Topic: Marriage & family

Question

Please explain the meanings of the Scripture, and when it will come to pass: Isaiah 4 and 1. Thanks. All right. We’ll just turn over now…You people that’s got your Bibles and wants to, we’ll see what…I didn’t get a chance to look this up, but I thought maybe we’d find some kind of a answer. Here we are. And in…(Oh, yes!) And it shall come…And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, and shall say, We will eat our own bread, and will wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Answer

Well, brother, it’s pretty near that bad now. What a falling away has happened to our country! Let me say this, my dear Christian friends. Let me say this with godly respects to everyone: If there ever was…And you people here who’s studied history, we’re right on the same road that every fine nation...

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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?

Answer

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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Which commandment is the first one with a promise attached to it?

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They got such a word today, they say, “The old man and the old woman.” One of these days, when a squeaking casket is going out the door, and they’re going out head first, and you look down to see your mother or dad at the last time you’ll ever see them on this earth, you’ll realize it’s not the “old...

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Whose faith counts when a baby is too young to have faith of its own?

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Believe that, well you watch the baby and see if it’s not right. “In My Name they shall cast out devils.” That baby’s too little to have faith. It has to have our faith. And I know with love to God, then in love, and faith accompanies love, and when those two meet together, something has to happen....

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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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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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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 did Brother Branham say about young people calling their parents 'the old man' and 'the old woman'?

Answer

And look, young children, young folks, I don’t care what it is; you always have a respect to your father and mother. I think one of the awfulest things that I can hear little children say, or young folks, “the old man” and “old woman.” Listen. That’s not the “old man” and “old woman”; that’s your da...

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What did Brother Branham think about young people marrying young?

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And so I remember one day we were getting mar…When they were young, when I was just a little bitty fellow…Daddy was eighteen years old; mama was fifteen when I was born, just children. And we was children with them, growed up with them. I think that’s a good thing. I do. My little girl, when she get...

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What causes juvenile delinquency?

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You go to homes today, I’ve went into Christian homes, when they open the icebox and it would be full of beer cans, supposed to be Christian home. Christians don’t fool with that stuff…?…We’ve traded the old-fashioned prayer altar out of the house, and made a card table out of it. That’s what’s got...

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What happens to a baby that dies before the age of accountability?

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I’ll say this by the authority of God’s Word. Every baby that’s under the age of accountability, dies, goes to glory. Yes, sir. Christ died to take away the sin of the world. And when you come to the age of accountability…We were all born in sin. But when He died, He taken away the sin. And when you...