Topic: Organizations & denominations

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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...

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How does a person become a member of the family of God?

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I’ve been in the Branham family for forty years; they never did ask me to join their family. I was borned in the Branham family. And that’s how you come in the family of God. It’s not by joining church; I have nothing against that; that’s all right; you should do that. But you’re borned in the Churc...

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Which two groups are compared to a man with money in the bank and a man who knows how to write a check?

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I said the other night in an international conference, where many, many thousands was setting together, I said, “I find two groups of people in the world, one of them are the fundamental group, positionally, they know, and the next is the full Gospel group that’s got it and don’t know. It’s like a m...

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What is the difference between the fundamental and the Full Gospel people?

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You know what I find in traveling? I say this with humbleness. I find two classes of people. One, the fundamental, the other one, the Full Gospel. They’re both fine classes of people. But here’s the trouble. The fundamental knows what they are, positionally, in Christ, but don’t have much faith to e...

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Is Brother Branham against church organizations?

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Now, oh, I just love Him. One of these days when I come back from overseas, if God permits, I just want to cross across the country holding revivals somewhere, just taking the Word, and—and preaching the Word, and calling for sinners; where we just have to talk on Jesus, simple as—as rough as corn b...

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What does the word 'religion' mean?

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Look at Adam, made, they made aprons of fig leaves, and put that around them, the fig leaves. But when they came to the place where God called Adam and Eve to stand before Him, they realized that they had a man-made religion. The word religion means, “a covering.” And they were covered by a self-mad...

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Does the church a person belongs to matter to God?

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Now, about your church, what you belong to, that doesn’t mean nothing to God, it’s what you are in your heart. That’s right. God ain’t going to ask you whether…what church you belonged to, it’s what you are in your heart is what God is going to look at.

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Does God work through only one church?

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But the world has got off and got so formal and indifferent, till they just had their own set ways, their own rituals, their own creeds and so forth. And if you don’t come right up to that, you’re not in it. See? That’s the way the churches are today. You’ve got to come right up and look through my...

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Will people be judged by which denomination they belong to?

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You know, I—I believe that when Jesus shall appear, that He will not ask us whether we belong to certain denomination of church. He’s going to…We’re going to be judged according to what we’ve done about Him in our heart. Christianity doesn’t mean somebody that belongs to a certain church; it means t...

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Why is Brother Branham no longer a Baptist?

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And then, as I bring Christ to you, He will be on your hand. And you’ll have to answer for what attitude you took towards it: if you turned it down, or if you accepted it. You…God will have you to answer for your attitude of this meeting, so you must realize it’s a very sacred thing. Brother Lindsay...

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What happens when a revival is turned into an organization?

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Now, let me tell you something, friends. Then when Jesus came down to the Jordan to be baptized of John, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, went upon Him, He was filled with the Spirit of God, then into the wilderness He went to be tempted forty days, came out, and the miracles and s...

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Why does Brother Branham call the Pentecostal age a rejected age?

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We’re in our third and last stage. And remember, the Pentecostal age is a rejected age. I hate to say that, for I’ve never found faith in any church like the Pentecostal church. But it’s rejected, because it’s the Laodicean last church age, lukewarm. It’ll be spued from the mouth of Christ. But God...