<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 He said, "Why are you so slothful of heart? Why are you so foolish? Didn't you believe the prophets?" Oh, my. "Can't you believe the Word?" Said, "Don't you know that all the prophets said that Christ must suffer first and then enter into His glory?" And He begin with Moses (That's Genesis.) and explained to them, as He walked along the road, all the precepts of the Old Testament, what was to take place.
Wouldn't you like to been in company there that morning? But you are this morning. He's just as alive today as He was then. He said, "I am He Who was dead and is alive forevermore, and because I live ye shall live also."

L-34 You're... Not only is He here alive, but you're alive with Him. The great hope that you have within your heart makes you alive. Well, even death itself has nothing that can shadow that beautiful hope that rests yonder in Christ Jesus to every believer. "Though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die," He said.
Oh, when He went to the grave of Lazarus these words was spoken in Saint John 11.
Now, as He walked along, and after while He made out like He was going to go on a past the little place. You know, sometimes He does that. Have you ever thought of that, mother, you in the wheelchair, it looked like He was just going to pass you by? You ever think of it, brother, sister, you people out there that's turned down today by cancer? The doctors turned you down; nothing they can do.

L-35 You that say, "Well, if that woman setting there was just a shadow, and the best of doctors and the cancer was in the uterus, first," wasn't it, sister? Went into the spine and even the holes was eat through her intestinal tracts and things.
"How could she live?" That's what her doctor said to me, "How can she live?"
I said, "Because He lives." That's why. It isn't for me to question. It's for me to believe it. That's right.
Said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, sister, I've never been in your place, but there's a little chicken house back here. In three days you'll visit it." She did. That's right. She's here yet this morning because He lives. He made out like He was going to let her die.
When I come to her house, she said, "Preacher, I'm not worthy that a minister would come into my house." Said, "I'm a sinner."

L-36 I said, "That's what Jesus died for, for you sinners." His reputation's made where sinners are. That's right. His reputation's not hurt by sinners. It's made by sinners. It's self-righteousness where He is hurt (That's right.), if you won't humble yourself to Him.
Notice. And He made like He would pass by. Dad, you with the heart trouble, mother you with the cancer that's going to die. You know you got to die. Maybe... You say, "Well, I've been a Christian all my life, Brother Branham. Why would it happen? I've asked Him." But maybe He just made like He was going to go by.
That's what He done to Cleopas and them. He said... Made out like that... He knowed all the time He was going in. He knowed all the time He was going with them. So He said... They act like He was going on by, and they constrained Him. "Come in. We love You." That's the way. "Come in and abide with us."


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