Topic: The cross and the atonement

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When were we healed by Jesus Christ's stripes?

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Now, remember. Remember me now and believe this. Every person in here was healed when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. His stripes healed you nineteen hundred years ago. And the only thing that I, or any other minister could do, would be point you to that.

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Is it not true that the Lord Jesus did not die for the whole world, meaning everyone in the world, but rather…(Now, I would explain that, but she, he or she, whoever it is, looks like a woman’s writing.)…but rather for these—rather for these in every parts of the world, whom the Father did give Him? These who before the foundation of the world, God did ordain to Eternal Life, having elected them according to His Own good pleasure?

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Absolutely, that’s right! That’s exactly right. Jesus died for…not just to…He is purposed. Let’s see, I believe the…I—I believe they read…a question comes in on this:

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What covers a person's sins?

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And God went and got some skins and made them aprons. In order to get skins He had to kill something. Something had to die a substitutionary, and the only thing in the world…It’s not the Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian church that’ll cover your sins. God killed Something: His Son at Calvary. That...

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How many crosses were at Golgotha?

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I want to show you a little parable here right quick. A lot of people only seen three crosses at Golgotha. There was four. There were four crosses. The cross is a tree. Is that right? Here was Jesus, and a thief on the right, a thief on the left. Now, here was Judas went and hung himself on a sycomo...

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What does the smitten Rock stand for, and what poured out of it?

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John 3:16 is a perfect type of this Church today, for us. That’s the smitten Rock, Christ, God’s judgments. We being worthy of death, worthy of all this condemnation, and the judgments of God smote the Rock, Christ; and out of Him poured out everlasting water, that a perishing people might not peris...

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What elements came out of Jesus body at Calvary, and what do they have to do with the new birth?

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For instance, like this: When Jesus died at Calvary, how many—what elements came from His body? Water, blood, Spirit. Is that right? Now, any minister, any believer knows that that’s what constitutes the new birth. Is that right? That constitutes the new birth, Saint John 7:5: “For there are three t...

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If someone says they were saved ten years ago, when were they actually saved?

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When you said, “Well, I was saved ten years ago.” No, you were saved nineteen hundred years ago. You accepted it ten years ago. See, see? You were healed nineteen hundred years ago. Are you willing to accept it tonight? That’s the only…See He couldn’t heal her. Now, the only thing He would, just lik...

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If Jesus were here in person, could He do more for the sick than He already has?

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Now, I want you to be just as reverent as you can. Now, I want to ask you this vital question right now. If Jesus Christ was here, wearing this suit that He give me, and standing with my shoes that He gave me, He couldn’t do no more for you than what He’s doing right now. For His…When He was here on...

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When was our healing completed?

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…Christ’s Name. Amen. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] If the people could just believe, have faith for all things… Today, way down on the highway many miles below here, almost to Jeffersonville, there was…I stopped in a little place to eat a sandwich…Taking my children, wife home…And I was eating and the p...

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What did the smitten Rock in the wilderness represent?

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On up they come, into the smitten Rock. Notice when they come to the Rock, they had need. Now, Moses smote the Rock with the rod. That’s where we left last night. Smote the Rock with the rod, and the rod was God’s judgment rod. And he smote the Rock, and there was a cleft in the left side of the Roc...

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Would it make any difference to the sick if Christ were here in person?

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Now, if He was here He might tell you what was wrong with you, tell you your conditions, what to do, but He couldn’t heal you. If He was standing here Himself with this suit on, He couldn’t heal you, ’cause He’s already done it. Well, He can’t do it the second time. He could say, “I am the Christ an...

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When were believers saved and healed?

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How many that has been saved in the last ten years? Let’s see your hand. Been saved the last ten years? Now, I don’t want to differen with you, but you wasn’t saved in the last ten years. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago, and you accepted it in the last ten years. Is that right? That’s righ...

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Did the Old Testament sacrifices take away sin, or only cover it?

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We know this, that in the Old Testament the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. It only covered sin. And the living just waiting in—in paradise for the day that sin should be taken away. But when Jesus came, the Son of God, the Messiah, He took away sin. He divorced it, never covered i...

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Was sickness included in the atonement Jesus made when He died?

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If you bought my ticket…I’m fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now…That’s about a six, seven hundred miles’ trip, right quick. Now, if you’d say, “Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for...

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Was Isaiah 53's 'with His stripes we are healed' fulfilled in Matthew 8?

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And then, the Bible said that He’s the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn’t ta…you couldn’t say that. When anybody tells you that, it’s wro...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he expected God to curse Israel?

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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here…Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I’m at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn’t mean that it’s just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God tryi...

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Is salvation something God still has to do, or has it already been done?

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And God can’t save you, because He has already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept It. It’s already done. I wasn’t saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago, but twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn’t, the first sin I done, God would have wiped...

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

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Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was b...

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What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it?

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Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you migh...

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Since Jesus paid the full penalty for sin, is everybody saved?

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Now, don’t think that I’m a Universalist that believes that everybody’s saved and will be; I do not, no, sir. I believe that all those—everybody was saved as far as God was concerned, for Jesus paid the full penalty for sin when He died. Now, it will never do you no good until you accept it. See? Yo...