Topic: Gifts of the Spirit

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Does having a gift of healing make a person a Divine healer?

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And now, many people on account of the—the newspapers and so forth, I’ve noticed that here, call me a Divine healer. Why, Christian friends, you know that’s wrong. I’m no Divine healer; I’m your brother. Now, there’s only One Healer, and that’s God. He’s the only One that heals. A gift of healing do...

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Is everyone foreordained to a gift or calling to minister?

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John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness said Isaiah. Is that true? Jeremiah, God told Jeremiah, “Before you were born from your mother’s womb, I knew of you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations,...

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How did Brother Branham come to have his Divine gift?

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Oh, no, friend. I—I’m your brother. And I’m telling you the truth, as my heart before God. If I’ve—if I’ve found grace in your sight, you believe me tonight as God’s prophet. As far as the Divine gift, that’s the truth. Here lays the Bible. It’s over my heart. With all my heart that’s the truth. See...

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Please explain First Corinthians 13:8-12. Now that the perfect Word is restored to the Church are—are these verses fulfilled?

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Now, I think I just went through that, didn’t I? “And when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away with.” Paul said, “Though I speak with tongue of man and angels, and I do all these things here…But when that which is perfect is come…” Now, is there anything perfect...

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If a person or persons speaking in unknown tongues in the same tone of voice each time, the same thing, but the interpretation is different by the interpreter each time, could that be the Holy Spirit? Now let me read that again. If a person or persons speaking in unknown tongues in the same tone of voice (in other words, just saying the same thing like certain-certain word over and over and over) each time, and the same thing each time, but the interpretation by the interpreter is different each time, could this be the Holy Ghost?

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Now, there is a stiff one, but let me shed just a little light on this if I can. And I’m sure you’ll understand that this is just Brother Branham trying to do my best, but let me just give this as my own personal experience of dealing with spiritual things. And I appreciate your confidence of asking...

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All right, Dear Brother Branham, time after time the Lord shows me things in dreams. He has showed me things about my son in the navy, which my son told me were “secrets”. He has showed me of people’s deaths and of the secrets of people’s hearts. Is this a gift from God? When He shows me in dreams the hearts and minds of people, everything has always turned out like the dream shows me.

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Why, yes, my brother or sister, whoever it may be. The Lord bless you. That is, to my opinion, the gift of God. It’s a gift of God. Don’t you know the Bible speaks of dreams? Joseph, how he dreamed dreams and interpreted, and how others dreamed dreams. Those things are of God. Now, if it’s of God, i...

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How does one know their rightful position in the Body of Christ?

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That’s a good one, very good, “How does…” That’d be the kind of question amongst many of us here tonight, “How do you rightfully know?” Now, I’m presuming that this brother wants to know “What position, what in Christ, what part of Christ do I play?” Now, for instance, I’d say like this, brother, t...

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Does he that…Does he at all times have control over the Spirit as to when and how to act?

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Yes, sir. Yes, sir, the Holy Spirit controls. Yes, sir. It has control of you and you have control of It, and It’ll never make you do anything contrary to the Scripture. It’ll make…“The Spirit does not misbehave Itself unseemingly.” That’s right. Okay. “From one who loves you…” Yeah, that’s—that’s...

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Paul said to the…Paul said to “Covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I you a more excellent way.” Please explain what the “excellent way” is.

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Love, First Corinthians 13, see. “Covet…” Get First…Now get First Corinthians 13 there, brother. First Corinthians, 13th chapter, and now just read the last three or four verses of it. First Corinthians 13, last…about the last three verses of the chapter—of the chap-…[A brother reads First Corinthia...

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Now: Brother Branham (it’s typewritten), is it Scripture for a person to speak in tongues and to interpret his own message? If so, please explain. First Corinthians or Corinthians 14:19 and also Corinthians 14:27.

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All right, let’s go over to that Scripture and see what it says. And then we’ll see whether we keep this Scriptural. We want to always be Scriptural. And Corinthians 14. Now, the person wants to know if it’s Scriptural for a man to interpret his own message that he spoke in tongues. “If so, explain...

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Now, the second question laying on top is…Brother Bill, can the Lord do effective work through me in a congregation where they do not believe in the spiritual gifts?

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No name on it, but the person wants to know if the Lord can work with them as they are officiated in a congregation that does not believe in spiritual gifts. I doubt it very much. I’m very much in doubt, dear friend, that the Lord could efficiently work through you, because you are linked up among...

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Are the gifts of the Spirit the same thing as the Holy Ghost?

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Now, it’s just like I think the gifts of the Spirit: the gifts of the Spirit is not the Holy Ghost; it’s the attributes of the Holy Ghost. See? Gifts of healing, speaking in tongues, and all those other things are attributes; it’s a fruit that the tree bears. See? The tree’s the main thing: the Holy...

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What did God set in the church, and what were those things given for?

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“God has set in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, teachers, gifts of healing, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues; all these for the edifying of the body.”

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Why did God set different gifts and offices in the church?

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In the church, God has set people in the church for different things. Some of them for teachers, apostles, prophets, gifts of healing, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and different gifts that He, God, has set them in the church as it pleased Him; all for one purpose: to edify the b...

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How can a person tell a gift of God from the devil's counterfeit?

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The Urim and Thummim was something that the lights flashed on a—on a breastplate of Aaron here over the twelve stones as the Urim and Thummim was over it. Now, the devil went and got a crystal ball to look into. See? The devil’s got a pattern of everything God has got. The Bible says so. Yes, sir. S...

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What is the sign of a believer?

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We say the…“Oh, here’s the sign of the believer: He goes to church. He’s a good man. He pays his debts.” That’s fine. I have nothing to say about that. He educates his children. That’s dandy. I have nothing to say about that. But that’s not the sign of a believer. Even to preach the Gospel is not th...

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How can you tell whether a gift a man claims is really from God?

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Now, a gift has to first be recognized to be in the Bible. And then if it’s in the Bible, and the man claims it, then if God confirms that gift, that it’s the truth, then he ought to believe that the man is true. But if God—God doesn’t testify of that gift…Hebrews 11:2 said, “God testifies of His gi...

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Which comes first, God's Word or what God speaks through a servant's gift?

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Come to God sincerely. Don’t doubt nothing. Have faith in God. Now, when God shows, God will do. What God says, God’s under obligation to His Word. Now, Christian friends, this is first. This is God’s Word. Any kind of a ministry that’s built upon anything else besides This, is in error. That’s God’...

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What does 'gifts and callings are without repentance' mean?

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Moses, when he was born, he was borned a proper child. God had him brought here. Moses had nothing to do with it. Is that right? John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:4, God told Jeremiah, said, “Be...

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How does Brother Branham's gift differ from that of a preacher or a musician?

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If I tell Brother Reed here, “You go tell a certain man a certain thing,” that would be me sending a message, and some of us are born, friends, to be preachers, Brother Reed, many others. Some of us are born to be musicians. I noticed that young lady tonight, beating on those things there, xylophone...