<TITLE>18. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 God is in His Son. You [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that? You believe God's in His universe? You believe God's in His Word? Now, God is in His Son. Now, quickly we'll go. God's in His Son. Now, God is in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

L-75 Here recently, a woman belonging to a certain church... I'm not making no light remarks; it's Christian Science. But I don't mean to harm you; I don't talk about anybody's religion. But look, that woman said to me; she said, "Reverend Branham, there's one fault you have you ought not to do."
And I said, "What?"
She said, "You brag too much on Jesus."
I said, "I couldn't brag half enough for Him."
She said, "You put too much emphasis on Him on being Deity."
I said, "He was Deity. He was God."
She said, "Oh, Reverend Branham," said, "surely, a man of your caliber ought to know better."
I said, "No, Ma'am, I don't know any better. And I hope I never know any different. If I do, I'm out of my mind."
She said, "Do you mean to tell me that He was Divine?"
I said, "He was Divine."
She said, "He couldn't be Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."
She said, "Oh, He was a great teacher. He was a prophet."

L-76 I said, "If He was a prophet and a great teacher, I'm lost and everybody's lost. That Blood was nothing but the Blood--Blood of Almighty God. He was Divine."
She said, "If I prove to you by the Bible that He was not Divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "If God's Word said He wasn't Divine, then I'll take back everything I said."
Said, "I'll prove it to you."
I said, "All right."
She said, "In Saint John the 11th chapter..."
"Yes."
Said, "When He was going down to the grave of Lazarus..."
I said, "Yes."
"The Bible said He wept."
"Why," I said, "what's that got to do with it?"
"Said, "That proved He wasn't Divine. How could a Divine man weep?" Said, "He could not be Divine for He wept."
I said, "You fail to see it, lady. God was in Christ reconciling the Word. He was a God Man. He was Emmanuel. See, God was in Him."
Said, "No, He couldn't be and weep."

L-77 I said, "Lady, I want to ask you something." I said, "He was a Man when He walked to that grave a weeping. But when He stood there and straightened up them little stooped over shoulders, a Man thirty, looking fifty they--they said, no beauty we should desire Him... When He throwed those little shoulders back and said, 'I am the Resurrection and Life,' saith God. 'He that believeth in Me, thou he were dead, yet shall live.' What do you mean? He did weep like a Man, but when He picked those little shoulders up, and spoke to a man that been dead four days, corruption in his body, corruption knew its Master, the soul knew its Creator, and a man had been dead four days stood on the ground and lived again. That's more than a Man. That was more than a Man. That was God in His Son."

L-78 When He come down off the hill that night, hungry, looking around over that tree for some fruit and couldn't find any, He was hungry like a man. That's right. He was a Man then. But when He took five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a Man. That was God in His Son. Sure.
He was a Man when He laid out on one of those ship that night, just like a bottle stopper tossed about, and Him so tired, virtue gone out of Him, till the waves didn't wake Him up. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him, Him laying back there in the back of that boat just pitching every way, and Him laying on a pillow. That was a Man laying there asleep, sure. But when He woke up, put His foot up on the brail of the boat, and looked up and said, "Peace be still," and the winds and waves obeyed Him, that was more than a Man. That was a Divine form of Jehovah God speaking from His Son, Christ Jesus. That's right.


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