<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 If I told you the spirit of a painter was in me, you'd expect me to paint the picture like a painter. If I told you the spirit of a criminal was in me... (yes some bad men)..., you'd expect me to have big guns. I'd be dangerous to be around. So the spirit of a criminal would be in me.
And if the church says that the Spirit of Christ is in them, then Christ will do the works in His church that He did when He was here on earth; for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He said a... Amen. He said, "A little while and the unbelievers will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me."
Now, there's going to be unbelievers to the end of the world. And there's going to be "Ye's" ...(Ye--Ye. You see?)... ye to the end of the world. ...(Ye, the believers.)... Aren't you glad you're a "ye"? God has promised. I believe Jesus Christ the Son of God was born of the virgin Mary. I believe that Almighty God overshadowed the virgin Mary and created a blood cell that formed the Son of God. Do you believe that? That's the only way that you can be saved. Today when people say, "Oh, He was just a prophet, he was a good man," that's wrong. He was Divine. He was God manifested in flesh.

L-25 You... Recently, a Christian Science woman, that--she said, "Reverend Branham, you put too much emphasis on Christ. You make him divine. He wasn't divine," she said. "He was a good man. He was a teacher and a prophet, but He wasn't divine."
I said, "He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world ever had." I said, "Do you..."
She said, "If I'll prove to you by the Bible (You said you was a fundamentalist.), that He was only a man, will you accept it?"
I said, "If the Bible says He was just a man and wasn't Divine, I would believe it. But the Bible doesn't say so."
She said, "I can prove it."
I said, "Go ahead."
And she said, "You know in St. John 11," said, "when Jesus was going to the grave of Lazarus, why, the Bible said he wept. Why," she said, "that proves that he was only a man," said, "because He could cry."
That's the way with the carnal mind; they don't see the supernatural. I said, "Lady, your--your argument's too thin. When He went down to the grave, He wept like a man. He wept like a man. But when He called a man that had been dead four days and laying in a grave, and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was God." See?

L-26 When He come down off the mountain, He was hungry like a man. He was looking over a tree for something to eat. That was a man that was hungry. But when He taken five loaves and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a man; that was God.
He was a man when He was laying in that ship that night, so tired that the big waves didn't wake Him up. I believe ten thousand devils of the sea swore to drowned Him. He was... That little old boat was tossed around like a stopper, like a--a piece of cork on the water. The devil said, "I got him now." He was a man laying there asleep. But when He woke up, put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up towards heaven, He said, "Peace--peace be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that's more than a man; that was God. Amen.
When He died at Calvary, He screamed for help. That was a man. But when He rose up Easter morning, that proved He was God. Amen. And He's alive tonight, He's the--the same Lord Jesus. Praise be to His holy Name.
You say, "Brother Branham, you're excited." You get born again; you feel the same way. Oh, it's wonderful: everlasting life. How I thank Him to see Him moving, do great signs and wonders.
All the cold and different religions of Buddha and a--all those other religions failed in His Presence. He is the One Who raised from the dead and lives the same and does the same. He gave His Blood that you might have fellowship with Him, you live in His Presence.


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