Topic: Organizations & denominations

Question

Remember hearing you tell of seeing a pitiful sight of an angel…of a eagle beating its wings in a cage, struggle to get free. I have a precious mother in that position. She has not been allowed to have her three married children come home for three years, because they won’t be subject to their dad’s doctrine. He’s a denominational preacher. Mother wants to hear this end time Message, and I can’t even get a letter through to her. To what degree is she to be subject to? Is there anything I can do besides pray?

Answer

That would be the only thing I would know. Her husband, being a minister, won’t let her hear the Word. She wants to hear It, but he won’t permit her to hear It, and just pray for her. I believe the woman is—is saved, of course.

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My husband and I don’t see alike on the Bible, the Truths, like this Truth that you preach. He doesn’t understand. Should I go with him to churches when I don’t believe their teaching? I’m very troubled about this.

Answer

Yes! If you are a wife to this husband, and he don’t condemn you, you don’t—you mustn’t condemn him (see?), because the husband is sanctified by the wife. See? And I believe, if he goes to some denominational church or something like that, he wants you to go down there with him…You see? If you don’t...

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I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v-…and they believe this Message. They…denominations, (That’s right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received…What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Answer

Hold your stand! Absolutely. Show your colors. That’s it; don’t give into them. No, sir! I don’t say, don’t go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can’t eat with a buzzard.

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Brother Branham, should we go to the other churches even when they disagree with you?

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Sure, yep! Jesus did when they disagreed with Him. Go ahead. We notice here, says, “Should we go to another church that disagrees with you?” Sure, I don’t…I’m not the only pebble on the beach, you know. There’s—there’s just other godly men everywhere; I hope I’m one of them. See? But don’t never get...

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If one is in an association organization by our government, and can speak the dictates of his own heart, or in the last-day’s Truth, will he be termed as one of the “harlots”?

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Let’s see. “If one in the association organization is…?” Well, see, the association organization; the—the organization, it’s given rights by the government, to speak. See, that don’t have anything to do with his heart. See? Now, if he is a real believer, and born of the Spirit of God, sometime or ot...

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Now: When we’re…When we live far from here to attend…We live too far from here to attend the tabernacle. Where do you recommend we attend, assembly ourselves together, seeing that the churches are after the mother church, or, Catholicism?

Answer

My dear brother or sister, whoever wrote it, I wouldn’t tell you what church to attend. But what I would do, this, my brother, sister, I…If you haven’t got the baptism of the Holy Spirit, see, well, you get the baptism of the Holy Spirit and then you go to some congregation where there’s other peopl...

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Is the Apostles Creed found in the Bible?

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We got today the Apostle’s Creed. I challenge that to the Bible. There is no such a thing as Apostle’s Creed. If there’s any Apostle’s Creed in the Bible, it’s found in Acts where He said, “Repent every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. You shall...

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What did Martin Luther and John Wesley each preach, and what happened to their movements afterward?

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Well, that Fire was hid for a while through the dark ages. But the first one saw that Pillar of Fire was Martin Luther. He sounded the trumpet, and come out of the Catholic church. And the first thing you know, it caused a great universal revival. All right. Then the next thing you know, Martin Luth...

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Are Christians who differ from one another and attend different churches still brethren?

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Now, let them both come. We want to have unity in God’s people. They must have it, friends. We are brethren. We might different one from another, but we’re still brothers. The brother next to me is tall, light-headed, heavyset, big, chunky-built, pugilist-type boy. But my mother setting out there is...

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What happens to a church when it fails to see the power of God?

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Let me tell you something right now. God never did fool with an organization. He never did and never will. No, sir. Every… I’ll—I’ll just call any historian’s attention right now. There never has been a church in all the ages that every…failed…when they failed to see the power of God, and get the mi...

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What did Brother Branham mean by 'what the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten'?

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What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten. What the Baptist left, the Presbyterian eaten. What the Presbyterian left, the Pentecost eaten. Till it’s got to a place, God…Why, you stripped the tree of everything it’s got. All the power, all the joy, al...

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Does God work through church organizations?

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God never did deal with organizations. God deals with men. The Holy Ghost never fell on organizations, it fell on men. It’s right. Notice, the first organized church was the mother church, the Catholic church. And the rest of them are offsprings from her. Now, but the word “church” means “called out...

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Why did the Pharisees fail to recognize Jesus?

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Oh, my. No wonder you can’t believe. It’s no wonder you can’t believe. Quit asking Dr. So-and-so; take what Jesus said. Let that settle it. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. That’s the way the Pharisees and them, they had to go ask the priest whether it was all right to do this or do that...

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How do fundamentalists and Pentecostals differ?

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I said, “I found two classes of people,” listen on my third time around the world, since I’ve been here. And I find two classes of people. One of them is the fundamentalist; the other one is the Pentecostal. And the fundamentalists positionally know their place, but they haven’t got much faith with...

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Does God care which denomination a person belongs to?

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And today you hear people say, “Oh, I belong to the So-and-so. I belong to the Methodist.” Not only that, but Pentecostal people, holiness people, “I belong to the Assemblies, they’re the greatest! I belong to Church of God.” God don’t care that much about either one of them, or any of them. [Brothe...

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Did God ever have an organized church in the Bible?

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Let me say this to you, brother. God, in His Bible, never did have an organized church. That’s Doctrine. The Catholic church says they’re “the mother church.” They are the mother church. They are the mother of organizations, and Revelation 17 says the same thing. That’s right. They are the first org...

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Why did God send Brother Branham to the Pentecostal people?

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The first time it happened, course I was just a small baby, I was just three minutes old, about, when It came in. But down through life, every time, even before I was converted…“Gifts and callings are without repentance,” you know that. That’s where I think that many of the…And see, I’m new in the P...

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Does God deal with individuals, or must things run the way an association says?

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Men sometimes, we just get ourself so wrapped up till…Just the way it was, that’s the way it is today (See?), same thing: so wrapped up, where we just think it has to run according to the way the association says so, or you’re not in the ring. You’re wrong. God deals with individuals (That’s right.)...

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What followed when the Methodists, and later the Pentecostals, grew formal?

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Back here some time ago when the—when the Lutherans had their revival, there’s a group called Methodists, they called for God: the deep calling to the deep. God rose up a little old fellow over there in England by the name of John Wesley, and—and Whitefield and them, and away they went with a messag...

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What is holding back the coming of the Lord Jesus for His Church?

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I believe this: that in the great realms of the Church, the only thing that’s holding off the coming of our Lord Jesus for His Church, and setting up of His Kingdom, is the differences between the full Gospel people. That’s right. As long as one say, “I belong to this; I belong to that. I received t...