<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 A lady said to me sometime ago; she said, "Mr. Branham, I always love to hear You speak." And I say this with reverence. And if there's any of them here, I don't mean to speak against any person's religion. It's not in my heart to do that. But the lady was a Christian Science. And she said, "The only thing that you put too much stress as deity on Jesus Christ." And said, "You make Him immortal, Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."
And she said, "If you being fundamental, you said it in your preaching, and you will accept the Bible when it said that He wasn't Divine?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am. If the Bible says He wasn't Divine, then I'll believe the Bible, but I want you to give me the verse and the chapter."
She said, "I can furnish that."
I said, "Let me hear it."
And she said, "On His road to resurrect Lazarus, the Bible said in Saint John the 11th chapter that He wept." And said, "Being weeping, He could not be Divine. He had to be human."
"Oh," I said, "lady, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death. You know that's wrong."

L-16 I said, "Look. You've failed to see God in Christ." I said, "Then it's true that He wept when He went to the grave of Lazarus. He was a man weeping. But when He stood and pulled His little frail body together, throwed His head towards the sky, looked back and said, 'Lazarus, come forth' and a man that'd been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again that was more than a man." Right.
And it is true that He was a man when He came off the mountain hungry, trying to look on a tree to find food to feed His physical being. He was a man when He did that. But when He taken five biscuits and two little fishes and fed five thousand, that was more than a man.
He was a man after praying for the sick, as the Bible said, "Virtue went out of Him." He got weak, tired. And He was laying on the back of the ship, so tired and weary, till the dashing of the waves did not bother Him. And perhaps ten thousand devils of the sea, swore they'd drowned Him that night. When He was laying asleep, He was a man when was asleep. But when He stood and 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 speaking out of that flesh.

L-17 He did cry at Calvary for mercy. "My God, why has thou forsaken me?" He died like a man. But on Easter morning, He ignored the Roman seal of those soldiers and death itself had to release its pain; and corruption knew its Maker, and He rose from the dead. He proved He was God. 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!

L-18 The hope of all the ages rests there on the Person of the Lord Jesus returning the second time.
He was a man, yes. But He was the God-man. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself: Jehovah's tabernacle. "Not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me," said the Son. "He doeth the works."
Another words, in that day the Father was the Vine. He was the Branch to bear the fruit of God. Now, He becomes the Vine, and we become the branch. And all that was in God was poured into Christ...?... Here it is. It's...?... But listen. All that was in Christ was poured into the Church. "The works that I do shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." You see it? We are living under our God given privileges that God has redeemed us to.


<A HREF="P6">Next Page</A>