Topic: Salvation

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Can unconfessed sin keep a person from being healed?

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Now, if there’s something hanging over you, sin, and you don’t confess that, you could anoint that person, pray for them, do everything you want to do, it’ll…Satan will stay right there as long as you got unconfessed sin in your life. Or sometimes something that you haven’t done, something you negle...

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Can a person be a pretty good Christian?

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And people, today, as you see…you say, “Well, I—I guess I’m a pretty good Christian, Brother Branham.” You can’t be a pretty good Christian. There is no such a thing. You have to either be a Christian or you’re not a Christian; a grain of wheat or a stalk. The wheat can’t be a barley today and a—and...

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Is a person a Christian before they receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost?

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Now, I don’t mean to say you’re not a Christian till you get the Holy Ghost, get that. I mean that you’re—the Holy Ghost is the seal of your faith. You see? God—Abraham believed God by faith, and then He give him the seal of a promise. You see? And you believe God by faith and you’re justified by fa...

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What is faith worth if a person is not willing to act on it?

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How many have faith? Raise your hands as a witness to God. Now, your faith without your works is dead. You might as well not have faith if you’re not willing to put it to work. Now, as the Holy Spirit moves into the building tonight, let’s us take the initiative side. Let’s believe with all of our h...

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If someone says they were saved ten years ago, when were they actually saved?

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When you said, “Well, I was saved ten years ago.” No, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it ten years ago. See, see? You were healed nineteen hundred years ago. Are you willing to accept it tonight? That’s the only…See He couldn’t heal her. Now, the only thing He would, just lik...

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What three elements come with a natural birth, and what are they in the new birth?

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Here, let me show you something in the Scriptures so you won’t be tied up. I don’t have time to teach, but look. For instance, when a baby’s born in this world…A baby born a natural birth, what is the three elements that comes from the body? The first is water. Is that right? Blood. Is that right? T...

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Will faith do any good without works?

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How many in here believes God’s going to hear tonight and answer prayer? Oh, isn’t that wonderful? Brother Lindsay, that was a mighty nice then to see a solid ground there of—of every person believing—on believing grounds. Anything could happen. Now, the one thing I’m going to ask you to do, is…How...

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Did Brother Branham believe in eternal security?

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And then I—I believe that God has a Church. Now, I believe that in this Church, that this…I—being many people has thought that I was a radical eternal securitist. Well, that’s—that’s an error. No, I only believe in eternal security as this: I believe the Church has eternal security. Now, if you’re i...

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What do the crow and the dove on the ark illustrate?

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Even put it back in the ark, in the destruction of the world. There was the crow and the dove setting on the same roost. One was just as much bird as the other one was. Is that right? But what was it? One was a crow by nature, and the other was a dove by nature. One could fly just like the other one...

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Why did Jesus say 'ye are gods'?

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You see, if a man does not have the Holy Spirit, he cannot believe those things. Because when a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he becomes a son of God. And his nature is likened unto God. That’s the reason Jesus said, “Did not it say in your laws, ye are gods?” Because you’re an attributes of G...

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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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Can a Christian save an unsaved member of his family?

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For no matter how much I would pray for you, if you yourself didn’t have the faith, it wouldn’t do any good. That’s right. It takes your faith. And no matter how much I preach to you and how well I brought the Gospel to you, if ye yourself…It’s your own personal faith in Christ that saves you. Is th...

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Does giving up lying, stealing or smoking make a person saved?

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Then the next thing, you go—you go to church and you hear the hymns sang, the Gospel preached. Something…And the Holy Spirit begins to speak to you. “Come, repent.” And you say, “Oh, that…I—I—I—I’m young. I got plenty of time yet. I got this. I’ve got to do this.” See? You’re rejecting God’s provide...

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Is joining a church enough to enter the Kingdom of God?

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If you’re here without Christ, if you’ve belonged to some, “Just join the church…” I believe in joining church, but that ain’t it, you got to be borned again. You’re not born, filled with the Holy Spirit, brother, you, I don’t know. Jesus said, “Except a man be borned again, he will not enter into t...

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Is a person saved because they can shout or because they feel saved?

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So, I’m not saved today because I can shout. I’m saved not because I feel like I’m saved. I’m saved because I met God’s conditions of this Bible. Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from de...

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What do the stages of Elijah and Elisha's journey to the Jordan represent in the history of the church?

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First stage: Martin Luther stage: first stage of the journey. Second stage was the school of the prophet. Elijah went up there and he said to Elisha, “Now, you stay here, I pray thee, for the Lord is calling me to Jordan. But Elisha was really a prophet. He said, “As the Lord lives and your soul nev...

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Does a person become part of the family of God by joining a church?

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Across the river they went. Said, “What will you ask?” I wish we’d have time to take up before this, the—the Law of Adoption. Pentecost was borned (That’s right.) like the son. But that same son was borned in a family, had to be adopted also. That’s right. And there’s where you missed your calling,...

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Does Brother Branham believe in eternal security?

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I believe this. In security, I believe the Church has Eternal security. Any reader of the Bible knows that, ’cause God’s already said It would appear yonder without blemish. That right? Then, It’s going to be there. Is that right? The Bi-…The Church is Eternally secured. Now, are you in the Church,...

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How can Paul say Abraham was justified by faith and James say he was justified by works?

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Now, see, now Paul was justifying Abraham by faith. James justified him by works. Paul said Abraham was justified, Romans 4, by faith. And so James comes over and says that he was justified by works. Now, both of them, one confirmed the other. Now, Paul was speaking what God saw: his faith. James is...

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What is the new birth?

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The new birth is an experience. It’s a gift of God. It’s the seal of your faith. The Holy Spirit is a Seal. Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.” God made Abraham the promise, and Abraham believed God, and was justified by fa...