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=Video - Falling From Grace= | |||
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=Questions and Answers on Falling from Grace= | |||
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Paul did not say "my grace", he pointed to "his grace", the grace of Christ Jesus. | Paul did not say "my grace", he pointed to "his grace", the grace of Christ Jesus. | ||
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William Branham said that he preached the same message that Paul preached. In a vision of a heavenly place, he hears his converts shouting “We are resting on that!” | |||
So let’s compare Paul’s doctrine of “Falling from Grace” with what William Branham taught. | |||
Paul wrote in the letter to the Galatians that “whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” | |||
He asked them - “having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” | |||
In 1963 William Branham said: | |||
:''Any boy walk around with his britches hanging off his hips, and head hanging back, and his hair hanging down his neck like a Mrs. Kennedy's water-head haircut, and going around like that, as a hoodlum, and then call that American? You've fallen from grace.'' (THE WAY OF A TRUE PROPHET PHOENIX,AZ 63-0119) | |||
Then in 1965 he stated: | |||
:''Modern church and their theological paint, have their women all with their glory shaved off, by their some ricky and a pastor that they got, like a Jezebel if there ever was one. Bobbed hair, shorts, paints, all fixed up in a theological taste, that's the way the church stand. Right. But her spiritual character is far from that being the homemaker that Jesus Christ is coming to receive.'' | |||
:''If any Christian would marry a woman like that, it shows he's fallen from grace.'' (THE CHOOSING OF A BRIDE 65-0429E) | |||
So Paul, teaches that when you replace the Holy Spirit with laws and regulations, you fall from grace. That’s why he wrote: | |||
:''“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”'' | |||
William Branham, on the other hand, claimed that a person’s outward appearance tells whether they have fallen from grace. Dressing according to William Branham’s standard of what was right is obedience to a law – it is a yoke of bondage that cannot make anyone perfect. You can’t be perfect by the flesh. What justifies us is believing that Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins. | |||
Nothing More. | |||
So William Branham taught a different gospel than Paul with regards to what it means to fall from grace. | |||
Paul taught in Romans that “The just shall live by faith” | |||
The Book of Hebrews says that we are “sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” | |||
And the book of Galatians tells us that we “receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” | |||
This is the gospel that Paul preached – it is a gospel of grace, deliverance and inheritance through faith in Jesus Christ. | |||
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[[Mixing Law and Grace]] | [[Mixing Law and Grace]] |