Topic: Foundation & doctrine

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What does Saint John 5:19 say about how Jesus did His works?

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What if He was here tonight in a visible Person? Just as sure as He walked on the Sea of Galilee, He’s right here. He promised to be. And what did He do? What’d He say He would do after He raised from the dead? The Bible said He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Well, if He’s t...

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What does he say about teaching a five-year-old child the Kingdom of God compared with teaching someone with a college degree?

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I can teach a five year old child the Kingdom of God, better that I can teach a man that’s got a—a degree out of college. I can teach him Christ better. He’s simple. He just listens to what you say. Watch coming to the platform. You’ll never see God turn a child down. He don’t do it. No, sir. Becaus...

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What did George J. Lacy say about whether the Light on the photograph could be psychology?

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I was with Brother Bosworth. It was the night the Angel of the Lord’s picture was taken. How many has got that picture now in your possession? Thank you. I’m sure it’ll be a great blessing to you. Here some time ago, there’s a lady at the hospital at the city I live. The picture was setting on the t...

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What does he say the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel has to do with the Church today?

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Then, in there he got a copyright from permitting the copyright to place this picture in there. The picture belongs to the Douglas Studios, not me. And—and then, in this picture, as I was saying a few moments ago, a woman in the hospital was looking at it, and was praying after her doctor told her s...

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How did Jesus answer Satan during the three temptations?

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Jesus said—never said, “Now, I have power to overcome you,” He said, “It’s written, man shall not live by bread alone,” the Father’s Words, see, “But by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Satan took Him up on the pinnacle and said, “If Thou be the Son of God…” Jesus said, “It is wr...

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What do demons look like to someone who sees them?

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Well, about three months before that… I told you, one night I was going to speak on “Demonology.” And I want to speak these next few minutes on “Demonology.” The next… I’m writing a book, if I can. You…I don’t know whether you’d be able to read it or not, but that—when I get it wrote, on Demonology:...

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What elements came out of Jesus body at Calvary, and what do they have to do with the new birth?

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For instance, like this: When Jesus died at Calvary, how many—what elements came from His body? Water, blood, Spirit. Is that right? Now, any minister, any believer knows that that’s what constitutes the new birth. Is that right? That constitutes the new birth, Saint John 7:5: “For there are three t...

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Are sicknesses like deafness, cancer and epilepsy caused by spirits?

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Now, let me just show you a simple thing, friend. You get the two magazines; read them yourself, both—both articles. Now, the first thing, that if I—if the two spirits, Jesus said, in the last days…’Course them demon spirits is arising; sure they are. They’ve always been here. They will be until Jes...

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What are the dimensions above and below the one mortals live in?

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Here’s a channel right here. I don’t tell this before people. I got a lot of secrecy in my own life, of course between God and I. But looky here. There’s a channel like this, and that’s where mortals live in here. In it’s a conglomeration of gaity, and blackness, and sin. And every once in a while,...

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How could the witch of Endor call up Samuel, and can someone who has died in Christ be called back now?

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Now this…Brother, I tell you; sometimes we need to be skinned down and rubbed a little bit to see where we’re standing. Don’t you think so? Make right, right. Any person…If those saints…Now, I’m not condemning Catholic saints. But look. The reason that the witch of Endor could call the spirit of Sam...

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Is believing in God enough to be saved?

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I told you the other night that Cain was a believer. And I’ll give you a little stronger meat than that tonight if you want to believe it. The devil is a believer. The Bible says he is. He believes and trembles. The devil is a believer. Now, if belief and faith in God is all you have to have to be s...

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In the parable of the net cast into the sea, what comes up besides fish?

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Here’s a Gospel preacher of…As like unto the Kingdom of heaven, a man went forth and cast the net into the sea, and when he drawed the net in, that’s the Gospel. And when he drawed it in, he had some fish in there. He had some crawfish in there. And he had some turtles in there. And he had some snak...

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What gives a devil a legal right to stay on a person no matter how hard people pray?

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In a few minutes, here they come back up the steps, tears streaming down their cheeks…Ah-ha, Satan lost his hold then. See? Now, there’s where it’s at. See? Now, that settled it. But as long as that sin was under there, no matter how loud you scream, how hard you stomp, how much oil you pour on, how...

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Is it true that God helps those who help themselves?

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And that’s the way tonight. Many of you here may seem like that your time of deliverance is way away. But sometime when it seems the farthest away, and the darkest of hour, that’s when you receive help from God. There’s an old God dishonoring proverb which says, “God helps those who help themself.”...

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What foundation can a person rest his faith on?

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Now, here it is. I want you to get it. How much more foundation could you place your faith on any level than the Word of God? What more could you put faith in? When He said, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.”… Then it is a fact that God’s Word is eternal. And the...

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How did Mary respond to the angel's word that she would have a child?

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And here it is. Listen, audience. The girl never questioned the Angel. It had never happened in all the world. Never had there be a baby borned virgin birth. And she didn’t question Him. She just took God at His Word. And immediately, she begin to rejoice, and begin to testify, telling the people th...

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Why was Jesus born in a stable rather than a house?

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Let’s look down along the line now, with a—with a mental vision. I see standing along the line, rich women with babies with little lace handwork garments, holding a lamb, a rich baby’s offering. Way down along the line, I see a little girl about eighteen years old with a veil over her face, poorly d...

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What did Jesus mean when He said believers would do greater works than He did?

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Now, if Jesus rose from the dead and is living in the church today, then He’ll do just the things that He did then, for, “The…” He said, “The things that I do shall you do also; and greater than this…” Not greater in quality, ’cause it couldn’t have been. He stopped nature, and raised the dead. “But...

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What did the lepers at the gate decide to do when they said, Why sit we here until we die?

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Look, there was some lepers laid at the gate. They said, “Why set we here till we die?” If they set there, they died; if they went in the city, they died. And they only had one chance, that was go down to the enemy’s camp. And said, “If they’ll save us, we live; but if they kill us, we die.”

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Can unconfessed sin keep a person from being healed?

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Now, if there’s something hanging over you, sin, and you don’t confess that, you could anoint that person, pray for them, do everything you want to do, it’ll…Satan will stay right there as long as you got unconfessed sin in your life. Or sometimes something that you haven’t done, something you negle...