<TITLE>17. Par 67-69</TITLE>L-67 Now, if we notice this, how that God keeps His promise. This lady said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham, if I'll prove to you he wasn't nothing but a man..."
I said, "He was more than a man." I said, "He was God." I said, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself."
Said, "Oh, no. He was Joseph's son."
I said, "He was God's Son." I said, "He was--He--He was Divine."
She said, "I'll prove to you by your Bible that He wasn't Divine."
I said, "I want to see you do it."
She said, "All right. In Saint John, the 11th chapter, the Bible said, that when Jesus went down to the grave of Lazarus, He wept."
I said, "What's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, it shows he wasn't divine or he couldn't weep."
I said, "Woman, that won't work." I said, "Let me show you something. He was a God-man. He was both man and God. God was in Him." I said, "When He went down to a grave, that's right, He wept. That was a man, but when He pulled that little self together, He said, "Lazarus, come forth," and a man had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was God speaking out of there. Sure."

L-68 I said, "It's true when He come down off the mountain that night. He was so hungry. He was looking around for something to eat, looked on the tree and couldn't find nothing to eat. He was a man when He was hungry; but when He took five biscuits and two or three little pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God." Amen.
When He was out there on that ship that night, tossed about like a little old bottle stopper, laying so tired and weak, virtue going out of Him in the back of that ship, where ten thousand devils swore they'd drown Him... He was laying out there and the winds and the waves tossing around, and He woke up, they woke Him, and He put His feet upon the brail of the boat, and looked out, and said, "Peace, be still." And there was a sudden calmness. The winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man speaking. That was God speaking through those born lips.
He cried for mercy at Calvary, that's true. He cried, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He died like a man, but on Easter morning when the seals was broke, and then the Roman seal was tore apart, and He rose from the dead, He proved that He was God. That's right.
No wonder the poet said:
 Living, He loved me;
 Dying, He saved me,
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 Rising, He justified freely forever:
 Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day.
 Amen. No wonder blind Fanny Crosby could scream out:
 Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
 Hear my humble cry;
 While on others, Thou art calling,
 Do not pass me by.
 Thou, the stream of all my comfort,
 More than life to me,
 Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
 Or Whom in heaven but Thee?"

L-69 I'm so glad tonight that there is a covenant God has made with His people, the tearing of His Son apart, and setting Him on His right hand, and sending back the Holy Ghost to witness Him unto the end of the world. Amen.
Are you Abraham's seed? Do you believe? "A little while, and the world sees Me no more, yet you'll see Me; for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." The second piece of paper, God's covenant with His Church. And the same Spirit that worked miracles, and done signs, and people drawed from Him everything, is working right through the body of the Church the same thing tonight. He's the same. God's covenant was with Christ. Christ is the Seed of Abraham through Isaac. Amen. There you are. My.
When Abraham was ninety and nine years old, 17th chapter of Genesis. He was an old man, nigh nearly a hundred: ninety and nine. And Sarah was ninety years old. And here he was all drooped over, walking around. And the Lord said, "Come here, Abraham, I want to speak to you. You've believed Me for all these years." He said, "I am the Almighty God." Amen.


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