Topic: The church & ministry

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What is the difference between the fundamental and the Full Gospel people?

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You know what I find in traveling? I say this with humbleness. I find two classes of people. One, the fundamental, the other one, the Full Gospel. They’re both fine classes of people. But here’s the trouble. The fundamental knows what they are, positionally, in Christ, but don’t have much faith to e...

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Who makes up God's remnant today?

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Now, let’s take this case now of Simeon. Now, he was a righteous old man. He believed that God was going to let him see the Christ before he saw death. Now, let’s say he’s eighty something years old. And then He—He had another witness there. There was Anna the prophetess at the temple, John the Bapt...

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Who has the right to pray for the sick?

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All right, I don’t know what to do. I’m asking my minister brothers, just stay here where you’re at. I want you to help me tonight. Will you do it? These men are ordained of God; they publicly come out here before the city, like this, to show theirself, that they believe in Divine healing in Jesus C...

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What are the three things that hinder a minister?

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Now, this is not to be—to be humble, or it’s not to show off, but from the bottom of my heart, I wished I had a place where I could work while in these meetings (That’s right.) so I wouldn’t have to even take up an offering or something. That’s the truth. I just dread the thoughts of taking up an of...

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Should born-again Christians argue over the things they differ on?

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Now, if you come here and the Holy Spirit reveals something to you that’s been back in your life and speaks something another to you, and you know definitely that that’s the truth, now that’s bound to bring you to a realization that some Supernatural operation of some Supernatural Being is near. Is...

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How does God's leading of Israel relate to what He is doing for the Church today?

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I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He’s doing for us spiritually today. We’re all very familiar with this Scripture that I’ve just read. And we’re going to try to set fort...

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What lesson does Brother Branham draw from the men the devil answered, 'Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?'

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Now, how them old days, they really tantalize us. And there’s many things happened that I wouldn’t have time to tell you, along the road. But you know how it is in old school days. Wouldn’t you like to go back there again? My, go back to just… I wished I could live one day again. I wished I could ge...

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Is Brother Branham against church organizations?

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Now, oh, I just love Him. One of these days when I come back from overseas, if God permits, I just want to cross across the country holding revivals somewhere, just taking the Word, and—and preaching the Word, and calling for sinners; where we just have to talk on Jesus, simple as—as rough as corn b...

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What does the word 'religion' mean?

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Look at Adam, made, they made aprons of fig leaves, and put that around them, the fig leaves. But when they came to the place where God called Adam and Eve to stand before Him, they realized that they had a man-made religion. The word religion means, “a covering.” And they were covered by a self-mad...

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Does the church a person belongs to matter to God?

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Now, about your church, what you belong to, that doesn’t mean nothing to God, it’s what you are in your heart. That’s right. God ain’t going to ask you whether…what church you belonged to, it’s what you are in your heart is what God is going to look at.

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How is the church today like the Israelites who complained after leaving Egypt?

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Maybe some of those poor Israelites…They left garlic and onions to eat Angel’s food, and was complaining about it. They had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the fountain of life, and were complaining about it. They had led—left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physic...

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What must a person commit to before hands are laid on them for healing?

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This is a sacred order of the Church, that, “These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” Now, that wasn’t me that said that; that was Jesus Christ Who said that. Now, the first thing you must do, is surrender yourself entirely to Christ, and...

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Should a person pay attention to the messenger or to the message?

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What if someone would come in here tonight and give you a money order for a million dollars. Oh, my, poor maybe in need. Now, you would rejoice and say, “Oh, my,” how rejoicing. And maybe there’d be a man come in that was tattered and poor, dirty, and ugly. And no matter what he looked like, it isn’...

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Does God work through only one church?

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But the world has got off and got so formal and indifferent, till they just had their own set ways, their own rituals, their own creeds and so forth. And if you don’t come right up to that, you’re not in it. See? That’s the way the churches are today. You’ve got to come right up and look through my...

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How is the Body of Christ like Solomon's temple?

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Now, one of these days the Body’s going to come together just like that. That’s right. Just like Solomon’s temple, cut out all over the world. But when it come together, there wasn’t a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer. It went right straight together. Every mis-fit cube went right to its right p...

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Why did Brother Branham refuse to touch the bank draft for a million and a half dollars sent to him?

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And every penny that’s left from our meetings (Brother Lindsay and them knows just what we eat, and so forth) we turn right straight back into the Gospel work, back, and try to live just as cheap as I can. When I go to the cities, I don’t look for big hotels. The cheapest one I can find, that’s what...

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What three things does Brother Branham say can get hold of a minister?

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Here’s three things that I’ve noticed in reading of other ministers. If this ever gets a hold of a minister, it’s got him. And there’s a weak spot: money, women, popularity. That’s right. Dodge the very appearance of it. That’s right. For money, I care not for it. I’ve got a little old fat wife here...

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Why does every person worship something?

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That’s the aged old cry: “If I could only find God.” The…All ages, people are born to worship. You’ll worship something. Maybe it’s your child, your car, your home, your job, maybe even your church. That will not work. It isn’t the church we worship; it’s God. The caveman, the Indians, the American...

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What does God want on the altar?

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But now, back to Cain and Abel, when Cain worshipped, he built an altar; he sacrificed; he worshipped God. But that wasn’t enough. And it was beautiful, no doubt the flowers and things that grows in the field, and he decorated his altar. Why soon, as soon as Easter come, across the nations there’ll...

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Who has the right to pray for the sick?

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Now, I know there’s people goes through the country, and says they’re the only one that has the right to pray for the sick, and so forth. Now, that is an error. Any Christian has the right to pray for the sick. The Bible said, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other.” Everybo...