Topic: Sin

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What is the difference between sin and the attributes of sin?

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…out a prayer card. That’s right. Do you believe? All right, just let that group walk right down here first to the platform—just them without a prayer card. Now, I’m going to get the prayer cards just in a minute. We’ll comb right through the building; we want to get everyone prayed for that we can....

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Is it a sin to disbelieve?

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But the only thing this is to do is to glorify God and to reveal Jesus Christ, that…When He was here on earth, He did this very same thing. All Bible readers believe that, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And He said, “When I go away, and I’ll come again. A little while and the world wi...

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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.

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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, what did Jesus mean in Matthew 12, verse 32, where Jesus said, “Whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come”? Please explain these verses of Scripture for me. Thank you. And it’s got the man’s name; he’s a minister. All right.

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Brother, I’m…you’re a theologian, I’m not. But I’d like to say this, that Jesus said, “Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him.” In other words, to put it with the rest of the Scripture, “All manner of sin shall be forgiven man, but blaspheming the Holy Ghost shall not...

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Is it possible for a Holy Ghost filled person to be driven by the—driven by the—to do minor things…influenced to do minor—minor things that he doesn’t want to do?

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Oh, yes! Yes, sir! Yeah, a Holy Ghost filled person…You’re right in the place then to be—to be drove by these things. You just put yourself up a target. When you’re down there serving the devil, he just lets you slouch around anyway you want to. But you once take a stand for Christ, you’ve got on th...

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You said that a person could live so close to God that he could not sin while here on this earth. Then explain First John 1:8 to 10.

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Let’s see First John 1:8 to 10. If I had a little more time to look these…I had it, but I just didn’t take it, friends. I—I was trying to—to get out…Well, I’ll find John after a while. It’ll—it’ll be on the other side of Hebrews, of course. All right. First John 1:8 to 10—First John 1:8 to 10. If we...

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Explain Hebrews 4 and 6 (Right quick now, we get this just real quick.) and compare it to Hebrews 10:26—Hebrews 6 and 4. (I beg your pardon, 6:4, and 10:26. Let’s see, 10:26; all right, I got them right here. See?) For it is impossible for those that were once enlightened, and have tasted…the heavenly gifts, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And having tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall…to renew themselves again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,…and put him to an open shame.

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That goes right ahead and tell what it…Now look. I had that the other night. How many was here when I explained that? All right, you know what it is then. See, it’s them borderline believers. How many read back in Deuteronomy 1 there, where the spies went right in there and tasted of the things fro...

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Now, the second question laying on top is…Brother Bill, can the Lord do effective work through me in a congregation where they do not believe in the spiritual gifts?

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No name on it, but the person wants to know if the Lord can work with them as they are officiated in a congregation that does not believe in spiritual gifts. I doubt it very much. I’m very much in doubt, dear friend, that the Lord could efficiently work through you, because you are linked up among...

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Now, here is another one; let’s see what it is. All right. Please explain the parable of the five virgins. Does a Christian sin?

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Now, the parable of the five virgins—or the ten virgins it is, please excuse me. The ten virgins is found in Matthew 25:1. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom (now notice!), and five of them were wise and had oil in their lamps, five were unwise and did not have oil in their lamps. While the...

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Will you please explain what it means by, “Sinneth not” in First John 5:18? My, we’re right at it, I believe here. Maybe it…Got it; turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, First John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;…

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Certainly not! I just went through that. He can’t sin; he’s born of God. “Sinneth not,” he can’t sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God…David spoke, rather, years ago and said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin t...

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Where was Jesus from His…where was Jesus at from His baptism until the three years of His ministry?

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All right. Jesus, when He was baptized, went straightway out of the water, and the Spirit led Him into the wilderness for forty days and nights to be tempted of the devil. And He was tempted forty days and nights. And He fasted. He come out. The devil tempted Him when He come out after His fast. And...

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Is being tempted the same thing as sinning?

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Paul said in Hebrews the 12th chapter, “Seeing that we’re compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every sin, every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us.” Now, he said, “Well now, Daniel had Angel, and so forth.” But said, “The New Testament does not support...

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What difference does it make whether a person comes to criticize or comes looking for good?

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It’s your attitude towards…Your approach towards a Divine working of God, will determine what you’ll get out of it. If you come and say, “Well, I…Glory to God.” Stand there and chew your chewing gum, and say this, “I’m just going around to see what them holy-rollers is doing. I didn’t see nothing.”...

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Is lying or stealing itself sin, or is sin something else?

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Now, sin is not just moral habits you know. Some things, a lot of them say, “Well, this man smokes, that’s a sin.” No, it ain’t. It ain’t a smoke…for him to lie. It ain’t—it ain’t no sin for him to lie, for him to steal. That’s not sin. That’s the attributes of sin. That…he does that because he’s a...

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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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How did Jesus answer Satan during the three temptations?

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Jesus said—never said, “Now, I have power to overcome you,” He said, “It’s written, man shall not live by bread alone,” the Father’s Words, see, “But by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Satan took Him up on the pinnacle and said, “If Thou be the Son of God…” Jesus said, “It is wr...

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When Satan tempted Him, did Jesus use the power and gifts He had?

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He’s one that doesn’t even have a prayer line. He just stands there with the Scriptures and explains It in such a way, till the people just have to see it. That’s all. And listen. That is the initial way of Divine healing. You know that? The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, on any c...

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How serious is it to reject the Holy Spirit compared with rejecting the Father or the Son?

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Now, in the great Divine trinity of God, in the day…It’s all the One God, God in a trinity: the Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Spirit dispensation. Now, if a man rejected God in the days of Fatherhood, under Moses and the law, well, he was put to death, if he disobeys God, broke His command....

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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—...

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Is drinking, smoking or adultery a sin in itself?

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I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of “sin.” I said, “Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery’s not a sin.” A lady raised up and said, “Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?” I said, “That’s the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That...