<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Today, when you are trying to make Jesus just merely a man... Oh, that makes my insides feel funny. Saying that, "Jesus, just a prophet. Just a man." He was God Himself, none other than the Almighty Jehovah inveiled in flesh. If it wasn't, it was the biggest false the world ever had.
A woman, belonging to a certain church, a Christian Science church, that said to me recently, she said, "Reverend Branham, you put to much emphasis on Jesus being deity."
I said, "He was God."
She said, "Now, Reverend Branham," she said, "you know He was just a prophet."
I said, "No, He wasn't. He was God."
She said, "If I prove to you He wasn't Divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "How are you going to prove it?"
She said, "By the Bible."
I said, "Sure." Yes, sir. If the Bible said He wasn't Divine, He wasn't. I believe the Bible. For there is no other foundation but this right here, the Bible.
And she said, "I will prove it by the Bible that He wasn't Divine."
I said, "All right. Where's your Scripture?"
She said, "Saint John the 11th chapter."
Well, I said, "Whereabouts in there do you see that said He wasn't Divine?"
Said, "When he went to the grave of Lazarus." Said, "The Bible said, 'He wept.'" Said, "That proves that He was a man. He wasn't Divine, or He couldn't weep."

L-18 I said, "Lady, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "You haven't got a bit of room." I said, "He was a Man, but He was God also. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." I said, "When He stood by the grave, certainly, He wept like a man. But when He looked out there, and straightened His little body up, not much to look upon, the Bible said, 'There's no beauty we should desire Him,' but when He looked out there to the grave, a man that'd been dead and in the grave, and the skin worms crawling in and out of him, He said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that had been dead for four days, and his soul a four day's journey out somewhere come to life and stood on his feet again. That was more than a man."
Yes, sir. Corruption knew its Master, life knew its Maker. And a man that was rotting in the grave come back as a normal living man, and set and eat with mankind. That was more than a man. That was God in a man.

L-19 Surely... He come down off a mountain one night, one morning rather, hungry, looking around over a fig tree to find something to eat. He was hungered. He was a man when He was hungered. But, when He took five biscuits, and two little fishes, and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God, a God Man. Truly.
He was a man out there that night when He was so tired and the virtue going out of Him from healing the sick and so forth through the day, and God the Father speaking through Him with visions and so forth. He was out on the troubled sea. The little ship tossed about like a bottle stopper, ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him that night. And He was so tired, He was laying in the stern of the boat; even the waves didn't wake Him up. He was a man laying there tired. But when He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up, and said, "Peace, be still," and the wind and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was a Ruler of heavens and earth speaking through those mortal lips. Truly.


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