Topic: Worldly influence

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Brother Branham, is it wrong to grow—to grow and work in tobacco? I don’t believe I got that.

Answer

Now, I’m against tobacco. I’m against the use of tobacco; any born again Christian will be; that’s all, because it’s wrong. We know that even the medical science say that’s what starts most of throat and—and lung cancer, is—is tobacco. They say, “Smoke filtered cigarettes.” Now, to you men and wome...

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This is a…I have a lunch counter and serve high school children for the most part. Since coming into the Light, I have taken the pinball machine and the (the jukebox; they got) j-box out. The youngsters do smoke and they want the rock-and-roll music on the—on the radio. I open only about four hours a day. I do not—I do not uphold smoking or drinking, but I am worried in holding the place.

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You know, that’s a problem. See? The thing of it is, that you are—you are…maybe have to make a living. But you know what that would do for me? That’d make me so nervous I couldn’t…I—I—that…You might be able to put up with it, but that little bunch of “Rickys” in there carrying on like that, and “Ric...

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Brother Branham, is there anything wrong with belonging to a lodge after we have become a Christian, such as the Masons?

Answer

No, sir! You be a Christian wherever you are. I don’t care where you are, you can still be a Christian.

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The first question tonight: Brother Branham, I think television is a curse to the world. What do you think about it?

Answer

Well, ever who wrote it, I’m going to agree with you. They have made it a curse to the world. It could be a blessing to the world, but they’ve made it a curse. Anything like that, my dear people, is what you look at yourself. If the television is a curse, then the newspaper is a curse, then the radi...

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Brother Bill, does the Bible say anything about gambling?

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Yes, It does, but I can’t call it right now. I know the soldiers gambled for His garments, and so forth like that, but I can’t say.

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What did government statistics say about nursing babies and mothers who smoke?

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Now, I’m not here to preach the Gospel. These…There are ministers here do that. But let me tell you something, women: it’s a disgrace to the world. See her with…When I get statistics from the government, shows that eighty percent of the babies that’s born has to be raised on cows milk. If they nurse...

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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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Does a saved person still desire the things of the world?

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Then you say, “Brother Branham, then if I’m saved, glory to God, I can do what I want to.” Yes, sir. And if you are saved, brother, you have no desire of nothing of the world. And your whole heart’s centered on That, you can’t keep away from It. But as long as there’s a tug there, you know there’s s...

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What slogan did Brother Branham write in the back of his Bible about smoking and drinking?

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I made a little, put a little slogan in the back of my Bible. I picked it up here a few days ago, was looking at it, a little bitty old Bible. I said, Don’t ask me foolish questions, Just make this up in your mind, If you love the Lord with all your heart, You don’t smoke, chew, or drink any ’shine.

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Does a person have to quit smoking before receiving Christ?

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I tell you one thing, you get the Holy Spirit, and then you can go ahead and smoke after you get the Holy Spirit. Someone said to me the other day, “Did you ever baptize anybody that smoked?” I said, “Look here, brother, I have a yardstick at my church. (See?) I teach the people what’s the truth, an...