Topic: Obedience

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Please explain Exodus the 24th…the 4th chapter and 24th verse. What does this Scripture mean—that God aimed to kill Moses or his son? And why?

Answer

We know where that’s at, Exodus 4:24. That’s a good question. Now, here we’ll read it right here just a moment. Exodus 4 and 24: And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. How many remembers the story? Now, God gave Abraham, generations before Moses, th...

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What should a person do when a preacher or prophet tells them something contrary to what God has told them?

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I say this with reverence brother, if you want to get in trouble, just mess with a preacher. You sure get in trouble. So that’s right. Now, they’re God’s servants. They have to be a little suspicious and things. But, brother, I’ve had more trouble of preachers getting me out of the will of God then...

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What happened to Moses when he struck the rock instead of speaking to it?

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Do you realize that a—a gift of that type could send your soul to hell. How many believes Moses was a prophet? How many believes he disobeyed God? Certainly. God said, “Go down there and speak to the rock.” Don’t smite it no more; it’s already been smitten once. That was Christ. Is that right? And M...

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What did the man born blind do to receive his sight?

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What a marvelous occasion. A man born blind, Jesus opened his eyes. And then the people didn’t believe, it and they was questioning him, what he did about it. He only did what Jesus told him to do. And if any person will do what Jesus tells them to do, he will receive just what you have need of, if...

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What must a person die to in order to have Life?

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Jesus had to die to produce Eternal Life. And now, listen closely, Christian friends. Unless you die to yourself and your feelings, and act on God’s Word, you’ll never have Life. Forget your feelings; just take what God said. And plant that seed into that life of your own death, or your own death, a...

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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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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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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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Why did Jesus spit on mud and put it on a man's eyes?

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Jesus went and spit on some mud and made a little cake and put it on a man’s eyes. He didn’t have to do that. Do you believe that? He…?…another man’s ears and spit and touched His tongue. And He had…He didn’t have to do that. It was for some symbol. Is that right? Naaman was suppose to dip seven tim...

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What did Brother Branham say started the sorrows in his life?

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And—and there, friends, is where my sorrows started. I listened to my mother-in-law in the stead of God. He was giving me the opportunity. And there this gift would’ve been manifested long time ago, if I’d just went ahead and done what God told me to do. But instead of that, I didn’t want her to be...

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Is it wrong to disobey God out of sympathy for people?

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And then the following Sunday I come right on down here. That was on Friday. And Sunday I come here, and not knowing what part of the Scripture…I never get to read in the Bible, but I got the 22nd chapter of the book of Numbers, and in there I begin to speak on the prophet Balaam, got up to his part...