Topic: Sickness and suffering

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Where do sickness and disease come from?

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Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions.

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Can sickness be a blessing from God?

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There is so many times that we refer to them as blessings. I never could think that God could get a blessing out of a sick person; unless it was a sinner, driving him to God; or a disobedient child, bringing him back to be reconciled to his Father. But sicknesses are the results of the devil and of...

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Where does the life in a cancer or tumor come from?

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Well, then, what does that? The devil. The—the germ is a life. First, the germ is a teeny little cell with a life in it. And that life only can come from two resources, either from God or the devil. And you came from the germ of life, by God. The cancer, tumor, or so forth, come from the germ of lif...

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Should medical science and ministers work together?

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But some woman here not long ago trusted God out in California for her baby that died, and every newspaper and magazine packed it across the country. And the same time where one didn’t have faith enough for deliverance, everybody criticized that, all the magazines and papers, and God healed thousand...

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Brother Branham, I love the Lord, but for the past year I have been—I have been faced with a problem. Seems sometimes I’ve almost been out of my mind. What is it? Please pray for me and my husband.

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Well, if there is no…If this person was on private interview, like you people been in there this morning, it would pull that out what it is, whatever it is. See? The Lord would reveal what it is. But now, that I don’t know who you are, and you’re not setting here; it just said, “A sister in Christ.”...

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Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we did not discern the Lord’s Body? (Correct!) …but now revealed by the opening of the Sixth Seal?

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Now, let’s see. Let me just see if I can get that now. It’s not you; it’s me. You didn’t…You wrote it all right; it’s just me. Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we do not discern the Lord’s Body? (That’s got a question mark, the end of that.) Well, the Scripture says, that, “Many a...

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If a doctor sets a broken bone, who heals it?

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Now, if the doctor can feel something that he can cut out, something that some of these five senses will contact, well, then he can…We got some pretty smart doctors today and some fine hospitals and fine drugs. And we’re very thankful to Almighty God that we have them. I’m grateful. And they do all...

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What is the connection between sin and sickness?

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Now what that represented: Now, the first thing, the people had sinned, and were dying of sickness. Now, watch this compound reason, now. They were…sinned, and were dying of sickness because of sin; and all sin is direct, or, either direct caused…all sickness, rather, caused by sin. Before we had an...

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Are sicknesses like deafness, cancer and epilepsy caused by spirits?

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Now, let me just show you a simple thing, friend. You get the two magazines; read them yourself, both—both articles. Now, the first thing, that if I—if the two spirits, Jesus said, in the last days…’Course them demon spirits is arising; sure they are. They’ve always been here. They will be until Jes...

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Does medicine heal the body?

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By His stripes, we were: were is past tense, is that right, brethren? We were healed. When? Nineteen hundred years ago. Every sinner in the world was forgiven of every sin they ever did, nineteen hundred years ago. Is that right? He’s—He’s the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, is tha...

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What is a cancer and where does it start?

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Cancer is a…Well, it would be called every thing of the natural. Now, that’s how I study God first, was from His trees and plants and so forth, and I, God willing, Sunday I want to preach on “God In His Universe, God In His Son, God In His Word, God In His People,” and just show you how close God is...

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Where does sickness come from?

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Well now, for instance, a cancer…Now, a cancer comes from a bruise, and it’s a—it’s a—it’s a growth too. So’s tumor, cataract and oh, we could spend hours on it, of what it is. Now, those…Let’s say cancer. Now, first it’s a teeny little cell, and it begins to develop cells. It doesn’t have any form....

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What is the difference between a doctor cutting out a cancer and divine healing?

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Now, the—the cancer come into this sore place or this bruised place, and he took a body, and he begins to suck on your blood: one purpose: take your life. The doctor can cut it out. If there’s one speck of it left, it’ll start right there growing again. See? Now, the thing happens in the way of…If t...

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Why does a person feel good for a few days after being prayed for and then get real sick?

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Now, believers, here’s what’s the matter with you. You’re afraid to take the initiative. You’re afraid to stand and claim your God given privilege. See? And the devil actually leaves, and when he goes out, then you feel better for a few days, and then after while, you say, “I’m getting sick.” About...

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What part do doctors and medicine have in healing?

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Then if medicine is the healer, it doesn’t need life. But medicine doesn’t build tissues. Medicine only keeps you clean while God builds tissues. See? God is the only One. Medicine…Now, I have nothing against doctors and their work. That’s—that’s God’s mercy sent to us. But they can’t heal. They don...

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Why would a person feel sicker after being prayed for a growth?

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And if you don’t know those things you’ll sure can’t…You don’t understand Divine healing, well you—there’s no need of trying it, because it’s just a try anyhow. See? If you’re trying it like that… But if you know what’s going to happen, then your faith is centered. Then you’ve got to sick before you...

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What role does medicine play in healing?

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“Why,” he said, “we’ve been to every water hole in here. We’ve dug where the water was. We’ve come down here and every place is dry. We visit every spring and it’s dry.” And the rock was the driest place there was in the wilderness. How God takes the foolish things of this world to confound the wise...

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Does sickness come from God?

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Now, all sickness, we have to find first that all sickness came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. God sometimes permits Satan to put sickness on you, as a whip to bring you back to the house of God, when you’ve disobeyed. But sickness, in its beginning, c...

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Why is a cancer called a devil?

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And now notice, you call them, the doctor calls it, a “cancer.” God calls it a “devil.” Look at today. They just give it…Where did the word cancer come from? It comes from the…from a Latin word which is used in medical terms, meaning a “crab,” a crab that you see along the seashore, has got all them...

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Is all sickness caused by sin?

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And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so. Notice. And so God put up this—...