Topic: The church & ministry

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Can spiritual gifts be imparted by the laying on of hands?

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Now, that man can’t help because he doesn’t dream. Neither can you help because you do dream. Now, look. God made you that way. Is that right? Now, what if I told you, “Dream me a dream.” Could you do it? No, sir. Yet, you dream dreams. But I say, “Dream me a dream.” You can’t do it. The one who put...

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Does God deal with individuals, or must things run the way an association says?

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Men sometimes, we just get ourself so wrapped up till…Just the way it was, that’s the way it is today (See?), same thing: so wrapped up, where we just think it has to run according to the way the association says so, or you’re not in the ring. You’re wrong. God deals with individuals (That’s right.)...

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What followed when the Methodists, and later the Pentecostals, grew formal?

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Back here some time ago when the—when the Lutherans had their revival, there’s a group called Methodists, they called for God: the deep calling to the deep. God rose up a little old fellow over there in England by the name of John Wesley, and—and Whitefield and them, and away they went with a messag...

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Is preaching the Gospel around the world the 'greater works' Jesus promised?

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Now, that’s right. That’s the reason He couldn’t heal all that day there at Bethesda, all the crippled—and crippled and withered, and so forth. The Father showed Him one man that had been sick for thirty-eight years with diabetes, or something. He said, “Take up your bed and go on home.” And he did...

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Do gifts from God come by the laying on of hands?

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Now, I was born by a gift. Those gifts don’t come by laying on of hands. Those gifts come by the sovereignty of God. Gifts and calling are without repentance. They was foreordained of God to be. Gifts are born. Jesus Christ in the garden of Eden, He was the woman’s Seed that would bruise the serpent...

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What made the Holy Spirit come on the Day of Pentecost?

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Here, not long ago…Now, I’m not a politician, neither am I a warmonger; I’m a minister of the Gospel. But here not long ago, everything you seen was Red Russia, Red Russia, we was talking about, until the German and the Second World War broke out, and then them people who did not believe in God, the...

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Is music in the church wrong?

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You know, someone told me a long—not long ago, said, “Brother Branham, music in the church is wrong.” I said, “It is?” I said, “Do you think God changes in nature?” “No.” I said, “Then, when the prophet got all stewed up and they said, ‘Bring a minstrel,’ and when the minstrel begin to play, the han...

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What is holding back the coming of the Lord Jesus for His Church?

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I believe this: that in the great realms of the Church, the only thing that’s holding off the coming of our Lord Jesus for His Church, and setting up of His Kingdom, is the differences between the full Gospel people. That’s right. As long as one say, “I belong to this; I belong to that. I received t...

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Is it better to be a minister than a lay member of the church?

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Now, gifts and callings, now, let’s get back to what they are. God sets them aside. God places them in the church as He will. God gives severally as He will (Is that right?), not as I will, but as He will. Now, if God wanted me to be a—a lay member of the church, I’d be better off a lay member, than...

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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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Has God always had a remnant who believe Him, as in the days of Noah?

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Now, tonight, I want to speak just a moment on “Expectation.” Simeon was a man; he was old; he’s way…We’re taught by theologians that he was somewhere in his eighties. But he had a real heart, waiting for God. Sometimes the church has got to a place to just a very few left, believers. But God has al...

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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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Which two groups are compared to a man with money in the bank and a man who knows how to write a check?

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I said the other night in an international conference, where many, many thousands was setting together, I said, “I find two groups of people in the world, one of them are the fundamental group, positionally, they know, and the next is the full Gospel group that’s got it and don’t know. It’s like a m...

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What three things does Satan work on when God blesses a minister?

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An old minister has been hanging around here on the street; I met him the other day up here on the street, jumping just as high as he could singing, “Old Time Religion.” Name’s John Ryan. Got long hair and beard; he’s been around here for a few days. He—he was—rode an old bicycle down there. And he...

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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 being a loyal church member make someone a believer?

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Now, there’s many has a profession that they believe, and today in my church, as in most all of our churches, we class a believer as one who is loyal to the church, and comes to church regular, and takes a—a place, a position in the church, and helps the church in its financial needs. But that’s ver...

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How does a person come into the Church of the living God?

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Dear brother, sister, there’s only one Church, and that’s the body of believers out of every church, that are truly believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the only Church there is. We do not come into the Church—into the Church of God. We become into this fellowship; the Baptist fellowship, the...

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What three things will ruin a minister?

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If you go to fool…If a minister, three things, if he goes to fooling with, he’s ruined. That is: first thing was money, then women, and then popularity. When he goes to thinking he’s someone, right then he’s on his road out. That’s right. For we’re all flesh, just like grass; there’s no good in none...

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What does it mean to preach the Gospel to every creature?

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Now, someone said not long ago, “Brother Branham, preach the Gospel…” A very noted radio evangelist, a friend. We belong to the same church. And he said, “Brother Branham, while you’re on the West Coast here, preach the Gospel.” I said, “I do, Doctor.” And he said, “Not that Divine healing.” He said...

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Does preaching Divine healing make a man a Divine healer?

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And Brother Bosworth said, “Brother Best, I—I certainly apologize,” said that—that, “Brother Branham is no Divine healer, and never said he was.” He said, “Would you…” said, “Do you believe in salvation?” “Yes, sir.” He said, “Would you want to be called a Divine Saviour?” Said, “If preaching Divine...