Topic: What sin is

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What is the difference between sin and the attributes of sin?

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…out a prayer card. That’s right. Do you believe? All right, just let that group walk right down here first to the platform—just them without a prayer card. Now, I’m going to get the prayer cards just in a minute. We’ll comb right through the building; we want to get everyone prayed for that we can....

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Is it a sin to disbelieve?

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But the only thing this is to do is to glorify God and to reveal Jesus Christ, that…When He was here on earth, He did this very same thing. All Bible readers believe that, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And He said, “When I go away, and I’ll come again. A little while and the world wi...

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Romans 7:14-18, “We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do—not: for what I would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I (c-a-n-…) un—unto the law, consent to the law, that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” This I cannot understand.

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Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that’s Paul speaking to the Romans. Now he said…Let me just kind of polish it up so you can see. He said, “In me is two persons: right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other wants me to do. And every time I start to do right, then the wrong hinders me.” How many o...

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You said that a person could live so close to God that he could not sin while here on this earth. Then explain First John 1:8 to 10.

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Let’s see First John 1:8 to 10. If I had a little more time to look these…I had it, but I just didn’t take it, friends. I—I was trying to—to get out…Well, I’ll find John after a while. It’ll—it’ll be on the other side of Hebrews, of course. All right. First John 1:8 to 10—First John 1:8 to 10. If we...

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Now, here is another one; let’s see what it is. All right. Please explain the parable of the five virgins. Does a Christian sin?

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Now, the parable of the five virgins—or the ten virgins it is, please excuse me. The ten virgins is found in Matthew 25:1. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom (now notice!), and five of them were wise and had oil in their lamps, five were unwise and did not have oil in their lamps. While the...

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Will you please explain what it means by, “Sinneth not” in First John 5:18? My, we’re right at it, I believe here. Maybe it…Got it; turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, First John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;…

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Certainly not! I just went through that. He can’t sin; he’s born of God. “Sinneth not,” he can’t sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God…David spoke, rather, years ago and said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin t...

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Is being tempted the same thing as sinning?

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Paul said in Hebrews the 12th chapter, “Seeing that we’re compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every sin, every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us.” Now, he said, “Well now, Daniel had Angel, and so forth.” But said, “The New Testament does not support...

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Is lying or stealing itself sin, or is sin something else?

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Now, sin is not just moral habits you know. Some things, a lot of them say, “Well, this man smokes, that’s a sin.” No, it ain’t. It ain’t a smoke…for him to lie. It ain’t—it ain’t no sin for him to lie, for him to steal. That’s not sin. That’s the attributes of sin. That…he does that because he’s a...

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What is the connection between sin and sickness?

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Now what that represented: Now, the first thing, the people had sinned, and were dying of sickness. Now, watch this compound reason, now. They were…sinned, and were dying of sickness because of sin; and all sin is direct, or, either direct caused…all sickness, rather, caused by sin. Before we had an...

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Is all sickness caused by sin?

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And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so. Notice. And so God put up this—...

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Is drinking, smoking or adultery a sin in itself?

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I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of “sin.” I said, “Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery’s not a sin.” A lady raised up and said, “Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?” I said, “That’s the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That...

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Are drinking, smoking and gambling sins?

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As I said last night. Drinking, smoking, gambling, all those things isn’t sin. It isn’t a sin to gamble, it isn’t, or, gambling isn’t sin, rather, smoking isn’t sin, drinking isn’t sin, swearing isn’t sin, it’s a attribute of sin! Because you’re a sinner, that’s the reason you do it. If you was a Ch...

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What does 'go and sin no more' mean?

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Now, the Bible said, “Go and sin no more, or a worse thing would come upon you.” Is that right? That means, “Go and disbelieve any more.” Sin is unbelief. See? That’s the first thing. That’s all there is to it, is unbelief, is sin. ’Cause when you believe… Jesus said, “He that believeth shall not be...

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Does it matter how close you get to sin, as long as you don't actually sin?

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You remember…How many remembers old toboggan slides? See? You kept sliding around—laid the toboggan down and slide around and see how close you could come. All at once, gone. It ain’t how close you can walk to sin without sinning; it’s how far you can stay away from it. The old Scotchman said, one t...

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What does it mean that 'the worshipper once purged' has no more desire of sin?

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Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the whole thing is because of unbelief. ’Cause if you believe God, and Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do those things. You believe that? “He that’s born of God does not commit sin.” See? All right. You must believe. The w...

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What is iniquity?

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Jesus said, “Many will come and say, ‘Lord, have not I…’” He said, “I didn’t know you.” No, you never…See? Many will confess and say, “I have cast out devils in Thy Name, and in Thy Name I prophesied,” preachers and so forth, and everything. He’d say, “Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I didn...

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Does even a small sin need to be confessed?

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But the least sin should be confessed, always, no matter what, how little it looks to you, it’s sin in the sight of God. Look how little the first sin was, but look what it did to the human race. When the first sin was committed, look at the difference. When the message came to Heaven that, “Your so...

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What caused the first sin in heaven?

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And remember, in glory the first thing that ever caused the first sin, that Satan wanted a little better things than what Michael had, went over and set himself up a—a better, beau—more beautiful kingdom. See? That’s beauty. Here it falls right down into his son, Cain, coming right on down. And he d...

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How did Brother Branham define sin?

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What is sin? What is sin? Not drinking, not smoking, not gambling, not rejecting church. Sin is unbelief. Is that right? He that believeth not is condemned already. See? You’re not…You do not…You’re not destroyed or separated from God because you’re a sinner. You’re separated to God—from God because...