January 2009 Newsletter - Questions & Answers
Featured Questions & Answers
		QUESTION:
			At what age may children partake of Communion, and how does one know when they are ready?
ANSWER:
		    “Brother Huckstra here, I...  He's been a bosom friend of mine for years. I remember the first time I met  Brother Huckstra. In Indianapolis, Indiana, there was a boy dying with polio in  the iron lung. And I went into the upper room of the man's house and prayed.  The Lord came down and give a vision and said to--what was the matter with the  boy--to take him the communion, because one time he'd been refused to take the  communion on account of his age. And they had no communion at this house, so I  went to Brother Huckstra's, and he furnished the communion. I take it and give  it to the boy in the iron lung and pronounced the blessings of God on him and  the boy's living in Indianapolis today. We thank the good Lord for His mercy  for that.” [Do You Now Believe 54-0725]
	        	
			“As we would have to hurry  right straight to the text now on account of communion service. And that's our  part. Every man now, and woman, boy or girl, that calls on the Name of Jesus,  fix your hearts now for preparation for the Lord's supper. Oh, it's a wonderful  thing. God said, Jesus Christ said, "If you... He that eats My flesh,  drinks My Blood, has Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day.  And he that eateth not, has no part with Me. And he that eateth and drinketh  unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself." What a time. Now, let's  prepare for this great glorious event in a few moments. One of the greatest  that, I think, we have in the tabernacle is the communion night.” [Jubilee Year 54-1003e]
			“May God help us tonight,  friends, as we're coming to the Communion table to remember that. No matter  what outward we do, how many good things we do... You say, "Well, Brother  Branham, I go to church. I try to live the best that I can." Good. There's  nothing against that, brother. "I have spoke with tongues, Brother  Branham. I've shouted in the Spirit." That's good. But that's not what I'm  talking about, brother. That still isn't it. That isn't what I'm speaking of. I'm  talking of that still small voice, that something rich and royal. That I used  to see in the old mammies, when come down the aisle here years ago, the tears  streaming from their cheeks when one sinner boy would raise up to come to the  altar. Today, I make a call, and see a boy come, they set and pop their chewing  gum. What's the matter? He... We're lost the hear of that. What have you heard?  What hearest thou?” [What Does Thou Here  59-0301e]
		“And she said,  "Well," said, "I don't know what to ask, Brother Branham."  She said... She had two teen-age boys. And talk about renegades, they were, and  so, just giving her heartaches all the time, poor little widowed mother. And  so, her husband, I married she to her husband. And they were... Her husband had  gotten killed on a tractor. And those boys had just gone wild. And she said,  "Well, the salvation of my two boys." I said, "I give you those  two boys in the Name of Jesus Christ." And both of them fell across her  lap, come to Christ. Now, Brother Banks Woods is somewhere setting here in this  building, tonight, that was present to see that happen. Both them boys are  fine. They taken feet-washing all the time, communion at church, and when we're  taking feet-washing, the one that's washing the feet, we lay our hands over on  them and pray. That little fellow the other night, about fourteen years old,  our pastor, Brother Neville, he had his hands on him, praying for him, the  cutest little thing.” [Only Believe  61-0427]
			“And now in dedication of  children, many of the people, the Methodists sprinkle them. And--and I think  they have their first communion in the Catholic church, or Lutheran, along about  twelve years old, and kind of a--a baptismal service when they're born. I--I  think the babies are sprinkled. And--and I think that split the Nazarene from  the Methodist, many years ago, in infant baptism. I think that's right, Brother  Brown. I--I--I believe that that was what split the Methodist church and the  Nazarene, 'cause the Nazarene didn't accept infant baptism. But to us, here at  the tabernacle, if we are going to stay with what the Bible said, there is no  place in the Bible where they ever did sprinkle anybody, let alone a baby, not  even an adult. But they... The Bible says, the only place of our Bible for the  children, "They brought infants to Jesus, and He... that He might put His  hands upon them and bless them." And He said, "Suffer little children  to come to Me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." [Standing In The Gap 63-0623m]
			 “And her boys was even snickering and  laughing. And she said, "The greatest desire I have is the salvation of my  two sons."  I said, "I give  them to you, in the Name of Jesus Christ," and there they went.  And they been faithful in this church, with  communion, them little fellows sitting there washing feet with the man, and  things like that. We all are witness of that. She had a real choice. Her mother  has to die, so does she, all of them. But what she asked will be Eternal, and  the salvation of her children. That was the third time it happened.” [Look Away To Jesus 63-1229e]
			“No man, no person, no  woman, boy, girl, I don't care who he is, is fit to go in the pulpit, or even  claim to be a Christian, without being filled with the Holy Ghost. You have no  right to the Lord's supper, or any communion, feet-washing, or anything, until  you've been cleansed by the Holy Fire of God. No man has a right to preach  unless you, like Moses, meets Him out there on that sacred grounds, that Pillar  of Fire hanging there, where he knows where he's at.” [The Future Home 64-0802]
			[Answers provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Lynden, Washington]
			