<TITLE>12. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Now, Lazarus was dying. They sent again; Jesus just moved on. Why? He knew what was going to happen. Then when the fulling--fulfilling of days that the Father had showed Him, which He said, "I do nothing till He shows Me."... And then when He seen the days was accomplished, He turned and said to His disciples, "Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth."
Well, they thought he was taking a rest, said, "Well, he does well."
Said, "He talked in their language. He said, 'He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there.'" 'Cause they would be persuading Him to pray for him and do the very thing that God had told Him not to do. See?
God said, "You wait, now over here, until he's dead and in the grave four days. And come back and then raise him up from the dead." And Jesus had to leave and obey the Father. Now, you believe that? The Bible said, He said, "He did nothing until the Father showed Him." And here's what He was doing. See it?

L-40 And He seen then after the days was accomplished, He knowed if He'd have stayed there, they'd have been kept saying, "Oh, Jesus, You mean to say that You're going to let Your buddy die like that? The doctors has turned him down." The historians said he died of hemorrhages of the lungs and so forth. So if--if he died... "Oh, You're going to let Your friend die? And You mean You won't even pray for him?"
"No, I ain't going to pray for him." See?
He said, "I'm glad for your sake, that I wasn't there, but I go wake him." Watch Him coming to the grave. When He come up to the grave, He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou hast heard Me already. But for these who stand by, I say it." He knowed what was going to happen. Him and the Father had talked it over; He'd showed Him 'cause He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.
He said, "I pray just for the example. For these that stand by, I said it." Then He said, "Lazarus, come forth." And a man that been dead four days, stood on his feet and lived again. Amen.

L-41 A woman said to me not long ago, some year or two ago; she said, "Reverend Branham," she said, "you brag too much on Jesus."
I said, "Oh, no. No, no, I don't."
She said, "Yes, you do." Said, "You brag too much on Jesus." Said, "You try to make Him deity."
I said, "He was deity."
She said, "If I prove to you He wasn't nothing but a man by the Bible, will you believe it?"
I said, "If the Bible said so."
Well, she said, "I'll prove it." She said, "In Saint John the 11th chapter when He went down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said, 'He wept.'"
Oh, I said, "What's that got to do with it?"
Why, she said, "He couldn't have been deity and cry."
I said, "You fail to see Who He was. He was both God and man." That was a man weeping. But when He stood by the side of the grave, straightened His little figure up, He was the only man that ever could say, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Said that to Martha. "Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord, I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come into the world." Think of that instance. She had a right to upbraid Him. But when she heard...


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