Topic: Missions and witnessing

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...

Question

Brother Branham, is—is it too late to preach to sinners anymore?

Answer

No! No! Don’t get that in your mind, brother. Keep on building on the house. Keep doing everything you can. Just keep on going till you’re called away. See?

Question

Is it too late for jail services and such work for a testimony to try to save souls? Also should one sell all they have now, the Lord is coming so soon?

Answer

Well, how—how do you…I hope I haven’t said anything that would cause you to believe such as that. Have I? If I have, forgive me! I don’t mean…See? Don’t just presume those things. Keep right on going, preaching, having jail service, getting everybody, and don’t… Looky here. The Seventh Day Adventis...

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Should or should not a local church take care of her own, of her—her local (own) responsibilites before taking care of foreign needs in other lands? However, after she…her…After she meets her needs, it is Scriptural for a local church to help in missionary work as she is able?

Answer

Yeah. Right. Charity begins at home, you see. We—we—we take care of our own needs here, ’cause we’d have…this is the church of God, or ever, your little church, the church of God. Now, if you can’t even pay your pastor, you can’t even get song books and things, you shouldn’t be sending it somewhere...

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Do you think it is right for women to do personal work outside the church?

Answer

Yes. That’s just a question, just a…not a scriptural question, but…Certainly, I do. Yes, sir, we’re all workers together. Women have their places, and certainly they do. Yes, sir. Just do all the personal work you can do, and God will bless you for it. All right, now let’s see:

Question

If two-thirds of the people of the world heard…not heard the Gospel yet, the Word of the Gospel, how much did the… Beg your pardon. It’s wrote with ink, and I’ve been perspiring here and it’s run into it. Let’s see. If two-thirds of the people of the world has not yet heard the Gospel, how can our Lord come now, being they hadn’t heard the Gospel, two-thirds of them? Well, that’s exactly right. I’ll tell you what I think.

Answer

Here not long ago, when Dr. Reidhead, the President of the Sudan Mission, the greatest full…the greatest apostolic…No, I beg your pardon. The greatest fundamental mission in the world, the Sudan Mission. Dr. Reidhead, with so many degrees till he didn’t even know how many degrees was upon him, come...

Question

Was the commission to heal the sick and cast out devils given only to the apostles?

Answer

Maybe there would be someone who wouldn’t believe in Divine healing. I wonder what you’d think of this: the first commission that Jesus gave the Church was to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out devils, freely as you receive, freely give. The first commission was ever give to...

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

Answer

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 does Brother Branham do with the love offerings given to him?

Answer

And now—and last night, or yesterday afternoon, rather, or it’s last night it was, they taken in the meeting here, a love offering for me. I want to thank you. I’m not worthy that you should give it to me. I didn’t think about it until last night when they brought the—to me and said, “Here’s the lov...

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What did Brother Branham do with money beyond what he needed to live on?

Answer

What I do with money, the reason that I don’t own a big tent, or have places like that: I spend every penny of money, God Who is my solemn Judge knows that everything that I don’t have to have to live on, I put it in foreign missions, and go over to the heathen lands to preach the Gospel to the heat...

Question

How can a person be a witness to the resurrection of Christ?

Answer

So, therefore, no man can exactly witness to the resurrection of Christ, only by the Holy Spirit. You have to be a personal witness, yourself; being there, knowing something about it, knowing what you’re talking about.

Question

Has God ever been without a witness on the earth?

Answer

God has never been without a witness. He has always…Now here I want you to get this real close. God has never, at any time, been without a witness on earth. He has always had at least one man He could put His hands on, say, “That’s My witness.” It’s come down to one man, one time; and Job was His on...

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Does a person need theology or education to be a genuine witness?

Answer

Listen. We found out that an ecclesiastical shield won’t fit a man of God. That’s right. All your theology won’t fit the Power of God. You don’t need theology. You don’t need education. What you need is a surrendered heart, to the Word of God, to be a genuine witness.