<TITLE>13. Par 40-41</TITLE>L-40 And let me give you sick people something right here. Jesus was... Why, He was God. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He wasn't just a philosopher. He wasn't just a prophet. He was God.
A woman said to me not long ago. I don't know mean to call anybody's religion. You'd know if I...?... the church: Christian Science. And she said to me, "Mr. Branham, you put too much emphasis on deity of Jesus Christ. You make Him a god."
I said, "He wasn't a god; He was the God."
She said, "Oh, Mr. Branham, He wasn't divine."
I said, "Oh, yes He was."
She said, "You brag too much on Him."
I said, "I can't brag enough on Him."
Said, "Well, if I prove to you by the Bible that He wasn't nothing but a man, just an example, will you believe it?"
I said, "If the Bible places it that way, I believe the Bible. Yes, 'cause there's where my hopes is set on the Bible."
And she said, "I'll prove it to you by the Bible that He wasn't divine. The Bible makes it clear that He wasn't divine."
I said, "Let me see it."
She said, "Saint John the 11th chapter: Jesus, going down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said he wept."
And I said, "Well, what's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, that proves He wasn't divine, for He couldn't weep if He was divine."
I said, "That's thinner than the sh--broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "That has nothing to do with it." I said, "He was a Man, the Son of God in flesh, but in Spirit He was Deity; He was God." He was a Man, going down to the grave, weeping, but when He stood there and straightened that little figure up... The Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him. Maybe not very big said... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] up. He said, "Lazarus, come forth," and a man been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man. That was Deity speaking through lips." That's right. Mmm. I said, "It's true. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain, hungry, looking around on some trees there, to find Him something to eat. When He had searched the tree over to find some figs, and He couldn't find nothing to eat, and He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man speaking. That was a man hungry, but God feeding." That's right.

L-41 "He was a Man." When He laid in the back of that boat that night, when ten thousand devils of the seas swore they'd drowned Him, and the winds a blowing, a howling, the mast pole broke, and the oars, the little ship water-logged and they're plunging... The devil was lightning gleaming on top of every wave, and glistening his eyes, and saying, "I got Him now." He was a man laying in the back of that boat where the winds and waves didn't disturb Him. He was a man laying there asleep, tired like any other man. But when He put His foot upon the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was Deity speaking from Him.
It's true that He was a man when He cried at the cross, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man living there--a hanging there on the cross, but when He arose on Easter morning, breaking the Roman seal, and opening up the tomb, He proved He was God.
Oh, 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.


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