<TITLE>06. Par 54-61</TITLE>L-54 And watch these magicians. They could bring the lice, but they couldn't take them away. They couldn't heal. They could perform the miracle, but they couldn't perform healing. Healing lays in God alone. And when they called for boils, the Egyptians broke out in boils themselves.
They said, "This is the finger of God." Hallelujah. I think of that finger of God. If God could open a blinded eye by His finger, "this is the finger of God," could do all these things. Look what He did with His finger, He healed the sick and raised the dead. All these things He done with His finger. But when He went after a lost sheep, He never used His finger; He put him on His shoulder and brought him in. Hallelujah. What a security, a lost sheep on His shoulder. Not His finger, He didn't use; He used His shoulder to pack the sheep in.

L-56 Notice. Then God, after fixing Moses, getting him ready, sent out the--the signs, then the last sign we taken last night was death. And we found out, that spiritual death in the church, the last plague now, church drying up, blowing away. That's right. We're living in a horrible time. How that the church, the old-timers that used to really have the victory is losing out, dying time, letting the Blood get off the front of the door. "When I see the Blood I'll pass over you."

L-57 On up they come into the smitten Rock. Notice when they come to the Rock, they had need. Now, Moses smote the Rock with the rod. That's where we left last night. Smote the Rock with the rod, and the rod was God's judgment rod. And he smote the Rock, and there was a cleft in the left side of the Rock. When the children of Israel got hungry, they went there. And a beehive, a bee had got in there and had made a hive, and they got honey out of the Rock. Everything they had need of was in the Rock. The Rock followed the church, and the Rock was Christ Jesus. When they were thirsty, they drank from the Rock. When they were hungry, they ate from the Rock. Wherever they went, the Rock followed them. And the Rock's still following the church. Christ is the Rock that was in the wilderness. Notice now, then, that same Rock...

L-58 No wonder when he came into Jerusalem, they said, "Make him hold his peace, make them hold their peace."
He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks, stones will immediately cry out." What was it? That Chief Cornerstone what come, rolling down among the stones. Something had to take place: rocks crying out.
When the woman that had a blood issue for so many years, she spake to the Rock, and the Rock brought forth healing. When Lazarus was dead, Martha spoke to the Rock, and It brought forth resurrection. When they were upon the seas, stormed about, and little old boat tossed around like a bottle stopper out in the middle of the sea...

L-61 A woman said to me, here not long ago, she said, "Brother Branham," she said, "Jesus wasn't no more than an ordinary man." Said, "He was a prophet, but you try to make Him God."
I said, "He was God. He was either God or a deceiver."
And he said, "Oh, He was a good Man; He was a philosopher. But He couldn't be God; He wasn't Divine."
I said, "He was Divine. He had to be Divine. If He was a man, He was born sexual birth; but He was born a virgin birth, so He was God's Blood. The Bible said we're saved by the Blood of God."
She said, "I'll prove it to you, He wasn't no more than God--no more than a--a--a prophet, and He wasn't Divine."
I said, "If you can prove it by the Bible."
She said, "I'll do it."
I said, "Let's hear your Scripture."
She said, "In St. John the 11th chapter, when Jesus went down that day to the grave of Lazarus..."
I said, "I remember it."
Said, "He cried. The Bible said He wept."
I said, "That's true." I said, "What's that got to do with it?"
She said, "That proves He wasn't Divine, because He could not weep and be Divine."


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