Topic: The church & ministry

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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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Will people be judged by which denomination they belong to?

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You know, I—I believe that when Jesus shall appear, that He will not ask us whether we belong to certain denomination of church. He’s going to…We’re going to be judged according to what we’ve done about Him in our heart. Christianity doesn’t mean somebody that belongs to a certain church; it means t...

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Does a sick person have to wait for a Divine healing service to come to town?

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Divine healing’s in reach of every person, and every person that is a Christian has a right to pray for the sick. That’s right. If there’s any among you sick, call the elders. That’s the deacons in your church. See? And then he said confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other…That...

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Is the church in the spirit of the latter days?

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Now, there may be things that God has added to the church, which stimulate faith. But now, when I’m gone, healing isn’t gone. Healing ought to be more than it was ’fore we come here. See, see? That’s the purpose, is to get the people in their mind in the spirit of the latter days… We’re in the latte...

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What happens when you give what little you have to Jesus?

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I can just see him moving up, just a little closer all the time. And the crowds got great. I can hear Him get into the boat, thrust out a little from the bank. And He borrowed a ship from Simon. After He got through speaking, He said to Simon, “Now, you launch out into the deep and let down for the...

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How does the illustration of the hall of critics and the hall of fame apply to the Church?

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Now, I do realize there is fanatics. Certainly there is. There’s plenty of them. But a little Church that’s tried to struggle, not be any certain denomination or any certain name, but I mean peoples who love God, and has held out for the Supernatural, and for God being living in our midst today as H...

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What does water baptism represent?

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Heavenly Father, look down upon this scene just now, as our Brother Gibson is standing here with confessed faith in Jesus Christ, believing the death, burial, and resurrection, standing here in the chilly, cool water that represents death that took our Saviour away from here, Who died in our place,...

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What name did Brother Branham use when baptizing a believer?

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Almighty God, bless my brother, bless his talents, make him a great man, Lord, for You. Hear the prayer of Your servant. As Thou has commissioned us, Lord Jesus, that we should go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of th...