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What dispensation are we living in?

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We’re living, not in the Christian dispensation, but in the Holy Spirit dispensation. It’s the—the acts of Holy Spirit in the Church, the Church reaction to what the Holy Spirit is in Them. Marvelous day we’re living in, greatest time of all ages. We’re now living just at the closing of the scene of...
My Angel Shall Go before Thee, 1953-02-16, Tallahassee, FL, §7 Read more →

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In 'the world seeth Me no more, but ye shall see Me', who is 'ye'?

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Jesus said, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. But ye shall see Me.” And “ye” is His church, you. The unbeliever never sees Him. It’s the believer that sees Him. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you to end of the world.”...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1953-02-15, Tallahassee, FL, §8 Read more →

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What brings a Divine promise of God to pass?

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Now, and—and now, here’s another statement I want you to remember, and you—you especially here that’s so sick setting here, these cancer cases and so forth tonight. Look, that, the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. Can you understand what I mean? The righ...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §25 and 1 more answer to this question Read more →

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What does the name El Shaddai mean?

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When He appeared to Abraham when He was a hundred years old, He said, “I am the El Shaddai.” El Shaddai means, El comes from God, Shaddai from shad, means “the—the bosom,” like on a woman. In other words, “Abraham, I am the breasted One. You just come to Me, I know you’re old, and you can’t—you can’...
Expectancy, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §110 and 1 more answer to this question Read more →

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How is the Holy Spirit related to Christ?

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Now, He sits at the right hand of the Father tonight, God Almighty, to make—as a high Priest, to act in our stead (Do you believe that?) to make intercessions upon our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. “He is the high Priest of our confession.” Whatever we confess that He has done…First, we ha...
Do You Now Believe?, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §12 Read more →

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What happened the first time the Name of Jesus Christ was spoken by mortal lips?

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The first time that the Name of Jesus Christ was spoke through mortal lips, caused a dead baby in his mother’s womb to come to life and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. If It’ll do that to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? I don’t understand. Oh, my. He sa...
Led by the Holy Spirit, 1952-07-27, Zion, IL, §27 Read more →

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If Jesus is Jehovah-jireh, is He also Jehovah-rapha?

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But if he said, “No,” then he wasn’t…If he—if he said, “No,” then He wasn’t Jehovah-jireh, the God’s provided Sacrifice. He’s Jehovah…If He isn’t…The redemptive Names of Jehovah, if they are not applied and fulfilled in Jesus, then He is not God’s provided Lamb, and you’re in your sins, and He was a...
Experiences, 1952-07-25, Zion, IL, §28 Read more →

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How can Jesus be the same yesterday, today, and forever if the world sees Him no more?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and do we believe that the Holy Spirit is on earth today? How many believes that? Well, that Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. Is that right? The third Person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. “Yet a little while, the world seeth Me no more,...
Who Has Believed Our Report?, 1952-07-20, Hammond, IN, §25 Read more →

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How can Jesus be 'the same yesterday, today, and forever' while He is seated at the right hand of the Father?

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Is that right? Now, according to Jesus’ own words, which I believe they are the Truth. No one disputes that Saint John 5 is not in…but what’s inspired. And according to His Words, He said, “I do nothing until the Father shows Me what He’s doing. Then what the Father shows Me, that I do.” Is that rig...
God Testifying of His Gifts, 1952-07-13, Hammond, IN, §38 Read more →

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Is God obligated to keep His promises?

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When a Divine promise is made, God is solely under oath and obligation to take care of any of His promises. And His, the…God is worth no more than what His Word is worth. If that Word is not effective, then God is not effective. That is God. Do you believe it? It’s God. The Bible said, “In the begin...
Believing God, 1952-02-24, Jeffersonville, IN, §81 Read more →

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What does the name Jehovah-jireh mean?

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Jehovah-jireh, which was God’s first redemptive Name. Jehovah-jireh means “the Lord will provide a sacrifice.”
Believing God, 1952-02-24, Jeffersonville, IN, §123 Read more →

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What does Hebrews 13:8 mean for the works Jesus does today?

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And the Scripture says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever,” three…Hebrews 13:8. Then Jesus Christ, if He’s the same today as He was yesterday, He still does the same works today that He did yesterday. If He doesn’t, He isn’t Jesus Christ, and His claims is not so.
Our Hope Is in God, 1951-09-29, New York, NY, §58 Read more →

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How is the Word of God related to the Gospel?

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Now, the Gospel, commonly believed, is the Word of God, and that is true in one sense. But the Word of God is not Gospel alone. The Word of God is the Seed that produces the Gospel. Jesus said a sower went forth and sowed seed. And some fell onto the stony places, and some fell by the wayside, and t...
The Church of the Living God, 1951-07-27, Erie, PA, §16 Read more →

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Is God under obligation to keep His Word?

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God is worth no more than His Word. And if His Word is no good, then He is no good. If your word…If I can’t put no confidence in what you say, you’re no good. But you’re just as good as your word is. And God is just as good as His Word is. And I, as a Christian believer, I believe that this Bible is...
The Church of the Living God, 1951-07-27, Erie, PA, §41 Read more →

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Can faith change the predestinated will of God?

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The Spirit of the Lord come into the audience and just sapped my strength. And just as I started to go down, my brother run to me to catch me. And I looked; I seen Congressman Upshaw. And he’d been in meetings ever since he was a lad when he first fell and hurt himself. He wanted to be healed then b...
Who Hath Believed Our Report?, 1951-07-19, Toledo, OH, §6 Read more →

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What do the redemptive names of Jehovah show about whether Jesus heals today?

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So he said…he wouldn’t do it. So the moderator asked, and so he said, “All right, Mr. Best answer me this.” He said, “Was the compound names of Jehovah, Jehovah’s redemptive, compound names, were they applied to Jesus, yes, or no?” Well, that like to shook me off of the seat up there. Well, Mr. Best...
The Angel of the Lord, 1951-07-18, Toledo, OH, §30 Read more →

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Can God break His promise the way a person can?

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Now, Simeon believed because the Holy Ghost had promised him. He was looking for it. If you’re expecting it, you got something behind that you believe that God has promised it, then you got a right to expect it. Is that right? When God promises it… Now, I might break my promise, ’cause I’m a man. An...
Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §27 Read more →

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How was Jesus related to Jehovah?

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He said, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me.” Just as Jehovah…Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was, He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works, It’s My Father th...
As I Was with Moses, 1951-05-03, Los Angeles, CA, §40 Read more →

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Can a man use a gift from God in a way that is not God's will?

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Now, notice. Now, Moses smote the Rock, second time, representing that Christ should come to the earth and die again. Now, he had power to bring forth the Water out of the Rock, whether it was God’s will or not. Did you know that? Everybody will admit that it wasn’t God’s will. But Moses done it any...
The Works That I Do Bear Witness of Me, 1951-04-13, Phoenix, AZ, §35 Read more →

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Does God bring things to pass the way people have mapped them out?

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People have their own beliefs drawed out today what they think that they’re going to be, and the way it’s going to be. It’ll come just as according to that, or they won’t believe it. And that’s the reason they have their way. They thought the way Jesus was coming first…They had it all mapped out. He...
Take the Rod and Gather the People, 1950-08-27, Cleveland, OH, §9 Read more →

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