<TITLE>26. Par 69-72</TITLE>L-69 "I believe, though he's dead, he's rottening out there in the grave; he's been dead for four days. I hold nothing against nothing. I don't even think about it no more. You are the Son of God that was to come into the world, and I believe whatever You ask God, God's going to do it. Oh, my.
Said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this?"
She said, "Yes, Lord."
"Where have you buried him?" Here He goes. Oh. Four days before that that funeral procession, a few little Jews, broken hearted, crying, Jesus cried as He went down to the grave. Is that right?

L-70 Here not long ago, a fine reader out of a certain church come to me, and she said, "Brother Branham, you put too much bragging on Jesus."
I said, "Brag too much on Him? I can't say enough about Him." ...?...
She said, "Oh, he was just a man. He was a philosopher."
I said, "He was God, is Who He was."
She said, "Oh, no. He wasn't divine, Brother Branham." Said, "He wasn't divine."
I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself."
She said, "Oh, in a manner of his love and so forth, he was God."
I said, "No, He was Jehovah." People try to push Him around, saying He's just good man, an ordinary man. He was the divine One, God manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, preached on, received up into the heavens, setting at the right hand of the Father. Certainly, He was God. He was more than a man. He was a God-man. He was Man in flesh but He was God in Spirit. That's what He was, God coming down to suffer temptation and martyrdom, to take sins upon Himself, that he'd passed on the human race, bearing our sins Himself.

L-71 She said, "I can prove to you by the Bible if you'll just open up your mind that he was only a man."
I said, "Do it by the Bible and I'll believe it."
She said, "When he went down to that resurrection of Lazarus..." said, "On his road down there, he cried with the rest the people. The Bible said, 'Jesus wept.' And that proved that he was a mortal."
Yes, I said, "He might've cried. That's true. On His road down to meet Lazarus, He was human as far as human is concerned. In His flesh He was human, but is His Spirit He was God." I said, "He cried. That was a Man crying. He was Man when He was crying, going down to Lazarus' grave, but when He stood there, and straightened that little frame up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that'd been dead four days come to life again, that was more than a man. That was God speaking through there." Hallelujah. God was in His Son. That was God speaking through mortal flesh. Corruption knew its Master. Believest thou this?

L-72 He was Man when He was up there on that mountain that night, come down and looked all around that little fig tree there and there wasn't nothing to eat. He was hungry. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two fishes and fed five thousand people, that was more than a man; that God in the Man." Hallelujah.
He was a man when He laid on the back of that little boat that night, when ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drowned Him. The little old storm come up, and the little boat pitching like a bottle stopper out there on that lake, like that. Devil said, "We'll drown Him tonight."
He was so tired; virtue had gone out of Him all day from preaching and healing, till He was so tired the storm didn't wake Him up. But when the disciples woke Him, He was a man laying there sleeping. When He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, said, "Peace, be stilled," there that was more than a man. That was God speaking through His Son. Hallelujah. Yes, it was. Believest thou this?


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