<TITLE>08. Par 79-89</TITLE>L-79 A woman said not long ago, as I've said this many times. She said, "He wasn't Divine, Brother Branham." A Christian Science woman, she said, "He was only a man." Said, "He was just a man."
I said, "He was more than a man. He was God." I said, "He was either God or a deceiver."
She said, "Well, because He cried at the grave of Lazarus He proved that He wasn't nothing but a man."
I said, "When He was crying, He cried like a man. But when He rose the dead, He proved He was God. That's right. I said "When He was hungry, He hungered like a man."

L-83 But could you imagine a man standing around a fig tree trying to find something to eat, and a few days later, picked up a few biscuits, about two biscuits and two or three pieces of fish, and fed five thousand people with cooked fish?
Could you imagine a man standing on Calvary, hanging there between the heaven and the earth, crying, "I thirst, I thirst"; and turned even water to wine, the very Creator of--of the water, standing there, screaming for water?
He become sin for us, that we in His poverty--poverty might be made rich. He... In His death He died like a sinner; that us in our death, could die sons and daughters of God.

L-86 I think of what a difference between deaths. Old Daddy Hayes down here when he was dying, he called his children to the bedside. And there, he had been laying in a coma for two or three days. He had a byword; he said, "Dear, bless my soul!" He was all... He called his children to the bedside. Long, white, flowing beard; he said, "Dear, bless my soul! You thought Daddy Haye was dead." He said, "I'll never die. Because Jesus lives, live also." And there he blessed each one of his children.
Said, "Raise up my hands." He couldn't hold his hands up. And one of his boys got on one side, raised that hand, the other one raised that hand. He begin to sing. As his eyes begin to look up towards heaven, he said,
Happy day, happy day, 
Since Jesus washed my sins away!
He taught me how to--to pray
And live rejoicing every day.
And closed his eyes and went out to meet God. I tell you, that's the way I want to go. That's the way. Let me die in Jesus Christ.

L-88 Then when His disciples had seen that, all the disappointments and everything, that--that--that He had, looked like, had let them down. They all started to go back fishing. One went back to his work, and the other one went back this way.

L-89 Now, we want to start this morning on tomb. Then after His resurrection, Mary, Martha, and the Mary--the Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Jesus... It was early one morning. They kept His body in the ground over the Sabbath, which was a customary that they didn't do anything on the Sabbath day. So He died Friday afternoon at three o'clock, and rose up real early Sunday morning.
Now, I want to settle this question, while you're here this morning in this sunrise service. Many people says, "How comes then that He said that He would lay... He was in the grave, three days and nights?" He never said He would do that.
He said, "Within these three days will I raise up my body." See? Now, the reason He did that is because David had said, one place in the Scripture, "I'll not leave his soul in hell; neither will I suffer my holy One to see corruption." And He knew that corruption set in the human body after seventy-two hours, three days and nights. And sometime within that three days and nights, God was going to raise Him up. So He died on Friday afternoon at three o'clock and rose up early Sunday morning.


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