Topic: Salvation

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Can someone believe with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and still live the life they lived before?

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You can’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That’s right. That makes it pretty strong. That’s not skim milk by a long ways, but it’s good for you. You can’t believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal...

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Is salvation something God still has to do, or has it already been done?

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And God can’t save you, because He has already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept It. It’s already done. I wasn’t saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago, but twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn’t, the first sin I done, God would have wiped...

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Does God accept a person on the basis of their own holiness?

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Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that’s one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That’s the Witness. So God looking down through the—the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the—the—the magnifying gla...

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Do church joining or forms of baptism save a person?

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Not long ago I seen a picture in a paper advertising Sinclair gasoline, said that one gallon of Sinclair gasoline in a big enough motor could lift the Sphinx so high off the ground. I said, “Looky there, they’re advertising that around the world.” I said, “And one drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ w...

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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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What is the adoption of a son, and how is it different from being born one?

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A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father’s work and everyth...

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What happens to a Christian at death?

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Christians do not die. There’s no Scripture in the Bible that says Christians—Christians die. A man that…A person that lives in pleasure is dead while they’re living. Death means separation, separation from God. And sinners are not se…Sinners are separated from God, but Christians never separate fro...

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Are believers who belong to different churches still brothers?

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If He can show me what’s wrong with people in their lives, He can show me where to go, and what to do, and how long to stay. And I’ve been so tied up though. I got into…Well, at first when I left the Baptist church to be interdenominational to help bring the brethren together, to do all that I could...

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Does God ever use sickness to chastise people?

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Now, maybe the privilege of getting that person before me, maybe there’s something causing that. Well, if I get it, maybe when standing before the person, or this lady setting here, you, or any of you, it might see the reason. Now, you notice I’m very particular how I rebuke a spirit out there. Beca...

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Can 'saved' in the Bible mean physically healed?

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Now, the same word in the Bible, translated, s-a-v-e-d, and healed, is the very same word all the way through the Scriptures. Anyone knows that. Now, well, when you’re—you’re saved, spiritually, or you’re saved physically…now, He said to the woman, “Thy faith has saved thee,” physically, saved you....

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On what basis does God save a person?

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Now, remember, it isn’t how much you cry; it isn’t how much you repent; it isn’t how loud you can cry to God; it isn’t how sincere you can be; it’s how much faith that you have when you come to Him. He doesn’t save you on the merits of your prayer. He doesn’t save you upon the merits of your righteo...

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Since Jesus paid the full penalty for sin, is everybody saved?

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Now, don’t think that I’m a Universalist that believes that everybody’s saved and will be; I do not, no, sir. I believe that all those—everybody was saved as far as God was concerned, for Jesus paid the full penalty for sin when He died. Now, it will never do you no good until you accept it. See? Yo...

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

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Now, if Abraham says, “I got faith in God,” but was afraid to offer his son Isaac, then his faith was no good. Paul justified Abraham by faith, Paul was talking about what God seen in Abraham; but James justified him by works, James was talking about what men seen in Abraham. See? God sees your fait...

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Does God ever use sickness to chasten His children?

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Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to—to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it’ll only be for the good. Se...

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If someone shouts under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, does that prove they are saved?

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And someone ask me not long ago on that question. “Brother Branham, do you really think that they are shouting under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?” I say, “Yes.” You’d say, “Well, how could the Holy Spirit fall upon them, if it—and make them shout if they aren’t the blessed of God?” Well, I be...

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Do you have to come to an altar to be saved?

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Everything is don’t fear; be ready now when you’re called up here or when you’re setting in the prayer lines out there…All that’s the prayer line. And when you’re setting there just be ready to receive. Just be ready. And just when you feel that your faith is appropriated or not—enough to receive it...

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What shows whether a person is really a Christian?

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And now, I want to speak just a moment, or just bring your attention to a few words here that Jesus said, “The works that I do bear witness of Me.” The things that I do, what I say, is what bears record of me. And that’s what bears record of every person. Do you know, I’d rather you’d live me a serm...

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When Brother Branham says God's seal is there to stay, is he teaching eternal security?

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When God once signs His Name across something like that, signs your name, or the Name of Christ, and a notary takes the seal and puts on there, and presses that thing down. Brother, it’s there to stay, what I mean. You know what I’m speaking of. Now, I’m not preaching eternal security either, being...

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Does even a small sin need to be confessed?

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But the least sin should be confessed, always, no matter what, how little it looks to you, it’s sin in the sight of God. Look how little the first sin was, but look what it did to the human race. When the first sin was committed, look at the difference. When the message came to Heaven that, “Your so...

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Is keeping the Golden Rule or the Ten Commandments what covers a person before God?

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And so is it today, friends, not the Golden Rule, which is all right, not the Ten Commandments, which is holy, but God killed Something to cover you up, His Son, Christ Jesus died on Calvary, the Innocent for the guilty to make a way that you and I might be innocent in Him before God. And that’s the...