<TITLE>04. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 There's a great carnival come to the city, and there's these two strong looking men setting here and I are standing there, but we haven't got money to go in and see the show. And it happens to be that they're short strong men who could pack water for the elephants, and I'm a tall skinny man, and--and I--I couldn't pack those big pails of water.
Well, there happens to be where we're standing, a knot hole way up high. Now, those little short fellows would never get up there to look through that knot hole, but I could. See, God makes every man just the way He wants him. I'm so glad of that.

L-14 Christianity is based on resurrection. We know that. Not... Well, if you go down here and on earth as a black headed woman, you'll rise up a black headed woman. You won't rise up... You say, "Well now, if this is a what goes down, in resurrection that same has to come up." Not take this and... That's replacement; that's not resurrection. Resurrection's bring the same Jesus up that went down, the same Person.
See, God, He's not Sears and Roebucks Harmony House. God has things. He's a God of variety. He likes people red-headed, black-headed. It just looks like that down in the south, they could understand that about segregation. God made men white. He made them black. He made them yellow, made them brown. Let them alone. He made red flowers, white flowers, pink flowers. He made them to... He made big mountains, little mountains, deserts, forests, big trees, little trees. He made things the way He wants it. And that's the way to leave it alone. You go to tampering with nature, you pervert it. Just leave it the way it is. It's always better.

L-15 And at this great carnival when I looked through this knot hole... Now, here's the way I have to do it. I jump way up, and take my hands, and get a hold of it and strain. I look in. I got back down.
"What did you see, Brother Branham?"
"An elephant."
"Is that all you saw?"

L-16 "Now, what are you getting at, Brother Branham?" Here's what it is. When Jesus was on earth, He was God manifested in the flesh. We have the Spirit by portions. He had it without any certain portion. All the Fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelt in Him. He was not just only a Man; He was God.
There's so many people today that likes... I want to stop here just a minute before I get to this subject. There's so many people just wants to make Him a prophet. He was either God or the greatest deceiver the world's ever had.

L-17 I was talking to a woman here not long ago who was... I don't call people's religions out, but you'll know what it is by what I said. They claim they believe in healing, but they don't believe that Jesus was no more than just a philosopher. And that's a social gospel. They said, "He's a good man. He had... He's a good teacher, but He wasn't Divine." Why, He... Certainly He was Divine. He was the God of the prophets.
This lady said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham, if... You brag too much on Jesus."
I said, "I different with you. I can't brag enough."
She said, "If I prove to you that He was nothing but a man... You make Him Divine."
I said, "He was Divine."
"Oh," said, "he was a teacher."
I said, "He was God."
And she said, "If I prove to you that He wasn't nothing by a m--but a man by the Scriptures, would you believe it?"
I said, "If the Scripture says so."
And she said, "St. John the 11th chapter, when Jesus was going down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said He wept."
I said, "That's right. What's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, if He was a weeping, He was a man."
I said, "He was a man when He wept, but when He stood by that grave where a man had been dead four days and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man who had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man."


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