Topic: Worship and ordinances

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I have two boys (one, two; and one, five), and they have been sprinkled. Should they be baptized by immersing?

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Well now sister or brother, whoever you are, that’s up to you. I’ve got a little girl…My little boy, Billy Paul, was sixteen years old, and I baptized him in the Name of the Lord Jesus right here. My little girl was eight years old. She come to me and got up on my lap, and she said, “Daddy, I want t...

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But doesn’t God have respect for the baptism of the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”? Isn’t there people being baptized in the name, in these names, have received the Holy Spirit? Did Jesus come to glorify the Father? Wouldn’t this baptism be recognized?

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Yes, Jesus came to glorify the Father. Look in Saint John the 14th chapter. I’m just about…I got…If you’ll just wait just about three more, we’ll have it over, I believe. Look, then we get some new ones tomorrow, then, ’cause I’ll really get some back from tonight, I believe. Notice, this is church,...

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Brother Bill, please tell me how to—to obtain the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is by prayer, surrendered life, accepting It as we do healing? I know what it is to have faith for healing when you prayed for me here. Do you pray and lay hands on, for the baptism of the Holy Ghost? I was baptized in the name of “the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Please tell me if I should be rebaptized in the Name of Jesus, as you spoke recently. Now, my dear Christian friend, I’m not telling you what to do. I’m only laying the Scripture down. And you know what, how the Holy Ghost can come right now while we’re speaking. The Holy Ghost is a gift of God. See? That’s a gift of God. It could come while we’re speaking. And I’ll tell you, when…If the people was taught right,… Some of you old-timers here, let me ask you something, you old-timers that’s been in the tabernacle. Watch when I baptize people. And you ministers take this for an example. I’ve taught those people till they had that life cleaned up before they went to that water, and I had them believing that God was obligated to keep His promise; as soon as they was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit was right there to receive it. And when they come up out of the water, they received the Holy Ghost. That’s right. If you just…

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Shepherds, teach your sheep, get them in the Bible here. Get away from that old textbook of some church, and get down here in the Bible where God taught, and you won’t have those troubles. Yes, laying on of hands is how we can receive the Holy Ghost, by some anointed person laying on of hands.

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Will you please tell us how our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ expects us to come into the house of our Lord to worship?

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All right, that’s a good one. That’s a very essential one to any church. God expects you to come to the church house…Now, that’s just a question, just a right out question. It isn’t a Scriptural; it…yet it is. Wait, I’ll tell you what He said. The first place, if you want Scripture, the people are s...

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Question: Why should a vision of God come before me when I was about to take the Communion at my church? Over. (Well, it’s just a lady’s name; yes, it’s a lady’s name,) A…Why should a vision of God come before me when I was about to take the Communion at my church?

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Well, I wouldn’t know, sister, unless it was this: If you seen Jesus Christ appear in a vision at your church when you were taking the Communion, He was letting you know this: that you were taking Him in a symbol. The Communion is to represent the body of Jesus Christ; and you were taking Him as a s...

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I was baptized at the age of thirteen. Should I be again?

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Now, that’s a—that’s a nice little question to ask. Well, now, friend, I always leave that to the person. Remember, I don’t know…There’s one that I do know who wrote it, that’s this one right here, and the man handed it to me himself. And somebody asked me a question back there that I should answer...

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Can a person be made a prophet by the laying on of hands?

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But when the gift of prophecy is operating, it cannot be received unless two or three judge it, to see whether it’s right or not. But a prophet, singular, p-r-o-p-h-e-t is borned a prophet, comes up a prophet. Everything he says in the Name of the Lord is absolutely truth, if he’s prophesying. Now,...

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Can music in church help bring the Spirit of God?

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“Yes.” Said, “This fellow poured water on Elisha’s hands. He’s a real proph…” Yeah, he was. He’d been in good company. Said, “Go get him.” So they got on their chariot, and away they went, and stood before the prophet’s house. He come out, and he looked at them kindy angry. He looked all around; he...

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Was Jesus born on December 25th?

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So in the days when Jesus was born, they didn’t have press, and so forth, like we have today, and radio, and television. News just come merely from lip to ear. And when Jesus was born, some magis was watching for the Star of Jacob to rise, so they followed it over from the Orients and worshipped Him...

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Will a true Angel of God accept worship?

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Now tonight, God is still God. And now, when God led the children of Israel out, He brought down an Angel. God has always used Angels in His work. There’s never been an Angel of God worshipped, for he wouldn’t stand for it, a true Angel of God doesn’t stand to be worshipped. But God has had Angels t...

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What does the word 'God' mean?

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Let’s say, “Praise be to God. “Praise be to God.” God is…The word “God,” means object of worship. See? And God wants to be worshipped. Jesus said, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in” what? Spirit and in truth. Truth, what is Truth? He said, “I am the Truth.” And here He...

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Does the Bible support having music in church?

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All right, is there a piano player somewhere, or some…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Now, I want you to believe tonight, friends, all with one accord. And if you will, my sister, sing—play softly, “Only Believe,” if you will, or “Abide with Me,” something like that. How many believes that the Spirit of Go...

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Why are hands laid on the sick?

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Now, Elijah knew that everything he touched was blessed. But now, if he could get the woman to believe it. I think that’s where Paul got his handkerchiefs. See? He knowed God was in Him. And Elijah knew what he blessed, what he put his hands on was blessed. That’s why we have the order of laying han...

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What does the word 'hallelujah' mean?

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Hallelujah! Don’t get excited at hallelujah. It means “praise our God.” There ever was a morning the hallelujahs ought to ring from people, is this morning. That’s right. Praise our God, for every shadow of death taken away. He lives.

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Can spiritual gifts be imparted by the laying on of hands?

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Now, that man can’t help because he doesn’t dream. Neither can you help because you do dream. Now, look. God made you that way. Is that right? Now, what if I told you, “Dream me a dream.” Could you do it? No, sir. Yet, you dream dreams. But I say, “Dream me a dream.” You can’t do it. The one who put...

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Do gifts from God come by the laying on of hands?

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Now, I was born by a gift. Those gifts don’t come by laying on of hands. Those gifts come by the sovereignty of God. Gifts and calling are without repentance. They was foreordained of God to be. Gifts are born. Jesus Christ in the garden of Eden, He was the woman’s Seed that would bruise the serpent...

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Is music in the church wrong?

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You know, someone told me a long—not long ago, said, “Brother Branham, music in the church is wrong.” I said, “It is?” I said, “Do you think God changes in nature?” “No.” I said, “Then, when the prophet got all stewed up and they said, ‘Bring a minstrel,’ and when the minstrel begin to play, the han...

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Do church joining or forms of baptism save a person?

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Not long ago I seen a picture in a paper advertising Sinclair gasoline, said that one gallon of Sinclair gasoline in a big enough motor could lift the Sphinx so high off the ground. I said, “Looky there, they’re advertising that around the world.” I said, “And one drop of the Blood of Jesus Christ w...

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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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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...