Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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How is the virgin birth connected to whether Jesus is the Son of God?

Answer

And you know what? After a survey was made, according to government statistics, after the survey was made, there was seventy percent of the Protestant preachers denied the virgin birth of Jesus. Would you think of it? No wonder we’ve hatched out thirteen million infidels last year. See? Because that...

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How did the virgin Mary conceive Jesus?

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I say that He was the virgin-born Son of God, created by Jehovah. I believe that God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Hear the Truth of it and then worship Him in the Spirit. Now, and here’s what I believe: That virgin Mary, was just a little girl, seve...

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Why did Brother Branham call the blood of Jesus unadulterated?

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God is a Spirit, not a man. If He was a man, Christ was born, sexual desire. He was not a man. He is a Spirit, and He overshadowed the virgin Mary, and she brought forth the Son by a creative power, which is Jehovah God. Amen. Then that Blood is unadulterated, and It answers in my place, this aftern...

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In Daniel's vision, who is the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands?

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He’d say, “One day, Brother Branham, I was viewing the ages,” Hallelujah! “I was viewing the ages as God was passing them by me in a vision. I was watching the ages pass by. I seen all the kings come, and the great kingdoms, and so forth. And then I beheld, till there was a Stone cut out of the moun...

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Does what a person expects when coming to a meeting affect what they receive?

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If you believe, whatever you believe…If you come to the meeting tonight, just to find something to go away to criticizing it, devil will show it to you; you’ll see it. And if you come to find something about God, that you could go away and be blessed, God will show it to you. Whatever you desire, wh...

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How does a person become a member of the family of God?

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I’ve been in the Branham family for forty years; they never did ask me to join their family. I was borned in the Branham family. And that’s how you come in the family of God. It’s not by joining church; I have nothing against that; that’s all right; you should do that. But you’re borned in the Churc...

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What does Hebrews 13:8 mean for the works Jesus does today?

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And the Scripture says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever,” three…Hebrews 13:8. Then Jesus Christ, if He’s the same today as He was yesterday, He still does the same works today that He did yesterday. If He doesn’t, He isn’t Jesus Christ, and His claims is not so.

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What do the devil's counterfeits show about the things of God?

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Course we know the devil has patterns and types of everything that God has. Everything that Satan has is secondarily that he patterned off of God. Every bogus thing has—has something original to be made off of. If there was no real dollar, the bogus dollar would be the original in the first. And as...

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What is the adoption of a son, and how is it different from being born one?

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A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father’s work and everyth...

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

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Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was b...

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Does God send people to hell because they are sinners?

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Now, then if He should take me as His servant. And now, He never spoke this directly to you, but it’s just the same as directly to you. But He never said, “Mrs. So-and-so at a certain age and a certain time…?…” But then, He has a prophetic gift that He sent into to His Church in these last days to s...

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Why did the wise men see the star when the stargazers in every city did not?

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There’s…I guess you wonder why I’m stalling. See? I could feel that impact of faith moving. Just be reverent, as it’s getting near me. Now, the Angel of the Lord is coming near this platform right now; I can feel It moving down. It’s coming from this side here, right this a way, right down this a wa...

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How could Jesus, born of Mary, have holy, unadulterated Blood?

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…?…He is the Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star, the Root and Offspring of David. See, He’s both the Root and Offspring of David (See?), He that was, which is, and shall come, the Alpha, Omega (that’s A and Z), beginning and the end, He that was dead and is alive for evermore. He’s just got so man...

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When the Angel troubled the water, why was only the first person to step in made whole?

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Then people believed that it was an Angel, which God testified that it was, it came down, because there was no current in the water, but it just chopped the water, made a choppy condition. And the people lay there, great multitudes, now listen what the Scripture says: lame, halt, blind, withered. Wh...

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What happens to a Christian at death?

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Christians do not die. There’s no Scripture in the Bible that says Christians—Christians die. A man that…A person that lives in pleasure is dead while they’re living. Death means separation, separation from God. And sinners are not se…Sinners are separated from God, but Christians never separate fro...

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Why was Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm?

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There’s no need of me trying to explain these things friends. No matter how much I would try to explain them; I could never explain them to you. So you just try to understand (See?), and just believe me, that it’s—it’s something that just takes the life right out of you. One time I wondered how that...

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Why was Jesus born in a stable?

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Now, before this Redeemer could come in the days of our text, when Jesus had become very popular. Although He was born with an awful scorn, He came in by the way of a stable door and went out the way of capital punishment (Did you know that?), considered a fanatic, laughed at, spit upon, made fun of...

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Where did the blood of Jesus come from?

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And we are redeemed through the Blood of Christ. And God Almighty is a Spirit. And He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created…God the Creator, created the Blood Cell in the womb of that woman, knowing no man by sexual desire. You believe it? And that Blood Cell developed into the Man which was the...

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What three things does Satan work on when God blesses a minister?

Answer

An old minister has been hanging around here on the street; I met him the other day up here on the street, jumping just as high as he could singing, “Old Time Religion.” Name’s John Ryan. Got long hair and beard; he’s been around here for a few days. He—he was—rode an old bicycle down there. And he...

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What should someone do whose faith is only as small as a mustard seed?

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Some people has great big faith like this, anything can happen. The next has faith that deep, takes a little longer. Next has faith that deep, takes quite a little while. Some has faith like a mustard seed. But if it’s mustard seed faith, genuine faith, hold on to it; just keep believing it; it’ll b...