Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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Are believers the sons of God now, or only in the future?

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It’s in me, Eternal Life, “Now we are the sons of God.” Not we will be; we are now. That’s what the trouble of it is. People, you begin…You people that’s born again, the people call you holy-roller, or fanatic, or something another like that, because you’re borned again, and you let the devil kick y...

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What should a person do when knowledge and reasoning can take them no farther?

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I said, “This is the Tree of Faith.” I said, “A man has knowledge which is by five senses.” I said, “He’s done a great job of it.” But I said, “you know what’s the matter with you fellows, with all your education.” I said, “I’m not trying to support my ignorance now”; said, “we use crutches of this,...

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Was Jesus' knowing what was in people's hearts a form of mental telepathy?

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Jesus, they seen that He…He knew the peoples thoughts. He knew what they were thinking of. He saw visions and told them that He couldn’t do nothing till the Father showed Him. And what He said that the Father would do, that the Father had done, that every time was right. Isn’t that right? So they fi...

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What does a person go to hell for?

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Here not long ago, I was preaching in a Methodist church, one night, and I thought the Lord was firing me up good. And I was just a preaching away, and I said, “You don’t go to hell because you get drunk. You don’t go to hell because you commit adultery. You don’t go to hell because you smoke cigare...

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Can someone believe with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and still live the life they lived before?

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You can’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That’s right. That makes it pretty strong. That’s not skim milk by a long ways, but it’s good for you. You can’t believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal...

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Is a person saved by their own will or by God's grace?

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Now, in Jeremiah I want to read a—a portion of the Word. I want to read from the 1st chapter, and the 4th and 5th verse of Jeremiah. And then from there, I will quote two or three Scriptures, and then try to get off the platform within an hour, if I possible can, so you have time to go home and get...

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When the religious leaders called Jesus a devil, who acknowledged Him as the Son of God?

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My first revival, I looked around. I didn’t know. There it was. The businessmen of the city, a group of them met me that afternoon and talked to me after I baptized. I had to baptized five hundred out of my first revival. They said, “What does that mean?” I said, “I don’t know.” I said, “I am a beli...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he expected God to curse Israel?

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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here…Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I’m at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn’t mean that it’s just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God tryi...

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What is the source of the life in a cancer or tumor?

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Now, Satan…Now somehow, there’s not a cell of cancer in there now. But a cancer could come in there from some cause. Then it’s like…Maybe it’ll be on—on the inside, in the female glands, in the stomach, in the lungs, or wherever it may be. But it starts with first a little cell. Then it…Before it ca...

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How should a person respond when Satan says they are not healed?

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The faith that taken away unbelief, will resurrect it again. When you take your stand for Jesus Christ, stay there and die by it. What God says is the truth, and don’t you fear what…Satan hasn’t got anything to do about it. Don’t argue with him; don’t fuss with him. Just ignore him and walk away. If...

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How can Jesus be 'the same yesterday, today, and forever' while He is seated at the right hand of the Father?

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Is that right? Now, according to Jesus’ own words, which I believe they are the Truth. No one disputes that Saint John 5 is not in…but what’s inspired. And according to His Words, He said, “I do nothing until the Father shows Me what He’s doing. Then what the Father shows Me, that I do.” Is that rig...

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Is faith only an evidence, or is it a substance?

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I’ll tell you what we’ll do. I want you to get in Romans 4, also. I’m going to teach a little about faith. That’s what we all need a whole lot of. Isn’t it? Faith is not a…is not an evidence only; it’s the substance. Faith itself is a substance and an evidence of things that the senses of the body w...

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Is God obligated to keep His promises?

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When a Divine promise is made, God is solely under oath and obligation to take care of any of His promises. And His, the…God is worth no more than what His Word is worth. If that Word is not effective, then God is not effective. That is God. Do you believe it? It’s God. The Bible said, “In the begin...

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What does the name Jehovah-jireh mean?

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Jehovah-jireh, which was God’s first redemptive Name. Jehovah-jireh means “the Lord will provide a sacrifice.”

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Can a person contact God through the physical senses?

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Now, the senses are worldly instruments. Do you believe it? Now, God can control them, I’ll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our Heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now if we say I—I have a…

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Is salvation something God still has to do, or has it already been done?

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And God can’t save you, because He has already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept It. It’s already done. I wasn’t saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago, but twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn’t, the first sin I done, God would have wiped...

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Why did God take on a body of flesh in Christ?

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And now, let’s think of the day of our Master. The reading of the text brings it to a spot in His life that where He had become very popular. He was born with a illegitimate accusation against Him, and He came in the way of a stable. Could you imagine it? And inveiled He was Emmanuel. God was in Him...

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Does God accept a person on the basis of their own holiness?

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Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that’s one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That’s the Witness. So God looking down through the—the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the—the—the magnifying gla...

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Do church joining or forms of baptism save a person?

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Not long ago I seen a picture in a paper advertising Sinclair gasoline, said that one gallon of Sinclair gasoline in a big enough motor could lift the Sphinx so high off the ground. I said, “Looky there, they’re advertising that around the world.” I said, “And one drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ w...

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How does faith compare with the five senses of the body?

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Faith is a individual sense besides any there. It’s the—the sixth sense. That’s the outside man, that God put in human flesh here, give him five senses to contact his earthly home. And the inside man, the spirit has two senses, and that is unbelief and faith. And when your faith says that you’re goi...