Topic: Household & Christian conduct

Question

How should young people treat their father and mother?

Answer

And young people, remember. If you’re fortunate enough today to have a daddy and a mother living, love them, honor them. The hour will come when you’ll think they’re the greatest people in the world, if you don’t now. And don’t never, little fellows, don’t never give this slandering word, “old man,”...

Question

What does happiness consist of?

Answer

But friends, it was just as paradise on earth. We had each other. I’d become converted in that time, become a minister, and was preaching, and I loved the Lord with all my heart, and we loved one another. And that’s all we cared for. And listen. Happiness does not consist of how much the world’s goo...

Question

Brother Branham, please explain how a person knows if he is thinking his own thoughts, or if the devil is placing thoughts in his mind to make him think wrong, especially, if you know you do not want to think them.

Answer

Then, if it’s contrary to the Word, it’s the devil’s thinking. If it’s with the Word, it’s God thinking. If it’s the wrong thoughts, it’s the devil. If it’s good thoughts of the Word and of God, it’s God’s thinking.

Question

If the case may be that the devil is placing thoughts in your mind about a certain thing, how may it be overcome or got rid of?

Answer

Take the very vice versa from it. If the devil makes you think that—that—that you are…If you know you’re a Christian, and he tries to make you think you’re not a Christian, just take the versa, say, “I am a Christian.” As long as your experience matches in God’s Word say, “I’m a Christian.” Anything...

Question

When a person realizes he has an inferior complex, or some sort of complex, how may he overcome this? So, should it be if he was the only child caused this in his early youth?

Answer

Take exactly the opposite. If you’re always wanting your way, and that one little brat that wants to always have everything your way, turn right back around and give everything you got the other way. If you’re selfish and you want to hold everything, then start giving away what you got. See? Do what...

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Brother Branham, what achievement should we let our pre-teenage children participate in? (I beg your pardon, it’s…) What activities should our preteen children anticipate, participate in. Also, how should we go about helping them select their associates?

Answer

Keep them in Christian company as long as you possibly can. Keep them with…If it’s a girl, keep her with Christian girls; Christian boys, vice versa. If she’s old enough to go with a boy, see that she keeps with the right kind of a boy. Discourage her to any boy otherwise, or boy to a girl. If she’s...

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Remember hearing you tell of seeing a pitiful sight of an angel…of a eagle beating its wings in a cage, struggle to get free. I have a precious mother in that position. She has not been allowed to have her three married children come home for three years, because they won’t be subject to their dad’s doctrine. He’s a denominational preacher. Mother wants to hear this end time Message, and I can’t even get a letter through to her. To what degree is she to be subject to? Is there anything I can do besides pray?

Answer

That would be the only thing I would know. Her husband, being a minister, won’t let her hear the Word. She wants to hear It, but he won’t permit her to hear It, and just pray for her. I believe the woman is—is saved, of course.

Question

Brother Branham, when some of…someone gets on me or “steps on my toes (This might be a good one.)—steps on my toes,” as the old saying is, my temper rises; how can I overcome this thing? I know the Lord will have to do it, but what can I do in my heart? I don’t want this thing.

Answer

Sweeten your temper with prayer, then make up your mind. There…I don’t guess there is too many people in this building ever had any more temper than I did to begin with. Oh, I—I had a mouth mashed all the time. And I—I—I’d taken a lot of my meals out of a straw. My mother, as you know, was a half I...

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Why is it that we make so much of a big issue of women’s dress (Oh, oh, I’m getting it on this one, ain’t I?)—big issue of women’s dressing and cutting of hair, and do…nothing said about the hair of the man or the way he dresses?

Answer

Well, sister, I’m going to agree with you one thing. First place, the Bible said that a man should not have long hair. And if he had long hair, I’d tell him, just the same as I tell you. He’s wrong. But most men, lot of them’s like me, don’t have any at all. But most men cut their hair, look like me...

Question

Brother Branham, is it wrong to grow—to grow and work in tobacco? I don’t believe I got that.

Answer

Now, I’m against tobacco. I’m against the use of tobacco; any born again Christian will be; that’s all, because it’s wrong. We know that even the medical science say that’s what starts most of throat and—and lung cancer, is—is tobacco. They say, “Smoke filtered cigarettes.” Now, to you men and wome...

Question

What…Would you endorse birth control?

Answer

No, I can’t endorse it. No, sir. See?

Question

Brother Branham, the Bible tells us that a—a wife should obey her husband. I am a Christian and my husband is a sinner. He persecutes me in every way that he can, and for me not to go to church, and read my Bible, and—and denies the Word. What should I do?

Answer

What should you do? Now, listen, you’re supposed to obey your husband; that’s the Word. Now, if he tells you and refuses you to read the Bible, go to church, or something like that, you don’t have to obey that, because, “He that will—won’t forsake his father, mother, husband, wife, or whatever it is...

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Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet play…or stay with the Word (That’s)—stay—stay with the Word, but still having a question like this said: “Why don’t you practice what you preach or believe?”

Answer

Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when she’s…has a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if she—if she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, “It was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than eve...

Question

We—we were married twenty-one years ago by the justice of the peace. Was—was it wrong?

Answer

Yes, it was wrong for you to do that. Marriage belongs in the house of God. But being that you are married, here’s when you are really married: you’re married when you vow one to the other, when you promise one another that you’re…that you’ll take one another. The justice of peace could give you lic...

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When they cut it in…Is long—is long hair when they cut it in front? (Now, wait a minute, let me get this here.) Is long hair when they…

Answer

Well, I—I…Maybe they mean this: “Is it long hair any longer when they cut it in front?” Not any longer, they’ve cut it off. See? But like the man that had the trousers cut them off three times and still too short. What say? What say? [Someone speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh, that’s what they’re ta...

Question

My husband and I don’t see alike on the Bible, the Truths, like this Truth that you preach. He doesn’t understand. Should I go with him to churches when I don’t believe their teaching? I’m very troubled about this.

Answer

Yes! If you are a wife to this husband, and he don’t condemn you, you don’t—you mustn’t condemn him (see?), because the husband is sanctified by the wife. See? And I believe, if he goes to some denominational church or something like that, he wants you to go down there with him…You see? If you don’t...

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Brother Branham, please explain First Corinthians—First Corinthians 11—11, and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a (s-e-…) separate—separate (c-o-…) covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need?

Answer

Get me First Corinthians 11. Let’s see, First Corinthians 11:4. It says, “When praying…” Oh, yeah, he…They got it here. They say, “In praying or prophesying, can we take our hair—can we…” Let’s see, they got a line drawed through something here. When prophesying—when prophesying, can we take our hai...

Question

How do you feel about birth control?

Answer

I had some of that on the interviews this morning. I’d rather talk personally with—with you on those things (see?), on those things there, ’cause there’s words and things that I have to say, that I…I’d rather say it if the husband and wife… And there is a possibility of it being done in the right w...

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I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v-…and they believe this Message. They…denominations, (That’s right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received…What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Answer

Hold your stand! Absolutely. Show your colors. That’s it; don’t give into them. No, sir! I don’t say, don’t go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can’t eat with a buzzard.

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Brother Branham, was it of God, or was it of my own doings when the things that took place, when (t-e-…) tempted…? Was that…? (See if you can make that out. It’s good writing, but my education is poor. What does it say there? …?…I—I don’t believe I can answer that. Brother Capps or I can’t make out…Said,) Was it…? (Unless it—it was…if it was a nurse. Something about nursing.) Was it of God when I stopped nursing, or was it my fault?

Answer

I wouldn’t know. I’d rather see that on private interview. See? Now, nursing is a legitimate thing, just as a nurse. I’d say…Now, the person never…I didn’t throw that back just to say not to answer it, ’cause that means just as much to that woman as your question means to you or mine to me. See? But...