Topic: Household & Christian conduct

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What should you do if a pastor or prophet tells you something contrary to what God told you?

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Now, look. Some of these, this going on around…You always seek the face of God. And I don’t care who tells you anything contrary to what God tells you, don’t you believe it, and you obey God. Will you do it? I don’t care who he is, how righteous he is, how much of a pastor he is, how much of a preac...

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Does the Bible call it the 'highway of holiness' or the 'way of holiness'?

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No, every one of them that says that, rushes to the hospital as hard as they can when they get sick. They get out here in an accident, and break their leg, or something another, away to the hospital right quick. First thing you know, as soon as they get a little cramp in their stomach, call the doct...

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What should you do when others disagree with what God has told you to do?

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Now, He may never deal with you like that in that manner. I was born to this end, as a different person. I guess I’ve been odd and misunderstood. Your life might not be like that, but this one thing I do know. You do what God tells you to do. Don’t pay any attention to what anybody else says; you do...

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What happened to the prophet in 1 Kings 13 who obeyed another prophet instead of God?

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You remember one time where there was a—a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, and God told him what to do. And He said, “Don’t eat or drink, nor it…” First Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, “The Lord said to come back here.” And he minded the prophet in the ste...

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Does what a person reads show what kind of person they are?

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Let me see what you read. Let me go in your office, in your house, and see what you read, I will about tell you what you are. That’s right. See, everything to its nature. And you keep the Bible laying close for your children, read It yourself, be an example. That’s what I didn’t have in my younger l...

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How should young people speak of their mother and father?

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Look, it’s true. You’ve read my life story out there. My dad did drink, but I don’t care what he done, he’s still my daddy. And let me tell you something, young folks, this afternoon. Don’t you never get little enough to call your mother and dad “the old man and woman.” You don’t never do that, no m...

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What slogan did Brother Branham write in the back of his Bible about smoking and drinking?

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I made a little, put a little slogan in the back of my Bible. I picked it up here a few days ago, was looking at it, a little bitty old Bible. I said, Don’t ask me foolish questions, Just make this up in your mind, If you love the Lord with all your heart, You don’t smoke, chew, or drink any ’shine.

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Should a young man blow the horn for a girl to come out to him?

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I knowed better than to blow the horn. I know her mother and dad would both be out on me. And I think that’s right. Well that’s cheap for you boys to go up and blow the horn for the girl to come out. If you don’t think enough of her to go in and talk to her, and bring her out, and talk to her mother...

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What makes a house a home?

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I say, “I don’t know.” Home is the not the house, it’s the order of the house that makes the home. That’s what makes home. No matter if it is a shanty, whatever it is, if—if the order is right on the inside, and godly, it’s more of a home than if you had a palace somewhere. I’d rather live in a shan...

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Who was the first woman to use makeup, and what happened to her?

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But there King Ahab had went down and married this little queen, or little princess, and she was a idolater. He married out of the—out of the covenant. And when he did it, brought trouble into Israel. And she torn down. Boy, she was a spitfire, my, if there ever was one. Maybe a beautiful girl, beau...

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Is a person blessed just for hungering after righteousness?

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Now, when this meeting’s closed, you’ll go out somewhere, and somebody say, “Well, I’ll tell you. I got that figured out. See? Now, that was a mind reading. That was this, that, or the other.” And the devil will rob everything away from you that God has given you. What you do when you got it in your...

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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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Are the Scriptures meant to be argued over?

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And I said, “Now, I won’t argue,” because the Scriptures are not to argue, They are to be lived. That’s—that’s, you live me a sermon. That’s the best thing. I’d rather see one lived, than I would to hear one preached. Wouldn’t you? Live a sermon. “You’re written epistles, read of all men.”

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What does a longing in the human heart for more of God indicate?

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Here, before there was a—a fin on a fish’s back…You here you have much fish that gets along these bays here. Look, before there was a fin on a fish’s back there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had that fin. See, God put that fin on him to swim in the water, so there h...

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Who are the scoffers the Bible says will come in the last days?

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Now, tonight, the Holy Spirit is in His Church to fulfill what the New Testament said that would come to pass in the last days. And you see the people on the street and around who criticize and say, “Those things are not right.” Just feel sorry for them. For that is the people…maybe…There’s got to b...

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What is a Christian's greatest weapon?

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Now, there’s a perfect way and a permissive way. And I feel that if God, here on the platform, can show me things that has been, and in my rooms and so forth, He’s able to tell me just where He wants me and what He wants me to do. But I feel as long as I’ve got it all hooked up, or I—I feel like the...

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What does Brother Branham tell young people about how they treat their parents?

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And young people here, you don’t know what a good friend you got in your mother and dad until they’re gone. When they’re gone, then you really know who they were. And I heard many, the children these days say, “The old man and old woman.” Oh, my, don’t never do that. You—you don’t realize who that i...

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What should you do when someone, even a prophet, says the Lord wants something other than what God told you?

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Now, I never forget; trouble started when…My father took sick, died on my arm just a little bit after that. My brother was riding on the side of a car, fifteen years old. The man that he was hitchhiking and picked him up, was drinking, hit his head up side of a post, broke his neck, turned his liver...

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Did Jesus dress differently from other men of His day?

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Now, let’s look what kind of a group that was: of lame, halt, blind, withered. What a—a mass of disfigured humanity, waiting for the troubling of this water. Historians tell us that they’d even fight to get into the water, cut each other with knives to try to get ahead of the other one, to step in t...

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What does 'the deep calleth to the deep' mean?

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Now, the Bible said…I believe David said, “When the deep calleth to the deep…” Now, if there’s a—a deep a calling, there’s a deep to respond to it somewhere. Do you believe that? In other words like this, as I’ve often said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water first for...