Topic: Salvation

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What elements make up the new birth?

Answer

“There are three that bear record in heaven.” Now, when we’re…Our conversion. The element came from Jesus Christ’s body when He died; there was water, Blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new Birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new Birth; water, Blood,...

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How long is a believer sealed by the Holy Spirit?

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“Wherefore grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the Day of your Redemption.” There you are. “Sealed away until the Day of your Redemption.” Not just from one revival to another, but till the Day of your Redemption.

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What does it mean to be born again?

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And I tell you, friends, there’s been a many a man, and is tonight, that’s coming down to the end of the road, will find out that that little shallow religion that you’re holding onto won’t work. Nothing short of being born again will work. Jesus said, “Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he w...

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Romans 7:14-18, “We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do—not: for what I would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I (c-a-n-…) un—unto the law, consent to the law, that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” This I cannot understand.

Answer

Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that’s Paul speaking to the Romans. Now he said…Let me just kind of polish it up so you can see. He said, “In me is two persons: right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other wants me to do. And every time I start to do right, then the wrong hinders me.” How many o...

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Brother Branham, if possible for a person to be lost and end up in hell if he rejects the Light of the Word, even though he has a genuine experience of justification and sanctification?

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Yes, sir! That is exactly right.

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When you use the expression that if we do not believe the Word, we will be eternally separated from Christ, do you mean the foolish virgin will live eternally, but they will be separated from the New Jerusalem where Christ will dwell with the Bride? Here are those who do not have the Holy Spirit, born again as the Scripture speaks of being born again. If the natural birth requires water, blood, and spirit, does not the spiritual birth require all three stages of grace before the person is truly born again?

Answer

Absolutely, I just explained that this morning, the same, on the same thing. You’ve got to have all stages. You’re begotten of the Spirit, just like a baby is begotten, and in the womb of a mother, but not born until they receive the Holy Ghost. That’s right. You’re born then. You’re not converted,...

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Brother Branham, I want to receive the Holy Ghost. I want to know what to do. I am burdened for my family to be saved. And the sister signed her name.

Answer

If you want to receive the Holy Ghost, let me tell you something, my dear Sister, if you’re here. And—and—I…(Brother Neville, is that a member of the church here? At the bottom…?…) I don’t—I don’t remember them either. But if—if you’re here, Sister B-o-u-g-h, if you’re here, let me tell you. The Bib...

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Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I’m glad I got this one.) We watch and pray…We watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy. Now, that’s the first question, you got two.

Answer

“Is mercy over?” Don’t never think that! See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you’re taken away. See? “We notice in the prayer line somes finds mercy.” Sure! Mercies, the doors are open. See? I think where you got this, this thought might lay between…See, I don’t have time to give...

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What does Paul mean by freedom and liberty in Christ? What way is freedom from law?

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Well, you’re not bound by law. Say, for instance, here’s the same thing; I’ll explain in the natural way, quickly. For instance, out here it says, go down the street, thirty miles an hour is all the faster you can go. All right now. Now if I go down the street forty miles an hour, I’m condemned by t...

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Brother Branham…(Did I finish that? Did I get about the baptism of the Holy…Yes, that was about it, wasn’t it? All right. Excuse me, if I don’t get it, just forgive me. I…These are such wonderful questions. You could just stay one whole night just on one question, brother, and then not even touch it.) I appreciate you as a servant of God, the believe…and I believe the Message of Truth. My wife won’t hear me…says anything…say anything about this Message, and will not listen to any tape. I am in nervous trouble on my job also. I want my wife to believe too and pray for my children. Brother Branham, I want to be friend of God’s…I want to be found in God’s will for my life. I want to be His servant. (And the person signs “over.” Wait a minute.) When I was small, I told everyone that I wanted to be a preacher. I don’t know what God wants me to do. I’m willing to do anything for the Lord. Yours in the Lord.

Answer

Now, a good question. And the man is sincere. His wife, his companion that’s a part of him…May I add something here to that? My brethren, I say this in the Name of the Lord. One of these days, the Lord willing, I think I’ll just go ahead and make that tape on Marriage and Divorce (see?), bring it ri...

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Dear Brother Branham, approximately ten years ago God met me now and healed what the gift of love, or, revealed what the gift of love was, and same then my prayer is for…that I will return. Will I receive it before I die? Will my husband hear the Word, and what am I to do?

Answer

That’s more of a question. Now, she said…Now, what it is here, or who…she said, “My husband,” so I suppose it would have to be the woman that said this. Now, she lost her first love. See? She—she got cold in the Spirit. Now, Sister, maybe ’cause you still come to church and do what’s right, you have...

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For Sunday services: If a woman commits a wrong with a…(Now, wait a minute; I better read this first to myself. You see? “…with a married man, repents and makes it right according to…does she need to…wife and man involved, even if this wife doesn’t know anything…” All right. This is all right.) If a woman commits a wrong with a—a married man, repents and makes it right with her husband according to the Scriptures, does she need to go to the wife of the man involved, even if this wife doesn’t know anything of it; or is it the man’s duty to tell her first; or does she need to be hurt at all? How far can we go with this restitution when it is over and done, and when friendship is involved?

Answer

Well, my dear Sister, there’s only one thing that you have done which is right. You was involved, I guess, or somebody that you know of was involved, in a wrong act, that you taken another woman’s companion and had a social act. And when you did, there you fell from your grace. Then you repented, an...

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Dear Brother Branham, my question is on baptism. When is a person saved? I have heard it was when a person believed. Some say that when you receive the Holy Ghost you are saved even though you haven’t been baptized in water, as in the case of Cornelius at Acts 10:47. Some say Paul was saved on the road to Damascus, but in Acts 22:16, says that he still had his sins three days later. Can a person be baptized in the Holy Spirit as Cornelius was and still have his sins, since he has not had water baptism, on, or is a person’s passage to Heaven not until he has had water baptism even though he has the Holy Spirit?

Answer

Now, my precious friend…Now, this brother signs his name, I don’t know him, but he signs his name. But I—I won’t call the names, because it’s not necessary, ’cause other people will be getting to them and say, “Well, I—I disagree with you on this and that.” See? And I just won’t call no names. Most...

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Dear Brother Branham, will all the sons and daughters of true, borned-again believers be saved?

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No, brother; no, they sure won’t. See, as I—as I copied David du Plessis on this remark, “God don’t have grandchildren, see, just sons and daughters.” See, they’ll have to be born just exactly like their father and mother was born of the Spirit. See? That’s what makes a man a new person, is because...

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Brother Branham, you said on one of the tapes that Noah saved his household. Does this mean a mother can have the same faith for her household? And does it mean every one of the family will be saved if we believe it?

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Now, that’s…yeah, that’s kind of a…You’d have to watch the way I answer this now. See? First, “You said…(Now, let me see that.) You said on one of your tapes that Noah saved his household.” Why? Because they believed. That’s it, because they believed his message. “Does this mean that a mother can h...

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Dear Brother Branham: My wife and I were separated, she is suing me for a divorce. She is not a Christian, and I believe the Message and want her to be saved (Isn’t that nice? That’s real Christian spirit. See?) and believe. What must I do? We also have two boys. (Signed their name.)

Answer

Brother, look, let me tell you, she’s going to sue you for a divorce. That’s Satan. See? You shouldn’t do that. But if you’re a Christian, and done nothing in the world to hinder that woman, then it’s Satan doing that. He’s only trying to tear you up. Now, if she is one of God’s elected, she will c...

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After the Rapture has been taken place, will any of the church be saved in the end, who was not taken in the Rapture?

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No. Huh-uh. Cause, the Blood has done left. You see, there be no intercession. The Gentile age is finished. There’ll be no one saved after the Rapture, or none of the church, huh-uh, the church. “Let him that’s filthy, be filthy still; him that’s holy, be holy still.” See? That won’t take place, see...

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We believe in being baptized…Acts 2:38, but how can we answer people concerning the other baptism? Are they saved or not? Also those that have gone on and never received the light?

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Now, that is a—a good question. Now, let me say again (see?) on these questions, if you—if I don’t answer them according to your thoughts…I’m going to answer them just as close to the Scripture as I know how, to make them Scriptural. Now, the Scriptural way of water baptism is in the Name of the Lo...

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Would you please explain Hebrews 6:4 and 6, and also explain Hebrews 10:26-39? Please explain whether this refers to the Holy Ghost people or the sanctified people; please explain the difference.

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Well, let’s see where the person’s referring to, Hebrews 6 and 4. I love Bible questions that just—it pulls out something in you that you get—you get something that you wouldn’t get otherwise. Because you—you got what the other people’s thinking, what’s on their heart (see?), and you know what they’...

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Brother Branham, as I went through the prayer line a short time ago, anointed hands were laid on me and prayer was made for my unsaved husband. I was slain by the power of the Lord! Is this a definite sign that he will be saved?

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Well, a…It’s bound to be a woman. Sister, I wouldn’t—I wouldn’t think that it was a definite sign that he was to be saved, though I believe if—that God, it…I believe he will be saved, certainly, but to say…“Now, could you say that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD?” Be careful about that (see?), ’cause, see, it...