That’s about a six, seven hundred miles’ trip, right quick. Now, if you’d say, “Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for...

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Was Isaiah 53's 'with His stripes we are healed' fulfilled in Matthew 8?

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And then, the Bible said that He’s the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn’t ta…you couldn’t say that. When anybody tells you that, it’s wro...

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How can Jesus be the same yesterday, today, and forever if the world sees Him no more?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and do we believe that the Holy Spirit is on earth today? How many believes that? Well, that Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. Is that right? The third Person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. “Yet a little while, the world seeth Me no more,...

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Does it matter how close you get to sin, as long as you don't actually sin?

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You remember…How many remembers old toboggan slides? See? You kept sliding around—laid the toboggan down and slide around and see how close you could come. All at once, gone. It ain’t how close you can walk to sin without sinning; it’s how far you can stay away from it. The old Scotchman said, one t...

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Why did God tell Job's friends to go to Job and have him pray for them?

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Now, these men who had scorned, and had kinda made fun of Job, God said to them, “You go take an offering and go down to Job, my righteous servant. I won’t hear you, because you got too much folly. You haven’t stood for truth. You haven’t did what’s right. Therefore, you take a burnt offering, and g...

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In James 5, what is meant by the 'righteous man' whose effectual fervent prayer availeth much?

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Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now. Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil in the name of the Lord: The praye...

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Why did God reconsider His sentence of death on Hezekiah?

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Look at Hezekiah when…?…and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.” And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer…Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason....

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When a person prays, is God brought down to man, or is man brought up to God?

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Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It’s bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose—you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a—a faith that y...

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What does it mean that 'the worshipper once purged' has no more desire of sin?

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Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing is because of unbelief. ’Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do those things. You believe that? “He that’s born of God does not commit sin.” See? All right. You must believe. The w...