<TITLE>25. Par 88-92</TITLE>L-88 And she said, "Why, He couldn't have been."
I said, "He was." I said, "Look. He was a man when He was crying going down to the grave, was standing there brushing back those tears, out of those blue eyes. He looked, throwed His head back, looked over there, and there laid a man that was in the grave dead, his soul four day's journey somewhere, his body rot: The nose had done fell in; the hands had turned black, and the bugs eating through him. Standing there, pulled His little frame up ('cause the Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him.), pulled His little Self together. He wasn't a great, big seven footer; but He pulled Hisself together. And He said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again." I said, "That was more than a man." That was God speaking out of His Son. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Do you believe that?

L-89 Yes, sir. That was a... One time He come down off the mountain, and he was hungry, been up at Jerusalem, been fussing with Him, and everything. He come down He was looking for something to eat. He went to a tree. There wasn't any fruit on that tree. And He couldn't find nothing. He was hungering like a man, and He couldn't find nothing to eat.
But just after that He taken five little fishes, and two pieces of biscuit, or something and fed five thousand people. That was a Man when He was hungering looking for something to eat on the tree, but it was God that taken those fish and biscuits and broke it and fed five thousand. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Yes, sir.

L-90 He was a Man out there on that boat that night, when it was pitched around like a little bottle stopper on a sea, when ten thousand devils of sea swore they would drowned Him, Him out there asleep. He was so weak, the virtue had went out of Him. And He was so tired from healing, and going on that day, until maybe the devil said, "We got Him out here asleep, now, we will drown Him." When He was laying back there, and the waves didn't even disturb Him, He was a Man when He was laying down on that boat asleep. But when He walked up there, when they woke Him, He put His foot upon the brail of the boat said, "Peace be still." And the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man. That was God speaking through mortal lips, His Son. Hallelujah.
And what Christ was then, we have positionally the same powers today. Grant it in Christ Jesus. Where's the faith of the church? "Believeth thou this?"

L-91 He was a man when He cried at Calvary for peace, or mercy from God. He cried, "My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man when He was crying. But... And when He died, He was a man. But when He rose on Easter morning, He broke the seals of death and hell. Brother, He come forth, put His foot upon the devil's throat, and took the keys of death and hell, burst forth from the grave and come out. He proved that He was God. Yes, sir.
When He was on earth, He looked like God, He act like God, He preached like God, He healed like God; He was God, God in the flesh. Yes, sir. Now, I believe Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believest thou this?

L-92 I believe there's a woman one time that spent all her money for a doctor. She could be cured of none of them. But down in her heart she said, "If I could ever get in contact with that Man, I'd be healed."
One morning, as you desire so will it be, a little boat pushed into the bushes, and there was that little woman down there, come down touched the hem of His garment, was made well of her plague. Believest thou this?
I believe--I believe an old blind beggar stood on the street trying to beg for alms. And Jesus came by; He spoke to him and give him his sight. I believe that same Jesus was then, is today. Do you believest thou this?


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