Topic: Love and mercy

Question

I have a friend who I love very much. She has had some tapes and letters that I believe that have…never talked to her. Really, I guess I am afraid of destroying her and losing her as a friendship. What should I do?

Answer

Speak to her in love. I don’t…I believe I answered that, but I—I’d…Don’t—don’t try to push anything on anybody. Just be salty; they’ll long to be like you. Brother, sister, I believe I’ve answered these. Brother Branham, please explain about the five foolish virgins. I—I know I got that one. It’s wr...

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Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I’m glad I got this one.) We watch and pray…We watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy. Now, that’s the first question, you got two.

Answer

“Is mercy over?” Don’t never think that! See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you’re taken away. See? “We notice in the prayer line somes finds mercy.” Sure! Mercies, the doors are open. See? I think where you got this, this thought might lay between…See, I don’t have time to give...

Question

Dear Brother Branham, approximately ten years ago God met me now and healed what the gift of love, or, revealed what the gift of love was, and same then my prayer is for…that I will return. Will I receive it before I die? Will my husband hear the Word, and what am I to do?

Answer

That’s more of a question. Now, she said…Now, what it is here, or who…she said, “My husband,” so I suppose it would have to be the woman that said this. Now, she lost her first love. See? She—she got cold in the Spirit. Now, Sister, maybe ’cause you still come to church and do what’s right, you have...

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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.

Answer

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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What does God always do before He sends judgment?

Answer

Then when Jesus…About the time that God was going to do something…Before God does anything He always sends mercy before judgment. He always sends warning. And when man won’t heed the warning, there’s only one thing left, that’s judgment. That’s right. “If you die in your sins, where I am you cannot...

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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 does Brother Branham say is the greatest evidence of a Christian?

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And, Christian friends I’m as sincere as I know how to be before Him, because some of these people it’s somebody’s mother. Here perhaps stands someone’s mother now. What if that was my mother, and some man was praying for my mother? I’d sure want him to be sincere. I’d sure want him to do…And as I d...

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Does God do anything to warn the world before judgment comes?

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Now, Jesus in His birth, He was marvelous, but when He came to the world, He came here with a illegitimate background hanging over Him, because they said that His—His father was Joseph, and the child was—the mother was to be with a child before they were really legally married. So that begin with Hi...

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How does a person serve God?

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I’ve always knowed this and I found this in my life of ministry. If you’ll…If you want to serve God, serve His people. That’s how we serve. As we love one another, we love God. And I love His people, and I’m doing all that I know how to try to represent our Lord Jesus Christ to them in a way of His...

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What should someone do who thinks they have crossed the separating line?

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I just want to say, there’s so many people passing through here that’s suffering with mental oppression, demon manifestation, but oppression: Satan. I seen a vision break before me of a young lady. She went back there, and set down a few minutes ago, that thinks she’s crossed the separating line. Do...

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What can Satan not copy?

Answer

A tree might have sycamore bark on it, but if it’s a bearing apples, it’s a apple tree. That’s right. It’s a apple tree because the sap, the life on the inside of the apple—of that sycamore tree is changed to apple trees life and bearing apples, in a kind of a… No matter what outward demonstration y...

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Would Brother Branham rather have the gifts or the love of God?

Answer

After all, I’d rather have the love of God sealed in my heart than all the gifts there is in the Bible. That’s right. I thought of that here a few nights ago. My little girl called me, and I told her…She wanted me to come home to her. She loves me, oh, my. And so I—I…She’s…I told her I sent her a li...

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What does God send before He sends judgment?

Answer

We were talking this afternoon. Brother Lindsay looked over to me. We’ve been together for four years, and I never heard that tone of voice. The Spirit of God must have said it, or I caught it in that way. Said, “Brother Branham,” he said, “with a measure of time,” said, “I’ve said for a long time:...