<TITLE>13. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 They knew who that was talking through them lips. That was God speaking through those lips.
As I said here not long ago, the woman who told me that I put too much emphasis on Jesus being Divine. He was Divine. And He's still Divine. You people that would want to believe Him just to be a prophet; shame on you. If He's just a prophet, we're lost. That's right. If He wasn't anything less than Almighty God, we're lost. That's right.
She said, "Mr. Branham, if I can prove to you that Jesus Christ, that He was only a mortal and He wasn't Divine by the Bible, will you believe it?"
I said, "If the Bible said so. Yes, 'cause that's His Word."
She said, "I will prove it." She said, "When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, Saint John 11," said, "The Bible said He wept. And if He was Divine, He couldn't weep."
I said, "Lady, that just shows how thin your ideas are." I said, "He was a man, but He was a God Man. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself."

L-51 That's what fooled the Jews. They looked at the man; said, "Now, looky here. Listen to the kind of language He uses. Now the--the grammar, how bad it was." He talked like common people. 'Cause they was the ones who heard Him. "And look how He dresses. Why, that old robe. It's been washed so many times, it's threadbare," Wove throughout without a seam. Martha and Mary made it for Him.
"Look at that fellow, you mean to tell me that he knows more about it than our scholarly rabbis and priests and high priest, and stuff, that studied all their life. Who is He? Look He was born down with a black name behind him to begin with as the illegitimate child. Who are you to teach us wisdom?" they say. "What school did you come from? Where did you get these things?" Oh, my, that blasphemy.
I said, "Yes, lady. He did cry when He went to the grave of Lazarus. He's a Man among men. But when He stood there, straightened up them little shoulders and said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again. That was more than a man. That was God.

L-52 He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night hungry, looking around for something to eat; He was a Man when He couldn't find nothing to eat on that fig tree. That was a Man hungry. But when He take five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a Man there. Sure was.
He was a Man that night out in that little boat out there on that wavy sea, storm up. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they'd drown Him. And that little old boat pitching like a bottle stopper out there. He was a Man laying there so tired and weary till even the waves didn't wake Him up. But when He got up put His foot on the brail of the boat, and looked up, and said, 'Peace be still,' and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a Man. That was God.
Truly, He cried for mercy at the cross. He cried like a Man when He was dying. But when He rose on Easter morning, He proved He was God. Amen. He's a resurrected One. He's a God-Man. God was in Christ.


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