Topic: Miracles, signs and wonders

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Can every son of God be so anointed till he can do miracles, signs, wonders, or is this just…is this at the directions of the Holy Ghost?

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Yes, it is at the directions of the Holy Ghost. If you are a son of God, or a daughter of God, whatever you are, when you have received the Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit directs you to do things. I don’t have time. I just wish I could tell you little stories. Every time I think of it, just have...

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Dear prophet of God, Saint Mark 16:18, I…part of laying hands on the sick…I’m around snake handlers. What about it?

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Well, that’s a good question. If you’re around snake handlers, and they say Mark 16…Certainly! I believe that the Bible means just what It says. I believe if we try to tempt the Lord into something, we’re in for it. But I don’t think that God means for you to bring me a bottle of arsenic and see if...

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Dear Brother Branham, is it possible for one to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and not to have the signs following, at—at least not until the…some future time and conditions appointed by the Spirit?

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Now, that might sound like a mixed-up question, but that’s a good one, very good. See? Now, here gives me a little chance, that I find that’s working with my—my family here now (see?), I mean you, my family, and the family out in the world where we…where our tapes go. Now, a great part of my congre...

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Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming?

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Yes. See, friend, I—I—I am not a theologian. I am not a theologian; therefore, I have to teach all that I know about the Bible from shadows and types. You kind of call me a typologist. But if I can look on that wall, and I’ve never seen myself; and I look, and I can see that I got a head, and ears,...

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Dear Brother Branham: Do you believe that signs should follow all who have the Holy Spirit? Jesus said so, Mark 16. If so, what about the people who believe the Message with all that is in them, yet they have not these signs? Are they unbelievers or do they need the Holy Spirit? If so, please instruct us today, how to receive the Holy Ghost. We believe you are God’s mouthpiece for our day. Your brother.

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Thank you, my brother, for regarding me as your—your brother, and I think that that’s a very good question. Friends, yes, it is a little slack. I’d like to deal a little bit longer on that if I could. See? It is slack. Look! Some of you…See? When, you cannot receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost wit...

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What did Jesus mean in Saint Matthew 16:9 and 10? What do the twelve baskets and the seven baskets represent? Question for Sunday morning.

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Let’s see—let’s see, Matthew 16:10. I’m not too sure just now. Let me get where it’s at, Matthew 16:9 and 10—16:9 and 10. Here we are. Do you not…understand, neither remember the five loaves or the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves or the four thousand, and ho...

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At what point do people usually get desperate enough to really pray and get right with God?

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And that’s the way it is, if they don’t…If you’re not interested in God, you can’t talk God to people; but whenever they get hungering and thirsting after righteousness, God said “They shall be filled.” But first there has to be a hunger and thirst. You have to really want it. Just like healing, if...

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What is the difference between teaching the Word and preaching the Gospel?

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Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to ever nation.” Now, listen to see whether that’s right or not. Preach the Gospel to ever nation. That’s the United States and to all the world, and “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damn...

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What did a Mohammedan say Christians would have to show before he would believe Jesus rose from the dead?

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And said the Mohammedan said, “Kind sir, what can your resurrected Lord do any more for me than what my dead prophet can?” Said, “My dead prophet promised life after death,” and said, “so did your Lord.” He said, “They both wrote books. We believe them.” Well, Dr. Reidhead said, “We have happy and j...

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Is raising the dead psychology?

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Jesus one time had congregation like that, took a man by the hand and led him outside the city. Is that right? He went into another place where they was all crying and weeping and going on. He said, “Give place. The girl is not dead. She’s asleep.” Why, they laughed at Him, made fun of Him. And He p...

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Who does Mark 16 say will cast out devils?

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But there’s one thing that I’ve always thought about. That God, by the power of His death at Calvary, has given to the church power to cast out evil spirits. Because Mark 16 said, “In My Name they shall cast out…” (Not, “I will”; “They will.”) “In My Name they shall cast out devils.” Is that right?...

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What did Jesus mean when He said believers would do greater works than He did?

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Now, if Jesus rose from the dead and is living in the church today, then He’ll do just the things that He did then, for, “The…” He said, “The things that I do shall you do also; and greater than this…” Not greater in quality, ’cause it couldn’t have been. He stopped nature, and raised the dead. “But...

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How many people did Jesus raise from the dead during His ministry?

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Jesus Christ only raised three in His entire life, to show that a witness of three is to be established. Is that right? In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Then God is living in His people today, because back there when Jesus came into Jerusalem, there was a great...

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What was the first commission Jesus gave, and what was the last?

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Jesus said, after He was risen from the dead, He said, when He ris…or…He said this, “The things that I do, shall you do also.” That would be a mark of the people, believers. And we seen what He done. Then He said, “I’ll be with you, even to the end of the world.” And the last commiss—first commissio...

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What was the difference between Moab and Israel when both offered the same sacrifices to the same God?

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So what was the difference? Now, here you are. Get it. God, if it comes to being fundamental, if that’s all God requires, He would be unjust if He didn’t recognize both of them. That’s right. If Scripturally fundamentalism is all that God requires, Moab was just as fundamental as Israel, offering th...

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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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What is the purpose of Divine healing in the ministry?

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Tonight, I promised you I was going to talk about a—a Gospel subject and…See, Divine healing is…that’s the bait that’s on the hook. As I said the other night, you don’t never show the fishy the—the hook, you show him the bait. Uh-huh. And so we…That’s what Divine healing…Jesus Christ, about eighty p...

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What two signs did God give Moses to prove He had sent him?

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People, you ought to believe. When the prophet, Moses, went down, he didn’t have to go down and show his sign. God told him He’d give him two signs to prove that He had sent him. That was, Divine healing, was one, and another one, was to perform a miracle. Is that right?

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What does the little boy who gave Jesus what he had teach about faith?

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My, I can imagine seeing that, just in a drama way I can draw it in my mind. I can see the little fellow…Now, as long as the little boy had, what he had wasn’t very much, he could hardly feed himself with that. But once what he had he gave to Jesus, Jesus fed five thousand. You may not have very muc...

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When Jesus said 'These things that I do shall you also, and greater', greater in what way?

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And of course, as always has been my theme, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His present attitude hasn’t changed from what it was at that day. Now, as each night we have people coming into our services who has…probably newcomers. And in the forepart of the meeting we had...